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The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference Multibody Dynamics 2005 was held in Madrid, representing the second edition of a series which began in Lisbon 2003. This book contains the revised and extended versions of selected conference communications, representing the state-of-the-art in the advances on computational multibody models, from the most abstract mathematical developments to practical engineering applications.

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The degree to which cognitive science as currently conceived can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult issue. This book proposes an integrated approach to cognitive science. Reconstructing cognitive science in a presuppositionless way, the first part includes clear introductions to the disciplines which traditionally are seen to constitute cognitive science. From this analysis, a framework emerges in which such issues as the relation between symbolic and subsymbolic cognition, the role of embodiment, the interrelation of context, situated cognition and the structure of language, and the real causative role of affect incognition are resolved. The second part of the book focuses on the nature of symbol systems, considered generically, before going on to detail a theory of consciousness and selfhood. Finally, these strands are woven together in a new theory of cognition and its development. It is concluded that a science that fully attempts to treat cognition must remain "au fait" with the findings from all other approaches to the study of mind, ranging from the purely behaviourist to the purely experiential. ... Read more

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This book has several aims. First, it intends to be an introduction to Cognitive Science (CS). In this sense, its target reader would be a student who wants to know and understand the background of this field, or better of its specific subdisciplines. In fact, the author examines in detail the contribution that different disciplines offer to the general enterprise of CS: epistemology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence. Even ethnoscience and ethology (rarely mentioned in this context) are considered in some chapters in the book. The book's introductory character is manifest as concepts are extensively explained, and there are glossaries for difficult terms. ... Read more

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This work serves as a reference for engineers and scientific personnel specializing in computational methods. It contains a collection of keynote lectures and presentations from the 9th International Conference on Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science. ... Read more

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation in Continuum Mechanics, held September 29-October 3, 2000, in Yamaguchi, Japan. Shows the latest frontiers of the research by the most active researchers in the field of numerical mathematics. Softcover. ... Read more

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The volume is based on papers presented at the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine held in China in 2006. The presentations explore how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. The contributions to the book are written by researchers active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology. They include the subject area’s most recent results and achievements.

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Computational mechanics is the discipline concerned with the use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics. Before the emergence of computational science (also called scientific computing) as a 'third way' besides theoretical and experimental sciences, computational mechanics was widely considered to be a sub-discipline of applied mechanics. It is now considered to be a sub-discipline within computational science. Computational mechanics (CM) is interdisciplinary. Its three pillars are mathematics, computer science, and mechanics. Computational fluid dynamics, computational thermodynamics, computational electromagnetics, computational solid mechanics are some of the many specialisations within CM. Some examples where computational mechanics have been put to practical use are vehicle crash simulation, petroleum reservoir modelling, biomechanics, glass manufacturing, and semiconductor modelling. In the last century, especially in the second half thereof, computational mechanics has had profound influences on science and technology.Complex systems that would be very difficult or impossible to treat using analytical methods have been successfully simulated using the tools provided by computational mechanics. With the incorporation of quantum, molecular and biological mechanics into new models, CM is poised to play an even bigger role in the future. This new and important book gathers the latest research from around the globe in this dynamic field. ... Read more

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Quantum chemistry forms the basis of molecular modelling, a tool widely used to obtain important chemical information and visual images of molecular systems. Recent advances in computing have resulted in considerable developments in molecular modeling and these developments have led to significant achievements in the design and synthesis of drugs and catalysts. This up-to-date and comprehensive text provides an accessible introduction to the implementation of quantum ideas in molecular modeling, exploring practical applications alongside theoretical explanations. Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, Computational Quantum Chemistry provides a current account of a subject that has expanded enormously over the past decade. ... Read more

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This is an excellent reference cookbook in Computational Quantum Chemistry. It is a pity the author has now retired because it would be great to see further editions expanding on more modern topics. Even if that means adding even more pages to it. Let's hope someone can take over from it.

The book is a *must have* for anybody working in Theoretical Computational Quantum Chemistry. The book describes most methods in enough detail that you would be able to implement them yourself if you were so tempted. So, its theoretical coverage is excellent, and to top it all it is highly readable.

Now, before buying it, you must know what it tries to achieve: in real world CQC, you should not just limit yourself to trodden paths, since they are often of limited application to modern world challenges; this means that quite often you will need to modify exiting software to tweak it or add that small bit of extra functionality that you need. This is what the book is about: describing the inner working of current methods and enabling you to further the status of the field.

