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Computers --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Mathematical Sciences --- Applied Mathematics

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If you have picked up this book and are browsing the Preface, you may well be asking yourself"What makes this book different from the large number I can find on amazon. com?". Well, the answer is a blend of the academic and the practical, and views of the subject you won't get from anybody else: how psychology and linguistics influence the field of requirements engineering (RE). The title might seem to be a bit of a conundrum; after all, surely requirements come from people so all requirements should be user-centred. Sadly, that is not always so; many system disasters have been caused simply because requirements engineering was not user-centred or, worse still, was not practised at all. So this book is about putting the people back into com­ puting, although not simply from the HCI (human-computer interaction) sense; instead, the focus is on how to understand what people want and then build appropriate computer systems.

Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Software engineering --- Systems engineering --- Computer science. --- Computer system performance. --- Information theory. --- Software engineering. --- Human engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Computers. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computer system failures. --- Theory of Computation. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Software Engineering. --- System Performance and Evaluation. --- Models and Principles. --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Computer failures --- Computer malfunctions --- Computer systems --- Failure of computer systems --- System failures (Engineering) --- Fault-tolerant computing --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Failures

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This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2002) that was held in - neva on October 9–11, 2002. After more modest beginnings in 1994 as a largely Italian conference, over the years ACRI has gradually become ?rmly established as one of the premier conferences in the ?eld of cellular automata in Europe and beyond. Althoughthe?eldofcellularautomataisarelativelyoldandestablishedone, these simple but powerful systems and their newer variations continue to attract the interest of researchers after more than half a century since the seminal work of Ulam and Von Neumann. The ACRI series of conferences has the ambition of being an internationally renowned forum for all those interested in the theory and applications of cellular systems. The contributions collected in this volume concern cellular automata in - rious?eldssuchastheory,implementationsandapplications.Inaddition,several ?eldsofresearch(e.g.themulti-agentsapproach)adoptmethodologiesthatshow strict a?nities to cellular automata, but without the label “Cellular Automata”. Therefore, one of our intentions was to enlarge the cellular automata community to include new related techniques.

Cellular automata --- Algebra --- Mathematics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Computer science. --- Computers. --- Algorithms. --- Computer simulation. --- Pattern recognition. --- Computer Science. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Computation by Abstract Devices. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Computer software. --- Software, Computer --- Computer systems --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- Algorism --- Arithmetic --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Foundations --- Cellular automata - Congresses

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Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems addresses efficient exploration of alternative memory architectures, assisted by a "compiler-in-the-loop" that allows effective matching of the target application to the processor-memory architecture. This new approach for memory architecture exploration replaces the traditional black-box view of the memory system and allows for aggressive co-optimization of the programmable processor together with a customized memory system. The book concludes with a set of experiments demonstrating the utility of this exploration approach. The authors perform architecture and compiler exploration for a set of large, real-life benchmarks, uncovering promising memory configurations from different perspectives, such as cost, performance and power.

Computer science. --- Architecture, Computer. --- Computers. --- Computer-aided engineering. --- Electrical engineering. --- Electronic circuits. --- Computer Science. --- Theory of Computation. --- Computer System Implementation. --- Circuits and Systems. --- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Semiconductor storage devices. --- Programmable controllers. --- Automates programmables --- Mémoires à semiconducteurs --- Mémoires à semiconducteurs --- Computer. Automation --- embedded systems --- Computer architecture. --- Embedded computer systems. --- Systèmes enfouis (Informatique) --- Ordinateurs --- Architecture --- EPUB-LIV-FT SPRINGER-B --- Electron-tube circuits --- Electric circuits --- Electron tubes --- Electronics --- Electric engineering --- Engineering --- CAE --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Architecture, Computer --- Informatics --- Science --- Data processing

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The 8th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2002, took place in Spain for the second time in 14 years; the first conference was organized in Barcelona in January 1988. The city of Seville hosted this 8th conference, giving the participants the opportunity of enjoying the richness of its historical and cultural atmosphere. Looking back over these 14 years, key aspects of the conference, such as its structure, organization, the quantity and quality of submissions, the publication policy, and the number of attendants, have significantly changed. Some data taken from IBERAMIA’88 and IBERAMIA 2002 may help to illustrate these changes. IBERAMIA’88 was planned as an initiative of three Ibero-American AI associations: the Spanish Association for AI (AEPIA), the Mexican Association for AI (SMIA), and the Portuguese Association for AI (APIA). The conference was organized by the AEPIA staff, including the AEPIA president, José Cuena, the secretary, Felisa Verdejo, and other members of the AEPIA board. The proceedings of IBERAMIA’88 contain 22 full papers grouped into six areas: knowledge representation and reasoning, learning, AI tools, expert systems, language, and vision. Papers were written in the native languages of the participants: Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan. Twenty extended abstracts describing ongoing projects were also included in the proceedings.

Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Artificial intelligence --- Computer science. --- Computers. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computation by Abstract Devices. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Informatics --- Science --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Calculators --- Cyberspace