Computer Modelling & Simulation Books

Conceptual modelling thoroughly examines conceptual design, the architecture of information systems, formal aspects of conceptual modelling, and quality criteria for conceptual models.

Drawing on a wide research field from the viewpoint of information modelling, this volume covers topics such as: the modelling and the tools for concept formation; associative search for databases and knowledge bases; enterprise modelling for interprise integration systems; and meta models.

Computer modelling is increasingly being used as a tool in the social and organizational sciences. Researchers use it to gain insights into organizational phenomena and to explore dynamic processes and configurations. This volume brings together work from researchers in this field.

This text reports the results of the Third European-Japanese Seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, as held from May 31 - June 3, 1993 in Budapest, Hungary.

This book presents a variety of techniques that combine computer-generated images and other objects with real scenes, creating augmented reality. This work provides an excellent snapshot of the current state of augmented reality research and its latest applications to industry. Using computer vision, graphics, and signal processing, augmented reality makes special effects in movies and computer ..

Permits readers to learn essential techniques that 3D artist needs to create CG environments by recreating the earth's elements of earth, air, fire and water. This title allows artists to recreate natural effects using Autodesk[registered] 3ds Max[registered].

Offers a guidance to the creation of discrete-event applications. This book uses the CD++ tool, an open-source framework that enables the simulation of discrete-event models with specialized support for cellular models. It demonstrates how to use CD++ to develop simulation models and define a variety of uses in different areas.

Poly-modeling is a modeling technique used in 3d modeling. This book presents a collection of tips, tricks and techniques on how to create professional models for advertising on TV and the web. It teaches the technical aspects of poly-modeling, while showing how to ultimately create content in a dynamic, efficient manner.

Presents a collection of 22 essays presenting the role that computers play in developmental biology research. This book shows how through computer modeling, researchers gain further insight into developmental processes. It covers their use in designing computer algorithms to tackle computer science problems in areas like neural network design.

Offers information needed to learn the art of CG lighting.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Visigrapp 2007, held in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2007. This title includes papers organized in topical sections on geometry and modeling; animation and simulation; interactive environments; and image analysis.

The course teaches mechanical engineering students the dynamics of moving machine parts, necessary for machine-systems design and robotics.

Contains 172 alphabetically arranged articles describing the modelling and simulation of physical systems. This title places emphasis on mathematical models and their various forms, and discusses other types of models, such as knowledge-based, linguistics-based, graphical and data-based.

Examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical perspective. This work also includes case studies that explore the functional and structural debate that continues to traverse simulation thought and action.

There are two groups of specialists involved in the development and application of water quality models, each of which have a different perspective on the use of models: . Academics and scientists-chemistry specialists and microbiologists who develop the models. . Practitioners-modelers and distribution engineers who use them to solve problems. There are limitations and constraints in the ...

Agent-Based Modeling/Simulation (ABM/ABS) is an emerging field that enables bottom-up and experimental analysis in social sciences such as economics, management, sociology and politics. The chapters of this book are the selected papers from those presented the Third International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. Articles in ...

Written by the inventor of the technique, this work presents modeling techniques for e-commerce, and shows strategies for optimizing performance.

This text, the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, brings together interdisciplinary contributions such as mathematics and molecular biology to address the different facets of the problem to connect the many scales of the computer simulation of many systems of interest in chemistry.

A reference-tutorial on 3ds Max. It is suitable for a beginner looking for 3D basics and also a full-fledged animator seeking fresh ways to dazzle viewers with creations.

This text explains how specific modelling practices employed by scientists are productive methods of creative changes in science. Model based reasoning promotes conceptual change because it is effective in abstracting, generating, and integrating constraints in ways that produce novel results.