Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services gives a thorough explanation of the state-of-the-art in Context-Aware-Services (CAS). The authors describe all major terms and components of CAS, defining context and discussing the requirements of context-aware applications and their use in 3rd generation services. The text covers...
The authoritative guide to building large-scale applications with JBuilder®
JBuilder is a tool designed by Java developers for Java developers. JBuilder developers need a guide that delves into the more powerful techniques that are required to build enterprise-strength applications.
This is a book about Internet portals in higher education. It grew out of the editors’ sense that the application of portal technologies to college and university needs is a much broader topic than can be addressed in a brief article or conference presentation.
Portals present unique strategic challenges in the...
The most widely cited reference on task analysis has been Task-Analysis for Human- Computer Interaction, edited by Dan Diaper, who must take the main blame for this new Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction, as his motive was in part to stem the trickle of requests from around the world for chapters from the...
In this book we focus on the basic signal processing that underlies current and future ultra wideband systems. By looking at signal processing in this way we hope this text will be useful even as UWB applications mature and change or regulations regarding ultra wideband systems are modified. The current UWB field is extremely...
Over the past 20 years UWB has been used for radar, sensing, military communications and niche applications. However, since the FCC ruling in 2002, which allowed the commercial operation of UWB for data communications, UWB has changed dramatically.
Implementation oriented, this volume explores the fundamentals of UWB technology with...
A practical, programming-centered approach to component-based software development
Component-oriented programming (COP) is rapidly becoming a mainstream programming paradigm, offering higher reusability and better modular structure with greater flexibility than object-oriented or library-based programming approaches. Component-Oriented...
"This book is like a good tour guide.It doesn't just describe the major attractions; you share in the history, spirit, language, and culture of the place." —Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University
Since its birth in 1996, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has grown up. As a richer, much more robust...
‘We’re moving away from the business of ears to the business of eyes.’
Move over Bill Gates, stand aside Steve Jobs, said the industry pundits after CeBIT 1998, the famous trade conference. They’d just seen Nokia’s Communicator 9110, a mobile phone with dazzling capabilities, but what really...
For years, industry has predicted and anticipated the arrival of multimedia services via the network. From all indications, this new age is upon us now especially with the emergence of the Internet and the huge potential of e-commerce. The study of multimedia transmission over various network technologies has been the subject of...
Today truly useful and interactive graphics are available on affordable computers. While hardware progress has been impressive, widespread gains in software expertise have come more slowly. Information about advanced techniquesbeyond those learned in introductory computer graphics textsis not as easy to come by as inexpensive hardware. ...
