Discover the latest advances in computer architecture and software at the dawn of the 5G/6G eraIn Edge Computing Acceleration: From 5G to 6G and Beyond, distinguished researchers Dr. Patrick Hung, Hongwei Kan, and Greg Knopf deliver a comprehensive overview of personal computer architecture and software design usage in the upcoming 5G decade. The authors begin by introducing key components and exploring different hardware acceleration architectures. They m...

A nation’s construction industry is essentially home grown, a derivative of its culture, history, geography and economic circumstances with every building or road a unique product, always a prototype, unlike the honed prototypes set up for efficient production runs of other industries.In terms of what was built and the standards achieved, Construction Industry Advance and Change: Progress in Eight Asian Economies since 1995 describes construction industry progress between ...

SWING, BABY, SWINGLuscious Lane Peterson was a swinger, but now the high-bouncing brunette was swinging as she never had before—with a rope tied tight around her deep throat. One look at the shapely corpse, and Hardy was ready to plunge into action.His list of suspects looked like a sexual who's-who of the kinky set, from a hard-as-nails lady named Natasha to a mattress-soft playmate named Faith, and from a hang-loose superstud named Miklos to an up-tight tycoon named Butle...

This book highlights the recent research on hybrid intelligent systems and their various practical applications. It presents 45 selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2021) and 16 papers from the 17th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, which was held online, from December 14 to 16, 2021. A premier conference in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, HIS-IAS 2021 brought together...

The goal of this book is to crystallize the emerging mobile computing technologies and trends into positive efforts to focus on the most promising solutions in services computing. Many toys built today are increasingly using these technologies together and it is important to understand the various research and practical issues. The book will provide clear proof that mobile technologies are playing an ever increasing important and critical role in supporting toy computing, which is a new re...

Many industrial applications built today are increasingly using emerging behavior engineering technologies: this book looks at various research and practical issues for researchers and students working in computer science and engineering, and for industry technology providers interested in behavior engineering and applications. Behavior Engineering and Applications encompasses intelligent and efficient computational solutions, including models, architectures, algorithms and specif...

The goal of this book is to crystallize the emerging mobile computing technologies and trends by focusing on the most promising solutions in services computing. The book will provide clear proof that mobile technologies are playing an increasingly important and critical role in supporting toy computing. The goal of this book is to bring together academics and practitioners to describe the use and synergy between the above-mentioned technologies.This book is intended for researchers...

This, the 27th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of 12 papers presented at the Big Data and Technology for Complex Urban Systems symposium, held in Kauai, HI, USA in January 2016. The papers explore the use of big data in complex urban systems in the areas of politics, society, commerce, tax, and emergency management.

This book presents different use cases in big data applications and related practical experiences. Many businesses today are increasingly interested in utilizing big data technologies for supporting their business intelligence so that it is becoming more and more important to understand the various practical issues from different practical use cases. This book provides clear proof that big data technologies are playing an ever increasing important and critical role in a new cross-disciplin...