SketchUp is both simple and intuitive; there is no doubt about that. It usually takes a couple of hours to get grips on it and to create your first 3D models. But when you are using it for a professional project – with all the attendant time and quality constraints – you have to get a few things straight first to avoid the...

But the task of documenting and teaching a technology such as AppleScript is daunting (especially while you’re employed at a busy company like Apple), and it could not have been accomplished without the...

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This book explores the role of Martin-Lof s constructive type theory in computer programming. The main focus of the book is how the theory can be successfully applied in practice. Introductory sections provide the necessary background in logic, lambda calculus and constructive mathematics, and exercises and chapter summaries are included to...

Stable and dependable IT services and infrastructures are nowadays of paramount importance not only for modern enterprises but also for home users. However, as distributed information infrastructures continue to spread and grow, resulting in Internet-based, wireless and mobile systems, traditional solutions for managing and...

Microsoft Word 2010 Complete, part of the Origins Series, provides a thorough introduction of Microsoft Word 2010 skills to beginning learners. This text includes features that make learning easy and enjoyable, yet challenging for students. Students will be engaged with activities that range from simulations to case studies that challenge and...

The primary goal of this book is to present to the scientific and management communities a selection of applications using more recent Soft Computing (SC) and Computing with Words and Perceptions (CWP) models and techniques meant to solve the economics and financial problems. The selected examples could also serve as a starting point...

CALCO, the International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science, is a high-level, bi-annual event formed by joining CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science) and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with...

Welcome to the world of Excel. Okay, that’s a bit cheesy. But if you look around the business world, the fi nancial world, the manufacturing world, and any other industry you can of, you will see people using Excel. Excel is everywhere. It is by far the most used program in the history of business applications. So...

Computability has played a crucial role in mathematics and computer science – leading to the discovery, understanding and classification of decidable/ undecidable problems, paving the way to the modern computer era and affecting deeply our view of the world. Recent new paradigms of computation, based on biological and physical...

Thirty years ago, when the first edition of this book was published, little had been written about the management of libraries and information centers. Those seeking advice, examples, and information about how to manage libraries were forced to search for answers in the literature of public administration or business management. Since...

Computational intelligence is a fast-moving, multidisciplinary field - the nexus of diverse technical interest areas that include neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation. Keeping up with computational intelligence means understanding...