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M. A. Ahad, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan

Computer Vision and Action RecognitionA Guide for Image Processing and Computer Vision Community for Action Understanding

Human action analyses and recognition are chal-lenging problems due to large variations in human motion and appearance, camera viewpoint and en-vironment settings. The field of action and activity representation and recognition is relatively old, yet not well-understood by the students and research community. Some important but common motion recognition problems are even now unsolved properly by the computer vision community.

Features 7 No other book is available that covers action recognition in a comprehensive manner in the arena of computer vision 7 Both students, who have basic knowledge on image processing, and researchers can use this book for their academic learning and research purposes 7 This book can be used as a text book for level-2 students who have studied basic image processing already in earlier session – both for undergraduate and graduate students 7 The book will cover all state-of-the-art methods on recognition approaches and guide one on how to move forward in the field

Contents Introduction.- Low-level Image Processing for Action Representations.- Action Representation Approaches.- MHI – A Global-based Generic Ap-proach.- Shape Representation and Feature Vector Analysis .- Action Datasets.-Challenges Ahead.

Fields of interestsComputer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition

Target groupsResearch

Product categoryMonograph

Due January 2012

2011. XIX, 217 p. 48 illus., 38 in color. (Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, Volume 5) Hardcover7 $99.00ISBN 978-94-91216-19-0

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R. Baldoni, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy; G. Chockler, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel (Eds)

Collaborative Financial Infrastructure ProtectionTools, Abstractions, and Middleware

The Critical Infrastructure Protection Survey recently released by Symantec found that 53% of interviewed IT security experts from international companies experienced at least ten cyber attacks in the last five years, and financial institutions were often subject to some of the most sophis-ticated and large-scale cyber attacks and frauds. The book by Baldoni and Chockler analyzes the structure of software infrastructures found in the financial domain, their vulnerabilities to cyber at-tacks and the existing protection mechanisms.

Features 7 First comprehensive vulnerability analysis of financial information systems 7 Presents a novel approach to protecting critical IT infrastructures from cyber attacks 7 Combines theoretical analysis with application development and con-crete usage scenarios

Contents Part I The Financial Infrastructure.- The Financial Critical Infrastructure and the value of Infor-mation Sharing.- Modeling and Risk analysis of Information sharing in the Financial Infra-structure.- Cyber Attacks to Financial Critical Infrastructures.- Part II CoMiFin Collaborative Platform.- CoMiFin Architecture and Semantic Rooms.- Monitoring and Evaluation of Seman-tic Rooms.- Trust and Privacy.- Collaborative Inter-Domain Stealthy Port Scan Detection Using ESPER Complex Event Processing.- Distributed Attack Detection Using Agilis.- Collaborative at-tack detection using Distributed Hash Tables.

Fields of interestsComputer Communication Networks; Systems and Data Security; Business Information Systems



Due February 2012

2012. XXIV, 188 p. 48 illus. Hardcover7 $99.00ISBN 978-3-642-20419-7

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M. W. Berry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; K. A. Gallivan, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA; E. Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece; A. Grama, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; B. Philippe, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France; Y. Saad, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; F. Saied, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (Eds)

High-Performance Scientific ComputingAlgorithms and Applications

Contents Parallel Numerical Computing from Illiac IV to Exascale.- Computational Capacity-Based Co-de-sign of Computer Systems.- Measuring Computer Performance.- A Compilation Framework for the Automatic Restructuring of Pointer-Linked Data Structures.- Dense Linear Algebra on Acceler-ated Multicore Hardware.- The Explicit SPIKE Algorithm.- The SPIKE Factorization as Domain Decomposition Method.- Parallel Solution of Sparse Linear Systems.- Parallel Block-Jacobi SVD Methods.- Robust and Efficient Multifrontal Solver for Large Discretized PDEs.- A Precondi-tioned Scheme for Nonsymmetric Saddle-Point Problems.- Effect of Ordering for Iterative Solvers in Structural Mechanics Problems.- Scaling Hypre’s Multigrid Solvers to 100,000 Cores.- A Riemannian Dennis-Moré Condition.- A Jump-Start of Non-Negative Least Squares Solvers.- Fast Nonnegative Tensor Factorization with an Active-Set-Like Method.- Knowledge Discovery Using Nonnegative Tensor Factorization with Visual Analytics.

