This comprehensive compendium of algorithms and data structures covers many theoretical issues from a practical perspective. Chapters include information on finite precision issues as well as discussions on specific algorithms where algorithmic techniques are of special importance - for example, algorithms for drawing graphs, algorithms for...
Follow this handbook to build, configure, tune, and secure Apache Cassandra databases. Start with the installation of Cassandra and move on to the creation of a single instance, and then a cluster of Cassandra databases.
Cassandra is increasingly a key player in many big data environments, and this book shows you...
Mike Driscoll takes you on a journey talking to a hall-of-fame list of truly remarkable Python experts. You'll be inspired every time by their passion for the Python language, as they share with you their experiences, contributions, and careers in Python.
This IBM® Redbook will help you get started in application development with
XML, PHP, C/C++, Java™, and .NET using the free IBM database management
system offering DB2® Express-C V9. This book is organized as follows:
This book provides an authoritative review of the origin and extraction of strontium and its impact on the environment. It also presents the latest strontium decontamination and remediation strategies. Around the globe, nuclear power is being recognized as a major source of energy and is expected to play a crucial role in...
This handbook summarizes the research results on hydraulic problems in centrifugal pump design and describes the state of the art in a comprehensive way. For this 4th edition, current research results of practical relevance were included. The selection and presentation of the material was oriented towards the needs of pump...
This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive reference on the design and development of diesel engines. It talks about combustion and gas exchange processes with important references to emissions and fuel consumption and descriptions of the design of various parts of an engine, its coolants and lubricants, and emission control...
This multi-volume handbook is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference work in the field of fractional calculus and its numerous applications. This third volume collects authoritative chapters covering several numerical aspects of fractional calculus, including time and space fractional derivatives, finite differences and finite elements,...
Learn how to quickly set up the test automation tool WebdriverIO, one of the major Node.js-based test frameworks. Software testing is here to stay, and an integral part of this is test automation. Dive into the amazing possibilities that WebDriverIO offers to automate browser interactions for a user of any web application.
This book is about computational models of reading, or models that explain (and often simulate) the mental processes that allow us to convert the marks on a printed page into the representations that allow us to understand the contents of what we are reading. Computational Models of Reading
assumes no prior knowledge of the...
This pocket reference has been updated with the new PHP 8 release. It is a condensed, code-rich scripting and syntax handbook for the PHP scripting language. You won’t find any technical jargon, bloated samples, drawn-out history lessons or witty stories in this book. What you will find is a web scripting language...
