The availability of geographic and geo-spatial information and services, especially
on the openWeb, has become abundant in the last several yearswith the proliferation
of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled
applications. Concurrently, the need for geo-spatial reasoning has significantly...
The most visible use of computers and software is processing information for human
consumption. We use them to write books (like this one), search for information
on the web, communicate via email, and keep track of financial data. The vast
majority of computers in use, however, are much less visible. They run the engine,
brakes,...
The Safety-critical Systems Symposium (SSS), held each February for seventeen
consecutive years, offers a full-day tutorial followed by two days of presentations
of papers. This book of Proceedings contains all the papers presented at SSS’09.
The first paper accompanies the tutorial, which addresses one of the...
CCNP Security IPS 642-627 Official Cert Guide is a best-of-breed Cisco exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP Security IPS exam. Senior security engineers David Burns,...
The Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry series continues with
its thirty-fifth volume but with the regrettable retirement of its founding
editor, Professor J.O’M. Bockris (see Appreciation on p. v).
As in most previous volumes, a series of five chapters is
presented covering both the electrolyte solution and...
Our main aim in writing this book is to make the concepts of pattern recognition clear
to undergraduate and postgraduate students of the subject. We will not deal with
pre-processing of data. Rather, assuming that patterns are represented using some
appropriate pre-processing techniques in the form of vectors of numbers, we will...
From June 12-16, 2006 over eighty scientists from around the world gathered in
Rhodes, Greece to attend the conference “20 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics in
Geosciences”. The editors of this book organized the conference. It was sponsored
by Aegean Conferences and was endorsed by the American Meteorological Society
and...
SEEING THE UNSEEN. GEOPHYSICS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY is a collection of papers presented at the advanced XV International Summer School in Archaeology ‘Geophysics for Landscape Archaeology’ (Grosseto, Italy, 10-18 July 2006). Bringing together the experience of some of the world’s greatest experts in the field of...
My coauthor Robert Caddell died in 1990. I have greatly missed interacting with him.
The biggest changes from the second edition are an enlargement and reorganization
of the last third of the book, which deals with sheet metal forming. Changes have been
made to the chapters on bending, plastic anisotropy, and cup...
Welcome to Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 20th edition. Since debuting as the first book of its kind on the market in 1988, no other book on PC hardware has matched the depth and quality of the information found in this tome. This edition continues Upgrading and Repairing PCs’ role as not only the best-selling book of...
Progress in photosynthesis research is strongly dependent on instrumentation. It is therefore not surprising
that the impressive advances that have been made in recent decades are paralleled by equally
impressive advances in sensitivity and sophistication of physical equipment and methods. This trend
started already shortly after...
Computer Science is a very young discipline compared to most others. Alan Turing
published the seminal paper of the field in 1936. Around the same time, the militaries in
Germany, UK, and US commissioned the first digital electronic computer projects. One of
these, the Colossus at Bletchley Park in the UK, was used to break the...