Fields of interestsNumeric Computing; Information Storage and Retrieval; Math Applications in Computer Science


Product categoryContributed volume

Due February 2012

2012. XVI, 272 p. 108 illus. Hardcover7 $99.00ISBN 978-1-4471-2436-8

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C. Biemann, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

Structure Discovery in Natural LanguageForeword by: A. v. Bosch, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Current language technology is dominated by ap-proaches that either enumerate a large set of rules, or are focused on a large amount of manually la-belled data. The creation of both is time-consum-ing and expensive, which is commonly thought to be the reason why automated natural language understanding has still not made its way into “real-life” applications yet. This book sets an ambi-tious goal: to shift the development of language processing systems to a much more automated setting than previous works. A new approach is defined: what if computers analysed large samples of language data on their own, identifying structural regularities that perform the necessary abstractions and generalisations in order to better understand language in the process?

Features 7 The book sets an ambitious goal: to shift development of language processing systems to a much more automated setting than previous works 7 A new approach is defined 7 All soft-ware described is open source and freely available

Contents Foreword by Antal van den Bosch.- 1.Introduc-tion.- 2.Graph Models.- 3.SmallWorlds of Natural Language.- 4.Graph Clustering.- 5.Unsupervised Language Separation .- 6.Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging.- 7.Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation.- 8.Conclusion.- References .

Fields of interestsArtificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computa-tional Linguistics; Graph Theory

Target groupsGraduate


Due December 2011

2012. XX, 179 p. 74 illus. (Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing) Hardcover7 $99.00ISBN 978-3-642-25922-7

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K. P. Birman, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Guide to Reliable Distributed SystemsBuilding High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services

Features 7 Describes the key concepts, principles and im-plementation options for creating high-assurance cloud computing solutions 7 Written in a clear, easy-to-understand style, with concrete examples drawn from real-world settings 7 Includes more than 80 problems at varying levels of difficulty

Contents Part I: Computing in the Cloud.- The Way of the Cloud.- Client Perspective.- Network Perspective.- The Structure of Cloud Data Centers.- Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Mode.- CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Ar-chitecture.- System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication.- Part II: Reliable Distributed Computing.- How and Why Computer Systems Fail.- Overcoming Failures in a Distributed Sys-tem.- Dynamic Membership.- Group Communi-cation Systems.- Point to Point and Multi-group Considerations.- The Virtual Synchrony Execution Model.- Consistency in Distributed Systems.- Part III: Applications of Reliability Techniques.- Retro-fitting Reliability into Complex Systems.- Software Architectures for Group Communication.- Part IV: Related Technologies.- Security Options for Distributed Settings.- Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems.- Transactional Systems.- Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols.- Appendix A: Virtually Synchronous Methodology For Building Dynamic Reliable Services.- Appen-dix B: Isis2API.- Appendix C: Problems.

Fields of interestsComputer System Implementation; Operating Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)

Target groupsProfessional/practitioner

Product categoryGraduate/Advanced undergraduate textbook

Due January 2012

2012. XXII, 770 p. 139 illus. (Texts in Computer Science) Hardcover7 $89.95ISBN 978-1-4471-2415-3

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E. K. Blum, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; A. V. Aho, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (Eds)

Computer ScienceThe Hardware, Software and Heart of It

Computer Science: The Hardware, Software and Heart of It focuses on the deeper aspects of the two recognized subdivisions of Computer Science, Software and Hardware. These subdivisions are shown to be closely interrelated as a result of the stored-program concept.

Features 7 Includes a survey and technical critique of computer science with non-mathematical explana-tions and suffient technical explanations to satisfy computer scientists and engineers 7 Covers a new kind of computer programming for parallel/distributed computing using the message-passing paradigm which is at the heart of large clusters of computers 7 Treats the dual character of computer science as both a hardware and software discipline by providing several examples

Contents Introduction.- Computation: A Brief History Prior to 1900.- The Heart of Computer Science.- The Software of Computer Science, Computer Pro-gramming from Fortran to C++.- The Hardware of Computer Science.- Operating Systems.- Com-puter Networks.- High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC).- Programming for Distributed Computing.- Databases.- Computer Security: Cryptographic Methods, Public Key Cryptography, RSA, ECC.- Complexity Theory.- Multi-variate (Parameterized) Complexity.- Quantum Computing.- Numerical Thinking in Algorithm Design and Analysis.- Fuzzy Logic and Computer Science.- Statistics of the Field.

