The ever decreasing price/performance ratio of microcontrollers makes it economically attractive to replace more and more conventional mechanical or electronic control systems within many products by embedded real-time computer systems. An embedded real-time computer system is always part of a well-specified larger system, which we call an...

This revised edition of the bestselling project management “bible” offers a new, focused presentation of the critical aspects of project management. Written by one of the best-known and respected authorities on the subject, this extraordinary book gives the leaders of today and tomorrow a profound understanding of project...

PL/SQL, Oracle's powerful procedural language, has been the cornerstone of Oracle application development for nearly 15 years. Although primarily a tool for developers, PL/SQL has also become an essential tool for database administration, as DBAs take increasing responsibility for site performance and as the lines between...

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a groundbreaking approach to writing and executing programs. WF programs are assembled out of resumable program statements called activities, which provide encapsulation of both domainspecific logic and control flow patterns reflective of real-world...

Prepare for the latest Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification exam with this new edition of the PMP Study Guide, which covers all essential procedures and concepts from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Fourth Edition....

The 97 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 304 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed AI and multi-agent...

Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) prove to be a generic framework which can be applied for modeling and solving a wide range...