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To master the fundamentals of image registration, there is no more comprehensive source than 2-D and 3-D Image Registration...

ENGAGE YOUR WARPED SENSE OF HUMOR WITH HUNDREDS OF PRACTICAL GAG DEVICES YOU BUILD YOURSELF!

Give your friends and family the shock of their lives! 51 High-Tech Practical Jokes for the Evil Genius has everything you need to pull devastatingly funny (and safe!) technical pranks...

A bibliography that contains over 270 book notations and over 250 periodical notations...

The history of computing has its origins at the outset of civilization...

This practical guide provides a succinct treatment of the general concepts of cell biology, furnishing the computer scientist with the tools necessary to read and understand current literature in the field...

Addresses the specific needs of the IT expert witness...

This extensive library of computer programs-written in C language-allows readers to solve numerical problems in areas of linear algebra, ordinary and partial differential equations, optimization, parameter estimation, and special functions of mathematical physics...

News of the Web's demise has been greatly exaggerated...

Distributed and communicating objects are becoming ubiquitous...

First published seven years ago-just before the World Wide Web exploded into dominance in the software world-About Face rapidly became a bestseller...

Adaptive Filters

Adaptive filtering is a topic of immense practical and theoretical value, having applications in areas ranging from digital and wireless communications to biomedical systems...

Adaptive Nonlinear System Identification: The Volterra and Wiener Model Approaches introduces engineers and researchers to the field of nonlinear adaptive system identification...

This book gives readers proven methods for overcoming common BSP development challenges...

The globalization of manufacturing industries leads to a thirst for rapid advancements in technological development and expertise in advanced design and manufacturing...

Learn the latest techniques in programming sophisticated simulation systems

This cutting-edge text presents the latest techniques in advanced simulation programming for interactive modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, such as aerospace vehicles, control systems, and biological systems...

This book - in conjunction with the two volumes LNCS 4681 and LNAI 4682 - constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007, held in Qingdao, China in August 2007...

This book brings together research articles by active practitioners and leading researchers reporting recent advances in the field of knowledge discovery...

This book presents research on some of the most recent advances in data mining and knowledge discovery, providing theory as well as its applications on practical real world applications...

Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management features the latest research findings dealing with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology organizations...

Advanced Topics in Global Information Management includes original material concerned with all aspects of global information management in three areas: Global Information Systems in Business Functions, Information Technology in Specific Regions of the World, and Management of Global Information Resources and Applications...

Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management features the most current research findings in all aspects of information resources management...

Advanced Topics in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research is a series of books which features the most current research findings in all aspects of IT standardization research, from a diversity of angles, traversing the traditional boundaries between individual disciplines...

"As chip size and complexity continues to grow exponentially, the challenges of functional verification are becoming a critical issue in the electronics industry...

The conference proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (IETA 05), International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 05) and International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 05) include a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of: Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation, Telecommunications, Networking, Engineering Education, Instructional Technology and e-Learning...

This volume of Advances in Computers is number 66 in the series that began back in 1960...

This volume is number 67 in the series Advances in Computers that began back in 1960...

Embedded systems are meanwhile in the focus of industry in quite different application domains such as automotive, avionics, telecom, and consumer products...

A comprehensive, coherent, and in depth presentation of the state of the art in fuzzy clustering...

This book contains a selection of the best papers given at the Advanced Computer Systems Conference in October 2006 in Poland...

The process of inductive inference—to infer general laws and principles from particular instances—is the basis of statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and machine learning...

Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems

Edited by

Jan van Kuppevelt, The Netherlands

Laila Dybkjær Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NISLab)

University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Niels Ole Bernsen Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NISLab)

University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY SERIES

The main topic of this volume is natural multimodal interaction...

Networked learning is learning in which information and communications technology (ICT) is used to promote connections: between one learner and other learners; between learners and tutors; between a learning community and its learning resources...

The conference proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering include a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Systems Engineering and Sciences...

The development and availability of new computing and communication devices, and the increased connectivity between these devices, thanks to wired and wireless networks, are enabling new opportunities for people to perform their operations anywhere and anytime...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the two International Workshops on Agent Communication, AC 2005 and AC 2006, held in Utrecht, Netherlands in July 2005, and in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as associated events of AAMAS 2005/2006, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems...

Solving complex problems in real-world contexts, such as financial investment planning or mining large data collections, involves many different sub-tasks, each of which requires different techniques...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2003 at AAMAS 2003 and in Chicago, IL, USA in October 2003 at ER 2003...

Business Process Management has recently become a real "hype" topic...

Financial services institutions like international banks and insurance companies frequently need to adapt to changes in their environments, yet manage risk and ensure regulatory compliance...

An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems addresses the complexity of choosing which multi-agent control technologies are appropriate for a given problem domain or a given application...

The authors use a refreshing and novel ‘workbook’ writing style which gives the book a very practical and easy to use feel...

This advanced introduction focuses on basic models and physically-based computational solution strategies for the direct and rapid simulation of flowing particulate media...

This concise, accessible text provides a thorough introduction to quantum computing - an exciting emergent field at the interface of the computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences...

Analog Behavioral Modeling With The Verilog-A Language provides the IC designer with an introduction to the methodologies and uses of analog behavioral modeling with the Verilog-A language...

Analog-Baseband Architectures and Circuits reviews the fundamentals and studies the state-of-the-art multistandard transceivers before describing novel architectural and circuit techniques for implementing multimode and wideband (tens of MHz) baseband analog front-ends under low-voltage constraints...

Discover all of the unique capabilities of Anime Studio, a 2D animation software program with some amazing advanced features such as the ability to move the camera in 3D, a bone-based rigging system for manipulating 2D images and vectors, particle systems, dynamic bones, and the ability to import and view 3D models with textures...

Now that you can record eight simultaneous tracks with it, GarageBand 2 really does turn your Mac into a full-featured recording studio...

"Intelligent agent technology is emerging as one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas...

The scope of the proposed book is to identify and emphasize the successful link between computational materials modeling as a simulation and design tool and its synergistic application to experimental research and alloy development...

The morphology of Arabic poses special challenges to computational natural language processing systems...

Agent-oriented design has become on of the most active areas in the field of software engineering...

This book provides a comprehensive description of the architetural techniques to tackle the soft error problem...

As dot...

Artificial Cognition Systems presents recent research efforts in artificial intelligence about building artificial systems capable of performing cognitive tasks...

This book provides simultaneously a design blueprint, user guide, research agenda, and communication platform for current and future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to systems biology...

The technology which once produced the first synthetic human today includes the simulation of human behaviour processes, associated with consciousness and the emotions...

The Complete Guide to Migrating an ISP to an ASP ISPs are now faced with a narrowing margin brought on by fierce competition, with little available differentiation in their offerings...

Semidefinite programming has been described as linear programming for the year 2000...

The Asset Protection and Security Management Handbook is a must for all professionals involved in the protection of assets...

HERE ARE SOME SOUND IDEAS...

Praise for Auditor's Guide to Information Systems Auditing

"Auditor's Guide to Information Systems Auditing is the most comprehensive book about auditing that I have ever seen...

An easy-to-understand synopsis of identification systems, presenting in simple language the process of fingerprint identification, from the initial capture of a set of finger images, to the production of a Rapsheet...

This book thoroughly surveys and examines advances in fingerprint sensing devices and in algorithms for fingerprint image analysis and matching...

Automatic Indexing and Abstracting of Document Texts summarizes the latest techniques of automatic indexing and abstracting, and the results of their application...

Automatic Program Development is a tribute to Robert Paige (1947-1999), our accomplished and respected colleague, and moreover our good friend, whose untimely passing was a loss to our academic and research community...

Highlighting requirements, technologies, and business models, the Automotive Embedded Systems Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of existing and future automotive electronic systems...

Autonomic Computing and Networking presents introductory and advanced topics on autonomic computing and networking with emphasis on architectures, protocols, services, privacy & security, simulation and implementation testbeds...

Autonomic computing systems mimic the human autonomic nervous system to realize a set of "self-*" properties, including self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection...

Autonomy Oriented Computing is a comprehensive reference for scientists, engineers, and other professionals concerned with this promising development in computer science...

Avatars at Work and Play brings together contributions from leading social scientists and computer scientists who have conducted research on virtual environments used for collaboration and online gaming...

This books deals with computer-mediated cooperation and communication scenarios in teaching and learning situations, leisure activities (e...

Completely revised and updated, this second edition offers a concise introduction to content analysis methods from a social science perspective...

Probabilistic networks, also known as Bayesian networks and influence diagrams, have become one of the most promising technologies in the area of applied artificial intelligence, offering intuitive, efficient, and reliable methods for diagnosis, prediction, decision making, classification, troubleshooting, and data mining under uncertainty...

Beating IT Risks is the essential guide for anyone at risk from information technology failure...

Great management is difficult to see as it occurs...

A Tour de Force of Business Technology Management

Despite the exponential growth of computing and communications technology, the inertia of old business technology management practices still drives most investment decisions in this area...

The computer's metaphorical desktop, with its onscreen windows and hierarchy of folders, is the only digital work environment most users and designers have ever known...

The two-volume set LNCS 4527 and LNCS 4528 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2007, held in La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain in June 2007...

The enormous growth in the field of biotechnology necessitates the utilization of information technology for the management, flow and organization of data...

This book provides practitioners with an overview of the principles & methods needed to build reliable biometric systems...

