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Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Data-Gathering and Aggregation Protocol for Networked Carrier Ad Hoc Networks: The Optimal and Heuristic Approach by Chao Gao, Guorong Zhao and Jianhua Lu --- Chapter 2: A Composite Trust Model for Secure Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks by Rutvij H. Jhaveri, Narendra M. Patel and Devesh C. Jinwala --- Chapter 3: Performance Analysis of Three Routing Protocols in MANET Using the NS-2 and ANOVA Test with Varying Speed of Nodes by Subhrananda Goswami, Subhankar Joardar, Chandan Bikash Das, Samarajit Kar and Dibyendu Kumar Pal --- Chapter 4: Cooperative Routing in Multi-Radio Multi-Hop Wireless Network by Kun Xie, Shiming He, Xin Wang, Dafang Zhang and Keqin Li --- Chapter 5: MANET Network in Internet of Things System by Rasa Bruzgiene, Lina Narbutaite and Tomas Adomkus --- Chapter 6: Radio Frequency-Based Indoor Localization in Ad-Hoc Networks by Mehdi Golestanian, Joshua Siva and Christian Poellabauer

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: High-Performance Computing: Dos and Don’ts by Guillaume Houzeaux, Ricard Borrell, Yvan Fournier, Marta Garcia- Gasulla, Jens Henrik Göbbert, Elie Hachem, Vishal Mehta, Youssef Mesri, Herbert Owen and Mariano Vázquez --- Chapter 2: Multilevel Variable-Block Schur-Complement-Based Preconditioning for the Implicit Solution of the Reynolds- Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations Using Unstructured Grids by Bruno Carpentieri and Aldo Bonfiglioli --- Chapter 3: Free-Surface Flow Simulations with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method using High-Performance Computing by Corrado Altomare, Giacomo Viccione, Bonaventura Tagliafierro, Vittorio Bovolin, José Manuel Domínguez and Alejandro Jacobo Cabrera Crespo --- Chapter 4: Highly Deforming Computational Meshes for CFD Analysis of Twin-Screw Positive Displacement Machines by Sham Rane, Ahmed Kovačević, Nikola Stošić and Ian Smith --- Chapter 5: Optimization Design by Coupling Computational Fluid Dynamics and Genetic Algorithm by Jong-Taek Oh and Nguyen Ba Chien --- Chapter 6: Applications of CFD for Process Safety by Luis G. Zárate, Sebastián Uribe and Mario E. Cordero --- Chapter 7: Adaptation to Climate Change at Local Scale: A CFD Study in Porto Urban Area by Vera Rodrigues, Sandra Rafael, Sandra Sorte, Sílvia Coelho, Hélder Relvas, Bruno Vicente, Joana Leitão, Myriam Lopes, Ana Isabel Miranda and Carlos Borrego --- Chapter 8: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Applied to a Glass Vaporization Chamber for Introduction of Micro- or Nano-Size Samples into Lab-Based ICPs and to a CFD-Derived (and Rapidly Prototyped Via 3D Printing) Smaller-Size Chamber for Portable Microplasmas by Hamid R. Badiei, Gordon Stubley, Ryan Fitzgerald, Melanie Saddler and Vassili Karanassios --- Chapter 9: Analysis of Biomass Waste Cofiring into Existing Coal-Fired Power Plant Using Computational Fluid Dynamics by Arif Darmawan, Dwika Budianto, Koji Tokimatsu and Muhammad Aziz --- Chapter 10: CFD Modelling of Coupled Multiphysics-Multiscale Engineering Cases by Mario E. Cordero, Sebastián Uribe, Luis G. Zárate, Reyna Natividad Rangel, Alejandro Regalado-Méndez and Ever Peralta Reyes --- Chapter 11: CFD Analysis of Turbulence Models to Achieve the Digester Mixing Process by Jorge Flores-Velazquez, Abraham Jesus Arzeta-Rios, Waldo Ojeda Bustamante and Teodoro Espinosa-Solares --- Chapter 12: CFD for the Design and Optimization of Slurry Bubble Column Reactors by Omar M. Basha and Badie I. Morsi --- Chapter 13: Two Different Formulations for Solving the Navier-Stokes Equations with Moderate and High Reynolds Numbers by Blanca Bermúdez, Alejandro Rangel-Huerta, Wuiyevaldo Fermín Guerrero-Sánchez and José David Alanís --- Chapter 14: Vibration Characteristics of Fluid-Filled Functionally Graded Cylindrical Material with Ring Supports by Muzamal Hussain, Aamir Shahzad, Muhammad Nawaz Naeem and Maogang He --- Chapter 15: CFD Simulations of Crude Oil Fouling on Heat Transfer Surfaces by Ramasamy Marappa Gounder and Sampath Emani --- Chapter 16: Surrogate Model Applied for Analysis of Uncertain Parameters in Turbulent Mixing Flows by Boštjan Končar, Andrej Prošek and Matjaž Leskovar

