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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
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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...
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Springer
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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
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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...
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Springer
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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...
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For Dummies
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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...
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For Dummies
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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...
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Springer
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2006-10-11
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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...
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Sybex
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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...
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Springer
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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...
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Springer
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2006-10-07
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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
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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
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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...
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Springer
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2006-10-03
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The International Workshop on “Human Interaction with Machines” is the sixth in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universität Berlin.The goal of those workshops is to bring together researchers from...
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Springer
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2006-10-03
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Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming. It offers a general...
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Springer
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2006-10-03
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Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary multimedia encryption and watermarking techniques, which enable a secure exchange of multimedia intellectual property.
Part I, Digital Rights Management (DRM) for Multimedia,...
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Springer
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2006-10-03
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Canadian Semantic Web is an edited volume based on the firstCanadian Web Working Symposium, June 2006, in Quebec, Canada. This volume includes but is not limited to the following popular topics: "Trust, Privacy, Security on the Semantic Web," "Semantic Grid and Semantic...
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Springer
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2006-09-28
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Data mining has emerged as a significant technology for gaining knowledge from vast quantities of data. However, concerns are growing that use of this technology can violate individual privacy. These concerns have led to a backlash against the technology, for example, a...
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Springer
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2006-09-28
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Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and businesses. The growing awareness of such repercussions has led to major public initiatives like the "Data Quality Act" in the USA and the "European 2003/98" directive...
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Springer
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2006-09-27
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