Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) are the physical embodiment of machine intelligence providing a core concept for integrating various advanced technologies with pattern recognition and learning. The basic philosophy of IAS research is to explore and understand the nature of intelligence in problems of perception, reasoning, learning and...

PHP has changed the world: no other language has influenced and spurred web development so strongly. From simple home pages to social software and business applications to the largest global websites, PHP has played a leading role for years. Simultaneously, Microsoft and its Windows operating system has made computers available to all...

Microsoft’s principal data access technology, ADO.NET Entity Framework, has had two major releases as part of the .NET Framework. NET 3.5 brought us the first version of Entity Framework, which is covered in the first edition of Programming Entity Framework. In 2010, Microsoft .NET 4 was released; it contained the next version of...

Agile methodologies attack risk at its core. To identify risk early and often is the premise of agile security. Risk comes in many forms. Organizations face security threats every day. Risks are in the delivery and maintenance of the countermeasures. Agile IT Security focuses on the details of the steps in delivering and maintaining...

An academic dynasty has come together to write an excellent textbook on information retrieval. Stefan Buttcher, Charles Clarke, and Gordon Cormack make up three generations of stellar information retrieval researchers with over fifty years of combined experience. Buttcher was Clarke's doctoral student, and Clarke was Cormack's...

This book is a beginner-friendly introduction to SilverStripe and...

The important role that discrete structures plays in computer science is gaining recognition. Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001), the latest curriculum recommendation for computer- related education, was a joint undertaking of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers/Computer Society (IEEE/CS) and the Association for...

• The course should be up-to-date and cover a broad selection of topics from a...

Welcome to Blender For Dummies, 2nd Edition, your introduction to one of the most well-known free programs for creating 3D computer graphics. With Blender, you can create characters, props, environments, and nearly anything else your imagination can generate. You can then take those creations and use them in Blender to tell a story in an...

Management information systems produce the information that managers use to make important strategic decisions. They formthe basis for management reports, both financial and non-financial, and as such they are a vital component of modern business management. Few managerial decisions are taken without consulting the data captured by...