For the 9th time since 1991 we invite researchers to participate in the Dortmund Fuzzy-Days. I am very glad that our conference has established itself as an international forum for the discussion of new results in the filed of Computational Intelligence. Again all papers had to undergo a thorough review: each one was judged by five referees to...
With today’s modern technology—LEDs, servomotors, motion sensors, speakers, and more—artwork can incorporate elements of light, sound, and motion for dramatic effects. Author and educator Simon Quellen Field has...
Persuasion is the art of changing the way people think, feel, and act through the use of language. The Complete Idiot?s Guide® to Persuasion provides strategies for the readers to master the art of persuasion in a positive manner. By using time-honored tools of communication,...
This volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
contains the papers presented at the S+SSPR 2010 Workshops, which was the
seventh occasion that SPR and SSPR workshops have been held jointly. S+SSPR
2010 was organized by TC1 and TC2, Technical Committees of the International
Association for Pattern...
This book provides a rhetorical manual for political and business leaders to motivate followers even in times of hardship. It covers the fine art of persuasion and argues that there are four speeches every leader has to know: the opening speech, the executioner speech, the consolation speech, and the farewell speech. The authors...
Go beyond conjugation to master Italian verbs and their usage
Verbs play a vitally important role in every sentence, and the selection of a particular verb and a specific tense has a great impact on meaning. To help you understand why a certain tense works in a given situation,...
Silverlight—the hot new web technology based on the powerful WPF graphics platform that ships with Windows Vista—is the web developer's choice for creating cross-platform interactive applications that work in multiple browsers. This one-of-a-kindreference shows you, with full-color illustrations, how to create rich interactive apps with...
When Apple introduced the iPod in 2001, CEO Steve Jobs declared, "listening to music will never be the same again." He was right on the money. The iPod grabbed attention right away, and by the end of 2005, more than 41 million of them had sold. iPod is the dominant digital music player on the market, and for the first...
Do you know Latin American Spanish already and want to go a stage further? If you're planning a visit to South America, need to brush up your Latin American Spanish for work, or are simply doing a course, Colloquial Spanish of Latin America 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and extend your skills. ...
This volume of LNCS contains the proceedings of the 6th European Performance
Engineering Workshop, held at Imperial College London during July 9–10, 2009.
This was the first in the EPEW series to be held in the UK, following on from the
highly successful workshops that were held in Toledo (2004), Versailles (2005),...
If there's anything the recession of 2009 taught us, it was the importance of investing in our customers, but when was this any different? So says Joseph Jaffe, bestselling author of Life After the 30-Second Spot and Join the Conversation, and a leading expert and...
The Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology
(CWUAAT) are a series of workshops held at a Cambridge University College
every two years. This volume: “DESIGNING INCLUSIVE SYSTEMS” comes
from the 6th in this series of highly successful events. The workshops are
characterised by a single session...