Share your home movies or download new software Find safe files to download, create your own, and use BitTorrent for business There's certainly a torrent of interest in BitTorrent! But while it enables you to download all kinds of cool files and to distribute your own creative efforts, it also carries some risks...

Blended eLearning is a must have book for trainers, managers, and learning consultants...

“If you want to understand the future before it happens, you’ll love this book...

The Latest Tips and Techniques for Getting the Maximum from Blu-ray Technology

Blu-ray Disc Demystified provides the most current information and applications available for this popular high-definition optical disc format...

Expert techniques for designing your system to achieve maximum availability and predictable downtime

With your company's reputation and profits at stake, downtime on your 24/7 web site is not an option, nor is poor application performance...

Packed with musical examples, chord charts, and photos

Re-create the sounds of the blues masters--without reading music!

Want to play the blues? Can't read music? No problem! This fun, accessible guide shows you how to play blues scales, chords, progressions, riffs, and solos...

Optimize the use of the BSP extensions HTMLB, XHTMLB, and PHTMLB, using the expert guidance found in this unique technical guide - the first in the SAP PRESS Essentials series...

Wow! If you’ve got the time and inclination, there isn’t anything that cannot be automated in your home...

The organization, functioning, and the role of libraries in university communities continue to change dramatically...

A complete set of best practices, tools, and techniques for turning conversations into a rich source of business information Many organizations are now recognizing that the untapped knowledge of their members can be used to benefit every aspect of their business, from making smarter and faster decisions to improving products and efficiency...

Every year, nearly one in five businesses suffers a major disruption to its data or voice networks or
communications systems...

Increase Your Companys Odds of Surviving a Major Disaster

Powerful Earthquake Triggers Tsunami in Pacific...

People have a hard time communicating, and also have a hard time finding business knowledge in the environment...

From process definition...

Business process management is usually treated from two different perspectives: business administration and computer science...

This business guide presents theoretical and empirical research on the business value of information technology (IT) and introduces strategic opportunities for using IT management to increase organizational performance...

This book contains selected papers on the language, applications, and environments of CafeOBJ, which is a state-of -the-art algebraic specification language...

We've all seen it — the e-mails that come to us from a sender we don't know and promise a frog that jumps across our screen, a low mortgage rate or a medical miracle pill...

Expert guidance on exploring and choosing a career in computers Ideal if you are a college-bound student or are thinking about making a career change, Careers in Computers offers necessary information needed to explore the profession and then narrow it down to a job that suits you...

This volume is the latest addition to the Cases on Information Technology Series, a series which provides a collection of case studies focusing on IT implementation in organizations...

Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology provides an introduction to causal mapping for IS researchers and practitioners and goes further to provide IS researchers and practitioners everything they need to use causal mapping for both research and application...

This revision of the classic book on CCTV technology, CCTV Surveillance, provides a comprehensive examination of CCTV, covering the applications of various systems, how to design and install a system, and how to choose the right hardware...

When teaching in the area of Information Technology, it is necessary to constantly update curriculum, to deal with new challenges brought forth by students, and to modify teaching methods to accommodate these new situations...

This innovative book brings together two disciplines science and art and enables readers to produce their own computer-generated displays...

Children's Learning in a Digital World presents exciting and challenging new ideas from international scholars on the impact of computers, the Internet, and video games on children's learning...

If you are a CIO, or intend to become a CIO, or simply want to understand the strategic importance of IT for your entire enterprise, CIO Best Practices provides you with the best practice guidance on the key responsibilities of the CIO and its important role in modern organizations...

The notion of complexity is an important contribution of logic to theoretical computer science and mathematics...

Run a world-class business from home

Today's home office is much more than a desk and a computer...

What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years? -- Graham Greene The reading of code is likely to be one the most common activities of a computing professional, yet it is seldom taught as a subject, or formally used as a method for learning how to design and program...

The "alarming and impassioned"* book on how the Internet is redefining constitutional law, now reissued as the first popular book revised online by its readers (*New York Times)

There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control...

The awareness of the ideas characterized by Communicating Processes Architecture and their adoption by industry beyond their traditional base in safety-critical systems and security is growing...

New technologies, although developed with optimism, often fall short of their predicted potential and create new problems...

The book offers two themes: one is about Communities of Practice (CoPs) and learning, the other is about social informatics approaches...

As technology advances, the demand and necessity for seamless connectivity and stable access to servers and networks is increasing exponentially...

Computer and communication networks are among society's most important infrastructures...

One of the challenges facing today's management is to develop theories and practices that address the dynamics of business networks...

Yes, you can turn those great melodies and smokin’ grooves in your head into stunning digital music! And you don’t have to be a musical genius or a computer geek to do it! Composing Digital Music For Dummies shows you everything you need to know to compose great tunes using the hottest digital tools...

Computational models can be found everywhere in present day science and engineering...

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP)...

This book offers a conceptual introduction to the study of the intrinsic complexity of computational tasks...

This well-accepted introduction to computational geometry is a textbook for high-level undergraduate and low-level graduate courses...

In Computational Neuroanatomy: Principles and Methods, the path-breaking investigators who founded the field review the principles and key techniques available to begin the creation of anatomically accurate and complete models of the brain...

The four-volume set LNCS 3036, LNCS 3037, LNCS 3038 and LNCS 3039 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2004, held in Kraków, Poland in June 2004...

This book amalgamates geometric modelling, analysis and optimization, the three important aspects in Computer Aided Engineering Design...

Modern computer algebra systems are revolutionizing the teaching and learning of mathematically intensive subjects in science and engineering, enabling students to explore increasingly complex and computationally intensive models that provide analytic solutions, animated numerical solutions, and complex two- and three-dimensional graphic displays...

Describes the main computer modeling techniques that constitute the framework of modern power system analysis...

As industry adopts a consumer focus in its product development strategy, it offers broader product ranges, shorter model lifetimes, and the ability to process orders in arbitrary lot sizes...

Bioengineering is a broad-based engineering discipline that applies engineering principles and design to challenges in human health and medicine, dealing with bio-molecular and molecular processes, product design, sustainability and analysis of biological systems...

Devoted to the subject of shape charge design using numerical methods, this book offers the defense and commercial industries unique material not contained in any other single volume...

Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV gathers the latest research of experts, research teams and leading organisations involved in computer-aided design of user interactive applications supported by software, with specific attention for platform-independent user interfaces and context-sensitive or aware applications...

The use of computers has opened up remarkable opportunities for innovative design, improved productivity, and greater efficiency in the use of materials...

Internationally there is a growing number of professionals administering psychological tests by computer...

The recent, rapid emergence of the virtual organization has added new dynamics and challenges to the context of relationships between organizational managers and their employees, customers, and other constituents...

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education provides a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of computer-supported collaborative learning (also known as CSCL); particularly those working within a tertiary education environment...

Modern computer technology has opened up several new possibilities for optimizing the administration of educational and psychological tests...

This volume contains a selection of papers covering the latest research and experiences on the application of Information and Communication Technologies in the field of Education, especially in the Ibero-American space...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) create potentials for considerable productivity gains and for higher economic growth...

Here’s the easiest guide ever to computers — a book that skips the long-winded explanations and shows you how things work...

Human Language Technology (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems have typically focused on the "factual" aspect of content analysis...

Computing for the Older & Wiser is a simple-to-follow user friendly guide aimed at the older generation introducing the basics of mastering a computer...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2007...

Zero-knowledge proofs are fascinating and extremely useful constructs...

"This book is the answer to hundreds of CIOs who have asked me how IT can be used to disrupt their market and change the rules of competition...

nformation technology has produced new ethical challenges and concerns in dealing with issues about privacy, security, piracy and professional ethics...

Convergence in Broadcast and Communications Media offers concise and accurate information for engineers and technicians tackling products and systems combining audio, video, data processing and communications...

This book describes the vast opportunity created by unifying science and integrating technology, and recommends transforming ideas for individuals and society...

The paradigm of ‘multi-agent’ cooperative control is the challenge frontier for new control system application domains, and as a research area it has experienced a considerable increase in activity in recent years...

The papers included in this book draw from a rich empirical background including studies in healthcare, homecare, software-development, architectural design, marine insurance industry and learning in university settings...

Coordinating Distributed Objects presents a novel object-oriented methodology to simplify the construction of distributed software systems...

Correlative Learning: A Basis for Brain and Adaptive Systems provides a bridge between three disciplines: computational neuroscience, neural networks, and signal processing...

While the weight of a structure constitutes a significant part of the cost, a minimum weight design is not necessarily the minimum cost design...

Harness the Power of Social Networking with Facebook Applications: Everything you need to know to build a Facebook application, If you are interested in or getting started with building Facebook applications, then this book is for you...

Remote web-based experimentation, enabling students and researchers to access the laboratory anytime via the Internet, is becoming an increasingly attractive way to complement or even replace traditional laboratory sessions...

There has been a growing interest in crowd simulation particularly in the commercial sector where it is used in security, defence, entertainment and the movie industry...

As global enterprise grows increasingly reliant on electronic data, processes, and procedures, studies of the management of organizational knowledge are emergin at the forefront of critical research...

Cyber Terrorism: Political and Economic Implications is a cyber terrorism brief that outlines many of the recent terrorist activities, political objectives, and their use of cyberspace...

In the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art, learning, play, film, and politics have been subject to radical reconfigurations as mediating structures...

Cyberspace security is a critical subject of our times...

