Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC)—a mathematical theory concerned with minimizing a cost (or maximizing a payout) pertaining to a controlled dynamic process under uncertainty—has proven incredibly helpful to understanding and predicting debt crises and evaluating proposed financial regulation and risk...
Extracting information from seismic data requires knowledge of seismic wave propagation and reflection. The commonly used method involves solving linearly for a reflectivity at every point within the Earth, but this book follows an alternative approach which invokes inverse scattering theory. By developing the theory of seismic imaging from...
In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was a pioneer of geochronology. When it was deeply unfashionable to do so in the early twentieth century, he spent many years trying to prove the great antiquity of the earth, stating that it was...
While forensic analysis has proven to be a valuable investigative tool in the field of computer security, utilizing anti-forensic technology makes it possible to maintain a covert operational foothold for extended periods, even in a high-security environment. Adopting an approach that favors full disclosure, the updated Second Edition of The...
We are pleased to publish the significant papers accepted in the First International
Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INCT 2011).
The production and the use of newer computing devices and platforms has
led to a better understanding of the emerging computing paradigms. For many
decades, computing systems have...
It is Friday afternoon, you are ready to go home but you get a call from your customer telling you that their order will need to be express delivered. The only thing now between you and your weekend is changing the delivery priority in a hundred and sixty-eight order items.
The good news is there is now a resource for you to...
The latest inventions in internet technology influence most of business and daily activities. Internet security, internet data management, web search, data grids, cloud computing, and web-based applications play vital roles, especially in business and industry, as more transactions go online and mobile. Issues related to ubiquitous computing...
Prior to Google+, Photographers relied on a mix of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and other services to display their work and interact with others. No single service provided photographers with a complete set of tools that allowed them to connect with others in a rich, meaningful way–until now.
The primary goal of the GO! Series, aside from teaching computer applications, is ease of implementation, with an approach that is based on clearly defined projects for students and a one-of-a-kind supplements package.
**This is a one-chapter book supplement that is...
This LNCS volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the 18th
Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
(REFSQ 2012), held in Essen, Germany, during March 19–22, 2012.
Requirements engineering (RE) has long been recognized as a major factor for
achieving high-quality...
Game Jams are fun. They are a creative, exciting, social experience. The goal of a Game Jam is to design a video game, either alone or in teams, as fast as humanly possible; usually in a single weekend. Some Jams are also great for making board games or card games! Game Jams can be absolutely massive group events held in conference rooms and...
Software development is hard. Testing that software is hard, too. And when you talk about development and testing at the scale of the entire web, you are talking about Google. If you are interested in how one of the biggest names in the Internet handles such large-scale testing, then you have found the right...