Fields of interestsSoftware Engineering; Theory of Computation; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages


Product categoryProfessional book

Due December 2011

2011. VIII, 426 p. 23 illus., 3 in color. Hardcover7 $99.00ISBN 978-1-4614-1167-3

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Y. Cai, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China; C.-m. Au Yeung, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, China; H.-f. Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Fuzzy Computational Ontologies in ContextsFormal Models of Knowledge Representation with Membership Degree and Typicality of Objects, and Their Applications

Knowledge Representation plays an essential role in Semantic Web, in particular in automated information processing and communications among software agents. This book, entitled „Fuzzy Computational Ontologies in Contexts: Formal Models of Knowledge Representation with Membership Degree and Typicality, and Their Applications“, discusses knowledge representation in Semantic Web.

Features 7 First attempt to incorporate object membership and typicality in computational ontologies 7 Ap-plication in recommender systems 7 Multiple illustrating examples

Contents Introduction.- Knowledge Representation on the Web.- Concepts and Categorization From a Psychological Perspective.- Modeling Uncertainty in Knowledge Representation.- Fuzzy Ontology: A First Formal Model.- A more General Ontology Model with Object Membership and Typicality.- Context-aware Object Typicality Measurement in Fuzzy Ontology.- Object Membership with Property Importance and Property Priority.- Ap-plications.- Conclusions and Future Work.

Fields of interestsArtificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)



Due January 2012

Jointly published with Higher Education Press.

Distribution Rights in China: Higher Education Press.

2012. 199 p. 90 illus. Hardcover7 $129.00ISBN 978-3-642-25455-0

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R. De Virgilio, Roma Tre University, Italy; F. Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; Y. Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy (Eds)

Semantic Search over the WebThe Web has become the world’s largest database, with search being the main tool that allows or-ganizations and individuals to exploit its huge amount of information. Search on the Web has been traditionally based on textual and structural similarities, ignoring to a large degree the seman-tic dimension, i.e., understanding the meaning of the query and of the document content.

Features 7 First survey text on a hot new top-ic 7 Uniquely combines database and Semantic Web technologies 7 Explains basic technologies for novel Web-based applications

Contents Introduction.- Part I Introduction toWeb of Data.- Topology of the Web of Data.- Storing and Indexing Massive RDF Data Sets.- Designing Exploratory Search Applications upon Web Data Sources.- Part II Search over the Web.- Path-oriented Keyword Search query over RDF.- Inter-active Query Construction for Keyword Search on the SemanticWeb.- Understanding the Semantics of Keyword Queries on Relational DataWithout Accessing the Instance.- Keyword-Based Search over Semantic Data.- Semantic Link Discovery over Relational Data.- Embracing Uncertainty in Entity Linking.- The Return of the Entity-Relationship Model: Ontological Query Answer-ing.- Linked Data Services and Semantics-enabled Mashup.- Part III Linked Data Search engines.- A Recommender System for Linked Data.- Flint: from Web Pages to Probabilistic Semantic Data.- Searching and Browsing Linked Data with SWSE.

Fields of interestsInformation Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intel-ligence (incl. Robotics)



Due February 2012

2012. XX, 423 p. 92 illus., 49 in color. (Data-Centric Systems and Applications) Hardcover7 $89.95ISBN 978-3-642-25007-1

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T. Downey, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

Guide to Web Development with JavaUnderstanding Website Creation

This comprehensive textbook introduces read-ers to the three-tiered, Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture by using Hibernate, JSPs, and Java Servlets. These three technologies all use Java, so that a student with a background in program-ming will be able to master them with ease, with the end result of being able to create web applica-tions that use MVC, validate user input and save data to a database.

Features 7 With an accessible, easy-to-follow style 7 Uses powerful technologies that are freely available on the web to speed up web develop-ment 7 Contains questions and exercises at the end of each chapter, detailed illustrations, chapter summaries, and a glossary

Contents Browser - Server Communication.- Controllers.- Java Beans and Controller Helpers.- Enhancing the Controller.- Hibernate.- Advanced HTML and Form Elements.- Accounts, Cookies and Carts.- Web Services and Legacy Databases.- Appendix.