The book presents new developments in data analysis, classification and multivariate statistics, and in their algorithmic implementation...

Security and privacy are paramount concerns in information processing systems, which are vital to business, government and military operations and, indeed, society itself...

New technology is always evolving and companies must have appropriate security for their businesses to be able to keep up to date with the changes...

A truly groundbreaking volume, this fully revised and updated edition of Data Broadcasting presents an exhaustive overview of the specific data broadcasting and bordering technologies concerned...

This volume provides new methodological developments in data analysis and classification...

Two factors dominate current molecular biology: the amount of raw data is increasing very rapidly and successful applications in biomedical research require carefully curated and annotated databases...

Forget the common cold for a moment...

The book presents state of the art knowledge about Decision-Making Support Systems (DMSS)...

Teach students valuable information retrieval skills and build information literacy with this excellent guide and activity book...

Learn how to design and deploy utility computing systems to save costs and improve the value that IT delivers...

Most of today's mid-size to large business enterprises and governmental agencies use electronic data interchange, or EDI, to interact with one another...

Early approaches to accelerated testing were based on the assumption that there was a simple acceleration factor that would correspond to a linear scaling of time from the operating stress to the accelerating stress...

Design for Emergence investigates spontaneous, unpredictable uses of technology that are driven by social contexts and collaborative processes, based on our ability to communicate our presence, both virtual and physical, in symbolic ways...

As engineering systems become more and more complex, industry has recognized the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase...

Design research promotes understanding of advanced, cutting-edge information systems through the construction and evaluation of these systems and their components...

The Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference celebrated in 2007 its tenth anniversary...

In recent years there has been a resurgence in the use of video in teaching and training contexts, due to technological advances that enable good quality moving pictures through CD-Rom, DVD and broadband Internet...

Designing Effective Web Surveys is a practical guide to designing Web surveys, based on empirical evidence and grounded in scientific research and theory...

"Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development explains how to plan, use, and understand the products and the dynamic social processes and tasks some of the most vital innovations in the knowledge society depend upon social as well as technological...

Designing a good interface isn't easy...

By detailing the processes of conceptualization, design, and implementation of the portals at major universities across the United States, this book discusses the current status of portals in higher education...

Developing and maintaining a VR system is a very difficult task, requiring in-depth knowledge in many disciplines...

An excellent introduction to the design theories involved in the creation of user interfaces...

As Ambient Intelligence (AmI) ecosystems are rapidly becoming a reality, they raise new research challenges...

"Self-forgetfulness is the reigning temptation of the technological era...

This is a collection of 42 essays about the economics management of information technology markets...

Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and ERP on Accounting provides a foundation in digital accounting by covering fundamental topics such as accounting software, XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), and EDI...

Just as education has promoted democracy and economic growth, the Internet has the potential to benefit society as a whole...

The convergence of IT, telecommunications, and media is bringing about a revolution in the way information is collected, stored and accessed...

How to plan your future strategy for efficient, cost-saving data management

Businesses have historically treated data protection as an afterthought, as simply making an occasional copy of data that could be used in the future...

The reproduction of nature via computer has fascinated scientists in computer graphics and artists, ever since synthetic imaging was thought to be possible...

Beyond the hype about dot-coms, WAP phones and dot-com entrepreneurs, what impacts will e-commerce have on society? How will it affect jobs and local communities? What will it mean for energy use, transport and the future shape of our cities? How can we ensure that everyone enjoys the benefits of the new digital technologies?

With contributions from leading researchers at many of Britain's most influential think-tanks, this book is a groundbreaking exploration of the social and environmental impacts and opportunities of e-commerce...

Currently in a state of cultural transition, global society is moving from a literary society to digital one, adopting widespread use of advanced technologies such as the Internet and mobile devices...

Digital Matters analyzes the complex interaction between the material and immaterial aspects of new digital technologies...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Digital Rights Management, DRM 2002, held in Washington, DC, USA, in November 2002, in conjunction with ACM CCS-9...

Digital rights management (DRM) is a type of server software developed to enable secure distribution - and perhaps more importantly, to disable illegal distribution - of paid content over the Web...

Digital Signage Broadcasting is a perfect introduction to this new world of opportunities for media professionals in all areas...

With the first edition widely accepted as the most extensive teaching text available, this valuable Second Edition has been fully updated to be compatible with the latest version (3...

Consumer electronics engineers, technicians, and managers, embedded engineers, system engineers, product designers & developers, network engineers and managers, programmers, marketing and sales personnel, and providers of content to electronic device end users

* Presents best practices for selecting, integrating, and using storage devices to achieve higher performance, greater reliability and lower cost
* Teardown photos provide rare visuals of the "guts" of the devices discussed
* Covers hot topics including flash memory, DVRs, Apple iPods, home networks, and automotive electronics, from basic layouts to standards, advanced features, and exciting growth opportunities

Digital Television is as an authoritative and complete overview that describes the technology of digital television broadcasting...

The TeX and LaTeX typesetting systems have become the de facto standard for preparing complex technical documents in print and electronic form...

A large number of cultural heritage objects around the world are deteriorating or being destroyed due to the work of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, and human-inflicted destruction, such as war and vandalism...

Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, teaches artists a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2002, held in Lübeck, Germany, in November 2002...

DAPSYS (International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems) is an international biannual conference series dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing...

In today’s world, services and data are integrated in ever new constellations, requiring the easy, flexible and scalable integration of autonomous, heterogeneous components into complex systems at any time...

Agent technology is evolving as a leading field of research connected to diverse areas such as A...

It is becoming apparent that future requirements for computing speed, system reliability, and cost effectiveness will entail the development of alternative computers to replace the traditional Von Neumann organization...

From novice to nightclub -- without the nightmares...

Do-All Computing for Distributed Systems: Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity studies algorithmic issues associated with cooperative execution of multiple independent tasks by distributed computing agents including partitionable networks...

Whether or not one believes the hyperbolic claims about the Internet being the biggest thing since the invention of the wheel, the Internet is a medium with great consequences for social and economic life...

Dr...

Dynamic Epistemic Logic is the logic of knowledge change...

The application of machine vision to autonomous vehicles is an increasingly important area of research with exciting applications in industry, defense, and transportation likely in coming decades...

E-Business Strategy, Sourcing and Governance is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology...

The Internet has created new business areas for the graphic arts industry: Information is formatted to be published both on paper and on-line and new forms of cooperation with customers and co-producers develop...

E-Collaboration in Modern Organizations: Initiating and Managing Distributed Project combines comprehensive research related to e-collaboration in modern organizations, emphasizing topics relevant to those involved in initiating and managing distributed projects...

Virtual technology is increasingly prevalent in all spheres of daily life, including infiltration into governmental policies, processes, infrastructures, and frameworks...

"Information systems are shaped by the environment in which they operate, and e-Procurement in Emerging Economies: Theory and Cases explains how e-procurement is shaped in emerging economies...

This volume presents the best papers of the special issue "E-Services" of the Journal of Value Chain Management...

Today, identity is more than anything, economic...

Effective Functional Verification is organized into 4 parts...

IT service management (ITSM) is the group of processes and functions that oil the wheels of the IT machine...

All schools now have internet access, but the potential of internet technology as a teaching and learning tool is still far from fully realised...

Our universities are facing immense pressures from within because of the increase in the ‘publish or perish’ syndrome...

In this monograph, the authors propose a systematic and rigorous treatment of electromagnetic field representations in complex structures...

The evolution from network-centric commerce (EDI) to e-commerce and e-business up to e-enterprise and virtual enterprise is traced and explained in this discussion of the transformation of a business enterprise from an industrial into an information model...

While not specifically defined, Electronic Government has become a common term to describe all of the processes, administrative and democratic, that combine to constitute public sector operations...

A pronounced move from print subscriptions to electronic resources in all types of libraries has fundamentally impacted the library and its users...

Elements of Information Theory, Second Edition, covers the standard topics of information theory, such as entropy, data compression, channel capacity, rate distortion, multi-user theory and hypothesis testing...

'Elements of Quantum Information' introduces the reader to the fascinating field of quantum information processing, which lives on the interface between computer science, physics, mathematics, and engineering...

If you are looking to create your social networking site by tomorrow, then this book is for you...

If the idea of starting an email marketing campaign overwhelms you, the authors of Email Marketing: An Hour a Day will introduce you to email marketing basics, demonstrate how to manage details and describe how you can track and measure results...

Most innovations in the car industry are based on software and electronics, and IT will soon constitute the major production cost factor...

In this book, you will learn where the Open Source movement comes from and what motivates its adherents...

Project infrastructure and software repositories are now widely available at low cost with easy extraction, providing a foundational base to conduct detailed cyber-archeology at a scale not open to researchers before...

This book describes the technical architecture and components that can be integrated in order to provide a comprehensive and robust infrastructure on which to build successful e-Business...

The Encyclopedia of Digital Government offers the most comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of digital government (or electronic government)...

As more and more universities, schools, and corporate training organizations develop technology plans to ensure technology will directly benefit learning and achievement, the demand is increasing for an all-inclusive, authoritative reference source on the infusion of technology into curriculums worldwide...

The Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management is the most comprehensive source of coverage related to the past, present, and emerging directions of knowledge management...

The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field...

Advances in information technologies have allowed end users to become a fundamental element in the development and application of computing technology and digital information...

Despite pressures of economic slowdown and the e-commerce bubble burst, moving towards e-services is a compelling necessity for todays organizations...

