Computers & Internet Books

Mobile context-awareness is a popular research trend in the field of ubiquitous computing. Advances in mobile device sensory hardware and the rise of 'virtual' sensors such as web application programming interfaces (APIs) mean that the mobile user is exposed to a vast range of data that can be used ...

Extend your expertise as you move beyond the basics -- and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 4. This comprehensive reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples in Microsoft Visual C#(R) and Visual Basic(R) to help advance your mastery of developi...

This latest addition to the acclaimed "Digital Photo" Art series will bring photographers and mixed-media fine artists alike to a new level of creativity. Theresa Airey introduces a variety of hands-on and software techniques that can transform conventional photos into visually exciting works of art...

Written by prominent experts in the field, this monograph provides the first comprehensive, unified presentation of the structural, algorithmic and applied aspects of the theory of Boolean functions. The book focuses on algebraic representations of Boolean functions, especially disjunctive and conju...

The new edition of a bestseller, now revised and update throughout! This new edition of the unparalleled bestseller serves as a full training course all in one and as the world's largest data storage company, EMC is the ideal author for such a critical resource. They cover the components of a storag...

In Xcode 4 Unleashed, renowned Mac/iOS developer Fritz Anderson shows how to use Apple's powerful new Xcode 4 integrated development environment to develop outstanding software with the least effort possible. Anderson demonstrates Xcode 4 by walking through the construction of three full applicatio...

Although developers have covered a lot of topics and activities with nearly 200,000 apps for the iPhone, they have yet to tap the riches of location-based and augmented reality applications. This book shows you how to use iPhone's sensors -- the three-axis accelerometer, GPS, digital compass, and ca...

While compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined - ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source a...

NCOfunctions are "simple" functions for which every bit of the output can be computed by reading a small number of bits of their input. The study of cryptography in NCO attempts to construct cryptographic functions that achieve this strong notion of simplicity and simultaneously provide a high level...

The ultimate resource on the newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux handles all your enterprise computing needs - and this guide answers all your Red Hat questions! Packed with invaluable information on the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this book emphasizes...

From Pong to PlayStation 3 and beyond, Understanding Video Games traces the history of video games, introduces the major theories used to analyze games such as ludology and narratology, reviews the economics of the game industry, examines the aesthetics of game design, surveys a broad range of game ...

Want to create robust, data-driven, iOS cloud apps? This book makes it easier! Apple's mobile operating system (iOS) supports iPhones, iPads, iPods and other Apple devices, and while even beginners can now develop apps to run just on these devices themselves, sometimes you want to create an app with...

Covering the latest VMware vSphere software, an essential book aimed at solving vSphere performance problems VMware vSphere is the industry's most widely deployed virtualization solution. However, due to poor or improper deployment of vSphere, performance problems occur. Aimed at VMware administrato...

An authoritative guide to the BI tools available with the latest version of SharePoint Business Intelligence (BI) tools are now available to the masses and accompany SharePoint 2010. This book is the ultimate resource to BI capabilities, best practices, and implementation requirements. SharePoint ex...

Adobe Flash is one of the most popular languages for animated web content, and recently social and behavioural scientists have started to take advantage of it to collect data online. This book is a unique, step-by-step guide to using Adobe Flash to develop experiments and other research tools. Each ...

GRAC has steadily risen up the boardroom agenda no doubt influenced by numerous data protection failures and other scandals caused in part by a lack of IT compliance. This book provides a management overview of GRAC for information systems by demonstrating the interconnectedness of architecture with...

THE Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game" is a how-to guide to creating games for the classroom to better reach today's students. The book shows the reader how to create a teaching tool that will engage and excite students by using styles and formats found in popular video games. R...

This updated third edition addresses the mathematical skills that a programmer needs to develop a 3D game engine and computer graphics for professional-level games. "Mathematics For 3D Game Programming And Computer Graphics, Third Edition" is suitable for advanced programmers who are experienced wit...

Android devices are stealing market share from the iPhone with dramatic speed, and you have a killer app idea. Where to begin? Head First Android Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time with the Android SDK and Eclipse plug-in. You'll learn how to design for d...

You might be wondering why some of your friends speak in hushed tones about soldering wires, chips, and robotic parts carrying strange, unheard-of names. Fear not, since you probably own hardware ready-made for your own robotics experiments: any old Android phone gives you a head start in building y...

