The 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
(UMAP 2011) took place in Girona, Spain, during July 11–15, 2011.
It was the third annual conference under the UMAP title, which resulted from
the merger in 2009 of the successful biannual User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive
Hypermedia (AH)...
ASP.NET is Microsoft’s platform for developing web applications. Using ASP.NET, you can create e-commerce
shops, data-driven portal sites, and just about anything else you can find on the Internet. Best of all, you don’t
need to paste together a jumble of HTML and script code in order to program the Web. Instead, you can...
The New Perspectives Series’ critical-thinking, problem-solving approach is the ideal way
to prepare students to transcend point-and-click skills and take advantage of all that the
World Wide Web has to offer.
Our goal in developing the New Perspectives Series was to create books that give students
the software concepts...
Microsoft Visio 2010 is a bold new release. If you’re new to Visio, your timing is excellent! This version of Visio is easier to use than ever before and yet the diagrams you create can have more impact and style, and can present more real-world data than in any previous version.
Announcing an all-new SELF-PACED TRAINING KIT designed to help maximize your performance on 70-511, the required exam for the MCTS certification: Windows Application Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It...
The first edition of this textbook on software engineering was published more than
twenty years ago. That edition was wJitten using a dumb terminal attached to an early
minicomputer (a PDP-II) that probably cost about $50,000. I wrote this edition on
a wireless laptop that cost less than $2,000 and is many times more powerful than...
For developers of computer-based systems, capturing and understanding the complex
functional requirements and behaviour of software components has come to
represent a considerable challenge. This book aims to equip readers with skills and
techniques which will help them to address this challenge. It does so by stressing
the value of...
With the rapid adoption of Voice over IP (VoIP), many telephony and data network technicians,
engineers, and designers are now working to become proficient in VoIP.
Professional certifications, such as the CCNP Voice certification, offer validation of an
employee’s or a consultant’s competency in specific technical...
NHibernate 3 Beginner's Guide examines all of the topics required to get a functional data-access layer implemented while writing the least amount of code possible, presenting options along the way to handle particular edge cases or situations as they arise. The book begins with an introduction to NHibernate 3 and then moves on to...
Coding on the client is fun. I started on the Commodore 64 in seventh grade in the
1980s; later moved to DOS with dBASE, QuickBasic, and C++; and eventually began Windows
programming using C++, Borland Delphi 1.0, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic 3-6, and
.NET. I like the ozone smell of making my CPU work for a living. I...
The ASP.NET MVC framework has come a long way over the last few years.
It was originally the vision of Scott Guthrie in early 2007, and with a subsequent
prototype demonstration in late 2007 and the hire of Phil Haack as a Senior Program
Manager, this vision became a reality. Several public previews...
Expert Oracle Application Express Plugins is your “go to” book on the groundbreaking plugin architecture introduced in Oracle Application Express 4.0. Using the new APEX functionality, you can create well-packaged, documented, reusable components and reliably leverage your coding investments across many applications....
