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Visual Perception of Music Notation: On-Line and Off-Line Recognition

IRM Press, 2004

One of the initial challenges in any Optical Music Recognition (OMR) system is
the treatment of the staves. For musicians, stavelines are required to facilitate
reading the notes. For the machine, however, it becomes an obstacle for making
the segmentation of the symbols very difficult. The task of separating
background from...

Current Security Management & Ethical Issues of Information Technology

IRM Press, 2003

This scholarly examination of the ethical issues in information technology management covers basic details such as improving user education and developing security requirements as well as more complicated and far-reaching problems.

Corporate and individual behaviors are increasingly publicized as reports of scandals around the world are...

Modern Software Review: Techniques and Technologies

IRM Press, 2006

The overall objective and mission the proposed book is to provide:
• An understanding of the critical factors affecting software review
perfomance.
• Practical guidelines for software reviews.

Readers will gain a deep understanding of current software review literature
and theoretical models for analysis...

Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities

IRM Press, 2005

With the rapid growth of the wireless mobile applications, wireless voice has
begun to challenge wireline voice, whereas the desire to access e-mail, surf the
Web or download music (e.g., MP3) wirelessly is increasing for wireless data.
While second generation (2G) cellular wireless systems, such as cdmaOne1,
GSM2 and TDMA3,...

Video Data Management and Information Retrieval

IRM Press, 2004

Video data management and information retrieval are very important areas of
research in computer technology. Plenty of research is being done in these fields at
present. These two areas are changing our lifestyles because together they cover
creation, maintenance, accessing, and retrieval of video, audio, speech, and text data...

Skills for Managing Rapidly Changing IT Projects

IRM Press, 2005

The subject of this book is the skills that are needed for managing software
projects in the Internet era, when projects evolve rapidly, requirements change
often, and new methodologies, techniques, and tools for management emerge.
In this book, I have tried to transfer all my experience and the lessons learned
about the...

UML and the Unified Process

IRM Press, 2003

This book provides a set of readings on the state-of-the-art and the state-of-thepractice
of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Unified Process (UP).

UML is a language for specifying, visualizing, constructing and documenting
software- intensive systems. It is a unifier of proven software modeling languages that...

Innovations of Knowledge Management

IRM Press, 2004

The importance of organizational knowledge has been recognized for over
fifty years. In recent years, organizations worldwide have embraced formal
knowledge management initiatives as a way to create value from their intangible
assets. Knowledge has proven so vital to organizational success that a
new organizational form –...

The 2nd Digital Revolution

IRM Press, 2005

In the 1990s I sat in the office of a CFO of what was then a Fortune 100
company. He was not happy about the annual technology bill. Back then –
and for decades before – technology was tactical. He said something about
technology being his last unmanaged expense. I gave him a list of 10 things
we should do to improve...

Object-Oriented Oracle

IRM Press, 2005

Object orientation has now invaded traditional relational database-management
systems. Oracle™ without exception has included object-oriented features
in its system. SQL is now richer due to these additional features. However,
the object-oriented elements in Oracle™ will not be fully utilized without
...

3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for the Human Body

IRM Press, 2004

The emergence of virtual reality applications and human-like interfaces has
given rise to the necessity of producing realistic models of the human body.
Building and animating a synthetic, cartoon-like, model of the human body has
been practiced for many years in the gaming industry and advances in the game
platforms have led to...

Virtual Education: Cases in Learning & Teaching Technologies

IRM Press, 2003

Early computer researchers sought ways to use the new invention for learning
and teaching purposes. Instructional computing at that time took place on mainframes
in the form of typing and reading text, but serious efforts were made to
further utilize the computer power to serve education. Examples include the Programmed
Logic...

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