Authors
- Distributed, and Network-based Processing (10th : 2002 : Canary Islands) Euromicro Workshop on Parallel
Dewey code: 004
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Review Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (Euromicro-PDP 2002), 10th Euromicro Workshop on / Inst Elect & Electronic Engineers:
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 346
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Review The Legal Protection of Databases (Hawksmere Report) / Thorogood:Inventions can be patented, knowledge can be protected through the law of trade secrets, but information itself? The form or medium of information can be protected by copyright but information itself is more difficult. It cannot be owned. So how can the law effectively protect it?Both the law - and hence the commercial realities - remain uncertain. Professional advisers must at least be fully up to speed with what the law currently says [and doesn't say] and what the implications are. This Special Report examines the current EU [and so EEA] law on the legal protection of databases, including the sui generis right established when the European Union adopted its Directive 96/9/EC in 1996.
Creator: D. Leake
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-29
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $199.00
Price: $180.10
Review Intelligent Information Processing IV: 5th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, October 19-22, 2008, Beijing, China (IFIP ... Federation for Information Processing) / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing held in Beijing, China on October 19-22, 2008. The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.
Authors
- Frans Coenen
- Anca Vermesan
Publication date: 1999-09-01
Dewey code: 006.33
List Price: $199.00
Price: $181.46
Review Validation and Verification of Knowledge Based Systems - Theory, Tools and Practice / Springer:Knowledge-based (KB) technology is being applied to complex problem-solving and critical tasks in many application domains. Concerns have naturally arisen as to the dependability of knowledge-based systems (KBS). As with any software, attention to quality and safety must be paid throughout development of a KBS and rigorous verification and validation (V&V) techniques must be employed. Research in V&V of KBS has emerged as a distinct field only in the last decade and is intended to address issues associated with quality and safety aspects of KBS and to credit such applications with the same degree of dependability as conventional applications. In recent years, V&V of KBS has been the topic of annual workshops associated with the main AI conferences, such as AAAI, IJACI and ECAI. Validation and Verification of Knowledge Based Systems contains a collection of papers, dealing with all aspects of KBS V&V, presented at the Fifth European Symposium on Verification and Validation of Knowledge Based Systems and Components (EUROVAV'99. ) which was held in Oslo in the summer of 1999, and was sponsored by Det Norske Veritas and the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Expert Systems (SGES).
Creator: David Taniar
Publication date: 2007-12
List Price: $180.00
Price: $180.00
Review Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Technologies (Advances in Data Warehousing and Mining Series,) / Information Science Reference:As information technology continues to advance in massive increments, the bank of information available from personal, financial, and business electronic transactions and all other electronic documentation and data storage is growing at an exponential rate. With this wealth of information comes the opportunity and necessity to utilize this information to maintain competitive advantage and process information effectively in real-world situations. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Technologies presents researchers and practitioners in fields such as knowledge management, information science, Web engineering, and medical informatics, with comprehensive, innovative research on data mining methods, structures, tools, and methods, the knowledge discovery process, and data marts, among many other cutting-edge topics.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-03-31
Dewey code: 005.74
List Price: $219.00
Price: $183.70
Review A Textbook of Belief Dynamics: Theory Change and Database Updating (Applied Logic Series) / Springer:The mid-1980s saw the discovery of logical tools that make it possible to model changes in belief and knowledge in entirely new ways. These logical tools turned out to be applicable to both human beliefs and to the contents of databases. Philosophers, logicians, and computer scientists have contributed to making this interdisciplinary field one of the most exciting in the cognitive scientists - and one that is expanding rapidly. This, the first textbook in the new area, contains both discursive chapters with a minimum of formalism and formal chapters in which proofs and proof methods are presented. Using different selections from the formal sections, according to the author's detailed advice, allows the book to be used at all levels of university education. A supplementary volume contains solutions to the 210 exercises. The volume's unique, comprehensive coverage means that it can also be used by specialists in the field of belief dynamics and related areas, such as non-monotonic reasoning and knowledge representation.
