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Free Download Principles of Distributed Systems: 10th International Conference, OPODIS 2006, Bordeaux, France, December 12-15, 2006. Proceedings By Butler Lampson (auth.), Mariam Momenzadeh Alexander A. Shvartsman (eds.)
2006 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 3540499903 | PDF | 4 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2006, held at Bordeaux, France, in December 2006.The 28 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 230 submissions. The papers address all current issues in theory, specification, design and implementation of distributed and embedded systems.

Free Download Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV: 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2005, Budapest, Hungary, September 15 – 17, 2005. Proceedings By Giovanni Rimassa, Dominic Greenwood, Monique Calisti (auth.), Michael Pěchouček, Paolo Petta, László Zsolt Varga (eds.)
2005 | 670 Pages | ISBN: 354029046X | PDF | 11 MB
The aim of the CEEMAS conference series is to provide a biennial forum for the presentation of multi-agent research and development results. With its p- ticular geographicalorientation towards Central and Eastern Europe, CEEMAS has become an internationally recognised event with participants from all over the world. After the successful CEEMAS conferences in St. Petersburg (1999), Cracow (2001) and Prague (2003), the 2005 CEEMAS conference takes place in Budapest. The programme committee of the conference series consists of est- lished researchers from the region and renowned international colleagues, sh- ing the prominent rank of CEEMAS among the leading events in multi-agent systems. In the very competitive ?eld of agent oriented conferences and workshops nowadays(suchasAAMAS,WI/IAT,EUMAS,CIA,MATES)thespecialpro?le of CEEMAS is that it is trying to bridge the gap between applied research achievements and theoretical research activities. Our ambition is to provide a forum for presenting theoretical research with an evident application potential, implemented application prototypes and their properties, as well as industrial case studies of successful (but also unsuccessful) agent technology deployments. This is why the CEEMAS proceedings volume provides a collection of research and application papers. The technical research paper section of the proceedings (see pages 11-499) contains pure research papers as well as research results in application settings while the application papers section (see pages 500-530) contains papers focused on application aspects. The goal is to demonstrate the real life value and commercial reality of multi-agent systems as well as to foster communication between academia and industry in this ?eld.

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Free Download Kill Box: Military Drone Systems and Cultural Production (Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society) by Alex Adams
English | December 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 1538189828 | 166 pages | True EPUB | 1.25 MB
Drone warfare represents one of the most pressing moral and political problems of contemporary military ethics. Since the beginning of the American drone program in the late twentieth century, drone technologies have been used to conduct remote extrajudicial assassinations, to violate national sovereignty, and to conduct intrusive surveillance in contravention of international human rights norms, among other controversial uses. Today, military drones are used by dozens of military forces. As such, these technologies pose urgent questions which problematize well-established ways of thinking about central aspects of the ethics of warfare, such as justice, sovereignty, battlefield trauma, the political and physical limits of conflict, and, perhaps most prominently of all, the legitimacy of military violence. Though some of these concerns are well-worn, their central role in – and reconfiguration by – drone warfare means that they deserve serious reconsideration.

Free Download Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 8th International Conference, ITS 2006, Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30, 2006. Proceedings By Robert G. Abbott (auth.), Mitsuru Ikeda, Kevin D. Ashley, Tak-Wai Chan (eds.)
2006 | 1016 Pages | ISBN: 3540351590 | PDF | 13 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2006, held in Jhongli, Taiwan in June 2006.The 67 revised full papers and 40 poster papers presented together with abstracts of 6 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from over 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on assessment, authoring tools, bayesian reasoning and decision-theoretic approaches, case-based and analogical reasoning, cognitive models, collaborative learning, e-learning and web-based intelligent tutoring systems, error detection and handling, feedback, gaming behavior, learner models, motivation, natural language techniques for intelligent tutoring systems, scaffolding, simulation, as well as tutorial dialogue and narrative.

