An electronic version of the book has been produced, and may be copied, printed, and distributed free of charge. However, such copying, printing, or distribution may not: be carried out for commercial gain; or - for copyright reasons - take place within India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or the Maldives; or involve any modification to the document...   Read Article.

This book is a gentle introduction to Perl. By the time you've gone through this book, you'll have touched on the majority of the most common operations and language idioms found in most Perl programs....   Read Article.

This book is intended to help the reader better understand the role of analysis and design in the object-oriented software development process. Experiments to use structured analysis and design as precursors to an object-oriented implementation have failed. The descriptions produced by the structured methods partition reality along the wrong dimensions....   Read Article.

This book, the first entirely devoted to this important form of human/computer interaction, provides detailed theoretical and empirical information of interest to software designers and human/computer interaction specialists and researchers. A new theoretical approach to menu selection is taken by developing a psychological theory of cognitive control...   Read Article.

This book is to provide a practitioner's guide for students, programmers, engineers, and scientists who wish to design and build efficient and cost-effective programs for parallel and distributed computer systems. I cover both the techniques used to design parallel programs and the tools used to implement these programs. I assume familiarity with sequential...   Read Article.

This book should appeal to researchers and practitioners familiar with object-oriented technology, who are interested in research trends related to software composition. Although this book was not designed as a textbook, it would be suitable for an advanced seminar on object-oriented research. Individual chapters can be read independently. The order...   Read Article.

The ePMbook is double-e'd. It is an ebook about eProject Management as well as conventional Programme and Project Management. Its aim is to examine issues, needs and approaches in a variety of situations and environments. It should give you the ability to understand what is needed and why, plus how you can best address those needs....   Read Article.

Using Z: Specification, Refinement, and Proof...   Read Article.

Open Source Development with CVS...   Read Article.

This thesis builds a foundation for the study of software engineering methodologies and then categorizes the conditions under which one software engineering methodology will be preferred over another software engineering methodology. Predicted performance characteristics for several major classes of software engineering methodologies under a variety...   Read Article.

This report is the product of a panel convened by the Board on Mathematical Sciences' Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) to identify challenges and opportunities in software development and implementation that have a significant statistical component. In attempting to identify interrelated aspects of statistics and software engineering,...   Read Article.

This manual is intended for use by application programmers who wish to build CORBA applications using Common Lisp. The guide assumes that the reader is familiar with both the Common Lisp programming language and with building distributed applications using CORBA....   Read Article.

Introduction to Machine Learning...   Read Article.

This book is based on the EC (ESPRIT) project StatLog which compare and evaluated a range of classification techniques, with an assessment of their merits, disadvantages and range of application. This integrated volume provides a concise introduction to each method, and reviews comparative trials in large-scale commercial and industrial problems. It...   Read Article.

Neural Nets: Dr K Gurney...   Read Article.

Artificial Intelligence II (D. Marshall)...   Read Article.

Artificial Intelligence (A. Cawsey)...   Read Article.

This book is intended for all first courses in artificial intelligence at the undergraduate or graduate level, requiring background of only a few computer science courses. It can also be used on one's own....   Read Article.

Graph Theory...   Read Article.

Compiler Construction Using Flex and Bison...   Read Article.