Product Description ParCo2007 marks a quarter of a century of the international conferences on parallel computing that started in Berlin in 1983. The aim of the conference is to give an overview of the state-of-the-art of the developments, applications and future trends in high performance computing for all platforms. The conference addresses all aspects of parallel computing, including applications, hardware and software technologies as well as languages and development environments. Special emphasis was placed on the role of high performance processing to solve real-life problems in all areas, including scientific, engineering and multidisciplinary applications and strategies, experiences and conclusions made with respect to parallel computing. The book contains papers covering: 1) Applications; The application of parallel computers to solve computationally challenging problems in the physical and life sciences, engineering, industry and commerce. The treatment of complex multidisciplinary problems occurring in all application areas was discussed. 2) Algorithms; Design, analysis and implementation of generic parallel algorithms, including their scalability, in particular to a large number of processors (MPP), portability and adaptability and 3) Software and Architectures; Software engineering for developing and maintaining parallel software, including parallel programming models and paradigms, development environments, compile-time and run-time tools. A number of symposia on specialized topics formed part of the scientific program. The following topics were covered: Parallel Computing with FPGAs, The Future of OpenMP in the Multi-Core Era, Scalability and Usability of HPC Programming Tools, DEISA: Extreme Computing in an Advanced Supercomputing Environment and Scaling Science Applications on Blue Gene. The conference was organized by the renowned research and teaching institutions Forschungszentrum Julich and the RWTH Aachen University in Germany.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields.

Some of the areas we publish in:

-Biomedicine
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• Hardcover: 824 pages
• Publisher: IOS Press (March 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158603796X
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Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML aims to provide a single record of current research and practical applications in the fuzzy databases. This volume is the outgrowth of research the author has conducted in recent years. Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML introduces state-of-the-art information to the database research, while at the same time serving the information technology professional faced with a non-traditional application that defeats conventional approaches.

The research on fuzzy conceptual models and fuzzy object-oriented databases is receiving increasing attention, in addition to fuzzy relational database models. With rapid advances in network and internet techniques as well, the databases have been applied under the environment of distributed information systems. It is essential in this case to integrate multiple fuzzy database systems. Since databases are commonly employed to store and manipulate XML data, additional requirements are necessary to model fuzzy information with XML. Secondly, this book maps fuzzy XML model to the fuzzy databases. Very few efforts at investigating these issues have thus far occurred.

Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML is designed for a professional audience of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable for graduate-level students in computer science.

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• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387242481
• ISBN-13: 978-0387242484Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

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XML is the lingua franca of the Web. All designers and developers working in a web environment need a sound understanding of XML and its role in application development. Many software packages and organizations allow for the exchange of data using an XML format. Web services and RSS feeds are now commonplace.

For those working with Flash and Flex, a thorough understanding of XML is particularly important. XML documents are one option for the data provided to SWF applications. Flash and Flex can load, display, and modify XML content. These applications can also send XML content to other applications for updating or for use in different situations.

ActionScript 3.0 introduces some fundamental changes to the way in which Flash and Flex applications work with XML. One significant change is that XML is now a native data type. ActionScript 3.0 also introduces new classes and a different framework for working with external documents. These changes are based on the E4X ECMAScript standard, and they streamline and simplify the process for working with XML in Flash and Flex.

In this book, Sas Jacobs gives you an introduction to XML and E4X. She explores the new XML and XMLList classes and explains E4X expressions, providing examples for both Flash and Flex. In addition to explaining how to incorporate XML documents in SWF applications, Sas Jacobs shows you approaches specific to Flash and Flex and explores real-world usage. The book finishes with two case studies. In the first, you will learn how to consume and display information and images from Flickr using Flash. In the second, you will work with Adobe Kuler in Flex.

Whether you are a designer or developer, this book will help you work with XML and make the transition from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0. It will also provide you with an excellent grounding if you are new to Flash and Flex.

