Authors:William I. Grosky, Frantisek Plasil,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: informatics, practice, theory, sofsem
Number of Pages: 10
Published: 2002-12-16
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 354000145X
ISBN-13: 9783540001454

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, SOFSEM 2002, held in Milovy, Czech Republic, in November 2002. The volume presents 10 invited lectures and the report on a panel discussion on GRID computing together with 11 revised full papers selected from 22 submissions. Among the topics covered are system design and testing related theory, distributed and parallel systems, type theory, multimedia, databases, computer vision, and soft computing.

Authors:Steffen Becker, Frantisek Plasil, Ralf Reussner,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: software, architectures, quality, programming, engineering, qosa, international, models, conference
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 3540878785
ISBN-13: 9783540878780

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2008, held in Medford, MA, USA, in July 2007, in conjunction with the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2007, and the ROSATEA 2007 event, investigating the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis, forming the federated events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture, CompArch 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote lecture were

Author: Frantisek Franek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: concept, programming, memory
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-11-17
List price: $47.99
ISBN-10: 0521520436
ISBN-13: 9780521520430

Assuming readers have a basic familiarity with C or C++, Frantisek Franek describes the techniques, methods and tools available to develop effective memory usage. The overwhelming majority of "bugs" and crashes in computer programming stem from problems of memory access, allocation, or deallocation. Such memory related errors are notoriously difficult to resolve. Moreover, the role that memory plays in C and C++ programming is a subject often overlooked in courses and in books. Most professional programmers learn about it entirely through actual experience of the problems it causes.

Authors:Frantisek Baluska, Frantisek Baluska,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: plant, signaling, communication, plants, behavior, biology, environment, interactions, sensory, active
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2009-04-13
List price: $229.00
ISBN-10: 354089229X
ISBN-13: 9783540892298

Our image of plants is changing dramatically away from passive entities merely subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for the accumulation of photosynthate. Plants are revealing themselves to be dynamic and highly sensitive organisms that actively and competitively forage for limited resources, both above and below ground, organisms that accurately gauge their circumstances, use sophisticated cost-benefit analysis, and take clear actions to mitigate and control diverse environmental threats. Moreover, plants are also capable of complex recognition of self and no

Author: Frantisek Koran
Publisher: Wings & Wheels Publications
Keywords: detail, schwimmwagen
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 2001-08
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 8086416127
ISBN-13: 9788086416120

All color photos!! Well photographed book on two of the very rare Porsche designed Schwimmwagen, using the VW Kubelwagen chassies. Best photography seen of this vehicle. Shows details of every aspect of the vehicle, top to bottom, front to back! includes 182 color photos.

Authors:T. W. Clyne, Frantisek Simancik,
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: foams, metallic, composites, matrix, metal
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 3527301267
ISBN-13: 9783527301263

It has become clearer which types of MMC systems are entering significant industrial use and what questions concerning their production and performance are of most pressing concern. In addition, intensive attention has been directed recently to metallic foams. These can offer attractive combinations of properties, including high specific stiffness and good energy-absorbing properties, particularly under compressive loading. For both, MMCs and metallic foams, there is intense interest in processing aspects, particularly in terms of cost minimisation consistent with retention of desirable micros

Authors:Frantisek Koran, Jan Mostek,
Publisher: Wings & Wheels Publications
Keywords: detail, m35a2
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2005-05
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 8086416429
ISBN-13: 9788086416427

Detailed and well photographed book on the M35A2. The best color photo book on the M35A2 U.S. Modern 2-1/2 ton truck on the market today. Al excellent identificaqiton and reference book for restoration and/or modelers. Over 228 color photographs.