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The Computing collection presents a range of foundational and applied content across computer and data science, including fields such as Artificial Intelligence; Computational Modelling; Computer Networks, Computer Organization & Architecture, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Data Management; Embedded Systems & Computer Engineering; HCI/User Interface Design; Information Security; Machine Learning; Network Security; Software Engineering.

  • SDL '99

    The Next Millennium
    • 1st Edition
    • R. Dssouli + 2 more
    • English
    This book represents the proceedings of the 9th SDL Forum which was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, during the week of June 21-25, 1999. The 9th SDL Forum presents papers on the past and future development of the MSC and SDL languages.The volume presents information on experience with the use of these languages in industrial development projects, on tools and techniques for using these languages in the software and hardware development process, and other aspects of these languages.

  • Charging Communication Networks

    From Theory to Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • D.J. Songhurst
    • English
    This book proposes that usage-based charging schemes are essential to generate the incentives necessary for efficient operation of multiservice networks. The rapid development of network technology is enabling sophisticated new services and applications which demand new charging models. The same technology provides the means to operate the right charging schemes.Some of the work done in the European collaborative project CA$hMAN (Charging and Accounting Schemes in Multiservice ATM Networks). This project combined performance and economic models of network resource usage and cutomer utility to construct simple but effective charging schemes which were implemented and trialled in an advanced management platform.

  • The Art and Science of Digital Compositing

    • 1st Edition
    • Ron Brinkmann
    • English
    Computer-generated visual effects are now used extensively in feature films, commercials, music videos, and multimedia. The backbone of this process, the final and most important step, is known as digital compositing. The Art and Science of Digital Compositing is a comprehensive reference that provides a complete overview of the technical and the artistic nature of this process. This book covers a wide range of topics from basic image creation, representation, and manipulation, to a look at the visual cues that are necessary to create a believable composite. Designed as both an introduction to the field as well as a valuable technical reference, this book should be of interest to both novices and professionals alike. Written by a working professional in the visual effects industry, the book provides over 250 different images and illustrations (including a 40-page color insert) as well as a complete glossary of compositing and visual-effects terminology. Also included are in-depth case studies from well-known films such as Speed, Independence Day, and Titanic.

  • Visual Information Retrieval

    • 1st Edition
    • Alberto del Bimbo
    • English
    The increasing use of multimedia in computer applications has increased the relevance of visual databases. These visual databases require new methods for archiving and retrieving information, as traditional approaches used previously to index textual data are no longer appropriate. Visual Information Retrieval concentrates on solutions for representation, indexing, and querying by content of visual information, reviewing the main approaches and techniques available. Single image indexing, querying and retrieval by content, video segmentation, annotation, and content-based indexing are all examined. The book will appeal to practitioners and graduates/researcher... involved in visual database issues in multimedia and image processing.

  • Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics '98

    Development and Applications of Parallel Technology
    • 1st Edition
    • Chiao-ling Lin + 4 more
    • English
    This book contains the papers presented at the Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 1998 Conference. The book is focused on new developments and applications of parallel technology. Key topics are introduced through contributed papers and invited lectures. These include typical algorithmic developments, such as: distributed computing, domain decomposition and parallel algorithm. Some of the papers address the evaluations of software and machine performance and software tool environments. The application of parallel computers to complex fluid dynamics problems are also conveyed through sessions such as DNS/LES, combustion and reacting flows, industrial applications, water resources and environmental flows.The editors believe this book will provide many researchers, much beyond those contributing to this volume, with fresh information and reference.

  • Evolutionary Design by Computers

    • 1st Edition
    • Peter J. Bentley
    • English
    Some of the most startling achievements in the use of computers to automate design are being accomplished by the use of evolutionary search algorithms to evolve designs. Evolutionary Design By Computers provides a showcase of the best and most original work of the leading international experts in Evolutionary Computation, Engineering Design, Computer Art, and Artificial Life. By bringing together the highest achievers in these fields for the first time, including a foreword by Richard Dawkins, this book provides the definitive coverage of significant developments in Evolutionary Design. This book explores related sub-areas of Evolutionary Design, including: * design optimization* creative design* the creation of art* artificial life. It shows for the first time how techniques in each area overlap, and promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas and methods. Evolutionary Design By Computers will be an essential resource for researchers in academia and industry.