Description / Table of Contents: Pattern recognition continued to be one of the important research fields in computer science and electrical engineering. Lots of new applications are emerging, and hence pattern analysis and synthesis become significant subfields in pattern recognition. This book is an edited volume and has six chapters arranged into two sections, namely, pattern recognition analysis and pattern recognition applications. This book will be useful for graduate students, researchers, and practicing engineers working in the field of machine vision and computer science and engineering.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Volume Holography: Novel Materials, Methods and Applications by Tina Sabel and Marga C. Lensen --- Chapter 2: Volume Holographic Optical Elements as Solar Concentrators by Maria Antonietta Ferrara, Gaetano Bianco, Fabio Borbone, Roberto Centore, Valerio Striano and Giuseppe Coppola --- Chapter 3: Volume Bragg Gratings: Fundamentals and Applications in Laser Beam Combining and Beam Phase Transformations by Ivan Divliansky --- Chapter 4: Holographically Recorded Low Spatial Frequency Volume Bragg Gratings and Holographic Optical Elements by Suzanne Martin, Hoda Akbari, Sanjay Keshri, Dennis Bade, Izabela Naydenova, Kevin Murphy and Vincent Toal --- Chapter 5: Holographic Optical Elements and Application by Nam Kim, Yan-Ling Piao and Hui-Ying Wu --- Chapter 6: Holographic Data Storage Using Parallel-Aligned Liquid Crystal on Silicon Displays by Francisco J. Martínez Guardiola, Andrés Márquez Ruiz, Sergi Gallego Rico, Roberto Fernández Fernández, Jorge Francés Monllor, Manuel Ortuño Sánchez, Inmaculada Pascual Villalobos and Augusto Beléndez Vázquez --- Chapter 7: Microtopography and Thickness Measurement with Digital Holographic Microscopy Highlighting and Its Tomographic Capacity by Miguel León-Rodríguez, Juan A. Rayas-Alvarez, Amalia Martínez- García and Raúl R. Cordero --- Chapter 8: 3D Capture and 3D Contents Generation for Holographic Imaging by Elena Stoykova, Hoonjong Kang, Youngmin Kim, Joosup Park, Sunghee Hong and Jisoo Hong --- Chapter 9: Multiwavelength Digital Holography and Phase-Shifting Interferometry Selectively Extracting Wavelength Information: Phase-Division Multiplexing (PDM) of Wavelengths by Tatsuki Tahara, Reo Otani, Yasuhiko Arai and Yasuhiro Takaki --- Chapter 10: Dynamic Imaging with X-ray Holography by Büttner Felix --- Chapter 11: Indirect Off-Axis Holography for Antenna Metrology by Ana Arboleya, Jaime Laviada, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Yuri Álvarez, Fernando Las-Heras and Antti V. Räisänen --- Chapter 12: Surface Characterization by the Use of Digital Holography by Dahi Ghareab Abdelsalam, Takeshi Yasui, Takayuki Ogawa and Baoli Yao --- Chapter 13: Digital Holographic Interferometry for Analysing High-Density Gradients in Fluid Mechanics by Jean-Michel Desse and François Olchewsky --- Chapter 14: Holography: The Usefulness of Digital Holographic Microscopy for Clinical Diagnostics by Zahra El-Schich, Sofia Kamlund, Birgit Janicke, Kersti Alm and Anette Gjörloff Wingren --- Chapter 15: Unlabeled Semen Analysis by Means of the Holographic Imaging by Giuseppe Coppola, Maria Antonietta Ferrara, Giuseppe Di Caprio, Gianfranco Coppola and Brian Dale --- Chapter 16: One-Step Holographic Photoalignment for Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Gratings by Kotaro Kawai, Moritsugu Sakamoto, Kohei Noda, Tomoyuki Sasaki, Nobuhiro Kawatsuki and Hiroshi Ono --- Chapter 17: Application of High Performance Photoinitiating Systems for Holographic Grating Recording by C. Ley, C. Carré, A. Ibrahim and X. Allonas --- Chapter 18: Fluorite Crystals with Color Centers: A Medium for Recording Extremely Stable but Broadly Transformable Holograms by Aleksandr I. Ryskin, Aleksandr E. Angervaks and Andrei V. Veniaminov --- Chapter 19: New Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glasses for Holographic Optical Elements: Properties and Applications by Nikonorov Nikolay, Ivanov Sergey, Dubrovin Victor and Ignatiev Alexander --- Chapter 20: Active Holography by Zurab V. Wardosanidze --- Chapter 21: Two-Wave Mixing in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Structures for Dynamic Holography by Vera Marinova, Shiuan Huei Lin and Ken Yuh Hsu

