420 pages | IN-TECH (September 2008) | ISBN: 9789537619077 | PDF | 33.4 MB

This book provides the readers with the knowledge of Simulated Annealing and its vast applications in the various branches of engineering. We encourage readers to explore the application of Simulated Annealing in their work for the task of optimization.

144 pages | Holyoake Press (October 2008) | ISBN: 1443775487 | PDF | 7.1 MB

This is one of the leading books for artists in understanding the anatomy of the human being. It emphasizes planes, light and dark and what lies underneath the skin. It is not for any scientific study, and it doesn't go into great detail as to the exact purpose of muscles. It appears to be a fixed law that the contraction of a muscle shall be toward its centre, therefore, the subject for mechanism on each occasion is so to modify the figure, and adjust the position of the muscle as to produce the motion required agreeably with this law. This can only be done by giving to different muscles a diversity of configuration suited to their several offices and to their situation with respect to the work which they have to perform.

239 pages | LORIA (2009) | ISBN: N/A | PDF | 1.9 MB

This book collects in the same document all state-of-the-art algorithms in multiple precision arithmetic (integers, integers modulo n, floating-point numbers). The book will be useful for graduate students in computer science and mathematics, researchers in discrete mathematics, computer algebra, number theory, cryptography, and developers of multiple-precision libraries.

576 pages | Dover Publications (February 2009) | ISBN: 0486469018 | PDF | 35.5 MB

Written by two distinguished experts in the field of digital communications, this classic text remains a vital resource three decades after its initial publication. Its treatment is geared toward students of communications theory and to designers of channels, links, terminals, modems, or networks used to transmit and receive digital messages. 1979 edition.

107 pages | arXiv (March, 1990) | ISBN: N/A | PDF | 1.2 MB

We describe the modern approach to quantum cosmology, as initiated by Hartle and Hawking, Linde, Vilenkin and others. The primary aim is to explain how one determines the consequences for the late universe of a given quantum theory of cosmological initial or boundary conditions. It also includes a detailed treatment of the WKB interpretation.