Advanced Dynamic-system Simulation: Model-replication Techniques and Monte Carlo Simulation

Advanced Dynamic-system Simulation: Model-replication Techniques and Monte Carlo Simulation

Learn the latest techniques in programming sophisticated simulation systems
This cutting-edge text presents the latest techniques in advanced simulation programming for interactive modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, such as aerospace vehicles, control systems, and biological systems. The author, a leading authority in the field, demonstrates computer software that can handle large simulation studies on standard personal computers. Readers can run, edit, and modify the sample simulations from the text with the accompanying CD-ROM, featuring the OPEN DESIRE program for Linux and Windows. The program included on CD solves up to 40,000 ordinary differential equations and implements exceptionally fast and convenient vector operations.
The text begins with an introduction to dynamic-system simulation, including a demonstration of a simple guided-missile simulation. Among the other highlights of coverage are:
Models that involve sampled-data operations and sampled-data difference equations, including improved techniques for proper numerical integration of switched variables
Novel vector compiler that produces exceptionally fast programs for vector and matrix assignments, differential equations, and difference equations
Application of vector compiler to parameter-influence studies and Monte Carlo simulation of dynamic systems
Vectorized Monte Carlo simulations involving time-varying noise, derived from periodic pseudorandom-noise samples
Vector models of neural networks, including a new pulsed-neuron model
Vectorized programs for fuzzy-set controller, partial differential equations, and agro-ecological models replicated at many points of a landscape map
This text is intended for graduate-level students, engineers, and computer scientists, particularly those involved in aerospace, control system design, chemical process control, and biological systems. All readers will gain the practical skills they need to design sophisticated simulations of dynamic systems.

Learning VirtualDub

Learning VirtualDub

VirtualDub is one of the most popular video processing application for Windows. As an Open Source application, it's free, and is constantly updated and expanded by an active community of developers and experts. VirtualDub particularly popular for capturing video from analogue sources such as video tape, cleaning up the image and compressing it ready for distribution over the Internet. This book provides a rapid and easy to use tutorial to the basic features of VirtualDub to get you up and running quickly. It explains how to capture great quality video from various sources, use filters to clean up the captured image and add special effects. The book has shows all to use VirtualDub to cut and paste video to remove or insert sequences, including removing ad breaks or trailers. It goes on to cover the art of effective encoding and compression, so you end up with great quality videos that won't hog your bandwidth forever. VirtualDub is the fastest and most effective way to capture, process and encode video on your PC. This book gets you started fast, and goes on to give you full control of all the features of this legendary tool.

Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not: Economic and Strategic Management in Computing Markets

Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not: Economic and Strategic Management in Computing Markets

This is a collection of 42 essays about the economics management of information technology markets. The unifying theme revolves around the role of human economic behavior in the face of uncertainty & confusion.

Design and Analysis of Learning Classifier Systems: A Probabilistic Approach (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Design and Analysis of Learning Classifier Systems: A Probabilistic Approach (Studies in Computational Intelligence)






This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the design and analysis of Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) from the perspective of machine learning. LCS are a family of methods for handling unsupervised learning, supervised learning and sequential decision tasks by decomposing larger problem spaces into easy-to-handle subproblems. Contrary to commonly approaching their design and analysis from the viewpoint of evolutionary computation, this book instead promotes a probabilistic model-based approach, based on their defining question "What is an LCS supposed to learn?". Systematically following this approach, it is shown how generic machine learning methods can be applied to design LCS algorithms from the first principles of their underlying probabilistic model, which is in this book – for illustrative purposes – closely related to the currently prominent XCS classifier system. The approach is holistic in the sense that the uniform goal-driven design metaphor essentially covers all aspects of LCS and puts them on a solid foundation, in addition to enabling the transfer of the theoretical foundation of the various applied machine learning methods onto LCS. Thus, it does not only advance the analysis of existing LCS but also puts forward the design of new LCS within that same framework.

