When Second Life launched in 2003. running on just 16
servers with barely 1 .ÐÐÐdedicated users, it was the
culmination of a kind of dream for me. One of the things
Td always been interested in, ever since I was a young
boy, was how we manipulate the world around us.
The world had so much stuff in it; there was always...
Creating a Winning E-Business, Second Edition provides general business students, graduate students,
continuing education students, executive education seminar participants, and entrepreneurs
with practical ideas on planning and creating an e-business. We assume that readers have
no previous e-business knowledge or experience. This book...
In 1983 I left the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) and went to Wageningen Agricultural University, where I took the chair of “Land Surveying and Teledetection”. Up to that time I had been active mainly in geodesy and photogrammetry, but at Wageningen it soon became...
The chapters in this volume were presented at the July–August 2006 NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Imaging for Detection and Identification. The
conference was held at the beautiful Il Ciocco resort near Lucca, in the glorious
Tuscany region of northern Italy. For the eighth time we gathered at this
idyllic spot to explore and...
The recent remarkable developments of interior point algorithms began in 1984 with
Karmarkar's polynomial-time interior point algorithm for linear programs using a log-
arithmic potential function and a projective transformation. The progress has been
made so rapidly and extensively that it seems difficult to get a comprehensive...
This book is the revised and extended version of a Pfr.D. dissertation submitted
to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of
California at Berkeley. Many of the ideas presented in this book have their roots in
discussions with Eugene Wong, my mentor and thesis advisor. I would like to thank
Gene...
Welcome to the world of developing web software using Node (also known as Node.js). Node is a newly-developed software platform that liberates JavaScript from the web browser, enabling it to be used as a general software development platform in server-side applications. It runs atop the ultra-fast JavaScript engine from the Chrome browser,...
This volume was primarily intended to present selected papers from the workshop on Theory and Applications of Nested Relations and Complex Objects, held in Darmstadt, FRG, from April 6-8, 1987. Other papers were solicited in order to provide a picture of the field as general as possible. Research on nested relations and complex objects...
Unified Communications and Collaboration is on the so-called “Hot List” in any forum wherein people are discussing communications and ways to better stay in touch. This book is aimed at explaining the concepts, ideas, and capabilities behind Presence, which is likely one of the least understood and most underestimated features in...
Welcome to jQuery UI Themes: Beginner's Guide. This introductory text will get you started
with developing your own themes for jQuery UI applications. Starting with the general
concepts of user interface themes, this book walks the reader through everything from
the most basic ideas in jQuery UI to more advanced topics such as icons...
PAKDD has been recognized as a major international conference in the areas of
data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). It provides an
international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new
ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all
KDD-related areas...
Artificial neural networks, or simply called neural networks, refer to the
various mathematical models of human brain functions such as perception,
computation and memory. It is a fascinating scientific challenge of our time to
understand how the human brain works. Modeling neural networks facilitates
us in investigating the...