Fields of interestInformation Systems Applications (incl.Internet)

Target groupsLower undergraduate

Product categoryUndergraduate textbook

Due February 2012

2012. XI, 368 p. 109 illus., 64 in color. Hardcover7 $89.95ISBN 978-1-4471-2442-9

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A. A. Goshtasby, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA

Image RegistrationPrinciples, Tools and Methods

This book presents a thorough and detailed guide to image registration, outlining the principles and reviewing state-of-the-art tools and methods. The book begins by identifying the components of a general image registration system, and then de-scribes the design of each component using vari-ous image analysis tools. The text reviews a vast array of tools and methods, not only describing the principles behind each tool and method, but also measuring and comparing their performances using synthetic and real data.

Features 7 Reviews a vast array of tools and methods, describing the underlying principles and compar-ing their performances 7 Includes a glossary, an extensive list of references, and an appendix on principal component analysis 7 Provides supple-mentary images and data in an associated website

Contents Introduction.- Similarity and Dissimilarity Measures.- Point Detectors.- Feature Extrac-tion.- Image Descriptors.- Feature Selection and Heterogeneous Descriptors.- Point Pattern Match-ing.- Robust Parameter Estimation.- Transforma-tion Functions.- Image Resampling and Compos-iting.- Image Registration Methods.- A Principal Component Analysis (PCA).

Fields of interestsImage Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition



Due March 2012

2012. XVIII, 466 p. 194 illus., 61 in color. (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Hardcover7 $129.00ISBN 978-1-4471-2457-3

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A. Heuberger, Fraunhofer-Institute, Erlangen, Germany; G. Elst, Fraunhofer-Institute, Dresden, Germany; R. Hanke, Fraunhofer-Institute, Fürth, Germany (Eds)

Microelectronic SystemsCircuits, Systems and ApplicationsEditorial coordination: J. Heppner, K. Kirsch, Fraunhofer-Institute, Erlangen, Germany

This book is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Heinz Gerhäus-er on the occasion of his retirement both from the position of Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and from the Endowed Chair of Information Technologies with a Focus on Communication Electronics (LIKE) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Heinz Gerhäuser‘s vision and entrepreneurial spirit have made the Fraunhofer IIS one of the most successful and renowned Ger-man research institutions. He has been Director of the Fraunhofer IIS since 1993, and under his leadership it has grown to become the largest of Germany‘s 60 Fraunhofer Institutes, a position it retains to this day, currently employing over 730 staff. Likely his most important scientific as well as application-related contribution was his pivotal role in the development of the mp3 format, which would later become a worldwide success. The con-tributions to this Festschrift were written by both Fraunhofer IIS staff and external project team members in appreciation of Prof. Dr. Gerhäuser‘s lifetime academic achievements and his inspiring leadership at the Fraunhofer IIS.

Feature 7 Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser on the occasion of his retirement

Fields of interestsSpecial Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Circuits and Systems; Computer System Imple-mentation



Due November 2011

2011. XII, 400 p. 182 illus., 66 in color. Hardcover7 $129.00ISBN 978-3-642-23070-7

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O. Kolditz, U.-J. Görke, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; H. Shao, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany; W. Wang, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany (Eds)

Benchmarks and Examples for Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical/Chemical Processes in Porous MediaThe book comprises an assembly of benchmarks and examples for porous media mechanics collect-ed over the last twenty years. Analysis of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes is essential to many applications in environmental engineering, such as geological waste deposition, geothermal energy utilisation, carbon capture and storage, water resources management, hydrology, even climate chance. In order to assess the feasibil-ity as well as the safety of geotechnical applica-tions, process-based modelling is the only tool to put numbers, i.e. to quantify future scenarios. This charges a huge responsibility concerning the reli-ability of computational tools. Benchmarking is an appropriate methodology to verify the quality of modelling tools based on best practices.

