An Introduction to Mathematics For Computing And IT Practitioners

Authors: Zielesny, Achim
Serves as introduction to curve fitting, clustering and machine learning along with topics like mathematical optimization or evolutionary algorithms
Outlines all concepts and ideas in a clear cut manner with graphically depicted plausibility arguments and a little elementary mathematics
Extended, revised and interactive 2nd edition updated to the use of CIP 2.0 for Mathematica 10

Distributed computing is at the heart of many applications. It arises as soon as one has to solve a problem in terms of entities – such as processes, peers, processors, nodes, or agents – that individually have only a partial knowledge of the many input parameters associated with the problem.