Thank you for picking up a copy of this book. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has amazed
everyone: Amazon has made lots of friends, and all its “enemies” are too busy admiring
AWS to do much fighting back. At the moment, there is no comparable public Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS); AWS offers the services at a scale that has...
Congratulations! By reading this sentence, you are already 20 seconds closer to
learning C++, one of the most important programming languages in the world.
If you continue for another 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 40 seconds, you will master
the fundamentals of the C++ programming language. Twenty-four 1-hour lessons
cover the...
How is your website doing on the search engines? Need a little help?
Well, you’re holding the right book in your hands. This book will walk
you through the steps to achieve a targeted, compelling presence on the
major search engines. There are no secrets or tricks here, just downto-
earth, real-world advice and a clear program...
CERT® Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM) is an innovative and transformative way to manage operational resilience in complex, risk-evolving environments. CERT-RMM distills years of research into best practices for managing the security and survivability of people, information, technology, and facilities. It...
Since the first edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist came out in June 2008, we have been
encouraged by the reception the book has received. Practitioners from a wide variety of industries—
health care, energy, environmental science, life sciences, national intelligence, and publishing, to name
a few—have told...
THE TECHNIQUES DESCRIBED in this book assume a basic
grasp of 3ds Max. But with so many options to choose
from, it’s easy to get lost in all the tools, buttons, and
menus.
Not all features are created equal. This chapter goes over
the fundamentals of 3ds Max with an eye toward the
most important tools and how you...
Response to the iPhone, the iPod touch, and now the iPad has been nothing short of overwhelming. The App Store has captured the hobbyist’s imagination like no other platform in recent memory. Hobbyists have made—and will continue to make—money from their creations sold on the App Store. And we aren’t necessarily...
Linear programming finds the least expensive way to meet given needs with available resources. Its results are used in every area of engineering and commerce: agriculture, oil refining, banking, and air transport. Authors Kolman and Beck present the basic notions of linear programming and illustrate how they are used to solve important common...
The 12th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming (CP 2006) was held in Nantes, France, September 24–29, 2006. Information
about the conference can be found on theWeb at http://www.sciences.
univ-nantes.fr/cp06/. Information about past conferences in the series can be
found at...
This book focuses on key theoretical topics of computing, in particular formal
languages and abstract machines. It is intended primarily to support the theoretical
modules on a computer science or computing-related undergraduate degree
scheme.
Though the book is primarily theoretical in nature, it attempts to avoid the...
Computer science, like other mathematical fields, cannot live without a tight relationship
with reality. However, such a relationship is, frankly, not very common.
This is probably why people so enthusiastically welcome a true meeting of theory
and practice. In that sense, the coming together of XML and tree automata theory
was a...
For developers of computer-based systems, capturing and understanding the complex
functional requirements and behaviour of software components has come to
represent a considerable challenge. This book aims to equip readers with skills and
techniques which will help them to address this challenge. It does so by stressing
the value of...
