The Symposium is for engineers, managers and academics in the field of system safety, across all industry sectors, so the papers making up this volume offer a wide-ranging coverage of...

During that period of time there have been a number of new...

For a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe - from the solar system through the milky way to clusters of galaxies all the way to cosmology - these edited lecture notes are perhaps among the most concise and also among the most critical ones: Astrophysics has not yet stood the redundancy test of laboratory physics, hence...

This is a treatise devoted to the foundations of quantum physics and the role that causality plays in the microscopic world governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. There is no sharp dividing line between physics and philosophy of physics. This is especially true for quantum physics where debate on its interpretation and the status of the...

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Windows Azure is a highly scalable, robust, and cost-effective solution for the deployment of applications and services—for organizations and enterprises of all sizes, and in all types of markets. My task at Microsoft is to ensure that developers can help these organizations and enterprises to achieve their goals by quickly and easily...

This book has come a long way since it was first published: it was...

With the phenomenal success of Linux, companies are taking open source business solutions much more seriously than ever before. This book helps to satisfy the growing demand for guidance on how to manage open source enterprise development projects. Expert Jan Sandred...

Genetic programming has emerged as an important computational methodology for solving complex problems in a diversity of disciplines. In an effort to foster collaborations and facilitate the exchange of ideas and information related to the rapidly advancing field of Genetic Programming, the annual Genetic Programming Theory and Practice...

It’s time to capitalize on your mastery of Cocoa with Pro Objective-C Design Patterns for iOS. You’ve developed apps that impressed and performed, and now you’re ready to jump into development practices that will leave you with more effective, efficient, and professional level apps. This book is the...

Donald Lobo, Michal Mach, and I started CiviCRM almost six years ago. Back then, open source software had gained traction in the operating system arena, but the idea of an open source application designed from the ground up to meet the needs of non-profits and other civic sector organizations was pretty radical. We were convinced that there...

While this second edition was being written, Microsoft and Nokia formally announced their partnership and...