Dotnetcat » .NET Books » Graphics books

Petri nets are a popular and powerful formal model for the analysis and modelling of concurrent systems, and a rich theory has developed around them. Petri nets are taught to undergraduates, and also used by industrial practitioners. This book focuses on a particular class of petri nets, free choice petri nets, which play a central role in the theory. The text is very clearly organised, with every notion carefully explained and every result proved. Clear exposition is given for place invariants, siphons, traps and many other important analysis techniques. The material is organised along the lines of a course book, and each chapter contains numerous exercises, making this book ideal for graduate students and research workers alike.

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 the subjects of contributions to this volume. There are contributions reporting theoretical developments in the design of neural networks, and in the management of their learning. In a number of contributions, applications to speech recognition tasks, control of industrial processes as well as to credit scoring, and so on, are reflected. Regarding genetic algorithms, several methodological papers consider how genetic algorithms can be improved using an experimental approach, as well as by hybridizing with other useful techniques such as tabu…

Developing C# Applications for iPhone and iPad using MonoTouch shows you how to use your existing C# skills to write apps for the iPhone and iPad. Fortunately, there's MonoTouch, Novell's .NET library that allows C# developers to write C# code that executes in iOS. Furthermore, MonoTouch allows you to address all the unique functions of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. And the big plus: You needn't learn any Objective-C to master MonoTouch! Former Microsoft engineer and published app-store developer Bryan Costanich shows you how to use the tools you already know to create native apps in iOS using C# and the .NET Base Class Libraries. The magic is in Novell's implementation of Apple's Cocoa libraries in MonoTouch. You'll master the same elegant and rich Cocoa environment, but without the need to learn a new programming language. Developing C# Applications for iPhone and iPad using MonoTouch takes you from your first "Hello, World" example through the major APIs and features of iOS…

* No other book covers how to integrate Flash and ASP.NET, except the old friends of ED Flash.net book. Yet there is much demand for information on how to integrate Flash with dynamic server-side functionality.

* Covers the latest versions of Flash and ASP.NET (2.0).

* Written so that Flash and ASP.NET users can learn equally well from the book.

* Includes several fully working example applications.

A guide to fake news which deals with the subject effectively, through a careful analysis of the techniques used by fake news generators and false news spreaders. How does fake news originate? Who generates it? How does it become viral? Which technologies are being used? Hoaxes, clickbait, conspiracy theory, pseudoscience, storytelling, shitposting, satire and entertainment are only but a few of the main categories the book closely investigates. An in-depth search into the reasons why fake news is generated, either to influence public opinion or the market and decision-makers, whether to cash in on traffic or merely for character assassination. Nowadays, to maximise results fake news spread makers largely utilise some subtle psychological techniques, often conjoined with advanced digital techniques. The last section of the book is predominantly dedicated to debunking fake news and to proposing potential solutions to fight back against this alarming threat.