As Moore's law continues to unfold, two important trends have recently emerged. First, the growth of chip capacity is translated into a corresponding increase of number of cores. Second, the parallelization of the computation and 3D integration tech…
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 8th International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2014, held in Chennai, India, in February 2014. The 29 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully revie…
In this practical guide, CSS expert Lea Verou provides 47 undocumented techniques and tips to help intermediate-to advanced CSS developers devise elegant solutions to a wide range of everyday web design problems. Rather than focus on design, CSS Sec…
This book constitutes the best paper selection from the First Workshop, WoCCES 2013, held in Brasilia, Brazil, in May 2013, the Second Workshop, WoCCES 2014, held in Florianopolis, Brazil, in May 2014, the Third Workshop, WoCCES 2015, held in Vitori…
The chapters of this book are the selected papers from those presented at the Third International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. Articles cover methodological issues, computati…
A step-by-step, practical tutorial with a no-nonsense approach. The book starts by showing readers how to create a playable game that is fully-functioning, then moves on to demonstrate how to fine-tune the game with eye-catching graphics techniques,…
Be a fly on the wall as industry leaders Bill Kroyer and Tom Sito take us through insightful face-to-face interviews, revealing, in these two volumes, the journeys of 23 world-class directors as they candidly share their experiences and personal vie…
This book analyzes Web page design from a visual communication perspective. Visual communication is an emerging field which draws on numerous disciplines concerned with the creation, perception, and interpretation of visual messages. The transdiscip…
This is an excellent, up-to-date and easy-to-use text on data structures and algorithms that is intended for undergraduates in computer science and information science. The thirteen chapters, written by an international group of experienced teachers…
To connect with and successfully serve the growing generation of native Web 2.0 users, archivists and other professionals responsible for historical collections must learn how to accommodate their changing information needs and expectations. In this…
Over a hundred visual tasks show readers how to create, edit, and share digital videos with Adobe Premiere Elements.
This book presents high-quality papers from an international forum for research on computational approaches to learning. It includes current research and findings from various research labs, universities and institutions that may lead to development…
Learn Adobe Dreamweaver CC with this full-color book and DVD training package You may be eager to learn how to use Adobe Dreamweaver CC (Creative Cloud) to create great websites, but you'd like to tackle it at your own speed. If so, this book-and-DV…
Ralf Karrenberg presents Whole-Function Vectorization (WFV), an approach that allows a compiler to automatically create code that exploits data-parallelism using SIMD instructions. Data-parallel applications such as particle simulations, stock optio…
The book provides copyright protection approaches for videos using watermarking. The various watermarking techniques using various transforms such as discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition…
DESCRIPTION Microsoft's Silverlight is the only development platform that combines the performance, security, and flexibility of a desktop application with cross-platform deployment. The latest version, Silverlight 5, offers tons of new features inc…
This is the right book for you if: you're new to AutoCAD or want to brush up on the basics, you're looking for a clear, no nonsense, easy-to-follow text, or you want to learn AutoCAD quickly and easily. Totally updated for AutoCAD 2012 and 2012 LT,…
Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator.Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media…
Advanced Signal Processing for Communication Systems consists of 20 contributions from researchers and experts. The first group of chapters deals with the audio and video processing for communications applications, including topics ranging from mult…
Human-computer confluence refers to an invisible, implicit, embodied or even implanted interaction between humans and system components. New classes of user interfaces are emerging that make use of several sensors and are able to adapt their physica…
The book presents the reader with clear instructions for setting up specific activities, based around an example maths course (Pythagorean Theorem) with plenty of examples and screenshots. No Moodle experience is required to use the book, but the bo…
The goal of visualization is the accurate, interactive, and intuitive presentation of data. Complex numerical simulations, high-resolution imaging devices and incre- ingly common environment-embedded sensors are the primary generators of m- sive dat…
Although the World Wide Web is enjoying enormous growth rates, many Web publishers have discovered that HTML is not up to the requirements of modern corporate communication. For them, Adobe Acrobat offers a wealth of design possibilities. The close…
