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Fetched: March 31st, 2010, 3:00am CEST
An ontology is a formal description of concepts and relationships that can exist for a community of human and/or machine agents. The notion of ontologies is crucial for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse. The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospectives of the field of ontologies considering ontology languages, ontology engineering methods, example ontologies, infrastructures and technologies for ontologies, and how to bring this all into ontology-based infrastructures and applications that are among the best of their kind.
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Fetched: March 31st, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Thomas Stober,Uwe Hansmann
Software Development is moving towards a more agile and more flexible approach. It turns out that the traditional "waterfall" model is not supportive in an environment where technical, financial and strategic constraints are changing almost every day. But what is agility?
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Fetched: March 31st, 2010, 3:00am CEST
The proceedings to "Serious Games on the Move 08" will contain all results of this conference on game software applications that are designed to do more than entertain. The focus of the contents lie on research results and developments in the rapidly moving field of serious games and their potential use in education and training as well as in the presentation of several showcases. The proceedings will address the following three topics: 1.
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Fetched: March 31st, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Matthias Hilner
"Basics Typography: Virtual Typography" addresses a fundamentally new form of typographical communication. The book explores the visual arrangement of words and letters in the context of multimedia. Here, this arrangement is not simply a spatial positioning of text information it is also bound by time.
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Fetched: March 31st, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Irene Cheng,Guido M Cortelazzo,Anup Basu,Satish K Tripathi
Online applications have been gaining wide acceptance among the general public. Companies like Amazon, Google, Yahoo! and NetFlicks have been doing extremely well over the last few years largely because of people becoming more comfortable and trusting of the Internet.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Reto Meier
Build unique mobile applications with the latest Android SDK Written by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android's new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you'll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Andrew Curioso,Ronald Bradford,Patrick Galbraith
Best practices and expert techniques for today's most demanding apps As the world's most popular, general purpose, open source scripting language, PHP is frequently used with MySQL to create high-traffic, mission-critical applications. This indispensable book shares proven, author-tested best practices and expert techniques that can be applied to even the most demanding MySQL-driven PHP apps. You'll explore ways to extend MySQL with user-defined functions, write PHP extensions, and solve problems when PHP and MySQL alone are not enough and other techniques or third-party tools are necessary.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Kyle Lacy
An introductory guide to effectively using Twitter to grow your business! The field of social media marketing is exciting, cutting-edge, and...open to almost anything!
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by George Plumley
Don't let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Kevin Beaver
A new edition of the bestselling guide-now updated to cover the latest hacks and how to prevent them! It's bad enough when a hack occurs-stealing identities, bank accounts, and personal information. But when the hack could have been prevented by taking basic security measures-like the ones described in this book-somehow that makes a bad situation even worse.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Conrad Carlberg
Manage your business and make sound decisions with the help of QuickBooks Quickbooks is a user-friendly accounting software program that can analyze data to help you make smart decisions for a small- or medium-sized business. However, few books explain how to maximize the features of QuickBooks reports for management purposes-until now. Author Conrad Carlberg guides you through the most beneficial ways to use and adapt QuickBooks reports by taking the summary data and placing it into a context that helps manage a business.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Barbara Obermeier,Ted Padova
Improve your photos with the exciting new version of Photoshop Elements Photoshop Elements has come a long way from its early days as Photoshop?s low-end cousin. Now a feature-rich editing program popular with professionals as well as hobbyist photographers, Elements boasts versatile tools and capabilities.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Andy Ihnatko
Get more out of-and onto-your iPhone than you ever thought possible The new, even more powerful iPhone enables you to carry almost everything you need right in your pocket. iPhone Fully Loaded, 3rd Edition shows you things about your iPhone that you never imagined. Written by Mac superstar and Chicago Sun Times technology columnist Andy Ihnatko, this irreverent and fun guide shows you how to put everything on your iPhone from old LPs, radio/TV shows, and movies to spreadsheets, presentations, and PC rescue files.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Joe Hutsko
Seven content-rich minibooks cover the key features and tools of your Mac Macs are easy to use, but this guide helps you take advantage of all the cool features and make the most of your Mac. Fully updated, it covers the newest operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, as well as iLife '09, iWork '09, and much more. Minibooks include Mac Basics; Photos, Music, and Movies; Browsing the Internet; Working with iLife and iWork; Other Mac Programs; Timesaving Tips with a Mac; and Mac Networking.
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Fetched: March 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Mike Wooldridge
The ultimate guide to the new Photoshop Elements 8 for visual learners Photoshop Elements is the best-selling consumer digital image-editing software on the market and this book is a must-have for visual learners who are eager to get up and running with all the new and improved features of Photoshop Elements 8. Veteran author Mike Wooldridge covers the most important features of Photoshop Elements, including importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, perfecting group shots with Photomerge, editing images for posting on the Web, using the sharpness interface to correct blurry images, exploring the Curves tool to adjust contract and brightness, and organizing images with auto-stacking. Covers the most important features of Photoshop Elements 8, the most popular digital image-editing software program on the market Shows how to import photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouch and repair damaged photos, and enhance digital images Explains what changing print size, canvas size, and resolution entails Walks you through creating a Web photo gallery Takes on new topics while also reinforcing the fundamentals to building a solid skill set Accompanying Web site provides all the images used in the book so that you can practice along with all the example techniques featured in the book Packed with examples and featuring helpful tasks, this book will sharpen your photo editing skills so that you can create stunning images.