Free Download Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems By Ben M. Chen PhD, Kemao Peng PhD, Tong H. Lee PhD, Venkatakrishnan Venkataramanan PhD (auth.)
2006 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 1846283043 | PDF | 5 MB
The second edition of this monograph provides a systematic treatment of the design of modern hard disk drive servo systems updated with the latest research results to reflect recent improvements in spindle speed and bit density and other changes in this fast-moving field. In particular, it focuses on the applications of some newly developed results in control theory, i.e., robust and perfect tracking control and composite non-linear feedback control which are suitable for track following and seeking respectively. Emphasis is placed on hard disk drive servo systems with single- or dual-stage actuation using a voice-coil-motor actuator enhanced in the latter case by the addition of a micro-actuator providing faster responses and therefore higher bandwidth in track following. Other issues such as modeling and compensation of nonlinearities and friction in microdrives, disturbance rejection and resonance compensation are also addressed. The techniques and applications involved include:* time- and frequency domain methods for system identification;* physical effect approaches for parameter identification;* linear systems tools;* linear control techniques (PID, H2, H-infinity, and other robust control methods);* classical nonlinear control techniques (time-optimal, proximate time-optimal, and mode switching control);* composite nonlinear feedback (CNF) control;* complete single- and dual-stage hard disk drive servo systems;* time- and frequency domain properties of hard disk drive servo systems;* design of piezoelectric actuator systems;* modeling and compensation of nonlinearities and friction in microdrives.Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems will be of great value to practicing engineers in the hard disk and CD-ROM drive industries and to researchers in areas related to servo systems. The Linear Systems and CNF MATLAB® toolkits used to develop many of the results in this book can be downloaded from Professor Chen’s website.Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

Free Download Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems By Peter Bernus, Günter Schmidt (auth.), Assoc. Professor Dr. Peter Bernus, Professor Dr. Kai Mertins, Professor Dr. Günter Schmidt (eds.)
2006 | 896 Pages | ISBN: 3540254722 | PDF | 15 MB
This book is the first volume of a running series under the title Inter- tional Handbooks on Information Systems. The series is edited by Peter Bernus, Jacek Blazewicz, Günter Schmidt and Mike Shaw. One objective is to give state of the art surveys on selected topics of information systems theory and applications. To this end, a distinguished international group of academics and practitioners are invited to provide a reference source not only for problem solvers in business, industry, and government but also for professional researchers and graduate students. It seemed appropriate to start the series with a volume covering some basic aspects about information systems. The focus of the first volume is therefore architectures. It was decided to have a balanced number of c- tributions from academia and practitioners. The structure of the material follows a differentiation betweeen modelling languages, tools and meth- ologies. These are collected into separate parts, allowing the reader of the handbook a better comparison of the contributions. Information systems are a major component of the entire enterprise and the reader will notice that many contributions could just as easily have been included in another volume of the series which is on enterprise in- gration. Conversely, some traditionally information systems topics, as – ganisational analysis and strategic change management methods, will be treated in more depth in the Handbook on Enterprise Integration. The two volumes will complement each other.

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English | ISBN: 1612099254 | 2011 | 153 pages | PDF | 12 MB

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English | June 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1119907462 | True PDF | 411 pages | 14.5 MB
In the newly revised third edition of Fundamentals of Database Management Systems, veteran database expert Dr. Mark Gillenson delivers an authoritative and comprehensive account of contemporary database management. The Third Edition assists readers in understanding critical topics in the subject, including data modeling, relational database concepts, logical and physical database design, SQL, data administration, data security, NoSQL, blockchain, database in the cloud, and more.

Free Download Architecting Systems with Trustworthy Components: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 12-17, 2004. Revised Selected Papers By Antonia Bertolino, Lars Frantzen, Andrea Polini, Jan Tretmans (auth.), Ralf H. Reussner, Judith A. Stafford, Clemens A. Szyperski (eds.)
2006 | 299 Pages | ISBN: 3540358005 | PDF | 4 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Dagstuhl-Seminar on Architecting Systems with Trustworthy Components, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in December 2004.The 10 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers contributed by outstanding researchers were carefully selected and included in the book reflecting ongoing impovement from the seminar. Core problems addressed by the seminar are measurement and normalization of non-functional properties, modular reasoning over non-functional properties, capture of component requirements in interfaces and protocols, interference and synergy of top-down and bottom-up aspects, duality of componentization and architecture, system properties, and opportunities for correctness by construction/static checking.