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Your UNIX/Linux: The Ultimate Guide, written with both users and programmers in mind, is the ultimate UNIX/Linux text. Both pedagogical tool and exhaustive reference, it is well-suited to any course that includes UNIX or Linux. A strong pedagogical framework sets it apart from similar texts and allows beginning students to gain a firm grasp...

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In recent years, new paradigms have emerged to replace-or augment-the traditional, mathematically based approaches to optimization. The most powerful of these are genetic algorithms (GA), inspired by natural selection, and genetic programming, an extension of GAs based on the optimization of symbolic codes.

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Intelligent information and database systems are two closely related and we- established subfields of modern computer science. They focus on the integration of artificial intelligence and classic database technologies in order to create the class of next generation information systems. The major target of this new gene- tion of systems is to...

• provides a simple, easy-to-understand, hands-on introduction to MATLAB
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In many Oracle shops today third-party applications are the norm. The major problem for DBAs with these third-party applications is that you are not allowed to alter the source code of the SQL used within the application. Many times the application will generate SQL statements in an ad-hoc manner that further complicates the tuning picture....

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