An academic dynasty has come together to write an excellent textbook on information retrieval.
Stefan Buttcher, Charles Clarke, and Gordon Cormack make up three generations of stellar
information retrieval researchers with over fifty years of combined experience. Buttcher was
Clarke's doctoral student, and Clarke was Cormack's...
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond the typical project management approach to offer a set of proven business practices that can help executives, program managers, and project managers bring projects into alignment with the strategies, resources, and executive oversight of the overall enterprise. Step by step,...
This graduate-level textbook introduces fundamental concepts and methods in machine learning. It describes several important modern algorithms, provides the theoretical underpinnings of these algorithms, and illustrates key aspects for their application. The authors aim to present novel theoretical tools and concepts while giving concise...
The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial...
The Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliances (ESA) have been deployed in thousands of networks to accept, filter, and deliver email messages. The ESA is easy to deploy and its security-filtering settings are effective right out of the box. However, many organizations are looking for more from their messaging environment...
Characterization of Semiconductor Heterostructures and Nanostructures” is structured so that each chapter is devoted to a specific characterization technique used in the understanding of the properties (structural, physical, chemical, electrical etc..) of semiconductor quantum wells and superlattices. An additional chapter is...
The book before you is designed to be a complete and thorough education on search engine
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This handbook is carefully edited book – contributors are worldwide experts in
the field of data intensive computing and their applications. The scope of the
book includes leading edge data intensive computing architectures and systems,
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This volume continues the series of proceedings of the annual ADBIS conferences
in the field of advances in databases and information systems.
ADBIS, founded by the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter, was extended into
a regular East-European conference in 1996 to establish a forum for promoting
interaction and...
The 2010 Asian Conference on Computer Vision took place in the southern hemisphere, in “The Land of the Long White Cloud” in Maori language, also known as New Zealand, in the beautiful town of Queenstown. If we try to segment the world we realize that New Zealand does not belong officially to any continent. Similarly, in computer...
This book is for the SEO who already knows the basics of SEO and wants
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