This is a book about patterns for resource management in software systems. The patterns provide solutions for problems that are typically encountered by software architects and developers when trying to provide an effective and efficient means of managing resources in a software system. Efficient management of resources is critical in the...

Software automatic tuning is a technology paradigm enabling software adaptation to a variety of computational conditions. Originating from the stream of research works on highperformance computing, it is considered to be the most promising approach to the required performance advancements on the next generation supercomputing platforms. Also,...

Welcome to the Brief Version of Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through Objects, 6th edition. This book is intended for use in a one or two-semester C++ programming course. Students new to programming, as well as those with prior course work in other languages, will find this text beneficial. The fundamentals of...

At the beginning of our research we thought that a solution for the problem of...

This book is intended for developers interested in learning more about how to develop against the set of Microsoft cloud services: Windows Azure and Office 365. In some cases, you can combine the two technologies to build your solution, but in other cases you will use only one of the cloud solutions, so understanding what each has to offer...

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?

The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled...