This book has three editors, and all of us are involved in image processing and computer vision research.
We have contributed to the 3D imaging research, especially in the field of passive optical 3D shape
recovery methods. Over the last decade, significant progress had been made in 3D imaging research. As
a result, 3D imaging...
This cookbook is full of practical and easily applicable recipes that will teach the user how to understand and unleash the full capabilities of the new dashboard features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Starting with basic tasks to build user confidence and general knowledge, the chapters provide insight with helpful tips and related...
We are delighted lo present the ECDL 2004 Conference proceedings from the
8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Li-
braries at the University of Bath. Bath, UK. This followed an impressive and
geographically dispersed series of locations for previous events: Pisa (1997). ller-
aklion (1998),...
Pure Data (Pd) is a programming language for digital audio and more. Written by Miller Puckette in the 1990s and under active development ever since, Pd has established itself as one of the leading open-source packages for computer music, and it remains largely interoperable with its commercial cousin, Max/MSP. A Pd program,...
The Android mobile platform has quickly risen from its first phone in October 2008
to the most popular mobile operating system in the world by early 2011. The
explosive growth of the platform has been a significant win for consumers with
respect to competition and features. However, forensic analysts and security engineers
have...
Today, Java is used at the heart of the world’s largest and most critical computing
systems. However, when I joined the Java team in 1997 the platform was young and
just gaining popularity. People loved the simplicity of the language, the portability
of bytecodes, and the safety of garbage collection (versus traditional...
The first edition of this book covered the then-new Jakarta Tomcat 4. Tomcat has come a long way from
there, becoming Apache Tomcat in the process, with version 7 released in January 2011. During this
time, Tomcat has become the most popular and used Java servlet container on the market. Other open
source application servers also...
I started working with OSGi in about 2006. This was back in the days of BEA and Web- Logic. Our goal was a very ambitious one: to create a new application server profiled for a particular vertical market—financial front offices.
The journey has been a long one. But as they say, it is not just about...
As quantum theory enters its second century, it is fitting to examine just how far it has come as a tool for the chemist. Beginning with Max Planck’s agonizing conclusion in 1900 that linked energy emission in discreet bundles to the resultant black-body radiation curve, a body of knowledge has developed with profound consequences in...
Everyday people need to make decisions, and the decision makers usually face multiple,
conflicting objectives and uncertain environments. The research about uncertain
multi-objective decision making problems has been profolic. It mainly provides
decision makers with the help to find optimal solutions for many objectives under...
We wrote this book to serve the needs of not just the MySQL application developer but also the MySQL database administrator. We assume that you are already relatively experienced with MySQL. We also assume some experience with general system administration, networking, and Unix-like operating systems.
Windows Phone, updated in Windows Phone 7.5, presents an exciting opportunity for developers to
build and monetize mobile applications. It represents a major new investment into mobile computing
by Microsoft, and in many ways is a major break from the past. To build applications for Windows
Phone, it is important to understand its...