Creator: Keith Godfrey
Publication date: 1993-10
Dewey code: 003.1
Price: $55.00
Review Perturbation Signals for System Identification (Prentice Hall International Series in Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing) / Prentice Hall:
Creator: Tetsuo Tomiyama
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-05-31
Dewey code: 670
List Price: $229.00
Price: $183.20
Review Knowledge Intensive CAD: Volume 1 / Springer:Knowledge-Intensive CAD clarifies and elaborates the concepts of knowledge-intensive design and CAD. In today's advanced manufacturing environment, CAD systems should not only assist designers and engineers during product design, but also in design information for use in later stages of the process such as production, distribution and operation. This book focuses on the sharing of knowledge across life-cycle stages and organizational boundaries.
Creator: David Powell
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-01-31
Dewey code: 004.33
List Price: $229.00
Price: $183.20
Review A Generic Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Real-Time Dependable Systems / Springer:The design of computer systems to be embedded in critical real-time applications is a complex task. Such systems must not only guarantee to meet hard real-time deadlines imposed by their physical environment, they must guarantee to do so dependably, despite both physical faults (in hardware) and design faults (in hardware or software). A fault-tolerance approach is mandatory for these guarantees to be commensurate with the safety and reliability requirements of many life- and mission-critical applications. A Generic Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Real-Time Dependable Systems explains the motivations and the results of a collaborative project(*), whose objective was to significantly decrease the lifecycle costs of such fault-tolerant systems. The end-user companies participating in this project currently deploy fault-tolerant systems in critical railway, space and nuclear-propulsion applications. However, these are proprietary systems whose architectures have been tailored to meet domain-specific requirements. This has led to very costly, inflexible, and often hardware-intensive solutions that, by the time they are developed, validated and certified for use in the field, can already be out-of-date in terms of their underlying hardware and software technology. The project thus designed a generic fault-tolerant architecture with two dimensions of redundancy and a third multi-level integrity dimension for accommodating software components of different levels of criticality. The architecture is largely based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components and follows a software-implemented approach so as to minimise the need for special hardware. Using an associated development and validation environment, system developers may configure and validate instances of the architecture that can be shown to meet the very diverse requirements of railway, space, nuclear-propulsion and other critical real-time applications. [+]This book describes the rationale of the generic architecture, the design and validation of its communication, scheduling and fault-tolerance components, and the tools that make up its design and validation environment. The book concludes with a description of three prototype systems that have been developed following the proposed approach. (*) Esprit project No. 20716: GUARDS: a Generic Upgradable Architecture for Real-time Dependable Systems.
Authors
- Thomas Ralya
- Mark Klein
- Michael González Harbour
- Ray Obenza
- Bill Pollak
Publication date: 1993-08-31
Dewey code: 005.2
List Price: $227.00
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Review A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems (Electronic Materials: Science & Technology) / Springer:Guide to rate monotomic analysis for real-time systems. Contains a collection of quantitative methods that enable real-time system developers to understand, analyze, and predict the timing behavior of many real-time systems. DLC: Real-time data processing.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-01-15
Dewey code: 005.74
List Price: $212.00
Price: $180.55
Review Perceptual Metrics for Image Database Navigation (The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Volume 594) (The Springer International ... Series in Engineering and Computer Science) / Springer:With the increasing number of images available electronically, automatic retrieval systems are becoming essential. This book introduces an absolute prerequisite for any such system: a metric, called the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD), for comparing images in terms of their appearance. This metric describes the amount of work that is necessary to transform one image into another, in a precisely defined mathematical sense, and in a flexible and perceptually meaningful manner. An efficient linear programming algorithm enables the computation of this metric fast enough to be used for the interactive retrieval of images from large repositories. The perceptual properties of the EMD, and the speed of its computation, lead to database navigation, a new paradigm for interacting with a repository of images. When navigating, the user is shown a very large number of images in response to a query. The EMD between pairs of images, together with a multidimensional scaling method, allows these images to be displayed so that similar images appear near to each other on the computer screen. In this way, the user can grasp at a glance what is returned, and can reach the images of interest with a small number of mouse clicks. A CD-ROM with full color images is included. Extensive benchmark evaluations and example retrieval systems show the usefulness of the EMD and the advantages of image database navigation. [+]This book will be of interest to researchers, industrial professionals, and graduate and post-graduate students in the fields of Computer Vision; Image Processing; Data Mining; Digital Libraries; Psychophysics; Computer Science; Electrical Engineering.
