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The annotated Turing
Computability theory textbooks usually have little historical content, while popular treatments usually have few technical details. This book is the exception that carefully explains one of the fundamental papers of the 20th century, putting it in historical context, including the backgrounds of the important contributors... more
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Distributed algorithm for efficient construction and maintenance of connected k-hop dominating sets in mobile ad hoc networks: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Imagine mobile networks (specifically, where network nodes are allowed to move more or less freely in space) where nodes not only communicate through a wireless channel, but do so without any fixed... more
Internetworking (C.2.6) | Oct 10 08
PIANO: a power saving strategy for cellular/VoWLAN dual-mode: Wireless Networks
Tsao and Cheng present a novel power-saving strategy, paging via another radio (PIANO), to be used in the creation, provision, and implementation of dual-mode mobile... more
Network Architecture & Design (C.2.1) | Oct 10 08
Software engineering and formal methods: Communications of the ACM
Weaving formal methods into the software engineering mainstream, this paper summarizes three keynote speeches from the fifth Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International... more
Software/Program Verification (D.2.4) | Oct 10 08
Event-based location matching for consumer image collections: CIVR 2008
Das et al. discuss a theme that I think will be a central topic in the next few years in the content-based image retrieval community: how to group images with geographical and temporal signatures.... more
Clustering (H.3.3...) | Oct 9 08
Optimal power-down strategies: SIAM Journal on Computing
Electronic devices usually offer many functions; most of them, though critical for the correct operation of the device, are hidden from the user. Each function has its own power requirements; all functions... more
Switching Theory (B.6.3...) | Oct 9 08
The internal consistency and precedence of key process areas in the capability maturity model for software: Empirical Software Engineering
The Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM) has been very successful for more than ten years as a method to assess the process maturity of an organization that produces software. Intuitively... more
Software Process Models (D.2.9...) | Oct 9 08
Access for all: Communications of the ACM
More than 40 million Americans identify themselves as having a physical disability. Of this group, 12 million use a computer and 17 million work full time. Globally, the United Nations estimates that... more
Social Issues (K.4.2) | Oct 9 08
Regulating air traffic flow with coupled agents: AAMAS 08
Air traffic is growing rapidly, and efficiency of present flow-regulating techniques is becoming debatable. In 2005, there was an estimated 322,272 hours of delay in US air traffic, causing additional... more
Multiagent Systems (I.2.11...) | Oct 8 08
Parametric stability of impulsive functional differential equations: Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems
Various processes and phenomena studied in physics, chemistry, and biology involve the study of a class of differential equations with solutions that are piecewise continuous... more
Stability (And Instability) (G.1.0...) | Oct 8 08
Exact geometric-topological analysis of algebraic surfaces: SCG 08
Berberich et al. introduce an algorithm for computing the topology of a surface in three-dimensional (3D) space, implicitly represented by a polynomial in three unknowns of arbitrary degree N... more
Curve, Surface ... Representations (I.3.5...) | Oct 6 08
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Information retrieval for music and motion
Music and motion information retrieval (IR) research has taken a fundamental change in direction: from the standard use of text annotations describing such media for retrieval, to new and exciting research that... more
Retrieval Models (H.3.3...) | Oct 10 08
Practical API design: confessions of a Java framework architect
Good software production requires good people who follow good practices, and have good tools. This book is about good practices and the production of good tools.
Nowadays, very few software... more
Programming Environments (D.2.6) | Oct 10 08
Practical Rails social networking sites
Some of the more advanced features and plug-ins available with the Rails framework are introduced in this book. Meant for people with some experience with Ruby on Rails, this book shows how to build... more
Information Networks (H.3.4...) | Oct 9 08
VizSEC 2007: proceedings of the workshop on visualization for computer security
The result of a very successful workshop, this book is a collection of several very useful contributions.
The introductory paper by the editors is quite useful as an overview of the field, and could very well be recommended reading for a course... more
Security and Protection (C.2.0...) | Oct 8 08
Rich client programming: plugging into the NetBeans platform
With their long involvement with the NetBeans project, Boudreau, Tulach, and Wielenga are quite well established and experienced in the field of software development. In this book, they present the evolution of the NetBeans project over the... more
Object-Oriented Programming (D.1.5) | Oct 7 08
The future of the Internet--and how to stop it
Wandering the timeline of the Internet’s life, Zittrain projects its future generations using sociological, genealogical, and technological arguments. The way the book is structured and enriched makes it an ideal... more
Miscellaneous (C.2.m) | Oct 6 08
Advances in signal transforms: theory and applications
Some of the most recent major advances in the field of signal transforms are introduced in this volume. Collecting some of the most recent developments in the theory and practice of the design and use of transforms in digital and image processing... more
Signal Processing (I.5.4...) | Oct 6 08
Privacy-preserving data mining: models and algorithms
Since its inception in 2000, privacy-preserving data mining has gained increasing popularity in the data-mining research community, leading to the organization of numerous conferences and workshops around the world. This line of research... more
Data Mining (H.2.8...) | Oct 3 08
Spring recipes: a problem-solution approach
Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is an attempt to provide, using the object-oriented model of Java, facilities to tie together Web access and databases in order to build the complex systems required for modern commerce. It has been widely... more
Integrated Environments (D.2.6...) | Oct 3 08
Handbook of data visualization
The sheer power of today’s hardware allows one to work with enormously large amounts of data. If the data are of a numerical nature, then, typically, one will not be able to draw any useful conclusions from just looking at millions of numbers. A technique to... more
Applications (I.3.8) | Oct 3 08
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