Google's Android operating system for phones is definitely a moving target. During the production of this book's first version, the latest Android version available on a cutting-edge phone jumped from 1.6 to 2.2. In that time, too, phones made by HTC and Motorola became exceedingly popular, and modified versions of the Android...
Linear-quadratic optimization is one of the most exciting topics in the con trol engineering literature of recent decades. The interest in linear optimal dynamical systems, and especially in those with quadratic cost functional, can be explained by both the richness of properties these systems possess, and the pragmatic value and physical...
I am are very happy to have taken part in the 12th Financial Cryptography and
Data Security Conference (FC 2008). Due to the recent growth in the number of
security and cryptography venues, the competition for high-quality submissions
has been on the rise. Despite that, the continued success of FC is attested by
the research...
IRCDL is a yearly event for Italian researchersworking onDigital Libraries-related
topics. This year the focus of IRCDL was on information access and interoperability.
In fact Digital Library systems are starting to be mature, but it is time
to give a more effective and personalized access to information to users and to
improve...
This LNCS volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the 18th
Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
(REFSQ 2012), held in Essen, Germany, during March 19–22, 2012.
Requirements engineering (RE) has long been recognized as a major factor for
achieving high-quality...
The book is about computer vision and action recognition & understanding. If you have
a basic knowledge on image processing and would like to study or to do research on
action/activity understanding and recognition in computer vision and related arenas –
then this is the book for you!
Ongoing economic challenges are affecting and impacting business and society in nearly every industry and geographical region. Taking decisive action to reprioritize the way we are doing business is a key focus for companies. Around the world, companies are taking the necessary measures that will enable us to adjust to today’s reality...
This book is intended for people building Drupal websites who would like to visualize
their content on a map. Maps are powerful and can tell a rich story. A map is instantly
readable, but at the same time almost infinitely revealing. With the rise of maps on the
Internet and now on cell phones, the way we navigate our lives has changed....
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 (O’Reilly). In 2010, Microsoft .NET 4 was released, containing the...
The 37th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2011) took place in Tepl´a Monastery, Czech Republic, during June 21–24, 2011. It was attended by 80 participants who came from all over the world not only to deliver or listen to interesting talks, but also to celebrate the 65th birthday of Ludek...
I can tell you how much I enjoy being a geek. I can tell you how fascinated I was with
the punch-cards my dad showed me back in 1985. I can tell you how I got my first computer
when I was seven. And I can tell you that I’ve loved programming since 1989. I can
tell you a great many things about all that, but I’m not sure how...
This Seventh Edition of Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects is appearing near to the 50th anniversary of the founding of neurochemistry as a discipline. This seems an appropriate time to examine the progress of neurochemistry and of this book. To make this brief, we will look at only two topics, which may be...
