Authors:Paulo Veríssimo, Luís Rodrigues,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: distributed, middleware, volume, computing, architects, systems, system, advances
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 2001-01
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 0792372662
ISBN-13: 9780792372660

The distributed systems architect assembles pieces of hardware that are at least as large as a computer or a network router, and assigns pieces of software that are self-contained -- such as Java applets -- to those hardware components. As system complexity, size and diversity grow, the probability of inconsistency, unreliability, non-responsiveness and insecurity, increases. It is absolutely necessary for distributed systems architects to understand the management of such complex systems. Distributed Systems for System Architects addresses these issues.

Authors:Alexa Riehle, Eilon Vaadia,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: distributed, methods, new, frontiers, neuroscience, functions, system, cortex, voluntary, movements, motor
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-12-28
List price: $157.95
ISBN-10: 0849312876
ISBN-13: 9780849312878

This book presents the most current developments in motor cortex research, making it possible to "read and interpret neural activity" and use it to reconstruct movements. It focuses on how neuronal activity changes during learning, what the motor cortex encodes for, and the neuronal representations of voluntary movements and the mechanism of their generation during learning.

Author: Judy M. Bishop
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: ada, distributed, december, series, southampton, companion, symposium, developments, experiences, proceedings, university
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1990-08-31
List price: $147.00
ISBN-10: 0521392519
ISBN-13: 9780521392518

This book presents the proceedings of the Distributed Ada ’89 Symposium held at the University of Southampton in December. The objective of the symposium was to provide a platform for developers and users with experience in the areas of distributed and parallel environments to reveal the advantages and difficulties encountered. The impact of Ada-9X and other enhancements to the language were also explored.

Author: Michel Raynal
Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
Keywords: distributed, systems, synthesis, computing, theory, lectures, asynchronous, agreement, andâ , abstractions, fault, tolerant, communication
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2010-05-05
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 160845293X
ISBN-13: 9781608452934

Understanding distributed computing is not an easy task. This is due to the many facets of uncertainty one has to cope with and master in order to produce correct distributed software. Considering the uncertainty created by asynchrony and process crash failures in the context of message-passing systems, the book focuses on the main abstractions that one has to understand and master in order to be able to produce software with guaranteed properties. These fundamental abstractions are communication abstractions that allow the processes to communicate consistently (namely the register abstraction

Author: Panel on Distributed GeolibrariesNational Researc
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: summary, workshop, resources, information, geolibraries, spatial, distributed
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0309065402
ISBN-13: 9780309065405

Presents the findings of the Workshop on Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, convened by the Mapping Science Committee of the National Research Council in June 1998.

Authors:Hagit Attiya, Jennifer Welch,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: distributed, computing, series, parallel, wiley, advanced, fundamentals, simulations, topics
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-03-25
List price: $127.00
ISBN-10: 0471453242
ISBN-13: 9780471453246

Divided into three information packed parts, Distributed Computing provides a broad-ranging introduction to the theory of distributed computing. The first part covers the fundamental models, issues, and techniques. Part II is organized around key simulations in distributed computing, and their applications. Part III consists of a sampling of more advanced topics.

Authors:Manish Parashar, Xiaolin Li, Sumir Chandra,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: parallel, distributed, series, computing, wiley, applications, computational, advanced, infrastructures
Number of Pages: 518
Published: 2009-12-21
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0470072946
ISBN-13: 9780470072943

A unique investigation of the state of the art in design, architectures, and implementations of advanced computational infrastructures and the applications they support Emerging large-scale adaptive scientific and engineering applications are requiring an increasing amount of computing and storage resources to provide new insights into complex systems. Due to their runtime adaptivity, these applications exhibit complicated behaviors that are highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and unpredictable—and therefore require full-fledged computational infrastructure support for problem solving, run