In this book, you’ll learn how to:

• Work with the new XML and XMLList classes in ActionScript 3.0
• Build E4X expressions in ActionScript 3.0 to simplify your work flow
• Work with XML content in Flash and Flex to create dynamic web applications
• Consume REST and SOAP web services in Flash and Flex
• Build real-world Flash and Flex XML applications

Summary of Contents

1. Introduction to XML
2. Generating XML Content
3. Actionscript 3.0 and XML
4. Using E4X Expressions
5. Using the URLLoader Class With XML Documents
6. Loading Methods Specific to Flex
7. Loading Methods Specific to Flash
8. Modifying XML Content With Actionscript 3.0
9. Communicating With the Server
10. Consuming Web Services With Flex
11. Consuming Web Services With Flash
12. Flash Case Study
13. Flex Case Study

About the Author
Sas is a Web developer who loves working with Flash. She set up her business Anything Is Possible in 1994, working in the areas of web development, IT training and technical writing. The business works with large and small clients building web applications with ASP.NET, Flash, XML and databases.
Sas has also spoken at conferences such as Flash Forward, MXDU and FlashKit on topics relating to XML and dynamic content in Flash. In her spare time, Sas is passionate about travelling, photography and enjoying life. One of her most fervent wishes is that Flash will take over the Web!

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• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: friends of ED; 1 edition (January 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430216344
• ISBN-13: 978-1430216346Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

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Product Description Sure you can animate using motion tweens, in fact we’ll help you do that with our Flash Cartoon Animation book, but isn’t there something extra special in making things move with just a few lines of code? In this book Keith Peters guides us through some basic animation theory and then demystifies the math and physics behind creating realistic animation, looking at trigonometry, velocity and acceleration, and bouncing & friction. As you’d expect, the book intersperses theory with practical demonstrations of the techniques covered. A basic knowledge of ActionScript concepts is all that is required to get up and running with the tutorials. Keith goes on to cover more advanced animation topics such as collision detection, particle attraction, and kinematics. The book concludes with looking at 3D animation techniques, including building a basic 3D engine, 3D lines, fills and solids, and matrix math. Table of Contents

* Part I – ActionScripted Animation Basics

o Ch. 1 – Basic Animation Concepts

o Ch. 2 – ActionScript Basics for Animation

o Ch. 3 – Trigonometry

o Ch. 4 – Rendering Techniques

* Part II – Basic Motion

o Ch. 5 – Velocity and Acceleration

o Ch. 6 – Bouncing and Friction

o Ch. 7 – User Interaction: Dragging and Throwing

* Part III – Advanced Motion

o Ch. 8 – Easing and Springs

o Ch. 9 – Collision Detection

o Ch. 10 – Bouncing off Angles

o Ch. 11 – Billiard Ball Physics

o Ch. 12 – Particle Attraction

o Ch. 13 – Forward Kinematics

o Ch. 14 – Inverse Kinematics

* Part IV – Three D

o Ch. 15 – A Basic 3D Engine

o Ch. 16 – 3D Lines, Fills, Solids

o Ch. 17 – Advanced 3D: Backface Culling & Lighting

o Ch. 18 – Matrix Math

* Part V – Tips and Tricks

o Ch. 19 – Tips and Tricks

About the Author
Keith Peters

Keith Peters lives in the vicinity of Boston, MA, in the US with his wife, Kazumi, and their daughter, Kristine. He has been working with Flash since 1999, and has coauthored many books for friends of ED, including the groundbreaking volumes, Flash Math Creativity and Extending Flash MX 2004.The site recently won an award at the Flashforward 2003 Flash Film Festival in the Experimental category. In addition to the experiments on this site, Keith has produced several highly regarded Flash tutorials that have been translated into many languages and are now posted on websites throughout the world. Keith is currently working full time on Flash development and various writing projects.

Keith’s other books include: Flash MX Studio, Fresh Flash: New Design Ideas with Flash MX, Byte-Size Flash MX, Flash MX Most Wanted, Flash MX Games Most Wanted, and New Masters of Flash: Volume 3

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• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: friends of ED (October 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590595181
• ISBN-13: 978-1590595183Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

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• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company (July 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0444897542
• ISBN-13: 978-0444897541Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

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Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1.5 transactions per second (TPS) on expensive modern servers. This is a disaster enterprises, organizations, or institutions avoid by using Frank Cohen’s FastSOA patterns, test methodology, and architecture.

