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In everyday communication, Europe’s citizens, business partners and politicians are inevitably confronted with language barriers. Language technology has the potential to overcome these barriers and t
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DevOps for Developers delivers a practical, thorough introduction to approaches, processes and tools to foster collaboration between software development and operations. Efforts of Agile software deve
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Self-organizing approaches inspired from biological systems, such as social insects, genetic, molecular and cellular systems under morphogenesis, and human mental development, has enjoyed great succes
Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTiCS) delivers high-quality instructional content for undergraduates studying in all areas of computing and information science. From core foundational and
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Earth observation technology for GIS interacts with space, computer, communication, remote sensing, and information technologies, and plays an increasingly significant role in earth science studies f
The advent of powerful processing technologies and the advances in software development tools have drastically changed the approach and implementation of computational research in fundamental propert
Teaches how to write games using VB.NET, discussing such topics as GDI+, object-oriented programming, and DirectX, and includes examples of five different games to program.
This accessible introduction shows the reader how to understand, implement, adapt, and apply Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) to interesting and difficult problems. The text builds an understanding
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2017 titled Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, and Education, held in Gdansk and Sopot, Po
This edited volume presents the latest high-quality technical contributions and research results in the areas of computing, informatics, and information management. The contents comprise select procee
This text reviews the fundamental theory and latest methods for including contextual information in fusion process design and implementation. Chapters are contributed by the foremost international exp
This textbook addresses the conceptual and practical aspects of the various phases of the lifecycle of service systems, ranging from service ideation, design, implementation, analysis, improvement and
This brief reviews current research on magnetic skyrmions, with emphasis on formation mechanisms, observation techniques, and materials design strategies. The response of skyrmions, both static and dy
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational and Information Technologies in Science, Engineering and Education, CITech 2015, held in Almaty, Kaz
???This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB), complied by the Centre for Research and Innovation in Translation and Technologies (CRITT).
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This SpringerBrief explores graphical password systems and examines novel drawing-based methods in terms of security, usability, and human computer-interactions. It provides a systematic approach for
This book contains innovative research from leading researchers who presented their work at the 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KE
ActionScript 3 is a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and m
Biological and biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our ability to analyse, process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data. The impr
Practical Oracle Database Appliance is a hands-on book taking you through the components and implementation of the Oracle Database Appliance. Learn about architecture, installation, configuration, and
Protecting Oracle Database 12c helps you solve the problem of maximizing the safety, resilience, and security of an Oracle database whilst preserving performance, availability, and integration despite
Remote sensing has revolutionized the scientific study of the Earth by enabling measurements of more detailed and hitherto unexplored phenomena with spatially-extensive and global perspectives. Variou
This brief investigates spectrum efficient and energy efficient strategies, known as cognitive radio networks (CRNs), to ensure secure cooperation between licensed and unlicensed users. The authors ad
Describes the features of the Python programming language's networking capabilities, covering such topics as sockets, network servers, Web client access, HTML and XHTML parsing, email composition, and
This volume provides the audience with an updated, in-depth and highly coherent material on the conceptually appealing and practically sound information technology of Computational Intelligence applie
