The 97 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 304 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed AI and multi-agent...

The 89 revised full papers and 70 revised short papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 4 invited speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 689...

In test driven development, you first write an executable test of what your application code must do. Only then do you write the code itself and, with the test spurring you on, you improve your design. In acceptance test driven development (ATDD), you use the same technique to implement product features, benefiting from iterative development,...

Today's DBAs need to know how to work with users, management, and key stakeholders to identify organizational needs and leverage the technology to meet them. Covering intermediate to advanced subjects, such as performance tuning, this book shows you how to build a...

Computer security was once thought to be the exclusive province of somber men in dark suits and nerdy, whey-faced hackers. While both of these archetypes are still well-represented in the computing industry, the last two years have witnessed an explosive growth in the number of organizations that are seeking to boost the...