In FastSOA you will learn how to apply native XML technology to SOA for:

* Data mediation using mid-tier data and service caching to handle the explosion of new schemas and new devices in an ever changing environment
* Data aggregation in the SOA middle-tier for off-line browsing, service acceleration through mid-tier caching and transformation, and bandwidth-needs reduction
* Increased service and application scalability and performance
* Successful evaluations of application server, XML parser, relational and native XML database, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Integration server, workflow server, and Web Service tools for performance, scalability, and developer productivity
* Improved service governance through XML persistence in SOA registries and repositories
* Composite data services (CDS) to provide maximum reuse of software components and data, accelerate performance, and reduce development time and maintenance in your SOA

About the author
Frank Cohen is the “go to” guy when enterprises need to build, test, and solve performance and scalability problems in complex interoperating information systems. Frank’s articles appear on IBM developerWorks, and he is author of Java Testing and Design: From Unit Tests to Automated Web Tests. He is the principal maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source test utility and framework, and Director of Solutions Engineering at Raining Data, publisher of the TigerLogic XQuery engine and native XML database.

About the Author:
Frank Cohen is the “go to” guy when enterprises need to build, test, and solve performance and scalability problems in complex interoperating information systems. Frank’s articles appear on IBM developerWorks, and he is author of Java Testing and Design: From Unit Tests to Automated Web Tests. He is the principal maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source test utility and framework, and Director of Solutions Engineering at Raining Data, publisher of the TigerLogic XQuery engine and native XML database.

In FastSOA you will learn how to apply native XML technology to SOA for:

* Data mediation using mid-tier data and service caching to handle the explosion of new schemas and new devices in an ever changing environment
* Data aggregation in the SOA middle-tier for off-line browsing, service acceleration through mid-tier caching and transformation, and bandwidth-needs reduction
* Increased service and application scalability and performance
* Successful evaluations of application server, XML parser, relational and native XML database, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Integration server, workflow server, and Web Service tools for performance, scalability, and developer productivity
* Improved service governance through XML persistence in SOA registries and repositories
* Composite data services (CDS) to provide maximum reuse of software components and data, accelerate performance, and reduce development time and maintenance in your SOA

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• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (December 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0123695139
• ISBN-13: 978-0123695130Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

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This text and reference on string processes and pattern matching presents examples related to the automatic processing of natural language, to the analysis of molecular sequences and to the management of textual databases. Algorithms are described in a C-like language, with correctness proofs and complexity analysis, to make them ready to implement. The book will be an important resource for students and researchers in theoretical computer science, computational linguistics, computational biology, and software engineering.

Review
‘perfect for lectures on ’stringology’, for graduate students as a reference on the topic and for appliers in linguistic or molecular biology’ Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum

About the Author
Professor Maxime Crochemore received his PhD in 1978 and his Doctorat d’état in 1983 at the University of Rouen. He got his first professorship position at the University of Paris-Nord in 1975 where he acted as President of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science for two years. He became professor at the University Paris 7 in 1989 and was involved in the creation of the University of Marne-la-Vallée where he is presently Professor. He also created the Computer Science research laboratory of this university in 1991, which has now more than fifty permanent researchers. He was the director of the laboratory until 2005. Professor Crochemore is Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London since 2002.

Christophe Hancart received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris 7, France. He is now an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rouen.

Thierry Lecroq received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Orléans in 1992. He is now a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rouen.

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• Hardcover: 392 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (April 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521848997
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Focusing on grid computing and asynchronism, Parallel Iterative Algorithms explores the theoretical and practical aspects of parallel numerical algorithms. Each chapter contains a theoretical discussion of the topic, an algorithmic section that fully details implementation examples and specific algorithms, and an evaluation of the advantages and drawbacks of the algorithms. Several exercises also appear at the end of most chapters.

The first two chapters introduce the general features of sequential iterative algorithms and their applications to numerical problems. The book then describes different kinds of parallel systems and parallel iterative algorithms. It goes on to address both linear and nonlinear parallel synchronous and asynchronous iterative algorithms for numerical computation, with an emphasis on the multisplitting approach. The final chapter discusses the features required for efficient implementation of asynchronous iterative algorithms.