Creator: Bernd Kleinjohann
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-04-30
Dewey code: 004.36
List Price: $230.00
Price: $184.00
Review Architecture and Design of Distributed Embedded Systems / Springer:Due to the decreasing production costs of IT systems, applications that had to be realised as expensive PCBs formerly, can now be realised as a system-on-chip. Furthermore, low cost broadband communication media for wide area communication as well as for the realisation of local distributed systems are available. Typically the market requires IT systems that realise a set of specific features for the end user in a given environment, so called embedded systems. Some examples for such embedded systems are control systems in cars, airplanes, houses or plants, information and communication devices like digital TV, mobile phones or autonomous systems like service- or edutainment robots. For the design of embedded systems the designer has to tackle three major aspects: The application itself including the man-machine interface, The (target) architecture of the system including all functional and non-functional constraints and, the design methodology including modelling, specification, synthesis, test and validation. The last two points are a major focus of this book. This book documents the high quality approaches and results that were presented at the International Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES 2000), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and organised by IFIP working groups WG10. 3, WG10. 4 and WG10. 5. [+]The workshop took place on October 18-19, 2000, in Schloß Eringerfeld near Paderborn, Germany. Architecture and Design of Distributed Embedded Systems is organised similar to the workshop. Chapters 1 and 4 (Methodology I and II) deal with different modelling and specification paradigms and the corresponding design methodologies. Generic system architectures for different classes of embedded systems are presented in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3 several design environments for the support of specific design methodologies are presented. Problems concerning test and validation are discussed in Chapter 5. The last two chapters include distribution and communication aspects (Chapter 6) and synthesis techniques for embedded systems (Chapter 7). This book is essential reading for computer science researchers and application developers.
Creator: Roberto Gorrieri
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999-02-28
Dewey code: 005.117
List Price: $228.00
Price: $182.40
Review Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing) / Springer:Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems presents the leading edge in several related fields, specifically object-orientated programming, open distributed systems and formal methods for object-oriented systems. With increased support within industry regarding these areas, this book captures the most up-to-date information on the subject. Many topics are discussed, including the following important areas: object-oriented design and programming; formal specification of distributed systems; open distributed platforms; types, interfaces and behaviour; formalisation of object-oriented methods. This volume comprises the proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS), sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) which was held in Florence, Italy, in February 1999. Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems is suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level courses in computer science and telecommunications, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry, commerce and government.
