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In distributed, open systems like cyberspace, where the behavior of autonomous agents is uncertain and can affect other agents' welfare, trust management is used to allow agents to determine what to expect about the behavior of other agents. The role of trust management is to maximize trust between the parties and thereby provide a basis...

Many talk about the unlimited opportunities of data and information assets. But, bad data and information can also severely hurt your business and create considerable risk. Managing risk is a new angle to selling data quality projects to upper managers who do not want to take the time to learn about the value of data quality.

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• Learn how to connect additional hardware to the Intel Galileo to easily create complex robots
• Understand GPIO pins on the Galileo and how to use them
• Control a DC...

Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere, 4e, provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and researchers with the physical principles, analytic...

Reproductive biology is the basis of species improvement and a thorough understanding of this is needed for plant improvement, whether by conventional or biotechnological methods. This book presents an up to date and comprehensive description of reproduction in lower plants, gymnosperms and higher plants. It covers general plant biology,...

We all learn - in schools, factories, bars and streets. We gather, store, process and transmit information in society. Molecular systems involved in our senses and within our brains allow all this to happen and molecular systems allow living things of all kinds to handle information for the purpose of survival and growth. Nevertheless, the...

Le Verrier was a superb scientist. His discovery of Neptune in 1846 made him the most famous...

• Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Python design patterns
• Get to know the context and application of design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture, design, and application development
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Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline, computer science stands alongside the...