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 An Introduction to Knowledge Engineering

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  Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework MCPD Exam 70-547 - Self-Paced Training Kit

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 Digital Asset Management Professional Video and Television File-based Libraries

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 Network Security Essentials Applications and Standards

For one-semester courses on Network Security for computer science, engineering, and CIS majors. This text provides a practical, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey of network-based and Internet-based security applications and standards. It includes a ...

 Cryptographics Exploiting Graphics Cards for Security

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 Coherence in Natural Language Data Structure and Applications

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 Ethernet-Based Metro Area Networks

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 Risk Based E-Business Testing

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 The 123s of ABC in Sap - Volume 1 Using Sap R/3 to Support Activity-Based Costing

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 Practical Mathematical Optimization An Introduction to Basic Optimization Theory and Classical and New Gradient-Based Algorithms

This book presents basic optimization principles and gradient-based algorithms to a general audience in a brief and easy-to-read form, without neglecting rigor. The work should enable professionals to apply optimization theory and algorithms to their own ...

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 Human Identification Based on Gait

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 Network Administrators Survival Guide The All-in-One Practical Guide to Supporting Your Cisco Network

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 Complexity and Cryptography An Introduction

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 Instant ACID Video / Audio / Surround / Streaming

ACID Pro 5 continues to break new ground in loop-based music composition. Novices can use it for basic loop-based composition drawing on the enormous talent of the loop-based creators to assemble a song by painting loops on the timeline. Musicians can aug...

 Core Security Patterns Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE, Web Services, and Identify Management

In this new book, two Java security experts impart their wisdom on deploying secure Java-based applications in the enterprise. The patterns-based approach allows the student to immediately apply the teachings of the book to their work. Not only does the b...

 OFDM-Based Broadband Wireless Networks Design and Optimization

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 Knowledge-Based Clustering From Data to Information Granules

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 Beginning Python From Novice to Professional

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional is the most comprehensive book on the Python ever written. Based on Practical Python, this newly revised book is both an introduction and practical reference for a swath of Python-related programming topics, i...

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 Knowledge Management and Management Learning Extending the Horizons of Knowledge-Based Management

Recently knowledge management and management learning has received considerable published coverage; however, most of this exposure is based on a rational, mechanistic view of knowledge management. Practice, on the other hand, has taught us that knowledge ...

 Data Mining in Bioinformatics

The goal of this book is to help readers understand state-of-the-art techniques in biological data mining and data management and includes topics such as: - preprocessing tasks such as data cleaning and data integration as applied to biological data - cla...

 Multimedia Content and the Semantic Web Standards, Methods and Tools

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 Storage Virtualization Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management

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 Extreme Programming for Web Projects

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 Tomcat 5

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