Over the past decade or so, Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become more widely used than ever before as a means of transferring data between applications and even between organizations. XML provides a standard protocol with which these applications and organizations can communicate. Using XML Schema, a company can define a...

This book contains a detailed analysis of the International Standard for the C language,-3.1 excluding the library from a number of perspectives. The organization of the material is unusual in that it is based on the actual text of the published C Standard. The unit of discussion is the individual sentences from the C Standard (2022 of...

We have been very pleased, beyond our expectations, with the reception of the first edition of this book. Bioinformatics, however, continues to evolve very rapidly, hence the need for a new edition. In the past three years, fullgenome sequencing has blossomed with the completion of the sequence of the fly and the first draft of the...

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OpenGL, which has been bound in C, is a seasoned graphics library for scientists and engineers. As we know, Java is a rapidly growing language becoming the de facto standard of Computer Science learning and application development platform as many undergraduate computer science programs are adopting Java in place of C/C++. Released by...

The aim of this work is to provide a practical introduction to the formal specification of concurrent and real-time systems. It is intended for those with some basic knowledge or experience of computing but does not assume knowledge of the particular problems of concurrent and real-time systems. It concentrates on one group of languages,...

Statistical learning — that is, learning from data — and, in particular, probabilistic model learning have become increasingly important in recent years. Advances in information technology have facilitated an explosion of available data. This explosion has been accompanied by theoretical advances, permitting new and...

The text attempts to place emphasis on numerical methods, not...

Neural Networks, Second Edition provides a complete introduction to neural networks. It describes what they are, what they can do, and how they do it. While some scientific background is assumed, the reader is not expected to have any prior knowledge of neural networks. These networks are explained and discussed by means of examples, so that...

Microsoft Visual C# 2010, Fourth edition provides the beginning programmer with a guide to developing programs in C#. C# is a language developed by the Microsoft Corporation as part of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio platform. Th e .NET Framework contains a wealth of libraries for developing applications for the Windows family...