Software systems are at once the most complex and the least reliable technological systems human beings construct. A large software system can have over lo2' states, and the reliability of software is infamously poor. Software engineers must usually make assertions about the reliability of software systems after having observed only an...
The Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering is the first comprehensive handbook covering these two important areas that have become interwoven in recent years. Many international experts contribute to this Hand book. Each article is written in a way that a practitioner of software engineering and knowledge engineering can...
"This book is well documented, containing a large list of valuable references, and gives an attentive and complete description of many systems of physical interest ... It is useful for a large category of physicists, ranging from postgraduate students to experimentalists and theoreticians." Mathematical Reviews
Graphs are mathematical constructs for representing objects or systems which contain structural (i.e. relationship) information. Graphs have been used in many domains, from software engineering to artificial intelligence. However, the use of graphs in machine learning has been limited, compared to the more prevalent vector model which does not...
Our collaboration on the research area, strategic cooperative game theory
with asymmetric information, started around the spring of 2000, and
progressed substantially from July 2001 through September 2002 when Ichiishi
was visiting Hitotsubashi University (Yamazaki's affiliation). Through
innumerable discussions during this...
As our modern information-age society grows in complexity both in terms of embedded systems and applications, the problems and challenges in reliability become ever more complex. Bringing together many of the leading experts in the field, this volume presents a broad picture of current research on system modeling and optimization in...
This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of the design and applications of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). SOAs are important components for optical communication systems with applications as in-line amplifiers and as functional devices in evolving optical networks. The functional applications of SOAs were first...
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive introduction to cryptography without using complex mathematical constructions. The themes are conveyed in a form that only requires a basic knowledge of mathematics, but the methods are described in sufficient detail to enable their computer implementation. The book describes the main techniques...
This book provides an accessible approach to the study of Windows® programming with Visual C++®. It is intended to be an introduction to Visual C++® for technical people including practicing engineers, engineering students, and others who would like to understand Windows® programming and use its inherent graphic capabilities. While...
The Internet, or the ARPANET in its original name, was a remarkable idea. The Net was designed in the late 60's by US ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) to connect distant computers to each other. This was a critical need at a time when each computer was a precious resource of computing power, which, if connected, could be shared among...
In recent decades, the study of signal processing has become increasingly complex, with new techniques and applications constantly being developed for the processing, transformation, and interpretation of signals. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the traditional and modern methods used in signal processing. It is designed to...
Pattern recognition is both an art and a science. We are able to see structure and recognize patterns in our daily lives and would like to find out how we do this. We can perceive similarities between objects, between people, between cultures and between events. We are able to observe the world around us, to analyze existing phenomena and to...
