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Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) has attracted great research interest in recent years. A Mobile Ad Hoc Network is a self-organizing multi-hop wireless network where all hosts (often called nodes) part
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This book deals with key issues in the emerging interdisciplinary area involving cellular systems, computational modelling, and biologically inspired computing. This highly multidisciplinary book offe
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This book presents the most recents developments in the modelling of degradations (of thermo-chemo-mechanical origin) and of bifurcations and instabilities (leading to localized or diffuse failure mod
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 Krakow, Poland i
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Time-series data--data arriving in time order, or a data stream--can be found in fields such as physics, finance, music, networking, and medical instrumentation. Designing fast, scalable algorithms f
This book presents a framework for communication intensive autonomous agents inspired from the immune system. With the rapid increase of computational power and networking technology similarity betwee
In any serious engineering discipline, it would be unthinkable to construct a large system without having a precise notion of what is to be built and without verifying how the system is expected to fu
A practical introduction to the technology of storage networks emphasizes its applications in the areas of video and music production, medical diagnostic imaging, GIS, and other nontraditional users,
In recent years probabilistic graphical models, especially Bayesian networks and decision graphs, have experienced significant theoretical development within areas such as artificial intelligence and
This guide explains how to create sophisticated 2D computer games for the Web and the desktop using high performance Java techniques. The author introduces a Swing-based animation library, describes a
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* PHP is the leading programming language for developing dynamic web applications. The simplicity of PHP, the ease of development, a large community, and the expansive repository of open source PHP li
* This book appeals to a professional audience: Writers, database administrators, developers, and production staff, all of which have to capture or emit XML from existing documents or databases. * De
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Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is the definitive collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. This fasci
The first book to integrate various model-based software specification approaches. The integration approach is based on a common semantic domain of abstract systems, their composition and development.
This volume contains a collection of papers that provides a unique, novel and up-to-date overview of how software agents technology is being applied in very diverse problems in health care, ranging fr
Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals: Applications to H.264 and Beyond captures recent advances in motion compensation for efficient video compression. This book investigates line
After two decades of research and development, elliptic curve cryptography now has widespread exposure and acceptance. Industry, banking, and government standards are in place to facilitate extensive
For the first time, a comprehensive collection of the latest developments in scripting and representation languages for life-like characters. The text introduces toolkits for authoring animated charac
Discusses the design and development of a Flash game, covering such topics as character animation, sound, friction and collision detection, gravity and physics, and control.
Offers a tutorial stressing animation and Web design fundamentals while showcasing Flash's newest features, covering symbols, content management, tweening, masking, sound, actions, and actionscripting
Planning of actions based on decision theory is a hot topic for many disciplines. Seemingly unlimited computing power, networking, integration and collaboration have meanwhile attracted the attention
This comprehensive manual covers the basic core of the language, with lots of practical examples of some of the more recent and useful features available in version 5.0. MySQL database creation and
Mark d'Inverno and Michael Luck present a formal approach to dealing with agents and agent systems in this second edition of Understanding Agent Systems. The Z specification language is used to establ
This book is a solid foundation of the most important formalisms used for specification and verification of reactive systems. In particular, the text presents all important results o
This complete, technical guide details the principles, methods, technologies, and core ideas used in biometric authentication systems. It explains the definition and measurement of performance and exa
Introduces a series of effective techniques to solve essential problems in the Oracle database using PL/SQL, with a focus on the stored procedures, how to code them, and practical uses for them in the
For the author, all divisions between managers and workers (and other competing groups within an individual business "empire") are artificial distractions in which individuals within the various "trib
Designed to help readers develop the essential skills of computer animation, a hands-on tutorial combines detailed exercises and real-world case studies with step-by-step instruction to explain the an
* Written by two of the most respected members in the Photoshop community* Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout* Accompanying CD provides all the source files used in the book, plus extra