For a variety of reasons, the MATLAB(R)-Java interface was never fully documented. This is really quite unfortunate: Java is one of the most widely used programming languages, having many times the number of programmers and programming resources as MATLAB. Also unfortunate is the popular claim that ...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of intelligent sensors and models, with a particular focus on the effects of these technologies on the environment. Topics discussed include virtual intelligent sensors; performance predictions in biofilters using intelligent data driven...

What is knowledge and how is it represented? This book focuses on the idea of formalising knowledge as relations, interpreting knowledge represented in databases or logic programs as relational data and discovering new knowledge by identifying hidden and defining new relations. After a brief introdu...

What is knowledge and how is it represented? This book focuses on the idea of formalising knowledge as relations, interpreting knowledge represented in databases or logic programs as relational data and discovering new knowledge by identifying hidden and defining new relations. After a brief introdu...

HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, used together, are revolutionizing the web. These technologies enable developers to create fantastic games, animated user interfaces, and stunning visualizations without the need for third-party plugins like Flash. In AdvancED HTML5 Games, learn how to add cutting-edge...

ASP.NET MVC 3 is the latest sensation in the world of Microsoft Web development. It represents a paradigm shift in the way ASP.NET applications are designed and built. Modular, test-driven development and easier implementation of design-patterns and architectural concepts make it an easy choice for ...

In a component-based approach for system design, one of the difficult problems is how to prove the correctness of the created components. Usually, the constituent components are supposed to be correct, i.e., possessing the desirable properties and being free from undesirable ones. However, the opera...

An understanding of the senses - vision, hearing, touch, chemical and other non-human senses - is important not only for many fields of biology but also in applied areas such as human computer interaction, robotics and computer games. Using information theory as a unifying framework, this is a wide-...

This book is for students preparing to become certified for the 70-630, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration exam. The Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) lessons correlate and are mapped to the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) 70-630 certification exam. This t...

Dissecting the dark side of the Internet with its infectious worms, botnets, rootkits, and Trojan horse programs (known as malware) is a treaterous condition for any forensic investigator or analyst. Written by information security experts with real-world investigative experience, "Malware Forensics...

Dynamics AX 5.0 is the latest release of Microsoft's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. Dynamics AX is one of the fastest growing products within the Microsoft product line; Microsoft has publicly predicted that Dynamics will be their next billion dollar a year product suite. Dynamics dire...

Automata theory has come into prominence in recent years with a plethora of applications in fields ranging from verification to XML processing and file compression. In fact, the 2007 Turing Award was awarded to Clarke, Emerson and Sifakis for their pioneering work on model-checking techniques. To th...

Computer systems, whether hardware or software, are subject to failure. Precisely, what is a failure? It is defined as: The inability of a system or system component to perform a required function within specified limits. Afailure may be produced when a fault is encountered and a loss of the expecte...

Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Fourth Edition, is the guide to the Inkscape program. With coverage of versions 0.47 and 0.48, this authoritative introduction and reference features hundreds of useful illustrations.Using Inkscape, you can produce a wide variety of art, from photorealist...

Apple's iWork suite consists of three powerful applications: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. These three applications work hand-in-hand with many of the built-in apps and features of the Mac operating system, providing an Apple solution for those who want the power of Microsoft Office, but not the expe...

To maximize your effectiveness as a professional Oracle 11g administrator, you need to keep track of hundreds of commands, keywords, command arguments, options, and prompts - and Oracle's 1Z0-051, 1Z0-052, and 1Z0-053 exams test you on most of those. Familiarizing yourself with all those commands is...

While compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined -- ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source ...

A practical approach to making Agile technologies work for you Written by an author who has real-world experience working with Agile technologies, this guide offers a how-to, practical approach for getting things done efficiently and effectively with Agile. Kevin Kohut addresses how to take various ...

The study of complex adaptive systems is among the key modern tasks in science. Such systems show radically different behaviours at different scales and in different environments, and mathematical modelling of such emergent behaviour is very difficult, even at the conceptual level. We require a new ...

Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Evolutionary Algorithms and Other Randomized Search Heuristics.- Theoretical Perspectives on Evolutionay Algorithms.- General Limits in Black-Box Optimization.- Methods for the Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms.- Selected Topics in the Analysis of Evolutionary Algor...