Gradle is a flexible yet model-driven JVM-based build tool. Gradle acknowledges and improves on the very best ideas from Make, Ant, Ivy, Maven, Rake, Gant, Scons, SBT, Leinengen, and Buildr. The best-of-breed features previously...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2011). TACAS 2011 took place in Saarbr¨ucken, Germany, March 28–31, 2011, as part of the 14th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2011), whose...

The original (and key) innovation of Dashboard Design was to bring together the flexibility, power and ubiquity of Excel with the visualization of Flash. This meant that a whole new group of people (basically anyone who understood Excel formulas) could produce sophisticated Flash animations. Over the years, this has led to an incredible array...

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Parallel programming truly redefines the programming model for multicore architecture, which has become commonplace. For this reason, parallel programming has been elevated to a core technology in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. In this version of the .NET Framework, the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and the System.Threading.Tasks...

operator interpolation techniques including a non-Lagrange...

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Linear Programming deals with the problem of minimizing or maximizing a linear function in the presence of linear inequalities. Since the development of the simplex method by George B. Dantzig in 1947, linear programming has been extensively used in the military, industrial, governmental, and urban planning fields, among others. The...

This monograph presents a framework for modelling, specifying and verifying systems composed of real-time discrete event processes. A discrete event system consists of the plant (the object to be controlled) and a controller. For example, the plant might consist of machines, robots and conveyors on the factory floor. The objective of...

This practical book is a complete guide to installing, configuring, and managing Pentaho Kettle. If you’re a database administrator or developer, you’ll first get up to speed on Kettle basics and how to apply Kettle to create ETL...

It has been my experience as a .Net trainer and lead programmer that most people do not have trouble picking up the syntax of the language. What perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level concepts of object-oriented programming methodology and design. To compound the problem, most introductory programming books and...