Approximation methods are of vital importance in many challenging applications
from computational science and engineering. This book collects papers
from world experts in a broad variety of relevant applications of approximation
theory, including pattern recognition and machine learning, multiscale modelling
of fluid flow, metrology,...
Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy. It is likely to be of interest to anyone trying to understand how to think...
Mechanical engineering is a broad and complex field
within the world of engineering and has close relations
to many other fields. It is an important economic factor
for all industrialized countries and the global market
allows for wide international competition for products
and processes in this field. To stay up to date with...
This book presents results of research achieved in friendly collaboration across
borders and moreover between continents and emphasizes a belief in engineering
science being for the benefit of mankind the world over. This aspect of the book’s
ethos is epitomized by the authors’ profiles, one being from Central Europe and...
More than fifteen years ago, I was faced with the following problem in an assignment
for a class in computer science. A brewery had to deliver beer to five stores, and the task
was to write a computer program for determining the shortest route for the truck driver to
visit all stores and return to the brewery. All my attemps to find a...
With ever increasing frequency, financial studies in business are acquiring greater importance in the field of management as a consequence of the complexity of the problems arising in present day society. The old treaties that included certain aspects on the raising and placing of payment means have been relegated to history, leaving the way...
You are holding the proceedings of FSE 2011, the 18th International Workshop
on Fast Software Encryption. This workshop was organized in cooperation with
the International Association for Cryptologic Research. It was held in Lyngby,
Denmark, during February 13–16, 2011.
The FSE 2011 Program Committee (PC) consisted of...
Over the course of the past twenty years I have learned many things relevant to
this book while working in high-energy physics. As everyone in this field in the
yearly to mid-90s, I was analyzing experimental data collected by particle colliders
using the FORTRAN programming language. Then, gradually, I moved to C++
coding following...
The success of the World Wide Web depends on the ability of users to store, process
and retrieve digital information regardless of distance boundaries, languages
and domains of knowledge. The universality and flexibility of the World Wide Web
have also enabled the rapid growth of a variety of new services and applications
based on...
Mathematics and mathematical modelling are of central importance in computer science. For this reason the teaching concepts of mathematics in computer science have to be constantly reconsidered, and the choice of material and the motivation have to be adapted. This applies in particular to mathematical analysis, whose significance has to be...
This brief monograph is the first one to deal exclusively with the quantitative approximation by artificial neural networks to the identity-unit operator. Here we study with rates the approximation properties of the "right" sigmoidal and hyperbolic tangent artificial neural network positive linear operators. In particular we study...
Data management has evolved over the years from being strictly associated with
database systems, through active databases, to being a topic that has grown
beyond the scope of a single field encompassing multiple aspects: distributed
systems, event-driven systems, and peer-to-peer and streaming systems. The
present collection of works,...
