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<P>This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2004, held in Banff, Canada in July 2004...
<P>This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed research papers contributed to a research project on the `General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics' that was hosted from 2001-2004 at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) of Bielefeld University and also papers of several incorporated meetings thereof...
Text offers an introduction to turbomachinery for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mechanical, aerospace, chemical, design, and manufacturing engineering. Includes chapter problems. Useful as a reference to practicing engineers in the fields of propulsion and turbomachinery.
Turbomachinery presents the theory and design of turbomachines with step-by-step procedures and worked-out examples. This comprehensive reference emphasizes fundamental principles and construction guidelines for enclosed rotators and contains end-of-chapter problem and solution sets, design formulations, and equations for clear understanding of key aspects in machining function, selection, assembly, and construction. Offering a wide range of illustrative examples, the book evaluates the components of incompressible and compressible fluid flow machines and analyzes the kinematics and dynamics of turbomachines with valuable definitions, diagrams, and dimensionless parameters. Read more...
Text offers an introduction to turbomachinery for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mechanical, aerospace, chemical, design, and manufacturing engineering. Includes chapter problems. Useful as a reference to practicing engineers in the fields of propulsion and turbomachinery.
Turbomachinery presents the theory and design of turbomachines with step-by-step procedures and worked-out examples. This comprehensive reference emphasizes fundamental principles and construction guidelines for enclosed rotators and contains end-of-chapter problem and solution sets, design formulations, and equations for clear understanding of key aspects in machining function, selection, assembly, and construction. Offering a wide range of illustrative examples, the book evaluates the components of incompressible and compressible fluid flow machines and analyzes the kinematics and dynamics of turbomachines with valuable definitions, diagrams, and dimensionless parameters. Read more...
This book treats the Mathematics of many important areas in digital information processing.
It covers, in a unified presentation, five topics: Data Compression, Cryptography, Sampling (Signal Theory), Error Control Codes, Data Reduction. The thematic choices are practice-oriented. So, the important final part of the book deals with the Discrete Cosine Transform and the Discrete Wavelet Transform, acting in image compression. The presentation is dense, the examples and numerous exercises are concrete. The pedagogic architecture follows increasing mathematical complexity. A read-and-learn book on Concrete Mathematics, for teachers, students and practitioners in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics.
Contents
1 Data Compaction
1.1 Entropy Coding
1.1.1 Discrete Sources and Their Entropy
1.1.2 Towards Huffman Coding
1.1.3 Arithmetic Coding
1.2 Universal Codes: The Example LZW
1.2.1 LZW Coding
1.2.2 The LZW Decoder
2 Cryptography
2.1 The Data Encryption Standard
2.1.1 The DES Scheme
2.1.2 The Cipher DES in Detail
2.2 The Advanced Encryption Standard: The Cipher Rijndael
2.2.1 Some Elementary Arithmetic
2.2.2 Specification of Rijndael
2.2.3 The Key Schedule
2.2.4 Decryption with Rijndael
2.3 The Public Key Paradigm and the Cryptosystem RSA
2.3.1 Encryption and Decryption via Exponentiation
2.3.2 The Cryptosystem RSA
2.4 Digital Signatures
2.4.1 Message Digests via SHA-1
2.4.2 DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm
2.4.3 Auxiliary Algori Read more...
One of the most important key technologies for digital communication systems as well as storage media is coding theory. It provides a means to transmit information across time and space over noisy and unreliable communication channels.
Coding Theory: Algorithms, Architectures and Applications provides a concise overview of channel coding theory and practice, as well as the accompanying signal processing architectures. The book is unique in presenting algorithms, architectures, and applications of coding theory in a unified framework. It covers the basics of coding theory before moving on to discuss algebraic linear block and cyclic codes, turbo codes and low density parity check codes and space-time codes. Coding Theory provides algorithms and architectures used for implementing coding and decoding strategies as well as coding schemes used in practice especially in communication systems.
Feature of the book include:
* Unique presentation-like style for summarising main aspects
* Practical issues for implementation of coding techniques
* Sound theoretical approach to practical, relevant coding methodologies
* Covers standard coding schemes such as block and convolutional codes, coding schemes such as Turbo and LDPC codes, and space time codes currently in research, all covered in a common framework with respect to their applications.
This book is ideal for postgraduate and undergraduate students of communication and information engineering, as well as computer Read more...
In this book, Denis Serre begins by providing a clean and concise introduction to the basic theory of matrices. He then goes on to give many interesting applications of matrices to different aspects of mathematics and also other areas of science and engineering. The book mixes together algebra, analysis, complexity theory and numerical analysis. As such, this book will provide many scientists, not just mathematicians, with a useful and reliable reference. It is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students with either applied or theoretical goals. This book is based on a course given by the author at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. Denis Serre is Professor of Mathematics at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and a former member of the Institut Universaire de France. He is a member of numerous editorial boards and the author of Systems of Conservation Laws (Cambridge University Press 2000). The present book is a translation of the original French edition, Les Matrices: Theorie et Pratique, published by Dunod (2001).
From the reviews:
"This is a first-year graduate text that will be of considerable value to students with any of a wide variety of potential research objectives. Both the proofs and the general explanations are unusually detailed:There are 165 well-designed exercises, many of which provide additional information on topics treated in the text." (Mathematical Reviews)
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Text offers an introduction to turbomachinery for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mechanical, aerospace, chemical, design, and manufacturing engineering. Includes chapter problems. Useful as a reference to practicing engineers in the fields of propulsion and turbomachinery.