  • Genetic Programming III

    Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving
    • 1st Edition
    • John R. Koza + 3 more
    • English
    Genetic programming is a method for getting a computer to solve a problem by telling it what needs to be done instead of how to do it. Koza, Bennett, Andre, and Keane present genetically evolved solutions to dozens of problems of design, optimal control, classification, system identification, function learning, and computational molecular biology. Among the solutions are 14 results competitive with human-produced results, including 10 rediscoveries of previously patented inventions.Researche... in artificial intelligence, machine learning, evolutionary computation, and genetic algorithms will find this an essential reference to the most recent and most important results in the rapidly growing field of genetic programming.

  • Virtual Private Networks

    Making the Right Connection
    • 1st Edition
    • Dennis Fowler
    • English
    Network-dependent companies are excited by the benefits promised by the virtual private network, including lower costs, greater flexibility, and improvements in connectivity. But they also have questions: What benefits are real? How can they be measured? What are the expenses and the dangers?Virtual Private Networks: Making the Right Connection is an intelligent introduction written especially for business and IT professionals who want a realistic assessment of what a VPN can provide for their organizations. Covering advantages and risks, this book expands your understanding of what you can do with a VPN, while detailing all that implementing it will demand of you. With its help, you'll find your way through VPN hype to the answers you need to make sound decisions.

  • Managing Gigabytes

    Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition
    • 1st Edition
    • Ian H. Witten + 2 more
    • English
    In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed Managing Gigabytes, authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for compressing and indexing data. Whatever your field, if you work with large quantities of information, this book is essential reading--an authoritative theoretical resource and a practical guide to meeting the toughest storage and access challenges. It covers the latest developments in compression and indexing and their application on the Web and in digital libraries. It also details dozens of powerful techniques supported by mg, the authors' own system for compressing, storing, and retrieving text, images, and textual images. mg's source code is freely available on the Web.

  • Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing

    • 1st Edition
    • Philip Greenspun
    • English
    From the author's preface:This book is a catalog of the mistakes that I've made while building more than 100 Web sites in the last five years. I wrote it in the hopes that others won't have to repeat those mistakes.For the manager in charge of a Web publication or service, this book gives you the big picture. It is designed to help you to affirmatively make the high-level decisions that determine whether a site will be manageable or unmanageable, profitable or unprofitable, popular or unpopular, reliable or unreliable. I don't expect you to be down in the trenches typing Oracle SQL queries. But you'll learn enough from this book to decide whether in fact you need a database, whom to hire as the high database priest, and whom to allow anywhere near the database.For the literate computer scientist, I hope to expose the beautiful possibilities in Web service design. I want to inspire you to believe that this is the most interesting and exciting area in which we can work.For the working Web designer or programmer, I want to arm you with a new vocabulary and mental framework for building sites. There can be more to life than making a client's bad ideas flesh with PhotoShop and Perl/CGI.For the users of the world, I document a comprehensive open-source approach to building online communities and show a collaborative Web-based way that we can dig ourselves out of our desktop application morass.

  • Networking Explained

    • 1st Edition
    • Michael Gallo + 1 more
    • English
    Networking Explained is aimed at computer professionals who have an interest in furthering their knowledge of the fundamental principles of networks and networking. It employs an easy to follow question and answer format. The questions are representative of those asked by people who are already in the computing field and are categorized hierarchically by subject so that busy readers who seek answers to specific questions in the heat of combat can find them easily. The answers are intended to give the reader a broad foundation in networking concepts. Accordingly, this text is useful to computer professionals who are interested in either enhancing their capabilities in networking, or are considering changing their professions to the field of networking. The text can also be used as a supplemental source for those who have a working knowledge of computing but lack an understanding of the fundamental concepts and theoretical underpinnings of networks. Finally, the text can be used as a basic instructional book for undergraduate or graduate networking students. Illustrations, tables, and special sidebars are included to help develop further understanding.

  • Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications, Three-Volume Set

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1-3
    • Bernd Jahne + 2 more
    • English
    The Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications, Three-Volume Set is on one of the "hottest" subjects in today's intersection of Applied Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics.The uniqueness of this set is that it is very applications-oriente... Examples of applications in different fields of modern science are particularly emphasized. In addition, a CD-ROM is included with each of the three volumes.

  • Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 1999 (FOGA 5)

    • 1st Edition
    • Wolfgang Banzhaf + 1 more
    • English
    Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Volume 5 is the fifth in the series of books recording the prestigious Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshops, sponsored and organized by the International Society of Genetic Algorithms specifically to address theoretical publications on genetic algorithms and classifier systems. This volume's papers deal with GA dynamics; genetic operators (mostly in their relationship to schemata); characterization of landscapes over which an algorithm is searching; and the interaction between different parameters or strategies used for controlling the course of genetic search.

  • Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide

    • 1st Edition
    • Michael Etzel + 1 more
    • English
    Digital Visual Fortran is the latest version of a major programming language tool used by scientists and engineers. Written by key technical writers from the Digital Visual Fortran product team, Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide presents in printed form the critical portions of the official programmer's guide, previously only available online. The result is the authoritative book on Digital Visual Fortran's features and how to use them to create effective applications. Digital Visual Fortran is the language of choice for computation-intensiv... scientific and engineering applications, financial applications, and other programs. Digital recently acquired Fortran technology and rights from Microsoft that allows them to use the Microsoft Developer Studio Integrated Development Environment, which is featured in Microsoft's Visual C++ and Visual Basic. The result is that Digital Visual Fortran is much easier to use and looks and works much like Microsoft's industry-leading programming products for other market segments.

  • Humane Interfaces

    Questions of Method and Practice in Cognitive Technology
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • J.P. Marsh + 2 more
    • English
    Ever since the first successful International Cognitive Technology (CT) Conference in Hong Kong in August 1995, a growing concern about the dehumanising potential of machines, and the machining potential of the human mind, has pervaded the organisers' thinking. When setting up the agenda for the Second International CT Conference in Aizu, Japan, in August of 1997, they were aware that a number of new approaches had seen the light, but that the need to integrate them within a human framework had become more urgent than ever, due to the accelerating pace of technological and commercialised developments in the computer related fields of industry and researchWhat the present book does is re-emphasize the importance of the 'human factor' - not as something that we should 'also' take into account, when doing technology, but as the primary driving force and supreme aim of our technological endeavours. Machining the human should not happen, but humanising the machine should. La Humacha should replace the Hemachine in our thinking about these matters.

  • Data Preparation for Data Mining

    • 1st Edition
    • Dorian Pyle
    • English
    Data Preparation for Data Mining addresses an issue unfortunately ignored by most authorities on data mining: data preparation. Thanks largely to its perceived difficulty, data preparation has traditionally taken a backseat to the more alluring question of how best to extract meaningful knowledge. But without adequate preparation of your data, the return on the resources invested in mining is certain to be disappointing.Dorian Pyle corrects this imbalance. A twenty-five-year veteran of what has become the data mining industry, Pyle shares his own successful data preparation methodology, offering both a conceptual overview for managers and complete technical details for IT professionals. Apply his techniques and watch your mining efforts pay off-in the form of improved performance, reduced distortion, and more valuable results.On the enclosed CD-ROM, you'll find a suite of programs as C source code and compiled into a command-line-driven toolkit. This code illustrates how the author's techniques can be applied to arrive at an automated preparation solution that works for you. Also included are demonstration versions of three commercial products that help with data preparation, along with sample data with which you can practice and experiment.

  • The Usability Engineering Lifecycle

    A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design
    • 1st Edition
    • Deborah J. Mayhew
    • English
    A commitment to usability in user interface design and development offers enormous benefits, including greater user productivity, more competitive products, lower support costs, and a more efficient development process. But what does it mean to be committed to usability? Inside, a twenty-year expert answers this question in full, presenting the techniques of Usability Engineering as a series of product lifecycle tasks that result directly in easier-to-learn, easier-to-use software.You'll learn to perform a complete requirements analysis and then incorporate the resulting goals and constraints in a highly structured, iterative design and development process. This process doesn't end with installation but instead begins anew with the collection of user feedback that will guide further development. Also covered are organizational issues related to the implementation of Usability Engineering, including cost justification, project planning, and organizational structures.

  • Object Oriented Programming under Windows NT and 95

    • 1st Edition
    • Stephen Morris
    • English
    Objected-Oriented Programming for Windows 95 and NT brings the power of true object-oriented programming methods to real-world Windows development. The book describes fundamental object-oriented programming methods and explains how readers may apply them within the Windows 95 (and 98) and Windows NT environments using three leading programming tools - Microsoft Visual C++ and Visual Basic and Borland Delphi.Readers will understand how traditional object-oriented principles and techniques correspond to the characteristics of modern operating environments and how OOP approaches can help them more efficiently create genuinely user-friendly applications. The book describes from an object perspective many important Windows programming components and tasks, including: windows and dialog boxes, ActiveX and other controls, menus, event handling, graphics, file access, on-line help, and OLE (object linking and embedding). Objected-Oriented Programming for Windows 95 and NT will help both beginning and experienced Windows developers bolster their programming arsenal and can help any developer make the transition from traditional, non-object environments to object-oriented programming methods.

