Computations with Markov Chains presents the edited and reviewed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains, held January 16--18, 1995, in Raleigh, North Carolina. New developments of particular interest include recent work on stability and conditioning, Krylov subspace-based methods for transient solutions, quadratic convergent procedures for matrix geometric problems, further analysis of the GTH algorithm, the arrival of stochastic automata networks at the forefront of modelling stratagems, and more. An authoritative overview of the field for applied probabilists, numerical analysts and systems modelers, including computer scientists and engineers.

Featuring a conversation with Adam Fuss. This is the st publication of Winters' work in several years, and contains new paintings and recent works on paper, as well as an interview between Winters and the artist Adam Fuss. In Winters' new work, the picture plane is expanded by dense networks of lines, and the imagery reflects an interest in architectural design, medical photographs, and computer graphics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2008, held in Xi'an, China in April 2008. The 48 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and 1 plenary lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 192 submissions. The papers address current issues of all major areas in computer science, mathematics (especially logic) and the physical sciences - computation, algorithms, complexity and computability theory in particular. With this crossdisciplinary character the conference is given a special flavor and distinction.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2011, held in Yokohama, Japan in December 2011. The 76 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions for inclusion in the book. This volume contains topics such as approximation algorithms; computational geometry; computational biology; computational complexity; data structures; distributed systems; graph algorithms; graph drawing and information visualization; optimization; online and streaming algorithms; parallel and external memory algorithms; parameterized algorithms; game theory and internet algorithms; randomized algorithms; and string algorithms.

"Constructive Computation in Stochastic Models with Applications: The RG-Factorizations" provides a unified, constructive and algorithmic framework for numerical computation of many practical stochastic systems. It summarizes recent important advances in computational study of stochastic models from several crucial directions, such as stationary computation, transient solution, asymptotic analysis, reward processes, decision processes, sensitivity analysis as well as game theory. Graduate students, researchers and practicing engineers in the field of operations research, management sciences, applied probability, computer networks, manufacturing systems, transportation systems, insurance and finance, risk management and biological sciences will find this book valuable. Dr. Quan-Lin Li is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of Tsinghua University, China.

This book focuses on two issues related to human figures: realtime dynamics computation and interactive motion generation. In spite of the growing interest in human figures as both physical robots and virtual characters, standard algorithms and tools for their kinematics and dynamics computation have not been investigated very much. "Simulating and Generating Motions of Human Figures" presents original algorithms to simulate, analyze, generate and control motions of human figures, all focusing on realtime and interactive computation. The book provides both practical methods for contact/collision simulation essential for the simulation of humanoid robots and virtual characters and a general framework for online, interactive motion generation of human figures based on the dynamics simulation algorithms.

This volume presents the proceedings of the fourth annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, held in Hong Kong in December 1993.Numerous selected papers present original research in such areas as design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, and theory of computation. Topics covered include: - automata, languages, and computability, - combinatorial, graph, geometric, and randomized algorithms, - networks and distributed algorithms, - VLSIand parallel algorithms, - theory of learning and robotics, - number theory and robotics. Three invited papers are also included.