This book will present a series of video games, utilizing Visual Basic and...

IBM Cognos TM1 is one of the most popular multidimensional analysis tools used to build collaborative planning, budgeting, and forecasting solutions, as well as analytical and reporting applications. This cube-based technology does fast number crunching at the server end and helps end customers move away from manual and tedious planning,...

With the millions of apps in the crowded Apple iTunes App Store, it can be difficult to get your apps noticed. How can you make your app stand out from the crowd and get it the reviews it deserves?  iOS Wow Factor shows you how to get noticed! It explains how to go beyond the basics and where to "break the rules"...

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The Linked Open Data Project started just four years ago in 2007. In that short time Linked Data has grown into an almost mainstream activity for many governments around the world. As of this writing, the US Government’s open data site listed twenty one countries whose governments publish open data regarding the operations of...

The area of pattern recognition and computer vision, after over 35 years of continued development, has now reached its maturity. The theories, techniques and algorithms are mostly well developed. There are a number of applications which are still being explored. New approaches motivated by applications and new computer architectures...

This book is meant as a handbook and resource guide for chemists (and other scientists) who either find themselves working alongside chemical engineers or who are undertaking chemical engineering-type projects and who wish to communicate with their colleagues and understand chemical engineering principles. The book has arisen out of...

The REX School/Symposium *A Decade of Concurrency - Reflections and Perspectives' was the final event of a ten year period of cooperation between three Dutch research groups working on the foundations of concurrency. Ever since its inception in 1983. the goal of the project has been'to contribute to the crossfertilization...

The conceptualization of a problem (modeling) and the computational solution of this problem (simulation), is the foundation of Computational Science. This coupled endeavor is unique in several respects. It allows practically any complex system to be analyzed with predictive capability by invoking the multiscale paradigm linking...

In this book, the world's leading Apple platform development trainers offer a complete, practical, hands-on introduction to iPhone and iPad programming. The authors walk through all the Apple tools and technologies needed to build successful iPhone/iPad/iPod touch apps, including the iOS 4.3 SDK, the Objective-C language, Xcode 4,...

Since the publication of the first edition of The Description Logic Handbook in 2003, the interest in Description Logics (DL) has steadily increased. This applies both to the number of active DL researchers working on DL theory and implementations of reasoning services, and to the number of applications based on DL technology. One...