With the fast pace of change in today's business environment, the need to transform organizations into agile enterprises that can respond quickly to change has never been greater...

Enterprise Dashboards: Design and Best Practices for IT is a one-stop resource of methodology and best practices for this dynamic and relevant information platform, packed with charts, reports, visual indicators, and alert mechanisms, all consolidated in a rich computer interface...

Is the Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) knowledge management's killer app? Leading expert Joseph M...

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment to improve the productivity of knowledge work...

This volume provides organizations with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and features involved in effective enterprise backups...

IT education, particularly at business colleges, is undergoing a transformation because of the emerging federated systems or enterprise-wide systems (ES)...

How have global changes in information technology and communications affected environmental policy and governance? Arthur Mol shows how the information revolution brings about new forms of environmental governance and examines the resulting successes and problems...

Today's managers must be just as comfortable with the basics of information technology (IT) as they are with accounting techniques and marketing principles...

Solving multi-objective problems is an evolving effort, and computer science and other related disciplines have given rise to many powerful deterministic and stochastic techniques for addressing these large-dimensional optimization problems...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006

Evolutionary computation, the use of evolutionary systems as computational processes for solving complex problems, is a tool used by computer scientists and engineers who want to harness the power of evolution to build useful new artifacts, by biologists interested in developing and testing better models of natural evolutionary systems, and by artificial life scientists for designing and implementing new artificial evolutionary worlds...

Evolutionary Computation for Optimization and Modeling is an introduction to evolutionary computation, a field which includes genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, evolution strategies, and genetic programming...

This second edition of Evolving Connectionist Systems presents generic computational models and techniques that can be used for the development of evolving, adaptive modelling systems, as well as new trends including computational neuro-genetic modelling and quantum information processing related to evolving systems...

Despite the considerable, growing interest in online education, most studies have focused only on the students perspective...

With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining...

The eServer pSeries is IBM?

There are many applications in which the reliability of the overall system must be far higher than the reliability of its individual components...

More and more, software systems involve autonomous and distributed software components that have to execute and interact in open and dynamic environments, such as in pervasive, autonomous, and mobile applications...

Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere...

Forensic computing is becoming of primary importance as computers increasingly figure prominently as sources of evidence in all sorts of criminal investigations...

This book presents the latest worldwide results in theory and practice of formal techniques for networked and distributed systems...

Provides readers with a listing of some of the most useful business and industry information sources available freely on the Internet

How can you make the best use of patient data to improve health outcomes? More and more information about patients’ health is stored on increasingly interconnected computer systems...

From a desktop, e-mail provides a quick, reliable and cost-effective link to the world at large, changing a traditional “workplace” into a “workspace” that crosses even international boundaries...

Functional Verification Coverage Measurement and Analysis addresses the subject of coverage measurement and analysis, a means of quantitatively assessing functional verification progress...

The multi-billion dollar industry of digital imaging technology is an active research area with applications in our everyday lives in products such as digital cameras, scanners, printers and display systems...

All the expert guidance you need to understand, build, and operate GPS receivers The Second Edition of this acclaimed publication enable readers to understand and apply the complex operation principles of global positioning system (GPS) receivers...

One of the attractions of fuzzy logic is its utility in solving many real engineering problems...

This book is devoted to the study of fuzzy reasoning as applied to decision making and control processes...

Nearly all early learning happens during play, and new technology has added video games to the list of ways children learn interaction and new concepts...

This book presents a current research scope and perspective of Simulation and Gaming...

Gender and Computers presents evidence that shows that girls and young women are being left behind on the road to information technology...

Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV was developed from the fourth workshop at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Complex Systems to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information related to the rapidly advancing field of Genetic Programming (GP)...

This is the first book written on the OpenID system and it provides comprehensive information to beginners and mid level programmers of OpenID...

GET PAID TO PLAY! 30 years in the making, the first book to offer everything you need to go from rags to riches in the fabulous videogame industry is here - are you ready to nail the ultimate high score? A must-have for anyone seeking a career in game art, design, audio, programming, marketing, journalism and sales! Learn how to break into the business and hit the jackpot from industry legends including Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, Trip Hawkins, Will Wright and more! Foreword by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell...

Provides a full description of the Microsoft Windows Distributed Internet Applications Architecture (DNA), its purpose, and its proper use for Internet applications development...

There are huge disparities in the global access and use of information technologies, and these disparities are not likely to be removed in the near future unless a concerted action is taken at the national, regional and the international levels...

Interest in e-government, both in industry and in academia, has grown rapidly over the past decade, and continues to grow...

Global IT Management presents a practical approach for initiating and reinforcing global IT, focusing on the mechanisms that need to be put in place to effectively manage IT architecture, strategy, standards, and control across sites in a multinational firm...

The only comprehensive guide to Kalman filtering and its applications to real-world GPS/INS problems Written by recognized authorities in the field, this book provides engineers, computer scientists, and others with a working familiarity with the theory and contemporary applications of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Inertial Navigational Systems, and Kalman filters...

The only comprehensive guide to Kalman filtering and its applications to real-world GPS/INS problems Written by recognized authorities in the field, this book provides engineers, computer scientists, and others with a working familiarity with the theory and contemporary applications of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Inertial Navigational Systems, and Kalman filters...

Global modelling and validation is required to master the design of systems made of heterogeneous components...

• Get cracking! Here's the hardware hacker's guide to banishing boring beige boxes
• ExtremeTech readers aren't timid about cracking the case and voiding the warranty, and they'll love these detailed instructions for PC extreme makeovers that add lights, shapes, windows on the works, and more individuality to standard PC cases
• Modding is hot; a multimillion dollar industry has grown up around the hobbyists who modify their computer cases with way-out windows, neon and lighting displays, custom cooling systems, and more
• Modding is also mainstream-major computer retailers now stock light kits and fan kits, while some PC vendors offer out-of-the-box cases with personality
• Written by a serious modder who took a Dremel to a computer case long before it was fashionable, the book provides materials lists, identifies necessary tools, and supplies all the directions for over a dozen cool case mods

Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice contributes to the understanding of how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international environment...

Among its many amazing applications, Google now has web-based alternatives to many of the applications in Microsoft Office...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2004, held in Rome, Italy, in September/October 2004...

Graphics are great for exploring data, but how can they be used for looking at the large datasets that are commonplace to-day? This book shows how to look at ways of visualizing large datasets, whether large in numbers of cases or large in numbers of variables or large in both...

This book is a crystallization of the authors' work over the last twenty-five years...

Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale...

Innovative uses of global and local networks of linked computers make new ways of collaborative working, learning, and acting possible...

In these days of shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are often seen by management as tending to inflate their production schedules...

• This is the "user manual" that didn't come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!
• Crazy-cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar-powering a GPS
• Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS
• Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken
• Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector

Get ready to make the most of Sony's awesome entertainment device, and hacker's dream - the PSP...

Modify gameplay, add textures, and integrate amazing effects

Develop intense environments, then share your design with players online

How cool would it be to build your own levels and customized weapons for Half-Life 2? This book will get you ready to mod so you can enjoy the ultimate gaming experience...

If you loved "2001: A Space Odyssey," you'll be delighted by this book that asks "How realistic was HAL?" Contributions by various scientists include essays on supercomputer design with regard to speech synthesis, common sense reasoning, emotions, lip reading and even playing chess...

Provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the theory and practice of real-time human disease outbreak detection, explicitly recognizing the revolution in practices of infection control and public health surveillance...

Visualizing the data is an essential part of any data analysis...

In information technology, unlike many other fields, the need to support the unique perspective of technologically advanced students and deliver technology-rich content presents unique challenges...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is the organizing logic for a firms core business processes and IT capabilities captured in a set of policies and technical choices...

Many computer scientists, engineers, applied mathematicians, and physicists use geometry theory and geometric computing methods in the design of perception-action systems, intelligent autonomous systems, and man-machine interfaces...

Although the notion is a relatively recent one, the notions and principles of Granular Computing (GrC) have appeared in a different guise in many related fields including granularity in Artificial Intelligence, interval computing, cluster analysis, quotient space theory and many others...

Effectively the 8th edition of Aslib's flagship Handbook of Special Librarianship and Information Work, the definitive reference source on information theory, practice, and procedure since 1957...

This ground-breaking professional reference integrates converging views of e-business processes and offers ways to manage their inherent risks with advanced modeling techniques...

Reliable human authentication schemes are of paramount importance in our highly networked society...

In the years since the bestselling first edition, fusion research and applications have adapted to service-oriented architectures and pushed the boundaries of situational modeling in human behavior, expanding into fields such as chemical and biological sensing, crisis management, and intelligent buildings...

Large investments have been made by various governments for the deployment of broadband within their respective nations; however, the citizens of such countries have demonstrated a slow adoption of this technology...

The use of information technology in the public sector has been an increasingly prominent international trend...

After the mainframe and personal computer eras, the third major era in computer science, ubiquitous computing, describes the state of technology in which networked computers would surround every user...

At one time, the office was a physical place, and employees congregated in the same location to work together on projects...

A spatial logic is a formal language interpreted over any class of structures featuring geometrical entities and relations, broadly construed...

The central idea of Hebbian Learning and Negative Feedback Networks is that artificial neural networks using negative feedback of activation can use simple Hebbian learning to self-organise so that they uncover interesting structures in data sets...

Software agents are the latest advance in the trend toward smaller, modular pieces of code, where each module performs a well-defined, focused task or set of tasks...

