Theology and Urban Sustainability (SpringerBriefs in Geography)

The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

A strategic guide to the revolutionary framework that will change the way you do business

Imagine if you could teach your computer to make decisions that lead to faster B2B trading implementations, more effective customer management, and seamless data warehousing. Now, your imagination can be turned into reality. This authoritative book...

Applied Software Product Line Engineering

Auerbach Publications, 2009

Over the last decade, software product line engineering (SPLE) has emerged as one of the most promising software development paradigms for increasing productivity in IT-related industries. Detailing the various aspects of SPLE implementation in different domains, Applied Software Product Line Engineering documents best...

Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014

Springer, 2014

This book contains 24 technical papers presented at the fourth edition of the Advances in Architectural Geometry conference, AAG 2014, held in London, England, September 2014. It offers engineers, mathematicians, designers, and contractors insight into the efficient design, analysis, and manufacture of complex shapes, which will help open up...

Advances in Robotics Research: Theory, Implementation, Application

Springer, 2009

The German Workshop on Robotics is a convention of roboticists from academia and industry working on mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, on the design and analysis of robotic systems as well as on robotic applications. Selected contributions from researchers in German-speaking countries as well as from the international robotics...

Object-Oriented Software Engineering

McGraw-Hill, 2007

The wheel has turned full circle.

In 1988, I wrote a textbook entitled Software Engineering. Virtually the only mention of the object-oriented paradigm in that book was one section that described object-oriented design.

By 1994, the object-oriented paradigm was starting to gain acceptance in the software industry,...

Defining Mental Disorder: Jerome Wakefield and His Critics (Philosophical Psychopathology)

MIT Press, 2021

Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as "harmful dysfunction," with detailed responses from Wakefield himself.

One of the most pressing theoretical problems of psychiatry is the definition of mental disorder. Jerome Wakefield's proposal that mental disorder is...