The development of an information theory for stochastic service guarantee analysis has been identified as a grand challenge for future networking research. Towards it, Stochastic Network Calculus, the probabilistic version or generalization of the (deterministic) Network Calculus, has been recognize[...]

The Bayesian network is one of the important architectures for representing and reasoning with multivariate probability distributions. When used in conjunction with specialized informatics, possibilities of real-world applications are achieved. This book concentrates on the probabilistic and decisio[...]

In the early 1980s, Jiang Zemin, then Minister of Electronics Ministry of China, assessed the IT industry as "the strategic high ground in international competition." He "perceived the discrepancy between China¿s level and the world¿s advanced level was so great that we had to do our utmost to cat[...]

China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize
Published in China in 2004, "Wolf Totem" has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market).. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, "Wolf Totem" depicts t[...]

Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China. Focusing on the evolution of a series of controversies about Chan enlightenment, Jiang Wu describes the process by which Chan reemerged as the most prominent Buddhist establishment[...]

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in such research. It provides a lucid explanation of the technical aspects of collecting reaction time data and outlines cruci[...]

Six years after its first edition, Computed Tomography: Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances, Second Edition provides and updated overview of the evolution of CT, the mathematical and physical aspects of the technology, and the fundamentals of image reconstruction algorithms. Based o[...]

This path breaking book is the first full-length study of the rise to power of Jiang Zemin, now the central figure in China's 'third generation' of leaders. Tracing Jiang's beginnings as a student in the underground Communist movement in Shanghai through his appointment by Deng Xiaoping as party gen[...]

Providing readers with a clear, useful framework for systems engineering, this book integrates the Japanese and Western perspectives of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and relates its unique framework to current, widely adopted philosophies of quality assurance.[...]