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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:48 AM PDT

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

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With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe’s Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more. To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to itThe Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.

  • Takes you through your development environment set up
  • Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications
  • Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials

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Software Engineering Techniques: Design for Quality

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:48 AM PDT

Software Engineering Techniques: Design for Quality

Software Engineering Techniques: Design for Quality

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The aim of software engineering is to find methods for developing high quality software products at a reasonable cost. As more and more computers are being used in areas in which a malfunction of the system can be a source of serious losses or disturbances to the functioning of the society, the quality of software becomes a more and more critical factor of business success, human security, and safety. Examples of such application areas are enterprise management, public administration, and social insurance or post delivery services. The quality of services offered to the society depends on the quality of software systems that support the functioning of the respective public or private organizations (service providers). Software engineering consists of a selection of methods and techniques that vary from project to project and evolve in time. The purpose of this volume is to provide an overview of the current work in software development techniques that can help with enhancing the quality of software. The chapters of this volume, organized by key topic area, create an agenda for the IFIP Working Conference on Software Engineering Techniques, SET 2006. The seven sections of the volume address the following areas: software architectures, modeling, project management, software quality, analysis and verification methods, data management, and software maintenance.

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Semantic Techniques for the Web: The REWERSE Perspective

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:47 AM PDT

Semantic Techniques for the Web: The REWERSE Perspective

Semantic Techniques for the Web: The REWERSE Perspective

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The objective of this state-of-the-art survey is to give a coherentoverview of the main topics and results achieved by the Network of Excellence REWERSE on “Reasoning on the Web”, funded by the European Commission and Switzerland within the “6th Framework Programme” (FP6),from 2004 to 2008.

The material has been organized into eight chapters, each of which addresses one of the main topics of REWERSE: hybrid reasoning with rules and ontologies, lessons in versatility or how query languages adapt to the Web, evolution and reactivity in the Semantic Web, rule-based policyrepresentations and reasoning, component models for Semantic Weblanguages, controlled English for reasoning on the Semantic Web,semantic search with GoPubMed, and information integration inbioinformatics with ontologies and standards.

Each chapter gives an in-depth coverage of the subject and provides an extensive bibliography with pointers to further literature.

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PHP for Absolute Beginners

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:45 AM PDT

PHP for Absolute Beginners

PHP for Absolute Beginners

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Get started in web development using PHP. Even if you’ve never programmed before, author Jason Lengstorf introduces you to PHP by building a PHP-based blogging site while covering all the good coding practices and skills that you’ll need when you start your own projects.

  • Create web content with version 5.3 of PHP
  • Learn good coding practices from the very beginning
  • Learn how systems like WordPress work

Jason Lengstorf takes a practical approach to teaching you how to build a content management system. You’ll dive into writing web applications and be guided by the author’s supportive explanations, rather than learning elements of the PHP language and viewing examples after.

PHP for Absolute Beginners starts slowly and covers everything you need to know about beginning web development using PHP. Even the most inexperienced web developer will find this book accessible.

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New Directions in Neural Networks

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:44 AM PDT

New Directions in Neural Networks

New Directions in Neural Networks

The book is a collection of selected papers from the 18th WIRN workshop, the annual meeting of the Italian Neural Networks Society (SIREN). As the number 18 marks the year young people come of age in Italy, the society invited two generations of researchers to participate in a discussion on neural networks: those new to the field and those with extensive familiarity with the neural paradigm. The challenge laid in understanding what remains of the revolutionary ideas from which neural networks stemmed in the eighties, how these networks have evolved and influenced other research fields, and ultimately, what the new conceptual/methodological frontiers are that need to be trespassed for a better exploitation of the information carried by data. This book presents the outcome of this discussion. New Directions in Neural Networks is divided in two general subjects, models and applications and two specific ones, economy and complexity and remote sensing image processing. The editors of this book have set out to publish a scientific contribution to the discovery of new forms of cooperative work that are necessary today for the invention of efficient computational systems and new social paradigms.

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Multimodal Corpor: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:43 AM PDT

Multimodal Corpor: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications

Multimodal Corpor: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications

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This state-of-the-art-survey documents the scientific outcome of the International Workshop on “Multimodal Corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications”, held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference for Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) on May 27, 2008, in Marrakech, Morocco. It presents an introduction to, as well as current research from fields as diverse as psychology, artificial intelligence, robotics, signal processing, computational linguistics and human-computer interaction.

Empirically based research in multimodality starts with collecting video data relevant for a specific research question, this data must then be enriched by human coders, who annotate the corpus and who also explore the potential interconnections between modalities (e.g. face, gesture, speech, posture etc.). The data must then be validated for consistency using quantitative measures – systematic analysis of the observed multimodal behaviors is the central characteristic of multimodal corpora. For analysis and modeling tasks, exploratory qualitative and quantitative analysis tools are needed for browsing, viewing, extraction and modeling. All the time the intercultural dimension must be taken into account, since multimodal interaction is always embedded in a social setting.

The 6 selected workshop contributions are complemented by 7 invited research articles, including contributions from major international multimodal corpus projects like AMI and SmartWeb. All papers underwent a special review process for this volume, resulting in significant revisions and extensions based on the experts’ advice.

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Max-Plus Linear Stochastic Systems and Perturbation Analysis

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:42 AM PDT

Max-Plus Linear Stochastic Systems and Perturbation Analysis

Max-Plus Linear Stochastic Systems and Perturbation Analysis

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During the last decade, the area of stochastic max-plus linear systems has witnessed a rapid development, which created a growing interest in this area. This book provides a thorough treatment of the theory of stochastic max-plus linear systems. Max-plus algebra is an algebraic approach to discrete event systems (DES), like queuing networks that are prone to synchronization. Perturbation analysis studies the sensitivity of the performance of DES with respect to changes in a particular system parameter.

The first part of the book addresses modeling issues and stability theory for stochastic max-plus systems. The second part of the book treats perturbation analysis of max-plus systems: a calculus for differentiation of max-plus systems is developed. This calculus leads to numerical evaluations of performance indices of max-plus linear stochastic systems, such as the Lyapunov exponent or waiting times.

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Advances in Computers, Volume 76: Social net working and the web

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:41 AM PDT

Advances in Computers, Volume 76: Social net working and the web

Advances in Computers, Volume 76: Social net working and the web

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This is volume 76 of the Advances in Computers. Since 1960, annual volumes are produced containing chapters by some of the leading experts in the field of computers today. For almost 50 years these volumes present ideas and developments that are radically changing our society. One of the most important ideas sweeping though society today is the social networking website. Names like Wikipedia, Flickr, Second Life, Twitter, Facebook, Meetup, MySpace, LinkedIn, among others, are becoming common parlance as the youth, and a growing segment of the adult population, now view such websites as alternatives to the corner convenience store or coffee shop and critically important avenues for social interactions. In this volume we explore this phenomenon to describe the development of some of these ideas as well as developments in web technology that enable this to occur.

This volume contains seven chapters divided into two parts. The first three chapters describe the social networking phenomenon and provide insights into the technology and influences on our culture. The last four chapters provide details of the underlying technology that allows the web to expand to include these social networking sites, as well as other new applications for information dissemination, accessing, and sharing.

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