What’s a spectacular entertainment device, runs thousands of apps, connects you to the Internet, lets you take high-resolution photos and videos, handles any email you can throw at it, is a wizard at Facebook and other social networking services, lets you videochat with people across the world, opens the world of electronic...

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Faced with the steadily increasing complexity and rapidly shortening timeto- market requirements designing electronic systems is a very challenging task. To manage this situation effectively the level of abstraction in modeling has been raised during the past years in the computer aided design community. Meanwhile, for the so-called...

I’m delighted that Cengage Learning invited me to write this third edition of Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter. The earlier books, for versions X (pronounced “ten”) and 11 (pronounced “eleven”) were greeted with very positive responses from users and critics, not just my friends and...

Online auctions are an increasingly important marketplace, as the new mechanisms and formats underlying these auctions have enabled the capturing and recording of large amounts of bidding data that are used to make...

The rapid advance of technology has changed and influenced how we think about gathering digital evidence. Soon after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, many young men and women volunteered to serve their country in different ways. For those who did not choose the military, options included...

Welcome to The Internet For Dummies, 12th Edition. The Internet has become so interwoven in today’s life — work, school, politics, and play — that ignoring it is no longer an option. This book describes what you do to become an Internaut (someone who navigates the Internet with skill) — how to get started, what...

Competing in today's world requires a greater emphasis on strategy, long-range planning, and decision making, and this is why businesses are building data warehouses. Data warehouses are becoming more and more common as businesses have realized the need to mine the information that is stored in electronic form. Data warehouses provide...

Given Apple’s advertising budget and ubiquitous ads, plus an enormous amount of media attention, it’s still difficult to determine just what an iPad is. Is it a media player or a business machine? Does it replace a laptop? There are other tablet computers on the market, as well as “netbooks” that act like...

The FSE 2011 Program Committee (PC) consisted of...

The telegraph, telephone, radio, and especially the computer have put everyone on the globe within earshot— at the price of our privacy. It may feel like we're performing an intimate act when, sequestered in our rooms and cubicles, we casually use our cell phones and computers to transmit our thoughts, confidences,...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (PETRI NETS 2011). The Petri Net conferences serve as annual meeting places to discuss the progress in the field of Petri nets and related models of concurrency. They provide a forum for...