This comprehensive and self-contained, one-stop source discusses phase-field methodology in a fundamental way, explaining advanced numerical techniques for solving phase-field and related continuum-field models. It also presents numerical techniques used to simulate various phenomena in a detailed, step-by-step way, such that readers can carry out their own code developments.Features many examples of how the methods explained can be used in materials science and engineering applicat...

"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul GrahamWe are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?C...

Problem solving is an essential part of every scientific discipline. It has two components: (1) problem identification and formulation, and (2) the solution to the formulated problem. One can solve a problem on its own using ad hoc techniques or by following techniques that have produced efficient solutions to similar problems. This requires the understanding of various algorithm design techniques, how and when to use them to formulate solutions, and the context appropriate for each of the...

Beginning Oracle SQL is your introduction to the interactive query tools and specific dialect of SQL used with Oracle Database. These tools include SQL*Plus and SQL Developer. SQL*Plus is the one tool any Oracle developer or database administrator can always count on, and it is widely used in creating scripts to automate routine tasks. SQL Developer is a powerful, graphical environment for developing and debugging queries.Oracle's is possibly the most valuable dialect of S...

Implement classic and functional data structures and algorithms using PythonKey FeaturesA step by step guide, which will provide you with a thorough discussion on the analysis and design of fundamental Python data structures.Get a better understanding of advanced Python concepts such as big-o notation, dynamic programming, and functional data structures.Explore illustrations to present data structures and algorithms, as well as their analysis, ...

Connect from Oracle Java 8 to Microsoft Access database using ucanaccess. This gives a detailed step by step guide to setting up access, insert, update, delete and reading of records in an Access database.

Providing an introduction to isogeometric methods with a focus on their mathematical foundations, this book is composed of four chapters, each devoted to a topic of special interests for isogeometric methods and their theoretical understanding. It contains a tutorial on splines and generalizations that are used in CAD parametrizations, and gives an overview of geometric modeling techniques that can be used within the isogeometric approach, with a focus on non-tensor product splines. Finall...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Big data Technologies and Applications, BDTA 2016, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2016. BDTA 2016 was collocated with the First International Workshop on Internet of Things, Social Network, and Security in Big Data, ISSB 2016 and the First International Workshop on Digital Humanity with Big Data, DiHuBiDa 2016.The 17 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected...

Recognition, CCBR 2017, held in Shenzhen, China, in October 2017.The 15 full papers and 65 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on face;fingerprint, palm-print and vascular biometrics; iris; gesture and gait; emerging biometrics;voice and speech; video surveillance; feature extraction and classification theory; behavioralbiometrics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2016, held in Liverpool, UK, in September 2016.The 26 full papers presented together with 2 one-page abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions.The accepted submissions cover various important aspectsof algorithmic game theory such as computational aspects of games, congestion games and networks, matching and voting, auctions and...

This two volume set (CCIS 610 and 611) constitute the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2016, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2016.The 127 revised full papers presented together with four invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fuzzy measures and integrals; uncertainty quantification...

This book presents a holistic view on compiler assisted practical secure multi-party computation (MPC) over Boolean circuits. It discusses that two or more parties jointly evaluate a function over their inputs in such a way that each party keeps its input unknown to the other parties in MPC. MPC provides a generic way to construct Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, which protect sensitive data during processing steps in untrusted environments. A major obstacle in the past was to generate MPC ...