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

Face Image Analysis by Unsupervised Learning explores adaptive approaches to image analysis.

Performance Analysis of Telecommunications and Local Area Networks presents information on teletraffic engineering, with emphasis on modeling techniques, queuing theory, and performance analysis for the public-switched telephone network and computer communication networks.

Software product lines are emerging as a critical new paradigm for software development. With the increasing number of product lines and product-line researchers and practitioners, the time is right for a comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the software product line approach.

Autonomous, Model-Based Diagnosis Agents defines and describes the implementation of an architecture for autonomous, model-based diagnosis agents.

Design of Low-Voltage Low-Power CMOS Delta-Sigma A/D Converters investigates the feasibility of designing Delta-Sigma Analog to Digital Converters for very low supply voltage (lower than 1.5V) and low power operation in standard CMOS processes.

In knowledge-based natural language generation, issues of formal knowledge representation meet with the linguistic problems of choosing the most appropriate verbalization in a particular situation of utterance.

For many years, the dominant fault model in automatic test pattern gen eration (ATPG) for digital integrated circuits has been the stuck-at fault model.

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).

Mathematical Properties of Sequences and Other Combinatorial Structures is an excellent reference for both professional and academic researchers working in telecommunications, cryptography, signal processing, discrete mathematics, and information theory.

Preferential Emergency Communications: From Telecommunications to the Internet, a professional monograph, is divided into three sections. Finally, the third section presents insights on trying to support emergency communications over TCP/IP networks and the Internet.

Knowledge-Based Information Retrieval and Filtering from the Web contains fifteen chapters, contributed by leading international researchers, addressing the matter of information retrieval, filtering and management of the information on the Internet.

The ability to analyze and understand massive data sets lags far behind the ability to gather and store the data. Instance, example, or tuple selection pertains to methods or algorithms that select or search for a representative portion of data that can fulfill a KDD task as if the whole data is used.

Constrained Coding and Soft Iterative Decoding is the first work to combine the issues of constrained coding and soft iterative decoding (e.g., turbo and LDPC codes) from a unified point of view.

Aims at design techniques for low-power, high-speed analog-to-digital converter processed by the standard CMOS technology. This book covers physical integration issues of A/D converter integrated in SoC, substrate crosstalk and reference voltage network design.

Static and Dynamic Performance Limitations for High Speed D/A Converters discusses the design and implementation of high speed current-steering CMOS digital-to-analog converters.

This book deals with digital watermarking, which is defined by the authors of this book as the art of hiding auxiliary information in digital data in a secure, robust and imperceptible fashion.

Optical communications networks are an essential part of the world wide te- communication infrastructure . The use of transmission techniques such as WDM in combination with optical crossconnects is enabling optical networking at high bit-rates reaching terabits per second .

Advanced Video-Based Surveillance Systems presents second generation surveillance systems that automatically process large sets of signals for performance monitoring tasks.

The book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in SigmaDelta design and of the challenges for future realizations. It provides an understanding of the fundamental power efficiency of SigmaDelta converters. exchanging analog for digital conditioning, comes at a major power penalty.

One of the ultimate goals in Robotics is to create autonomous robots. Making progress toward autonomous robots is of major practical inter est in a wide variety of application domains including manufacturing, construction, waste management, space exploration, undersea work, as sistance for the disabled, and medical surgery.

Discrete Event Systems: Analysis and Control is the proceedings of WODES2000 (the 5th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, held in Ghent, Belgium, on August 21-23, 2000).

The book is organized into three parts: Curves and Codes, Codes and Signals, and Signals and Information. Codes, Curves, and Signals: Common Threads in Communications is a tribute to the broad and profound influence of Richard E.

Brings together knowledge relating 3D geospatial data collection, design issues, and techniques used in synthetic environments design, implementation and interoperability. This book describes techniques for the generation of Synthetic Environments with resolution and attribution, both useful for accurate modeling and simulation.

Discusses ESD protection circuit design problems from an IC designer's perspective. This book provides both fundamental and advanced materials needed by a circuit designer for designing ESD protection circuits. It can be used as a reference book for working IC designers and as a textbook for students in the IC design field.

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

This book presents a detailed summary of research on automatic layout of device-level analog circuits that was undertaken in the late 1980s and early 1990s at Carnegie Mellon University.

High-Q inductor integration and simulation in CMOS is elaborated and flicker noise minimization techniques are presented, ranging from bias point choice to noise filtering techniques.

This revision is comprehensive and explains how to develop, implement and manage an ESD control program, and includes up-to-date data, many new chapters, new case studies, and much more.

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).