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Grid Computing: Experiment Management, Tool Integration, and Scientific Workflows (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2007

Grid computing has become a topic of significant interest in the scientific community as a means of enabling application developers to aggregate resources scattered around the globe for solving large-scale scientific problems. This monograph addresses four critical software development aspects for the engineering and execution of applications on...

Expert F# (Expert's Voice in .Net)

Apress, 2007

Expert F# is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of functional programming into the hands of .NET developers. In combination with .NET, F# achieves unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity. This books serves as

The authoritative guide to F# by the...

Conceptual Modeling - ER 2007: 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling

Springer, 2007

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2007.

The 37 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on...

Game Design Workshop, Second Edition: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

There is magic in games.

Not magic like a Level 19 fi reball spell is magic. Not the kind of magic you get when you purchase a trick in a magic store. And not the kind of mystical experience that organized religion can go on about. No, games are magic in the way that fi rst kisses are magic, the way that fi nally arriving at a perfect...

Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950

Harper Perennial, 2004

A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence.

"At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.'

So begins...

The Art of Rails (Programmer to Programmer)

Wrox Press, 2008

There is a certain state of mind, a certain transient condition that arises, where everything seems to resonate and effort becomes effortless. Athletes call it being in the zone, some others call it flow. Flow has nothing to do with triumph or accomplishment; it isn’t the product of your labors. Flow is the merging of a watchmaker and his...

Essential XUL Programming

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Start building XUL-based applications with this introduction to XUL and its technologies

With so many different programming languages and operating systems, developers have been clamoring for a single "meta-language" to develop user interfaces that are cross-platform and cross-device. Mozilla.org responded by creating...

The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice)

O'Reilly, 2008

Anyone who develops software for a living needs a proven way to produce it better, faster, and cheaper. The Productive Programmer offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can adopt right away, no matter what platform you use. Master developer Neal Ford not only offers advice on the mechanics of productivity-how to work smarter,...

Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and Applications (Wiley Series in Bioinformatics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Presents algorithmic techniques for solving problems in bioinformatics, including applications that shed new light on molecular biology

This book introduces algorithmic techniques in bioinformatics, emphasizing their application to solving novel problems in post-genomic molecular biology. Beginning with a thought-provoking discussion on the...

Quick CORBA 3

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

This book collects descriptions of the Object Management Group’s most powerful new CORBA and modeling specifications into a single volume. These specifications combine to give CORBA the capabilities it needs to support advanced Internet and enterprise computing. It includes almost all of the ten specifications originally labeled CORBA 3 (most...

Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

Springer, 2008

Information technology has now pervaded the legal sector, and the very modern concepts of e-law and e-justice show that automation processes are ubiquitous. European policies on transparency and information society, in particular, require the use of technology and its steady improvement.

Some of the revised papers presented in this book...

The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

This handbook provides an accessible overview of the most important issues in information and computer ethics. It covers: foundational issues and methodological frameworks; theoretical issues affecting property, privacy, anonymity, and security; professional issues and the information-related professions; responsibility issues and risk assessment;...

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