Object Oriented Programming is a very important aspect of modern programming languages. The basic principles of Object Oriented Programming are relatively easy to learn. Putting them together into working designs can be challenging.
This book makes programming more of a pleasure than a chore using powerful Python 3 object-oriented...
READINGS in Multimedia Computing is a collection of seminal research papers culled from the literature of the last ten years. Although the origins of multimedia computing and networking can be traced back to the development of systems such as the AT&T Picturephone in the late 1960s, it wasn't until the 1990s that the field came into its own....
Discovering Geometry is designed so that you can be actively engaged as you
learn geometry. In this book you "learn by doing." You will leam to use the tools
of geometry and to perform geometry investigations with them. Many of the
investigations are carried out in small cooperative groups in which you jointly
plan...
Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common hand problem, affecting as much as
5% of the adult population; yet in the large majority of cases, the condition is idiopathic.
While surgical treatment often results in improvement, residual loss of function
and some persistence of symptoms are common. Clinicians still disagree as to...
Topology control is fundamental to solvingscalability and capacity problems in large-scale wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.
Forthcoming wireless multi-hop networks such as ad hoc and sensor networks will allow network nodes to control the communication topology by choosing their transmitting...
It was not long ago that clinicians would say,“study ed at the 1975 meeting revealed. Among them was the late complications of cancer treatments we give to one based on data collected by the Late Effects Study children? You must be joking! We can start worrying Group, an international consortium that consisted about that when we start...
This book covers the latest advances in the rapid growing field of inter-cooperative collective intelligence aiming the integration and cooperation of various computational resources, networks and intelligent processing paradigms to collectively build intelligence and advanced decision support and interfaces for end-users. The book brings a...
This book introduces new concepts for cooperative game theory, and particularly solutions that determine the distribution of a coalitional surplus among the members of the coalition. It also addresses several generalizations of cooperative game theory. Drawing on methods of welfare economics, new value solutions are derived for...
What is e-collaboration? Although this term means many things to many people, Ned Kock broadly defines it as “collaboration among individuals engaged in a common task using electronic technologies.” E-collaboration is not limited to computer-mediated communication (also known as CMC), or computer-supported cooperative work (known...
This article is an extended version of a keynote address presented at the 9th International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction held in New Orleans, August 5 through 10, 2001. The article presents an overview of issues pertaining to the development of a user-friendly information society, and introduces 3 concepts for improving the...
This book collects several contributions, written both by statisticians and medical doctors, which focus on the identification of new diagnostic, therapeutic and organizational strategies in order to improve the occurrence of clinical outcomes for Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) patients. The work is structured in two different...
