Ten years ago the authors undertook to produce a book covering the known material on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity. In retrospect, only a few significant results were overlooked in the 237 pages. In writing a new book on the subject, we find the field has expanded in so many new directions that a...

The world of enterprise routing with Juniper Networks devices is getting very exciting—new technologies, products, and network developments are making the enterprise network environment one of the most dynamic places to be. However, we, the authors, hope to focus that energy by providing you with a detailed and practical...

Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax is the third in a series of books aimed at introducing designers and programmers to the process of developing browser-based interfaces. The first, Stylin’ with CSS, focuses on the structure and styling of content, and the second, Codin’ for the Web, focuses on the three-tier...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are computer systems for storing, displaying and analyzing spatial data. The past twenty years have seen a rapid growth in their use in government, commerce and academia, and they can be used for managing a network of utilities, from handling census data through to planning the location of a new...

Milwaukee -not New York, Chicago or Los Angeles- was the scene of a number of television firsts: Here the very first application for a commercial TV license was filed with the FCC in 1938. The first female program director and news director in a major market were both at Milwaukee stations. Milwaukee was a major battleground in the VHF...

Knowledge management (KM) has developed as a field from its roots in data and...

Although professionals have always acknowledged the value of networking, today’s economic climate makes developing a solid network even more critical. LinkedIn, the leading social networking site for professionals, is the ideal tool for maximizing the potential of an online network. LinkedIn currently has more than 65 million...

In the time since the 1986 edition of this book, the world of compiler design has changed significantly. Programming languages have evolved to present new compilation problems. Computer architectures offer a variety of resources of which the compiler designer must take advantage. Perhaps most interestingly, the venerable technology of...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI-2011) which was held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia, during June 27 - July 1, 2011. This was the fourth conference in the series. The first three...

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...