This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2014. The 11 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such a…
Modern biology is rapidly becoming a study of large sets of data. Understanding these data sets is a major challenge for most life sciences, including the medical, environmental, and bioprocess fields. Computational biology approaches are essential for leveraging this ongoing revolution in omics data. A primary goal of this Special Issue, entitled “Methods in Computational Biology”, is the …
A program can be designed with the barest of tools, paper and pencil, or in the programmer's head. In the realm of such informal environments, a program design may contain vague concepts expressed in an informal notation. Before he or she can execute this program, the programmer needs a programming environment, typically a complex system with many distinct components: a computer and its oper…
This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before.
There are plenty of books that teach introductory data structures. Some of them are very good. Most of them cost money, and the vast majority of computer science undergraduate students will shell out at least some cash on a data structures book.
An introductory text for college or graduate course in computer networks, with a balance between practical matters and underlying principles. It covers the LAN, internetworking and transport layers, focusing primarily on TCP/IP.
MongoDB is the most popular of the "Big Data" NoSQL database technologies, and it's still growing. David Hows from 10gen, along with experienced MongoDB authors Peter Membrey and Eelco Plugge, provide their expertise and experience in teaching you everything you need to know to become a MongoDB pro.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2014, held in Canterbury, UK, in September 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and prom…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2015, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2015. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote …
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college cou…