Turbomachinery presents the theory and design of turbomachines with step-by-step procedures and worked-out examples. This comprehensive reference emphasizes fundamental principles and construction guidelines for enclosed rotators and contains end-of-chapter problem and solution sets, design formulations, and equations for clear understanding of key aspects in machining function, selection, assembly, and construction. Offering a wide range of illustrative examples, the book evaluates the components of incompressible and compressible fluid flow machines and analyzes the kinematics and dynamics of turbomachines with valuable definitions, diagrams, and dimensionless parameters. Read more...
This book treats the Mathematics of many important areas in digital information processing.
It covers, in a unified presentation, five topics: Data Compression, Cryptography, Sampling (Signal Theory), Error Control Codes, Data Reduction. The thematic choices are practice-oriented. So, the important final part of the book deals with the Discrete Cosine Transform and the Discrete Wavelet Transform, acting in image compression. The presentation is dense, the examples and numerous exercises are concrete. The pedagogic architecture follows increasing mathematical complexity. A read-and-learn book on Concrete Mathematics, for teachers, students and practitioners in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics.
Contents
1 Data Compaction
1.1 Entropy Coding
1.1.1 Discrete Sources and Their Entropy
1.1.2 Towards Huffman Coding
1.1.3 Arithmetic Coding
1.2 Universal Codes: The Example LZW
1.2.1 LZW Coding
1.2.2 The LZW Decoder
2 Cryptography
2.1 The Data Encryption Standard
2.1.1 The DES Scheme
2.1.2 The Cipher DES in Detail
2.2 The Advanced Encryption Standard: The Cipher Rijndael
2.2.1 Some Elementary Arithmetic
2.2.2 Specification of Rijndael
2.2.3 The Key Schedule
2.2.4 Decryption with Rijndael
2.3 The Public Key Paradigm and the Cryptosystem RSA
2.3.1 Encryption and Decryption via Exponentiation
2.3.2 The Cryptosystem RSA
2.4 Digital Signatures
2.4.1 Message Digests via SHA-1
2.4.2 DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm
2.4.3 Auxiliary Algori Read more...
A handbook filling in a gap in the literature on the study of directed graphs. Presents a unified and comprehensive survey of the subject, covering theoretical and practical aspects, with algorithms, proofs, and applications of digraphs. Includes more than 700 exercises and 180 figures which further clarify topics. DLC: Directed graphs.
The study of directed graphs has developed enormously over recent decades, yet no book covers more than a tiny fraction of the results from more than 3000 research articles on the topic. Digraphs is the first book to present a unified and comprehensive survey of the subject. In addition to covering the theoretical aspects, including detailed proofs of many important results, the authors present a number of algorithms and applications. The applications of digraphs and their generalizations include among other things recent developments in the Travelling Salesman Problem, genetics and network connectivity. More than 700 exercises and 180 figures will help readers to study the topic while open problems and conjectures will inspire further research.
This book will be essential reading and reference for all graduate students, researchers and professionals in mathematics, operational research, computer science and other areas who are interested in graph theory and its applications. Read more...
Action Research: Living Theory
A Jack Whitehead, Jean McNiff “Action Research: Living Theory"
Sage Publications Ltd | 2006-04-27 | ISBN:1412908558 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,1 Mb
In Action Research: Living Theory, authors Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead set out their vision of what action research should be and can be in the 21st Century.
This brilliantly-written, passionate, and compelling book, defines the philosophy behind action research and the process of doing action research for all those interested in this fast growing area. It establishes the foundations of action research as a discipline, and roots action research as a compassionate, ethical, and politically-engaged form of inquiry.
This book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in Action Research..

Principles of Computer Graphics: Theory and Practice Using OpenGL and Maya
296 pages | May 6, 2005 | PDF | 19 Mb
Although computer graphics games and animations have been popular for more than a decade, recently personal computers evolved to support real-time, realistic-looking interactive games. OpenGL, a technology standard to develop CG applications, has had incredible momentum in both the professional and consumer markets. Once only the domain of production houses, OpenGL has grown to be the standard for graphics programming on all platforms, personal computers, and workstations. Now more than ever, people are eager to learn about what it takes to make such productions, and how they can be a part of them. Current literature on how to make movies/games focus more on the technology (OpenGL, DirectX, etc) and their APIs rather than on the principles of computer graphics.

Although computer graphics games and animations have been popular for more than a decade, recently personal computers evolved to support real-time, realistic-looking interactive games. OpenGL, a technology standard to develop CG applications, has had incredible momentum in both the professional and consumer markets. Once only the domain of production houses, OpenGL has grown to be the standard for graphics programming on all platforms, personal computers, and workstations. Now more than ever, people are eager to learn about what it takes to make such productions, and how they can be a part of them. Current literature on how to make movies/games focus more on the technology (OpenGL, DirectX, etc) and their APIs rather than on the principles of computer graphics. However, understanding these principles is the key to dealing with any technology API. The aim of “Principles of Computer Graphics and OpenGL” is to teach readers the principles of computer graphics. Hands-on examples developed in OpenGL illustrate the key concepts, and readers develop a professional animation, following traditional processes used in production houses. By the end of the book, readers will be experts in the principles of computer graphics and OpenGL. They will be able to develop their own professional quality games via the same approach used in production houses.
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