The increasing costs of creating and maintaining infrastructures for delivering services to consumers have led to the emergence of cloud based third party service providers renting networks, computation power, storage, and even entire software application suites. On the other hand, service customers demand competitive pricing, service level...
CICLing 2011 was the 12th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. The CICLing conferences provide a wide-scope forum for the discussion of the art and craft of natural language processing research as well as the best practices in its applications.
Continuing advances in the development of wireless and Internet technologies generate ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing of georeferenced data of all types. Spatially-aware wireless and Internet devices also offer new ways of accessing and analyzing geo-spatial information in both realworld and virtual spaces....
Software automates a wide variety of business processes in modern enterprises. Changes made to software are, in effect, changes made to the business processes themselves that govern and automate the internal and external operations of an organization.Without a proper disciplined approach to change management, enterprises lack a full...
This volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science contains revised versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2010. The conference was held at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, on August 12–15, 2010. The previous CIAA conferences were held in London,...
Microsoft SharePoint is one of the biggest productivity frameworks released during the last ten years. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is just the last step of a fabulous journey (that began in 2001) in the world of business productivity, collaboration, knowledge sharing, search technologies, and social networking.
In the early days, embedded systems were built primarily by engineers in a
pretty exclusive club. Embedded devices and software tools were expensive,
and building a functional prototype required significant software engineering and electrical engineering experience.
With the arrival of Arduino, the open source electronics...
Microsoft Expression Blend 4 is Microsoft’s newest interactive design tool. It’s intended for
designers and developers who need to create user interfaces for rich Internet, desktop, and
mobile applications—and it offers tools that support the design of such applications, from
conception to completion.
This book was written to give beginning 3D artists a map
through the art and how to get involved in the 3D industry. You
can use this book by reading all the way through it cover to cover
with or without doing the tutorials, by picking and choosing
chapters based on gaps you want to fill, or as a quick reference to
a concept you...
First, note that I have used Zen in the title of this book. I have
been asked many times why I used such an esoteric term. After
all, what is the meaning of Zen? To clarify the meaning of Zen,
we must examine the philosophical environment that gave rise
to Zen: Indian and Chinese philosophies. In India, Buddhism
arose out of a Hindu...
Take advantage of your computer's features and tools right away--the QuickSteps way. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions make it easy to accomplish everything you want to do. Follow along and quickly learn how to navigate the Windows operating system; get online; use...
Mathematics and mathematical modelling are of central importance in computer science. For this reason the teaching concepts of mathematics in computer science have to be constantly reconsidered, and the choice of material and the motivation have to be adapted. This applies in particular to mathematical analysis, whose significance has to be...
