Android is hot, and many people are developing Android applications (apps for short).
Perhaps you would also like to develop apps, but are unsure about how to get started.
Although you could study Google’s online Android Developer’s Guide
(http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html) to acquire the needed knowledge,
you...
Our interest in human–computer interaction started with our participation in the TT2
project (“Trans–Type-2”, 2002–2005—http://www.tt2.atosorigin.es), funded by the
European Union (EU) and coordinated by Atos Origin, which dealt with the development
of statistical-based technologies for computer...
The scaling of silicon technology has been ongoing for over forty years. We
are on our way to commercializing devices having a minimum feature size of
one-tenlh of a micron. The push for miniaturization comes from the demand
for higher functionality and higher performance at a lower cost. As a result,
successively higher levels of...
Where. Whether it refers to where you have been, where you are, or where you are
going, the concept of where is important. Where links data to the physical world. A
shopping list can be a very useful collection of data on its own, but that data can be
even more useful with more context. If you map the location of the stores needed for...
Bioinformatics is an emerging field in which statistical and computational techniques
are used extensively to analyze and interpret biological data obtained
from high-throughput genomic technologies. Genomic technologies allow us
to monitor thousands of biological processes going on inside living organisms
in one snapshot, and are...
Where does that kernel of inspiration come from? Does it hit you
when you are in the shower or when you are driving on the turnpike?
Wherever it takes hold of you, it marks the beginning of the process of
making a piece of art. Some artists agonize step-by-step in the creation
process. For some people the work fl ows seamlessly from...
In medicine, as in any other life sciences discipline, research should start by raising
a question (hypothesis) to solve a problem. Then the scientist should select
the most appropriated method(s) to answer the question and solve the dilemma.
The obtained intermediate and final results may answer the question or may raise
additional...
The objectives of this book are twofold: (1) for the student, to show how the
fundamental principles underlying the behavior of fluids (with emphasis on
one-dimensional macroscopic balances) can be applied in an organized and
systematic manner to the solution of practical engineering problems, and (2)
for the practicing engineer, to...
KINEMATICS is a branch of dynamics that studies aspects of motion apart from considerations of masses and forces. Essentially, Kinematics is a collection of vector/matrix methods to describe positions, velocities and accelerations of particles and rigid bodies, as viewed from various reference frames. The sub- eld of Particle Kinematics...
Advances in signal and image processing together with increasing computing power
are bringing mobile technology closer to applications in a variety of domains like
automotive, health, telecommunication, multimedia, entertainment and many others.
The development of these leading applications, involving a large diversity of
algorithms...
We are pleased to publish the significant papers accepted in the First International
Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INCT 2011).
The production and the use of newer computing devices and platforms has
led to a better understanding of the emerging computing paradigms. For many
decades, computing systems have...
Over the past decade, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have evolved
from a highly specialized niche to a technology that affects nearly every aspect
of our lives, from finding driving directions to managing natural disasters.
While just a few years ago the use of GIS was restricted to a group of
researchers, planners and...
