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

Optical networks, employing Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) and wavelength routing, are believed to be the answer for the explosion in IP traffic and the emergence of real-time multimedia applications.

Presents a series of simulations that demonstrate the efficiency of a simple cleaning policy based on cost and benefit. This book describes a prototype log-structured file system called Sprite LFS. It demonstrates how a log-structured file system can be used more efficiently than existing file systems.

ATM Network Performance, Second Edition, describes approaches to computer and communication network management at the ATM layer of the protocol hierarchy. New material on round-robin scheduling, jitter control, QoS paradigms as well as special treatment of fluid modeling and variable bit rate channel capacity.

Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Instruction Parallelism to Cluster Computing is the proceedings of the third Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems organized jointly by the Austrian Computer Society and the MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute.

Business Component-Based Software Engineering, an edited volume, aims to complement some other reputable books on CBSE, by stressing how components are built for large-scale applications, within dedicated development processes and for easy and direct combination.

While the typical portion of a large IC devoted to analog circuits has diminished, the performance of those surviving analog signal processing circuits remains vital and their design challenging. Audience: A reference work for experienced IC designers and a text for advanced IC design students.

Introduction to Fuzzy Reliability treats fuzzy methodology in hardware reliability and software reliability in a relatively systematic manner. Chapter 4 presents the basic theory of profust reliability, whereas Chapter 5 analyzes the profust reliability behavior of a number of engineering systems.

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications contains a selection of fully refereed papers presented at the 14th International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications held in Victoria, Canada, in June 2000.

The last part, on Wireless Data Networks, is comprised of issues related to the performance of GPRS systems deployed as an upgrade on current networks and deployment of wireless LANs.

Quantitative Feedback Design of Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems is a self-contained book dealing with the theory and practice of Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT).

Although research in architectural synthesis has been conducted for over ten years it has had very little impact on industry. The OASIC (optimal architectural synthesis with interface constraints) architectural synthesizer and the CATREE (computer aided trees) synthesizer demonstrate how these problems can be solved.

High-speed Photodiodes in Standard CMOS Technology describes high-speed photodiodes in standard CMOS technology which allow monolithic integration of optical receivers for short-haul communication.

Presents two closely related steps in various knowledge discovery systems: the generation of discovered knowledge; and the interpretation and evaluation of discovered knowledge. This book is suitable as a secondary text in a graduate level course and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

A collection of forty selected papers that was presented to the Eighth International Conference on Computer Systems, October 2001 in Mielno, Poland.

These chapters tackle a number of critical issues in distributed multimedia systems and applications - from VLSI processors that support multimedia and multimedia servers, through multimedia databases and multimedia networks and communications, to merging multimedia applications.

Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications also presents several specific applications and a general structure for the solution of computed synchronization problems.

Gives an insight into the many possible applications of time-frequency decomposition to the discipline of chemical engineering. This book includes tutorial chapters introducing wavelets and providing computational examples which will be helpful to readers new to the field.

Unfortunately, this resemblance is often of little help in actually writing the software for problem X' given the software for problem X. And of course, VLSI design software, and engineering design software in general, is often exquisitely sensitive to some aspects of the domain (technology) in which it operates.

Presently, software controls many critical functions in (1) airplanes, (2) electronic commerce, (3) space-bound systems, (4) medical systems, and (5) various transportation systems such as automobiles and trains.

Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system. These systems are of special interest for interactive applications, and they integrate several technologies including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog management and speech synthesis.

The theory's predictions and bounds to performance are valuable to the coding engineer, but coding today is mostly about structures and algorithms and their size, speed and error performance. Chapter 4 is a unified treatment of trellis codes, beginning with binary convolu tional codes and passing to the new trellis modulation codes.

Explores research on four modalities, particularly with regard to imaging of the breast: MR elastography (MRE), electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), microwave imaging spectroscopy (MIS), and near infrared spectroscopic imaging (NIS). This book looks at the computational common ground shared by all four modalities.

Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits: Recent Developments is an interdisciplinary book blending mathematics, computational mathematics, scientific computing and software engineering with control and systems theory, signal processing, and circuit simulations.

Darwin2K: An Evolutionary Approach to Automated Design for Robotics is an essential reference tool for researchers, professionals, and students involved in robot design or in evolutionary synthesis, design, and optimization.

The authors describe an ontology of the human-centered virtual machine which includes four components: activity-centered analysis component, problem solving adapter component, transformation agent component, and multimedia based interpretation component.

Monte Carlo simulation is now a well established method for studying semiconductor devices and is particularly well suited to highlighting physical mechanisms and exploring material properties.

Turbulence takes place in most flow situations whethertheyoccur naturally or in technological systems. The recent discovery ofcoherent structure in turbulent shear flows and the modem developments in computer capabilities have revolutionized research work in turbulence.

Human-System interaction has been and will continue to be of interest to many researchers of various disciplines: engineers, computer scientists, psychologists, and social scientists.

1 CAD, Specification and Simulation Computer Aided Design (CAD) is today a widely used expression referring to the study of ways in which computers can be used to expedite the design process. This book concentrates on one area of CAD: the design of computer systems.

Multiscalar Processors presents a comprehensive treatment of the basic principles of Multiscalar execution, and advanced techniques for implementing the Multiscalar concepts. It starts with technology trends that provide an impetus to the development of multiscalar processors and shape the development of future processors.