With the large amount of data stored by many organizations, capitalists have observed that this information is an intangible asset...

Companies and other organizations depend more than ever on the availability of their Information Technology, and most mission critical business processes are IT-based processes...

The book presents the state of the art in high performance computing and simulation on modern supercomputer architectures...

The book presents the state of the art in high performance computing and simulation on modern supercomputer architectures...

The book presents the state-of-the-art in high performance computing and simulation on modern supercomputer architectures...

Designed specifically for IT professionals working in any type of consulting organization, here is a practical, real-world guide for delivering successful engagements to clients...

Virtual teams constitute a relatively new knowledge area that has risen from two recent changes: the globalization of industry and markets, and advances in information communication technology tools...

Higher National Computing 2e is a new edition of this extremely successful course book, updated specifically to cover the compulsory core units of the 2003 BTEC Higher National Computing schemes...

This book is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of historical computing...

Design custom web sites with NetObjects Fusion 11

Get up and running quickly on the latest version of the complete, do-it-yourself web site design software...

Learn to set up and take high-quality photographs with your digital camera...

Discover all the basics about your scanner, then put it to work with help from this step-by-step resource...

The reasons that businesses have difficulty implementing enterprise-level information systems are explained in this overview of the enterprise software market...

Several times in my Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice, people asked me which framework shall I adopt or what are the benefits of the Zachman framework over TOGAF, etc...

The all-in-one HP ProLiant best-practice reference and HP Certified Professional AIS prep guide Covers hardware, operating systems, storage, and much more Authored by members of the HP ProLiant AIS and ASE exam development team This book systematically reviews every HP ProLiant AIS exam objective and thoroughly covers technology-related exam components that are not addressed in HP's 4-day AIS and 5-day ASE courses...

The study of human motion dates back more than 2000 years...

Human, Social, and Organizational Aspects of Health Information Systems offers an evidence-based management approach to issues associated with the human and social aspects of designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining health information systems across a healthcare organizationspecific to an individual, team, organizational, system, and international perspective...

iExec Enterprise Essentials Companion Guide is the official print companion to the Cisco® Entrepreneur Institute’s new iExec Enterprise Essentials curriculum—innovative IT-related business education designed to help you transform organizations through the strategic use of IT and Internet applications...

Image Processing and Pattern Recognition covers major applications in the field, including optical character recognition, speech classification, medical imaging, paper currency recognition, classification reliability techniques, and sensor technology...

Over the last decade, the field of immunological computation has progressed slowly and steadily as a branch of computational intelligence...

In situations where quality, shorter time to market and staying within budget are basic project requirements, you cannot afford to overlook digital asset management (DAM)...

Check out the companion website at www...

* Offers the first comprehensive reference on the topic of backup systems for both UNIX and Windows NT * Provides a complete tutorial on the general topic of data backup systems along with a detailed, step-by-step guide for planning and full implementation of backup systems * Authors include personal tips and strategic and tactical advice gained from many company implementations * Uses VERITAS NetBackup product to illustrate backup system functions

Practical, Real-World ITIL Configuration Management–From Start to Finish

The IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL) places the “best practices� in IT operations at your command...

This book provides an in-depth description of the framework of inductive dependency parsing, a methodology for robust and efficient syntactic analysis of unrestricted natural language text...

The Information Management Systems group at the University of Padua, led by Maristella Agosti, has been a major contributor to information retrieval (IR) and digital libraries for nearly twenty years...

The OECD Communications Outlook provides an extensive range of indicators for different types of communications networks and compares performance indicators such as revenue, investment, employment and prices for service throughout the OECD area...

No statistical model is "true" or "false," "right" or "wrong"; the models just have varying performance, which can be assessed...

Safeguard Your Organization’s Information!

Now that information has become the lifeblood of your organization, you must be especially vigilant about assuring it...

Written by two INFOSEC experts, this book provides a systematic and practical approach for establishing, managing and operating a comprehensive Information Assurance program...

This updated edition was written to help IT managers and assets protection professionals to assure the protection and availability of vital digital information and related information systems assets, and contains major updates and 3 new chapters...

Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance...

Information extraction regards the processes of structuring and combining content that is explicitly stated or implied in one or multiple unstructured information sources...

Except from the Foreword
The stated aim of the book series "Capturing Intelligence" is to publish books on research from all disciplines dealing with and affecting the issue of understanding and reproducing intelligence artificial systems...

Information operations involve the use of military information and how it is gathered, manipulated, and fused...

The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a surge of interest in numerical, computational intensive approaches to information processing...

The Internet and mobile commerce bring with them ubiquitous connectivity, real-time access, and overwhelming volumes of data and information...

The recent surge of technology outsourcing has intensified the cross-cultural effects of information systems designs and constructions, as well as the potential shortage of suitable information specialists at strategic locations...

Provides a strategic model to identify, evaluate, and improve information usage patternsIn a business climate that punishes the inefficient and the slow moving, enterprises must manage their information assets more effectively than ever...

This book provides a theoretical and practical explanation of the latest advancements in information retrieval and their application to existing systems...

This volume reports on several important and state-of-the-art topics in information technology, including: • Quality of Service in Information Networks • Risk-Driven Development of Security-Critical Systems Using UMLsec • Developing Portable Software • Formal Reasoning about Systems, Software and Hardware Using Functionals, Predicates and Relations • The Problematic of Distributed Systems Supervision • Software Rejuvenation –- Modeling and Analysis • Test and Design-for-Test of Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits • Web Services • Applications of Multi-Agent Systems • Discrete Event Simulation • Human-Centered Automation...

The area of Information Technology and Lawyers is a fascinating one...

This text is designed to help managers who have to deal with a complex environment, and who are often presented with "ready-made" solutions as to how to best organize their firm, to best use information technology...

In this text you will explore how information systems are used in business, and, more importantly, how the role of information systems has grown as a result of the telecommunications revolution...

Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives takes a global approach to the diverse ethical issues created by information and communication technologies and their possible resolutions...

Report aimed at spurring research in the science and technology communities to counter and respond to terrorist acts such as those experienced on September 11...

Work in the field of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) has also been transformed by technology...

The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion...

This book brings together a series of country-based studies to examine, in depth, the nature and extent of IT policies as they have evolved from a complex historical interaction of politics, technology, institutions, and social and cultural factors...

Information Theory and Statistics: A Tutorial is concerned with applications of information theory concepts in statistics, in the finite alphabet setting...

In Information Tomorrow, Rachel Singer Gordon brings together 20 of today's top thinkers on the intersections between libraries and technology...

Information visualization is not only about creating graphical displays of complex and latent information structures; it contributes to a broader range of cognitive, social, and collaborative activities...

Contemporary epistemological and cognitive studies, as well as recent trends in computer science and game theory have revealed an increasingly important and intimate relationship between Information, Interaction, and Agency...

It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside...

Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Information Sciences...

As information resources management becomes increasingly dependent on emerging technologies to combat its challenges and decipher its effective strategies, the demand builds for a critical mass of research in this area...

Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C...

Many of us want to understand how the technological instruments that so pervade modern society operate...

Instant Messaging (IM) is quickly rivaling e-mail as the electronic communications tool of choice in offices worldwide...

This book is a guide to making usability a routine practice within an enterprise, be it commercial or government...

This book addresses the current challenges facing information management (IM) and presents practical solution propositions...

Service level agreements (SLAs) offer service providers a way to distinguish themselves from their competitors in today's volatile, hypercompetitive market...

For IT and CIS students and educators, developers, managers, and experts...

Communication systems are now ubiquitous and making them more intelligent remains very challenging...

Intelligent assistant systems information is becoming the raw material of modern society...

Intelligent Computing Everywhere reflects the current perception in various fields that modern computing applications are becoming increasingly challenged in terms of complexity and intelligence...

This monograph is a detailed introductory presentation of the key classes of intelligent data analysis methods...

Collections of digital documents can nowadays be found everywhere in institutions, universities or companies...

This innovative book discusses engineering solutions for the automatic understanding of a complex scene via multi-modal arrays of sensors...

This is the first resource to provide detailed coverage of advanced digital networking and intelligent video capabilities and optimization...

The Intelligent Techniques for Planning presents a number of modern approaches to the area of automated planning...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Interactive Television, EuroITV 2007, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in May 2007...

"The internet is exploding with possibilities for conducting social research...

This book is a comprehensive guide to how organizations can use the internet to support their marketing activities and covers all aspects of Internet marketing - environment analysis, strategy development and implementation...

The Internet/WWW has made it possible to easily access quantities of information never available before...

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally...

This book has been written for undergraduate and graduate students in various areas of mathematics and its applications...

Where did SARS come from? Have we inherited genes from Neanderthals? How do plants use their internal clock? The genomic revolution in biology enables us to answer such questions...

This graduate text introduces some of the most common computer-intensive methods, including Maximum Likelihood, Monte Carlo and Bayesian methods...

Illustrated with numerous real-world examples borrowed from a broad base of industries, Introduction to Designed Experiments with JMP Examples, Third Edition, employs a gentle, progressive approach to using designed experiments...

In the early 1970s, fuzzy systems and fuzzy control theories added a new dimension to control systems engineering...

Although geometry has been a flourishing discipline for millennia, most of it has seen either no practical applications or only esoteric ones...

