Information technology: general topics Books

This book includes a variety of articles which look critically and judiciously at Google and its products, with a focus on Google Scholar and Google Book Search. It also examines their usefulness in a public service context. Its ultimate aim is to assess...

This book integrates four distinct topics: young people, citizenship, new media, and learning processes. When taken together, these four topics merge to define an arena of social and research attention that has become compelling in recent years. The...

What the book covers: Computers For Seniors For Dummies, 5E covers the basic information for new over-50 computer owners, and for those new to the Windows 10 OS (Anniversary Edition), who need a gentle, hand-holding, step-by-step approach to getting...

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a type of style sheet which can be used for not only Web designs, but also a variety of printing uses and page media such as PDF. Using CSS in paged media design for XML and HTML is not yet common, but its use is expected...

This book divides edge intelligence into AI for edge (intelligence-enabled edge computing) and AI on edge (artificial intelligence on edge). It focuses on providing optimal solutions to the key concerns in edge computing through effective AI...

This introductory textbook introduces students to mathematical concepts and helps them to understand how they apply to the field of game development. The book covers mathematical concepts commonly used in game development while providing application of...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet.Written by...

Covering the roles and responsibilities of the project manager, this second edition describes requirement specifications, work breakdown structures, project control and risk management, and offers new information on motivation, matrix arrangements, and...

Recent research shows that collaboration and social networking foster knowledge sharing and innovation by sparking new connections, ideas, and practices. Yet these informal networks are often misunderstood and poorly managed. Building on the...

Inside the Dark Web provides a broad overview of emerging digital threats and computer crimes, with an emphasis on cyberstalking, hacktivism, fraud and identity theft, and attacks on critical infrastructure. The book also analyzes the online underground...

Enhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity is an exploration of how young children gain digital literacies in 'makerspaces.' The international authors investigate how hands-on experimentation with a variety of materials - from traditional arts and crafts...

The book describes how to manage and successfully deliver large, complex, and expensive systems that can be composed of millions of line of software code, being developed by numerous groups throughout the globe, that interface with many hardware items...

The author of this book has identified the seven key emerging Internet-related technologies: Internet of things, smart everything, big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software-defined networking, and online education. Together these technologies...

You're a developer who knows nothing to Docker. Which is fine, except that you need to create and run your first containerized application using Docker.Don't worry: I have you covered. I've been training hundreds of developers like you during 17 years,...

Questo manuale ha lo scopo di presentare il framework Symfony tramite la realizzazione di un esempio di applicativo web che mostra alcune delle funzioni disponibili in questo ambiente di lavoro. Il manuale fornisce anche indicazioni pratiche sulla...

Kirja pohjautuu oppilaitoksille myytävään AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 -perusteet materiaaliin. Sopii sekä kurssikäyttöön että päivittäisen työskentelyn tueksi, ja omatoimiseen opiskeluun. Kirjan pääaiheet:- käyttöliittymä- suunnittelutietojen hallinta-...

The Testers Book (Revised Edition)An Unconventional Way to Software TestingDescriptionWhat's "The Testers Book"?Are you struggling with your tests? Do you sometimes doubt that what you are doing is even right? Let Rogerio take you on his journey to...

LibreOffice è una suite per ufficio completa e disponibile gratuitamente che funziona su computer Windows, Linux e Mac OS X. Questo libro è per chiunque voglia aggiornarsi rapidamente con LibreOffice 3.5. Introduce Writer (elaborazione testi), Calc...

Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson, Nassim Taleb, and nearly 150 other intellectual rock stars reveal how the internet is changing our minds, culture, and future, in John Brockman's latest compendium from Harper Perennial and Edge.org.

The possibility of travel forward and backward through space-time intrigues a vast number of people. I find it curious that many believe that Back to the Future is really possible and eventually someone will implement a process/machine to do exactly that...

Programming Languages for MIS: Concepts and Practice supplies a synopsis of the major computer programming languages, including C++, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, PHP (with MySQL), XML (with XSLT, DTD, and XML Schema), and SQL. Ideal...

Korte en krachtige handleiding voor de WordPress-gebruiker die hoger wilt scoren in zoekmachines zoals Google.

The quality of a data warehouse (DWH) is the elusive aspect of it, not because it is hard to achieve [once we agree what it is], but because it is difficult to describe. We propose the notion that quality is not an attribute or a feature that a product...