Features 7 A unique reference book for benchmarks and examples in applied environmental sciences (e.g. geotechnics, hydrology, pedology, hydro-geology) 7 Theory and applications together at the same level 7 A step-by-step tutorial for learning environmental modelling, beginning with simple examples, subsequent increasing complex-ity 7 Related to open source software (Open-GeoSys initiative)

Fields of interestsMath Applications in Computer Science; Environ-mental Science and Engineering; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science



Due February 2012

2012. X, 390 p. 150 illus., 130 in color. (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Volume 86) Hardcover7 $124.00ISBN 978-3-642-27176-2

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S. Lee, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea

Glazed Panel Construction with Human-Robot CooperationThese days, construction companies are beginning to be concerned about a potential labor shortage by demographic changes and an aging construc-tion work force. Also, an improvement in con-struction safety could not only reduce accidents but also decrease the cost of the construction, and is therefore one of the imperative goals of the con-struction industry. These challenges correspond to the potential for Automation and Robotics in Construction as one of solutions. Almost half of construction work is said to be material handling and materials used for construction are heavy and bulky for humans. To date, various types of robots have been developed for glazed panel construc-tion. Through the case studies on construction, to which the robots were applied, however, we identi-fied difficulties to be overcome. In this study, a human-robot cooperative system is deduced as one approach to surmount these difficulties; then, considerations on interactions among the opera-tor, robot and environment are applied to design of the system controller.

Contents Introduction.- Control Algorithm for Human-Robot Cooperation.- Conceptual Design of Human-Robot Cooperative System.- Prototype for Glazed Panel Construction Robot.- Glazed Ceil-ing Panel Construction Robot.- Conclusion and Future works.

Fields of interestsArtificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mechanical Engineering


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2011. X, 70 p. 60 illus. (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science) Softcover7 $39.95ISBN 978-1-4614-1417-9

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R. Mukundan, University of Canterbury, NZ

Advanced Methods in Computer GraphicsWith examples in OpenGL

This book brings together several advanced topics in computer graphics that are important in the areas of game development, three-dimensional animation and real-time rendering. The book is designed for final-year undergraduate or first-year graduate students, who are already familiar with the basic concepts in computer graphics and programming. It aims to provide a good founda-tion of advanced methods such as skeletal anima-tion, quaternions, mesh processing and collision detection. These and other methods covered in the book are fundamental to the development of algorithms used in commercial applications as well as research.

Features 7 Introduces a wide range of methods in advanced graphics that prepares students for research projects 7 Emphasizes the conceptual framework and application oriented details so that the reader understands why, where and how each method is used 7 Provides code examples using OpenGL that not only help understand the imple-mentation aspects but also motivate the reader to try new applications

Contents Introduction.- Mathematical Preliminaries.- Scene Graphs.- Skeletal Animation.- Quaternions.- Ki-nematics.- Curves and Surfaces.- Mesh Process-ing.- Collision Detection.- Appendix A: Geometry Classes.- Appendix B: Scene Graph Classes.- Ap-pendix C: Vertex Skinning Classes.- Appendix D: Quaternion Classes.- Index.

Fields of interestComputer Graphics

Target groupsGraduate


Due March 2012

2012. XIV, 356 p. 191 illus. Hardcover7 $89.95ISBN 978-1-4471-2339-2

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M. Ouzzani, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qutar Foundation; A. Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Semantic Web Services for Web DatabasesSemantic Web Services for Web Databases in-troduces an end-to-end framework for querying Web databases using novel Web service querying techniques. This includes a detailed framework for the query infrastructure for Web databases and services. Case studies are covered in the last section of this book. Semantic Web Services For Web Databases is designed for practitioners and researchers focused on service-oriented comput-ing and Web databases.

Features 7 Describes the issues and solutions to effi-ciently query Web databases and services on the semantic Web 7 Includes detailed framework for the query infrastructure for Web databases and services 7 Includes case studies

Contents Introduction.- Ontological Organization of Web Databases.- Web Services Query Model.- Web Ser-vices Query Execution and Optimization.- Imple-mentation and Experiments.- Current Advances in Semantic Web Services and Web Databases.- Conclusions, Open Issues, and Future Directions.

