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This book introduces IoT, related technologies, and common issues in the adoption of IoT. It surveys recent technological advances and novel solutions for challenges in the IoT environment. It also discusses the utilization of IoT and its underlying technologies in application areas, such as smart grids, healthcare, and the automotive industry.

Covers advanced topics in scheduling, assembling researchers from various relevant disciplines to facilitate fresh insights. This title provides introductory material, with tutorials and algorithms, and examines classical scheduling problems. It explores scheduling models that originate in areas such as computer science and operations research.

This book reflects the tremendous growth in the field over the past two decades. Volume 2 focuses on the contemporary and emerging applications of methodologies to problems in combinatorial optimization, computational geometry and graphs problems, as well as in emerging applications.

Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition reflects the tremendous growth in the field, over the past two decades. Volume 1 of this two-volume set deals primarily with methodologies and traditional applications. It includes restriction, relaxation, local ratio, approximation schemes, and other metaheuristics.

This handbook reflects the tremendous growth in the field, over the past two decades. Through contributions from leading experts, this handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying theory and methodologies, as well as the various applications of approximation algorithms and metaheuristics.

Contains theoretical and philosophical discussions, pseudocodes for algorithms, and computing paradigms that illustrate how computational techniques can solve complex problems, simulate nature, explain natural phenomena, and allow the development of new computing technologies.

Surveying the progress made in field of computational biology, this book covers various techniques and methodologies. With discussions ranging from fundamental concepts to practical applications, it details the algorithms necessary to solve novel problems and manage the massive amounts of data housed in biological databases throughout the world.

Focuses on several aspects of mobile computing. Following an analysis of fundamental algorithms and protocols, this book offers a basic overview of wireless technologies and networks. Other topics include issues related to mobility, aspects of QoS provisioning in wireless networks, and future applications.

Featuring approaches that draw from disciplines such as artificial intelligence and cognitive modeling, this title describes technologies and applications that address a range of practical problems, including military planning and command, military and foreign intelligence, antiterrorism and domestic security, and simulation and training systems.

Presents different issues involved in vehicular networking, including traffic engineering, human factors studies, and novel computer science research. This book covers traffic monitoring and traffic flow modeling, innovative applications enabled by vehicular networks, routing and localization, and simulation.

With examples and exercises, this work develops simple models and analytical methods from first principles to evaluate performance metrics of various configurations of computer systems and networks. It includes analytically tractable models, and presents models for complex systems as analyzable modifications and interconnections of simple models.

Energy dissipation and efficiency have prevented the widespread use of FPGA devices in embedded systems. This book offers solutions for the development of energy efficient applications using FPGAs. It provides a framework for high-level hardware-software application development and describes energy performance modeling for system-on-chip devices.

Analyzes a broad array of technologies and concerns that are related to the Internet, including corporate intranets. This book covers architectures, enabling technologies, software utilities, and engineering techniques that are necessary to conduct distributed computing and take advantage of Web-based services.

Going beyond, yet thoroughly rooted to theory, this book provides a comprehensive look at the algorithms that can produce quality Delaunay meshes through a paradigm called the Delaunay refinement. It describes meshing algorithms that can be built on the Delaunay refinement paradigm along with the involved mathematical analysis.

Focuses on the major areas of real-time and embedded systems. This title examines real-time scheduling and resource management issues and explores the programming languages, paradigms, operating systems, and middleware for these systems. It also presents challenges encountered in wireless sensor networks and offers ways to solve these problems.

Presents an analysis of key scaling technologies. This book demonstrates the effectiveness of the technologies via mathematical modeling and analysis, simulation, and practical implementations. It describes the underlying principles of the technologies and the application of these principles.