Computational Mania

Author : Jason Earls
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312834873

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Computational Mania by Jason Earls Pdf

Author : David Golumbia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0674032926

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The Cultural Logic of Computation by David Golumbia Pdf

Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution. In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, confronts this orthodoxy, arguing instead that computers are cultural “all the way down”—that there is no part of the apparent technological transformation that is not shaped by historical and cultural processes, or that escapes existing cultural politics. From the perspective of transnational corporations and governments, computers benefit existing power much more fully than they provide means to distribute or contest it. Despite this, our thinking about computers has developed into a nearly invisible ideology Golumbia dubs “computationalism”—an ideology that informs our thinking not just about computers, but about economic and social trends as sweeping as globalization. Driven by a programmer’s knowledge of computers as well as by a deep engagement with contemporary literary and cultural studies and poststructuralist theory, The Cultural Logic of Computation provides a needed corrective to the uncritical enthusiasm for computers common today in many parts of our culture.

Author : Cristian S. Calude,Jarkko Kari,Ion Petre,Grzegorz Rozenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642213410

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Unconventional Computation by Cristian S. Calude,Jarkko Kari,Ion Petre,Grzegorz Rozenberg Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2011, held in Turku, Finland, in June 2011. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 6 extended abstracts of invited talks, and 3 extended abstracts of tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 initial submissions. The papers are devoted to all aspects of unconventional computation theory as well as experiments and applications. Typical topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, membrane, neural, and evolutionary computing, as well as chaos and dynamical system-based computing, and various proposals for computational mechanisms that go beyond the Turing model.

Author : Ning Xiong,Zheng Xiao,Zhao Tong,Jiayi Du,Lipo Wang,Maozhen Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030021160

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Advances in Computational Science and Computing by Ning Xiong,Zheng Xiao,Zhao Tong,Jiayi Du,Lipo Wang,Maozhen Li Pdf

This book includes papers on the recent advances in state-of-the-art computational science and computing presented at the 2018 International Symposium on Computational Science and Computing (ISCSC 2018), held in Huangshan, China, from 28 to 29 July 2018. All the papers were rigorously peer-reviewed by experts in the area. It is a valuable resource for researchers, professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry with a general interest in computational science and computing.

Author : David Poeppel,George R. Mangun,Michael S. Gazzaniga
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262043250

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The Cognitive Neurosciences, sixth edition by David Poeppel,George R. Mangun,Michael S. Gazzaniga Pdf

The sixth edition of the foundational reference on cognitive neuroscience, with entirely new material that covers the latest research, experimental approaches, and measurement methodologies. Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. The sixth edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the biological underpinnings of complex cognition—the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind. It offers entirely new material, reflecting recent advances in the field, covering the latest research, experimental approaches, and measurement methodologies. This sixth edition treats such foundational topics as memory, attention, and language, as well as other areas, including computational models of cognition, reward and decision making, social neuroscience, scientific ethics, and methods advances. Over the last twenty-five years, the cognitive neurosciences have seen the development of sophisticated tools and methods, including computational approaches that generate enormous data sets. This volume deploys these exciting new instruments but also emphasizes the value of theory, behavior, observation, and other time-tested scientific habits. Section editors Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Ulman Lindenberger, Kalanit Grill-Spector and Maria Chait, Tomás Ryan and Charan Ranganath, Sabine Kastner and Steven Luck, Stanislas Dehaene and Josh McDermott, Rich Ivry and John Krakauer, Daphna Shohamy and Wolfram Schultz, Danielle Bassett and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Marina Bedny and Alfonso Caramazza, Liina Pylkkänen and Karen Emmorey, Mauricio Delgado and Elizabeth Phelps, Anjan Chatterjee and Adina Roskies

Author : Alphose Zingoni
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781315850788

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Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation by Alphose Zingoni Pdf

Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation contains the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-4 September 2013). Over 420 papers are featured. Many topics are covered, but the contributions may be seen to fall

Author : Daniele Dell'Orco,Valerio Consalvi,Silvia Morante,Paola Turina,Tiziana Sanavia,Arthur M. Lesk,Constantina Bakolitsa
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832543719

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Computational and Experimental Protein Variant Interpretation in the Era of Precision Medicine by Daniele Dell'Orco,Valerio Consalvi,Silvia Morante,Paola Turina,Tiziana Sanavia,Arthur M. Lesk,Constantina Bakolitsa Pdf

