Robust Communication Networks: Interconnection and Survivability

Robust Communication Networks: Interconnection and Survivability
Author: Nathaniel Dean
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0821815466

This volume contains the proceedings of a DIMACS Workshop on Robust Communication Networks held as part of the Special Year on Networks. Theoreticians and practitioners presented papers on the roles of architectural interconnection and survivability in the design, construction, operation, and application of robust communication networks. Due to the advent of VSLI and fiber optics technologies, it has become possible and feasible to design and construct large scale, high performance, high speed wireline and wireless communication networks that are also robust. This opens many challenging issues and problems for both the theory community and practitioners. Of particular interest is how these technological advances lead the way to new and challenging mathematical frontiers and set the direction for future research on and implementation of robust communication networks. The nine papers chosen for this volume represent the state of the art from a variety of perspectives.

Data Depth

Data Depth
Author: Regina Y. Liu
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821835963

The book is a collection of some of the research presented at the workshop of the same name held in May 2003 at Rutgers University. The workshop brought together researchers from two different communities: statisticians and specialists in computational geometry. The main idea unifying these two research areas turned out to be the notion of data depth, which is an important notion both in statistics and in the study of efficiency of algorithms used in computational geometry. Many of the articles in the book lay down the foundations for further collaboration and interdisciplinary research. Information for our distributors: Co-published with the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science beginning with Volume 8. Volumes 1-7 were co-published with the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM).

Modeling Paradigms and Analysis of Disease Transmission Models

Modeling Paradigms and Analysis of Disease Transmission Models
Author: Abba B. Gumel
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821843842

This volume stems from two DIMACS activities, the U.S.-Africa Advanced Study Institute and the DIMACS Workshop, both on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases in Africa, held in South Africa in the summer of 2007. It contains both tutorial papers and research papers. Students and researchers should find the papers on modeling and analyzing certain diseases currently affecting Africa very informative. In particular, they can learn basic principles of disease modeling and stability from the tutorial papers where continuous and discrete time models, optimal control, and stochastic features are introduced.

BioMath in the Schools

BioMath in the Schools
Author: Margaret B. Cozzens
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2011
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0821842951

Even though contemporary biology and mathematics are inextricably linked, high school biology and mathematics courses have traditionally been taught in isolation. But this is beginning to change. This volume presents papers related to the integration of biology and mathematics in high school classes. The first part of the book provides the rationale for integrating mathematics and biology in high school courses as well as opportunities for doing so. The second part explores the development and integration of curricular materials and includes responses from teachers. Papers in the third part of the book explore the interconnections between biology and mathematics in light of new technologies in biology. The last paper in the book discusses what works and what doesn't and presents positive responses from students to the integration of mathematics and biology in their classes.

Advances in Network Information Theory

Advances in Network Information Theory
Author: Piyush Gupta
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0821834673

Information theory has recently attracted renewed attention because of key developments spawning challenging research problems." "The book is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in communications and network information theory."--Jacket.

Advances in Network Information Theory

Advances in Network Information Theory
Author: Piyush Gupta, Gerhard Kramer, and Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 356
Release:
Genre: Computer networks
ISBN: 9780821871089

Information theory has recently attracted renewed attention because of key developments spawning challenging research problems." "The book is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in communications and network information theory."--Jacket.

Building Scalable Network Services

Building Scalable Network Services
Author: Cheng Jin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1441988971

Building Scalable Network Services: Theory and Practice is on building scalable network services on the Internet or in a network service provider's network. The focus is on network services that are provided through the use of a set of servers. The authors present a tiered scalable network service model and evaluate various services within this architecture. The service model simplifies design tasks by implementing only the most basic functionalities at lower tiers where the need for scalability dominates functionality. The book includes a number of theoretical results that are practical and applicable to real networks, such as building network-wide measurement, monitoring services, and strategies for building better P2P networks. Various issues in scalable system design and placement algorithms for service nodes are discussed. Using existing network services as well as potentially new but useful services as examples, the authors formalize the problem of placing service nodes and provide practical solutions for them.

Algorithms - ESA 2008

Algorithms - ESA 2008
Author: Dan Halperin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 860
Release: 2008-09-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540877436

and relevance to the symposium. The Program Committees of both tracks met in Karlsruhe on May 24–25, 2008. The design and analysis trackselected51papersoutof147submissions.Theengineeringandapplications track selected 16 out of 53 submissions.

Discrete Mathematical Problems with Medical Applications

Discrete Mathematical Problems with Medical Applications
Author: Dingzhu Du
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821870969

This volume presents selected papers from a three-day workshop held during the DIMACS special years on Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology. Participants from the world over attended, giving the workshop an important international component. The study of discrete mathematics and optimization with medical applications is emerging as an important new research area. Significant applications have been found in medical research, for example in radiosurgical treatment planning, virtual endoscopy, and more. This volume presents a substantive cross-section of active research topics ranging from medical imaging to human anatomy modeling, from gamma knife treatment planning to radiation therapy, and from epileptic seizures to DNA screening. This book is an up-to-date resource reflecting current research directions.