  • Database Design for Smarties

    Using UML for Data Modeling
    • 1st Edition
    • Robert J. Muller
    • English
    Whether building a relational, object-relational, or object-oriented database, database developers are increasingly relying on an object-oriented design approach as the best way to meet user needs and performance criteria. This book teaches you how to use the Unified Modeling Language-the official standard of the Object Management Group-to develop and implement the best possible design for your database. Inside, the author leads you step by step through the design process, from requirements analysis to schema generation. You'll learn to express stakeholder needs in UML use cases and actor diagrams, to translate UML entities into database components, and to transform the resulting design into relational, object-relational, and object-oriented schemas for all major DBMS products.

  • See MIPS Run

    • 1st Edition
    • Dominic Sweetman
    • English
    The versatile offspring of an extended family of multiple chip companies, today's MIPS chips are everywhere. They power everything from videogames, network routers, laser printers, set-top boxes, and high-performance workstations. This book brings together this extraordinary proliferation of form and functionality, offering embedded systems programmers and designers unique, eminently practical insights into MIPS. It covers how MIPS started, the principles at the root of the RISC revolution, the full details of the MIPS instruction set, and how these details together constitute a full operating system ready to be put to work in hundreds of ways. If you're programming embedded systems and need to understand the chips at the deepest level, or even if you're just curious, you're sure to find what you need in this book. It's all here, from the nuts and bolts of a programming reference to the big picture that only a true expert can deliver. So buy the book. Take it home. Step inside. And see MIPS run.

  • Logical Effort

    Designing Fast CMOS Circuits
    • 1st Edition
    • Ivan Sutherland + 2 more
    • English
    Designers of high-speed integrated circuits face a bewildering array of choices and too often spend frustrating days tweaking gates to meet speed targets. Logical Effort: Designing Fast CMOS Circuits makes high speed design easier and more methodical, providing a simple and broadly applicable method for estimating the delay resulting from factors such as topology, capacitance, and gate sizes.The brainchild of circuit and computer graphics pioneers Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull, "logical effort" will change the way you approach design challenges. This book begins by equipping you with a sound understanding of the method's essential procedures and concepts-so you can start using it immediately. Later chapters explore the theory and finer points of the method and detail its specialized applications.

  • Readings in Information Visualization

    Using Vision to Think
    • 1st Edition
    • Stuart K. Card + 2 more
    • English
    This groundbreaking book defines the emerging field of information visualization and offers the first-ever collection of the classic papers of the discipline, with introductions and analytical discussions of each topic and paper. The authors' intention is to present papers that focus on the use of visualization to discover relationships, using interactive graphics to amplify thought. This book is intended for research professionals in academia and industry; new graduate students and professors who want to begin work in this burgeoning field; professionals involved in financial data analysis, statistics, and information design; scientific data managers; and professionals involved in medical, bioinformatics, and other areas.

  • Networked Applications

    A Guide to the New Computing Infrastructure
    • 1st Edition
    • David G. Messerschmitt
    • English
    Understanding the rich conjunction of networking and computing is essential for anyone involved in the formulation and implementation of new application ideas, whether in business, education, or government. This book offers nonexperts an accessible, thoughtful introduction to the applications and infrastructure in networked computing, providing you with the information to make the right technological and organizational decisions as you work with developers to design or acquire effective computing solutions.On a bookshelf dominated by either lightweight primers or heavyweight treatises, Networked Applications: A Guide to the New Computing Infrastructure stands apart: a smart book for smart people seeking the knowledge to meet new needs and to improve organizational processes.

  • Integrating E-mail

    From the Intranet to the Internet
    • 1st Edition
    • SIMON COLLIN
    • English
    Integrating E-mail tells how to build an integrated Internet mail service by first taking different mail platforms and making them work together and then connecting them to the Internet. The book covers the different aspects of planning, integrating, supporting and managing an integrated Internet mail service. Emphasis is placed on connecting to the Internet using the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) and TCP/IP networking technology. A case study of Digital Equipment Corporation is included as an example of how a large worldwide company with many sites was able to pull together its many diverse mail systems into an integrated Internet mail service.

