Domenico Talia

Questo saggio esamina e discute i concetti che stanno alla base degli algoritmi e analizza l’impatto sulle persone dei loro tantissimi utilizzi tramite una descrizione accurata ma accessibile a tutti. Vengono affrontati i temi più innovativi del mondo digitale, dall’apprendimento automatico ai sistemi software che governano i social media, dall’intelligenza artificiale alla robotica collaborativa. Gli argomenti discussi sono presentati con l’obiettivo di chiarire i concetti scientifici necessari a comprendere i principi e le manifestazioni dell’universo digitale e anche a ragionare sull’impatto sociale degli algoritmi. Concetti, analisi e ragionamenti utili per essere cittadini informati in un mondo dominato dalle tecnologie informatiche. Per diventare utenti consapevoli dei benefici che l’informatica può offrire a chi vive in questo nuovo millennio e, allo stesso tempo, per comprendere le minacce ai singoli e alle comunità che l’uso delle tecnologie digitali a fini di profitto e di dominio ha generato fino a oggi e che potrà ancora generare in futuro.

L'intelligenza delle macchine e la forma del futuro

L’impero dell’algoritmo

Benjamino Di Martino

Joanna Kolodziej

Kaiqi Xiong

This two volume set LNCS 8285 and 8286 constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2013, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy in December 2013. The first volume contains 10 distinguished and 31 regular papers selected from 90 submissions and covering topics such as big data, multi-core programming and software tools, distributed scheduling and load balancing, high-performance scientific computing, parallel algorithms, parallel architectures, scalable and distributed databases, dependability in distributed and parallel systems, wireless and mobile computing. The second volume consists of four sections including 35 papers from one symposium and three workshops held in conjunction with ICA3PP 2013 main conference. These are 13 papers from the 2013 International Symposium on Advances of Distributed and Parallel Computing (ADPC 2013), 5 papers of the International Workshop on Big Data Computing (BDC 2013), 10 papers of the International Workshop on Trusted Information in Big Data (TIBiDa 2013) as well as 7 papers belonging to Workshop on Cloud-assisted Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (C-Smart CPS 2013).

13th International Conference, ICA3PP 2013, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, December 18-20, 2013, Proceedings, Part I

Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing

Paolo Trunfio

Fabrizio Marozzo

Data Analysis in the Cloud introduces and discusses models, methods, techniques, and systems to analyze the large number of digital data sources available on the Internet using the computing and storage facilities of the cloud. Coverage includes scalable data mining and knowledge discovery techniques together with cloud computing concepts, models, and systems. Specific sections focus on map-reduce and NoSQL models. The book also includes techniques for conducting high-performance distributed analysis of large data on clouds. Finally, the book examines research trends such as Big Data pervasive computing, data-intensive exascale computing, and massive social network analysis. Introduces data analysis techniques and cloud computing concepts Describes cloud-based models and systems for Big Data analytics Provides examples of the state-of-the-art in cloud data analysis Explains how to develop large-scale data mining applications on clouds Outlines the main research trends in the area of scalable Big Data analysis

Models, Techniques and Applications

Data Analysis in the Cloud

Pasqua D'Ambra

Mario Guarracino

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the p- motion and advancementof allaspects of parallelcomputing. The major themes can be divided into four broad categories: theory, high-performance, cluster and grid,distributedandmobilecomputing.Thesecategoriescomprise14topicsthat focus on particular issues. The objective of Euro-Paris to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel computing both as an industrial technique and an a- demic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of practice. The main audience for and participants in Euro-Par are researchers inacademicdepartments,governmentlaboratories,andindustrialorganizations. Euro-Par2010 was the 16th conference in the Euro-Parseries, and was or- nizedbythe Institute forHigh-PerformanceComputingandNetworking(ICAR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), in Ischia, Italy. Previous Euro- ParconferencestookplaceinStockholm,Lyon,Passau,Southampton,Toulouse, Munich, Manchester, Padderborn, Klagenfurt, Pisa, Lisbon, Dresden, Rennes, Las Palmas, and Delft. Next year the conference will take place in Bordeaux, France. More information on the Euro-Par conference series and organization is available on the wesite http://www.europar.org. As mentioned before, the conference was organized in 14 topics. The paper review process for each topic was managed and supervised by a committee of at least four persons: a Global Chair, a Local Chair, and two members. Some speci'c topics with a high number of submissions were managed by a larger committeewithmoremembers.The'naldecisionsontheacceptanceorrejection ofthesubmitted papersweremadein ameeting ofthe ConferenceCo-chairsand Local Chairs of the topics.

16th International Euro-Par Conference, Ischia, Italy, August 31 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings

Euro-Par 2010 - Parallel Processing

Algoritmi e persone nel mondo digitale

La società calcolabile e i big data

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Euro-Par Conference held in Ischia, Italy, in August/September 2010. The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 256 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and environments; performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling and load-balancing; high performance architectures and compilers; parallel and distributed data management; grid, cluster and cloud computing; peer to peer computing; distributed systems and algorithms; parallel and distributed programming; parallel numerical algorithms; multicore and manycore programming; theory and algorithms for parallel computation; high performance networks; and mobile and ubiquitous computing.

16th International Euro-Par Conference, Ischia, Italy, August 31 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part II

David B. Skillicorn

Programming Languages for Parallel Processing

Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Euro-Par Conference held in Ischia, Italy, in August/September 2010. The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 256 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and environments; performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling and load-balancing; high performance architectures and compilers; parallel and distributed data management; grid, cluster and cloud computing; peer to peer computing; distributed systems and algorithms; parallel and distributed programming; parallel numerical algorithms; multicore and manycore programming; theory and algorithms for parallel computation; high performance networks; and mobile and ubiquitous computing.

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