Fields of interestsDatabase Management; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)


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2011. XXI, 134 p. 33 illus. Hardcover7 $99.00ISBN 978-1-4614-1643-2

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D. Parsons, Massey University, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand

Foundational JavaKey Elements and Practical Programming

This book presents a guide to the core features of Java – and some more recent innovations – enabling the reader to build skills and confidence though tried-and-trusted stages, supported by exercises that reinforce key learning points. All of the most useful and commonly applied Java syntax and libraries are introduced, along with many example programs that can provide the basis for more substantial applications.

Features 7 Presents the most up-to-date information on Java, including Java 7 7 Contains numerous code examples and exercises throughout 7 Provides downloadable source code, self-test questions, PowerPoint slides and other supplementary mate-rial at an associated website

Contents The Java Story.- Compiling and Running Java Programs.- Data Types, Arithmetic and Arrays.- Control Structures.- Creating Objects.- Creating Domain Classes.- Objects Working Together: As-sociation, Aggregation and Composition.- Inheri-tance, Polymorphism and Interfaces.- Exception handling.- Unit Testing With JUnit.- Exploring the Java Libraries.- The Collections Framework and Generics.- Input and Output Streams.- Au-tomatic Building and Testing with Ant.- Java and the Database (JDBC).- Multithreading.- Building GUIs with the JFC Swing Library.- Event Driven Programming.- Dialogs and Menus, Models and Views.- Java Web Start and Applets.

Fields of interestsProgramming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques; Software Engineering

Target groupsLower undergraduate

Product categoryUndergraduate textbook

Due February 2012

2012. XIX, 436 p. 178 illus., 109 in color. Hardcover7 $99.00ISBN 978-1-4471-2478-8

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G. I. Simari, University of Oxford, UK; S. D. Parsons, Brooklyn College, New York, NY, USA

Markov Decision Processes and the Belief-Desire-Intention ModelBridging the Gap for Autonomous Agents

In this work, we provide a treatment of the relationship between two models that have been widely used in the implementation of autonomous agents: the Belief DesireIntention (BDI) model and Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We start with an informal description of the relationship, identifying the common features of the two ap-proaches and the differences between them. Then we hone our understanding of these differences through an empirical analysis of the performance of both models on the TileWorld testbed. This al-lows us to show that even though the MDP model displays consistently better behavior than the BDI model for small worlds, this is not the case when the world becomes large and the MDP model cannot be solved exactly. Finally we present a theoretical analysis of the relationship between the two approaches, identifying mappings that allow us to extract a set of intentions from a policy (a solution to an MDP), and to extract a policy from a set of intentions.

Contents Introduction.- Preliminary Concepts.- An Empiri-cal Comparison of Models.- A Theoretical Com-parison of Models.- Related Work. Conclusions, Limitations, and Future Directions.

Fields of interestsArtificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Simulation and Modeling



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2011. VIII, 63 p. (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science) Softcover7 $39.95ISBN 978-1-4614-1471-1

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P. Stenström, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (Ed)

Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers IVContents A High Performance Adaptive Miss Handling Architecture for Chip Multiprocessors.- Charac-terizing Time-Varying Program Behavior Using Phase Complexity Surfaces.- Compiler Directed Issue Queue Energy Reduction.- A Systematic Design Space Exploration Approach to Custom-ising Multi-Processor Architectures: Exempli-fied Using Graphics Processors.- Microvisor: A Runtime Architecture for Thermal Management in Chip Multiprocessors.- Special Section on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC).- A Highly Scalable Parallel Implementation of H.264.- Communication Based Proactive Link Power Management.- Finding Extreme Behaviors in Microprocessor Workloads.- Hybrid Super/Subthreshold Design of a Low Pow-er Scalable-Throughput FFT Architecture.- Special Section on Selected papers from the Workshop on Software and Hardware Challenges of Many-core Platforms.- Transaction Reordering to Reduce Aborts in Software Transactional Memory.- A Par-allelizing Compiler Cooperative Heterogeneous Multicore Processor Architecture.- A Modular Simulator Framework for Network-on-Chip Based Manycore Chips Using UNISIM.- Software Trans-actional Memory Validation – Time and Space Considerations Tiled Multi-Core Stream Architec-ture.- An Efficient and Flexible Task Management for Many Cores.- Special Section on International Symposium on Systems, ArchitecturesModeling and Simulation. [...]

