We have witnessed significant advances in multimedia research and applications due to
the rapid increase in digital media, computing power, communication speed, and storage
capacity. Multimedia has become an indispensable aspect in contemporary daily life,
and we can feel its presence in many applications ranging from online...
This is the third edition of this book. We wanted to improve upon the first two editions and update the book with new features of the Windows Phone OS, as well as provide hands-on knowledge on how to program the plethora of features offered by Windows Phone devices.
While the second edition was being written, Microsoft and...
[Note: This Second Edition is also available in Kindle format!]
Wireshark is the world's most popular network analyzer tool with over 500,000 downloads per month. This book provides insider tips and tricks to spot performance issues fast - no more finger pointing because the packets never lie! From "Death by...
Vision plays a fundamental role for living beings by allowing them to interact with the environment in an effective and efficient way. The Machine Vision goal is to endow computing devices, and more generally artificial systems, with visual capabilities in order to cope with not a priori predetermined situations. To this end, we have to take...
Holcombe, "Survey of Operating Systems, 3e" is 'your foundation for IT Success!' McGraw-Hill is proud to introduce the third edition of Jane and Charles Holcombe's, "Survey of Operating Systems". This edition is a unique revision of the successful previous editions. Every chapter has been updated to include...
“Amsterdam’s compact core is laced by atmospheric lanes and quarters. You never know what you’ll find: a hidden garden, a jenever distillery, even an old monastery turned music venue.” – Karla Zimmerman, Lonely Planet Writer
Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades. Recent rapid developments in the area require analyzing energy systems not as independent components but rather as connected interdependent networks. The Handbook of Networks in Power Systems includes the state-of-the-art developments that occurred in the power systems...
More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than...
Imagine a public storage system that has a place online for structured data about everything that exists—or that could exist. This book introduces Fluidinfo, a system that enables you to store information about anything, real or imaginary, in any digital form. You’ll learn how to organize and search for data, and decide...
If you’re an iOS app developer, chances are you’ll be using table views somewhere in your development projects. Table views are the bread and butter of iOS apps. With them, you can create everything from the simplest of lists to fully tricked-out user interfaces. Table views are one of the more complex components found in UIKit....
Explosive growth in the size of spatial databases has highlighted the need for spatial
data analysis and spatial data mining techniques to mine the interesting but implicit
spatial patterns within these large databases. Extracting useful and interesting patterns
from massive geo-spatial datasets is important for many application...
The Handbook of Service Description introduces an in-depth overview of service description efforts. The book also highlights the recent Unified Service Description Language (USDL) in detail and discusses its methods.
The Handbook of Service Description is the normative scientific reference for the upcoming standardization of the...
