I can tell you how much I enjoy being a geek. I can tell you how fascinated I was with the punch-cards my dad showed me back in 1985. I can tell you how I got my first computer when I was seven. And I can tell you that I’ve loved programming since 1989. I can tell you a great many things about all that, but I’m not sure how...

MongoDB is an open source, non-relational database system designed to meet the needs of modern Web 2.0 applications. It is currently being used by some of the most popular websites in the world. This book introduces MongoDB to the web developer who has some background building web applications using PHP. This book teaches what MongoDB...

What is machine learning? At the highest level of abstraction, we can think of machine learning as a set of tools and methods that attempt to infer patterns and extract insight from a record of the...

IRCDL is a yearly event for Italian researchersworking onDigital Libraries-related topics. This year the focus of IRCDL was on information access and interoperability. In fact Digital Library systems are starting to be mature, but it is time to give a more effective and personalized access to information to users and to improve...

This book will present a series of video games, utilizing Visual Basic and...

Ongoing economic challenges are affecting and impacting business and society in nearly every industry and geographical region. Taking decisive action to reprioritize the way we are doing business is a key focus for companies. Around the world, companies are taking the necessary measures that will enable us to adjust to today’s reality...

Systems analysis and design (SAND) has been the central field of research and education in the area of management information systems (MIS) or, as it is called more frequently in Europe, business informatics, almost from the time of its origins. SAND continuously attracts the attention of both academia and business. The rapid progress...

From July 22 to July 24, 2010, the Technische Universit¨at M¨unchen, Germany, hosted the eighth edition of the now well-established ADG workshop dedicated to Automatic Deduction in Geometry. From the first edition, which was held in Toulouse in 1996, to ADG 2010, a slow mutation has taken place. The workshop that was formerly...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 17th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking Software (SPIN 2010). The workshop was organized by and held at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, on 27–29 September 2010. The workshop was co-located with the 5th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2010)...

This volume contains papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2011), held in Changsha, China, July 28-30. This conference followed MDAI 2004 (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain),MDAI 2005 (Tsukuba, Japan),MDAI 2006 (Tarragona,Catalonia, Spain), MDAI 2007 (Kitakyushu,...

The workshop attracted a record number of 148 submissions from 29 countries, of which the...

The present book 1 provides a rigorous treatment and coherent presentation of the consolidated results of the authors' work, over the past four years, on the employment of logic programming as a representational and reasoning tool. It comes out of a background of a world-wide research effort for at least the past six years on the...