Coherent and up -to -date, this textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in computer science covers all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections

Microdisplays are tiny, high-resolution electronic displays, designed for use in magnifying optical systems such as HDTV projectors and near-eye personal viewers...

Quantum computing promises to solve problems which are intractable on digital computers...

“Introduction to Reconfigurable Computing” provides a comprehensive study of the field Reconfigurable Computing...

This book provides a firm foundation in the mathematical tools used to model the measurements at the heart of medical imaging technology, and now includes a new chapter on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...

Winner of the Business, Management & Accounting category in the 2006 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc...

The IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), established as the foundation for future wireless and wireline convergence, is the bedrock that will facilitate easy deployment on new, rich, personalized multimedia communication services that mix telecom and data services...

With the boom of Internet, IP-based applications, such as WWW and multimedia, bave been an essential part of our life, and there is an ever-increasing demand for accessing high-speed Internet services anywhere and anytime...

Television was one of the inventions that shaped the way society and culture evolved over the second half of the twentieth century...

The agent paradigm has been a subject of research for the last years, and the purpose of this book is to present current status of this technology by looking at its application in different domains, such as electronic markets, e-tourism, ambience intelligence, and complex system analysis...

Protect Your Systems with Proven IT Auditing Strategies

"A must-have for auditors and IT professionals...

Praise for IT Compliance and Controls

"James DeLuccia outlines a comprehensive, integrated strategy for achieving regulatory and legislative compliance...

If you have a business or a nonprofit organization, or if you’re the one responsible for information systems at such an operation, you know that disaster recovery planning is pretty vital...

IT Essentials PC Hardware and Software

Labs and Study Guide, Third Edition

Patrick Regan

The IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software version 4 course in the Cisco® Networking Academy® is designed to prepare you to take and pass the CompTIA A exams based on the 2006 objectives...

The target audience for this book is any IT professional responsible for designing, configuring, deploying or managing information systems...

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives...

Frequently not enough attention is given to producing a comprehensive business case or to producing an economic justification for an information systems investment...

IT Made E-Z is designed to help you maximize the investment you have in your current sales and recruiting efforts, interview more efficiently new technical candidates and increase placements while capturing revenue success...

IT Performance Management addresses the way organizations should balance the demand and the supply of information technology, optimizing the cost and maximizing the business value of IT...

A text presenting specific improvements that can be made to Information Technology organizations in order to make them more efficient and to help them resolve problems quickly and effectively...

• Technology professionals seeking higher-paying security jobs need to know security fundamentals to land the job-and this book will help
• Divided into two parts: how to get the job and a security crash course to prepare for the job interview
• Security is one of today's fastest growing IT specialties, and this book will appeal to technology professionals looking to segue to a security-focused position
• Discusses creating a resume, dealing with headhunters, interviewing, making a data stream flow, classifying security threats, building a lab, building a hacker's toolkit, and documenting work
• The number of information security jobs is growing at an estimated rate of 14 percent a year, and is expected to reach 2...

The Guide to IT Service Management provides an insight into the latest developments in the field of IT service management (ITSM)...

Offers a total roadmap for executives building enterprise-wide operations centers; practical help for managers seeking to deliver cost effective support and invaluable insight for IT customers who need to know what they can expect from their technology professionals...

Natural phenomena can be visually described with fractal-geometry methods, where iterative procedures rather than equations are used to model objects...

ITIL® Version 3 At a Glance takes a graphical approach to consolidating the information of ITIL® version 3...

As a Java developer, you're always looking for tools to help in your web and application development...

Nothing has been more prolific over the past century than human/machine interaction...

Our fascination with new technologies is based on the assumption that more powerful automation will overcome human limitations and make our systems 'faster, better, cheaper,' resulting in simple, easy tasks for people...

JPEG2000: Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and Practice is an essential reference for professional engineers and academic researchers in the fields of communication, image processing, signal processing, information theory, and multimedia...

Just Say No to Microsoft begins by tracing Microsoft's rise from tiny software startup to monopolistic juggernaut and explains how the company's practices over the years have discouraged innovation, stunted competition, and helped foster an environment ripe for viruses, bugs, and hackers...

Data and knowledge play a key role in both current and future GRIDs...

Previous research in the knowledge management and information systems fields simply define knowledge by a few categories, and then describe knowledge systems and their usage and the difficulties with them...

The ability to manage knowledge is relevant for millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that operate in high-tech environments...

Recently knowledge management and management learning has received considerable published coverage; however, most of this exposure is based on a rational, mechanistic view of knowledge management...

Police forces around the world engage in a variety of activities...

Information and knowledge have profoundly transformed businesses, organizations and society...

The main objective of knowledge management is to support the creation, transfer, and application of knowledge...

The three-volume set LNAI 3213, LNAI 3214, and LNAI 3215 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2004, held in Wellington, New Zealand in September 2004...

Neurocomputing methods are loosely based on a model of the brain as a network of simple interconnected processing elements corresponding to neurons...

Computer interfaces and documentation are notoriously difficult for any user, regardless of his or her level of experience...

This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified in the future...

Fast becoming the lingua franca of the scientific world, LaTeX is a software system for typesetting technical documents on almost any kind of computer...

R is rapidly growing in popularity as the environment of choice for data analysis and graphics both in academia and industry...

The world of law is a world of information...

This concise book discusses examples that teach LATEX in a powerful yet abbreviated fashion, including such features as: examples of widely used mathematical expressions; documents illustrating the creation of articles, reports, and overhead projector slides; troubleshooting tips to help pinpoint errors and how to set up a bibliography and index...

The Internet gives us access to a wealth of information in languages we don't understand...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2004, held in Banff, Canada in July 2004...

For all legal professionals, Legal Research Using the Internet is a valuable guide to finding and utilizing the legal resources available on the Internet...

Contains an advancement of telecommunication switching, a brief history of computer communication system, crossbar switching system and traffic engineering and frequency division switching...

"Linear and Nonlinear Programming" is considered a classic textbook in Optimization...

LinKnot Knot Theory by Computer provides a unique view of selected topics in knot theory suitable for students, research mathematicians, and readers with backgrounds in other exact sciences, including chemistry, molecular biology and physics...

When Don Swanson hypothesized a connection between Raynaud’s phenomenon and dietary fish oil, the field of literature-based discovery (LBD) was born...

Key to our culture is that we can disseminate information, and then maintain and access it over time...

This book places IT in perspective by tracing its development through time, covering its origins in business, the massive expansion of the role of IT at the end of the 20th century, the growth of the internet, and the successes and failures of companies involved in this development...

Lotus Notes and Domino R6 Development Unleashed provides expert insight and authoritative advice on all of the core features of Lotus Notes and Domino development...

Machine Translation (MT) is both an engineering technology and a measure of all things to do with languages and computers—whenever a new theory of language or linguistics is offered, an important criteria for its success is whether or not it will improve machine translation...

This book covers the topics of maintainability, maintenance, and reliability for the first time within a single source...

'The Make or Break Issues in IT Management' covers all aspects of IT project management such as the way to achieve maximum benefits from the investment...

Having an online presence is essential for most businesses these days...

'Making IT Count: from strategy to implementation' focuses on the practical elements of delivering Information Technology strategy...

If you need quick, targeted baseline knowledge about using technology for teaching and learning, Making Sense of Online Learning is for you...

In the network economy almost every organization depends on perfect IT facilities...

Offering a structured approach to handling and recovering from a catastrophic data loss, this book will help both technical and non-technical professionals put effective processes in place to secure their business-critical information and provide a roadmap of the appropriate recovery and notification steps when calamity strikes...

As the world economy becomes more interdependent and competition for business continues to be more globally oriented, it has become necessary to address the issues of IT management from a broader global focus...

"The digital business world is undergoing phenomenal and sometimes turbulent changes...

Text covers legal and economic issues affecting rights of access and use for intellectual property and knowledge assets, with special emphasis on computer software, Internet content, and digital media...

This guide presents the most current research and findings about the challenges governments around the world are now placing on small business IT entrepreneurs and how they are providing increased resources to support this emphasis...

Managing Successful IT Outsourcing Relationships is a comprehensive guide on all the aspects of IT outsourcing, and is highly commendable for practitioners, researchers, policy makers and consultants alike...

Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades is the perfect book for technology managers who want a rational guide to evaluating the business aspects of various possible technical solutions...

Virtual collaborative team environments face unique challenges because their communication is not face-to-face...

If you love Manga, you’ll eat Manga For Dummies, right up...

The classical factory fades into history as production plants today develop into modern service centers...

The digital age of art has made it easier than ever for an artist to change what his work will look like when complete...

Measuring Computer Performance sets out the fundamental techniques used in analyzing and understanding the performance of computer systems...

User identification and authentication are essential parts of information security...

This book gives an analysis of Hertz's posthumously published Principles of Mechanics in its philosophical, physical and mathematical context...

This book provides important background on the world of metadata (data about data) through a series of reports written by implementers in the field...

Micro-independent software vendors, or micro-ISVs, have become both a major source of applications and a realistic career alternative for IT professionals...

With today's fast pace of innovation in networking and on the Internet, new technical terms appear constantly...

Computers--and the community of people that surrounds them--do an excellent job of generating jargon...

Middleware is a critical foundation needed to leverage the development of a wide range of mobile and ubiquitous applications...

Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar has been receiving increasing attention from researchers, practitioners, and funding agencies...

Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your personal representative, working autonomously through networks...

This book draws together papers presented at the IFIP/IEEE Sixth Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications...

