Over a decade ago, a small team of designers met in a small conference room on the second floor of Building 41 at Microsoft to create a brand-new language, C#. The guiding principles of the language emphasized simplicity, familiarity, safety, and practicality. Of course, all those principles needed to balance against one another; none are...
This is a book about automated instrumentation, and the automated control systems used with automated instrumentation. We will look at how to use the Python programming language to quickly and easily implement automated instrumentation and control systems.
Automated instrumentation can be found in a wide variety of settings,...
The term "multidimensional data" generally refers to data in which a given fact is quantified by a set of measures, obtained by applying one more or less complex aggregative function (from count or sum to average or percent, and so on) to raw data. Such measures are...
This book provides a friendly introduction to NetSuite. If you’ve picked up this book, chances are you already know something about the product, but here’s a quick summary: NetSuite is the number one, Web-based business software suite available as of early 2010. NetSuite offers an integrated application that wraps all the...
This fully revised and updated second edition of Understanding Digital Libraries focuses on the challenges faced by both librarians and computer scientists in a field that has been dramatically altered by the growth of the Web.
At every turn, the goal is practical: to show you how things you might need to do are...
Focuses on the role of the computer as a generative tool for music composition. Miranda introduces a number of computer music composition techniques ranging from probabilities, formal grammars and fractals, to genetic algorithms, cellular automata and neural computation. Anyone wishing to use the computer as a companion to create music will...
The International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC, formerly IWPEC) is an international symposium series that covers research in all aspects of parameterized and exact algorithms and complexity. Started in 2004 as a biennial workshop, it became an annual event from 2008.
Techniques of vision-based motion analysis aim to detect, track, identify, and generally understand the behavior of objects in image sequences. With the growth of video data in a wide range of applications from visual surveillance to human-machine interfaces, the ability to automatically analyze and understand object motions from video...
Icon is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that offers a broad range of string- and list-processing facilities. It also has a novel expression evaluation mechanism and allows an unusual degree of run-time flexibility. Because of these features, implementing Icon presents problems considerably different from those involved with...
It is quite clear that the world is awash in all kinds of data. In fact, the sheer volume of data adds little value to human activity and choices. The key to the vast amounts of data and information available to us is to distill and organize the data into information that we can productively use. Therefore, the most desirable information is...
There are many approaches to data mining and knowledge discovery (DM&KD), including neural networks, closest neighbor methods, and various statistical methods. This monograph, however, focuses on the development and use of a novel approach, based on mathematical logic, that the author and his research associates have worked on over the...
This book presents the most recent state of the art in mobile positioning and tracking techniques.
This book discusses mobile positioning solutions applied on top of current wireless communication networks. In addition, the authors introduce advanced and novel topics such as localization in heterogeneous and cooperative...
