Series: Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science (No.
9)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Paperback (ISBN-10: 0521619726 | ISBN-13: 9780521619721)
Also available in Hardback
Published March 2005 | 221 pages | 247 x 174 mm
This book tackles the problems of update algorithms for databases.
How can one construct and maintain a database of facts, capable
of incorporating new information and getting rid of all outdated
information, and yet in the process not disturb any other
information in the database? The author has produced a formal
method for specifying the desired change intentionally, using a
‘formula-based’ approach to updating needs rather than a
'model-based' technique. The complexity of the algorithms, choice
of semantics and a means of enforcing integrity constraints are
also discussed. The book will be of value to all involved in
database research.
Contents
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Classes of update semantics;
3. Model-based semantics for updates; 4. Update algorithms for
model-based semantics; 5. Updates with variables; 6. Lazy
evolution of updates; 7. Integrity constraints; 8. Adding
knowledge to relational theories; 9. Implementation;
Bibliography; Index of definitions.
Series: Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science (No. 7)
Paperback (ISBN-10: 0521619386 | ISBN-13: 9780521619387)
Published February 2005 | 134 pages | 247 x 174 mm
We are surrounded by noise; we must be able to separate the
signals we want to hear from those we do not. To overcome this
‘cocktail party effect’ we have developed various strategies;
endowing computers with similar abilities would enable the
development of devices such as intelligent hearing aids and
robust speech recognition systems. This book describes a system
which attempts to separate multiple, simultaneous acoustic
sources using strategies based on those used by humans. It is
both a review of recent work on the modelling of auditory
processes, and a presentation of a new model in which acoustic
signals are decomposed into elements. These structures are then
re-assembled in accordance with rules of auditory organisation
which operate to bind together elements that are likely to have
arisen from the same sourceThe . model is evaluated by measuring
its ability to separate speech from a wide variety of other
sounds, including music, phones and other speech.
● Based on prize winning Ph.D
● Only book to cover this topic in depth
Contents
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The auditory periphery:
physiology, function and a computer model; 3. Auditory
representations; 4. Modelling auditory scene exploration; 5.
Implementation of auditory grouping principles; 6. An evaluation
of sound source separation in the model; 7. Conclusions and
further development; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
ISBN: 0-201-85393-0
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 144 pp
Published: 02/14/2005
Preface
This booklet is Fascicle 2 of The Art of Computer Programming,
Volume 4: Combinatorial Algorithms. As explained in the preface
to Fascicle 1 of Volume 1, I'm circulating the material in this
preliminary form because I know that the task of completing
Volume 4 will take many years; I can't wait for people to begin
reading what I've written so far and to provide valuable feedback.
There will also be a Fascicle 1 for Volume 4. But I've written
Fascicle 2 first. Experienced programmers will understand that
the initialization of a program usually can't be written properly
until after the main body has been fleshed out.
Table of Contents
Chapter 7: Combinatorial Searching
7.2. Generating All Possibilities 1
7.2.1. Generating Basic Combinatorial Patterns 1
7.2.1.1. Generating all n-tuples 1
7.2.1.2. Generating all permutations 39
Answers to Exercises 76
Index and Glossary 122
Series: Integrated Series in Information Systems, Vol. 5
2005, XI, 228 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-22950-7
About this book
Logical Data Modeling offers business managers, analysts, and
students a clear, basic systematic guide to defining business
information structures in relational database terms. The
approach, based on Clive Finkelstein’s business-side
Information Engineering, is hands-on, practical, and explicit in
terminology and reasoning. Filled with illustrations, examples,
and exercises, Logical Data Modeling makes its subject accessible
to readers with only a limited knowledge of database systems. The
book covers all essential topics thoroughly but succinctly:
entities, associations, attributes, keys and inheritance, valid
and invalid structures, and normalization. It also emphasizes
communication with business and database specialists,
documentation, and the use of Visible Systems' Visible Advantage
enterprise modeling tool. The application of design patterns to
logical data modeling provides practitioners with a practical
tool for fast development. At the end, a chapter covers the
issues that arise when the logical data model is translated into
the design for a physical database.
Table of contents
Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Getting Started.- The Art Gallery Web:
A Data Modeling Example.- Building the Data Map.- The Art Gallery
Web (Continued).- Keys and Valid Associations.- The Art Gallery
Web (Continued).- Defining Attributes.- The Art Gallery Web (Continued).-
Verifying the Data Model.- Validating the Data Model.- Design
Patterns.- From Logical to Physical.- The End and the Beginning.-
References.- Index.
Series: Numerical Methods and Algorithms, Vol. 3
2005, XIV, 500 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-23837-9
About this book
This handbook brings together the theoretical basics of fluid
dynamics with a systemaic overview of the appropriate numerical
and computational methods for solving the problems presented in
the book. Also, effective codes for a majority of the examples
are included.
Table of contents
Introduction to Mechanics of Continua.- Dynamics of INVISCID
Fluids.- Viscous Incompressible Fluid Dynamics.- Introduction to
Numerical Solution for Ordinary and Partial Differential
Equations.- Finite-Difference Methods.- Finite Element and
Boundary Element Methods.- The Finite Volume Method and the
Generalized Difference Method.- Spectral Methods.- Appendix.-
References.- Index.
Series: Applied Optimization, Vol. 94
2005, XVI, 289 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-23566-3
About this book
This volume is a collection of recent key results in supply chain
optimisation. It presents new approaches and methods based on
operations research, artificial intelligence and computer
sciences techniques for design of production systems, supply and
inventory management, production planning and scheduling,
facility location, transportation and logistics, supply flow
optimisation via simulation, etc. The content focuses on a wide
spectrum of optimisation problems taking into account supply
chain paradigms, which create a pivotal idea to increase the
productivity of modern production systems.
Table of contents
Contributing Authors.- Preface.- An Initiative for International
Consensus on Enterprise.- Towards Knowledge Logistics in Agile
SME Networks.- A Modelling Framework for Human Resource-Based
Business Processes.- Managing Service-Sensitive Demand Through
Simulation.- Robust Modeling of Consumer Behaviour.- Sizing,
Cycle Time and Plant Control Using Dioid Algebra.- Concurrent
Processes Flow Prototyping.- Modelling of the Supply Chain.-
Hybrid Methods for Line Balancing Problems.- Stability of Optimal
Line Balance.- Simple Plant Location Problem.- Concave Cost
Supply Management.- Product Family and Supply Chain Design.-
Sales and Operations.- Response Surface-Based Simulation.- A
Modeling and Simulation Framework.- Internet Web-Based
Integration of Process and Manufacturing.- Visual Representation
of Material Flows.- Identification-Based Condition Monitoring.-
Simulation of Distributed Industrial Systems.- Index.