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Advances in technology have resulted in new and advanced methods to support decision-making. For example, artificial intelligence has enabled people to make better decisions through the use of Intelligent Decision Support Systems (DSS). Emerging research in DSS...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-05-15
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Software-as-a-Service has gained momentum as a software delivery and pricing model within the software industry. Existing practices of software vendors are challenged by a potential paradigm shift. This book analyzes the implications ofSoftware-as-a-Service on software...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-29
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With Computational Thinking in Sound, veteran educators Gena R. Greher and Jesse M. Heines provide the first book ever written for music fundamentals educators that is devoted specifically to music, sound, and technology. Using a student-centered approach that...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-04-11
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Video games have evolved to become a pervasive format which is beyond entertainment, enjoyed by a broad group of people rather than as a niche activity by hardcore gamers. However, to date, academic studies focusing on game localization and accessibility are few and far...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays attention to his structural empiricism as a framework for his views on scientific...
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Springer
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2014-02-19
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This book describes the benefits that emerge when the fields of constraint programming and concurrency meet. On the one hand, constraints can be used in concurrency theory to increase the conciseness and the expressive power of concurrent languages from a pragmatic...
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Atlantis Press
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2014-02-11
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Scheduling theory has received a growing interest since its origins in the second half of the 20th century. Developed initially for the study of scheduling problems with a single objective, the theory has been recently extended to problems involving multiple criteria....
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Springer
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2014-01-31
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As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or "liminal." The study and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-07
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Why a book on fault-tolerant search algorithms? Searching is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Time and again algorithmic and combinatorial issues originally studied in the context of search find application in the most diverse areas of computer...
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Springer
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2013-11-29
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Musicologue de réputation internationale connu pour ses éditions critiques de Girolamo Frescobaldi, Etienne Darbellay est aussi un homme de goût pour qui la peinture compte autant que la musique. Notre page de titre en rend compte. A fresco désigne une technique de...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-15
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The US, Europe, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputers – exascale machines capable of 10 to the 18th power calculations a second – by 2020. But the barriers are daunting: the challenge is to change the paradigm of high-performance...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-10-15
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Refinement is one of the cornerstones of the formal approach to software engineering, and its use in various domains has led to research on new applications and generalisation. This book brings together this important research in one volume, with the addition of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-08-30
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In this monograph we introduce and examine four new temporal logic formalisms that can be used as specification languages for the automated verification of the reliability of hardware and software designs with respect to a desired behavior. The work is organized in two...
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Atlantis Press
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2013-07-30
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IT-Projekte unterliegen stetig steigenden qualitativen und quantitativen Anforderungen und folglich fluktuierenden Einflussfaktoren. Die daraus resultierenden Risiken bedingen ein häufiges Verfehlen der Projektziele bis hin zum Projektabbruch. Insbesondere Veränderungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-12
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Corporate information technology plays a crucial role in achieving operational and strategic goals. IT governance has therefore become a central issue to research and practice. While existing IT governance frameworks suggest the implementation of IT governance...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-12
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This book addresses logistics problems (e.g., routing and partitioning problems) that are encountered in intermodal freight transportation. The reader is given an overview of the relevant literature, as well as of different mathematical formulations. Moreover,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-07
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Music is much more than listening to audio encoded in some unreadable binary format. It is, instead, an adventure similar to reading a book and entering its world, complete with a story, plot, sound, images, texts, and plenty of related data with, for instance,...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr
Parution :
2013-03-12
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Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is one of the most powerful tools developed by modern cryptography: it facilitates collaboration among mutually distrusting parties by implementing a virtual trusted party. Despite the remarkable potential of such a tool, and decades...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-01-15
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Dieser Band stellt eine Plattform zur Diskussion von aktuellen sowie innovativ orientierten Themen aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Perspektiven bereit. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Auseinandersetzung mit den technisch-/technologischen Entwicklungen einzelner...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-26
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Comment se compose la mémoire du spectacle ? Les bibliothèques et les musées s’attachant à l’entretenir ont parfois du mal à contenir une matière aussi multiforme. Chaque collection a son histoire, chaque institution a dû faire face à diverses difficultés. Dans cette...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-06-04
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