Product Description: Wireless sensor networks are about to be part of everyday life. Homes and workplaces capable of self-controlling and adapting air-conditioning for different temperature and humidity levels, sleepless forests ready to detect and react in case of a fire, vehicles able to avoid sudden obstacles or possibly able to self-organize routes to avoid congestion, and so on, will probably be commonplace in the very near future...read more

Product Description: Link reversal is a versatile algorithm design technique that has been used in numerous distributed algorithms for a variety of problems. The common thread in these algorithms is that the distributed system is viewed as a graph, with vertices representing the computing nodes and edges representing some other feature of the system (for instance, point-to-point communication channels or a conflict relationship)...read more

Product Description: Financial Accounting: A Business Process Approach explains accounting concepts in a way all readers can understand by organizing the material around how a business works. Business: What’s It All About?; Qualities of Accounting Information; Accruals and Deferrals: Timing Is Everything in Accounting; Payment for Goods and Services: Cash and Accounts Receivable; The Purchase and Sale of Inventory; Acquisition and Use of Long-Term Assets; Accounting for Liabilities; Accounting for Shareholders’ Equity; Preparing and Analyzing the Statement of Cash Flows; Using Financial Statement Analysis to Evaluate Firm Performance; Quality of Earnings, Corporate Governance, and IFRS ...read more

Product Description: This monograph presents the Timed Input/Output Automaton (TIOA) modeling framework, a basic mathematical framework to support description and analysis of timed (computing) systems. Timed systems are systems in which desirable correctness or performance properties of the system depend on the timing of events, not just on the order of their occurrence...read more

Product Description: This monograph presents the timed input/output automaton (TIOA) modeling framework, a basic mathematical framework to support description and analysis of timed (computing) systems. Timed systems are systems in which desirable correctness or performance properties of the system depend on the timing of events, not just on the order of their occurrence...read more

Product Description: Quivey's Grove, in Madison, Wisconsin, is one of mid-America's premier restaurants, a favorite of area residents and of thousands who visit the region each year. This volume, written by veteran cookbook author Margaret Guthrie, shares both the favorite recipes and the fascinating history of the restaurant, while affording a glimpse into Wisconsin's rich culinary past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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