As semantic technologies prove their value with targeted applications, there are increasing opportunities
to consider their application in social contexts for knowledge, learning, and human development.
Semantic Web and Knowledge Management has been accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase
knowledge-related performance...
The success of a learning endeavor rests on several factors, including the complexity of the material
and the level of direct involvement on the part of the student. It takes more than passive attendance at
a lecture to learn most complex subjects. To truly learn and understand all of the elements of a complex
issue requires exploration...
The Best Resource on the Market for Learning AutoCAD for Mac software!
This comprehensive Autodesk Official Training Guide has everything you need to quickly become proficient with every aspect of Autodesk’s new AutoCAD for Mac software. Award-winning author George Omura, whom most CAD designers know and respect from...
Welcome to JavaFX: A Beginner’s Guide. This book has been designed to give you
the best first step into the exciting new frontier of JavaFX development. JavaFX
is a rich environment tool, and learning JavaFX is a must for anyone who wants to create
immersive, interactive environments for users of any background.
With the vast development of Internet capacity and speed, as well as wide adoptation
of media technologies in people’s daily life, a large amount of videos have
been surging, and need to be efficiently processed or organized based on interest.
The human visual perception system could, without difficulty, interpret and recognize...
If you want to become a resourceful creative artist then look no further! This quick reference to After Effects will show you how to open, install and get up-and-running to a professional level with Adobe's motion graphics and visual effects software package.
Curtis Sponsler guides you through some of the common stumbling blocks that...
Since the first edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist came out in June 2008, we have been
encouraged by the reception the book has received. Practitioners from a wide variety of industries—
health care, energy, environmental science, life sciences, national intelligence, and publishing, to name
a few—have told...
This book attempts to provide a unified overview of the broad field of data and computer communications.
The organization of the book reflects an attempt to break this massive subject
into comprehensible parts and to build, piece by piece, a survey of the state of the art.The book
emphasizes basic...
SharePoint 2010 enables businesses to set up collaboration with, and for, many types of entities (employees, vendors, customers, and so on) while integrating disparate technologies. It has proved so valuable a tool at many organizations that its growth has led it to become a mission-critical application. As SharePoint has grown through each...
A quick look at your local bookstore’s Internet section will tell you that there are quite a few
commercial packages out there for building web sites. What those books often fail to mention is
that many of the world’s most popular web sites were built using freely available tools, and run
on free operating systems (OS). They...
Howdy folks. This book is your guide to learning Blender 2.6. It assumes no previous knowledge of
Blender, although old Blender users will find a lot to learn here too. Some beginner texts are dressed-up
reference manuals, while some try to teach everything and end up teaching nothing. This book will teach
you how to use Blender 2.6,...
Data communication networks are widely used today and are an integral part of our
daily life. The Internet is a medium for business, personal, and government communication,
and it is difficult to envision today’s society without this essential
infrastructure. The continued success of the Internet is dependent on our ability
to...
