This new book covers a broad range of new work in computer technology and programming. Topics include encryption techniques, SQL generation, Web 2.0 technologies, visual sensor networks, reconfigurable computing, video streaming, animation techniques, and more. Readers will also learn about an educational tool and game to help students learn computer programming and a new medical technology paradigm centered on wireless technology and cloud computing designed to overcome the problems of increasing health technology costs.

CONTENTS: Novel FTLRNN with Gamma Memory for Short-Term and Long-Term Predictions of Chaotic Time Series • Flexible Interconnection Network for Dynamically and Partially Reconfigurable Architectures • A Hardware Solution for an "On the Fly" Encryption • SQL Generation for Natural Language Interface • Web 2.0 Technologies with jQuery and Ajax • Reconfigurable Computing:A New Paradigm • In-Network Adaptation of Video Streams Using Network Processors • A Survey of Visual Sensor Networks • A Family of Tools for Supporting the Learning of Programming • InfoVis Interaction Techniques in Animation of Recursive Programs • Towards a Serious Game to Help Students Learn Computer Programming • Distributed Network, Wireless and Cloud Computing Enabled 3-D Ultrasound; a New Medical Technology Paradigm • miRMaid:A Unified Programming Interface for Microrna Data Resources • Some Attributes of a Language for Property-Based Testing • Index

Data structure and software engineering is an integral part of computer science, which, as a whole, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. This new book presents new approaches and methods to knowledge sharing, brain mapping, data integration, data storage, managing an organization's business process and domain data, new software and hardware testing methods, and a game development framework used as a learning aid in a software engineering at the university level. The book also features a review of social software engineering metrics, methods for processing business information, and using Pegasys to create and manage sequence analysis workflows in biology.

CONTENTS: An Architecture to Support Learning, Awareness, and Transparency in Social Software Engineering • Comprehending Software Architecture Using a Unified Single-View Visualization • Determination of Neural Fiber Connections Based on Data Structure Algorithm • A Preliminary Analysis of Software Engineering Metricsbased Criteria for the Evaluation of Learning Objects Reusability • Extending Conceptual Schemas with Business Process Information • Software Test Automation in Practice:Empirical Observations • A Strategy for Automatic Quality Signing and Verification Processes for Hardware and Software Testing • A Tester-Assisted Methodology for Test Redundancy Detection • Automatic Generation of Web Applications from Visual High-Level Functional Web Components • Challenges and Improvements in Distributed Software Development:A Systematic Review • Vertical Mining of Frequent Patterns from Uncertain Data • An Open-Source Representation for 2-DE-Centric Proteomics and Support Infrastructure for Data Storage and Analysis • Pegasys:Software for Executing and Integrating Analyses of Biological Sequences • An Application of a Game Development Framework in Higher Education • Index

Mathematical methods are integral to the study of electronics. To become proficient in electronics, the student will also need to understand the mathematics of circuit analysis (methods of solving generally linear systems for unknown variables such as the voltage at a certain node or the current though a certain branch of a network). Also important to electronics is the study and understanding of electromagnetic field theory.

CONTENTS: Conductors, Semiconductors and Diodes; Simple Conduction; Introduction to Semiconductors; Doped Semiconductors; P-N Junction; Gauss' Law; Depletion Width; Forward Biased; The Diode Equation; Reverse Biased/Breakdown; Diffusion; Light Emitting Diode; LASER; Solar Cells; Bipolar Transistors; Intro to Bipolar Transistors; Transistor Equations; Transistor I-V Characteristics; Common Emitter Models; Small Signal Models; Small Signal Model for Bipolar Transistor; FETs; Introduction to MOSFETs; Basic MOS Structure; Threshold Voltage; MOS Transistor; MOS Regimes; Plotting MOS I-V; Models; Inverters and Logic;Transistor Loads for Inverters;CMOSLogic; JFET...