This book is about how to model software systems and how to use those models. It is rooted in that emerging intellectual "ecosystem" comprising the various networks (the Internet, intranets, extranets, and so on), distributed objects, piecemeal development based on short development cycles, and something called...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI-2011) which was held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia, during June 27 - July 1, 2011. This was the fourth conference in the series. The first three...

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Selected Readings on Telecommunications and Networking supplements course instruction and student research with quality chapters focused...

This book presents in-depth surveys and systematic discussions on models, algorithms and applications for link mining. Link mining is an important field of data mining. Traditional data mining focuses on "flat" data in which each data object is represented as a fixed-length attribute vector. However, many real-world data sets are...

Generation Y is creating startups at an unprecedented rate, and their approach to business is unlike anything you’ve seen. The generation described by the media as spoiled, entitled, even narcissistic, is proving...