On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the
proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Product-Focused Software
Process Improvement (PROFES 2011), held in Torre Canne, Italy. Since 1999
PROFES has grown in the software engineering community and has become a
premium conference that brings together...
With knowledge representation we face more or less the same problem as Augustine
(354–430) when thinking about time: if nobody asks what it is, it seems
clear enough, but being asked it proves to be very difficult to provide an answer.
At the beginning of our research we thought that a solution for the problem
of...
The specifications in this book are the result of a number of case studies performed by
researchers from the Programming Research Group at the University of Amsterdam.
The primary goal was to study the use of the techniques developed by the
Programming Research Group for the specification of real-life protocols. From the
pool of...
This work embraces two heretofore distinct fields of study, knowledge management
and e-learning. In order to understand the impetus to link these two fields by a
common thread, it is necessary to understand the two fields and the focus of each.
Knowledge management (KM) has developed as a field from its roots in data
and...
After over fifteen years of research and trial and error,
micromap designs have evolved to the point where they
are slowly finding their way into mainstream statistical
visualizations. Now seems to be a good time to pull
all of the work together into a book in order to introduce
micromaps to a wide range of people interested in...
Advanced Crime Scene Photography developed over time and out of my
experiences as a crime scene investigator with a large metropolitan police
department. Like any major city, violent crime is prevalent, offering numerous
opportunities to utilize the different skills and techniques learned and
evolved through numerous schools, scene...
Currently the mobile wireless technology is experiencing rapid
growth. However the major challenge for deployment of this technology
with its special characteristics is securing the existing and future
vulnerabilities. Major security and privacy issues for standard wireless
networks include the authentication of wireless clients and...
This book will guide you through many different areas of Cocoa using easy to follow recipes. These recipes will take you through the basics of Cocoa, such as using alerts, all the way to advanced topics like layered animations and Core Image filters. By working through the recipes in this book, you will be ready to build incredible Cocoa...
This book is an attempt to bring together current research in the domain of interactive
horizontal displays. The book integrates and summarises findings from the
most important international tabletop research teams. It provides a state-of-the-art
overview and allows for the discussion of emerging and future directions in research
and...
This book presents a wide-spectrum illustration of what research in Information Retrieval
has produced or will produce in the next years. The book content includes
chapters on Aggregated Search, Digital Advertising, Digital Libraries, Discovery of
Spam and Opinions in the Web, Evaluation, Information Retrieval in Context, Multimedia...
pfSense is an open source distribution of FreeBSD-based firewall which provides a platform for flexible and powerful routing and firewalling. The versatility of pfSense presents us with a wide array of configuration options which, compared to other offerings, makes determining requirements a little more difficult and a lot more important....