So, if you are looking for a newbie end-user recipe book on how to run your calculations using a software package, or looking for quick and dirty rules of thumb on which method to use for a given problem, then this is not your book. It is for serious professionals, not new starters. In that case I would rather recommend either Martin's Electronic Structure (if you're on physics) or even, better yet, Young's Computational Chemistry (which does an excellent work as an "executive review" for newbies or newcomers to the field).

OTOH, if you are really serious about professional Computational Quantum Chemistry, then this is certainly a must have book for you. It covers theory and implementation of all major algorithms, will teach you how to become a professional scientific programmer (something largely missing today -sigh) and will offer you recipes to implement the code in Ratfor, a derivative of Fortran that is independent of version/standard, that is structured and that can easily be converted to any other modern language.

Good theory, good code, good advice on programming and application... what else could you want? The code is downloadable from the author's web page, is very well written and documented and works. The only thing you might possibly notice is one missing element mentioned in passing on a tiny sentence in the book: a GNU derivative version of the latest Public Domain release of Gaussian by John Pople that might help you better understand how the old, humongous, monstruous code used in traditional packages works in real life.

Since you can now get full source code access to similar legacy packages -like GAMESS-US- and modern advanced packages -like NWchem or MPQC- and even modern DFT tools -like SIESTA, OCTOPUS or ABINIT- that is not a major loss except for nostalgics and history. It is still a shame: any google search for that ancient public domain code will show how access to the public work of a Nobel Prize has been totally lost to the public (and even scientists) due to greedy commercial interests.

Nice exposition on the inner workings of computational quantum chemistry.
David Cook's book, pun-fully referred to as the 'Cook-book', is a very easy to read exposition through the inner workings of computational chemistry. Cook covers all the major topics from general Hartree-Fock theory through more exotic methods such as Moeller-Plesset perturbation and coupled-cluster theories and their implementation in Fortran (some C). Next to the theoretical models, the Cook-book cooks up a rudementary integral evaluation program and offers tips and pseudo-code for integral storage and handling. If you are new to coding, this book also interjects appendices throughout detailing ways of housekeeping computer code and creating internal documentation on different subroutines with external open-source programs. Overall, this is a must-have for any computational chemist whether they code or not simply as a reference of the coding details of modern theoretical models. For the price, you couldn't hope to find a better reference.

My views on Computational Quantum Physics
I have much experence writing books, and I have found that all other subjects are boring, and computational quantum chemestry was intullectually stimulating.You will be entralled and involved in the book from the timethat you pick it up.It is also a great resource for all of the colledgestudent planning to study this and are currently.I highly reccomend thisbook to anyone else who feels that their life just isn't complete. ... Read more

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Thoroughly Describes Biological Applications, Computational Problems, and Various Algorithmic Solutions

Developed from the author’s own teaching material, Algorithms in Bioinformatics: A Practical Introduction provides an in-depth introduction to the algorithmic techniques applied in bioinformatics. For each topic, the author clearly details the biological motivation and precisely defines the corresponding computational problems. He also includes detailed examples to illustrate each algorithm and end-of-chapter exercises for students to familiarize themselves with the topics. Supplementary material is available at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ksung/algo_in_bioinfo/

This classroom-tested textbook begins with basic molecular biology concepts. It then describes ways to measure sequence similarity, presents simple applications of the suffix tree, and discusses the problem of searching sequence databases. After introducing methods for aligning multiple biological sequences and genomes, the text explores applications of the phylogenetic tree, methods for comparing phylogenetic trees, the problem of genome rearrangement, and the problem of motif finding. It also covers methods for predicting the secondary structure of RNA and for reconstructing the peptide sequence using mass spectrometry. The final chapter examines the computational problem related to population genetics.

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This book contains the edited version of some Plenary and Keynote Lectures presented at the III European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering (ECCM-2006), held in the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 5th- 8th June 2006. It reflects the state-of-the-art overview of a very wide ranging area of engineering.

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This book contains 14 invited contributions written by distinguished authors who participated in the VIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity held at CIMNE/UPC (www.cimne.com) from 5-8 September 2005, in Barcelona, Spain. The chapters present recent progress and future research directions in the field of computational plasticity.

