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The refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2003, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2003. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets are addressed, in particular concurrent systems design and analysis, model checking, networking, business process modeling, formal methods in software engineering, agent systems, systems specification, systems validation, discrete event systems, protocols, and prototyping.

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Title: AI in control: artificial intelligence, expert systems, fuzzy logic, neural nets, and rules-based algorithms for factory control. Although the buzz is quieted, all of it is still around. You just don't notice it.
Author: Lawrence S. Gould
Publication: Automotive Design & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 117 Issue: 7 Page: 58(3)
Distributed by Thomson Gale

Teach yourself Visual C# 2010-one step at a time. Ideal for developers with fundamental programming skills, this practical tutorial features learn-by-doing exercises that demonstrate how, when, and why to use the features of the C# rapid application development environment. You'll learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0; develop a solid, fundamental understanding of C# language features; and then get to work creating actual components and working applications for the Windows® operating system. You'll also delve into data management technologies and Web-based applications.

In The Temple of VB, Matthew Gertz, formerly Developer Manager of Microsoft Visual Basic, walks the reader through the creation of six different fully-functional applications. Along the way, the reader will learn about message pumps, graphics usage, sound usage, Windows Forms, WPF, XML, printing, file saving and loading, and dozens of other important programming concepts and advice acquired from his experiences as a developer.
Contents include:
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Artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms both are areas of research which have their origins in mathematical models constructed in order to gain understanding of important natural processes. By focussing on the process models rather than the processes themselves, significant new computational techniques have evolved which have found application in a large number of diverse fields. This diversity is reflected in the topics which are subjects of the contributions to this volume. There are contributions reporting successful applications of the technology to the solution of industrial/commercial problems. This may well reflect the maturity of the technology, notably in the sense that 'real' users of modelling/prediction techniques are prepared to accept neural networks as a valid paradigm. Theoretical issues also receive attention, notably in connection with the radial basis function neural network. Contributions in the field of genetic algorithms reflect the wide range of current applications, including, for example, portfolio selection, filter design, frequency assignment, tuning of nonlinear PID controllers. These techniques are also used extensively for combinatorial optimisation problems.

Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce shows programmers how to build E-Commerce websites using ASP.NET technology. In this book, web developers learn from the experts by building a website with the experts. It is a real-world, practical tutorial.

This book follows the E-Commerce site creation process through from design to deployment, demonstrating proven approaches to building E-Commerce sites. The power of this book is this complete approach from the beginning right to the end of the project: it provides a complete programming solution for E-Commerce. The E-Commerce site in the book is built in phases, showing web site developers how to make use of third-party shopping-cart and payment facilities, suitable for a small E-Commerce operation. The book then gradually brings more and more functionality into the E-Commerce site, developing eventually into a complete online shopping and order processing system.

Solid architectural principles are demonstrated throughout, with modular, n-tier design.

This book shows real code that works in the real world, and teaches by example as it builds this E-Commerce site. This new revised edition includes updates to use Visual Studio .NET 2003, .NET 1.1, and some new material on supporting 'customers who bought this also bought'-style cross-sell and up-sell.

ASP.NET is a great web development technology for putting small-to-medium businesses onto the web. Its object-oriented architecture and solid database layer (ADO.NET) make it more robust and suited to E-Commerce than simple scripting and tag-based solutions like PHP and ColdFusion, but its ease of use and tools support make it much faster to develop with than Java. Using ASP.NET you can easily build scalable, well-structured, extensible websites that you can support a business on.

This text is aimed at demonstrating the easiest path to put a business on the web using ASP.NET. The phased-approach gets the reader up and running with a working but simple E-Commerce store quickly, but also allows the site design to be flexible and grow over time to a more advanced E-Commerce solution. Different readers can stop along this journey at whatever point they need, if the website that is built suits their needs at that point.

The last few years have seen important advances in the use of genetic algorithms to address challenging optimization problems in industrial engineering. Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Design is the only book to cover the most recent technologies and their application to manufacturing, presenting a comprehensive and fully up-to-date treatment of genetic algorithms in industrial engineering and operations research.
Beginning with a tutorial on genetic algorithm fundamentals and their use in solving constrained and combinatorial optimization problems, the book applies these techniques to problems in specific areas--sequencing, scheduling and production plans, transportation and vehicle routing, facility layout, location-allocation, and more. Each topic features a clearly written problem description, mathematical model, and summary of conventional heuristic algorithms. All algorithms are explained in intuitive, rather than highly-technical, language and are reinforced with illustrative figures and numerical examples.
Written by two internationally acknowledged experts in the field, Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Design features original material on the foundation and application of genetic algorithms, and also standardizes the terms and symbols used in other sources--making this complex subject truly accessible to the beginner as well as to the more advanced reader.
Ideal for both self-study and classroom use, this self-contained reference provides indispensable state-of-the-art guidance to professionals and students working in industrial engineering, management science, operations research, computer science, and artificial intelligence. The only comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment available on the use of genetic algorithms in industrial engineering and operations research . . .
Written by internationally recognized experts in the field of genetic algorithms and artificial intelligence, Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Design provides total coverage of current technologies and their application to manufacturing systems. Incorporating original material on the foundation and application of genetic algorithms, this unique resource also standardizes the terms and symbols used in other sources--making this complex subject truly accessible to students as well as experienced professionals. Designed for clarity and ease of use, this self-contained reference:
* Provides a comprehensive survey of selection strategies, penalty techniques, and genetic operators used for constrained and combinatorial optimization problems
* Shows how to use genetic algorithms to make production schedules, solve facility/location problems, make transportation/vehicle routing plans, enhance system reliability, and much more
* Contains detailed numerical examples, plus more than 160 auxiliary figures to make solution procedures transparent and understandable

This book constitutes the reviewed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2007, held in Wroclaw, Poland, July 14, 2007, in association with ICALP 2007.

The 11 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions; they are fully revised to incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the workshop. Topics addressed are foundational and algorithmic aspects of the wireless sensor networks research. In particular, ALGOSENSORS focuses on abstract models, complexity-theoretic results and lower-bounds, as well as the design and analysis of algorithms for wireless sensor networks.

Rapid developments in the field of genetic algorithms along with the popularity of the first edition precipitated this completely revised, thoroughly updated second edition of The Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms. Like its predecessor, this edition helps practitioners stay up to date on recent developments in the field and provides material they can use productively in their own endeavors.
For this edition, the editor again recruited authors at the top of their field and from a cross section of academia and industry, theory and practice. Their contributions detail their own research, new applications, experiment results, and recent advances. Among the applications explored are scheduling problems, optimization, multidimensional scaling, constraint handling, and feature selection and classification.
The science and art of GA programming and application has come a long way in the five years since publication of the bestselling first edition. But there still is a long way to go before its bounds are reached-we are still just scratching the surface of GA applications and refinements. By introducing intriguing new applications, offering extensive lists of code, and reporting advances both subtle and dramatic, The Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms is designed to help readers contribute to scratching that surface a bit deeper.