Ada 2005 Rationale: The Language, The Standard Libraries (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Ada 2005 Rationale: The Language, The Standard Libraries (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Ada 2005 is the latest version of the International Standard for the programming language Ada. Formally, it is an Amendment of ISO/IEC 8652:1995 (E) rather than a completely new standard. The primary goals for the new version were to enhance its capabilities particularly in those areas where its reliability and predictability are of great value. Accordingly, a number of intriguing and attractive ideas have been included and implemented in a coherent manner as appropriate to the level of perfection necessary for the diligent maintenance of a language standard.
The Ada 2005 Rationale describes not only the changes from Ada 95 but also the reason for the changes. It starts with an introduction providing a general overview and this is followed by seven chapters focusing on OOP; access types; structure and visibility; tasking and real time; exceptions, generics, etc.; the predefined library; and containers. The book concludes with an epilogue largely concerned with compatibility issues.

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Data Compression, Suffix Arrays, and Pattern Matching

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Data Compression, Suffix Arrays, and Pattern Matching

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform is a text transformation scheme that has found applications in different aspects of the data explosion problem, from data compression to index structures and search. The BWT belongs to a new class of compression algorithms, distinguished by its ability to perform compression by sorted contexts. More recently, the BWT has also found various applications in addition to text data compression, such as in lossless and lossy image compression, tree-source identification, bioinformatics, machine translation, shape matching, and test data compression.
This book will serve as a reference for seasoned professionals or researchers in the area, while providing a gentle introduction, making it accessible for senior undergraduate students or first year graduate students embarking upon research in compression, pattern matching, full text retrieval, compressed index structures, or other areas related to the BWT.
Key Features
Comprehensive resource for information related to different aspects of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform including:
Gentle introduction to the BWT
History of the development of the BWT
Detailed theoretical analysis of algorithmic issues and performance limits
Searching on BWT compressed data
Hardware architectures for the BWT
Explores non-traditional applications of the BWT in areas such as:
Bioinformatics
Joint source-channel coding
Modern information retrieval
Machine translation
Test data compression for systems-on-chip
Teaching materials ideal for classroom use on courses in:
Data Compression and Source Coding
Modern Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries

ExamInsight For CompTIA Security+ Certification Exam SY0-101 (ExamInsight)

ExamInsight For CompTIA Security+ Certification Exam SY0-101 (ExamInsight)

Part of the TotalRecall: IT Certification System Series, this new book fills the gap existing in the complete study aid material available for candidates preparing to set the CompTIA Security+ Exam. This book covers information associated with each exam topic in detail and includes information found in no other book. This manual is designed to provide information to help readers study for and pass CompTIA's Security+ certification exam. Every effort has been made to make this manual as complete and accurate as possible. Just reviewing the table of contents, you will see that through TotalRecall Publications, I was given the freedom to build on what I have learned from running a Voc Tech school. For example, the chapter numbers are written in Base 2. The goal here is to reinforcement, learn binary math, since that is how much of computing works. In this release, we teamed up with other alpha geek around the world with the end result is you will not find another Security+ book with more geekie details, if you need them. This title (ExamInsight) is a reference manual for those who are thinking, "I want to make sure I know what I think I know before I spend a couple hundred bucks on a SY0-101 exam." The ExamInsight Book contains 400 well-researched pages that follow CompTIA's certification Objectives. The contents were thoroughly tech-reviewed by Michael Woznicki and confirmed to be directly related to the Security+ SY0-101 exam. If you are already in Security+networking, and don't want/need a complete certification/reference/killer idea book, try the ExamWise For Security+: The IT Question Book Series: ISBN # 1-59095-266-9 from www.TotalRecallPress.com. If you are in the game for in-depth understanding, this is this book for you. Helen and Tcat encourage questions from and support the readers of this work. To us, it is another form of Networking, and we look forward to hearing from you. Tcat@Tcat.net or hoboyle@mindspring.com

Working With Active Server Pages

Working With Active Server Pages

Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings -- and Stay There

Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings -- and Stay There

Written in a clear, non-technical, style by a leading expert in SEO (search engine optimization), GTTTOG explains techniques and strategies proven to return higher search engine rankings and sales. It addresses all aspects of search engine marketing and includes an assessment of the impact of Web 2.0 on Internet search strategies.