The debut of small, inexpensive, yet powerful portable computers has coincided with the exponential growth of the Internet, making it possible to access computing resources and information at nearly any location at almost any time...

This book provides new insight into the structure and dynamics of the mobile services industry by combining novel ideas from complexity theory, from the research of vertical integration strategies and from the theories of networked organizations...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2004, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2004...

Information fusion techniques and aggregation operators produce the most comprehensive, specific datum about an entity using data supplied from different sources, thus enabling us to reduce noise, increase accuracy, summarize and extract information, and make decisions...

All manner of models are used to describe, simulate, extrapolate, and ultimately understand the function of dynamic systems...

Modeling with Data fully explains how to execute computationally intensive analyses on very large data sets, showing readers how to determine the best methods for solving a variety of different problems, how to create and debug statistical models, and how to run an analysis and evaluate the results...

The application of modelling and simulation is unconstrained by discipline boundaries...

In Models of Computation: Exploring the Power of Computing, John Savage re-examines theoretical computer science, offering a fresh approach that gives priority to resource tradeoffs and complexity classifications over the structure of machines and their relationships to languages...

Deciding which coding scheme to employ, how to design a new scheme, or how to improve an existing system? This summary of modern iterative coding makes the decision more straightforward by presenting the techniques to analyse and design practical iterative coding systems...

The volume "Modern Information Processing: From Theory to Applications," edited by Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Giulianella Coletti and Ronald Yager, is a collection of carefully selected papers drawn from the program of IPMU'04, which was held in Perugia, Italy...

Multi-Agent Systems are a promising technology to develop the next generation open distributed complex software systems...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany, in September 2007, co-located with NetObjectDays (NODe 2007)...

Where do you go to grow spiritually? A church? A monastery? India? Tibet? What about the heart of corporate multinationalism? Mystic Microsoft demonstrates that with sincerity and self-offering, God can (and will) guide one's inner growth in any setting, not just formal religious channels...

The setting for this book is the networked community...

Recent advances in sensor and computing technologies provide the impetus for deploying distributed sensing systems...

Since its founding in 1989 by Terrence Sejnowski, Neural Computation has become the leading journal in the field...

New Algorithms, Architectures and Applications for Reconfigurable Computing consists of a collection of contributions from the authors of some of the best papers from the Field Programmable Logic conference (FPL’03) and the Design and Test Europe conference (DATE’03)...

In recent years, classical computability has expanded beyond its original scope to address issues related to computability and complexity in algebra, analysis, and physics...

Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools and the software to parse automatically...

New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval presents an exciting new direction for research into cognitive oriented information retrieval (IR) research, a direction based on an analysis of the user’s problem situation and cognitive behavior when using the IR system...

The Wiley New Economy Excellence series has a simple aim - to help managers create and sustain competitive advantage in the new economy...

This far-reaching resource gives you an in-depth look at the technological developments fueling the drive to the realization of ubiquitous IT services...

This book provides a full and comprehensive coverage of video and television technology including the latest developments in display equipment, HDTV and DVD...

Twenty-seven weekends a year, the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference rolls into another town, featuring the world's best technical speakers and writers...

Novell GroupWise 7 User's Handbook is ideal for users providing information on the features of the GroupWise 7 client to solve collaboration and communication issues...

Novell eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services- NDS) is employed by system administrator to define users on the network and links those same users to their access rights with corporate resources, devices like printers and security policies...

There are many surprising connections between the theory of numbers, which is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, and computing and information theory...

An introduction to computer-aided system design with Simulink®: a robust, accurate, and easily used simulation tool...

This monograph is a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical and computational aspects of numerical integration...

Master the numerical simulation process required to design, test and support mobile and parallel computing systems...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Dagstuhl Seminar 03041 on Numerical Software with Result Verification held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in January 2003...

Object Oriented Simulation

José Garrido

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Object Oriented Simulation will qualify as a valuable resource to students and accomplished professionals and researchers alike, as it provides an extensive, yet comprehensible introduction to the basic principles of object-oriented modeling, design and implementation of simulation models...

The new edition of this extraordinary book depicts the creation of the world champion checkers computer program, Chinook...

Online learning is one of the most important topics in distance learning, but practitioners and researchers have experienced difficulty in defining the process...

Journalists used to rely on their notepad and pen...

Ontologies provide a common vocabulary of an area and define - with different levels of formality - the meaning of the terms and the relationships between them...

The globalization of everyday business and increasing international trade lead to a growing need to improve national and international business collaborations and transactions...

Open source software is changing the world of Information Technology...

A complete guide to the law of open source for developers, managers, and lawyers Now that open source software is blossoming around the world, it is crucial to understand how open source licenses work and their solid legal foundations...

Are you enamored with instant messaging? Would you like to learn how to create your own messaging application? This book shows you how, by dissecting Gaim the world's most popular open source instant messaging application...

The open source movement is a worldwide attempt to keep the scientific advances created by software development openly available for everyone to understand and improve upon...

Open Sources 2...

Most modern business systems include independent applications that exchange information with each other-a technique usually called enterprise integration...

OpenVMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures: Memory Management is an update
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This book comprehensively surveys the results of research investigation and technologies used to secure, verify, recognize, track, and authenticate objects and information from theft, counterfeiting, and manipulation by unauthorized persons and agencies...

Learn advanced optical design techniques from the field's most respected guide

Honed for more than 20 years in an SPIE professional course taught by renowned optical systems designer Robert E...

Managerial and information systems professionals and consultants are interested in any new system that will help make their jobs easier as well as facilitate the needs of their customers...

Despite traffic circles, four-way stop signs, lights regulated by timers or sensors, and other methods, the management of urban intersections remains problematic...

Identity management specialist Marlin B...

This book provides a seamless approach to numerical algorithms, modern programming techniques and parallel computing...

Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society examines the role of research and the production of knowledge in the information society, with special emphasis on developing areas of the world...

Clearly written and easy to use, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Handbook is your single source along the journey to compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), addressing the payment card industry standard that includes requirements for security management, protection of customer account data, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design, and other critical protective measures...

PDF--to most of the world it stands for that rather tiresome format used for documents downloaded from the web...

Following a general overview of the important performance analysis techniques, the book surveys contemporary benchmark suites for specific areas, such as Java, embedded systems, CPUs, and Web servers...

Computer communication systems and distributed systems are now able to provide an increasing range of services...

Global information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access has stimulated a need to design and model the personalized information search in a flexible and agile way that can use the specific personalization techniques, algorithms, and available technology infrastructure to satisfy high-level functional requirements for personalization...

Although the highly anticipated petascale computers of the near future will perform at an order of magnitude faster than today’s quickest supercomputer, the scaling up of algorithms and applications for this class of computers remains a tough challenge...

The computer revolution has made it easy for people with little to no technical training to use a computer for such everyday tasks as typing a letter, saving files, or recording data...

This book describes the specification and proof of a compiler for a realistically complicated assembly-level language...

Playing with Videogames documents the richly productive, playful and social cultures of videogaming that support, surround and sustain this most important of digital media forms and yet which remain largely invisible within existing studies...

Programmers who specialize in PostScript, the page-description language, now have a newly updated reference guide for LanguageLevel 3...

The PostScript language is widely recognized as the industry standard for page description...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, PAKM 2006, held in Vienna, Austria in November/December 2006...

The development of clinical computing systems is a rapidly growing priority area of health information technology, spurred in large measure by robust funding at the federal and state levels...

This text describes in practical terms how to use a computer to monitor and control laboratory experiments...

Computerized medical imaging and image analysis have been the central focus in diagnostic radiology...

Principles of Spin is an introductory book, the only requirement is a background in programming...

You’ve heard the hype about Hadoop: it runs petabyte–scale data mining tasks insanely fast, it runs gigantic tasks on clouds for absurdly cheap, it’s been heavily committed to by tech giants like IBM, Yahoo!, and the Apache Project, and it’s completely open source (thus free)...

Pro SMS 2003 is a handy reference for practical solutions and problem solving, and is ideal for experienced network administrators who want to learn about SMS...

Scientists in optics are increasingly confronted with problems that are of a random nature and that require a working knowledge of probability and statistics for their solution...

This book is the first of its kind to provide a large collection of bioinformatics problems with accompanying solutions...

Exploring state-of-the-art applications, Process Algebra for Parallel and Distributed Processing shows how one formal method of reasoning—process algebra—has become a powerful tool for solving design and implementation challenges of concurrent systems...

Today, technology has become too much a part of overall corporate success for its effectiveness to be left to chance...

In many decision support fields the data that is exploited tends to be more and more complex...

Producing 24pP Video demystifies the emerging standards of film and video production and discusses the 24p video film format to help novice and experienced filmmakers alike learn how to better use the newly available DV cameras...

Content and Content Management are core topics in the IT and broadcast industry...

Professional Verification is a guide to advanced functional verification in the nanometer era...

Jason is an Open Source interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak – a logic-based agent-oriented programming language – written in Java™...

Proof technology will become an established field in software engineering...

This collection of original essays reflects the breadth of current research in computer science...

The concepts and theories of knowledge management and networks are well documented...

qmail has quietly become one of the most widely used applications on the Internet today...

From the basics of programming in the Qshell on iSeries to complete coverage of previously undocumented topics, programmers will not only learn the Qshell more easily than they can with the Qshell manual from IBM, they will also learn practical applications of using the Qshell effectively...