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Modelling and Simulation of Complex Adaptive System: The Diffusion of Socio-Environmental Innovation in the RENDRUS Network by Aida Huerta Barrientos and Yazmin Dillarza Andrade --- Chapter 2: Rendering Techniques in 3D Computer Graphics Based on Changes in the Brightness of the Object Background by Nika Bratuž, Helena Gabrijelčič Tomc and Dejana Javoršek --- Chapter 3: Modelling and Visualisation of the Optical Properties of Cloth by Tanja Nuša Kočevar and Helena Gabrijelčič Tomc --- Chapter 4: Textile Forms’ Computer Simulation Techniques by Andreja Rudolf, Slavica Bogović, Beti Rogina Car, Andrej Cupar, Zoran Stjepanovič and Simona Jevšnik --- Chapter 5: Computer Simulation of Bioprocess by Jianqun Lin, Ling Gao, Huibin Lin, Yilin Ren, Yutian Lin and Jianqiang Lin --- Chapter 6: Developing a Hybrid Model and a Multi-Scale 3D Concept of Integrated Modelling High-Temperature Processes by Marcin Hojny --- Chapter 7: Computer-Aided Physical Simulation of the Soft-Reduction and Rolling Process by Marcin Hojny --- Chapter 8: Surrogate Modelling with Sequential Design for Expensive Simulation Applications by Joachim van der Herten, Tom Van Steenkiste, Ivo Couckuyt and Tom Dhaene --- Chapter 9: Computer Simulation of High-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields by Andrey D. Grigoriev --- Chapter 10: Modeling and Simulation of Task Allocation with Colored Petri Nets by Mildreth Alcaraz-Mejia, Raul Campos-Rodriguez and Marco Caballero-Gutierrez --- Chapter 11: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in the Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources by Dejan Jovanovic and Ivan Pribicevic

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: The Newest Research in Parallel and Distributed Computing by Wen-Jyi Hwang --- Chapter 2: Social Trust: Evaluating Node Influential Capability in Social Networks by Yap Hock Yeow and Lim Tong-Ming --- Chapter 3: A Distributed Computing Architecture for the Large-Scale Integration of Renewable Energy and Distributed Resources in Smart Grids by Ignacio Aravena, Anthony Papavasiliou and Alex Papalexopoulos --- Chapter 4: GPU Computing Taxonomy by Abdelrahman Ahmed Mohamed Osman --- Chapter 5: Distributed Software Development Tools for Distributed Scientific Applications by Vaidas Giedrimas, Leonidas Sakalauskas and Anatoly Petrenko --- Chapter 6: DANP-Evaluation of AHP-DSS by Wolfgang Ossadnik, Ralf H. Kaspar and Benjamin Föcke

