AS IPHONES AND IPADS BECOME A UBIQUITOUS part of your personal and professional life,
you become more and more dependent on their capability to seamlessly and fl awlessly interact
with hosts across the Internet or with other phones across the room. This book provides
a compilation of methods to accomplish this level of connectivity...
This work proposes a complete sensor-independent visual system that provides robust target motion detection. First, the way sensors obtain images, in terms of resolution distribution and pixel neighbourhood, is studied. This allows a spatial analysis of motion to be carried out. Then, a novel background maintenance approach for robust target...
Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of twelve persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once a hobby has become a colossal enterprise with profound impact on countries, the environment, and cultural heritage.
Approaches to building machines that can learn from experience abound - from connectionist learning algorithms and genetic algorithms to statistical mechanics and a learning system based on Piaget's theories of early childhood development. This monograph describes results derived from the mathematically oriented framework of computational...
It was 1999 when Extreme Programming Explained was first published, making this
year’s event arguably the fifth anniversary of the birth of the XP/Agile movement in
software development. Our fourth conference reflected the evolution and the learning
that have occurred in these exciting five years as agile practices have become...
For this book, the editors invited contributions from indispensable research areas relevant to "chance discovery", which has been defined as the discovery of events significant for making a decision, and studied since 2000. The chapters contain contributions to identifying rare or hidden events and explaining their significance. The...
Apply the expertise of today's leading Emergency Medicine authorities! The completely revised 6th Edition of ROSEN'S EMERGENCY MEDICINE E-DITION continues to serve as the definitive EM resource. Now with a new full-color page layout-and many full-color illustrations-it encompasses all of today's scientific and clinical knowledge,...
Core Data is intricate, powerful, necessary - and this book is your guide to harnessing its power. Core Data is Apple's recommended way to persist data: it's easy to use, built-in, and integrated with iCloud. You'll learn fundamental Core Data principles such as thread and memory management, and you'll discover how to...
Learn to create augmented reality apps using Processing open-source programming language
Augmented reality (AR) is used all over, and you may not even realize it. Smartphones overlay data onto live camera views to show homes for sale, restaurants, or historical sites. American football broadcasts use AR to show the invisible...
Since the first edition of this book in 1988, the capabilities of programmable
logic controllers have grown by leaps and bounds. Likewise, the applications
of PLCs have grown with them. In fact, in today’s increasingly computercontrolled
environment, it is almost impossible to find a technical industry
that does not use...
Apps are at the heart of Windows 8, bringing rich and engaging experiences to both tablet and desktop users. Windows 8 uses the Windows Runtime (WinRT), a complete reimagining of Windows development that supports multiple programming languages and is built on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. These applications are the future of Windows development...
You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have, and in Cucumber Recipes we'll show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once you've mastered the basics, this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing...
