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Crystal Reports XI Official Guide

Sams Publishing, 2006

The authorized guide to the latest edition of the #1 business intelligence software product - Crystal Reports. More than 16 million licenses of Crystal Reports have been shipped to date. This book is a reference designed to provide hands-on guidance for the latest release of the product suite. The latest version of Crystal Reports and the...

The Dissimilarity Representation for Pattern Recognition: Foundations And Applications

World Scientific Publishing, 2005

Pattern recognition is both an art and a science. We are able to see structure and recognize patterns in our daily lives and would like to find out how we do this. We can perceive similarities between objects, between people, between cultures and between events. We are able to observe the world around us, to analyze existing phenomena and to...

Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering

Springer, 2007

Conceptual modeling has always been one of the cornerstones for information systems engineering as it describes the general knowledge of the system in the so-called conceptual schema.

Krogstie, Opdahl and Brinkkemper compiled 20 contributions from renowned researchers covering all aspects of conceptual modeling on the occasion of Arne...

The Geometry of Information Retrieval

Cambridge University Press, 2004

"This is a very interesting book, which appears to provide a solid foundation for future research...van Rijsbergen's explanations are well written and logical. In addition, there are many pointers to other sources of relevant information. This book would be of particular interest to those conducting IR, Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive...

Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2007

This book provides a compilation on the state-of-the-art and recent advances of evolutionary algorithms in dynamic and uncertain environments within a unified framework. The motivation for this book arises from the fact that some degree of uncertainty in characterizing any realistic engineering systems is inevitable. Representative methods for...

Internationalizing the Internet: The Co-evolution of Influence And Technology (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet’s adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving a global information infrastructure. The author...

Rape Investigation Handbook

Academic Press, 2004

"This book is easy to read and follows a logical progression from the initial call to the courts. Anyone involved in dealing with sexual assault cases in any capacity would benefit from having this book in their library of reference texts." - www.crimeandclues.com

An unprecedented collaborative work -- the first...

Distributed Algorithms (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Morgan Kaufmann, 1997

In Distributed Algorithms, Nancy Lynch provides a blueprint for designing, implementing, and analyzing distributed algorithms. She directs her book at a wide audience, including students, programmers, system designers, and researchers.

Distributed Algorithms contains the most significant algorithms and impossibility...

Molecular Computation Models: Unconventional Approaches

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

With the increasing complexity of software systems and their widespread growth into many aspects of our lives, the need to search for new models, paradigms, and ultimately, technologies, to manage this problem is evident. The way nature solves various problems through processes evolving during billions of years was always an inspiration to many...

Behavioral Biometrics: A Remote Access Approach

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

With the advent of the internet as a medium for performing business transactions, the need for a secure communication channel has never been more paramount. The study of behavioral biometrics - the verification and/or identification of individuals based on the way they provide information to an authentication system - originated from the need...

Design of Experiments in Chemical Engineering: A Practical Guide

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

While existing books related to DOE are focused either on process or mixture factors or analyze specific tools from DOE science, this text is structured both horizontally and vertically, covering the three most common objectives of any experimental research:

screening designs

mathematical modeling, and...

Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors of the Present (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)

Springer, 2009

This book describes inventions and designs of ancient engineers that are the precursors of the present. The ages mainly range from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with some exceptions from before and after this period.

As for the very ancient ones, the book describes inventions (documented by archaeological finds mainly from Pompei, Ercolano and Stabia)...

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