Cloud Computing is emerging as a pervasive and consumer-driven utility that is attracting great interest from entrepreneurs, innovators and technology evangelists, as well as the ‘connected’ public at large. The shift from a focus upon IT, to a more assertive focus upon business, further strengthens the case for cloud adoption,...
Over the years, the field of intelligent vehicles has become a major research theme
in intelligent transportation systems since traffic accidents are serious and growing
problems all over the world. The goal of an intelligent vehicle is to augment vehicle
autonomous driving either entirely or partly for the purposes of safety,...
Just fifteen years ago, the Web was as simple as it
was unimportant: a quirky mechanism that allowed a
handful of students, plus a bunch of asocial, basementdwelling
geeks, to visit each other’s home pages dedicated
to science, pets, or poetry. Today, it is the platform
of choice for writing...
Deformable surface 3D reconstruction from monocular images is an active area of research in the
Computer Vision community. This encompasses recovering both the shape of thin objects that can
be treated as surfaces without perceptible thickness and the visible envelope of fully 3D objects.
Whereas this may seem easy for a human...
Welcome to Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures, Second Edition. This book is intended for a traditional two-semester CS1/CS2 sequence of courses. The first half of the book, intended for a CS1 class, teaches fundamental programming and problem-solving concepts using Java. The...
This astounding declaration was made by the former PepsiCo executive and
Apple CEO John Sculley, the same visionary responsible for ousting Steve Jobs
in 1985. While some traditional marketers might still agree with his statement,
today most marketing executives recognize data-driven decisions will shape
the future of...
Accessibility is a difficult concept to define. There’s no single magic bullet solution that
will make all content accessible to all people. Perhaps that’s a strange way to preface a
book on accessible practices, but it’s also a reality you need to be aware of. Accessible
practices change, technologies evolve to...
Whether responding to a tender from a potential client or pitching a new IT project to
the Board, a well-written proposal can be the difference between success and failure.
IT Project Proposals Writing to Win can help you to create high quality, persuasive
proposals that will stand out from the crowd. The author explains how to...
Microsoft Word 2010 Complete, part of the Origins Series, provides a thorough introduction of Microsoft Word 2010 skills to beginning learners. This text includes features that make learning easy and enjoyable, yet challenging for students. Students will be engaged with activities that range from simulations to case studies that challenge and...
The primary goal of this book is to present to the scientific and management
communities a selection of applications using more recent Soft Computing (SC)
and Computing with Words and Perceptions (CWP) models and techniques meant
to solve the economics and financial problems. The selected examples could also
serve as a starting point...
This is a book about connecting to the Internet as reliably as possible. This means
eliminating all single points of failure,including having just one Internet service provider
(ISP). By multihoming to two or more ISPs,you can remain connected when
either ISP (or your connection to them) experiences problems. However,there...
Clustering is an important unsupervised classification technique where a set of patterns,
usually vectors in multidimensional space, are grouped into clusters based
on some similarity or dissimilarity criteria. In crisp clustering, each pattern is assigned
to exactly one cluster, whereas in fuzzy clustering, each pattern is given a...
