Before the invention of the Internet and the creation of the Web, the vast majority of human conversations were in spoken form, with the only notable, but extremely limited, exception being epistolary exchanges. Some important spoken conversations, such as criminal trials and political debates (e.g., Hansard, the transcripts of...

With the unprecedented rate at which data is being collected today in almost all elds of human endeavor, there is an emerging economic and scientic need to extract useful information from it. For example, many companies already have data-warehouses in the terabyte range (e.g., FedEx, Walmart). The World Wide Web has an estimated 800...

As we began to plan this book, we worried that it would become lost in the hundreds—no, thousands—of volumes that have been written on “Web design,” HTML, Java, XML, or any of the myriad technologies that must be understood to build successful Web-based systems and applications (WebApps). To our surprise, we...

WELCOME TO THE FOURTH EDITION OF C++ Programming: Program Design Including Data Structures. Designed for a two semester (CS1 and CS2) C++ course, this text will provide a breath of fresh air to you and your students. The CS1 and CS2 courses serve as the cornerstone of the Computer Science curriculum. My primary goal is to motivate and...

Unified Communications and Collaboration is on the so-called “Hot List” in any forum wherein people are discussing communications and ways to better stay in touch. This book is aimed at explaining the concepts, ideas, and capabilities behind Presence, which is likely one of the least understood and most underestimated features in...

Understanding Digital Signal Processing, Third Edition, is quite simply the best resource for engineers and other technical professionals who want to master and apply today’s latest DSP...

Computability has played a crucial role in mathematics and computer science – leading to the discovery, understanding and classification of decidable/ undecidable problems, paving the way to the modern computer era and affecting deeply our view of the world. Recent new paradigms of computation, based on biological and physical...

The Handbook of Research on Green ICT: Technology, Business and Social Perspectives is the outcome of various debates, discussions, investigations and actions into a vital topic of today – Information and Communications Technology (ICT) -based business activities and the environment. This handbook draws on thoughts, insights,...

Cisco^® Nexus switches and the new NX-OS operating system are rapidly becoming the new de facto standards for data center distribution/aggregation layer networking. NX-OS builds on Cisco IOS to provide advanced features that will be increasingly crucial to efficient data center operations. NX-OS and Cisco...

Sequencing and scheduling is a formof decision-making that plays a crucial role in manufacturing and service industries. In the current competitive environment effective sequencing and scheduling has become a necessity for survival in the market-place. Companies have to meet shipping dates that have been committed to customers, as failure to...

Geospatial semantics (GEOS) is an emerging research area in the domain of geographic information science. It aims at exploring strategies, computational methods, and tools to support...

Software continues to become more and more complex, while software consumers’ expectations for performance, reliability, functionality, and speed-to-market are also growing exponentially. H. S. Lahman shows how...