Providing the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to design and implement efficient parallel iterative algorithms, this book illustrates how to apply these algorithms to solve linear and nonlinear numerical problems in parallel environments, including local, distant, homogeneous, and heterogeneous clusters.

Review
In Parallel Iterative Algorithms: From Sequential to Grid Computing, Bahi, Contassot-Vivier, and Couturier bring mathematical formalism to the study of parallel iterative solution techniques, creating a book that will be useful to those with a strong maths background who are making the transition into parallel scientific computing. … a great fit as a part of a graduate-level course on scientific computing in the math department, or for those already in scientific computing seeking to understand the key mathematical foundations of the analysis of iterative techniques. … The authors execute their mission well, making sure that they treat the mathematical theory of each method in just enough detail to be complete. … The combination of the theory and the implementation is valuable, and I found it illuminating to revisit algorithms I only knew at an implementation level from the mathematical perspective and to understand the reasons behind behaviors I had always taken as given. … a nice addition to your HPC bookshelf in that it brings a strong focus on mathematical formalism, which is often lacking in more computing-oriented approaches to numerical methods. … the book is loaded with citations, and readers looking for a different point of view or for more in depth material on a particular point will find a wealth of pointers to the literature.
—John West, HPCwire, February 2009

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• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC; 1 edition (November 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584888083
• ISBN-13: 978-1584888086Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

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A human observer can effortlessly identify visible portions of geometric objects present in the environment. However, computations of visible portions of objects from a viewpoint involving thousands of objects is a time consuming task even for high speed computers. To solve such visibility problems, efficient algorithms have been designed. This book presents some of these visibility algorithms in two dimensions. Specifically, basic algorithms for point visibility, weak visibility, shortest paths, visibility graphs, link paths and visibility queries are all discussed. Several geometric properties are also established through lemmas and theorems. With over 300 figures and hundreds of exercises, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in the field of computational geometry. It will also be useful as a reference for researchers working in algorithms, robotics, computer graphics and geometric graph theory, and some algorithms from the book can be used in a first course in computational geometry.

Review
“The topics covered are all very visual, easy to understand, and well explained… A good overview of visibility algorithms in the plane, concentrating on basic algorithms but also covering the state of the art.”
Carola Wenk, Mathematical Reviews

“The text is conversational in tone, yet clear and rigorous in its exposition. In general, this text accomplishes its intended purpose well – providing a graduate-level text on visibility algorithms that can also serve as a useful reference.”
Alice M. Dean for SIGACT News

About the Author
Subir Kumar Ghosh is a Professor of Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India and is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of around forty papers in the fields of Computational Geometry and Graph Theory and has worked as a visiting scientist in many reputed universities and research institutes around the world.

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• Hardcover: 332 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (April 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521875749
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Designing distributed computing systems is a complex process requiring a solid understanding of the design problems and the theoretical and practical aspects of their solutions. This comprehensive textbook covers the fundamental principles and models underlying the theory, algorithms and systems aspects of distributed computing. Broad and detailed coverage of the theory is balanced with practical systems-related issues such as mutual exclusion, deadlock detection, authentication, and failure recovery. Algorithms are carefully selected, lucidly presented, and described without complex proofs. Simple explanations and illustrations are used to elucidate the algorithms. Important emerging topics such as peer-to-peer networks and network security are also considered. With state-of-the-art algorithms, numerous illustrations, examples and homework problems, this textbook is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of electrical and computer engineering and computer science. Practitioners in data networking and sensor networks will also find this a valuable resource. Additional resources are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521876346.

Book Description
Comprehensive textbook covering the fundamental principles and models underlying the theory, algorithms and systems aspects of distributed computing. For advanced undergraduate and graduate students of electrical and computer engineering and computer science. Also of interest to practitioners in data networking, wireless networking, and sensor networks. Additional resources online: www.cambridge.org/9780521876346.

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• Hardcover: 754 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (May 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521876346
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