Springer London: 1778 books
Language Constructs for Describing Features
Proceedings of the FIREworks workshop
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A feature is a small modification or extension of a system which can be seen as having a self-contained functional role, such as Call Forwarding, Automatic Call back and Voice Mail in telephone services, to which users can subscribe. Feature interaction happens when one feature modifies or subverts...
An Introduction to PHP for Scientists and Engineers
Beyond JavaScript
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. —Benjamin Disraeli i. Background The purpose of this book is provide an introduction to using a server-side programming language to solve some kinds of computing problems that cannot be solved with a client-side language...
BANTAM User Guide
Biometric and Token Technology Application Modeling Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
BANTAM is the first modeling language specifically designed for applications in Biometrics and Token Technology. It represents a significant step forward for the design and implementation of biometric and related technology applications in that:
- it is very simple to learn and use;
- it offers a...
Guide to Intelligent Data Analysis
How to Intelligently Make Sense of Real Data
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Each passing year bears witness to the development of ever more powerful computers, increasingly fast and cheap storage media, and even higher bandwidth data connections. This makes it easy to believe that we can now – at least in principle – solve any problem we are faced with so long as we only...
by Hyeong Soo Chang, Jiaqiao Hu, Michael C. Fu
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences. Many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, giving an opening to the curse of...
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This accessible text/reference provides a general introduction to probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) from an engineering perspective. The book covers the fundamentals for each of the main classes of PGMs, including representation, inference and learning principles, and reviews real-world applications...
Guide to Voice and Video over IP
For Fixed and Mobile Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
This book presents a review of the latest advances in speech and video compression, computer networking protocols, the assessment and monitoring of VoIP quality, and next generation network architectures for multimedia services. The book also concludes with three case studies, each presenting easy-to-follow...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Information and communication technologies can provide new paradigms in healthcare provision. In particular, new Pervasive Healthcare technologies can revolutionise the dynamics of healthcare, enabling people to remain at home for longer, at lower costs to health and welfare organisations.
This...
HCI and User-Experience Design
Fast-Forward to the Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book consists of a series of essays which addresses the essentials of the development processes in user-experience design (UX design) planning, research, analysis, evaluation, training and implementation, and deals with the essential components (metaphors, mental models, navigation, and appearance)...
Knowledge Visualization Currents
From Text to Art to Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This text reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples from various disciplines, highlighting the important role that visualization plays in extracting and organizing the concepts found in complex data. Features: presents a thorough introduction to the discipline...
Scientific Visualization
Uncertainty, Multifield, Biomedical, and Scalable Visualization
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Based on the seminar that took place in Dagstuhl, Germany in June 2011, this contributed volume studies the four important topics within the scientific visualization field: uncertainty visualization, multifield visualization, biomedical visualization and scalable visualization.
• Uncertainty...
Guide to HTML, JavaScript and PHP
For Scientists and Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This book enables readers to quickly develop a working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and PHP. The text emphasizes a hands-on approach to learning and makes extensive use of examples. A detailed science, engineering, or mathematics background is not required to understand the material, making the book...
by Ester Martínez-Martín, Ángel P. del Pobil
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This work proposes a complete sensor-independent visual system that provides robust target motion detection. First, the way sensors obtain images, in terms of resolution distribution and pixel neighbourhood, is studied. This allows a spatial analysis of motion to be carried out. Then, a novel background...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is a combination of computer graphics and computer vision that produces renderings in various artistic, expressive or stylized ways such as painting and drawing. This book focuses on image and video based NPR, where the input is a 2D photograph or a video rather...