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Publisher: CRC Press
Author: Kostantinos N. Plataniotis
ISBN: 084939774X
Release Date: 20 October 2006

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With advances in image sensors, digital TV, image-enabled consumer electronics, and much more, color image processing is of paramount interest in the computer vision community. This book details recent advances in digital color image acquisition, analysis, processing, and display, exploring emerging color image, video, multimedia, and biomedical processing applications. It examines the latest techniques, algorithms, and solutions for digital color imaging, emphasizing emerging topics such as secure imaging, semantic processing, and digital camera image processing. It comprehensively covers the system design, implementation, and application aspects of digital color imaging.

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Color Image Processing: Methods and Applications (Image Processing)

Publisher: Jist Publishing
Author: Michael Farr
ISBN: 1593573200
Release Date: 01 November 2006

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Explore descriptions of 100 top computer and technical careers, match them to your skills, and get a good job quickly.

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Top 100 Computer and Technical Careers: Your Complete Guidebook to Major Jobs in Many Fields at All Training Levels (Top 100 Computer and Technical Careers)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Author: Volker Wulf
ISBN: 1402053096
Release Date: 05 October 2006

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By now, most people have become familiar with the basic functionality and interfaces of computers. However, developing new or modified applications that effectively support users’ goals still requires considerable expertise in programming that cannot be expected from most people. Thus, one fundamental challenge for the coming years is to develop environments that allow users who do not have background in programming to develop or modify their own applications, with the ultimate aim of empowering people to flexibly employ advanced information and communication technologies.

The present book is an effort to make many important aspects of the international discussion on End-User Development (EUD) available to a broader audience. It provides a unique set of contributions from various research institutes in various countries addressing relevant issues and proposing original solutions.

The editors hope that this broad look at the emerging paradigm of End-User Development leads you to appreciate its diversity and potential for the future. And we look forward to having you, the reader, the “end-user” of this book, contribute what you can to the field, whether it is working on a system for EUD, or simply achieving a better understanding of how EUD might fit into your work and your life.

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End User Development (Human-Computer Interaction Series)

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Author: Art Gittleman
ISBN: 0763725935
Release Date: 25 October 2004

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C#.NET Illuminated uses Visual C# for rapid application development. This approachminizes the amount of code the reader needs to write while providing access to the powerful .NET library.

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C#.NET Illuminated (Jones and Bartlett Illuminated)

Publisher: Pragmatic
Author: Terence Parr
ISBN: 0978739256
Release Date: 17 May 2007

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ANTLR v3 is the most powerful, easy-to-use parser generator built to date, and represents the culmination of more than 15 years of research by Terence Parr. This book is the essential reference guide to using this completely rebuilt version of ANTLR, with its amazing new LL(*) parsing technology, tree construction facilities, StringTemplate code generation template engine, and sophisticated ANTLRWorks GUI development environment. Learn to use ANTLR directly from the author!

ANTLR is a parser generator-a program that generates code to translate a specified input language into a nice, tidy data structure. You might think that parser generators are only used to build compilers. But in fact, programmers usually use parser generators to build translators and interpreters for domain-specific languages such as proprietary data formats, common network protocols, text processing languages, and domain-specific programming languages.

Domain-specific languages are important to software development because they represent a more natural, high fidelity, robust, and maintainable means of encoding a problem than simply writing software in a general-purpose language. For example, NASA uses domain-specific command languages for space missions to improve reliability, reduce risk, reduce cost, and increase the speed of development. Even the first Apollo guidance control computer from the 1960s used a domain-specific language that supported vector computations.

This book is the definitive guide to using the completely rebuilt ANTLR v3 and describes all features in detail, including the amazing new LL(*) parsing technology, tree construction facilities, StringTemplate code generation template engine, and sophisticated ANTLRWorks GUI development environment. You’ll learn all about ANTLR grammar syntax, resolving grammar ambiguities, parser fault tolerance and error reporting, embedding actions to interpret or translate languages, building intermediate-form trees, extracting information from trees, generating source code, and how to use the ANTLR Java API.

