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Network-Based Distributed Planning Using Coevolutionary Algorithms (Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation - Vol. 13)

World Scientific Publishing, 2004

In this book, efficient and scalable coevolutionary algorithms for distributed, network-based decision-making, which utilize objective functions are developed in a networked environment where internode communications are a primary factor in system performance.A theoretical foundation for this class of coevolutionary algorithms is introduced...

Emerging Wireless Technologies and the Future Mobile Internet

Cambridge University Press, 2011

The current Internet is an outgrowth of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) that was initiated four decades ago. The TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) designed by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn in 1973 did not anticipate, quite understandably, such extensive use of wireless channels and...

UML for the IT Business Analyst: A Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Requirements Gathering

Course Technology PTR, 2005

The IT Business Analyst is one of the fastest growing roles in the IT industry. Business Analysts are found in almost all large organizations and are important members of any IT team whether in the private or public sector. UML for the IT Business Analyst provides a clear, step-by-step guide to how the...

Understanding Wall Street, Fifth Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2009

A fully revised edition of the INVESTING CLASSIC

For over 30 years this comprehensive, easy-to-read guide has served well as the definitive reference for successful investing. Now in its fifth edition and completely updated, Understanding Wall Street helps investors prosper in today’s challenging...

Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)

Sams Publishing, 1997

Late one Friday afternoon your boss comes into your undersized cubicle and drops a new project on your desk. This project looks just like the others you have been working on except it includes ties to several databases. Recently your company decided to move away from homegrown, flat-file data and is now using a relational database. You have seen...

Turn-Taking, Fingerspelling, and Contact in Signed Languages (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics)

Gallaudet University Press, 2002

Volume 8 of the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series continues the tradition of the series with a collection of papers ranging in topics from variation in fingerspelling and the outcomes of ASL-English contact to the structure of sign language discourse, turn-taking strategies, and language attitudes. With studies in this volume from the...