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Hyper-Heuristics and Metaheuristics for Selected Bio-Inspired Combinatorial Optimization Problems by Aleksandra Swiercz --- Chapter 2: Multi-Objective Hyper-Heuristics by Mashael Suliaman Maashi --- Chapter 3: Heuristics Techniques for Scheduling Problems with Reducing Waiting Time Variance by Satyasundara Mahapatra, Rati Ranjan Dash and Sateesh K. Pradhan --- Chapter 4: Efficient Heuristics for Scheduling with Release and Delivery Times by Nodari Vakhania --- Chapter 5: Advanced Particle Filter Methods by Roi Yozevitch and Boaz Ben-Moshe --- Chapter 6: On the Use of Hybrid Heuristics for Providing Service to Select the Return Channel in an Interactive Digital TV Environment by Marcos César da Rocha Seruffo, Ádamo Lima de Santana, Carlos Renato Lisboa Francês and Nandamudi Lankalapalli Vijaykumar

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Time Series Analysis (TSA) for Anomaly Detection in IoT by Nawaz Mohamudally --- Chapter 2: Anxiety, Worry and Fear: Quantifying the Mind Using EKG Time Series Analysis by Toru Yazawa --- Chapter 3: Agricultural Monitoring in Regional Scale Using Clustering on Satellite Image Time Series by Renata Ribeiro do Valle Gonçalves, Jurandir Zullo Junior, Bruno Ferraz do Amaral, Elaine Parros Machado Sousa and Luciana Alvim Santos Romani --- Chapter 4: Volatility Parameters Estimation and Forecasting of GARCH(1,1) Models with Johnson’s SU Distributed Errors by Mohammed Elamin Hassan, Henry Mwambi and Ali Babikir --- Chapter 5: Generation of Earth’s Surface Three-Dimensional (3-D) Displacement Time-Series by Multiple-Platform SAR Data by Antonio Pepe --- Chapter 6: Time Series and Renewable Energy Forecasting by Mahmoud Ghofrani and Musaad Alolayan --- Chapter 7: Modeling Nonlinear Vector Time Series Data by Jiancheng Jiang and Sha Yu --- Chapter 8: Symbolic Time Series Analysis and Its Application in Social Sciences by Wiston Adrián Risso --- Chapter 9: State-Space Models for Binomial Time Series with Excess Zeros by Fan Tang and Joseph E. Cavanaugh --- Chapter 10: Ensemble Prediction of Stream Flows Enhanced by Harmony Search Optimization by Milan Cisty and Veronika Soldanova

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Ensemble Methods in Environmental Data Mining / by Goksu Tuysuzoglu, Derya Birant and Aysegul Pala --- 2. Estimating Customer Lifetime Value Using Machine Learning Techniques / by Sien Chen --- 3. Determination and Classification of Crew Productivity with Data Mining Methods / by Abdullah Emre Keleş and Mümine Kaya Keleş --- 4. Mining HCI Data for Theory of Mind Induction / by Oksana Arnold and Klaus P. Jantke --- 5. Performance-Aware High-Performance Computing for Remote Sensing Big Data Analytics / by Mustafa Kemal Pektürk and Muhammet Ünal --- 6. Early Prediction of Patient Mortality Based on Routine Laboratory Tests and Predictive Models in Critically Ill Patients / by Sven Van Poucke, Ana Kovacevic and Milan Vukicevic --- 7. Semantic Infrastructure for Service Environment Supporting Successful Aging / by Vesa Salminen, Päivi Sanerma, Seppo Niittymäki and Patrick Eklund --- 8. Adaptive Neural Network Classifier-Based Analysis of Big Data in Health Care / by Manaswini Pradhan --- 9. Identification of Research Thematic Approaches Based on Keywords Network Analysis in Colombian Social Sciences / by José Hernando Ávila-Toscano, Ivón Catherine Romero-Pérez, Ailed Marenco-Escuderos and Eugenio Saavedra Guajardo --- 10. Data Privacy for Big Data Publishing Using Newly Enhanced PASS Data Mining Mechanism / by Priyank Jain, Manasi Gyanchandani and Nilay Khare