Deleting the State

Deleting the State

Author: Aeon J. Skoble

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Is the state a necessary evil? Or can we hope to evolve beyond it? This book, in the tradition of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, sheds new light on persistent philosophical questions about the nature and justification of political authority.


Advanced Database Systems

Advanced Database Systems

Author: Nabil R. Adam

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1993-12-08

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9783540575078

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Database management is attracting wide interest in both academic and industrial contexts. New application areas such as CAD/CAM, geographic information systems, and multimedia are emerging. The needs of these application areas are far more complex than those of conventional business applications. The purpose of this book is to bring together a set of current research issues that addresses a broad spectrum of topics related to database systems and applications. The book is divided into four parts: - object-oriented databases, - temporal/historical database systems, - query processing in database systems, - heterogeneity, interoperability, open system architectures, multimedia database systems.


Photoshop CC

Photoshop CC

Author: Elaine Weinmann

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2013-06-26

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0133434753

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This best-selling guide from authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas has been the go-to tutorial and reference book for photography/design professionals and the textbook of choice in college classrooms for decades. This edition includes their trademark features of clear, concise, step-by-step instructions; hundreds of full-color images; screen captures of program features; and supplemental tips and sidebars in every chapter. Among the new CC features covered in this extensively updated guide are: Smart Sharpen, Adobe Camera Raw as filter, intelligent upscaling, multi-shape and path selection, and camera shake reduction. New and updated Photoshop CC features are clearly marked with bright red stars in both the table of contents and main text.


Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems

Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems

Author: Aditya Ghose

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-04-22

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 3642016383

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007, held in Bankok, Thailand, in November 2007. The 22 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 11 application papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. Ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to various applications in different fields, the papers address many current subjects in multi-agent research and development,


The Unknown Component Problem

The Unknown Component Problem

Author: Tiziano Villa

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-11-16

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0387687599

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The Problem of the Unknown Component: Theory and Applications addresses the issue of designing a component that, combined with a known part of a system, conforms to an overall specification. The authors tackle this problem by solving abstract equations over a language. The most general solutions are studied when both synchronous and parallel composition operators are used. The abstract equations are specialized to languages associated with important classes of automata used for modeling systems. The book is a blend of theory and practice, which includes a description of a software package with applications to sequential synthesis of finite state machines. Specific topologies interconnecting the components, exact and heuristic techniques, and optimization scenarios are studied. Finally the scope is enlarged to domains like testing, supervisory control, game theory and synthesis for special omega languages. The authors present original results of the authors along with an overview of existing ones.


Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6

Author: Elaine Weinmann

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2012-06-15

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0132983044

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This best-selling guide from authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas has been the go-to tutorial and reference book for photography/design professionals and the textbook of choice in college classrooms for decades. This edition includes their trademark features of clear, concise, step-by-step instructions; hundreds of full-color images; screen captures of program features; and supplemental tips and sidebars in every chapter. Among the new CS6 features covered in this extensively updated guide are: Field Blur, Iris Blur and Tilt-Shift filters; Properties panel; Exporting and Importing presets; Content-Aware Move tool and Content-Aware option for the Patch tool; Timeline panel for video editing; Photographic Toning libraries for Gradient Map adjustments; and Open Type options. Improved CS6 features covered: Crop tool options and features, Adjustment Brush tool in Camera Raw, and Vector masks. New and updated Photoshop CS6 features are clearly marked with bright red stars in both the table of contents and main text.


International Symposium on Fundamentals of Software Engineering

International Symposium on Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Author: Farhad Arbab

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-04

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 3540756981

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2007. The topics include models of programs and systems, software architectures and their description languages, object and multi-agent systems, coordination and feature interaction, component-based development, service-oriented development, model checking and theorem proving, software and hardware verification and CASE tools and tool integration.


Developments in Language Theory

Developments in Language Theory

Author: Masami Ito

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-06-20

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 3540404317

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The refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2002, held in Kyoto, Japan in September 2002. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 8 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. Among the topics addressed are grammars and acceptors for strings, graphs, arrays, etc; efficient algorithms for languages; combinatorial and algebraic properties of languages; decision problems; relations to complexity theory, logic picture description and analysis, DNA computing, cryptography, concurrency, quantum computing, and algebraic systems.