Michael Gelfond has been an extraordinary mentor, teacher, and colleague for
many people in the knowledge representation and reasoning (KR&R), logic programming
(LP), and answer set programming (ASP) communities.
Michael’s current and former students often like to tell stories about their
experience with Michael as...
The role of the Chief Information Security Officer has evolved enormously in recent years in response to security threats and a challenging business environment. Instead of being primarily a master technician, today s CISO has to be a trusted advisor to senior management. Read this pocket guide and ...
The data collected by organizations is growing in volume and complexity. As such, businesses are
abandoning traditional methods and relying more heavily on enterprise information systems to aid in
the analysis and utilization of time-sensitive data and organizational knowledge. Enterprise information
systems have gained in popularity...
In an age where online universities and distance learning courses exist side by side with traditional
classroom learning, the development, design, use and challenges of creating web-based learning systems
that promote learning in students, whether over a distance or within a university proper, is increasingly
complex and often...
Anticipatory optimization for dynamic decision making relies on a number of different
scientific disciplines. On a general level, the foundations of the field may be
localized at the intersection of operations research, computer science and decision
theory. Closer inspection reveals the important role of branches such as simulation,...
Managers do not have the luxury of abdicating participation in information
systems decisions.Managers who choose to do so risk limiting their future business
options. Information systems are at the heart of virtually every business interaction,
process, and decision, especially when one considers the vast penetration of the
Web in the...
Each of the volumes of the Chemical Engineering Series includes numerical examples to
illustrate the application of the theory presented in the text. In addition, at the end of each
volume, there is a selection of problems which the reader is invited to solve in order to
consolidate his (or her) understanding of the principles and to...
If wo try to identify those contributions of computer science which will be
long lasting, surely one of these will be the refinement of the concept called
algorithm. Ever since man invented the idea of a machine which could per
form basic mathematical operations, the study of what can be computed and
how it can be done well was...
While books and journals of high quality have proliferated in discrete and compu-
tational geometry during recent years, there has been to date no single reference
work fully accessible to the nonspecialist as well as to the specialist, covering all
the major aspects of both fields. The Handbook of Discrete and Computational
Geometry...
Oracle RAC or Real Application Clusters is a grid computing solution that allows multiple nodes (servers) in a clustered system to mount and open a single database that resides on shared disk storage. Should a single system (node) fail, the database service will still be available on the remaining nodes. Oracle RAC is an integral part of the...
The HTML5 canvas is revolutionizing graphics and visualizations on the Web. Powered
by JavaScript, the HTML5 Canvas API enables web developers to create visualizations
and animations right in the browser without Flash. Although the HTML5 Canvas is quickly
becoming the standard for online graphics and interactivity, many developers fail...
Scientists in the throes of research use an extensive data bank to access structural information on proteins and nucleic acids. Meanwhile, geneticists use a highly specialized form of software to analyze the hybridization pattern of DNA chips.
The past decade has been tremendously successful for biotechnology and pharmaceutical...
