Well, that’s not quite accurate. What I mean is, I’m sorry I didn’t have time to update
DNS and BIND to include all this new IPv6 material. DNS and BIND deserves a sixth
edition, but I’m afraid my schedule is so hectic right now that I just don’t have time to...
This volume contains the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics 2011 (LACL 2011), held June 29-
July 1, 2011 in Montpellier, France. The LACL conferences aim at providing a
forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal
and logical aspects of...
The availability of geographic and geo-spatial information and services, especially
on the openWeb, has become abundant in the last several yearswith the proliferation
of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled
applications. Concurrently, the need for geo-spatial reasoning has significantly...
From its inception in the 1930s, the rich and vigorous field of computer science
has been concerned with the resources, both in time and in memory, needed to
carry out a computation. A number of fundamental theorems were discovered
that resorted to a worst-case analysis. The central question was whether a given
algorithm could be...
This monograph on Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and
Solutions aims at introducing, surveying and assessing the fundamentals of secu
rity with respect to computing. Here, “computing” refers to all activities which
individuals or groups directly or indirectly perform by means of computing sys
tems,...
In 1985 I brought home a new shiny Commodore Amiga 1000, about one week after
they were released. Coming with a whopping 512K of memory, programmable
colormaps, a Motorola 68K CPU, and a modern multitasking operating system, it had
“awesome” writ all over it. Metaphorically speaking, of course. I thought it might
make a...
People use databases to organize and to manage their data. Oracle Database is the leader
in the relational database management systems market, with a broad adoption in many
industries. Using the best tool is not enough to be sure that the results of our efforts will be
satisfactory—driving the fastest car in a Formula 1...
Swarm Intelligence is a collection of nature-inspired algorithms under the big umbrella
of evolutionary computation. They are population based algorithms. A population
of individuals (potential candidate solutions) cooperating among themselves and
statistically becoming better and better over generations and eventually finding (a)...
Over the course of the past two decades Islamism has exercised a growing influence
on politics in Muslim countries from Morocco to Malaysia. In some
instances this trend has led to regime change as in Iran and Sudan, but more
often, it has ensconced Islamic norms, symbols, and rhetoric in the public
sphere, and in the process,...
Technology is at its best when it enables you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius is your companion: It helps you get going with...
The wonderful complexity of organic chemistry involves thousands of
different reactions which allow the synthesis and interconversions of millions
of compounds, some of great complexity. The key to understanding
this vital branch of chemistry is the concept of the reaction mechanism.
