Objects, Agents, and Features
Objects, Agents, and Features

Author: Mark D. Ryan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-06-02

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 3540219897

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This book is the outcome of an international research seminar on objects, agents, and features held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in February 2003. In recent years, concepts in object-oriented modeling and programming have been extended in variuos directions, giving rise to new paradigms such as agent-orientation and feature orientation. This book explores the relationship between the original paradigm and the two new ones. The 12 revised full papers presented together with an introductery overview by the volume editors were carefully reviewed and improved for publication. Among the topics addressed are agent coordination in object-orientation, feature orientation, components and feature interaction, software evolution, agent modeling and analysis, agent interaction, component-based systems, formal specification of agents, and feature engineering.

Redefining Mainstream Popular Music
Redefining Mainstream Popular Music

Author: Sarah Baker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1136465308

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Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the "mainstream" in and across a variety of popular music styles and contexts. Notions of what is popular vary across generations and cultures – what may have been considered alternative to one group may be perceived as mainstream to another. Incorporating a wide range of popular music texts, genres, scenes, practices and technologies from the United Kingdom, North America, Australia and New Zealand, the authors theoretically challenge and augment our understanding of how the mainstream is understood and functions in the overlapping worlds of popular music production, consumption and scholarship. Spanning the local and the global, the historic and contemporary, the iconic and the everyday, the book covers a broad range of genres, from punk to grunge to hip-hop, while also considering popular music through other mediums, including mash-ups and the music of everyday work life. Redefining Mainstream Popular Music provides readers with an innovative and nuanced perspective of what it means to be mainstream.

The Extreme Gone Mainstream
The Extreme Gone Mainstream

Author: Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 140088893X

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How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbols The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people—in other words, that have made the extreme more mainstream. In this book, Cynthia Miller-Idriss examines how extremist ideologies have entered mainstream German culture through commercialized products and clothing laced with extremist, anti-Semitic, racist, and nationalist coded symbols and references. Drawing on a unique digital archive of thousands of historical and contemporary images, as well as scores of interviews with young people and their teachers in two German vocational schools with histories of extremist youth presence, Miller-Idriss shows how this commercialization is part of a radical transformation happening today in German far right youth subculture. She describes how these young people have gravitated away from the singular, hard-edged skinhead style in favor of sophisticated and fashionable commercial brands that deploy coded extremist symbols. Virtually indistinguishable in style from other popular clothing, the new brands desensitize far right consumers to extremist ideas and dehumanize victims. Required reading for anyone concerned about the global resurgence of the far right, The Extreme Gone Mainstream reveals how style and aesthetic representation serve as one gateway into extremist scenes and subcultures by helping to strengthen racist and nationalist identification and by acting as conduits of resistance to mainstream society.

Scripting with Objects
Scripting with Objects

Author: Avinash C. Kak

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 1452

ISBN-13: 1119461146

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Object-Oriented scripting with Perl and Python Scripting languages are becoming increasingly important for software development. These higher-level languages, with their built-in easy-to-use data structures are convenient for programmers to use as "glue" languages for assembling multi-language applications and for quick prototyping of software architectures. Scripting languages are also used extensively in Web-based applications. Based on the same overall philosophy that made Programming with Objects such a wide success, Scripting with Objects takes a novel dual-language approach to learning advanced scripting with Perl and Python, the dominant languages of the genre. This method of comparing basic syntax and writing application-level scripts is designed to give readers a more comprehensive and expansive perspective on the subject. Beginning with an overview of the importance of scripting languages—and how they differ from mainstream systems programming languages—the book explores: Regular expressions for string processing The notion of a class in Perl and Python Inheritance and polymorphism in Perl and Python Handling exceptions Abstract classes and methods in Perl and Python Weak references for memory management Scripting for graphical user interfaces Multithreaded scripting Scripting for network programming Interacting with databases Processing XML with Perl and Python This book serves as an excellent textbook for a one-semester undergraduate course on advanced scripting in which the students have some prior experience using Perl and Python, or for a two-semester course for students who will be experiencing scripting for the first time. Scripting with Objects is also an ideal resource for industry professionals who are making the transition from Perl to Python, or vice versa.

Objects and Databases
Objects and Databases

Author: Alan Dearle

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 3642160913

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Object Databases, ICOODB 2010, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany in September 2010. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 4 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. These papers address a wide range of issues related to object databases, including topics such as linkage to service platforms; operation within scalable (cloud) platforms; object-relational bindings; NoSQL databases; and new approaches to concurrency control.

Object Databases
Object Databases

Author: Moira C. Norrie

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-07-30

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 3642146805

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Object Databases, ICOODB 2009, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in July 2009. The 6 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from the presentations at the research track during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. These papers address a wide range of issues related to object databases, including topics such as applications, methodologies, design tools, frameworks and standards as well as core object database technologies.

Object Categorization
Object Categorization

Author: Sven J. Dickinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-09-07

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0521887380

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A unique multidisciplinary perspective on the problem of visual object categorization.

Objects, Components, Models and Patterns
Objects, Components, Models and Patterns

Author: Manuel Oriol

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-06-29

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 3642025714

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Objects, Components, Models and Patterns, TOOLS EUROPE 2009, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in June/July 2009. TOOLS has played a major role in the spread of object-oriented and component technologies. It has now broadened its scope beyond the original topics of object technology and component-based development to encompass all modern, practical approaches to software development. At the same time, TOOLS has kept its traditional spirit of technical excellence, its acclaimed focus on practicality, its well-proven combination of theory and applications, and its reliance on the best experts from academia and industry. The 17 regular papers and two short papers presented in this book, together with two invited papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The topics covered in this volume are reflection and aspects, models, theory, components, monitoring, and systems generation.

PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice
PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice

Author: Matt Zandstra

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1430260327

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PHP Objects Patterns and Practice, Fourth Edition is revised and updated throughout. The book begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declaration, inheritance, reflection and much more. These provide the fundamentals of the PHP's support for objects. It also introduces some principles of design. This edition introduces new object relevant features such as traits, reflection extension additions, callable type hinting, improvements to exception handling, and many smaller language enhancements. The next section is devoted to design patterns. These describe common problems and their solutions. The section describes the design principles that make patterns powerful. It covers many of the classic design patterns and includes chapters on enterprise and database patterns. The last segment of the book covers the tools and practices that can help turn great code into a successful project. The section shows how to manage multiple developers and releases with git, how to build and install using Phing and PEAR. It also explores strategies for automated testing and build. In addition to discussing the latest developments in build, test, and continuous integration, this section keeps pace with best practice in version control by focusing on Git, increasingly the developer's system of choice. Taken together these three elements: object fundamentals, design principles, and best practice will help the reader develop elegant and rock solid systems. PHP Objects and Patterns: Describes and demonstrates PHP's built-in object-oriented features Breaks down the principles of object-oriented design, explaining key design patterns using practical examples. Discusses the tools and practices necessary for developing, testing and deploying exemplary applications.

Image and Graphics
Image and Graphics

Author: Huchuan Lu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-10-28

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 303146317X

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The five-volume set LNCS 14355, 14356, 14357, 14358 and 14359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2023, held in Nanjing, China, during September 22–24, 2023. The 166 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 409 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computer vision and pattern recognition; computer graphics and visualization; compression, transmission, retrieval; artificial intelligence; biological and medical image processing; color and multispectral processing; computational imaging; multi-view and stereoscopic processing; multimedia security; surveillance and remote sensing, and virtual reality. The ICIG 2023 is a biennial conference that focuses on innovative technologies of image, video and graphics processing and fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and networking. It will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, and high-quality peer reviewed oral and poster presentations.