The motivation of this text lies in what we believe is the inadequacy of current frameworks to reason about the flow of data in imperative programs. This inadequacy clearly shows up when dealing with the individual side effects of loop iterations. Indeed, we face a paradoxical situation where, on the one hand, a typical program spends most of its...
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are metaheuristics that learn from natural collective behavior and are applied to solve optimization problems in domains such as scheduling, engineering, bioinformatics, and finance. Such applications demand acceptable solutions with high-speed execution using finite computational resources. Therefore, there have...
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Grid computing has become a topic of significant interest in the scientific community as a means of enabling application developers to aggregate resources scattered around the globe for solving large-scale scientific problems. This monograph addresses four critical software development aspects for the engineering and execution of applications on...
In a DATA step, you can track the execution of code within a DO group. The DATA statement has an optional argument for you to write a note to the SAS log when the DO statement begins and ends.
New SAS system options enable you to set a default record length, specify options for accessing PDF files, specify values for Scalable...
James Kelly’sLEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide, Second Edition is a fountain of wisdom and ideas for those looking to master the art of programming LEGO’s MINDSTORMS NXT robotics kits. This second edition is fully-updated to cover all the latest features and parts in the NXT 2.0 series. It also...
Everything You Need to Help Your Company and Your Career as a Successful Project Manager
Effective project management is valuable in any fieldand will enhance your career at every level! Project Management provides a step-by-step, all-inclusive introduction to the tools and...
On May 3, 1946, in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, a seventeen-year-old black boy was scheduled for execution by electric chair. Willie Francis had been charged with murder; his trial had been brief; his death sentence never in doubt. When the executioners flipped the switch, Willie screamed and writhed as electricity coursed through his body....
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