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.

The book <i>Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming</i>, presents OpenMP more than appropriately, from the perspective of high performance computing, which traditionally has provided most (if not all) the parallel software development strategies.

Our interest is to define evolutionary algorithms to solve Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP), which indlude benefits of taditional resolution methods of CSPs as well as inherent characteristics of these kind of problems. In this paper we propose a criterion to…

Images compression is a widely studied topic. Conventional situations offer variable compression ratios depending on the image in question and, in general, do not yield good results for images that are rich in tones. This work is an application of…

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…

Mobile agent systems have received important attention in the last years as a new programming paradigm for widely distributed and heterogeneous systems. In this article, a multi-paradigm approach for the development of intelligent mobile agents is presented. It integrates both…

In a general context we introduce image processing with 1-dimensional wavelets and show the diferences with nonseparable 2-dimensional wavelets having quincunx decimation, in the first place, and with balanced nonseparable 2-dimensional multiwavelets, in the second place. All of them are…