Marine And Offshore Computer Applications

First published in 1981 as the Offshore Information Guide this guide to information sources has been hailed internationally as an indispensable handbook for the oil, gas and marine industries.

This latest ICCAS volume reports on the development of computer technology and its application for the benefit of the Marine and Offshore Industries. The technological evolution which has occurred in this area over the past two decades was stimulated by the achievements in computer technology but also as a response to the long series of world economic crises. The present situation seems to have hardened as the sector strives to compete. This lends even more importance to the vital role of computer applications in the success of Marine and Offshore Engineering.

Ships, Vessels, Water transport engineering, Marine transport, Computer applications, Data processing, Programmable, Automatic control systems, Control systems, Marine safety, Life cycle, Management

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2020, which was planned to be held in February 2020, but unfortunately, the physical conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They cover a range of topics including file systems, memory hierarchy, HPC cloud platform, container image configuration workflow, large-scale applications, and scheduling.

This volume contains the proceedings of the eleventh British National Conference on Databases, held at Keele University, England. A dominant themein the volume is the provision of the means to enhance the capabilities of databases to handle information that has a rich semantic structure. A major research question is how to achieve such a semantic scale-up without sacrificing performance. There are currently two main paradigms within which it is possible to propose answers to this question, deduction-oriented and object-oriented. Both paradigms are well represented in this collection, with the balance in the direction of the deductive approach, which is followed by both the invited papers, by Michael Freeston from the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich and Carlo Zaniolo from the University of California at Los Angeles. In addition, the volume contains 13 full papers selected from a total of36 submissions.