Grid computing has emerged as one of the most promising computing paradigms of the new millennium Achieving high performance Grid computing requires techniques to efficiently and adaptively allocate jobs and applications to available resources in a large scale, highly heterogenous and dynamic environment.

This volume presents meta-heuristics approaches for Grid scheduling problems. Due to the complex nature of the problem, meta-heuristics are primary techniques for the design and implementation of efficient Grid schedulers. The volume brings new ideas, analysis, implementations...

Monitoring and Assessment in Online Collaborative Environments: Emergent Computational Technologies for E-Learning Support focuses on new models and systems that perform efficient evaluation of student activity in Internet-based education.

Over the last decade, the needs of educational organizations have been changing in accordance with increasingly complex pedagogical models and with the technological evolution of e-learning environments with very dynamic teaching and learning requirements.

Els materials d'aquest llibre cobreixen les sessions de laboratori de l'assignatura Fonaments d'Informatica de les titulacions de les enginyeries industrials. L'objectiu primordial ha estat obtenir, de manera autocontinguda, totes les sessions de laboratori que els alumnes han de realitzar durant un quadrimestre. Pensem que disposar d'aquest llibre facilita el proces d'aprenentatge de l'estudiant, ja que aquest podra controlar i avaluar el seu progres i coneixer amb antelacio la materia que treballara en les sessions de laboratori. Tambe vol facilitar la feina del professor, evitar la...

E-Learning has become one of the most wide spread ways of distance teaching and learning. Technologies such as Web, Grid, and Mobile and Wireless networks are pushing teaching and learning communities to find new and intelligent ways of using these technologies to enhance teaching and learning activities. Indeed, these new technologies can play an important role in increasing the support to teachers and learners, to shorten the time to learning and teaching; yet, it is necessary to use intelligent techniques to take advantage of these new technologies to achieve the desired support to...

Els autors del llibre son doctors en Informatica pel Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics de la UPC i tenen una amplia experiencia com a professors de les assignatures de programacio.L'objectiu d'aquest llibre ha estat confeccionar una obra que s'adaptes a les caracteristiques de les assignatures de programacio basica. Per aixo, s'ha procurat que els materials cobreixin els aspectes basics i fonamentals en un curs d'introduccio a la programacio en el vessant aplicat. Els materials del llibre inclouen exercicis d'autoavaluacio, problemes i projectes resolts. El llibre utilitza un...

"Complex Intelligent Systems and Applications" presents the most up-to-date advances in complex, software intensive and intelligent systems. Each self-contained chapter is the contribution of distinguished experts in areas of research relevant to the study of complex, intelligent, and software intensive systems. These contributions focus on the resolution of complex problems from areas of networking, optimization and artificial intelligence. The book is divided into three parts focusing on complex intelligent network systems, efficient resource management in complex systems, and artificial...

Grid computing has emerged as one of the most promising computing paradigms of the new millennium Achieving high performance Grid computing requires techniques to efficiently and adaptively allocate jobs and applications to available resources in a large scale, highly heterogenous and dynamic environment.

This volume presents meta-heuristics approaches for Grid scheduling problems. Due to the complex nature of the problem, meta-heuristics are primary techniques for the design and implementation of efficient Grid schedulers. The volume brings new ideas, analysis, implementations...

Technology-enhanced systems and computer-aided tools that support scaffolding in collaborative learning are key goals in the education research sector. This book covers a number of approaches to fostering functional collaborative learning and working online.

Blending theory with practice, this book brings together a variety of next-generation data technologies used to capture, integrate, analyze, mine, annotate and visualize distributed data in a manner that is meaningful and collaborative for the organization.