The World Soft Computing (WSC) conference is an annual international
online conference on applied and theoretical soft computing technology. This
WSC 2008 is the thirteenth conference in this series and it has been a great
success.
We received a lot of excellent paper submissions which were peer-reviewed
by an international...
Recognizing patterns is at the core of man's attempts to understand the universe that we inhabit. Through the development of sensors and instruments, we have extended our ability to gather data far beyond the range and scale of man's natural senses. As a result we are now able to gather data on phenomena occurring in the far reaches...
Welcome to the Solr cookbook. You will be taken on a tour through the most common problems when dealing with Apache Solr. You will learn how to deal with the problems with Solr configuration and setup, how to handle common querying problems, how to fine-tune Solr instances, how to write Solr extensions, and many more things. Every recipe is...
Business intelligence (BI) has been around for many more years than you might think.
Decision support systems (DSS) and executive information systems (EIS) from the 1970s and
1980s, along with artificial intelligence (AI) systems from the 1990s, can now all be considered
as part of what BI comprises today.
At its heart, jQuery does something that sounds pretty dull: it lets you modify the contents of HTML
documents by manipulating the model that the browser creates when it processes the HTML (known as
DOM manipulation, as I’ll explain later). If you are reading this, you have probably already done some
DOM manipulation, either using...
Everyday people need to make decisions, and the decision makers usually face multiple,
conflicting objectives and uncertain environments. The research about uncertain
multi-objective decision making problems has been profolic. It mainly provides
decision makers with the help to find optimal solutions for many objectives under...
This is a book about designing computer hardware and specifically about designing small machines for embedded applications. It is intentionally hardware specific. There are plenty of books out there on writing code for embedded systems (such as Michael Barr's excellent Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, another...
The Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD 2000) was held at the Keihanna-Plaza, Kyoto, Japan, April 18 - 20,
2000. PAKDD 2000 provided an international forum for researchers and application
developers to share their original research results and practical development
experiences. A wide...
So you’ve decided to write applications for OS X or iOS. You sit down at your Macintosh, start up Xcode, and… what? Create a project? Create a file? Make a storyboard? Build a Core Data model? What?
For an operating system that prides itself on being accessible to many,...
Creating video game environments similar to the best 3D games on the market is now within the capability of hobbyists for the first time, with the free availability of game development software such as Unity 3D, and the ease with which groups of enthusiasts can get together to pool their skills for a game project. The sheer number of these...
Cost accounting is a dynamic discipline constantly responding to the needs of managers
in a highly competitive and global business world. Managers need cost accounting information
to develop, implement, and evaluate strategy. Managers also need cost accounting
measurements to determine product costs for internal management and...
From an early age, I wanted to be an artist. I was drawn first to comic books and then to science-fiction literature because of the wondrous images that fed my artistic imagination. When I read Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov as an adolescent, I would spend as much time studying the covers as I did reading the books,...
