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"A good, concise computer graphics textbook covering 3D concepts, essential fundamentals theory, and easy-to-follow OpenGL practical programming in Java."Dr. Jack Bresenham, Retired IBM Senior Techni
This book constitutes the best papers of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2006, held in Setubal, Portugal, September 11-14, 2006.The 25 revised full papers
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 12 Artificial Intelligence Stream held in Milano, Italy, September 7-10, 2008.The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sc
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 8 Conference onAdvances in Information Systems Research, Education,and Practiceheld at the 20th World Computer Congress
This book presents a specific and unified approach framework to three major components: Search Engines Performance, Link Analysis, and User’s Web Behavior. The book can be used by researchers in the f
Computing is quickly making much of geometry intriguing not only for philosophers and mathematicians, but also for scientists and engineers. What is the core set of topics that a practitioner needs t
Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects,the 9thedited volume of the CoreGRID series, includes selected papers from the CoreGRID Integration Workshop, held April 2008 in Heraklion-Crete
RFID technology has been available for decades, but it is only recently that its application has become a core topic for computing. This book introduces the technologies and techniques of large-scale
This book offers a systematic approach to addressing poor performance of applications based on Oracle, and explains how the database engine processes SQL statements. Sections cover foundations, identi
Collaborative Networks: Reference Modeling works to establish a theoretical foundation for Collaborative Networks. Particular emphasis is put on modeling multiple facets of collaborative networks and
The Burrows-Wheeler Transform is a text transformation scheme that has found applications in different aspects of the data explosion problem, from data compression to index structures and search. The
Collaborative Networked Organizations represent one of the most relevant organizational paradigms in industry and services. A large number of developments in recent years have turned Collaborative Ne
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, EvoBIO 2008, held in Naples, Italy, in Ma
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2008, held in Budapest, Hungary, in Marc
Temporal logic has developed over the last?30 years into a powerful formal setting for the specification and verification of state-based systems. Based on university lectures given by the authors, thi
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is a web technique used to transfer data between a browser and server asynchronously without posting the web page to the server. "Asynchronously" implies that th
This volume collects selected papers from the past two instances of Digital Art Weeks (Zurich, Switzerland) and Interactive Futures (Victoria, BC, Canada), two parallel festivals of digital media art.
This book defines the nature and scope of insider problems as viewed by the financial industry. This edited volume is based on the first workshop on Insider Attack and Cyber Security, IACS 2007. The
Virtual reality techniques are increasingly becoming indispensable in many areas. This book looks at how to generate advanced virtual reality worlds. It covers principles, techniques, devices and math
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2008, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in Apri
Written for web developers and users with a basic understanding of the Flash interface who want to create code-free video applications that are the same quality as DVD, this guide to Flash CS3 Video c
This edited volume deals with the theoretical and methodological aspects, as well as various evolutionary algorithm applications to many real world problems originating from science, technology, busin
The advances in computing and networking have sparked an enormous interest in deploying automatic speech recognition on mobile devices and over communication networks. This book brings together academ
Artificial intelligence--broadly defined as the study of making computers perform tasks that require human intelligence--has grown rapidly as a field of research and industrial application in recent
Wireless sensor networks are currently being employed in a variety of applications ranging from medical to military, and from home to industry. Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications aims to provi
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Early Aspects: Current Challenges and Future Directions, held in March 2007 in Vancouver, Canada, c
With a primary focus on examples and applications of relevance to computational scientists, this brilliantly useful book shows computational scientists how to develop tailored, flexible, and human-eff
This book adheres to the vision that in the future compelling user experiences will be key differentiating benefits of products and services. Evaluating the user experience plays a central role, not
It is believed that quantum computers will be able to perform certain tasks breathtakingly faster than classical computers and accomplish mind-boggling feats such as teleporting information, breaking
Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms presents the subject of computational rigid-body dynamics through the medium of spatial 6D vector notation. It explains how to model a rigid-body system and how to analy
This book is primarily intended for a first-year undergraduate course in programming. It is structured in a problem-solution format that requires the student to think through the programming process,
The convergence of IT, telecommunications, and media is changing the way information is collected, stored and accessed. This revolution is having effects on the development and organisation of informa
This book introduces soft computing methods that extend the envelope of problems that data mining can efficiently solve. It presents practical soft-computing approaches in data mining, including vari
Zope is a powerful Python web application platform for rapidly and collaboratively developing complex web applications. With version 3, Zope has been rebuilt on top of a Component Architecture that co
Mobile communications and ubiquitous computing generate large volumes of data. Mining this data can produce useful knowledge, yet individual privacy is at risk. This book investigates the various scie
