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Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook presents optical networking in a very comprehensive way for nonengineers needing to understand the fundamentals of fiber, high-capacity, high-speed equipment and networks, and upcoming carrier services. The book provides a...
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Wiley-Interscience
Parution :
2006-10-25
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ColdFusion is an extremely powerful web-development tool. Despite its short initial learning curve, attributed to its accessible HTML-like, tag-based syntax, it provides sophisticated content-management solutions for large-scale enterprises. This has never been truer...
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Sybex
Parution :
2006-10-25
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Computational geometry emerged as a discipline in the seventies and has had considerable success in improving the asymptotic complexity of the solutions tobasicgeometricproblemsincludingconstructionsofdatastructures,convex hulls, triangulations, Voronoi diagrams and...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-10-24
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) forms an essential branch of computer science. The field covered by AI is multiform and gathers subjects as various as the engineering of knowledge, the automatic treatment of the language, the training, to quote only some of them. The...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-10-15
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Computer Science and Operations Research continue to have a synergistic relationship and this book represents the results of the cross-fertilization between OR/MS and CS/AI. It is this interface of OR/CS that makes possible advances that could not have been achieved in...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-10-13
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The CoreGRID Network of Excellence (NoE) project began in September 2004. Two months later, in November 2004, the first CoreGRID Integra tion Workshop was held within the framework of the prestigious international Dagstuhl seminars. CoreGRID aims at strengthening and...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-10-12
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Communication is one of the main activities in software projects, many such projects fail or encounter serious problems because the stakeholders involved have different understandings of the problem domain and/or they use different terminologies. Ontologies can help to...
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Springer
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2006-10-12
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This highly topical text considers the construction of the next generation of the Web, called the Semantic Web.This will enable computers to automatically consume Web-based information, overcoming the human-centric focus of the Web as it stands at present, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-10-12
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Several works on multimedia storage appear in literature today, but very little if any, have been devoted to handling long duration video retrieval, over large scale networks. Distributed retrieval of multimedia documents, especially the long duration documents, is an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-10-11
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A classical queueing model consists of three parts - arrival process, service process, and queue discipline. However, a vacation queueing model has an additional part - the vacation process which is governed by a vacation policy - that can be characterized by three...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-10-11
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Face recognition has been actively studied over the past decade and continues to be a big research challenge. Just recently, researchers have begun to investigate face recognition under unconstrained conditions. UnconstrainedFace Recognition provides a comprehensive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-10-11
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Do you roam the road making a living, or are you enjoying the nomadic life of a retiree with a motor home? Either way, life goes on no matter where you're hanging your hat tonight. Bills still need to be paid, grandchildren grow up way too fast, and you've gotten pretty...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2006-10-11
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Keep your laptop on top of its game! Find out how to care for your laptop, what can go wrong, and what you can fix A laptop is much more than a PC that shrank. It has unique needs, and this book shows you how to meet them. You'll discover how to diagnose and fix...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2006-10-11
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The area intersecting supply chains management with multiagent systems has attracted in the last decade books, workshops, conferences, etc. Recently however, multiagent systems have became more formal borrowing from operations research, game theory and other facets from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-10-11
Collection :
Studies in Computational Intelligence
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of open-source developers, Cocoon has quickly gained visibility as the preeminent XML-based Web publishing framework. Unfortunately, its documentation remains a significant shortcoming. If you're new to Cocoon, gaining a sense of exactly...
Editeur :
Sybex
Parution :
2006-10-11
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Currently, there is a considerable interest in integrating the results of information extraction in retrieval systems, because of the growing demand for search engines that return precise answers to flexible information queries. Advanced retrieval models satisfy that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-10-10
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Automated question answering - the ability of a machine to answer questions, simple or complex, posed in ordinary human language - is one of today’s most exciting technological developments. It has all the markings of a disruptive technology, one that is poised to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-10-07
Collection :
Text, Speech and Language Technology
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Contact mechanics has its application in many engineering problems. No one can walk without frictional contact, and no car would move for the same r- son. Hence contact mechanics has, from an engineering point of view, a long history, beginning in ancient Egypt with the...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-10-06
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Until the late eighties, information processing was associated with large mainframe computers and huge tape drives. During the nineties, this trend shifted towards information processing with personal computers, or PCs. The trend towards miniaturization continues. In...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-10-04
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Image registration is an emerging topic in image processing with many applications in medical imaging, picture and movie processing. The classical problem of image registration is concerned with ?nding an appropriate transformation between two data sets. This fuzzy...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-10-03
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