Written by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, the Second Edition is completely revised to reflect the latest changes to the ASQ Body of Knowledge for the Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)...

An essential overview of quantum information Information, whether inscribed as a mark on a stone tablet or encoded as a magnetic domain on a hard drive, must be stored in a physical object and thus made subject to the laws of physics...

A self-contained treatment of the fundamentals of quantum computing

This clear, practical book takes quantum computing out of the realm of theoretical physics and teaches the fundamentals of the field to students and professionals who have not had training in quantum computing or quantum information theory, including computer scientists, programmers, electrical engineers, mathematicians, physics students, and chemists...

Quantum computationmay seem to be a topic for science fiction, but small quantum computers have existed for several years and larger machines are on the drawing table...

Quantum processing and communication is emerging as a challenging technique at the beginning of the new millennium...

The book introduces a hot topic of novel and emerging computing paradigms and architectures -computation by travelling waves in reaction-diffusion media...

This accessible text describes the process algebraic approach to the specification and verification of software and software systems using mathematical logic...

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a new approach to software development that helps companies manage large, complex software projects and save development costs while allowing new technologies that come along to be readily incorporated...

The leading guide to real-time systems design-revised and updated

This third edition of Phillip Laplante's bestselling, practical guide to building real-time systems maintains its predecessors' unique holistic, systems-based approach devised to help engineers write problem-solving software...

Real-time Systems Development is a text for computing students who want to understand more about the development of software for real-time applications, involving concurrent programming, multi-tasking, data i/o and embedded processors...

Real-time systems need to react to certain input stimuli within given time bounds...

This book collects the research work of leading-edge researchers and practitioners in the areas of analysis, synthesis, design and implementation of real-time systems with applications in various industrial fields...

This monograph deals with the description and design of digital images...

Reasoning about knowledge -- particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge -- was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers...

The book focuses on analyses that extract the flow of data, which imperative programming hides through its use and reuse of memory in computer systems and compilers...

The main characteristic of Reconfigurable Computing is the presence of hardware that can be reconfigured to implement specific functionality more suitable for specially tailored hardware than on a simple uniprocessor...

With computers becoming embedded as controllers in everything from network servers to the routing of subway schedules to NASA missions, there is a critical need to ensure that systems continue to function even when a component fails...

Striking a balance between the use of computer-aided engineering practices and classical life testing, this reference expounds on current theory and methods for designing reliability tests and analyzing resultant data through various examples using Microsoft® Excel, MINITAB, WinSMITH, and ReliaSoft software across multiple industries...

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been updated to ensure that it remains the leading reliability textbook and cementing the book's reputation for staying one step ahead of the competition...

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk deals with all aspects of reliability, maintainability and safety-related failures in a simple and straightforward style, explaining technical terms and jargon and pre-supposing no prior knowledge of the subject...

Due to global competition, safety regulations, and other factors, manufacturers are increasingly pressed to create products that are safe, highly reliable, and of high quality...

Recent decades have seen a very rapid success in developing numerical methods based on explicit control over approximation errors...

Remote sensing is a technology that engages electromagnetic sensors to measure and monitor changes in the earth's surface and atmosphere...

Remote Sensing deals with the fundamental ideas underlying the rapidly growing field of remote sensing...

Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming...

Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of an object or component through analysis of its structure and function...

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a method of remotely storing and receiving data using devices called RFID tags...

'This book will provide a refreshing alternative to many of the mainstream approaches to risk, which merely suggest the use of new methodologies...

Continuous media streaming systems will shape the future of information infrastructure...

• Real-time systems are used in a wide range of applications, including command and control systems, flight control, telecommunication systems, and online purchase payment
• Provides an accessible yet comprehensive treatment
• of real-time computing and communications systems
• Outlines the basics of real-time scheduling and scheduling policies designed for real-time applications
• Each chapter contains examples and case studies along with test exercises and solutions

If you thought Internet radio was cool, wait ‘til you experience podcasting--regular audio programs delivered via the Internet, which you can listen to when you want, where you want! Here to lead you into this brave, new world of mass audio blogging--and quite possibly change your listening habits forever--is a fun, fact-filled guide that shows you how to find, create, and distribute podcasts...

With over 13 million shipped, the Sony PlayStation Portable, or PSP, is one of the fastest selling game consoles in history...

Citrix Presentation Server allows remote users to work off a network server as if they weren't remote...

The vision of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence describes a world of technology which is present anywhere, anytime in the form of smart, sensible devices that communicate with each other and provide personalized services...

Self-stabilization, an important concept to theoreticians and practitioners in distributed computing and communication networks, refers to a system's ability to recover automatically from unexpected faults...

Got goods to sell? Then get this guide! Chances are, if something exists (and maybe even if it doesn't), it's been sold on eBay! But making sure that your items not just sell, but sell quickly, at your desired price, and without any snafus in shipping or payment takes some doing in the world's largest bazaar...

Selling is a skill...

This book draws together experts from the multimedia, the knowledge and the integrated multimedia-knowledge domains to explore how knowledge technologies can be exploited to create new multimedia applications, and how multimedia technologies can provide new contexts for the use of knowledge technologies...

Semantic-based visual information retrieval is one of the most challenging research directions of content-based visual information retrieval...

Semantics in Business Systems begins with a description of what semantics are and how they affect business systems...

Without sensors most electronic applications would not existthey perform a vital function, namely providing an interface to the real world...

"Component technologies like Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), COM and CORBA Components (CCM) have become mainstream in many application domains...

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world of cooperating services loosely connected, creating dynamic business processes and agile applications that span organizations and platforms...

As the core technical foundation for the modern services science, Services Computing covers the science, technology and business models of effectively creating and leveraging computing technology to bridge the gap between business and IT services...

The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties...

Most data from satellites are in image form, thus most books in the remote sensing field deal exclusively with image processing...

The proliferation of information housed in computerized domains makes it vital to find tools to search these resources efficiently and effectively...

The science of simulation and modeling (SM) strives to showcase the highest possible level of reality in order to determine the conditions necessary for optimal performance...

A practical guide to the specification, design, and programming of smart card systems for working applications...

The simulation of social behavior in a variety of domains is an increasingly important technological tool...

Legal and ethical issues have become a standard part of engineering and business schools' curricula...

Socially Responsible IT Management shows IT professionals how to overcome the social crisis that has resulted from the wide-spread use of information technology...

This book covers the problem of control and intelligent systems design using soft-computing techniques in an integrated manner...

The field of soft computing is emerging from the cutting edge research over the last ten years devoted to fuzzy engineering and genetic algorithms...

Probability theory has been the only well-founded theory of uncertainty for a long time...

This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications...

"Software defined radio (SDR) is one of the most important topics of research, and indeed development, in the area of mobile and personal communication...

The software industry is being inundated with important accounting and valuation questions...

For every $2 worth of software purchased legally, $1 worth of software is pirated illegally...

Engineers and scientists often need to develop software to suit their particular needs, but they do not always have the advanced programming skills that are required to do so...

"The next five years will be [...

Like virtual reality, augmented reality is becoming an emerging platform in new application areas for museums, edutainment, home entertainment, research, industry, and the art communities using novel approaches which have taken augmented reality beyond traditional eye-worn or hand-held displays...

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is now a mature problem-solving family of heuristics that has found its way into many important real-life problems and into leading-edge scientific research...

Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system...

The ongoing migration of computing and information access from stationary environments to mobile computing devices for eventual use in mobile environments, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), tablet PCs, next generation mobile phones, and in-car driver assistance systems, poses critical challenges for natural human-computer interaction...

The suite of utility applications that Unix users and administrators find indispensable--Telnet, rlogin, FTP, and the rest--can in fact prove to be the undoing of interconnected systems...

Standardized Functional Verification describes the science of functional verification that applies to any digital hardware system...

The Minimum Message Length (MML) Principle is an information-theoretic approach to induction, hypothesis testing, model selection, and statistical inference...

Learning is one of the things that humans do naturally, and it has always been a challenge for us to understand the process...

Amstat News asked three review editors to rate their top five favorite books in the September 2003 issue...

With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization's training needs...

This is the story of an extraordinary effort by the U...

"Growth, mergers, restructuring, innovation - all these important topics of today's companies cannot be implemented without a systematic approach to IT management...

"Due to the increasing importance of the intangible assets of a company, firms are now concerned with how best to manage and measure knowledge and other intangibles...

This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory...

This book gathers the latest research on the structure of computer-based systems from computer scientists, sociologists, statisticians and psychologists and combines it into a readable overview of the latest work in dependable computer-based systems...

This book grew out of work my system integration firm, Navica, performed for our clients...

In todayÂ’s fast-changing, competitive environment, having an up-to-date information system (IS) is critical for all companies and institutions...

Increasing complexity in engineering projects raises difficult challenges in industry and requires effective tools for correct-by-construction design or design verification...

Extracting content from text continues to be an important research problem for information processing and management...

The laws that govern the collective behavior of social insects, flocks of birds, or fish schools continue to mesmerize researchers...

Symbolic data analysis is a relatively new field that provides a range of methods for analyzing complex datasets...

The First and Last Word on Managing IT Security Projects As the late management guru Peter Drucker once said, "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work...

System Modeling and Optimization is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in the recent advances in these two disciplines...

System Performance Tuning covers two distinct areas: performance tuning, or the art of increasing performance for a specific application, and capacity planning, or deciding what hardware best fulfills a given role...

Computer software reliability has never been more important...