This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, GREC 2015, held in Nancy, France, in August 2015. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 initial submi…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2013, held in Huatulco, Mexico, in June 2013. The 36 revised full papers and two keynotes presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions and are organize…
"Combining concepts from topology and algorithms, this book delivers what its title promises: an introduction to the field of computational topology. Starting with motivating problems in both mathematics and computer science and building up from classic topics in geometric and a…
As a unique case in this Advanced Courses book series, the authors have jointly written this introduction to h-harmonics and Dunkl transforms. These are extensions of the ordinary spherical harmonics and Fourier transforms, in which the usual Lebesgue measure is replaced by a re…
The Life and Work of Leon Henkin; Preface; Henkin's Investigations and Beyond; Leon Henkin Up Close and Personally; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Biographical Studies; Leon Henkin; 1 Life; 2 Graduate Studies at Columbia University; 3 Doctorate Studies with Alonzo Church; 3.1 T…
This is a comprehensive book on the life and works of Leon Henkin (1921-2006), an extraordinary scientist and excellent teacher whose writings became influential right from the beginning of his career with his doctoral thesis on "The completeness of formal systems" under the dir…
The book contains reproductions of the most important papers that gave birth to the first developments in nonlinear programming. Of particular interest is W. Karush's often quoted Master Thesis, which is published for the first time. The anthology includes an extensive prelimina…
This work is intended to serve as a guide for graduate students and researchers who wish to get acquainted with the main theoretical and practical tools for the numerical minimization of convex functions on Hilbert spaces. Therefore, it contains the main tools that are necessary…
This is the first systematic study of best approximation theory in inner product spaces and, in particular, in Hilbert space. Geometric considerations play a prominent role in developing and understanding the theory. The only prerequisites for reading the book is some knowledge …
"Aggregation of information is of primary importance in the construction of knowledge based systems in various domains, ranging from medicine, economics, and engineering to decision-making processes, artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning. This book gives a broa…
This book is the first to be devoted to the theory and applications of spherical (radial) basis functions (SBFs), which is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising techniques for solving problems where approximations are needed on the surface of a sphere. The aim of the boo…
At the intersection of mathematics, engineering, and computer science sits the thriving field of compressive sensing. Based on the premise that data acquisition and compression can be performed simultaneously, compressive sensing finds applications in imaging, signal processing,…
At the intersection of mathematics, engineering, and computer science sits the thriving field of compressive sensing. Based on the premise that data acquisition and compression can be performed simultaneously, compressive sensing finds applications in imaging, signal processing,…
