Algorithms & Complexity

What If. . .Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy is a brief collection of over 100 classic and contemporarythought experiments, each exploring an important philosophical argument. These thought experiments introduce students to the kind of disciplined thought required in philosophy, and awake..

Applicable to any problem that requires a finite number of solutions, finite state-based models (also called finite state machines or finite state automata) have found wide use in various areas of computer science and engineering. This handbook provides a complete collection of introductory material..

Exploring how to extract knowledge structures from evolving and time-changing data, this book presents a coherent overview of state-of-the-art research in learning from data streams. It covers the fundamentals that are imperative to understanding data streams and describes important applications, su..

Viral Pathogenesis in Diagrams is the first book of its kind to illustrate viral pathogenesis on a comparative basis. The text covers the pathogenesis of viral diseases, including vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and protists. The diagrams summarize and integrate large numbers of observations, fr..

Accompanied by more than 1,000 examples and exercises, this comprehensive, classroom-tested text presents numerous theories, techniques, and methods used for analyzing algorithms. It includes basic material on combinatorics and probability that can be used for students with weak backgrounds. It pres..

Stresses the mathematical basis behind the use of many algorithms of computational mathematics, providing descriptions on how to generate algorithms for a large number of different uses. Covering a range of mathematical and physical applications, this book contains the theory of 25 algorithms...

This book introduces the technique of computing with a recently introduced number representation and its arithmetic operations, referred to as the Multiple Base Number System (MBNS). Content includes a review of the latest research in the field. The authors take the reader through an initial introdu..

This book introduces the semantic aspects of natural language processing and its applications. Topics covered include: measuring word meaning similarity, multi-lingual querying, and parametric theory, named entity recognition, semantics, query language, and the nature of language. The book also emph..

Mark Lewis’ Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala was the first textbook to use Scala for introductory CS courses. Scala continues to gain significance among professional developers, and a new edition of this popular textbook is needed to update the book from Scala 2.9 to Scala 2.12. Th..

Helping readers avoid common mistakes and build better models, this is one of the first books to apply the popular patterns perspective to database systems and the data models that are used to design state-of-the-art, efficient database systems. Best-selling author and database expert Dr. Michael Bl..

This book covers the most important topics in the area of pattern recognition, object recognition, computer vision, robot vision, medical computing, computational geometry, and bioinformatics systems. Students and researchers will find a comprehensive treatment of polygonal approximation and its rea..

This book focuses on symmetric groups and representation theory. The symmetric group is a central object in discrete mathematics. It can be studied from a combinatorial, algorithmic, or algebraic viewpoint, and the results can be applied in a plethora of other fields, such as physics and computer sc..