The Student’s Guide to VHDL teaches the fundamental modeling features of VHDL, showing how the features are used for the design of digital systems. It is organized so that it can be read linearly from front to back, as a…

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.

The authors present the Measurement Information Model and the Measurement Process Model, as well as guidelines based on their experience in order to apply these models to specific projects.

This book makes a clear presentation of the traditional topics included in a course of undergraduate parallel programming. As explained by the authors, it was developed from their own experience in classrooms, introducing their students to parallel programming. It can…

This book is an applied introduction to the problems and solutions of modern computer vision. It offers a collection of selected, well-tested methods (theory and algorithms), aiming to balance difficulty and applicability. It can be considered a starting point to…

The book intends to address the important aspects of high-performance signal processing with a focus on the recent development of VLSI technology for signal processing.
The editors collect much of all the research efforts and findings that have made high…

Requirements Engineering is the key issue for the development of Software Systems, that meet the expectations of their customers and users, are delivered on time, and are developed within budget.
This book intends to provide the state of the art…

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,…