Trees of the brain, roots of the mind

"The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures--make up a massive network with enormous computational power. In this book, Giorgio Ascoli reveals another aspect of the human brain: the stunning beauty of its cellular form. Doing so, he makes a provocative claim about the mind-brain relationship. If each n…

Oblivious network routing :algorithms and applications

"Our increasingly integrated world relies on networks both physical and virtual to transfer goods and information. The Internet is a network of networks that connects people around the world in a real-time manner, but it can be disrupted by massive data flows, diverse traffic patterns, inadequate infrastructure, and even natural disasters and political conflict. Similar challenges exist for tra…

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine); A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Network Paral…

Ditulis oleh tim yang mengembangkan perangkat lunak, tutorial ini adalah sumber definitif bagi para ilmuwan, insinyur, dan pengguna komputer lain yang ingin menggunakan Parallel Virtual Machine untuk meningkatkan fleksibilitas dan kekuatan sumber daya komputasi berkinerja tinggi mereka. Ditulis oleh tim yang mengembangkan perangkat lunak, tutorial ini adalah sumber definitif bagi para ilmuwan, …

Performance Engineering

This open access book improves the users' skills needed to implement models for performance evaluation of digital infrastructures. Building a model is usually a relatively easy task, but making it an accurate representation of the phenomenon to be reproduced is a completely different matter. It is well-known that to increase the ability to build reliable models it is necessary to accumulate exp…

5G and Beyond

This open-access book aims to highlight the coming surge of 5G network-based applications and predicts that the centralized networks and their current capacity will be incapable of meeting the demands. The book emphasizes the benefits and challenges associated with the integration of 5G networks with varied applications. Further, the book gathers and investigates the most recent 5G-based resear…

Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the authors' collaboration, this book takes seriously the need to understand ubicomp not only technically but also culturally, socially politically and economically.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Gurus and Oracles: The Marketing of Information

An examination of the information industry, from Reuters to Facebook, and the special characteristics of information and knowledge markets. We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economic decisions, we often forget that data, information, and knowledge are products created …

The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media

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Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability

The economic and political stakes in the current heated debates over "openness" and open standards in the Internet's architecture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community - a community of Wikipedians who are expected to "assume good faith" when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture;Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal encyclopedia; its early twentieth-century ancestors include Pa…