Mobile communications have permeated the globe in both business and social
cultures. In only a few short years, Japan alone has had more than ten million
subscribers enter the mobile market. Such explosive popularity is an indication
of a strong commercial demand for communications in both the tethered and
tetherless environments.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference
on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency
(PETRI NETS 2011). The Petri Net conferences serve as annual meeting places
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This book on the Twitter API is geared to the programmer who is just a bit past
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The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This
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Welcome to the Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Advanced
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My entire career has been about learning and applying new technologies. It has also
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This book is about plugins for JIRA, the popular issue tracker from Atlassian. An issue
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In my position at IBM, I regularly brief executives, managers, and computer
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This volume contains the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS
2011). TACAS 2011 took place in Saarbr¨ucken, Germany, March 28–31, 2011,
as part of the 14th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software
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