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In the past decades, model reduction has become an ubiquitous tool in analysis and simulation of dynamical systems, control design, circuit simulation, structural dynamics, CFD, and many other disciplines dealing with complex physical models. The aim of this book is to survey some of the most successful model reduction methods in tutorial style articles and to present benchmark problems from several application areas for testing and comparing existing and new algorithms. As the discussed methods have often been developed in parallel in disconnected application areas, the intention of the mini-workshop in Oberwolfach and its proceedings is to make these ideas available to researchers and practitioners from all these different disciplines.

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This is the first monograph on the subject, providing a comprehensive introduction to the LSFEM method for numerical solution of PDEs. LSFEM is simple, efficient and robust, and can solve a wide range of problems in fluid dynamics and electromagnetics.

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The book deals with the numerical approximation of various PDEs using the spectral element method, with particular emphasis for elliptic equations dominated by first-order terms. It provides a simple introduction to spectral elements with additional new tools (upwind grids and preconditioners). Applications to fluid dynamics and semiconductor devices are considered, as well as in other models were transport-diffusion equations arise. The aim is to provide the reader with both introductive and more advanced material on spectral Legendre collocation methods. The book however does not cover all the aspects of spectral methods. Engineers, physicists and applied mathematicians may study how to implement the collocation method and use the results to improve their computational codes. ... Read more

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Recursion is a topic that is ubiquitous in computer science. This book provides a leisurely and entertaining journey through recursion. It begins with the most basic of recursive algorithms and carefully guides the reader to more advanced applications. Most importantly, however, it is a unified treatment so that by the end of the book the reader will have learned that a sophisticated recursive algorithm to find the median in linear time has a great deal in common with a simple recursive algorithm to output an array. ... Read more

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Large eddy simulation (LES) seeks to simulate the large structures of a turbulent flow. This is the first monograph which considers LES from a mathematical point of view. It concentrates on LES models for which mathematical and numerical analysis is already available and on related LES models. Most of the available analysis is given in detail, the implementation of the LES models into a finite element code is described, the efficient solution of the discrete systems is discussed and numerical studies with the considered LES models are presented. ... Read more

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The four-volume set LNCS 4487-4490 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007, held in Beijing, China in May 2007.

More than 2400 submissions were made to the main conference and its 35 topical workshops. The 80 revised full papers and 11 revised short papers of the main track were carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submissions and are presented together with 624 accepted workshop papers in four volumes.

According to the ICCS 2007 theme "Advancing Science and Society through Computation" the papers cover a large volume of topics in computational science and related areas, from multiscale physics, to wireless networks, and from graph theory to tools for program development. The papers are arranged in topical sections on efficient data management, parallel monte carlo algorithms, simulation of multiphysics multiscale systems, dynamic data driven application systems, computer graphics and geometric modeling, computer algebra systems, computational chemistry, computational approaches and techniques in bioinformatics, computational finance and business intelligence, geocomputation, high-level parallel programming, networks theory and applications, collective intelligence for semantic and knowledge grid, collaborative and cooperative environments, tools for program development and analysis in CS, intelligent agents in computing systems, CS in software engineering, computational linguistics in HCI, internet computing in science and engineering, workflow systems in e-science, graph theoretic algorithms and applications in cs, teaching CS, high performance data mining, mining text, semi-structured, Web, or multimedia data, computational methods in energy economics, risk analysis, advances in computational geomechanics and geophysics, meta-synthesis and complex systems, scientific computing in electronics engineering, wireless and mobile systems, high performance networked media and services, evolution toward next generation internet, real time systems and adaptive applications, evolutionary algorithms and evolvable systems.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Computational Life Sciences, CompLife 2005, held in Konstanz, Germany in September 2005.

The 21 revised full papers presented together with 3 papers of a workshop on Distributed Data Mining in the Life Sciences (LifeDDM) were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 initial submissions. The papers cover areas ranging from high-level system biology to data analysis related to mass spec traces and are organized in topical sections on systems biology, data analysis and integration, structural biology, genomics, computational proteomics, molecular informatics, molecular structure determination and simulation, and distributed data mining.

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The four-volume set LNCS 3036, LNCS 3037, LNCS 3038 and LNCS 3039 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2004, held in Kraków, Poland in June 2004.

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The book requires only rudimentary physics knowledge but ability to program computers creatively and to keep the mind open to simple and not so simple models, based in individuals, for the living world around us.

* Interdisciplinary coverage
* Research oriented
* Contains and explains programs
* Based on recent discoveries
* Little special knowledge required besides programming
* Suitable for undergraduate and graduate research projects ... Read more