Since the World Wide Web became widely available in the
mid 1990s, Web-based applications have developed rapidly.
The Web has come to be used by a range of people for many
different purposes, including online banking, e-commerce,
distance education, social networking, data sharing, collaborating
on team projects, and...
We are deluged by data—scientific data, medical data, demographic data, financial
data, and marketing data. People have no time to look at this data. Human
attention has become a precious resource. So, we must find ways to automatically
analyze the data, to automatically classify it, to automatically summarize it, to...
On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. As
with many things, the test was purely accidental. Graham spilled acid on his leg, and
Watson, his assistant, heard his call for help through the telephone. So, what has changed
over the last 129 years? It would be easier to discuss what hasn’t...
In the five years since the first edition was published,
Microsoft has made impressive progress in building out its
data warehousing and business intelligence tools suite. It is
gratifying to those of us who work in this space to see the
steady commitment that Microsoft has made to provide
usable, professional quality tools. During...
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...
Train. Coffee shop. Soccer field. Now you can connect, collaborate, and get things done—virtually anywhere—using Microsoft Office 365. Guided by business productivity expert Katherine Murray, you’ll get a running start with Office 365 cloud-based business services. And you’ll take wing as you learn best...
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...
This is the joint post-proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High
Performance Computing (ISHPC-VI) and the First International Workshop on
Advanced Low Power Systems 2006 (ALPS2006). The post-proceedings also
contain the papers presented at the Second HPF International Workshop: Experiences
and Progress (HiWEP2005) and the...
Many of us wish to create our own video games. For some, gaming is a hobby, and
for others it is something fun to participate in casually. But for the rest of us,
gaming and the dream of making our own games is more like a passion. Chances
are, if you’ve purchased this book, you are looking to turn your desire and passion
into...
As far as I know, the systematic study on chalcogenide glasses as semiconductors was initiated
around the 1950s by a research group headed by B.T. Kolomiets of the Ioffe Physico-Technical
Institute. During the half-century that followed, amorphous semiconductors have acquired
their own citizenship as an unchallenged, independent area of...
This volume contains the proceedings of the 15th International conference on
Financial Cryptography and Data Security, held at the Bay Gardens Beach
Resort, St. Lucia, February 28–March 4, 2011.
Financial cryptography and data security (FC) is a well-established international
forum for research, advanced development,...
This Seventh Edition of Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects is appearing near to the 50th anniversary of the founding of neurochemistry as a discipline. This seems an appropriate time to examine the progress of neurochemistry and of this book. To make this brief, we will look at only two topics, which may be...
