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Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science

Princeton Press, 2008

From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown...

Field-Based Coordination for Pervasive Multiagent Systems

Springer, 2005

More and more, software systems involve autonomous and distributed software components that have to execute and interact in open and dynamic environments, such as in pervasive, autonomous, and mobile applications. The requirements with respect to dynamics, openness, scalability, and decentralization call for new approaches to software design and...

Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER

Packt Publishing, 2008

We are starting a new era in the collaboration area. Voice and Video over IP are starting to dominate the world of telecommunications in a disruptive movement capable of changing the whole industry. The SIP (Session Initiation protocol) technology is at the center of this revolution. I believe, at present, SIP is the most used protocol for Voice...

America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia

Zed Books, 2005

This controversial book maintains that in Colombia the US has long supported a pervasive campaign of state violence directed against both armed insurgents and a wide range of unarmed progressive social forces. While the context may change from one decade to the next, the basic policies remain the same: maintain the pro-US Colombian...

Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence

Academic Press, 2009

To create truly effective human-centric ambient intelligence systems both engineering and computing methods are needed. This is the first book to bridge data processing and intelligent reasoning methods for the creation of human-centered ambient intelligence systems. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book covers topics such as multi-modal...

Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts that Work

IOS Press, 2007

The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-2007) is being held July 9–13, 2007, in Los Angeles, California. AIED Conferences are organized by the International AIED Society on a biennial basis. The goal of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) Society is to advance knowledge and...

Graph Algorithms, Third Edition (Algorithms in Java, Part 5)

Addison Wesley, 2003

Graphs and Graph algorithms are pervasive in modern computing applications. This book describes the most important known methods for solving the graph-processing problems that arise in practice. Its primary aim is to make these methods and the basic principles behind them accessible to the growing number of people in need of...

Perception-based Data Mining and Decision Making in Economics and Finance (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2007

The primary goal of this book is to present to the scientific and management communities a selection of applications using more recent Soft Computing (SC) and Computing with Words and Perceptions (CWP) models and techniques meant to solve the economics and financial problems. The selected examples could also serve as a starting point...

The Art of War in the Network Age: Back to the Future (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing Series: Intellectual Technologies Set)

John Wiley & Sons, 2016

Previous studies have looked at the contribution of information technology and network theory to the art of warfare as understood in the broader sense. This book, however, focuses on an area particularly important in understanding the significance of the information revolution; its impact on strategic theory. The purpose of the book is to...

The Subtle Art of Strategy: Organizational Planning in Uncertain Times

Praeger Publishers, 2003

"Before Jack Welch there was Ian Wilson. In his years at GE, Wilson pioneered the concept that strategists must learn to plan in the face of uncertainty....In this brilliant volume he summarizes the strategic state-of-the-art in terms that are as clear as they are practical. Nobody has said it better." - James O'Toole University of...

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Microsoft Press, 2012

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is Microsoft’s first cloud-ready information platform. It gives organizations effective tools to protect, unlock, and scale the power of their data, and it works across a variety of devices and data sources, from desktops, phones, and tablets, to datacenters and both private and public clouds. Our purpose in...

php/architect's Guide to Enterprise PHP Development

Marco Tabini, 2008

We live in a fast-paced world. Looking over the last decade, the world has changed so radically - politically, economically and culturally - that it’s difficult to believe only 10 years have passed. Technology is certainly no exception. It’s easy to overlook the huge changes in the way technology is used in our daily lives - because...

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