  • IPv6 Clearly Explained

    • 1st Edition
    • Peter Loshin
    • English
    IP version 6, or IPv6 for short, is probably the most significant network upgrade in the history of technology. It will require every company in the world selling TCP/IP-enabled software, hardware, or services to evaluate the need to upgrade or modify their products; it will require the users or administrators of virtually every networked computer system on the planet to consider how best to migrate to the next generation of internetworking protocol. Anyone with any interest in the continued viability and growth of the Internet or TCP/IP networking needs to read this book to better understand how IP works, why IPv6 will work better, and what they must do to be prepared for the change.Building on discussion of how the current versions of IP and other protocols in the TCP/IP suite work and behave, in the first part I discuss the problems that arose over the past 20 years, as well as the various solutions proposed to solve them. Also included are an introduction of the new features, functions, and operation of the new IPv6 and related protocols like the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), Domain Name System (DNS), and routing protocols.The second part delves in detail into the workings of the new protocols, with particular attention to handling IPv6 addresses, IPv6 extensions, IPv6 support for authentication and security, IPv6 anycast and multicast support, and support for mobile hosts in IPv6. Also included here are discussions of IPv6 routing issues and solutions, as well as other protocols, like DNS and ICMP, that will change to accommodate the new version of IP.The final part examines the issues of deployment. Discussed here are strategies that network product vendors are taking with their products as well as strategies for transition appropriate for individual users and smaller organizations as well as for larger organizations with correspondingly larger networks. Options include tunneling approaches, dual-stack approaches, and development of an Internet backbone structure supporting IPv6.Rounding out the book are appendices that include a list of relevant RFCs as well as the complete text of several of the most important and interesting IPv6 RFCs, and an index.

  • Web Site Usability

    A Designer's Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • Jared Spool + 3 more
    • English
    Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide is a report that every person involved in Web design, commerce, or online marketing will want to have. This book is, undoubtedly, the most comprehensive data demonstrating how Web sites actually work when users need specific answers. Researched and compiled by User Interface Engineering, the results are written in an easy to understand style, illustrating the need to make Web sites useful, not complicated.

  • Writing Real Programs in DCL

    • 2nd Edition
    • Steve Hoffman + 1 more
    • English
    Newly revised and updated, Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition will help OpenVMS programmers make an intelligent choice between DCL and more conventional programming languages. In addition, it offers a programming language to computer users who are not conversant with conventional languages. Among the new material is information on DCL commands, security, DCL procedures, aliases, searchlists, UIC-based protection, objects, pipes, detached processes, network processes, HTML, CGI scripting and environments, and reading and writing logical names. New chapters on using DCL for the web and DCL and compiled code are particularly relevant to today's programming needs.Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, also covers updated OpenVMS concepts, files and directories, aliases, searchlists, UIC-based protection, and pipes. The only book devoted to programming in DCL, Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, is an essential guide for OpenVMS developers, administrators, and advanced users.

  • Tcl/Tk For Real Programmers

    • 1st Edition
    • Clif Flynt
    • English
    This book will fill a void in the current Tcl/Tk bookshelf. It is written to the latest version of Tcl/Tk (8.0, perhaps 8.1, depending on Sun's release schedule) and addresses Tcl/Tk under Windows as well as Unix. It includes discussions on proper coding techniques, instead of just language syntax. Clif Flynt gives readers a very 'hands on' book, with an emphasis towards allowing a reader to pick up the book as needed to find the answer to a question, instead of assuming that it will be read cover to cover.

  • Digital UNIX System Administrator's Guide

    • 1st Edition
    • Matthew Cheek
    • English
    Digital UNIX System Administrator's Guide is the first book to address Digital UNIX system administration from an experienced administrator's point of view. Every topic covered is specific to Digital UNIX, including installing and configuring the system; creating and managing user accounts; managing networking, printing and the Web; developing and implementing backup strategies; and tuning and troubleshooting.This book walks the novice Digital UNIX administrator through the initial system installation and is a guide through the main points of administering a Digital UNIX system. It also serves as a valuable reference guide for experienced UNIX system administrators who are new to Digital UNIX. It includes appendices that list URLs of valuable resources on the Web and detail useful public domain utilities and where to get them.About Digital UNIX: Digital UNIX sales grew by 51% last year, faster than the industry's UNIX growth. (Overall, high-end UNIX server sales gained 5% last year and midrange UNIX servers grew 34%.) Digital was the first to offer 64-bit architecture, which has caused Sun, HP and Silicon Graphics to follow their lead. The combination of Digital UNIX and Alpha technology provides extremely high system performance. Analysts say that UNIX has a good three to five year technology lead over Windows NT due to its scalability, reliability, and clustering ability.

  • Object-Relational DBMSs

    • 2nd Edition
    • Michael Stonebraker + 2 more
    • English
    Discover why object-relational technology is ideal for supporting a broad spectrum of data types and application areas, from financial services to multimedia data. In this completely revised and updated edition, database experts Michael Stonebraker and Paul Brown explore the object-relational paradigm and examine the most recent developments in the field.Specifically written for database application programmers, database analysts, and IT managers, this book includes detailed information on how to classify DBMS applications, where object-relational DBMSs fit in the database world, and what mechanisms are required to support such an engine.