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The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Author: Ben Coppin
ISBN: 0763732303
Release Date: 01 March 2004

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Artificial Intelligence Illuminated presents an overview of the background and history of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its importance in today’s society and potential for the future. The book covers a range of AI techniques, algorithms, and methodologies, including game playing, intelligent agents, machine learning, genetic algorithms, and Artificial Life. Material is presented in a lively and accessible manner and the author focuses on explaining how AI techniques relate to and are derived from natural systems, such as the human brain and evolution, and explaining how the artificial equivalents are used in the real world. Each chapter includes student exercises and review questions, and a detailed glossary at the end of the book defines important terms and concepts highlighted throughout the text.

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Artificial Intelligence Illuminated

Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Author: Matt Carter
ISBN: 0748620990
Release Date: 01 September 2007

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Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Author: Jeffrey J. McConnell
ISBN: 0763716340
Release Date: 06 April 2001

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The goal of Analysis of Algorithms is to raise awareness of the effect that algorithms have on the efficiency of a program and to develop the necessary skills to analyze general algorithms used in programs. The text presents the material with the expectation that it can be used with active and cooperative learning methodology, based on the premise that students learn more effectively and retain more information longer when they are active participants in the learning process. Developed to offer students multiple opportunities for active and cooperative learning. To accomplish this, the chapters are clear and complete to encourage students to prepare by reading before class, and the text is filled with exciting examples and exercises that look at the efficiency of various algorithms to solve a problem.

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Analysis of Algorithms : An Active Learning Approach

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Author: Nicholas Galbreath
ISBN: 0471210293
Release Date: 15 July 2002

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Cryptography is the gold standard for security. It is used to protect the transmission and storage of data between two parties by encrypting it into an unreadable format. Cryptography has enabled the first wave of secure transmissions, which has helped fuel the growth of transactions like shopping, banking, and finance over the world’s biggest public network, the Internet. Many Internet applications such as e-mail, databases, and browsers store a tremendous amount of personal and financial information, but frequently the data is left unprotected. Traditional network security is frequently less effective at preventing hackers from accessing this data. For instance, once-private databases are now completely exposed on the Internet. It turns out that getting to the database that holds millions of credit card numbers-the transmission-is secure through the use of cryptography, but the database itself isn’t, fueling the rise of credit card information theft.
A paradigm shift is now under way for cryptography. The only way to make data secure in any application that runs over the Internet is to use secret (also known as private) key cryptography. The current security methods focus on securing Internet applications using public keys techniques that are no longer effective. In this groundbreaking book, noted security expert Nick Galbreath provides specific implementation guidelines and code examples to secure database and Web-based applications to prevent theft of sensitive information from hackers and internal misuse.

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Cryptography for Internet & Database Applications

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Author: Geertjan Wielenga
ISBN: 0132354802
Release Date: 30 April 2007

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The open-source NetBeans Platform is an extraordinarily powerful framework for building “write once, run anywhere” rich client applications. Now, for the first time since the release of NetBeans IDE 5.0, there’s a comprehensive guide to rich client development on the NetBeans Platform.

Written for Java developers and architects who have discovered that basic Swing components are not enough for them, this book will help you get started with NetBeans module development, master NetBeans’ key APIs, and learn proven techniques for building reliable desktop software. Each chapter is filled with practical, step-by-step instructions for creating complete rich client applications on top of the NetBeans Platform and plugins for NetBeans IDE.

Rich Client Programming’s wide-ranging content covers

• Why modular development makes sense for small, medium, and large applications
• Using NetBeans to accelerate development and improve efficiency
• Leveraging NetBeans productivity features, from the Component Palette to Code Completion
• Leveraging NetBeans’ modular architecture in your own applications
• Implementing loosely coupled communication to improve code maintainability and robustness
• Managing user- and system-configuration data
• Building reloadable components with solid threading models
• Constructing sophisticated multiwindow applications and presenting rich data structures to users
• Adding user-configurable options
• Integrating Web services with NetBeans desktop applications
• Automating module updates and providing user help

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Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans(TM) Platform