The Reverse Design series looks at all of the design decisions that went into classic video games. This is the fourth installment in the Reverse Design series, looking at Half Life. Written in a readable format, it is broken down into six sections e…
Social media has already transformed society. Now it is poised to revolutionize communications and collaborative business processes. This book provides you with an actionable framework for developing and executing successful enterprise social networ…
The fully revised edition of this best-selling title presents the modern computer algebra system Maple. It teaches the reader not only what can be done by Maple but also how and why it can be done. It provides the necessary background for those who…
This two-volume set (CCIS 150 and CCIS 151) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Multimedia Applications, UCMA 2011, held in Daejeon, Korea, in April 2011.The 86 revised full papers…
Visualization and analysis tools, techniques, and algorithms have undergone a rapid evolution in recent decades to accommodate explosive growth in data size and complexity and to exploit emerging multi- and many-core computational platforms. High Pe…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics, ICCVG 2018, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2018. The 45 full papers were selected from 117 submissions. The contributions are thema…
The Animator's Sketchbook will teach students of animation how to improve their work through observation and drawing. It will show readers how to access their inner "animator." With over 60 different gesture and drawing exercises, this book enhances…
Problems demanding globally optimal solutions are ubiquitous, yet many are intractable when they involve constrained functions having many local optima and interacting, mixed-type variables.The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a practical ap…
The book is an example based, hands-on guide where you will learn how to make a game from scratch, and learn how to develop games on the iOS platform. If you have great ideas for games and want to learn iOS game development, then this book is the ri…
Provides Member States with balanced and objective information on important development trends and objectives of innovative small and medium sized reactors for a variety of uses, on the achieved state of the art in design and technology development…
Anthony Dear argues that just-in-time is essentially a philosophy rather than a rigid methodology and that the important thing is to grasp the fundamental ideas involved and then to see where, how and to what extent they can be applied in the contex…
The author's experience in creating applications using Flex enables him to share insights on using it effectively in a clear, simple, and concise manner. His approach will help you gain hands-on programming experience in Flex 3 and ActionScript 3.0.…
Surface properties play a very important role in many perception tasks. Object recognition, navigation, and inspection use surface properties ex tensively. Characterizing surfaces at different scales in given data is often the first and possibly the…
This book presents a collection of quality chapters on multimedia communication security contributed by leading experts in the related fields. It embraces a wide variety of aspects of the related subject areas and provides a scientifically and schol…
ThisvolumecontainstheresearchpaperspresentedatKI2005,the28thGerman Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence, held September 11-14, 2005 in Koblenz, Germany. KI 2005 was part of the International Conference Summer Koblenz 2005, which included conferences…
This fun and friendly guide to the leading business diagramming and drawing software is packed with tips on creating charts, diagrams, and other schematic illustrations that will impress any boss and add impact to reports, presentations, and Web pag…
This book is intended to address both the quantitative and qualitative issues of programmable controllers for factory automation. It is helpful for both the newcomer to the field and the experienced control engineer requiring a fresh perspective.
How do you make a video game? Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript is a down to earth education in how to make video games from scratch, using the powerful HTML5 and JavaScript technologies. This book is a point-by-point round up of all th…
Drawing and sketching are central to the art of animation and can be crucial tools in designing and developing original stories, characters and layouts. Sketching for Animation offers a wealth of examples, exercises and tips from an army of professi…
Traditional methods of biometric analysis are unable to overcome the limitations of existing approaches, mainly due to the lack of standards for input data, privacy concerns involving use and storage of actual biometric data, and unacceptable accura…
The ultimate goal of all 3D graphics systems is to render 3Dobjects on a two-dimensional surface such as plotter outputor a workstation screen. The approach adopted by mostgraphics systems is to perform a central or parallelprojection of the objects…
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