Researchers in Artificial Intelligence have traditionally been classified into two categories: the “neaties” and the “scruffies”. According to the scruffies, the neaties concentrate on building elegant formal frameworks, whose properties are beautifully expressed by means of definitions, lemmas, and theorems, but...

Knowledge management (KM) has developed as a field from its roots in data and...

The idea of writing this book, Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet, seemed in several ways a natural and complementary progression from the previous one, The Wiki Way (Addison-Wesley, 2001). Subtitled Quick...

You say you want a revolution? Well, sometimes the smallest things can create the biggest changes. OpenGL ES originated that way—in a modest 3Dlabs project in 2001 that sought to define a standardized subset of OpenGL for a range of embedded systems. It soon became clear that there was a widespread industry desire for a small...

Data management has evolved over the years from being strictly associated with database systems, through active databases, to being a topic that has grown beyond the scope of a single field encompassing multiple aspects: distributed systems, event-driven systems, and peer-to-peer and streaming systems. The present collection of works,...

During my experience of teaching aircraft structures, I have felt the need for a textbook written specifically for students of aeronautical engineering. Although there have been a number of excellent books written on the subject, they are now either out of date or too specialized in content to fulfill the requirements of an...

Optimization is an integral part to science and engineering. Most real-world applications involve complex optimization processes, which are difficult to solve without advanced computational tools. With the increasing challenges of fulfilling optimization goals of current applications there is a strong drive to advance the development of...

If you have anything to do with web development, you should know how to use HTML. XHTML, and CSS the modern, professional way. That's true if you want to become a web designer. That's true for web designers who still use tables for page layout when they should be using CSS. That's true for JavaScript programmers. And that's...

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

Computer and Information Sciences is a unique and comprehensive review of advanced technology and research in the field of Information Technology. It provides an up to date snapshot of research in Europe and the Far East (Hong Kong, Japan and China) in the most active areas of information technology, including Computer Vision, Data...

Adigital flood is upon us. Content inundates us. It begins as bits of content swirling everywhere—a document, an image, a written corporate procedure, a web page, or an email. The binary mist mixes, combines, and rains down on us. It pools in laptops, on desktops, and in server farms. Creeks and streams meander to corporate reservoirs....