This book contains extended versions of 34 carefully selected and reviewed papers presented at the Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, held in Trondheim, Norway in 2002. It provides a broad overview of current research activities in reliability theory and its applications. There are chapters on reliability...

The material in this textbook on clinical ophthalmology has been revised and expanded to include developments in research and practice. Containing 357 illustrations throughout the text, it is a practical guide to the study of ophthalmology, but it embraces the ocular aspects of general diseases world-wide and basic methods of investigation...

Recent advances in vascular biology and vascular engineering have led to the understanding and integration of the two fields. A feature that is fundamental to both is the dynamic aspects of the vascular system. Although the basic principles governing blood flow and the circulatory function are known, new approaches to examining the...

This text aims to help readers who want to visualize graphs as representing structural knowledge. It gives an outline of the whole field, describes in detail the representative methods for drawing graphs, explains extensions such as fisheye and dynamic drawing, presents many practical applications, and discusses ways of evaluation. It aims to...

The human brain, the ultimate intelligent processor, can handle ambiguous and uncertain information adequately. The implementation of such a human-brain architecture and function is called "brainware". Brainware is a candidate for the new tool that will realize a human-friendly computer society. As one of the LSI implementations of...

The Kronecker product of matrices plays a central role in mathematics and in applications found in engineering and theoretical physics. These applications are signal processing, statistical physics, quantum groups and quantum computers. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the Kronecker product of matrices together with its...

This book provides an elementary introduction to formal languages and machine computation. The materials covered include computation-oriented mathematics, finite automata and regular languages, push-down automata and context-free languages, Turing machines and recursively enumerable languages, and computability and complexity. As integers are...

Computational complexity, originated from the interactions between computer science and numerical optimization, is one of the major theories that have revolutionized the approach to solving optimization problems and to analyzing their intrinsic difficulty. This volume is a collection of articles on recent complexity developments in numerical...

Parallel implementation of algorithms involves many difficult problems. In particular among them are round-off analysis, the way to convert sequential programmes and algorithms into parallel mode, the choice of appropriate or optimal computer architect and so on. To solve the stumbling blocks of these problems it is necessary to know the...

This comprehensive reference discusses the use of ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and radioisotopes in the imaging of the adult and pediatric urinary tract. With contributions by leading authorities in the field, this source covers a wide array of uroradiological topics ranging from the use of MRI or...