  • Modern Cable Television Technology

    Video, Voice, and Data Communications
    • 1st Edition
    • Walter Ciciora + 2 more
    • English
    NEW EDITION NOW AVAILABLE! ISBN 1-55860-828-1Based on a tutorial workshop, this book overviews the technical details involved in a cable system. A complete descriptive reference of a cable television system. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference available on cable television technologies. It covers issues not addressed in any other book such as modern headend design, reliability calculations, modern architecture, and equipment interface.

  • Recursive Algebra, Analysis and Combinatorics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Recursive Model Theory

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Warping & Morphing of Graphical Objects

    • 1st Edition
    • Jonas Gomes + 3 more
    • English
    Warping and morphing permeate the realm of computer graphics. This classic book defines the field: it presents a unifying view of warping and morphing, combining a conceptual framework with a consolidated view of the state of the art. Coverage includes deformations of various graphical objects such as plane curves, images, surfaces, and volumes.The authors developed a full-featured warping and morphing system, Morphos, where several types of graphical objects and computation techniques coexist. Morphos is included on the companion CD-ROM.This book and CD-ROM offer the most comprehensive professional reference available on warping and morphing techniques. Together they are the complete source for both researchers whose main interests are in the mathematical and conceptual foundations and computer graphics professionals who need to incorporate more warping and morphing techniques into their applications.

  • Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide

    • 1st Edition
    • Michael Etzel
    • English
    This book is a subset of the Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide, which is only available on-line.The author has cut out any duplication with the printed Language Reference Manual and has added minimal material not available on-line, such as a chapter on using graphics.

  • Maple V by Example

    • 2nd Edition
    • Martha L. Abell + 1 more
    • English
    Maple V By Example, Second Edition bridges the gap between the very elementary handbooks addressing Maple V and the reference books written for advanced Maple V users. Whereas the First Edition focuses on Release 2 of Maple V, the vehicle for the Second Edition is Maple V, Version 5. The new edition remains an appropriate reference for all users of Maple V but is of particular value to students, instructors, engineers, business persons, and other professionals first learning to use Maple V.

  • The Fuzzy Systems Handbook

    A Practitioner's Guide to Building, Using, and Maintaining Fuzzy Systems
    • 2nd Edition
    • Earl Cox
    • English
    This new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to fuzzy logic, and leads the reader through the complete process of designing, constructing, implementing, verifying and maintaining a platform-independent fuzzy system model. The book has been extensively revised to bring the subject up-to-date, and features two new chapters: "Building and Using Fuzzy Cognitive Map Models" and "Building ME-OWA Models."The multiplatform CD-ROM contains all the C++ source code from the book's examples - but its real value is the robust package of fuzzy system related tools and utilities, featuring two notable components. First: Metus Systems' basic fuzzy modeling software, which includes complete C/C++ source code for creating and executing fuzzy models, a Visual Basic shell that can be used to create fuzzy sets and generate the C/C++ include files, and code for models for pricing, project management, risk assessment, and more. Second: The ME-OWA (Minimum-Entropy, Ordered Weighted Aggregation) decision modeling software from Fuzzy Logic, Inc. This software is used to focus on a single objective function from a set of alternatives given a fuzzy ranking among various alternatives. It is not only an important technique as a stand-alone tool, but is an important methodology in parameter selection (and parameterization ordering) for genetic algorithms and various data mining techniques. It is also an important technique used to establish rule and policy level peer weights in fuzzy models.

  • Implementing Extranets

    • 1st Edition
    • Randall Covill
    • English
    Many companies are attempting to meet their communication and collaboration needs by implementing extranets rather than by implementing new proprietary networks. Extranets use the Interent to connect remote offices and sites as well as business partners. As a result, extranets are standards-based and much less expensive to implement than are new proprietary networks. A great deal of controversy and technical innovation surrounds the implementation of extranets because many people feel that extranets do not yet meet the requirements of many commercial and individual users for access, availability, reliability, security, performance, ease of management, and ease of administration.Imple... Extranets directly addresses the great extranet controversy by providing practical examples and advice about overcoming the present limitations of extranets. This book will be of great interest to planners, designers, and implementors of extranets as well as to end users and business managers who wish to use extranets to meet their communication and collaboration needs.

