Academic Articles & Research Papers

Parameter identification in distributed systems: A synthesizing overview

This paper surveys the distributed system parameter identification problem and concludes that it can be treated as a series of largely independent subproblems, each of which must be considered in any attempt to treat the problem in applicat...

Optimal Control of Distributed Systems. Theory and Applications

The existence of solutions to optimal control problems Optimality system for optimal control problems The solvability of boundary value problems for a dense set of data The problem of work minimization in accelerating still fluid to a presc...

Neural networks: a tutorial

1. A Structure of an Artificial Neural Network. 2. Applications of Neural Networks. 3. The Early Years. 4. The Hopfield Net. 5. Self Organizing Maps. 6. Backpropagation. 7. Learning Laws and Continued Taxonomy. 8. Adaptive Resonance Theory....

Neural networks for optimization and signal processing

From the Publisher: Artificial neural networks can be employed to solve a wide spectrum of problems in optimization, parallel computing, matrix algebra and signal processing. Taking a computational approach, this book explains how ANNs pro...

Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics

Fully updated and including data from space-based observations, this Third Edition is a comprehensive compilation of the facts and figures relevant to astronomy and astrophysics. As well as a vast number of tables, graphs, diagrams and form...

Authentication in distributed systems

Security of distributed systems is a topic of growing importance.The security breaches of the last few years (internet worm .... ) have demonstrated the need for additional research in this area.One important aspect of security is authentic...

Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems

1. Introduction. Basic Concepts and Definitions. Phases in Fault Tolerance. Overview of Hardware Fault Tolerance. Reliability and Availability. Summary. 2. Distributed Systems. System Model. Interprocess Communication. Ordering of Events an...

A History of Public Health

Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United St...

Elements of materials science and engineering

1. Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering. Materials and Civilization. Materials and Engineering. Structure/Properties/Performance. Types of Materials. Summary. Key Words. Practice Problems. Test Problems. 2. Atomic Bonding and C...

Fundamental Immunology

Medical readers, who demand much of those few books they choose to study for hours, will celebrate William Paul and this excellent exposition of modern immunology. Other book editors should look here to see how to do the job. Among all our ...

Modelling Quantum Software

This annotated bibliography delves into the field of quantum computing, focusing specifically on the resources used throughout the software life cycle. It examines several published works that analyze quantum software modelling in the conte...

Natural Language Processing in Medicine: An Overview

An overview is given of natural language processing applications in medicine. An attempt has been made to enumerate the most important and known international projects and to summarize their goals, principles, methods and results. A section...

Computer vision: algorithms and applications

Humans perceive the three-dimensional structure of the world with apparent ease. However, despite all of the recent advances in computer vision research, the dream of having a computer interpret an image at the same level as a two-year old ...

Building neural networks

Foundations. Motivation. Neural-Network Fundamentals. Single Neuron Computations. Network Computations. Network Simulation. Foundations Summary. Suggested Readings. Bibliography. Paradigms. The Backpropagation Network. The Counterpropagatio...

Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation

From the Publisher: This book represents the most comprehensive treatment available of neural networks from an engineering perspective. Thorough, well-organized, and completely up to date, it examines all the important aspects of this emer...

Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks

From the Publisher: As book review editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Mohamad Hassoun has had the opportunity to assess the multitude of books on artificial neural networks that have appeared in recent years. Now, in Funda...

Machine Learning in Compiler Optimization

In the last decade, machine-learning-based compilation has moved from an obscure research niche to a mainstream activity. In this paper, we describe the relationship between machine learning and compiler optimization and introduce the main ...

Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Machine learning

This volume, which is also available from http://www.machinelearning.org, the home page of the International Machine Learning Society, contains the technical papers accepted for presentation at ICML-2006, the 23rd International Conference o...

Engineering Applications in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence: a philosophical introduction

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction. In outline. 1. The beginnings of Artificial Intelligence a historical sketch. 2. Some dazzling exhibits. 3. Can a machine think?. 4. The symbol system hypothesis. 5. A hard look at the facts....