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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2008, held in Dresden, Germany, in February 2008.

The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum reaching from pre-fabrication adaptation of architectural templates to dynamic run-time adaptation of deployed systems with special focus on adaptivity and adaptive system architectures. The papers are organized in topical sections on hardware design,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Computing, IWDC 2002, held in Calcutta, India, in December 2002.

The 31 revised full papers and 3 student papers presented together with 3 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 90 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web caching, distributed computing, wireless networks, wireless mobile systems, VLSI and parallel systems, optical networks, and distributed systems.

This book will help you find the most reliable sources of health information on the Internet. The sites in this book have been selected and reviewed by expert nurses in over 40 specialties. Sites have been reviewed for accuracy, currency, sponsorship, ease of use by the general public, and availability in languages in addition to English. The result is a treasure of information sources for patients and health care professionals.

For professionals:
This book will help you find the most reliable sources of health information on the Internet for your patients. All the sites in...

Android Essentials is a no-frills, no-nonsense, code-centric run through the guts of application development on Google's Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, location-based services, and networking.

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