Designed for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students, this classroom-tested book shows professors how to teach this subject in a practical way. It encompasses the varied and interconnected aspects of Grid computing, including how to design a system infrastructure and Grid portal. The text covers job submission and scheduling, Grid security, Grid computing services and software tools, graphical user interfaces, workflow editors, and Grid-enabling applications. It also contains programming assignments and multiple-choice questions and answers. The author’s Web site offers various instructional resources, including slides and links to software for the programming assignments.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science
Computation
Algorithms & Complexity
Computational Numerical Analysis
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Undergraduate

Having moved from the age of the mainframe to that of personal computing, we are now entering what some refer to as the third wave, ubiquitous computing, the era when computing moves from front and center to become more subtly integrated into our lives. However, much of the information on this third wave is not clear at all. Written by top experts from industry and academia, this book provides a comprehensive and well-organized overview of ubiquitous systems design and deployment. It covers everything from the application of quantitative methods to ubiquitous systems software.
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Computation
Human Computer Interaction
Computer Engineering
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Providing a practical, thorough understanding of how factor analysis works, this text discusses the assumptions underlying the equations and procedures of this method. This long-awaited second edition includes a new chapter on the multivariate normal distribution, its general properties, and the concept of maximum-likelihood estimation. It also contains a rewritten chapter on analytic oblique rotation that focuses on the gradient projection algorithm and its applications as well as a revised chapter on confirmatory factor analysis. This edition offers more complete coverage of descriptive factor analysis and doublet factor analysis and explores the developments of factor score indeterminacy.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Scie
Quantitative Methods
Statistical Theory & Methods
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Updated to conform to Mathematica ® 7.0, this second edition shows how to easily create simulations from templates and solve problems using Mathematica . Along with new sections on order statistics, transformations of multivariate normal random variables, and Brownian motion, this edition offers an expanded section on Markov chains, more example data of the normal distribution, and more attention on conditional expectation. It also includes additional problems from Actuarial Exam P as well as new examples, exercises, and data sets. The accompanying CD-ROM contains updated Mathematica notebooks and a revised solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.
• Textbooks in Mathematics
Probability
Probability Theory & Applications
Statistics & Computing
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Undergraduate

No single solution applied at one particular layer can help applications solve all performance-related issues with communication services. Instead, this book shows that a coordinated effort is needed among the layers. It covers many different types of technologies and layers across the stack, from the architectural features of the hardware, through the protocols and their implementation in operating system kernels, to the manner in which application services and middleware are using underlying platforms. The book also describes key developments in high-end platforms, high performance interconnection fabrics and communication libraries, and multi- and many-core systems.
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Computer Engineering
Communications System Design
Computation
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Written by a world-renowned theoretical physicist, this textbook thoroughly familiarizes advanced undergraduate students with the different aspects of statistical physics. Along with many new exercises, this second edition expands discussion of phase transition in thermodynamics, covers stochastic processes in greater depth, reflects current research and emerging technology dealing with Bose–Einstein condensation, and makes the Ginsburg–Landau theory of the order parameter accessible to students. The methodology is illustrated with applications in information theory, the stock market, computer simulations, semiconductors, and more. A solutions manual is available upon qualifying course adoptions.
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Physical Chemistry
Statistical Physics
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With an emphasis on numerical modeling, this text presents a quantitative examination of the physical structure of the Sun and the conditions of its extended atmosphere. It enables a practical appreciation of how various physical processes determine the variation of physical parameters from the center of the Sun to the surface. The author gives step-by-step explanations for calculating the numerical models of the photosphere, convection zone, and radiative interior. He also describes the structure of polytropic spheres, covers the empirical properties and oscillation equations of helioseismology, and explores the acoustic power in the Sun and the process of thermal conduction.
• Pure and Applied Physics
Astrophysics
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Undergraduate

This volume presents comprehensive data mining concepts, theories, and applications in current biological and medical research. The first section of the book discusses challenges and opportunities in analyzing and mining biological sequences and structures to gain insight into molecular functions. The second section addresses emerging computational challenges in interpreting high-throughput Omics data. The book then describes the relationships between data mining and related areas of computing, including knowledge representation, information retrieval, and data integration for structured and unstructured biological data. The last part explores data mining opportunities for biomedical applications.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series
Data Preparation & Mining
Bioinformatics
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By covering a wide range of algebraic, analytic, combinatorial, cryptographic, and geometric aspects of number theory, this text provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive material for a second course in this field. With numerous examples and exercises, it begins with coverage of algebraic number theory, binary quadratic forms, Diophantine approximation, arithmetic functions, p -adic analysis, Dirichlet characters, density, and primes. The author then applies these tools to Diophantine equations, before developing elliptic curves and modular forms. He also presents Fermat’s Last Theorem, the ABC conjecture, and sieve methods.
• Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Number Theory
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
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Undergraduate

This book presents solutions to missing data problems through explicit or noniterative sampling calculation of Bayesian posteriors, based on the inverse Bayes formulae. The authors focus on exact numerical solutions, a conditional sampling approach via data augmentation, and a noniterative sampling approach via EM-type algorithms. They describe Monte Carlo simulation, numerical techniques, and optimization methods. The book illustrates the methods with biostatistical models and real-world applications, including mixed effects and hierarchical models, nonresponse and contingency tables, and the constrained parameter problem reformulated as a missing data problem.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Statistical Theory & Methods
Clinical Implementation
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