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Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and Applications (Natural Computing Series)

Springer, 2008

The laws that govern the collective behavior of social insects, flocks of birds, or fish schools continue to mesmerize researchers. While individuals are rather unsophisticated, in cooperation they can solve complex tasks, a prime example being the ability of ant colonies to find shortest paths between their nests and food sources. Task-solving...

Adaptive Business Intelligence

Springer, 2006

From the reviews of the first edition:

"In this book the authors explain the science and application of numerous prediction and optimization techniques as well as how these concepts can be used to develop adaptive decision-making systems. The book is suitable for business and IT managers who make decisions in complex industrial and...

Multi-Objective Swarm Intelligent Systems: Theory & Experiences (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2009

Recently, a new class of heuristic techniques, the swarm intelligence has emerged. In this context, more recently, biologists and computer scientists in the field of “artificial life” have been turning to insects for ideas that can be used for heuristics. Many aspects of the collective activities of social insects,...

Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer

Manning Publications, 2003

"The technical information is dead on...I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone."

This book is a fast-paced but thorough guide to the effective use of Eclipse's features and plugins for real-world Java development. Interesting examples demonstrate how to use Eclipse to build, test, and debug applications using...

Android Developer Tools Essentials: Android Studio to Zipalign

O'Reilly, 2013

Android development can be challenging, but through the effective use of Android Developer Tools (ADT), you can make the process easier and improve the quality of your code. This concise guide demonstrates how to build apps with ADT for a device family that features several screen sizes, different hardware capabilities, and a varying...

Automated Scheduling and Planning: From Theory to Practice (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2013

Solving scheduling problems has long presented a challenge for computer scientists and operations researchers. The field continues to expand as researchers and practitioners examine ever more challenging problems and develop automated methods capable of solving them. This book provides 11 case studies in automated scheduling, submitted by...

Metaheuristics: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series)

Springer, 2007

Metaheuristics has grown and continues to grow steadily. Seen both from the technical point of view and from the application-oriented side, these optimization tools have established their value in a remarkable story of success. Researchers have demonstrated the ability of these methods to solve hard combinatorial problems of practical sizes within...

Evolutionary Scheduling (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2007

Evolutionary scheduling is a vital research domain at the interface of two important sciences - artificial intelligence and operational research. Scheduling problems are generally complex, large scale, constrained, and multi-objective in nature, and classical operational research techniques are often inadequate at solving them effectively. With the...

Professional Java, JDK 5 Edition

Wrox Press, 2005

Java continues to be the dominant language for building server applications, and the latest update to the Java platform—JDK 5—boasts many new features, including a metadata facility, generics, autoboxing, and improved user interface performance. Building upon Ivor Horton's Beginning Java, this book provides insight into these...

Developing Enterprise iOS Applications: iPhone and iPad Apps for Companies and Organizations

O'Reilly, 2011

If you plan to develop iOS applications in a corporate setting—for internal consumption or for sale to end users—you need to read this book. Veteran developer James Turner shares best practices and lessons learned from his recent on-the-ground experience planning, building, and shipping an iOS application in an enterprise...

Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 (J2EE 1.4) Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"One stop shopping for J2EE."
– Scott Ambler, Senior Consultant, Ronin International, Inc. and Author of Agile Modeling

If Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 can do it, you can do it too...

You already know that Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 makes your enterprise services more cost-effective, more adaptable,...

JUnit in Action

Manning Publications, 2003

A guide to unit testing Java applications (including J2EE applications) using the JUnit framework and its extensions, this book provides techniques for solving real-world problems such as unit testing legacy applications, writing real tests for real objects, automating tests, testing in isolation, and unit testing J2EE and database...

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