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Numerical analysis is the branch of mathematics that is used to find approximations to difficult problems such as finding the roots of non-linear equations, integration involving complex expressions and solving differential equations for which analytical solutions do not exist. It is applied to a wide variety of disciplines such as...

Don’t be fooled: Just because the Droid 2 is a smartphone doesn’t mean that it’s harboring some form of insidious intelligence. There’s no alien brain in the device. It isn’t going to take over the world, though it can intimidate you — that is, until you understand and accept that it’s your...

Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional, enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography,...

The development of pattern recognition methods on the basis of so-called Markov models is tightly coupled to the technological progress in the field of automatic speech recognition. Today, however, Markov chain and hidden Markov models are also applied in many other fields where the task is the modeling and analysis of chronologically...

Randomization has become a standard approach in algorithm design. Efficiency and simplicity are the main features of randomized algorithms that often made randomization a miraculous springboard for solving complex problems in various applications. Especially in the areas of communication, cryptography, data management, and discrete...

In this book, I’ve tried to maintain a good balance between the basics that every...

This book is an indispensable resource for everyone involved in the hiring process. That includes managers, human resources (HR) personnel, and most of all, the front line hiring folks. If you review résumés, conduct phone or on-site interviews, or if you are responsible for making offers to candidates, this book is...

On the evening of 23 June 1995, the well-known painter Franz Hutting (not his real name) sent a digitized copy of his latest masterpiece Barricade from his studio in New York to his friend Percival Bartlebooth in Paris. In itself, this data transmission was not different from the millions of other, similar transmissions taking place all over...

The 16th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2011) was held during June 28–30, 2011, at the University of Alicante, Spain. Since the first NLDB conference in 1995, the main goal has been to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of research on the integration of...

Flash is one of the most pervasive technologies on the Web, delivering interactive and immersive multimedia. Leading corporate Web sites use its streamlined graphics to communicate their brands, major motion picture studios promote theatrical releases with Flash video, and online news and educational sites provide rich user...