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Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory: Fault-Tolerant Agreement in Synchronous Message-Passing Systems (Paperback)

Understanding distributed computing is not an easy task. This is due to the many facets of uncertainty one has to cope with and master in order to produce correct distributed software. A previous book Communication and Agreement Abstraction for... more

Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory: Network Topology and Fault-Tolerant Consensus (Paperback)

As the structure of contemporary communication networks grows more complex practical networked distributed systems become prone to component failures. Fault-tolerant consensus in message-passing systems allows participants in the system to agree on a... more

Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory: Principles of Transactional Memory (Paperback)

Transactional memory (TM) is an appealing paradigm for concurrent programming on shared memory architectures. With a TM threads of an application communicate and synchronize their actions via in-memory transactions. Each transaction can perform any... more

Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory: The Mobile Agent Rendezvous Problem in the Ring (Paperback)

Mobile agent computing is being used in fields as diverse as artificial intelligence computational economics and robotics. Agents ability to adapt dynamically and execute asynchronously and autonomously brings potential advantages in terms of... more

Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory: Quorum Systems: With Applications to Storage and Consensus (Paperback)

A quorum system is a collection of subsets of nodes called quorums with the property that each pair of quorums have a non-empty intersection. Quorum systems are the key mathematical abstraction for ensuring consistency in fault-tolerant and highly... more

Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics A: Sound Synthesis Propagation and Rendering (Paperback)

This book gives a broad overview of research on sound simulation driven by a variety of applications. Vibrating objects produce sound which then propagates through a medium such as air or water before finally being heard by a listener. As a crucial... more

Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Distributed Computing Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Soft Computing and Ambient Assisted Living: 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural

This volume (II) contains all publications accepted for the symposiums and workshops held in parallel with the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2009) covering a wide spectrum of technological areas such as... more

Synthesis Lectures on Mobile & Pervasive Computing: Controlling Energy Demand in Mobile Computing Systems (Paperback)

This lecture provides an introduction to the problem of managing the energy demand of mobile devices. Reducing energy consumption primarily with the goal of extending the lifetime of battery-powered devices has emerged as a fundamental challenge in... more

Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics: Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for Everyone (Paperback)

Computing education is in enormous demand. Many students (both children and adult) are realizing that they will need programming in the future. This book presents the argument that they are not all going to use programming in the same way and for the... more

Synthesis Lectures on Software Engineering: Testing IOS Apps with Hadoopunit: Rapid Distributed GUI Testing (Paperback)

Smartphone users have come to expect high-quality apps. This has increased the importance of software testing in mobile software development. Unfortunately testing apps--particularly the GUI--can be very time-consuming. Exercising every user interface... more

Synthesis Lectures on Data Management: Fault-Tolerant Distributed Transactions on Blockchain (Paperback)

Since the introduction of Bitcoin--the first widespread application driven by blockchain--the interest of the public and private sectors in blockchain has skyrocketed. In recent years blockchain-based fabrics have been used to address challenges in... more

Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science: Blockchain Platforms: A Look at the Underbelly of Distributed Platforms (Paperback)

This book introduces all the technical features that make up blockchain technology today. It starts with a thorough explanation of all technological concepts necessary to understand any discussions related to distributed ledgers and a short history of... more

Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology: 19th International Conference Icdcit 2023 Bhubaneswar India January 18-22 2023 Proceedings (Paperback)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology ICDCIT 2023 which was held in Bhubaneswar India in January 2023. The 20 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this... more

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems: Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Special Sessions I 20th International Conference (Paperback)

The present book brings together experience current work and promising future trends associated with distributed computing artificial intelligence and their application in order to provide efficient solutions to real problems. DCAI 2023 is a forum to... more

Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics A: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations for Computer Vision with Uncertain Data (Paperback)

In image processing and computer vision applications such as medical or scientific image data analysis as well as in industrial scenarios images are used as input measurement data. It is good scientific practice that proper measurements must be... more

Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture: Customizable Computing (Paperback)