One of the key goals in the postgenomic era is the elucidation of the mechanisms underlying the relationship between genotype and phenotype. In particular, understanding how human genetic and somatic variations are associated with diseases is still an open problem and its solution is a crucial issue for exploiting the possibilities offered by the modern sequencing techniques in the framework of precision and personalized medicine. The increasing amount of data generated by the sequencing initiatives calls for accurate and reliable computational approaches to predict the impact of mutations on the phenotype, and possibly for methods to correlate them with diseases. From the experimental point of view, disease-causing variants are supposed to directly affect protein function, protein stability as well as the kinetics and thermodynamics of protein-protein recognition, and robust validation at the molecular scale is necessary. This approach can be of invaluable help in facing new challenges such as the fast development of effective vaccines.

Author : Michael Di Stefano
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780471738213

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Distributed Data Management for Grid Computing by Michael Di Stefano Pdf

Discover grid computing-how to successfully build, implement, and manage widely distributed computing architecture With technology budgets under increasing scrutiny and system architecture becoming more and more complex, many organizations are rethinking how they manage and use technology. Keeping a strong business focus, this publication clearly demonstrates that the current ways of tying applications to dedicated hardware are no longer viable in today's competitive, bottom line-oriented environment. This evolution in distributed computing is leading a paradigm shift in leveraging widely distributed architectures to get the most processing power per IT dollar. Presenting a solid foundation of data management issues and techniques, this practical book delves into grid architecture, services, practices, and much more, including: * Why businesses should adopt grid computing * How to master the fundamental concepts and programming techniques and apply them successfully to reach objectives * How to maximize the value of existing IT investments The author has tailored this publication for two distinct audiences. Business professionals will gain a better understanding of how grid computing improves productivity and performance, what impact it can have on their organization's bottom line, and the technical foundations necessary to discuss grid computing with their IT colleagues. Following the author's expert guidance and practical examples, IT professionals, architects, and developers will be equipped to initiate and carry out successful grid computing projects within their own organizations.

Author : António Gaspar-Cunha,Ricardo Takahashi,Gerald Schaefer,Lino Costa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642205057

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Soft Computing in Industrial Applications by António Gaspar-Cunha,Ricardo Takahashi,Gerald Schaefer,Lino Costa Pdf

The 15th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, held on the Internet, constitutes a distinctive opportunity to present and discuss high quality papers, making use of sophisticated Internet tools and without incurring in high cost and, thus, facilitating the participation of people from the entire world. The book contains a collection of papers covering outstanding research and developments in the field of Soft Computing including, evolutionary computation, fuzzy control and neuro-fuzzy systems, bio-inspired systems, optimization techniques and application of Soft Computing techniques in modeling, control, optimization, data mining, pattern recognition and traffic and transportation systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781490106403

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Issues in Computation: 2013 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Computation / 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Computing. The editors have built Issues in Computation: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Computing in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Computation / 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Arthur Kordon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540699132

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Applying Computational Intelligence by Arthur Kordon Pdf

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut The ?ow of academic ideas in the area of computational intelligence has penetrated industry with tremendous speed and persistence. Thousands of applications have proved the practical potential of fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary com- tation, swarm intelligence, and intelligent agents even before their theoretical foundation is completely understood. And the popularity is rising. Some software vendors have pronounced the new machine learning gold rush to “Transfer Data into Gold”. New buzzwords like “data mining”, “genetic algorithms”, and “swarm optimization” have enriched the top executives’ vocabulary to make them look more “visionary” for the 21st century. The phrase “fuzzy math” became political jargon after being used by US President George W. Bush in one of the election debates in the campaign in 2000. Even process operators are discussing the perf- mance of neural networks with the same passion as the performance of the Dallas Cowboys. However, for most of the engineers and scientists introducing computational intelligence technologies into practice, looking at the growing number of new approaches, and understanding their theoretical principles and potential for value creation becomes a more and more dif?cult task.

