This unique book takes good ASP.NET (MVC/Webforms) application construction one step further by emphasizing loosely coupled and highly cohesive ASP.NET web application architectural design. Each chapter
addresses a layer in an enterprise ASP.NET (MVC/Webforms) application and shows how proven patterns, principles, and best...

"This book performs a valuable service for managers seeking to harness the business potential of Web services technology. Bringing a real practitioner's experience to the task, Anne carefully walks managers through the fundamentals of Web services technology. She does a superb job of helping managers understand this technology so...

For the past decade, we have been the principal developers of LabWizard, which is the gold standard in Knowledge Acquisition tools and is used around the world to provide patient-specific interpretations of pathology cases. LabWizard is a very complex suite of...

Rapid development of computer hardware has enabled usage of automatic object recognition in an increasing number of applications, ranging from industrial image processing to medical applications, as well as tasks triggered by the widespread use of the internet. Each area of application has its specific requirements, and consequently these...

This book tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on...

As a cellular standard evolves, there are many variables that must be optimized. A few of these variables are directly related to higher throughput, increased user capacity, and in general improved system performance. The optimization techniques have involved higherorder modulation, improved multiple access (in both time and frequency), more...

Systems analysis and design (SAND) has been the central field of research and education in the area of management information systems (MIS) or, as it is called more frequently in Europe, business informatics, almost from the time of its origins. SAND continuously attracts the attention of both academia and business. The rapid progress...

The number of research topics covered in recent approaches to Information Extraction (IE) is continually growing as new facts are being considered. In fact, while the user’s interest in extracting information from texts deals mainly with the success of the entire process of locating, in document collections, facts of interest,...

IRCDL is a yearly event for Italian researchersworking onDigital Libraries-related topics. This year the focus of IRCDL was on information access and interoperability. In fact Digital Library systems are starting to be mature, but it is time to give a more effective and personalized access to information to users and to improve...