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by John Watson,Roopesh Ramklass,Bob Bryla
A Fully Integrated Study System for OCA Exams 1Z0-051 and 1Z0-052, and OCP Exam 1Z0-053Prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate Administration I and SQL Fundamentals I exams and the Oracle Certified Professional Administration II exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, and a two-minute drill to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference.
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Brent Maxfield
Using the author's considerable experience of applying Mathcad to engineering problems, Essential Mathcad introduces the most powerful functions and features of the software and teaches how to apply these to create comprehensive calculations for any quantitative subject. The simple, step-by-step approach makes this book an ideal Mathcad text for professional engineers as well as engineering , science, and math students. Examples from a variety of fields demonstrate the power and utility of Mathcad's tools, while also demonstrating how other software, such as Excel spreadsheets, can be incorporated effectively.
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Alok K. Sinha
Sinha explains the use of Windows and Windows NT inter-process communication methods to build applications which can communicate with their counterparts over the network. This book explores the challenges that developers face when they are developing network-aware or client/server programs within the Windows and Windows NT operating systems.
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Mary C. Lacity,Joseph W. Rottman
Based on over 200 interviews, this new book provides rich insights and practices on the toughest challenges facing offshore client/supplier relationships. While many client organizations found benefits to be gained from the offshoring of IT work, others struggled to realize any cost savings or other improvements. How can these mixed experiences be reconciled?
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Autodesk
Learning Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 Design Essentials is a superb end-to-end reference that provides users with complete info on all of the features and options available in the latest version of 3ds Max Design, so that users can learn how to use 3ds Max Design confidently in a production environment. Each chapter offers a series of lessons - which introduce the functional areas of Max Design and go over all associated features (with examples), and then a lab (which demonstrates a practical application of the lesson). Together, all of the lessons deliver and sound and complete approach to revealing the functions, features, and principles of 3ds Max 2010 Design.
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Randi J. Rost,Bill Licea-Kane,Dan Ginsburg,John M. Kessenich,Barthold Lichtenbelt,Hugh Malan,Mike Weiblen
OpenGL® Shading Language, Third Edition, extensively updated for OpenGL 3.1, is the experienced application programmer?s guide to writing shaders.
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Mark Summerfield
A Fully Revised Edition Featuring New Material on Coroutines, Debugging, Testing, Parsing, String Formatting, and More Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3?s features and idioms.
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Tim Daly
Photoshop users: Ever feel like your printer is letting you down? Sick of seeing the bright, saturated tones of photos on your monitor turn into washed-out, drab prints? Frustrated by the lack of resources on this essential process?
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Heikki Niilo Koivo,Mohammed Elmusrati
This book provides the reader with a complete coverage of radio resource management for 3G wireless communications Systems Engineering in Wireless Communications focuses on the area of radio resource management in third generation wireless communication systems from a systems engineering perspective. The authors provide an introduction into cellular radio systems as well as a review of radio resource management issues. Additionally, a detailed discussion of power control, handover, admission control, smart antennas, joint optimization of different radio resources , and cognitive radio networksis offered.
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Fetched: March 29th, 2010, 3:00am CEST by Michael Otey
Create a Highly Available Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Environment Written by the technical director for SQL Server Magazine, this expert guide shows you how to implement clustering and database mirroring in SQL Server 2008. Learn proven techniques for ensuring zero database loss, avoiding system downtime, and providing instant data backups. Filled with detailed instructions, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability with Clustering & Database Mirroring takes you from planning to management of a robust high availability solution.
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Fetched: March 3rd, 2010, 3:02am CET by Rick Parent
A compilation of key chapters from the top MK computer animation books available today - in the areas of motion capture, facial features, solid spaces, fluids, gases, biology, point-based graphics, and Maya. The chapters provide CG Animators with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that every 3D artist needs to create stunning and versatile images. Animators will be able to master myriad modeling, rendering, and texturing procedures with advice from MK's best and brightest authors.
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Fetched: March 3rd, 2010, 3:02am CET by John Holt
Up until a few years ago there were over 150 different modelling languages available to software developers. This vast array of choice however, only served to severely hinder effective communication. Therefore, to combat this, every methodologist and many companies agreed to speak the same language, hence the birth of the unified modelling language (UML).
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Fetched: March 3rd, 2010, 3:02am CET by Thearon Willis,Bryan Newsome
A focused, step-by-step approach to Visual Basic for new programmers What better way to get started with Visual Basic than with this essential Wrox beginner's guide? Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 not only shows you how to write Windows applications, Web applications with ASP.NET, and Windows mobile and embedded CE apps with Visual Basic 2010, but you'll also get a thorough grounding in the basic nuts-and-bolts of writing good code.