Author : Hafez Mohamed M,Oshima Koichhi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814495776

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Computational Fluid Dynamics Review 1998 (In 2 Volumes) by Hafez Mohamed M,Oshima Koichhi Pdf

The first volume of CFD Review was published in 1995. The purpose of this new publication is to present comprehensive surveys and review articles which provide up-to-date information about recent progress in computational fluid dynamics, on a regular basis. Because of the multidisciplinary nature of CFD, it is difficult to cope with all the important developments in related areas. There are at least ten regular international conferences dealing with different aspects of CFD.It is a real challenge to keep up with all these activities and to be aware of essential and fundamental contributions in these areas. It is hoped that CFD Review will help in this regard by covering the state-of-the-art in this field.The present book contains sixty-two articles written by authors from the US, Europe, Japan and China, covering the main aspects of CFD. There are five sections: general topics, numerical methods, flow physics, interdisciplinary applications, parallel computation and flow visualization. The section on numerical methods includes grids, schemes and solvers, while that on flow physics includes incompressible and compressible flows, hypersonics and gas kinetics as well as transition and turbulence. This book should be useful to all researchers in this fast-developing field.

Author : Bernhard Reus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319278896

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Limits of Computation by Bernhard Reus Pdf

This textbook discusses the most fundamental and puzzling questions about the foundations of computing. In 23 lecture-sized chapters it provides an exciting tour through the most important results in the field of computability and time complexity, including the Halting Problem, Rice's Theorem, Kleene's Recursion Theorem, the Church-Turing Thesis, Hierarchy Theorems, and Cook-Levin's Theorem. Each chapter contains classroom-tested material, including examples and exercises. Links between adjacent chapters provide a coherent narrative. Fundamental results are explained lucidly by means of programs written in a simple, high-level imperative programming language, which only requires basic mathematical knowledge. Throughout the book, the impact of the presented results on the entire field of computer science is emphasised. Examples range from program analysis to networking, from database programming to popular games and puzzles. Numerous biographical footnotes about the famous scientists who developed the subject are also included. "Limits of Computation" offers a thorough, yet accessible, introduction to computability and complexity for the computer science student of the 21st century.

Author : J.M. Crolet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401711142

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Computational Methods for Flow and Transport in Porous Media by J.M. Crolet Pdf

The first Symposium on Recent Advances in Problems of Flow and Transport in Porous Media was held in Marrakech in June '96 and has provided a focus for the utilization of computer methods for solving the many complex problems encountered in the field of solute transport in porous media. This symposium has been successful in bringing together scientists, physicists, hydrogeologists, researchers in soil and fluid mechanics and engineers involved in this multidisciplinary subject. It is clear that the utilization of computer-based models in this domain is still rapidly expanding and that new and novel solutions are being developed. The contributed papers which form this book reflect the recent advances, in particular with respect to new methods, inverse problems, reactive transport, unsaturated media and upscaling. These have been subdivided into the following sections: I. Numerical methods II. Mass transport and heat transfer III. Comparison with experimentation and simulation of real cases This book contains reviewed articles of the top presentations held during the International Symposium on Computer Methods in Porous Media Engineering which took place in Giens (France) in October 1998. All of the presentations and the optimism shown during the meeting provided further evidence that computer modeling is making remarkable progress and is indeed becoming an essential toolkit in the field of porous media and solute transport. I believe that the content of this book provides evidence of this and furthermore gives a comprehensive review of the theoretical developments and applications.

Author : Jie Zhou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1219 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642024665

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Complex Sciences by Jie Zhou Pdf

I was invited to join the Organizing Committee of the First International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (Complex 2009) as its ninth member. At that moment, eight distinguished colleagues, General Co-chairs Eugene Stanley and Gaoxi Xiao, Technical Co-chairs János Kertész and Bing-Hong Wang, Local Co-chairs Hengshan Wang and Hong-An Che, Publicity Team Shi Xiao and Yubo Wang, had spent hundreds of hours pushing the conference half way to its birth. Ever since then, I have been amazed to see hundreds of papers flooding in, reviewed and commented on by the TPC members. Finally, more than 200 contributions were - lected for the proceedings currently in your hands. They include about 200 papers from the main conference (selected from more than 320 submissions) and about 33 papers from the five collated workshops: Complexity Theory of Art and Music (COART) Causality in Complex Systems (ComplexCCS) Complex Engineering Networks (ComplexEN) Modeling and Analysis of Human Dynamics (MANDYN) Social Physics and its Applications (SPA) Complex sciences are expanding their colonies at such a dazzling speed that it - comes literally impossible for any conference to cover all the frontiers.