Computer safety, reliability, and security ; 27th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2008 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, September 22-25, 2008 Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2008, held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in September 2008.
Computer safety, reliability, and security ; 26th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2007, Nurmberg, Germany, September 18-21, 2007, Proceedings
It' s important to improving the state of the art of highly depe- able computer-based systems, since then increasingly applied to safety-relevant industrial domains.This book included a considerable number of contributions addressing technical problems and engineering solutions across the border between safety-related and securi- related concerns.
Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient : The Research Challenges Ahead ; 21st International Conference, ICCPOL 2006, Singapore, December 17-19, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2006.The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, document classification, questions and answers, summarization, machine translation, word segmentation, chunking, abbreviation expansion, writing-system issues, parsing, semantics, and lexical resources.
Computer Performance Engineering ; 5th European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2008, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 24-25, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fifth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2008, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in September 24-25, 2008.
Computer organization and design, enhanced : The hardware / software interface ; 5th ed.
Contains new examples and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. It explores this generational change with updated content featuring tablet computers, cloud infrastructure, and the ARM (mobile computing devices) and x86 (cloud computing) architectures. The book uses a MIPS processor core to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O.Because an understanding of modern hardware is essential to achieving good performance and energy efficiency, this edition adds a new concrete example, Going Faster, used throughout the text to demonstrate extremely effective optimization techniques. There is also a new discussion of the Eight Great Ideas of computer architecture.
Computer organization and design : The hardware / software interface ; 6th ed.
Designed to be used in modern computing environments such as cloud computing, mobile devices, and other embedded systems. With the post-PC era now upon us, Computer Organization and Design moves forward to explore this generational change with examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the Cloud. Updated content featuring tablet computers, Cloud infrastructure, and the x86 (cloud computing) and ARM (mobile computing devices) architectures is included
Computer organization and architecture : Designing for performance ; 11th ed.
For graduate and undergraduate courses in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. Comprehensively covers processor and computer design fundamentals Computer Organization and Architecture, 11th Edition is about the structure and function of computers. Its purpose is to present, as clearly and completely as possible, the nature and characteristics of modern-day computer systems.
Computer organization and architecture : Designing for performance ; 10th ed.
For graduate and undergraduate courses in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. Comprehensively covers processor and computer design fundamentals Computer Organization and Architecture, 11th Edition is about the structure and function of computers. Its purpose is to present, as clearly and completely as possible, the nature and characteristics of modern-day computer systems.
Computer networking : A top-down approach ; 7th ed.
The text works its way from the application layer down toward the physical layer, motivating students by exposing them to important concepts early in their study of networking. Focusing on the Internet and the fundamentally important issues of networking, this text provides an excellent foundation for students in computer science and electrical engineering, without requiring extensive knowledge of programming or mathematics. The Seventh Edition has been updated to reflect the most important and exciting recent advances in networking.
Computer Network Security ; 4th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 13-15, 2007, Proceedings
This volume focus on mathematical aspects of information and computer network security addressing the ever-increasing demands for secure computing and highly dependable computer networks.
Computer Network Security
As society becomes increasingly dependent on computers and computer networks, computer problems continue to rise in number. Yet despite the proliferation of expert remedies, a viable solution to these security issues remains elusive, and society continues to suffer at the hands of cyber vandalism and computer viruses. This comprehensive text outlines and discusses today’s most important issues and concerns in computer network and information safety and security, and promises to ignite debate and participation in the ongoing global security dialog Computer Network Security is foremost an educational tool that aims to explore computer network infrastructure and protocol design security flaws and discusses current security solutions and best practices. It explores the security threats and vulnerabilities in the current network infrastructure and protocols and outlines current efforts including: Access Control and Authorization, Cryptography, Firewalls and VPNs, Web Security and Content Filtering, among others. The text further discusses various security proposals This text is an invaluable instructional and research tool for courses in computer and information security. Students or practitioners in computer science, information science, technology studies, library sciences, and information management studies will find this text particularly useful for their purposes. In addition, it is a rich resource for those looking to gain an understanding of computer infrastructures and network security threats.
Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds ; 4th International Symposium, CMMR 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27-31, 2007. Revised Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Symposium, CMMR 2007, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2007 jointly with the International Computer Music Conference 2007, ICMC 2007.
Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Vol. 3902 ; 3rd International Symposium, CMMR 2005, Pisa, Italy, September 26-28, 2005, Revised Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Symposium, CMMR 2005. the papers address a broad variety of topics. The papers are organized in topical sections on sound synthesis; music perception and cognition; interactive music: interface, interaction, gestures and sensors, music composition; music retrieval: music performance, music analysis, music representation; as well as interdisciplinarity and computer music.
Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval ; Vol. 3310
This volume contains the final proceedings for the 2004 Computer Music Model-ing and Retrieval Symposium (CMMR 2004). CMMR is an annualevent focusing on important aspects of computer music. CMMR 2004 is the sec-ond event in this series. The use of computers in music is well established. CMMR 2004 provided aunique opportunity to meet and interact with peers concerned with the cross-influence of the technological and creative in computer music. The field of com-puter music is interdisciplinary by nature and closely related to a number of com-puter science and engineering areas such as information retrieval, programming,human computer interaction, digital libraries, hypermedia, artificial intelligence,acoustics, signal processing, etc. The event gathered many interesting people(researchers, educators, composers, performers, and others). There were manyhigh-quality keynote and paper presentations, that fostered inspiring discussions.
Computer Insecurity : Risking the System
Security is one of the most significant issues facing the owners and users of computer systems in the Internet age, and recent years have convincingly illustrated that the problem is increasing in both scale and cost. Computer Insecurity: Risking the System approaches its topic from the perspective of vulnerability – how can your system be attacked? Covering technical issues and human factors, the comprehensively researched text makes reference to numerous real-life security incidents, which help to provide persuasive practical evidence of the problems and the impacts that result. Key issues covered include: • the problem of computer insecurity • the need to raise security awareness • common failings that compromise protection • the attack and exploitation of systems • considerations in responding to the threats
Computer graphics with OpenGL
Assuming no background in computer graphics, this junior- to graduate-level textbook presents basic principles for the design, use, and understanding of computer graphics systems and applications. The authors, authorities in their field, offer an integrated approach to two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics topics. A comprehensive explanation of the popular OpenGL programming package, along with C++ programming examples illustrates applications of the various functions in the OpenGL basic library and the related GLU and GLUT packages.
Computer graphics and geometric modelling : Implementation & algorithms
Possibly the most comprehensive overview of computer graphics as seen in the context of geometric modelling, this two volume work covers implementation and theory in a thorough and systematic fashion. Computer Graphics and Geometric Modelling: Implementation and Algorithms, covers the computer graphics part of the field of geometric modelling and includes all the standard computer graphics topics. The first part deals with basic concepts and algorithms and the main steps involved in displaying photorealistic images on a computer. The second part covers curves and surfaces and a number of more advanced geometric modelling topics including intersection algorithms, distance algorithms, polygonizing curves and surfaces, trimmed surfaces, implicit curves and surfaces, offset curves and surfaces, curvature, geodesics, blending etc. The third part touches on some aspects of computational geometry and a few special topics such as interval analysis and finite element methods. The volume includes two companion programs.
Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005 ; 20th International Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, October 26 -- 28, 2005, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2005, held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2005. The 92 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 491 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer networks, sensor and satellite networks, security and cryptography, performance evaluation, e-commerce and Web services, multiagent systems, machine learning, information retrieval and natural language processing, image and speech processing, algorithms and database systems, as well as theory of computing.
Computer And Computing Technologies In Agriculture, Vol. II ; 1st IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA 2007), Wuyishan, China, August 18-20, 2007
The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.
Computer And Computing Technologies In Agriculture, Vol. I ; 1st IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA 2007), Wuyishan, China, August 18-20, 2007
The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.



















