Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) is a highly effective and increasingly popular form of genetic programming. It represents programs in the form of directed graphs, and a particular characteristic is that it has a highly redundant genotype–phenotype mapping, in that genes can be noncoding. It has spawned a number of new...
MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality for MySQL. Built by some of the original authors of MySQL, with assistance from the broader community of free and open source software developers, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature enhancements to MySQL, including alternate storage engines,...
Creating standards-compliant animations for the Web just got a lot easier. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to convert Flash animations into HTML5, using Wallaby—the experimental tool from Adobe. Wallaby makes Flash content available for devices that don't support Flash runtimes, including the iPhone and...
An essential element of secure coding in the Java programming language is a welldocumented and enforceable coding standard. The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java provides rules for secure coding in the Java programming language. The goal of these rules is to eliminate insecure coding practices that can lead to exploitable...
This book grew out of my experience teaching MATLAB® and other computing languages to freshmen engineering students at Salt Lake Community College. I was frustrated by the lack of a text that “started at the beginning.” Although there were many comprehensive reference books, they assumed a level of both mathematical and...
This book is an intermediate-level introduction to Xcode 4, Apple’s integrated
development environment. It assumes you have some development experience
and are familiar with the Cocoa API. It won’t teach you how to write code or much
at all about Cocoa. There are other books for that. This one is strictly focused on...
Many readers may be awaiting the third edition of IPv6 Essentials. The event on February 3, 2011, when the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) finally announced the depletion of the global IPv4 address pool changed the world. People seemed to wake up and realize it was high time to start planning for IPv6. But where to start? ...
Shimon was a great computer scientist who inspired generations of Israeli
stutents and young researchers, including many future leaders of theoretical
computer science.
He was a master at creating combinatorial algorithms, constructions, and
proofs. He always sought the simplest and most lucid solutions. Because...
Innovation in Wind Turbine Design addresses the fundamentals of design, the reasons behind design choices, and describes the methodology for evaluating innovative systems and components. Always referencing a state of the art system for comparison, Jamieson discusses the basics of wind turbine theory and design, as well as how to apply...
This book takes a fresh look at the popular and well-established method of maximum likelihood for statistical estimation and inference. It begins with an intuitive introduction to the concepts and background of likelihood, and moves through to the latest developments in maximum likelihood methodology, including general latent variable...
You may be reading this book for many reasons. It could be because you heard all about
Hadoop and what it can do to crunch petabytes of data in a reasonable amount of time.
While reading into Hadoop you found that, for random access to the accumulated data,
there is something called HBase. Or it was the hype that is prevalent these days...
From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider’s look at how today’s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy.
Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the...