Fields of interestsArithmetic and Logic Structures; Processor Archi-tectures; Input/Output and Data Communications


Product categoryContributed volume

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2011. XV, 430 p. 222 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, Volume 6760) Softcover7 $95.00ISBN 978-3-642-24567-1

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M. C. Suárez-Figueroa, A. Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; E. Motta, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK; A. Gangemi, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Rome, Italy (Eds)

Ontology Engineering in a Networked World

Contents Introduction: Ontology Engineering in a Net-worked World.- The NeOn Methodology for Ontology Engineering.- Pattern-based Ontology Design.- The NeOn Ontology Models.- Ontol-ogy Requirements Specification.- Reusing and Re-engineering Non-ontological Resources for Building Ontologies.- Ontology Development by Reuse.- Ontology Localization.- Ontology (Network) Evaluation.- Modularizing Ontologies.- Ontology Evolution.- Methodological guidelines for matching ontologies.- Overview of the NeOn Toolkit.- Scheduling ontology engineering projects using gOntt.- Customizing your interaction with Kali-ma.- Visualizing and Navigating Ontologies with KC-Viz.- Reasoning with Networked Ontolo-gies.- Knowledge management at FAO: a case study on network of ontologies in fisheries.- Elec-tronic Invoice Management in the Pharmaceuti-cal sector: The PharmaInnova case.- Integrating product information in the pharmaceutical sector.

Fields of interestsArtificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Storage and Retrieval; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

Target groupsUpper undergraduate


Due January 2012

2012. X, 490 p. 148 illus., 110 in color. Hardcover7 $79.95ISBN 978-3-642-24793-4

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G. Wittenburg, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; J. Schiller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Service Placement in Ad Hoc NetworksService provisioning in ad hoc networks is chal-lenging given the difficulties of communicating over a wireless channel and the potential het-erogeneity and mobility of the devices that form the network. Service placement is the process of selecting an optimal set of nodes to host the im-plementation of a service in light of a given service demand and network topology. The key advantage of active service placement in ad hoc networks is that it allows for the service configuration to be adapted continuously at run time. Service Placement in Ad Hoc Networks proposes the SPi service placement framework as a novel approach to service placement in ad hoc networks. The SPi framework takes advantage of the interdependen-cies between service placement, service discovery and the routing of service requests to minimize signaling overhead. The work also proposes the Graph Cost / Single Instance and the Graph Cost / Multiple Instances placement algorithms.

Features 7 Describes a SPi service placement framework as a novel approach to service placement in ad hoc networks 7 Proposes the Graph Cost/Single Instance and the Graph Cost/Multiple Instances placement algorithms 7 Examines the proper-ties of this approach to service placement and compares it with other recent proposals

Contents Introduction.- Background.- The SPi Service Placement Framework.- SPi Service Placement Algorithms.- Evaluation.- Conclusion.

Fields of interestSystem Performance and Evaluation



Due December 2011

2012. IX, 116 p. 28 illus. (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science) Softcover7 $39.95ISBN 978-1-4471-2362-0

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X. Yang, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China; J. Yang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu, China

Incomplete Information System and Rough Set TheoryModels and Attribute Reductions

„Incomplete Information System and Rough Set Theory: Models and Attribute Reductions“ covers theoretical study of generalizations of rough set model in various incomplete information systems. It discusses not only the regular attributes but also the criteria in the incomplete information systems. Based on different types of rough set models, the book presents the practical approaches to compute several reducts in terms of these models. The book is intended for researchers and postgraduate students in machine learning, data mining and knowledge discovery, especially for those who are working in rough set theory, and granular computing.

Features 7 Considers not only the regular attributes but also the criteria in the incomplete informa-tion systems 7 Presents most of the important rough set models in the incomplete information systems 7 Addresses the practical approaches to compute reducts in terms of these models

Contents Part I. Indiscernibility Relation Based Rough Sets.- Part II. Incomplete Information Systems and Rough Sets.- Part III. Dominance-based Rough Sets and Incomplete Information Systems.- Part IV. Incomplete Information Systems and Multi-granulation Rough Sets.

Fields of interestsData Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Models and Principles; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robot-ics)



Due February 2012

Jointly published with Science Press.

Distribution rights in China: Science Press

2012. 225 p. 5 illus. Hardcover7 $109.00ISBN 978-3-642-25934-0

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