Innovations in hardware architecture, like hyper-threading or multicore processors, mean that parallel computing resources are available for inexpensive desktop computers. In only a few years, many standard software products will be based on concepts of parallel programming implemented on such hardware, and the range of applications will be much broader than that of scientific computing, up to …
Computational Electromagnetics is a young and growing discipline, expanding as a result of the steadily increasing demand for software for the design and analysis of electrical devices. This book introduces three of the most popular numerical methods for simulating electromagnetic fields: the finite difference method, the finite element method and the method of moments. In particular it focuses…
R for Business Analytics looks at some of the most common tasks performed by business analysts and helps the user navigate the wealth of information in R and its 4000 packages. With this information the reader can select the packages that can help process the analytical tasks with minimum effort and maximum usefulness. The use of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) is emphasized in this book to fu…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in July 2012. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers focus on the following research topics and applications: programming issues, theoretical aspects of software engi…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2011, held in Seville, Spain, in July 12011. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on enterprise software technology; software engineering; distrib…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2013, held in Chongqing, China, during November 2013. The 31 revised full papers presented together with three keynote talks and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundament…
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Complex systems in nature and society make use of information for the development of their internal organization and the control of their functional mechanisms. Alongside technical aspects of storing, transmitting and processing information, the various semantic aspects of information, such as meaning, sense, reference and function, play a decisive part in the analysis of such systems. With …
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