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Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave

This textbook is an introduction to Scientific Computing, in which several numerical methods for the computer solution of ...

Scripting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

This volume represents the state of the art of research on scripting computer-supported collaborative learning and provides ...

Semantic Web and Education

The first section of Semantic Web and Education surveys the basic aspects and features of the Semantic Web. After this basic ...

Service Availability

Program Chairs’ Message th The 4 International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2007) continued with the tradition ...

Service Availability (vol. # 3335)

Service Availability (vol. # 3694)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Service Availability Symposium, ...

Service Availability (vol. # 4328)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Service Availability Symposium, ...

Service Availability : 5th International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2008 Tokyo, Japan, May 19-21, 2008 Proceedings

The book is organized in topical sections on enterprise system dependability, software service availability, service availability ...

Services Science

The service sector has dominated advanced economies for years. In many countries, it accounts for more than 70% of gross ...

Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally ...

Signal Processing Techniques for Knowledge Extraction and Information Fusion

This state-of-the-art resource brings together the latest findings from the cross-fertilization of signal processing, machine ...

Simulating Continuous Fuzzy Systems

The authors use crisp continuous simulation to estimate the trajectories of the support and core of these fuzzy numbers in ...

Single Molecules and Nanotechnology

This book focuses on recent advances in the rapidly evolving field of single molecule research. These advances are of importance ...

Smart Graphics (vol. # 4073)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2006, held in Vancouver, ...

Social Capital and Business Development in High-Technology Clusters

The economics of regional clusters, where business formation, technological innovation, and the emergence of a highly-skilled ...

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class New Voting Patterns

This book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. ...

Social Pacts, Employment and Growth

In this book leading European economists examine the current status of social pacts and their future. Particular focus is ...

Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development

The aim of the present volume is different. We recognize that of shore development is here to stay, and not just a result ...

Software Engineering and Middleware

Middleware provides an integration framework for multiple and potentially - verse computing platforms. It allows developers ...

Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V

Software is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. ...