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Building scalable, concurrent systems is hard. Think parallelism and we think about threads. Using threads for parallelism is not only difficult but also not scalable. You can only create a certain number of threads on a box. On the other hand you can create a million Akka actors on a box. Also it is difficult to scale out (parallel scaling) using threads. Any multi threaded application likely has the keyword synchronized peppered throughout the code base. It does not follow any pattern which ma...

Introducing Angular is your easy-to-digest introduction to this exciting MVVM JavaScript framework. Using this book, you'll understand the basics of Angular, understand what goes into building a simple app, and see how to build an app using only HTML and Angular. This book will jumpstart your knowledge with an easy-to-follow approach so you can come to grips with the latest version of the framework. A downloadable code bundle is also included for you to play with, and therefore understand, the s...

This interactive lecture-lab text aims to help students understand how computers may be used for data acquisition, data treatment and analysis and graphics display. The text demonstrates basic concepts, explains jargon and presents concrete examples. The experiments and problems are designed to give the reader the skills to begin interfacing and automating many instruments and systems. The text is built around the IBM PC and compatibles and is a fully integrated lecture-laboratory text. It treat...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA'96, held in Lyngby, Denmark, in August 1996. The volume presents revised full versions of 45 carefully selected contributed papers together with 31 invited presentations. The papers address all current aspects of applied parallel computing relevant for industrial computations. The invited papers review the most important numerical algorithms and scientific applications on severa...

This book gives an introduction to functional programming including examples in ML, Miranda and Lamda calculus. It contains graded exercises that highlight various implementation issues of different language paradigm. A discussion of object-oriented programming is included from several perspectives giving an overall view of this paradigm.

Game apps on iPhone and now The New iPad remain one of the most popular type of apps in the Apple iTunes App Store. Does Angry Birds ring a bell? Now, you can learn to build game apps for the iPhone 5 and The New iPad using the new iOS 6 SDK. Beginning iOS 6 Games Development provides a clear path for you to learn and create iPhone and iPad game apps using the iOS 6 SDK platform. You'll learn how to use the core classes to create rich and dynamic games apps, including graphics, animations...

By using this innovative text, students will obtain an understanding of how contemporary operating systems and middleware work, and why they work that way.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases, SWDB 2004, held in Toronto, Canada in August 2004 as a satellite workshop of VLDB 2004. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 2 papers by the invited keynote speakers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 47 submissions. Among the topics addressed are data semantics, semantic Web services, service-oriented computing,...

The International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL) is a forum for researchers and practioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarativeconcepts,includingfunctional,logic,constraints,etc.Declarativel- guages build on sound theoretical foundations to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to a wide array of di?erent real-world sit...

The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research lying across philosophy, communication studies, linguistics, and psychology (at least). Its techniques and results have found a wide range of applications in both t- oretical and practical branches of arti?cial intelligence and computer science. Several theories of argumentation with various semantics have been proposed in the literature. Multi-agent systems theory has picked up argument-inspired approaches and speci?cally...

Researchers in the ?eld of life sciences rely increasingly on information te- nology to extract and manage relevant knowledge. The complex computational and data management needs of life science research make Grid technologies an attractive support solution. However, many important issues must be addressed before the Life Science Grid becomes commonplace. The 1st International Life Science Grid Workshop (LSGRID 2004) was held in Kanazawa Japan, May 31-June 1, 2004. This workshop focused on life...

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A gentle introduction to advanced topics such as parallel computing, multigrid methods, and special methods for systems of PDEs. The goal of all chapters is to 'compute' solutions to problems, hence algorithmic and software issues play a central role. All software examples use the Diffpack programming environment - some experience with Diffpack is required. There are also some chapters covering complete applications, i.e., the way from a model, expressed as systems of PDEs, through to discretiza...