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Empirical Inference
Festschrift in Honor of Vladimir N. Vapnik
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book honours the outstanding contributions of Vladimir Vapnik, a rare example of a scientist for whom the following statements hold true simultaneously: his work led to the inception of a new field of research, the theory of statistical learning and empirical inference; he has lived to see the...
How to Gain Gain
A Reference Book on Triodes in Audio Pre-Amps
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The 34 chapters of the 2nd edition of How to Gain Gain give a detailed insight into a collection (54) of the most common gain producing, constant current generating possibilities, and electronic noise creation of triodes for audio pre-amplifier purposes. These chapters also offer complete sets of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The connections between economics, planning, and the environment are receiv ing increased attention among scholars and policy makers in many countries. The common denominator among these three variables is the earth's life support sys tems, the ecosystems on which the world depends. When we describe...
Handbook of Conceptual Modeling
Theory, Practice, and Research Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Conceptual modeling is about describing the semantics of software applications at a high level of abstraction in terms of structure, behavior, and user interaction.
Embley and Thalheim start with a manifesto stating that the dream of developing information systems strictly by conceptual modeling...
by Arjan Egges, Jeroen D. Fokker, Mark H. Overmars
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Developing computer games is a perfect way to learn how to program in modern programming languages. This book teaches how to program in C# through the creation of computer games – and without requiring any previous programming experience.
Contrary to most programming books, Egges, Fokker...
Parallel Programming
for Multicore and Cluster Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Innovations in hardware architecture, like hyper-threading or multicore processors, mean that parallel computing resources are available for inexpensive desktop computers. In only a few years, many standard software products will be based on concepts of parallel programming implemented on such hardware,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Wireless ad hoc sensor networks has recently become a very active research subject. Achieving efficient, fault-tolerant realizations of very large, highly dynamic, complex, unconventional networks is a real challenge for abstract modelling, algorithmic design and analysis, but a solid foundational...
Digital Holography and Wavefront Sensing
Principles, Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This highly practical and self-contained guidebook explains the principles and major applications of digital hologram recording and numerical reconstruction (Digital Holography).
A special chapter is designated to digital holographic interferometry with applications in deformation and shape...
by Vittorio Cortellessa, Antinisca Di Marco, Paola Inverardi
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Poor performance is one of the main quality-related shortcomings that cause software projects to fail. Thus, the need to address performance concerns early during the software development process is fully acknowledged, and there is a growing interest in the research and software industry communities...
Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXI
Special Issue on Keyword Search and Big Data
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the semantic Web, social networks, and multi-agent systems. TCCI strives to cover new methodological, theoretical and practical aspects...
Ontologies
A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This second edition systematically introduces the notion of ontologies to the non-expert reader and demonstrates in detail how to apply this conceptual framework for improved intranet retrieval of corporate information and knowledge and for enhanced Internet-based electronic commerce. He also describes...
Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
41st International Workshop, WG 2015, Garching, Germany, June 17-19, 2015, Revised Papers
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 41st International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2015, held in Garching, Germany, in June 2015.
The 32 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They were organized...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The Semantic Web is characterized by the existence of a very large number of distributed semantic resources, which together define a network of ontologies. These ontologies in turn are interlinked through a variety of different meta-relationships such as versioning, inclusion, and many more. This...
FME 2003: Formal Methods
International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe. Pisa Italy, September 8-14, 2003, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsofFM2003,the12thInternationalFormal Methods Europe Symposium which was held in Pisa, Italy on September 8–14, 2003. Formal Methods Europe (FME, www. fmeurope. org) is an independent - sociation which aims to stimulate the use of and research on formal methods for...