245 títulos para "Morgan And Claypool Publishers"

Similarity Joins in Relational Database Systems

Augsten, Nikolaus / Bohlen, Michael H.

State-of-the-art database systems manage and process a variety of complex objects, including strings and trees. For such objects equality comparisons are often not meaningful and must be replaced by similarity comparisons. This book describes the concepts and techniques to incorporate similarity int...

Search-Based Applications

Grefenstette, Gregory / Wilber, Laura

We are poised at a major turning point in the history of information management via computers. Recent evolutions in computing, communications, and commerce are fundamentally reshaping the ways in which we humans interact with information, and generating enormous volumes of electronic data along the...

Metaphor

Veale, Tony / Shutova, Ekaterina / Klebanov, Beata Beigman

The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need arises. Metaphor is a pervasive aspect of every genre of text and every register of speech, and is as useful for descri...

Processor Microarchitecture

Antonio González / Latorre, Fernando / Magklis, Grigorios

This lecture presents a study of the microarchitecture of contemporary microprocessors. The focus is on implementation aspects, with discussions on their implications in terms of performance, power, and cost of state-of-the-art designs. The lecture starts with an overview of the different types of m...

A Gyrovector Space Approach to Hyperbolic Geometry

Ungar, Abraham A.

The mere mention of hyperbolic geometry is enough to strike fear in the heart of the undergraduate mathematics and physics student. Some regard themselves as excluded from the profound insights of hyperbolic geometry so that this enormous portion of human achievement is a closed door to them. The mi...

A Practical Guide to Testing Mobile Smartphone Applications

Harty, Julian

Testing applications for mobile phones is difficult, time-consuming, and hard to do effectively. Many people have limited their testing efforts to hands-on testing of an application on a few physical handsets, and they have to repeat the process every time a new version of the software is ready to t...

A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Vlassis, Nikos

Multiagent systems is an expanding field that blends classical fields like game theory and decentralized control with modern fields like computer science and machine learning. This monograph provides a concise introduction to the subject, covering the theoretical foundations as well as more recent d...

Path Problems in Networks

Baras, John / Theodorakopoulos, George / Walrand, Jean

The algebraic path problem is a generalization of the shortest path problem in graphs. Various instances of this abstract problem have appeared in the literature, and similar solutions have been independently discovered and rediscovered. The repeated appearance of a problem is evidence of its releva...

User-Centered Data Management

Catarci, Tiziana / Dix, Alan / Kimani, Stephen

This lecture covers several core issues in user-centered data management, including how to design usable interfaces that suitably support database tasks, and relevant approaches to visual querying, information visualization, and visual data mining. Novel interaction paradigms, e.g., mobile and inter...

Conceptual Models

Henderson, Austin / Johnson, Jeff

People make use of software applications in their activities, applying them as tools in carrying out tasks. That this use should be good for people--easy, effective, efficient, and enjoyable--is a principal goal of design. In this book, we present the notion of Conceptual Models, and argue that Conc...

The Engineering Design Challenge

Dolan, Charles W.

The Engineering Design Challenge addresses teaching engineering design and presents design projects for first-year students and interdisciplinary design ventures. A short philosophy and background of engineering design is discussed. The organization of the University of Wyoming first-year Introducti...

Interacting with Information

Blandford, Ann / Attfield, Simon

We live in an "information age," but information is only useful when it is interpreted by people and applied in the context of their goals and activities. The volume of information to which people have access is growing at an incredible rate, vastly outstripping people's ability to assimilate and ma...