"I recommend this book to anybody that needs to develop computer applications for numerical analysis." (Computing Reviews.com, July 3, 2006)

"The coverage of each topic is brief but thorough." (CHOICE, December 2005)

SHAHARUDDIN SALLEH, PhD, is Associate Professor, Computational Mathematics Department, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has widely published research articles and books in parallel computing algorithms, mobile computing, intelligent systems, and numerical/combinatorial optimization problems.

ALBERT Y. ZOMAYA, PhD, is CISCO Systems Chair Professor of Internetworking, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney. His research interests include high-performance computing, parallel algorithms, mobile computing, networking, and bioinformatics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

STEPHAN OLARIU, PhD, is Professor, Computer Science, Old Dominion University. His research focuses on image processing and machine vision, parallel architectures, design and analysis of parallel algorithms, computational graph theory, computational geometry, and mobile computing.

BAHROM SANUGI, PhD, is Professor, Numerical Analysis and Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His research interests include neural networks and numerical algorithms.