This book provides an easy-to-read introduction into quantum computing as well as classical simulation of quantum circuits. The authors showcase the enormous potential that can be unleashed when doing these simulations using decision diagrams—a data structure common in the design automation community but hardly used in quantum computing yet. In fact, the covered algorithms and methods are able to outperform previously proposed solutions on certain use cases and, hence, provide a complementary solution to established approaches. The award-winning methods are implemented and available...

This book provides readers a comprehensive introduction to alternative number systems for more efficient representations of Deep Neural Network (DNN) data. Various number systems (conventional/unconventional) exploited for DNNs are discussed, including Floating Point (FP), Fixed Point (FXP), Logarithmic Number System (LNS), Residue Number System (RNS), Block Floating Point Number System (BFP), Dynamic Fixed-Point Number System (DFXP) and Posit Number System (PNS). The authors explore the impact of these number systems on the performance and hardware design of DNNs, highlighting...

This book serves as a valuable aid for scientists and engineers who seek to discover and disseminate knowledge so that it can be used to improve the human condition. This book can be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on technical communication and ethics, a reference book for senior design courses, or a handbook for young investigators and beginning faculty members.

In addition to presenting methods for writing clearly and concisely and improving oral or poster presentations, this compact book provides practical guidelines for preparing theses,...

This book introduces analytic solution methods for viscous flow problems, which is important in fluid mechanics.  The author, after many years of experience in teaching and research, has refined useful analytic methods to treat fluid mechanics problems. This book is written in concise and understandable terms and is beneficial to practicing scientists and engineers who would like to understand and solve laminar fluid mechanics problems. The author provides new materials and insights and presents examples that are succinct to illustrate the methodology.

This book investigates the image watermarking domain, analyzing and comparing image watermarking techniques that exist in current literature. The author’s goal is to aid researchers and students in their studies in the vast and important domain of image watermarking, including its advantages and risks. The book has three chapters: image watermarking using data compression; speech modulation for image watermarking; and secure image watermarking based on LWT and SVD.

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• Investigates the image watermarking domain, analyzing and comparing...

This textbook provides readers a comprehensive introduction to numerical methods, using MATLAB®. The authors discuss the theory and application of the most often used numerical methods, using MATLAB as a computational tool. The book is designed to be accessible to readers of varying backgrounds, so the presentation focuses more on the description, implementation, and application of the methods and less on the mathematical details. This book not only covers the most important methods and techniques of scientific computation, but also contains a great amount of code and implementations,...

This book provides a conceptual description of the PDCA cycle and the tools that support it. A brief literature review is given for each tool, indicating the timeline according to Scopus, the main areas in which they are applied, the main authors and the journals that most publish on these topics. It reports three industrial applications, one focusing on cost reduction, the second on optimizing a manufacturing company's raw material receiving process, and the third one on eliminating waste and increasing performance.

This book is a self-guided tour of MATLAB for engineers and life scientists. It introduces the most commonly used programming techniques through biologically inspired examples. Although the text is written for undergraduates, graduate students and academics, as well as those in industry, will find value in learning MATLAB.