This book contains 71 original, scientific articles that address state-of-the-art
research related to scale space and variational methods for image processing and
computer vision. Topics covered in the book range from mathematical analysis
of both established and new models, fast numerical methods, image analysis,
segmentation,...
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...
This landmark volume represents the culmination of over 40 years of research in the use of logic as a basis for representing and manipulating problems in the field of artificial intelligence. The use of logic as a basis for commonsense reasoning was started by John McCarthy in 1959. The collection consists of both original research and...
When asked whether I’d be interested in writing a book about the
Google phone, I immediately jumped at the offer. Although I’ve been
a dyed-in-the-wool iPhone user since June 2007 (the day it came out),
the Google phone has piqued my interest from the fi rst day that I heard
about it. Since the early rumors of a Google...
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...
On behalf of the Organizing Committees, it is our pleasure towelcome you to
the proceedings of the 8th FTRA International Conference on Secure and Trust
Computing, Data Management, and Application (STA 2011),which was held in
Loutraki, Greece, June 28–30, 2011.
STA 2011 was the first conference after the merger of the...
W elcome to yet another book on the great programming language of PHP. This book is unique in that it
focuses on higher-end materials and more advanced, cutting-edge topics. We have kept it as modern as
possible with the fast-paced world of the Internet. We take the reader from an intermediate level to a
more advanced level of this...
Apple originally introduced iOS in January of 2007 as the operating system for the
iPhone, under the original name of iPhone OS. In June of 2010, Apple renamed its
mobile operating system to iOS.
This book will walk you through the creation of your first Adobe AIR application using
the Flex 4.5 framework and...
This book contains the proceedings of two long-running events held in connection
to the CAiSE conferences relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and
information systems modeling:
• The 12th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development
and Support (BPMDS 2011)
• The 16th...
OpenGL, which has been bound in C, is a seasoned graphics library for scientists and
engineers. As we know, Java is a rapidly growing language becoming the de facto
standard of Computer Science learning and application development platform as
many undergraduate computer science programs are adopting Java in place of C/C++.
Released by...
IRFC 2011 received 19 high-quality submissions, of which 10 were accepted for
presentation at the conference and appear here. Three of these fall into the
natural language processing for IR area, one into the distributed computing
area, while the remaining six are IR papers.
The IRF Conference provides a multi-disciplinary,...
This volume contains the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics 2011 (LACL 2011), held June 29-
July 1, 2011 in Montpellier, France. The LACL conferences aim at providing a
forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal
and logical aspects of...
