The development of network technologies and networked services has been
tremendous the last decade and is expected to be more intensive in the near
future with the technological progress in the field of radio communications,
data communication, protocols, software engineering, applications and so on.
In this plethora of technologies,...
Welcome to the CompTIA Security+ SY0-201 Cert Guide. The CompTIA Security+
Certification is widely accepted as the first security certification you should attempt
to attain in your information technology (IT) career. The CompTIA Security+
Certification is designed to be a vendor-neutral exam that measures your knowledge
of...
Although the basic purposes of finance, and the nature of the core instruments used in
attaining them, are relatively constant, recent years have seen an explosion in complexity of
both products and techniques.
A number of forces are driving this explosion. The first is internationalization encompassing
a dramatic growth in...
For several years now, there has been a constant increase in the number of works
on UML and object modelling. However, my practical experience of training (more
than a thousand or so people trained in OMT, then UML since 1993…) convinced
me that there is still another need that is not tended to by the multitude of books...
From the moment it was published almost ten years ago, Elements of User Experience became a vital reference for web and interaction designers the world over, and has come to define the core principles of the practice. Now, in this updated, expanded, and full-color new edition, Jesse James Garrett has refined his...
Microsoft Excel is much more than just a spreadsheet. With the introduction
of the Visual Basic Editor in Excel 97, followed by the significantly
improved stability of Excel 2000, Excel became a respected development
platform in its own right. Excel applications are now found alongside those
based on C++, Java, and the .NET...
Recognizing patterns is at the core of man's attempts to understand the universe that we inhabit. Through the development of sensors and instruments, we have extended our ability to gather data far beyond the range and scale of man's natural senses. As a result we are now able to gather data on phenomena occurring in the far reaches...
PeopleSoft financial applications have been recognized as a leading ERP product
across a wide range of industries that help organizations automate their accounting
operations, cut costs, and streamline business processes. They offer industry leading
solutions for organizations' global needs, however complex they may be.
Human computation is a new and evolving research area that centers around harnessing human intelligence to solve computational problems that are beyond the scope of existing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. With the growth of the Web, human computation systems can now leverage the abilities of an unprecedented number of people via the...
It is a great pleasure for me to write this foreword about a book that comes out
of one of the first research projects funded by ANR, the French National Research
Agency. ANR was established by the French government in 2005 to fund research
projects, based on competitive schemes giving researchers the best opportunities to
realize...
The purpose of this book is to enable you to create well-engineered Android applications
that go beyond the scope of small example applications.
This book is for people coming to Android programming from a variety of backgrounds.
If you have been programming iPhone or Mac OS applications in Objective-C, you will...
The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest
publicly accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover
useful information or knowledge from Web hyperlinks, page contents,
and usage logs. Based on the primary kinds of data used in the
mining process, Web mining tasks can be categorized...
