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Foreword
Thebookisacollectionofscientificworkspresentingthediversityofresearch
conductedinthedisciplineofTechnicalComputerSciencebyresearchersfrom
WrocławUniversityofScienceandTechnology.Itaimstofamiliarizethewideraca-
demiccommunitywiththeprofileofresearchundertakeninthefaceofcontemporary
challengesofthemodel-basedarchitecturesconstructionaswellasinformationpro-
cessingalgorithms.
Mainlyitisworthmentioningtherelativelywidethematicrangeoftheselected
works.Theydealwithbothhighlyapplication-relatedtopicsoflocationinwireless
systemsordeterminingtheparametersofthesoundwavesource,abstractmethodsof
modelingstochasticprocessesandtheconstructionofrecognitionsystems.Thanks
tothisdiversity,thefollowingmonographaddressesacloserlookatemergingtrends
inthefieldofbroadlyunderstoodTechnicalComputerScience.
Nowadays,thepaceoflifeisincreasingmoreandmore,makingtechnologyand
automationofcertainprocessesabsolutelynecessary.Sopopularinthefieldof
machinelearning,thesayingthat’theworldisfilledwithdata’isalsoreflectedin
otherareasoflife.Onecansaythattheworldisalsofilledwithtasksandprocesses
thatbecometoocomplexforhumanstodescribewithoutautomatedmodeling.The
methodsandalgorithmsproposedinchaptersofthisbookcanfindapplicationin
manyfieldsofscienceandindustry,thankstowhichtheycanhelpusadapttoa
constantlychangingworld.
AgoodexampleofmeetingthecurrentindustrialchallengesistheworkModel
basedschedulingalgorithmfortransportandassemblyofconstructionprocesses
(chapter8).Theauthorsfocusonprocessoptimizinginthecontextofadaptingthem
tostrictlylimitedtimeframes,whichiscrucialwhencoordinatingindividualparts
oftheproductioncycle.Thedynamicdevelopmentoftechnologyalsocontributes
toincreasingtheopennessoftheworld.Thisappliesnotonlytolargecompanies
butalsotoindividuals.Andinbothofthesecontexts,todaywecannotimagine
functioningwithoutwirelesslocationsystems,whichświercztookcareofinhis
work(chapter3).Equallyinterestingisthechapter2byMazur,whichusesthe
two-dimensionalFouriertransformtofindboththeazimuthandtheelevationangle
ofasoundsourceinathree-dimensionalenvironment.