Helps you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems. This text brings you up to speed on core knowledge and skills, including: what operating systems are, what they do, and how they are designed and constructed; process, memory, and storage management; protection and security; distributed systems; and special-purpose systems.

Presents a catalog of simple solutions to commonly occurring design problems. These 23 patterns allow designers to create more reusable designs without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves. The authors begin by describing what patterns are, and how they can help you design object-oriented software.

An introduction to genetic algorithms, using research in the field to enable readers to implement and experiment with algorithms on their own. The book focuses on topics which include machine learning and artificial life and describes applications in dynamic systems, biology and ecology.

Presents basic programming concepts and techniques. This book focuses on the representation of information inside a computer, the structural relationships between data elements, and how to deal with them efficiently. It gives elementary applications to simulation, numerical methods, symbolic computing, software and system design.

Presents a comprehensive survey of classical computer techniques for sorting and searching. This book considers both large and small databases and internal and external memories. It contains a selection of carefully checked computer methods, with a quantitative analysis of their efficiency, and also a section on optimum sorting.

This title covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study. The algorithms are described in English and in a pseudocode.