Publication date: 2003-07-20
Dewey code: 005.75'85
Price: $180.92
Review MySQL / CampusPress:For years, MySQL has been helping MySQL developers and database administrators learn their MySQL system inside and out. This newest edition has been updated to include information on MySQL 5 and it will prove itself again to you as being the most definitive reference guide to using, administering and programming MySQL databases. You'll learn everything from the basics to using MySQL to generate dynamic web pages to administering MySQL servers. This edition has been reviewed by the top developers in the MySQL community and the changes reflect their feedback, as well as the feedback of many other readers, and it has turned out to be the most comprehensive, thorough edition of MySQL to date. Don't go to work without it! The unexpected pleasure of reading books about databases is that they are often written by authors with highly organized minds. Paul DuBois and his editors at New Riders have assembled MySQL with a clarity and lucidity that inspires confidence in the subject matter: a (nearly) freely redistributable SQL-interpreting database client/server primarily geared for Unix systems but maintained for Windows platforms as well. What isn't "free" about MySQL (the application) is its server's commercial use; all clients and noncommercial server use are free. DuBois's tome isn't free either, but its list price is modest in light of its value and the value of its namesake. The volume is superbly organized into 12 chapters and 10 appendices and contains a concise table of contents and a comprehensive 50-page index. It is peppered with references to the online HTML documentation that comes with the source and binary distributions (which are available and easy to install in stable rpm and tar releases. [+]) The first third of MySQL is an excellent instruction tool for database newbies; the second third is a detailed reference for MySQL developers; and the last third consists of clearly annotated appendices, including C, Perl (but not Python), and PHP interfaces. Perhaps as an indication of the collective will of the developers of MySQL, DuBois does not separate Windows 95/98/NT design or development specifics from its main discussions. Platform-independent design is a goal, not a reality, and users will have to rely on newsgroups and mailing lists for details. Moreover, security issues are addressed in a mere 18 pages, a large part of which is devoted to standard Unix file and network-access permissions. Next to nothing is mentioned about defense against common hacking strategies, the use of secure shell interfaces, or access encryption. Although it is nearly 800 pages in length, DuBois's book is thankfully not encyclopedic. It is a valuable précis of the MySQL database, and its easy-to-skim look and feel will make it an excellent browse for database experts who want to know what is and is not possible within MySQL, the application. -Peter Leopold.
Creator: Tiziana Catarci
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-04-30
Dewey code: 006.42
List Price: $264.00
Price: $205.88
Review Advances in Visual Information Management: Visual Database Systems / Springer:This state-of-the-art book explores new concepts, tools, and techniques for both visual interfaces to database systems and management of visual data. It provides intensive discussion of original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and evaluation. The following topics are covered in detail: + Video retrieval; + Information visualization; + Modeling and recognition; + Image similarity retrieval and clustering; + Spatio-temporal databases; + Visual querying; + Visual user interfaces. The book also includes invited lectures by recognized leaders in the fields of user interfaces and multimedia database systems. These are `hot' topics within the main themes of the book and are intended to lay the seeds for fruitful discussions on the future development of visual information management. The book comprises the proceedings of the Fifth Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB5), held in Fukuoka, Japan, in May 2000, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing. Advances in Visual Information Management will be essential reading for computer scientists and engineers, database designers and practitioners, and researchers working in human-computer communication.
Creator: Stephen T.C. Wong
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-09-30
Dewey code: 616.07540285
List Price: $232.00
Price: $214.50
Review Medical Image Databases (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) / Springer:Medical Image Databases covers the new technologies of biomedical imaging databases and their applications in clinical services, education, and research. Authors were selected because they are doing cutting-edge basic or technology work in relevant areas. This was done to infuse each chapter with ideas from people actively investigating and developing medical image databases rather than simply review the existing literature. The authors have analyzed the literature and have expanded on their own research. They have also addressed several common threads within their generic topics. These include system architecture, standards, information retrieval, data modeling, image visualizations, query languages, telematics, data mining, and decision supports. The new ideas and results reported in this volume suggest new and better ways to develop imaging databases and possibly lead us to the next information infrastructure in biomedicine. Medical Image Databases is suitable as a textbook for a graduate-level course on biomedical imaging or medical image databases, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 005
Price: $48.75
Review The IBM Totalstorage Ds6000 Series: Implementation (IBM Redbooks) / IBM.Com/Redbooks:
Creator: Sohail Chaudhry
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $269.00
Price: $184.05
Review Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems IIVolume 1: IFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues ... Federation for Information Processing) / Springer:International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.
Creator: Stan Budkowski
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-01-31
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $282.00
Price: $278.78
Review Protocol Test Systems VIII (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing) / Springer:
Publication date: 2000-01
Review Windows 2000 (Missing Manuals) / O'Reilly & Associates:
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