Computer science

Neural networks have shown enormous potential for commercial exploitation over the last few years but it is easy to overestimate their capabilities.

As the demand for digital communication networks has increased, so have the challenges in network component design.

As well as being fully up-to-date, this book provides wider subject coverage than many other radar books.

Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process?

The goal of image synthesis is to create, using the computer, a visual experience that is identical to what a viewer would experience when viewing a real environment.

Embedded system designers are constantly looking for new tools and techniques to help satisfy the exploding demand for consumer information appliances and specialized industrial products.

After more than two decades of research activity, speech recognition has begun to live up to its promise as a practical technology and interest in the field is growing dramatically.

Accessible to all readers, including students of secondary school and amateur technology enthusiasts, Robotics, Mechatronics, and Artificial Intelligence simplifies the process of finding basic circuits to perform simple tasks, such as how to control a DC or step motor, and provides instruction on creating moving robotic parts, such as an "e;eye"e; or an "e;ear.

The 21 chapters in this handbook are written by the leading experts in the world on the theory, techniques, applications, and standards surrounding lossless compression.

Unlike so many books that focus on how to use Linux, Linux and the Unix Philosophy explores the "e;way of thinking that is Linux"e; and why Linux is a superior implementation of this highly capable operating system.

The book introduces the principles of hardware design and describes the tools and techniques required to begin hacking.

Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection is the first book to outline how data mining technologies can be used to combat crime in the 21st century.

Software for complex problem solving can dazzle people with advanced features and alluring visuals, but when actually put to use it often disappoints and even frustrates users.

This book provides an in-depth treatment of the three important topics related to image and video databases: restoration, watermarking and retrieval.

An essential capacity of intelligence is the ability to learn.

Given modern society's need to control its ever-increasing body of information, digital libraries will be among the most important and influential institutions of this century.

Since the beginning of the computer age, researchers from many disciplines have sought to facilitate people's use of computers and to provide ways for scientists to make sense of the immense quantities of data coming out of them.

Constraint satisfaction is a simple but powerful tool.

The use of evolution for creative problem solving is one of the most exciting and potentially significant areas in computer science today.

Based on the highly successful 3-volume reference Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications, this concise edition covers in a single volume the entire spectrum of computer vision ranging form the imaging process to high-end algorithms and applications.

Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction bridges the gap from academic to professional analysis of computer performance.

One aspect of common sense reasoning is reasoning about normal cases, e.

Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.

Bioinformatics has never been as popular as it is today.

Ethereal is the #2 most popular open source security tool used by system administrators and security professionals.

Based on familiar circuit theory and basic physics, this book serves as an invaluable reference for both analog and digital engineers alike.

DSP Integrated Circuits establishes the essential interface between theory of digital signal processing algorithms and their implementation in full-custom CMOS technology.

The Second Edition is an updated revision to the authors highly successful and widely used introduction to the principles and application of the statistical theory of signal detection.

This is the only book available on building network DMZs, which are the cornerstone of any good enterprise security configuration.

'To interlace or not to interlace' is a hot issue currently.

Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Volume 6 is the latest in a series of books that records the prestigious Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshops, sponsored and organised by the International Society of Genetic Algorithms specifically to address theoretical publications on genetic algorithms and classifier systems.

This innovative textbook presents the key foundational concepts for a one-semester undergraduate course in the theory of computation.

OpenVMS professionals have long enjoyed a robust, full-featured operating system running the most mission-critical applications in existence.

The aim of this book is to serve as a graduate text and reference in time series analysis and signal processing, two closely related subjects that are the concern of a wide range of disciplines, such as statistics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and physics.

Business Modeling and Data Mining demonstrates how real world business problems can be formulated so that data mining can answer them.

Ian Sinclair's Build Your Own books have established themselves as authoritative and highly practical guides for home PC users and advanced hobbyists alike.

Blondie24 tells the story of a computer that taught itself to play checkers far better than its creators ever could by using a program that emulated the basic principles of Darwinian evolution--random variation and natural selection-- to discover on its own how to excel at the game.

Sometimes, less really is more.

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.

The wholesale capture and distribution of knowledge over the last thirty years has created an unprecedented need for organizations to manage their knowledge assets.

The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development.

Newnes Telecommunications Pocket Book is a unique pocket reference written by an engineer for engineers.

New material in the third edition includes mobile base station antennas, operation of cellular networks, SAW filters and ceramic resonators, modulation for stereo FM broadcasts, ADPCM, and vocoders.

One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the communication and interconnection between system components.

The conservation of the spectrum is one of the key challenges facing radio systems professionals today.

This volume is the first diverse and comprehensive treatment of algorithms and architectures for the realization of neural network systems.

Getting Started with OpenVMS System Management gives new VMS system managers a jumpstart in managing this powerful and reliable operating system.

Location-based services (LBS) are a new concept integrating a user's geographic location with the general notion of services, such as dialing an emergency number from a cell phone or using a navigation system in a car.

Passionately democratic in its advocacy of networking for the masses, this is the first book on Linux networking written especially for the novice user.

Overview of the latest techniques and practices used in digital forensics and how to apply them to the investigative process Practical Cyber Intelligence provides a thorough and practical introduction to the different tactics, techniques, and procedures that exist in the field of cyber investigation and cyber forensics to collect, preserve, and analyze digital evidence, enabling readers to understand the digital landscape and analyze legacy devices, current models, and models that may be created in the future.