Computer Science 2019-2020 HIGHLIGHTS BAYESIAN ANALYSIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Shay Cohen
Covers the methods and algorithms that are needed to fluently read Bayesian learning papers in natural language processing (NLP) and to do research in the area. The authors explore inference techniques such as Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and variational inference, Bayesian estimation, and nonparametric modelling.
THE ESSENTIALS OF MODERN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Apr 2019 165pp 9781681735368 Paperback US$69.95 9781681735382 Hardback US$89.95 Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory
Ivar Jacobson et al
Karine Altisen et al
Second Edition
Apr 2019 343pp 9781681735269 Paperback US$79.95 9781681735283 Hardback US$99.95 Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
INTRODUCTION TO DISTRIBUTED SELF-STABILIZING ALGORITHMS
Provides a comprehensive and pedagogical introduction to the concept of self-stabilization. This book is an initiation course, which consists of the formal definition of self-stabilization and its related concepts, followed by a review of classical (simple) algorithms, commonly used proof schemes and design patterns.
COGNITIVE FUSION FOR TARGET TRACKING
Foto Afrati & Rada Chirkova
Sep 2019 65pp 9781681736655 Paperback US$34.95 9781681736679 Hardback US$54.95 Synthesis Lectures on Algorithms and Software in Engineering
Apr 2019 275pp 9781681734620 Paperback US$99.95 9781681734644 Hardback US$119.95
CACHE REPLACEMENT POLICIES
Akanksha Jain & Calvin Lin
Jul 2019 87pp 9781681735764 Paperback US$39.95 9781681735788 Hardback US$59.95 Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture
Summarizes the landscape of cache replacement policies for CPU data caches. The emphasis is on algorithmic issues. This book, which assumes that readers will have a basic understanding of computer architecture and caches, will be useful to academics and practitioners across the field.
The first course in software engineering is the most critical. Education must start from an understanding of the heart of software development. This book is an in-depth introduction to software engineering that uses a systematic, universal kernel to teach the essential elements of all software engineering methods.
DATA-INTENSIVE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT
Ioannis Kyriakides
Second Edition
Assembles foundational work on answering queries using views in a self-contained manner. The book covers query containment; rewriting queries using views in various logical languages; equivalent rewritings and maximally contained rewritings; and computing certain answers in the data-integration and data-exchange settings.
Jul 2019 425pp 9781947487246 Paperback US$74.95 9781947487277 Hardback US$89.95
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ANSWERING QUERIES USING VIEWS
Synthesis Lectures on Data Management
Free the Practices from the Method Prisons!
Reviews cognitive systems and presents a cognitive fusion framework for sequential state estimation using adaptive configuration of heterogeneous sensing nodes and heterogeneous data fusion.
COMMUNITY SEARCH OVER BIG GRAPHS
Xin Huang, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan & Jianliang Xu Aug 2019 206pp 9781681735955 Paperback US$79.95 9781681735979 Hardback US$99.95
Reviews the basic concepts of networks, communities, and various kinds of dense subgraph models. The authors then survey the state of the art in community search techniques on various kinds of networks across different application areas.
CROSS-LINGUAL WORD EMBEDDINGS Anders Søgaard et al
May 2019 132pp 9781681730639 Paperback US$59.95 9781681735726 Hardback US$79.95 Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
Focuses on so-called cross-lingual word embeddings. This survey is intended to be systematic, using consistent notation and putting the available methods on comparable form, making it easy to compare wildly different approaches.
For Clouds and Data-Intensive and Scalable Computing Environments
Daniel C. M. de Oliveira, Ji Liu & Esther Pacitti
May 2019 179pp 9781681735573 Paperback US$84.95 9781681735597 Hardback US$104.95 Synthesis Lectures on Data Management
Distils the body of work on workflow management in clouds and Data-Intensive Scalable Computing environments. The book discusses the basic principles of data-intensive scientific workflows, then presents two workflows that are executed in a single site and multi-site clouds taking advantage of provenance.
THE HANDBOOK OF MULTIMODAL-MULTISENSOR INTERFACES, VOLUME 3
Language Processing, Software, Commercialization, and Emerging Directions Edited by Sharon Oviatt et al
Jun 2019 813pp 9781970001723 Paperback US$99.95 9781970001754 Hardback US$119.95
Provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces-user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, hand and body gestures, facial expressions, writing) embedded in multimodalmultisensor interfaces. ACM Books
NETWORK TOPOLOGY AND FAULT-TOLERANT CONSENSUS
May 2019 319pp 9781947487208 Paperback US$89.95 9781947487239 Hardback US$109.95
May 2019 151pp 9781681735665 Paperback US$79.95 9781681735689 Hardback US$99.95 Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory
Aviad Rubinstein
Understanding whether there is an efficient algorithm for approximate Nash equilibrium has been the central open problem in the field of game history for the past decade. This book provides strong evidence that even finding an approximate Nash equilibrium is intractable.
