Want to start writing iPhone applications right away, but don't want to learn Objective-C? Practical iPhone Projects provides the fastest way to start making great iPhone apps without the steep learning curve. Let's face it, who would bother to learn an old-fashioned language like Objective-C that until recently didn't have garbage collection and uses YES and NO instead of TRUE and FALSE? One big reason--it runs the iPhone, and the iPhone is nothing short of revolutionary. The iPhone is the best...
"Rails in a Nutshell" provides the high-quality reference documentation that web application developers really need to create effective database-driven web sites. It focuses on how Rails is used in building a real application and highlights little-known or undocumented features of the Rails framework.
Introduction to Text Visualization (Atlantis Briefs in Artificial Intelligence, #1)
by Nan Cao and Weiwei Cui
This book provides a systematic review of many advanced techniques to support the analysis of large collections of documents, ranging from the elementary to the profound, covering all the aspects of the visualization of text documents. Particularly, we start by introducing the fundamental concept of information visualization and visual analysis, followed by a brief survey of the field of text visualization and commonly used data models for converting document into a structured form for visualiza...
Computer Animation Techniques
Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual)
by Chris Grover
Want to create animated graphics for iPhone, iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features? You've come to the right guide. Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual shows you how to build HTML5 graphics with Adobe visual tools. No programming experience? No problem. Adobe Edge Animate writes all the code for you. With this book, you'll be designing great-looking web elements in no time. The important stuff you need to know: Get to know the workspace. Learn how Adobe Edge Animate performs its ma...
Software-Fehlertoleranz und -Zuverlassigkeit (Informatik-Fachberichte / Subreihe Kunstliche Intelligenz, #83)
1m vorliegenden Bericht tiber Software-Fehlertoleranz und -Zuverlassigkeit wird ein Problemkreis aus dem weitgefacherten Themenkomplex der Fehlertoleranz in Rechensystemen aufgegriffen, der in den letzten Jahren zunehmend an Bedeutung und Interesse gewonnen hat. Wahrend in der Vergangenheit ein Schwerpunkt der Fehlertoleranz-Konzepte und -Realisierungen darin lag, die Zuverlassigkeit von Rechensystemen durch MaBnahmen gegen den Ausfall von Hardware-Komponenten zu erhohen, wachst zusehends der Be...
To get the most out of modern JavaScript, you need learn the latest features of its parent specification, ECMAScript 6 (ES6). This book provides a highly practical look at ES6, without getting lost in the specification or its implementation details. Armed with practical examples, author Nicolas Bevacqua shows you new ways to deal with asynchronous flow control, declare objects or functions, and create proxies or unique sets, among many other features. The first title in Bevacqua's Modular Java...
A Hybrid Approach for Power Plant Fault Diagnostics (Studies in Computational Intelligence, #743)
by Tamiru Alemu Lemma
This book provides a hybrid approach to fault detection and diagnostics. It presents a detailed analysis related to practical applications of the fault detection and diagnostics framework, and highlights recent findings on power plant nonlinear model identification and fault diagnostics. The effectiveness of the methods presented is tested using data acquired from actual cogeneration and cooling plants (CCPs). The models presented were developed by applying Neuro-Fuzzy (NF) methods. The book off...
Web Recommendations Systems
by K. R. Venugopal, K. C. Srikantaiah, and Sejal Santosh Nimbhorkar
This book focuses on Web recommender systems, offering an overview of approaches to develop these state-of-the-art systems. It also presents algorithmic approaches in the field of Web recommendations by extracting knowledge from Web logs, Web page content and hyperlinks. Recommender systems have been used in diverse applications, including query log mining, social networking, news recommendations and computational advertising, and with the explosive growth of Web content, Web recommendations hav...
This book gathers selected papers presented at the conference "Advances in 3D Image and Graphics Representation, Analysis, Computing and Information Technology," one of the first initiatives devoted to the problems of 3D imaging in all contemporary scientific and application areas. The aim of the conference was to establish a platform for experts to combine their efforts and share their ideas in the related areas in order to promote and accelerate future development. This second volume discusses...
Advanced Global Illumination, Second Edition
by Philip Dutre, Philippe Bekaert, and Kavita Bala
This book provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of global illumination algorithms. It discusses a broad class of algorithms for realistic image synthesis and introduces a theoretical basis for the algorithms presented. Topics include: - Physics of light transport - Monte Carlo methods - General strategies for solving the rendering equation - Stochastic path-tracing algorithms such as ray tracing and light tracing - Stochastic radiosity including photon density estimation and hiera...
The Cinema 4D 9 Handbook provides a complete introduction to the powerful and affordable C4D program, and teaches the fundamental principles of 3D. In this completely updated edition, users will find insightful tips and techniques for maximizing C4D and learning the vast array of new features in version 9, including interface enhancements like the new HUD and modeling shortcuts. Also covered are the new modeling procedures including N-Gons and auto-selection, tweak-selection, along with subpoly...
Sams Teach Yourself C++ for Linux in 21 Days
by Jesse Liberty, David B. Horvath, Jonathan Parry-McCulloch, Hal Moroff, and Paul Cevoli
Sams Teach Yourself C++ Programming for Linux in 21 Days teaches you the C++ programming language using the Linux operating system. You will gain a thorough understanding of the basics of C++ programming from a Linux perspective. The Bonus Week includes topics such as XWindows, KDE with QT toolkit, APE Class Library, and Real -time Middleware.
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,...
Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (Programming and Software Engineering, #3350)
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...
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #6614) (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, #5384)
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...
Vibrations of Rotating Machinery (Mathematics for Industry, #16)
by Osami Matsushita, Masato Tanaka, Masao Kobayashi, Patrick Keogh, and Hiroshi Kanki
Building on the previous volume "Vibrations of Rotating Machinery - Volume 1. Basic Rotordynamics: Introduction to Practical Vibration Analysis," this book is intended for all practical designers and maintenance experts who are responsible for the reliable manufacturing and operation of rotating machinery. It opens with the dynamics of oil film bearings and their influences on unbalance, vibration resonance and the stability of rotor whirl motion. Subsequently, the book introduces readers to vi...
Dig into Visio 2003-and discover how you can really put your business diagrams and technical drawings to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds all in concise, fast-answer format. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover the best and fastest ways to perform everyday tasks, and challenge yourself to new levels of Visio mastery! Explore better ways to visualize your business-from organization charts and floorplans to bus...