Bücher der Reihe The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

BiCMOS Technology and Applications, Second Edition provides a synthesis of available knowledge about the combination of bipolar and MOS transistors in a common integrated circuit - BiCMOS.

An image or video sequence is a series of two-dimensional (2-D) images sequen tially ordered in time. In this book, we choose to classify these operations into three major categories, namely (i) image sequence processing, (ii) image sequence analysis, and (iii) visualization.

1 Neuron Generation . 5 Implementation . . . . . 7 Summary . . . . . . . . . 4 Parameter Level Adaptation . 6 Implementation . . 8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Basic Properties . . . . . . . 4 Performance Comparison . . . . 4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Kolmogorov's Theorem . 1 Measure Construction . 2 Energy Function . .

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Notation and Tenninology . 3 Minimization Technique . 4 An Example . 1 Transitive Oosure . 3 Path Sensitization . 100 References . 1 Background . 6 Summary 119 References . 2 Contribution of the Present Work . 139 References . 3 Logic Circuit Modeling . 1 Modelfor a Boolean Gate .

This book can also serve as an excellent reference for researchers in the analog circuit design area and creators of CAD tools, as it provides a comprehensive overview and comparison of various approaches for analog circuit design automation and an extensive bibliography.

It is my ambition in writing this book to bring tribology to the study of control of machines with friction.

This volume contains a selection of papers that focus on the state-of the-art in formal specification and verification of real-time computing systems.

Dynamic Systems (DEDS) are almost endless: military C31 Ilogistic systems, the emergency ward of a metropolitan hospital, back offices of large insurance and brokerage fums, service and spare part operations of multinational fums . Yet DEDS is a relatively new phenomenon in dynamic systems studies.

The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) provides a standard machine processable notation for describing hardware. VAL (VHDL Annotation Language) is a simple further step in the evolution of hardware description languages in the direction of applying new methods that have developed since VHDL was designed.

Multimedia surveillance systems is an emerging field that includes signal and image processing, communications, and computer vision.

While Barisone et al.'s characterization in Chapter 1 deals with instruction set usage of Java applications, Kim et al.'s analysis in Chapter 2 focuses on memory referencing behavior of Java workloads.

This book grew out of our research, industry consulting and con tinuing education courses. Basic material included in the book has been taught to students and practicing professionals over the last four years in the form of senior undergraduate or graduate courses, lecture series and short continuing education courses.

Conventional block-based segmentation algorithms classify each block separately, assuming independence of feature vectors. Image Segmentation and Compression Using Hidden Markov Models presents a new algorithm that models the statistical dependence among image blocks by two dimensional hidden Markov models (HMMs).

CDMA Techniques for Third Generation Mobile Systems presents advanced techniques for analyzing and developing third generation mobile telecommunication systems.

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Rate-Quality Optimized Video Coding discusses the matter of optimizing (or negotiating) the data rate of compressed digital video and its quality, which has been a relatively neglected topic in either side of image/video coding and tele-traffic management.

Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies addresses issues in scheduling and management of resources in an interactive continuous-media (e.g., audio and video) server.

Transaction Management Support for Cooperative Application is a comprehensive report on a successful international project, called TRANSCOOP, carried out from 1994 to 1997 by a group of European scientists.

During the past few years, we have been witnessing the rapid growth of the ap plications of Interactive Digital Video, Multimedia Computing, Desktop Video Teleconferencing, Virtual Reality, and High Definition Television (HDTV).

This book introduces several state-of-the-art VLSI implementations of artificial neural networks (ANNs). The work of Professors Fakhraie and Smith, presented in this book, is a welcome addition to the state-of-the-art and will greatly benefit researchers and students working in this area.

Intelligent Unmanned Ground Vehicles describes the technology developed and the results obtained by the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute in the course of the DARPA Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) project.

1 Power-dissipation trends in CMOS circuits Shrinking device geometry, growing chip area and increased data-processing speed performance are technological trends in the integrated circuit industry to enlarge chip functionality.

Information theory is an exceptional field in many ways. Massey, whose work in the field is honored here, embodies the highest standards of the profession in his own career. The book covers the latest work on: block coding, convolutional coding, cryptography, and information theory.

When a person picks up a metal part and clamps it in the chuck of a lathe, he begins with his arm, proceeds with his wrist and finishes with his fingers. Little work has been done on grasping and fine manipulation with a robot hand or wrist, but the related subjects of robot arm dynamics and control have an extensive literature.

The "technology pendulum" has swung from the two extremes of preeminence of bipolar in the 1950s and 60s to the apparent endless horizons for VLSI NMOS technology during the 1970s and 80s.

Computer vision is one of the most complex and computationally intensive problem. Hence, not only are the comput ing requirements for solving vision problems tremendous but they also demand computers that are efficient to solve problems exhibiting vastly dif ferent characteristics.

A modern microelectronic circuit can be compared to a large construction, a large city, on a very small area.

Widespread use of parallel processing will become a reality only if the process of porting applications to parallel computers can be largely automated.

Small changes in the performance of the memory hierarchy cause large changes in overall system performance. The strong growth of ruse machines, whose performance is more tightly coupled to the memory hierarchy, has created increasing demand for high performance memory systems.

This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop on Analog Integrated Neural Systems held May 8, 1989, in connection with the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.