Books in Software engineering

Quantum Computing

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Rajkumar Buyya + 1 more
English
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Quantum Computing: Principles and Paradigms covers a broad range of topics, providing a state-of-the-art and comprehensive reference for the rapid progress in the field of quantum computing and related technologies from major international companies (such as IBM, Google, Intel, Rigetti, Q-Control) and academic researchers. This book appeals to a broad readership, as it covers comprehensive topics in the field of quantum computing, including hardware, software, algorithms, and applications, with chapters written by both academic researchers and industry developers.This book presents readers with the fundamental concepts of quantum computing research, along with the challenges involved in developing practical devices and applications.

Python Fast Track

1st Edition
June 27, 2025
Sanjiban Sekhar Roy + 2 more
English
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Python Fast Track: A Complete Guide to Rapidly Mastering and Applying Python Programming adopts a simplified writing style and provides clear explanations to ensure ease of understanding, making it an ideal resource for those new to Python. Starting with the basics, the book covers fundamental concepts such as variables, data types, printing and prompting, lists, dictionaries, tuples, control structure, functions, and object-oriented concepts. The book includes everything you need to understand and apply more advanced programming techniques such as file handling, exception handling, and regex.This great resource is created especially for those who want to apply Python for their research and professional work in scientific computing, data analysis and machine learning, including chapters on NumPy and Pandas, two of the most popular Python application libraries. It demonstrates how to effectively master key applications of Python such as web development, software creation, task automation, and data analysis. The book covers data analysis and machine learning tasks that greatly benefit from Python, thanks to libraries such as TensorFlow and Keras that enable efficient coding.

The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 6G Communication Networks: The Needs and Implications

1st Edition
Volume 139
May 1, 2025
Pethuru Raj + 4 more
English
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Advances in Computers, Volume 139 focuses on the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 6G communication networks, addressing key advancements and implications across various fields. It explores cybersecurity challenges in 5G networks, solutions for 5G performance evaluation, and the transition to 5G-Advanced. The role of AI in enhancing 6G network performance, resource allocation, and management is discussed alongside the technical foundations of 6G and its ability to power edge AI applications. The volume highlights how 6G will transform industries like logistics through automation and AI-driven decision-making, while also covering strategic management perspectives on AI-driven innovations. Sustainability is a key theme, with discussions on energy-efficient cloud and quantum data centers, as well as the integration of green innovations into AI-6G synergy. The metaverse and its reliance on 5G and 6G for immersive experiences are reviewed, alongside the revolutionary potential of quantum computing in 6G networks. The practical applications of AI, such as a CNN-based model for brain tumor detection using 5G edge cloud, and federated learning for 6G, demonstrate the technology's impact on healthcare and data privacy. Additionally, the volume delves into 6G’s role in enabling next-generation metaverse systems and AI-powered telemedicine, while providing insights into the architecture, communication systems, and industrial use cases of 6G. It concludes by summarizing the advancements, advantages, and challenges of 6G, offering a comprehensive view of its future impact on global connectivity.

Quantum Process Algebra

1st Edition
March 6, 2025
Yong Wang
English
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Quantum Process Algebra introduces readers to the algebraic properties and laws for quantum computing. The book provides readers with all aspects of algebraic theory for quantum computing, including the basis of semantics and axiomatization for quantum computing. With the assumption of a quantum system, readers will learn to solve the modelling of the three main components in a quantum system: unitary operator, quantum measurement, and quantum entanglement, with full support of quantum and classical computing in closed systems. Next, the book establishes the relationship between probabilistic quantum bisimilarity and classical probabilistic bisimilarity, including strong probabilistic bisimilarity and weak probabilistic bisimilarity, which makes an axiomatization of quantum processes possible. With this framework, quantum and classical computing mixed processes are unified with the same structured operational semantics. Finally, the book establishes a series of axiomatizations of quantum process algebras. These process algebras support nearly all main computation properties. Quantum and classical computing in closed quantum systems are unified with the same equational logic and the same structured operational semantics under the framework of ACP-like probabilistic process algebra. This unification means that the mathematics in the book can be used widely for verification of quantum and classical computing mixed systems, for example, most quantum communication protocols. ACP-like axiomatization also inherits the advantages of ACP, for example, and modularity means that it can be extended in an elegant way.