Since the end of Dennard scaling in the early 2000s improving the energy efficiency of computation has been the main concern of the research community and industry. The large energy efficiency gap between general-purpose processors and... more

Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture: Quantum Computing for Computer Architects Second Edition (Paperback)

Quantum computers can (in theory) solve certain problems far faster than a classical computer running any known classical algorithm. While existing technologies for building quantum computers are in their infancy it is not too early to consider their... more

Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics A: Cloth Simulation for Computer Graphics (Paperback)

Physics-based animation is commonplace in animated feature films and even special effects for live-action movies. Think about a recent movie and there will be some sort of special effects such as explosions or virtual worlds. Cloth simulation is no... more

Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics A: Mathematical Basics of Motion and Deformation in Computer Graphics Second Edition (Paperback)

This synthesis lecture presents an intuitive introduction to the mathematics of motion and deformation in computer graphics. Starting with familiar concepts in graphics such as Euler angles quaternions and affine transformations we illustrate that a... more

Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics A: Virtual Crowds: Steps Toward Behavioral Realism (Paperback)

This volume presents novel computational models for representing digital humans and their interactions with other virtual characters and meaningful environments. In this context we describe efficient algorithms to animate control and author human-like... more

Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics A: Virtual Material Acquisition and Representation for Computer Graphics (Paperback)

This book provides beginners in computer graphics and related fields a guide to the concepts models and technologies for realistic rendering of material appearance. It provides a complete and thorough overview of reflectance models and acquisition... more

Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics A: An Introduction to Laplacian Spectral Distances and Kernels (Paperback)

In geometry processing and shape analysis several applications have been addressed through the properties of the Laplacian spectral kernels and distances such as commute time biharmonic diffusion and wave distances. Within this context this book is... more

Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture: The Datacenter as a Computer (Paperback)

This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs) the computing platforms that power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as one massive computer designed at... more

Synthesis Lectures on Data Management: Web Page Recommendation Models: Theory and Algorithms (Paperback)

One of the application areas of data mining is the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) which serves as a huge widely distributed global information service for every kind of information such as news advertisements consumer information financial management... more

Synthesis Lectures on Data Management: Uncertain Schema Matching (Paperback)

Schema matching is the task of providing correspondences between concepts describing the meaning of data in various heterogeneous distributed data sources. Schema matching is one of the basic operations required by the process of data and schema... more

Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science Principles of Blockchain Systems (Paperback)

This book is the first to present the state of the art and provide technical focus on the latest advances in the foundations of blockchain systems. It is a collaborative work between specialists in cryptography distributed systems formal languages and... more

Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts Retrieval and S: Social Informatics Evolving (Paperback)

The study of people information and communication technologies and the contexts in which these technologies are designed implemented and used has long interested scholars in a wide range of disciplines including the social study of computing science... more

Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts Retrieval and S: Search-Based Applications : At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies (Paperback)

We are poised at a major turning point in the history of information management via computers. Recent evolutions in computing communications and commerce are fundamentally reshaping the ways in which we humans interact with information and generating... more

Synthesis Lectures on Algorithms and Software in Engineering: Secure Sensor Cloud (Paperback)

The sensor cloud is a new model of computing paradigm for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) which facilitates resource sharing and provides a platform to integrate different sensor networks where multiple users can build their own sensing applications at... more

Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture: Quantum Computer Systems: Research for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers (Paperback)

This book targets computer scientists and engineers who are familiar with concepts in classical computer systems but are curious to learn the general architecture of quantum computing systems. It gives a concise presentation of this new paradigm of... more

Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Outlier Detection for Temporal Data (Paperback)

Outlier (or anomaly) detection is a very broad field which has been studied in the context of a large number of research areas like statistics data mining sensor networks environmental science distributed systems spatio-temporal mining etc. Initial... more

Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Euro-Par 2021: Parallel Processing Workshops: Euro-Par 2021 International Workshops Lisbon Portugal August 30-31 2021 Revised Selected Papers (Paperback)

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 27th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Euro-Par 2021 which took place in Portugal in August 2021. The workshops were held virtually due to the... more