Linear and Integer Programming vs Linear Integration and Counting: A Duality Viewpoint

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This book analyzes and compares four closely related problems, namely linear programming, integer programming, linear integration, and linear summation (or counting). The focus is on duality and the novel approach puts integer programming in perspective with three associated problems, and permits one to define discrete analogues of well-known continuous duality concepts, and the rationale behind them. Also, the approach highlights the difference between the discrete and continuous cases.

Central in the analysis are the continuous and discrete Brion and Vergne’s formulae for linear integration and counting which are not very well-known in the optimization community. This approach provides some new insights on duality concepts for integer programs, and also permits to retrieve and shed new light on some well-known results. For instance, Gomory relaxations and the abstract superadditive dual of integer programs are re-interpreted in this algebraic approach.

This book will serve graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics, optimization, operations research and computer science. Due to the substantial practical importance of some presented problems, researchers in other areas will also find this book useful.

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Template Matching Techniques in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice

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The detection and recognition of objects in images is a key research topic in the computer vision community.  Within this area, face recognition and interpretation has attracted increasing attention owing to the possibility of unveiling human perception mechanisms, and for the development of practical biometric systems. This book and the accompanying website, focus on template matching, a subset of object recognition techniques of wide applicability, which has proved to be particularly effective for face recognition applications. Using examples from face processing tasks throughout the book to illustrate more general object recognition approaches, Roberto Brunelli:

• examines the basics of digital image formation, highlighting points critical to the task of template matching;
• presents basic and  advanced template matching techniques, targeting grey-level images, shapes and point sets;
• discusses recent pattern classification paradigms from a template matching perspective;
• illustrates the development of a real face recognition system;
• explores the use of advanced computer graphics techniques in the development of computer vision algorithms.

Template Matching Techniques in Computer Vision is primarily aimed at practitioners working on the development of systems for effective object recognition such as biometrics, robot navigation, multimedia retrieval and landmark detection. It is also of interest to graduate students undertaking studies in these areas.

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Foundations of Systems Biology: Using Cell Illustrator and Pathway Databases

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Navigating safely through a wealth of genome, protein and metabolite information, as well as a host of information processing tools, without getting lost is crucial for successful research in – and teaching of - molecular biology.

This concise, easy-to-follow textbook/guide serves as a valuable introduction to contemporary cell biology for readers and offers insight into the key research directions in the field. It begins with an overview of existing tools for finding, designing and investigating metabolic, genetic, signalling and other network databases. This practical guide then introduces Cell Illustrator, a software tool for biological pathway modelling and simulation, developed by the authors. In-depth discussion reveals how this tool can be used for creating, analysing and simulating biological models, thereby explicating and testing current understanding of basic biological processes. Readers do not require prior knowledge of differential equations or programming.

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Security in RFID and Sensor Networks

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Interest in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) recently exploded globally in both industry and academia, but security is one of the key issues standing in the way of broad deployment of RFID and WSN systems. Broken down into easily navigable parts, this cutting-edge book offers a comprehensive discussion on the fundamentals, security challenges, and solutions in RFID, WSNs, and integrated RFID & WSNs. Complete with several detailed case studies, this essential reference includes practical examples for intuitive understanding and necessary information to assist professionals, engineers, and researchers involved in the security of RFID and WSNs.

About the Author
Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Norway Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

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C# Graphics Programming

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This Wrox Blox teaches you how to add graphics to C# 2008 applications, explaining fundamental graphics techniques such as: drawing shapes with different colors and line styles; filling areas with colors, gradients, and patterns; drawing text that is properly aligned, sized, and clipped exactly where you want it; manipulating images and saving results in bitmap, JPEG, and other types of files. Also covered are instructions for how to greatly increase your graphics capabilities using transformations.

Transformations allow you to move, stretch, or rotate graphics. They also let you work in coordinate systems that make sense for your application. You will also learn how to use all of these techniques in printouts. The author describes the sequence of events that produce a printout and shows how to generate and preview printouts.

The final sections describe two powerful new graphic tools that were introduced with .NET Framework 3.0: WPF graphics and FlowDocuments. WPF applications can use XAML graphic commands to declaratively draw and fill the same kinds of shapes that a program can draw by using graphics objects.

Finally, a discussion on the FlowDocument object shows you how to define items that should be flowed across multiple pages as space permits. This lets you display text, graphics, controls, and other items that automatically flow across page breaks. FlowDocument viewers make displaying these documents easy for you, and simplifies the user’s reading of the documents.

This Wrox Blox also contains 35 example programs written in C# 2008, although most of the code works in previous versions of C# as well. The most notable exceptions are WPF graphics and FlowDocuments, both of which require WPF provided in .NET Framework 3.0 and later.

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Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Welcome to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (AKA “Yukon”). Many people have been speculating that the changes from version 2000 to 2005 were more dramatic than those changes that have occurred from 2005 to 2008. Yes, SQL Server 2005 was revolutionary in many respects, but SQL Server 2008 is not without some amazing new features and capabilities.
This book is divided into seven main topics: Security and Administration, Performance, Type System Enhancements, Programmability, Storage, Enhancements for High Availability, and Business Intelligence Enhancements. Each chapter will hopefully offer you insight into the new or improved features in each of these main areas. And, although the book covers a lot of ground, it is not an exhaustive tome, and, alas, not everything new or improved is contained in this book. I leave those additional details to Books Online and fellow authors who will inevitably write more comprehensive titles.

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Beginning Xcode

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Xcode is a powerful suite of free development tools from Apple Computer that will allow you to create Macintosh applications, plug-ins, web components, applets, and more using languages such as C, C++, Objective-C, Java, and AppleScript.

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