  • Policy Issues in Modern Cartography

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • D.R. Fraser Taylor
    • English
    Policy Issues in Modern Cartography contains the views of national mapping agencies, legal scholars, the library community, the private sector and academia on these and many other important issues. The book begins with perspectives from national mapping agencies in Britain, Canada and the United States followed by a survey of the situation in Asia. The next three chapters deal primarily with legal issues such as copyright and intellectual property from both North American and European perspectives. Chapter 8 presents an important perspective on the key issues by a representative of the private sector followed by six chapters written primarily by academics including an important contribution by a map librarian. The volume concludes with an assessment of the challenges remaining.

  • Management of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Ahmed K. Elmagarmid + 2 more
    • English
    "As organizations have become more sophisticated, pressure to provide information sharing across dissimilar platforms has mounted. In addition, advances in distributed computing and networking combined with the affordable high level of connectivity, are making information sharing across databases closer to being accomplished...With the advent of the internet, intranets, and affordable network connectivity, business reengineering has become a necessity for modern corporations to stay competitive in the global market...An end-user in a heterogeneous computing environment should be able to not only invoke multiple exiting software systems and hardware devices, but also coordinate their interactions."--From the IntroductionSeventee... leaders in the field contributed chapters specifically for this unique book, together providing the most comprehensive resource on managing multidatabase systems involving heterogeneous and autonomous databases available today. The book covers virtually all fundamental issues, concepts, and major research topics.

  • Database Modeling and Design

    • 3rd Edition
    • Toby J. Teorey
    • English
    This new edition of Database Modeling & Design continues to focus on the techniques for relational database design introduced in previous editions, starting with the entity-relationship (ER) approach for data requirements specification and conceptual modeling. Author Toby Teorey then looks ahead to the common properties in data modeling and operations shared among the relational model and advanced database technologies such as the object-oriented, temporal, and multimedia models. A full chapter is devoted to database design techniques for data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP).Teorey covers the database life cycle from requirements analysis and logical design to physical design for local, distributed, and multidatabases. The discussion of basic principles is supplemented with a common, running example: a company personnel and project database based on real-life experiences and classroom testing.Written for both the novice and the professional database designer, this book is the essential resource for database modeling, including the building of standard SQL data definitions. The design rules set forth in this book are applicable to any SQL-based system, including IBM DB2, Oracle V8.0, Informix IDS-UDO, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise.

  • Wireless Communications Design Handbook

    Space Interference: Aspects of Noise, Interference and Environmental Concerns
    • 1st Edition
    • Reinaldo Perez
    • English
    Volume One of the Wireless Communications Design Handbook provides an in-depth look at interference problems in satellite communications. The material presented is from a satellite or spacecraft hardware point of view rather than from theoretical models. Each satellite subsystem is described in detail to point out interference and noise problems associated with it. The book also addresses typical architectures and hardware design issues in satellites. In addition, a detailed look at space interference is discussed with emphasis on the possible impact on satellite electronics.

  • Reference MWAPI

    • 1st Edition
    • James Hay
    • English
    Reference MWAPI shows readers how to develop robust Windows applications using the innovative M Windowing Applications Interface (MWAPI). This book uses numerous tables, illustrations, sample programs, images and discussions to demonstrate how high quality graphical user interface applications are created using a technology that insulates the user from the intricacies and complexities of any particular Windows environment. It shows how applications created through the host-independent development environment can be ported to any Windows platform with no change in source code while maintaining the look and feel of event-processing methodology. It examines portability and compact code, some of the traits the MWAPI shares with the Java programming language.Reference MWAPI includes valuable appendices designed for quick reference, and it is organized with the needs of a developer in mind. The material is structured to serve as a learning tool and resource for applications development. The integration of the MWAPI is divided into seven chapters that focus on particular components of the system. Exercises test the knowledge of the reader on selected highlights of each chapter.

  • Windows NT Security Guide

    • 1st Edition
    • Stewart S. Miller
    • English
    Windows NT is fast becoming the platform of choice for the majority of business applications in the IT industry today. While this platform has offered several significant enhancements in terms of providing a flexible GUI, the main benefit is functionality and control over the computing environment. One of the biggest gaps in computer security has originated with the operating system. For example, hackers have been able to penetrate the Unix operating system and compromise the integrity of the data because it was not designed with security in mind. Windows NT 5.0, however, has been built on a more secure foundation from conception to delivery in an effort to provide security. This text identifies specific ways to implement Windows NT effectively and securely throughout an organization, including mobile locations, and shows how to prepare and protect against information attacks.Protecting your corporate data is crucial to the success of your organization. Windows NT can offer you a secure operating environment, but only if you guard points of entry where a hacker could compromise your data integrity. Knowing how to provide security can literally ensure your business's future.

