December 2025
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 58m
English
Overview
Master the growing field of distributed and parallel computing with this essential guide, offering expert insights into the fundamentals and real-world applications for intelligent and collaborative systems.
Distributed computing, or running programs across multiple computers over a network, is becoming a popular solution for addressing the demands for increased performance across industries, including scientific computing, oil exploration, biotechnology, and medicine. Distributed computing enables seamless communication and collaboration by allowing users from different locations to access and interact with their digital twin simultaneously. Distributed computing enhances the capabilities of digital twins by providing scalability, parallel processing, real-time data integration, collaboration support, resource optimization, fault tolerance, and security features. Distributed and Parallel Computing explores the fundamentals and innovations in intelligent and distributed computing systems and applications, including adaptivity and learning, agents and multi-agent systems, argumentation, case-based reasoning, and collaborative systems. Through expert insights, readers will discover promising real-world applications for this emerging technology.
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