Self-Stabilizing Systems

Self-Stabilizing Systems
Author: Shing-Tsaan Huang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2007-03-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540450327

The refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems, SSS 2003, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in June 2003. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers address self-stabilization issues for various types of systems and software including communication protocols, sensor networks, biological systems, and directed networks; several new algorithms are presented.

Evader

Evader
Author: T. D. G. Teare
Publisher: Witness to War
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-07
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN: 9780907579489

'Evader' is one of the most remarkable stories ever to come out of the Second World War. It has its place amongst the modern-day tales of living, fighting and evading behind enemy lines.

Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Author: Sukumar Ghosh
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466552972

Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, Second Edition provides a balanced and straightforward treatment of the underlying theory and practical applications of distributed computing. As in the previous version, the language is kept as unobscured as possible—clarity is given priority over mathematical formalism. This easily digestible text: Features significant updates that mirror the phenomenal growth of distributed systems Explores new topics related to peer-to-peer and social networks Includes fresh exercises, examples, and case studies Supplying a solid understanding of the key principles of distributed computing and their relationship to real-world applications, Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, Second Edition makes both an ideal textbook and a handy professional reference.

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Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 4947
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RAF Evaders

RAF Evaders
Author: Oliver Clutton-Brock
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 959
Release: 2009-02-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1908117710

Stories of the British airmen shot down over Western Europe who evaded capture by the Germans and made their way to Allied territory during World War II. During the five years from May 1940 to May 1945 several thousand Allied airmen, forced to abandon their aircraft behind enemy lines, evaded capture and reached freedom, by land, sea and air. The territory held by the Germans was immense—from Norway and Denmark in the north, through Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg to the south of France—and initially there was no organization to help the men on the run. The first one to assist the evaders and escapers (“E & E” as the Americans called them) was the PAT line, along the Mediterranean coast to Perpignan and down the Spanish border; named after a naval officer Pat O’Leary, from 1942 it became the PAO line. Next was the Comet line, from Brussels to the Pyrenees. Thousands of brave people were to be involved for whom, if caught, the penalty was death. Theirs is a stirring and awe-inspiring story. Respected historian Oliver Clutton-Brock has researched in depth this secret world of evasion, uncovering some treachery and many hitherto unpublished details, operations and photos. It is a tremendous reference work, written in his own colorful style with numerous anecdotes, which fills a gap of knowledge formerly unavailable to historians, professional or amateur. Packed the information, key figure biographies and listings—2, 094 evaders identified—this is a valuable testimony to the courage of all those involved.

Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Author: Ming Xie
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1315
Release: 2009-12-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642108164

The market demands for skills, knowledge and personalities have positioned robotics as an important field in both engineering and science. To meet these challenging - mands, robotics has already seen its success in automating many industrial tasks in factories. And, a new era will come for us to see a greater success of robotics in n- industrial environments. In anticipating a wider deployment of intelligent and auto- mous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, eldercare, homecare, edutainment, search and rescue, de-mining, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is necessary for us to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. After the success of the inaugural conference, the purpose of the Second Inter- tional Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications was to provide a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world could come together to present and discuss the latest achievement, future challenges and exciting applications of intelligent and autonomous robots. In particular, the emphasis of this year’s conference was on “robot intelligence for achieving digital manufact- ing and intelligent automations. ” This volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Computer Science contains accepted papers presented at ICIRA 2009, held in Singapore, December 16–18, 2009. On the basis of the reviews and recommendations by the international Program Committee members, we decided to accept 128 papers having technical novelty, out of 173 submissions received from different parts of the world.

RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V

RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V
Author: Andreas Birk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2003-08-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540456031

This book is the fifth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the 5th Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences held in Seattle, Washington, USA, in August 2001.The book contains the following parts: introduction, champion teams, challenge award finalists, technical papers, poster presentations, and team descriptions (arranged according to various leagues).This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source of references and inspiration for R&D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.

Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control

Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
Author: Claire J. Tomlin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540458735

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, HSCC 2002, held in Stanford, California, USA, in March 2002. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. All current issues in hybrid systems are addressed including formal models and methods and computational representations, algorithms and heuristics, computational tools, and innovative applications.

Proceedings of the FISITA 2012 World Automotive Congress

Proceedings of the FISITA 2012 World Automotive Congress
Author: SAE-China
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 789
Release: 2012-11-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642338054

Proceedings of the FISITA 2012 World Automotive Congress are selected from nearly 2,000 papers submitted to the 34th FISITA World Automotive Congress, which is held by Society of Automotive Engineers of China (SAE-China ) and the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies (FISITA). This proceedings focus on solutions for sustainable mobility in all areas of passenger car, truck and bus transportation. Volume 9: Automotive Safety Technology focuses on: •Automotive Structure Crashworthiness •Occupant and Child Safety Protection •Pedestrian Protection •Crash Biomechanics •Crash Pre-Judge Technology /Traffic Accident Analysis and reconstruction •Crash Compatibilty •Driving Action Perception and Safety Assistance System •Vehicle Controls on Handing and Stability •Safety Standards and International Regulations Above all researchers, professional engineers and graduates in fields of automotive engineering, mechanical engineering and electronic engineering will benefit from this book. SAE-China is a national academic organization composed of enterprises and professionals who focus on research, design and education in the fields of automotive and related industries. FISITA is the umbrella organization for the national automotive societies in 37 countries around the world. It was founded in Paris in 1948 with the purpose of bringing engineers from around the world together in a spirit of cooperation to share ideas and advance the technological development of the automobile.

Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems

Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems
Author: Rajeev Alur
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2023-08-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262548925

A foundational text that offers a rigorous introduction to the principles of design, specification, modeling, and analysis of cyber-physical systems. A cyber-physical system consists of a collection of computing devices communicating with one another and interacting with the physical world via sensors and actuators in a feedback loop. Increasingly, such systems are everywhere, from smart buildings to medical devices to automobiles. This textbook offers a rigorous and comprehensive introduction to the principles of design, specification, modeling, and analysis of cyber-physical systems. The book draws on a diverse set of subdisciplines, including model-based design, concurrency theory, distributed algorithms, formal methods of specification and verification, control theory, real-time systems, and hybrid systems, explaining the core ideas from each that are relevant to system design and analysis. The book explains how formal models provide mathematical abstractions to manage the complexity of a system design. It covers both synchronous and asynchronous models for concurrent computation, continuous-time models for dynamical systems, and hybrid systems for integrating discrete and continuous evolution. The role of correctness requirements in the design of reliable systems is illustrated with a range of specification formalisms and the associated techniques for formal verification. The topics include safety and liveness requirements, temporal logic, model checking, deductive verification, stability analysis of linear systems, and real-time scheduling algorithms. Principles of modeling, specification, and analysis are illustrated by constructing solutions to representative design problems from distributed algorithms, network protocols, control design, and robotics. This book provides the rapidly expanding field of cyber-physical systems with a long-needed foundational text by an established authority. It is suitable for classroom use or as a reference for professionals.