This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2004, held in Hiroshima, Japan in November 2004.
The 55 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 227 submitted papers. The papers are organized in topical...
Handling inherent uncertainty and exploiting compositional structure are fundamental to understanding and designing large-scale systems. Statistical relational learning builds on ideas from probability theory and statistics to address uncertainty while incorporating tools from logic, databases, and programming languages to represent structure. In...
This mathematically oriented introduction to the theory of logic programming presents a systematic exposition of the resolution method for propositional, first-order, and Horn- clause logics, together with an analysis of the semantic aspects of the method. It is through the inference rule of resolution that both proofs and computations can be...
This book explains how the performance of modern cellular wireless networks can be evaluated by measurements and simulations
With the roll-out of LTE, high data throughput is promised to be available to cellular users. In case you have ever wondered how high this throughput really is, this book is the right read for you: At...
Can drinking coffee help people live longer? What makes a stock’s price go up? Why did you get the flu? Causal questions like these arise on a regular basis, but most people likely have not thought deeply about how to answer them.
This book helps you think about causality in a structured way: What is a cause, what...
The post-genomic revolution is witnessing the generation of petabytes of data annually, with deep implications ranging across evolutionary theory, developmental biology, agriculture, and disease processes. Data Mining for Systems Biology: Methods and Protocols, surveys and demonstrates the science and technology of converting...
Visual Studio 2010 is an exciting version for the Visual Basic language, which reaches a double
digit version in Visual Basic 10. This is a phenomenal achievement for a programming language,
and it demonstrates the enormous utility that the language continues to provide, year after year.
Visual Basic has always been a premier tool for...
The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, enterprise
resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly
changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on
open architectures that continuously change and evolve to accommodate new
components and meet new...
New technology is always evolving and companies must have appropriate security for their businesses to be able to keep up to date with the changes. With the rapid growth of the internet and the world wide web, data and applications security will always be a key topic in industry as well as in the public sector, and has implications for the...
My thanks are due to the many people who have assisted in the work reported here and in the preparation of this book. The work is incomplete and this account of it rougher than it might be. Such virtues as it has owe much to others; the faults are all mine.
My work leading to this book began when David Boulton and I attempted to develop...
A constraint is a restriction on a space of possibilities; it is a piece of knowledge that
narrows the scope of this space. Because constraints arise naturally in most areas of
human endeavor, they are the most general means for formulating regularities that
govern our computational, physical, biological, and social worlds. Some...