Ongoing economic challenges are affecting and impacting business and society in nearly every industry and geographical region. Taking decisive action to reprioritize the way we are doing business is a key focus for companies. Around the world, companies are taking the necessary measures that will enable us to adjust to today’s reality...
This book’s primary focus is on designing hypermedia APIs. That may seem a bit
strange to some readers. There are many books on programming languages, data storage
systems, web frameworks, etc. This is not one of those books. Instead, this book
covers the nature of the messages passed between client and server, and how to improve...
An academic dynasty has come together to write an excellent textbook on information retrieval.
Stefan Buttcher, Charles Clarke, and Gordon Cormack make up three generations of stellar
information retrieval researchers with over fifty years of combined experience. Buttcher was
Clarke's doctoral student, and Clarke was Cormack's...
Electron Microscopy in Heterogeneous Catalysis describes the unique role electron microscopy plays in the immensely important field of heterogeneous catalysis. It brings together several disciplines, namely surface science, solid state chemistry and physics, materials science, chemical engineering and crystallography. The work described in...
This book is meant as a handbook and resource guide for chemists
(and other scientists) who either find themselves working alongside
chemical engineers or who are undertaking chemical engineering-type
projects and who wish to communicate with their colleagues and
understand chemical engineering principles. The book has arisen out
of...
The objectives of this book are twofold: (1) for the student, to show how the
fundamental principles underlying the behavior of fluids (with emphasis on
one-dimensional macroscopic balances) can be applied in an organized and
systematic manner to the solution of practical engineering problems, and (2)
for the practicing engineer, to...
In medicine, as in any other life sciences discipline, research should start by raising
a question (hypothesis) to solve a problem. Then the scientist should select
the most appropriated method(s) to answer the question and solve the dilemma.
The obtained intermediate and final results may answer the question or may raise
additional...
Windows Azure is the Microsoft cloud computing platform that lets developers leverage its
powerful, scalable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure to build successful applications.
Windows Azure Step by Step provides an organized walkthrough of the Windows Azure
platform and its related technologies. The text is...
Cognitive spatial concepts are qualitative in nature, i.e., they are based not so
much on exact quantities but on comparisons between perceived magnitudes.
We develop a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge (in
particular, of positional information about 2-dimensional projections) that is
based only on locative...
Almost everyone has had the need at one point or another to keep a list of things that need to be
done. Many people pick up a piece of paper every day and write down the things they want to
attempt to accomplish that day. Such lists drive many people’s lives. Some people keep them in
their heads, but as we get older, we need to...
IRFC 2011 received 19 high-quality submissions, of which 10 were accepted for
presentation at the conference and appear here. Three of these fall into the
natural language processing for IR area, one into the distributed computing
area, while the remaining six are IR papers.
The IRF Conference provides a multi-disciplinary,...
"The first step in securing the Smart Grid is to fully understand the threat landscape. This book provides both a timely and relevant overview of the subject - a must-read for anyone responsible for securing the grid as well as consumers looking to implement the technology!."-- Dr. Patrick Engebretson, Assistant Professor of...
