Themes are among the most powerful and flexible features available when it comes to the presentation of a website. The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design, which, when done correctly, allows developers and designers to customize and micromanage each and every aspect of the site. Furthermore, the Drupal theming system and its...

Despite means of fault prevention such as extensive testing or formal verification, errors inevitably occur during system operation. To avoid subsequent system failures, critical distributed systems, therefore, require engineering of means for fault tolerance. Achieving fault tolerance requires some redundancy, which, unfortunately,...

The 37th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2011) took place in Tepl´a Monastery, Czech Republic, during June 21–24, 2011. It was attended by 80 participants who came from all over the world not only to deliver or listen to interesting talks, but also to celebrate the 65th birthday of Ludek...

Textbook surgical education usually follows a predictable format involving fairly in-depth descriptions of various pathologic conditions including etiology, pathophysiology, symptomatology, diagnostic procedures, conservative management, and surgical treatment. Although there is variation in the emphasis different books place on each...

The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 book utilizes an innovative step-by-step pedagogy, which integrates demonstrations of professional-quality programs with in-depth discussions of programming concepts and techniques and opportunities for hands-on practice...

The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 book utilizes an innovative step-by-step pedagogy, which integrates demonstrations of professional-quality programs with in-depth discussions of programming concepts and techniques and opportunities for hands-on practice...

the emerging areas of grid computing, cloud computing, and pervasive computing. The 6th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2011, was held in Oulu, Finland, during May 11-13, 2011. This volume contains the full papers that were presented at the conference. This program was preceded by one day of workshops, a...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (PETRI NETS 2011). The Petri Net conferences serve as annual meeting places to discuss the progress in the field of Petri nets and related models of concurrency. They provide a forum for...

The purpose of Essentials of Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft® Excel is to give students, primarily in the fields of business administration and economics, an introduction to the field of statistics and its many applications. The text is applications oriented and written with the needs of the nonmathematician in mind; the...

The present volume is dedicated to aspects of algorithmic work in bioinformat ics and computational biology with an emphasis on string algorithms that play a central role in the analysis of biological sequences. The papers included are a selection of articles corresponding to talks given at one of two meetings spon sored by The Royal...