  • The Engineering of Large Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 46
    • English
    Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in hardware and software and in computer theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributors with a medium in which they can examine their subjects in greater depth and breadth than that allowed by standard journal articles. As a result, many articles have become standard references that continue to be of significant, lasting value despite the rapid growth taking place in the field.This volume is organized around engineering large scale software systems. It discusses which technologies are useful for building these systems, which are useful to incorporate in these systems, and which are useful to evaluate these systems.

  • UNIX for OpenVMS Users

    • 2nd Edition
    • Richard Holstein + 2 more
    • English
    UNIX for OpenVMS Users, Second Edition, is for users who are making the transition from OpenVMS to UNIX and provides a comprehensive comparison of commands and utilities. Starting from a working knowledge of OpenVMS, it takes an average user to a comparable knowledge of UNIX. It bridges the gap between OpenVMS and UNIX by explaining things in OpenVMS terms.The book begins with a tutorial discussing the concepts needed when working with UNIX and the common shell programs. Working into practical examples, the book shows simple daily tasks that map one-for-one from OpenVMS to UNIX. These include system access, file manipulation, text editing and mail. The examples provide commands that are as equivalent as possible, and point out subtle differences.Recent releases of OpenVMS and UNIX have added interfaces that are exactly the same between the operating systems, particularly POSIX and CDE. UNIX for OpenVMS Users, describes these interfaces briefly, mainly to reassure users how easy it can be to switch between the operating systems.

  • Computing with Mathematica

    • 1st Edition
    • Hartmut F.W. Hoft + 1 more
    • English
    Computing With Mathematica is a student-friendly courseware which equips students with the necessary tools to use Mathematica to solve problems in their engineering, physics, statistics, mathematics, or computer science courses. As a tutorial, students will benefit from learning on their own how to use Mathematica for problem-solving in technical fields. This learning program is ideal for introducing students to computing with Mathematica and for investigating topics.

  • Windows 98 Clear & Simple

    • 1st Edition
    • P K MCBRIDE
    • English
    Using a tutorial approach with easy-to-do tasks, Windows 98 Clear & Simple gets you started on Windows 98. As reviewers have found, this book has a concise and well laid out format that is clear, jargon free, and well-targeted. Ideal for a first-time user, this book contains concise material with excellent illustrations that make it simple to perform a task. Whether you're a manager or office employee who needs to get the job done quickly and efficiently, or someone working from scratch who needs a self-teaching approach that gives results fast, Windows 98 Clear & Simple will allow you to quickly master the essentials.Using a tutorial approach with easy-to-do tasks, Windows 98 Clear & Simple gets you started on Windows 98. As reviewers have found, this book has a concise and well laid out format that is clear, jargon free, and well-targeted. Ideal for a first-time user, this book contains concise material with excellent illustrations that make it simple to perform a task. Whether you're a manager or office employee who needs to get the job done quickly and efficiently, or someone working from scratch who needs a self-teaching approach that gives results fast, Windows 98 Clear & Simple will allow you to quickly master the essentials.For people learning to use Windows, this user-friendly guide will get you up and running quickly, and provide a good foundation to build on as you gain new skills. The author assumes that you're NOT a dummy, and gives you the information you need to get fast results from your Windows 98 operating system.

  • The Grid

    Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
    • 1st Edition
    • Ian Foster + 1 more
    • English
    The grid promises to fundamentally change the way we think about and use computing. This infrastructure will connect multiple regional and national computational grids, creating a universal source of pervasive and dependable computing power that supports dramatically new classes of applications. The Grid provides a clear vision of what computational grids are, why we need them, who will use them, and how they will be programmed.

  • The OpenVMS User's Guide

    • 2nd Edition
    • Patrick Holmay
    • English
    Completely updated and revised, The OpenVMS User's Guide continues to be the prime resource for new and non-technical users on how to use OpenVMS and customize it to their working environment. For more proficient users, the book serves as a quick look-up reference. The book begins with an introduction to the OpenVMS operating system and its built-in functions, and then provides a thorough explanation of OpenVMS files and directories, use of DCL, and how to edit files using EVE and EDT. It also discusses how to create command procedures and the Mail and Phone utilities. New to this edition are additional insights into application development and sending e-mail to remote notes via the Internet, remote logins and file transfers. Each chapter is liberally sprinkled with learning aids including summaries and tables of commands, exercises, and review quizzes.

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