Probability for Deep Learning Quantum

1st Edition
January 21, 2025
Charles R. Giardina
English
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Probability for Deep Learning Quantum provides readers with the first book to address probabilistic methods in the deep learning environment and the quantum technological area simultaneously, by using a common platform: the Many-Sorted Algebra (MSA) view. While machine learning is created with a foundation of probability, probability is at the heart of quantum physics as well. It is the cornerstone in quantum applications. These applications include quantum measuring, quantum information theory, quantum communication theory, quantum sensing, quantum signal processing, quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum machine learning. Although some of the probabilistic methods differ in machine learning disciplines from those in the quantum technologies, many techniques are very similar.Probability is introduced in the text rigorously, in Komogorov’s vision. It is however, slightly modified by developing the theory in a Many-Sorted Algebra setting. This algebraic construct is also used in showing the shared structures underlying much of both machine learning and quantum theory. Both deep learning and quantum technologies have several probabilistic and stochastic methods in common. These methods are described and illustrated using numerous examples within the text. Concepts in entropy are provided from a Shannon as well as a von-Neumann view. Singular value decomposition is applied in machine learning as a basic tool and presented in the Schmidt decomposition. Besides the in-common methods, Born’s rule as well as positive operator valued measures are described and illustrated, along with quasi-probabilities. Author Charles R. Giardina provides clear and concise explanations, accompanied by insightful and thought-provoking visualizations, to deepen your understanding and enable you to apply the concepts to real-world scenarios.

Soft Computing in Smart Manufacturing and Materials

1st Edition
January 20, 2025
Sudan Jha + 4 more
English
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Soft Computing in Smart Manufacturing and Materials explains the role of soft computing in the manufacturing industries. It presents the techniques, concepts and design principles behind smart soft computing, and describes how they can be applied in the development and manufacture of smart materials. It provides perspectives for design and commissioning of intelligent applications, including in health care, agriculture, and production assembly, and reviews the latest intelligent technologies and algorithms related to the methodologies of monitoring and mitigation of sustainable engineering.

Truly Concurrent Process Algebra With Localities

1st Edition
August 20, 2024
Yong Wang
English
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Truly Concurrent Process Algebra with Localities introduces localities into truly concurrent process algebras. The book explores all aspects of localities in truly concurrent process algebras, such as Calculus for True Concurrency (CTC), which is a generalization of CCS for true concurrency, Algebra of Parallelism for True Concurrency (APTC), which is a generalization of ACP for true concurrency, and Π Calculus for True Concurrency (Π). Together, these approaches capture the so-called true concurrency based on truly concurrent bisimilarities, such as pomset bisimilarity, step bisimilarity, history-preserving (hp-) bisimilarity and hereditary history-preserving (hhp-) bisimilarity.This book provides readers with all aspects of algebraic theory for localities, including the basis of semantics, calculi for static localities, axiomatization for static localities, as well as calculi for dynamic localities and axiomatization for dynamic localities.

Theory of Structured Parallel Programming

1st Edition
April 26, 2024
Yong Wang
English
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Theory of Structured Parallel Programming is a comprehensive guide to structured parallel programming corresponding to traditional structured sequential programming. The book provides readers with comprehensive coverage of theoretical foundations of structured parallel programming, including analyses of parallelism and concurrency, truly concurrent process algebras, building block-based structured parallel programming, modelling and verification of parallel programming language, modelling and verification of parallel programming patterns, as well as modeling and verification of distributed systems.There have been always two ways to approach parallel computing: one is the structured way, and the other is the graph-based (true concurrent) way. The structured way is often based on the interleaving semantics, such as process algebra CCS. Since the parallelism in interleaving semantics is not a fundamental computational pattern (the parallel operator can be replaced by alternative composition and sequential composition), the parallel operator often does not occur as an explicit operator, such as in the mainstream programming languages C, C++, Java, et al.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Open-world Novelty

1st Edition
Volume 134
February 19, 2024
Ganesh Chandra Deka + 1 more
English
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Open-world Novelty, Volume 134 in the Advances in Computers series presents innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design and applications, with this updated volume including new chapters on AI and Machine Learning for Real-world problems, Graph Neural Network for learning complex problems, Adaptive Software platform architecture for Aerial Vehicle Safety Levels in real-world applications, OODA Loop for Learning Open-world Novelty Problems, Privacy-Aware Crowd Counting Methods for Real-World Environment, AI and Machine Learning for 3D Computer Vision Applications in Open-world, and PIM Hardware accelerators for real-world problems.Other sections cover Irregular Situations in Real-World Intelligent Systems, Offline Reinforcement Learning Methods for Real-world Problems, Addressing Uncertainty Challenges for Autonomous Driving in Real-World Environments, and more.

Internet of Things: Architectures for Enhanced Living Environments

1st Edition
Volume 133
February 7, 2024
Goncalo Marques
English
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Internet of Things: Architectures for Enhanced Living Environments, Volume 133 presents interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Living Environments: A Study on User Perspective, Human behavioral anomaly pattern mining within an IoT environment: an exploratory study, Indoor Activity Localization Technologies for Assisted Living: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions, Smart Indoor Air Quality Monitoring for Enhanced Living Environments and Ambient Assisted Living, Usability evaluation for the IoT use in Enhanced Living Environments, Roadmap to the elderly enhanced living and care environments: applications and challenges on the Internet of Things domain, and much more.

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