In today's society, educational opportunities have evolved beyond the traditional classroom setting. Most universities have implemented virtual learning environments in an effort to provide more opportunities for potential or current students seeking...

This book is devoted to the issue of image super-resolution-obtaining high-resolution images from single or multiple low-resolution images. Although there are numerous algorithms available for image interpolation and super-resolution, there's been a need...

Online communities are among the most obvious manifestations of social networks based on new media technology. Facilitating ad-hoc communication and leveraging collective intelligence by matching similar or related users have become important success...

Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise provides an overview of how small and medium business enterprises (SMEs) can use flexibility, agility, and anticipation strategies to better utilize information technology and...

A Formal Model for a System's Attack Surface.- Effectiveness of Moving Target Defenses.- Global ISR: Toward a Comprehensive Defense Against.- Compiler-Generated Software Diversity.- Symbiotes and defensive Mutualism: Moving Target Defense.- Manipulating...

Representing and Utilizing Changing Historical Places as an Ontology Time Series.- Semantic Referencing of Geosensor Data and Volunteered Geographic Information.- SPARQL-ST: Extending SPARQL to Support Spatiotemporal Queries.- Spatial...

Uncertain data is inherent in many important applications, such as environmental surveillance, market analysis, and quantitative economics research. Due to the importance of those applications and rapidly increasing amounts of uncertain data collected...

This overview of the security problems in modern VLSI design provides a detailed treatment of a newly developed constraint-based protection paradigm for the protection of VLSI design IPs - from FPGA design to standard-cell...

Low Level Approach for Image and Video Understanding.- GOP Structure Conversion in Transcoding MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC.- Simple Low Level Features for Image Analysis.- Fast and robust Face Detection.- Automatic 3D Facial Fitting for Tracking in Video...

The massive growth of the Internet has made an enormous amount of infor- tion available to us. However, it is becoming very difficult for users to acquire an - plicable one. Therefore, some techniques such as information...

Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence. This is the most recent volume in the Advances in Digital Forensics series. It describes original research results and innovative applications in the...

Human choice and ICT policy: Introduction to the HCC8 Conference proceedings.- Human choice and ICT policy: Introduction to the HCC8 Conference proceedings.- Communication, information, and ICT policy: Enabling research frameworks.- The shaping of...

Basic Notions on Access Control.- Test based security certifications.- Formal methods for software verification.- OSS security certification.- Case Study 1: Linux certification.- Case Study 2: ICSA and CCHIT Certifications.- The role of virtual testing...

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and...

Hierarchical Infrastructure for Internet Mapping Services.- Case Study : Geospatial Processing Services for Web based Hydrological Applications.- An application framework for rapid development for web based GIS : Ginis Web.- Geospatial Web Services :...

Papers in this unique volume were developed from the 2006 conference hosted by IBM, Service Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME) - Education for the 21st Century. The book incorporates a variety of perspectives, informed...

Micro-assembly is a key enabling technology for cost effective manufacture of new generations of complex micro products. It is also a critical technology for retaining mdustrial capabilities in high labour cost areas such as...

Virtual Organization Theory: Current Status and Demands.- Application of Portfolio Theory in Controlling Supply Chain Crisis.- Network Niche of E-business Enterprises.- Mining XML Frequent Query Patterns.- A Fuzzy Negotiation Model with Genetic...

This book presents research on informational and mathematical aspects of networked sensing systems. It brings together internationally reputed researchers from different communities, focused on the common theme of distributed...

Design Challenges in Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip.- Some Issues in Model-Based Development for Embedded Control Systems.- MDE Benefits for Distributed, Real Time and Embedded Systems.- Reifying the Semantic Domains of Component Contracts.- Model-Based...

IFIP TC8 Information Systems.- Information Systems as an Academic Discipline.- Methodologies for Developing Information Systems: A Historical Perspective.- Stakeholders Selection for Interorganizational Systems: A Systematic Approach.- Data Quality...

and Overview.- and Overview.- Foundations.- Definitions.- Scenarios.- Related Work.- Ontology Alignment Approach.- Process.- Advanced Methods.- Implementation and Application.- Tools.- Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer - SWAP.- Semantically Enabled Knowledge...