Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing begins with the introduction of multimedia information applications, the need for the development of the multimedia database management systems (MDBMSs), and the important issues and challenges of multimedia systems. The temporal relations, the spatial relations, the spatio-temporal...
Learn how to extend and customize Calc, the OpenOffice.org spreadsheet, using OOoBasic, OOo's built-in programming language. You don't need to be a developer to create useful and powerful routines and applications. This well structured and practical tutorial will walk you though every step, and inspire you with great ways to save time and increase...
The last couple of years have seen big changes in server-side web programming. Now it's the client's turn; Dojo is the toolkit to make it happen and Mastering Dojo shows you how.
Dojo is a set of client-side JavaScript tools that help you build better web applications. Dojo blurs the line between local, native applications and browser based...
Every industrial engineer should purchase Using Hoshin Kanri to Improve the Value Stream. It provides the key to using the Hoshin Kanri framework and integrating it with the foundations of industrial engineering.
— Marjorie Koch, President, Lean Division, Institute of Industrial Engineers
The Practical, Example-Rich Guide to Building Better Systems, Software, and Hardware with DFSS
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) offers engineers powerful opportunities to develop more successful systems, software, hardware, and processes. In Applying Design for Six Sigma to Software and Hardware Systems, two...
BIS 2011 held in Pozna´n, Poland, was the 14th in a series of international conferences
on business information systems. The BIS conference series has been
recognized by professionals from the very beginning as a forum for the exchange
and dissemination of topical research in the development, implementation, application
and...
The International Workshop on Complex Networks—CompleNet
(www.complenet.org)—was initially proposed in 2008 with the first workshop
taking place in 2009. The initiative was the result of efforts from researchers
from the Bio-Complex Laboratory in the Department of Computer Sciences at
Florida Institute of...
The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir was the first military clash between two nuclear-armed powers since the 1969 Sino-Soviet war. Kargil was a landmark event not because of its duration or casualties, but because it contained a very real risk of nuclear escalation. Until the Kargil...
Learn to build a simple data-driven mobile game application using the power of Xamarin.Forms, ASP.NET, the Web API, and SignalR with this short book. In it you will build a cross-platform mobile application that targets both iOS and Android, connect your app with your database using Entity Framework, and implement real-time...
A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classifying program phrases according to the kinds of values they compute. The study of type systems--and of programming languages from a type-theoretic perspective--has important applications in software engineering, language design,...
