This book presents an approach based on Linux operating system, including issues such as kernel per se, units use and construction, different types of them, debugging techniques, as well as time management, interruptions, DMA (direct memory access), different buses and…

This text introduces comprehensively the reader to the distance teaching/learning process.
With this purpose, it presents a model of the Distance Education System to be used for understanding its embedded elements: contents, instructional design, communications, interaction, learning environment, and administration.

The area of multi-objective optimization is receiving increasing attention by the comunity of evolutionary computation. In this book the authors present a complete state-of-the art in the field.

In this paper, a method for representing scalar functions on volumes is presented. The method is based on wavelets and it can be used for representing volumetric data (geometric or scalar) defifined on non structured grids. The basic contribution is…

The subject matter of this work is focused in the development of an application for team work over a distributed system belonging to an organization.
This choice is based in the organizations need of their members’ continuing formation/training, and of…

There is a need of counting on precise measurements of subjective losses that can be used for predicting the quality of an image. The objective of the present work is to determine these distortion measurements and test the use of…

Standard hardware, dedicated microcontroller or application specific circuits can implement fuzzy logic or neural network controllers. This paper presents efficient architecture approaches to develop controllers using specific circuits. A generator uses several tools that allow translating the initial problem specification…

The objective of this research is to develop a tool for the generation of 3D objects modeled with flexible materials, with visco-elastic or inelastic characteristics, similar to the plasticine. It is desirable to prioritize the simplicity of the interface with…

The two volumes attempt to render a self-contained idea of the state of the art of cluster computing by the year 1999. In the whole, thirty-six articles are presented in Vol. 1 and twenty-nine articles in Vol.2. In each volume,…

The main goal of this thesis was to design new parallel processing strategies specially conceived for distributed environments in order to solve numerical and structural problems from the field of process systems engineering more efficiently. More specifically, the numerical sample…