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Fetched: March 3rd, 2010, 3:02am CET by J. Peter Bruzzese,Ronald Barrett,Wayne Dipchan
Real Solutions for Windows Server 2008 Administrators Need fast, reliable, easy-to-implement solutions for Microsoft Windows Server 2008? This book delivers exactly what you?re looking for.
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Fetched: March 3rd, 2010, 3:02am CET by Shay Friedman
Ruby has built an enormous following of developers attracted by its intuitiveness, flexibility, and simplicity. Meanwhile, Microsoft?s .
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by Allan Walker
Build media-rich Joomla! web sites by learning to embed and display Multimedia content Build a livelier Joomla! site by adding videos, audios, images and more to your web content Install, configure, and use popular Multimedia Extensions Make your web site collaborate with external resources such as Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Flickr with the help of Joomla!
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by Nicholas B. Oulton
In this book presentations guru Nicholas Oulton sets out a revolutionary approach that will allow you to use Power Point - TM - to exponentionally multiply the power of your presentations. You will radically increase the chances of impressing your audience and achieving your objectives. Using tried and tested principles, Nicholas shows how - through practical, systematic thinking and overhauling your attitude to the visual aids you use - you can ditch bad old habits and bring your presenatations to vivid life.
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by Thomas Wilhelm
Save yourself some money! This complete classroom-in-a-book on penetration testing provides material that can cost upwards of $1,000 for a fraction of the price!Thomas Wilhelm has delivered pen testing training to countless security professionals and now through the pages of this book you can benefit from his years of experience as a professional penetration tester and educator.
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by Harlan Carvey
"If your job requires investigating compromised Windows hosts, you must read Windows Forensic Analysis."-Richard Bejtlich, Coauthor of Real Digital Forensics and Amazon.com Top 500 Book Reviewer"The Registry Analysis chapter alone is worth the price of the book.
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET
SQL Server 2008 is the latest update to Microsoft's flagship database management system. This is the largest update since SQL Server 2005, and it brings increased ability to deliver data across more platforms, and thus many different types of devices. New functionality also allows for easy storage and retrieval of digitized images and video.
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by Kevin Wallace
CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide Kevin Wallace, CCIE® No. 7945 CCNP TSHOOT Exam Preparation Master CCNP® TSHOOT 642-832 exam topics Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP TSHOOT exam, including Common network maintenance tasks and tools Troubleshooting models Cisco IOS® troubleshooting commands and features Troubleshooting Cisco Catalyst® Switches and STP Troubleshooting BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP routing protocols Route redistribution, security, and router performance troubleshooting IP services and IP communications troubleshooting IPv6 troubleshooting Large enterprise network troubleshooting CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide is a best-of-breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP® TSHOOT exam. Senior instructor and best-selling author Kevin Wallace shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills.
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by William R. Sherman,Alan Craig
Understanding Virtual Reality arrives at a time when the technologies behind virtual reality have advanced to the point that it is possible to develop and deploy meaningful, productive virtual reality applications. The aim of this thorough, accessible exploration is to help you take advantage of this moment, equipping you with the understanding needed to identify and prepare for ways VR can be used in your field, whatever your field may be.By approaching VR as a communications medium, the authors have created a resource that will remain relevant even as the underlying technologies evolve.
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by Tom Green,David Stiller
In this book, you'll learn: How to create effective animations using the new Motion Editor and animation tools How to use the new 3D features to animate objects in 3D space Best-practice tips and techniques from some of the top Flash practitioners on the planet How to create captioned video and full-screen video, and deploy HD video using Flash Techniques for using the Flash UI components as well as XML documents to create stunning,interactive presentations If you're a Flash designer looking for a solid overview of Flash CS4, this book is for you. Through the use of solid and practical exercises, you will soon master the fundamentals of this latest edition of the Adobe Flash authoring tool. Using a series of carefully developed tutorials, you will be led from basic Flash CS4 techniques to the point where you can create animations, MP3 players, and customized Flash video players in no time.
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by David Hucaby
CCNP SWITCH 642-813 Official Certification Guide David Hucaby, CCIE® No. 4594 CCNP SWITCH Exam Preparation Master the CCNP® SWITCH 642-813 exam with this official study guide Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM CCNP SWITCH 642-813 Official Certification Guide is a best-of-breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP® SWITCH exam. Network architect and best-selling author Dave Hucaby shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills.
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Fetched: March 2nd, 2010, 3:01am CET by Marc McDonald,Robert Musson,Ross Smith
This practical, hands-on guide captures, categorizes, and builds a process of best practices to avoid creating defects during the development process?rather than fixing them after extensive analysis. While there are various proprietary and competing standards for reducing software defects, these methods suffer from issues surrounding timeliness, effectiveness, or cost.
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