XAML is ubiquitous today. Whether with Silverlight, WPF, WF, various XPS formats, or XML-based formats, XAML is being used in a whole lot of Microsoft platform- based technologies. Though based on XML, XAML is unlike most other markup languages, because it is strongly linked to CLR assemblies through its objects.
Cutting planes (cuts) are very popular in the OR community, where they are
used to strengthen the Linear Programming (LP) relaxation of Mixed-Integer
Programs (MIPs) in the hope of improving the performance of an exact LPbased
solver. In particular, an intense research effort has been devoted to the
study of families of general cuts,...
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...
If you’re reading this book, chances are you’ve already downloaded the free Instagram app for your iPhone, have snapped a few photos on your own, and probably posted a handful as well. Maybe you have some followers, maybe you don’t... perhaps you’ve found a few interesting Instagram photographers to follow and have...
Computer vision seeks a process that starts with a noisy, ambiguous signal from a TV
camera and ends with a high-level description of discrete objects located in 3-dimensional
space and identified in a human classification. In this book we address this process at
several levels. We first treat the low-level image-processing issues of...
This has been a very long journey. We found that writing this book was a challenging
task, a much harder one than we had anticipated, but there were also moments of joy
and discovery along the way! The idea for the book first came to us 18 months ago,
and many days and nights have come and gone between the first sentence we wrote
and...
Business process management (BPM) is an established research domain for computer
science, information systems, and management scholars. The record number
and wide scope of submissions to the eighth installation of the International
Conference on Business Process Management was an indication of the vibrancy
of the area and the varied...
Additives are added to food to perform different technological functions, for
example, to increase shelf life (preservatives), or to protect against rancidity
(antioxidants). The use of additives in food is controlled by separate legislation
relating to, for example, colours in food, sweeteners, miscellaneous additives
(other than...
In April 2009, one of the authors of this book, Thomas Meinl, was attending the
World Wide Web conference in Madrid, Spain. There, he gave a talk, in which he
presented the idea of Web service reservation via derivative mechanisms. During
the following discussions, it became clear that for many researchers, practitioners
and managers...
The area of pattern recognition and computer vision, after over 35 years of
continued development, has now reached its maturity. The theories, techniques
and algorithms are mostly well developed. There are a number of applications
which are still being explored. New approaches motivated by applications and new
computer architectures...
This issue consists mainly of a Special Section on “Content Protection and
Forensics” with four papers edited by Sabu Emmanuel, Mohan S. Kankanhalli,
Shih-Fu Chang, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Fulong Ma and Li Zhao. For a detailed
introduction of these four papers, please refer to the Preface written by
the organizers...
It was a real pleasure to have taken part in organizing the 10th International Conference
on Cryptography and Network Security (CANS 2011). It was held during
December 10–12, 2011, at the International Asia Pacific Convention Center in
Sanya, on the subtropical island of Hainan (China). CANS 2011 was sponsored
by the National...