Dimitris Sakavalas & Lewis Tseng
Summarises studies on the topological conditions that determine the feasibility of consensus, mainly focusing on directed networks and the case of restricted topology knowledge at each participant.
ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING
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INNOVATIONS IN THE MEMORY SYSTEM
Elisa F. Kendall & Deborah L. McGuinness
Apr 2019 120pp 9781681733081 Paperback US$49.95 9781681733104 Hardback US$69.95 Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology
Rajeev Balasubramonian
Sep 2019 151pp 9781627056427 Paperback US$69.95 9781681736174 Hardback US$89.95 Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture
A tour through recent and prominent works regarding new DRAM chip designs and technologies, near data processing approaches, new memory channel architectures, techniques to tolerate the overheads of refresh and fault tolerance, security attacks and mitigations, and memory scheduling.
INTERACTIVE IR USER STUDY DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND REPORTING
Motivated by the Ontology 101 tutorial given for many years at what was originally the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech), this book is designed to provide the foundations for ontology engineering. It can serve as a course textbook or a primer for all those interested in ontologies.
May 2019 93pp 9781681735795 Paperback US$44.95 9781681735818 Hardback US$64.95 Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PLANNING DOMAIN DEFINITION LANGUAGE Patrik Haslum et al
Apr 2019 187pp 9781627058759 Paperback US$69.95 9781681735122 Hardback US$89.95 Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Presents a unified account of Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL), covering the subsets of PDDL that express discrete, numeric, temporal, and hybrid planning. The book also introduces readers to the art of modelling planning problems in PDDL, through examples that demonstrate how it is used to model realistic planning problems.
MODEL-DRIVEN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IN PRACTICE
Second Edition
Marco Brambilla et al
2017 207pp 9781627057080 Paperback US$69.95 9781681732336 Hardback US$89.95 Synthesis Lectures on Software Engineering
Discusses how model-based approaches can improve the daily practice of software professionals. This is known as Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) or, simply, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). The aim of this book is to provide you with an agile and flexible tool to introduce you to the MDSE world, thus allowing you to quickly understand its basic principles and techniques.
NEURAL NETWORK METHODS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
ON TRANSACTIONAL CONCURRENCY CONTROL
Jiqun Liu & Chirag Shah
Since user study design has been widely applied in search interactions and information retrieval systems evaluation studies, a deep reflection and meta-evaluation of interactive IR (IIR) user studies is critical for sharpening the instruments of IIR research and improving the reliability and validity of the conclusions drawn from IIR user studies.
BESTSELLERS
Goetz Graefe
Examines transactional database concurrency control. Traditional locking techniques can be improved in multiple dimensions, notably in lock scopes (sizes), lock modes (increment, decrement, and more), lock durations (late acquisition, early release), and lock acquisition sequence (to avoid deadlocks).
RECONSTRUCTION-FREE COMPRESSIVE VISION FOR SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS Henry Braun et al
Apr 2019 100pp 9781681735542 Paperback US$44.95 9781681735566 Hardback US$64.95 Synthesis Lectures on Signal Processing
Introduces reconstruction-free compressive vision, where image processing and computer vision algorithms are embedded directly in the compressive domain, without the need for first reconstructing the measurements into images or video.
Yoav Goldberg
2017 309pp 9781627052986 Paperback US$74.95 9781681732350 Hardback US$94.95 Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
May 2019 404pp 9781681735481 Paperback US$89.95 781681735504 Hardback US$109.95 Synthesis Lectures on Data Management
Neural networks are a family of powerful machine learning models. This book focuses on the application of neural network models to natural language data. The first half of the book covers the basics of supervised machine learning and feed-forward neural networks. The second part of the book introduces more specialized neural network architectures.
THE VR BOOK
Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality Jason Jerald
2015 523pp 9781970001129 Paperback US$79.95 9781970001150 Hardback US$109.95
When virtual reality (VR) is done badly, not only is the system frustrating to use, but it can result in sickness. There are many causes of bad VR; some failures come from the limitations of technology, but many come from a lack of understanding perception, interaction, design principles, and real users. This book discusses these issues by emphasizing the human element of VR. ACM Books
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