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ScyllaDB in Action
by Bo IngramBuild, maintain, and run databases that are easy to scale and quick to query—all with ScyllaDB.ScyllaDB in Action is your guide to everything you need to know about ScyllaDB, from your very first queries to running it in a production environment. It starts you with the basics of creating, reading, and deleting data and expands your knowledge from there. You&’ll soon have mastered everything you need to build, maintain, and run an effective and efficient database. Inside ScyllaDB in Action you&’ll learn how to: • Read, write, and delete data in ScyllaDB • Design database schemas for ScyllaDB • Write performant queries against ScyllaDB • Connect and query a ScyllaDB cluster from an application • Configure, monitor, and operate ScyllaDB in production This book teaches you ScyllaDB the best way—through hands-on examples. Dive into the node-based architecture of ScyllaDB to understand how its distributed systems work, how you can troubleshoot problems, and how you can constantly improve performance. About the technology ScyllaDB is a versatile NoSQL database that can move large volumes of data fast. Very, very, very fast. This drop-in replacement for Cassandra takes full advantage of modern multi-core hardware and scales to handle large real-time data workloads with incredibly low latency. It features built-in monitoring and management tools, and its efficient use of computing resources can save a lot of money on high-volume applications. About the book ScyllaDB in Action demonstrates how to integrate ScyllaDB into data-intensive applications. You&’ll work through a hands-on project step by step as you use ScyllaDB to store data and learn to configure, monitor, and safely operate a distributed database. Along the way, you&’ll discover how ScyllaDB&’s unique &“shard per core&” approach helps you deliver impressive performance in real-time systems. What's inside • Design schemas for ScyllaDB • Write performant queries • Get an instant speed boost over Cassandra About the reader For backend and infrastructure engineers who know the basics of SQL. About the author Bo Ingram is a staff software engineer at Discord working in database infrastructure. He has extensive experience working with ScyllaDB as an operator and developer. The technical editor on this book was Piotr Wiktor Sarna. Table of Contents Part 1 1 Introducing ScyllaDB 2 Touring ScyllaDB Part 2 3 Data modeling in ScyllaDB 4 Data types in ScyllaDB 5 Tables in ScyllaDB Part 3 6 Writing data to ScyllaDB 7 Reading data from ScyllaDB Part 4 8 ScyllaDB&’s architecture 9 Running ScyllaDB in production 10 Application development with ScyllaDB 11 Monitoring ScyllaDB 12 Moving data in bulk with ScyllaDB Appendix Docker
Seam 2 Web Development: LITE
by David SalterPacked with illustrations and examples, this book will make the task of improving your Seam application simple and straightforward. This book is for Java EE application developers who have a Seam web application set up and ready to go, and are looking for information on the key areas of Seam that this book covers. You will need a basic understanding of Java EE and also to be aware of EJB3, although you do not need to know it in any detail. Experience with JBoss AS would be great, but all you really need is to be comfortable using any application server. Knowledge of AJAX and JavaScript would also be beneficial, although it is not necessary.
Seam 2.x Web Development
by David SalterHaving developed enterprise Java applications since 2001, the author's experience enables him to provide a clear incremental approach to web development with Seam. Initially the book introduces Seam using Java Server Pages (JSP) as the view technology so that readers can quickly learn the key concepts behind Seam. Additional technologies used within Seam applications are then introduced chapter by chapter with each chapter building on the material previously learned. The book describes each technology, providing working examples and source code for each. This is not a dry Seam reference book, but an exciting journey learning Seam, starting at the basics and progressing by the end of the book to more advanced enterprise features. This book is for Java EE application developers who are new to Seam and interested in developing with Seam 2.x. You will need a basic understanding of Java EE and also to be aware of EJB3, although you do not need to know it in any detail. Experience with JBoss AS would be great, but all you really need is to be comfortable using any application server. Knowledge of AJAX and JavaScript would also be beneficial, although it is not necessary.
Seam in Action
by Dan AllenJBoss Seam is an exciting new application framework based on the Java EE platform that is used to build rich, web-based business applications. Seam is rapidly capturing the interest of Java enterprise developers because of its focus on simplicity, ease of use, transparent integration, and scalability.Seam in Action offers a practical and in-depth look at JBoss Seam. The book puts Seam head-to-head with the complexities in the Java EE architecture. The author presents an unbiased view of Seam from outside the walls of RedHat/JBoss, focusing on such topics as Spring integration and deployment to alternative application servers to steer clear of vendor lock-in. By the end of the book, you should expect to not only gain a deep understanding of Seam, but also come away with the confidence to teach the material to others.To start off, you will see a working Java EE-compliant application come together by the end of the second chapter. As you progress through the book, you will discover how Seam eliminates unnecessary layers and configurations, solves the most common JSF pain points, and establishes the missing link between JSF, EJB 3 and JavaBean components. The author also shows you how Seam opens doors for you to incorporate technologies you previously have not had time to learn, such as business processes and stateful page flows (jBPM), Ajax remoting, PDF generation, asynchronous tasks, and more.All too often, developers spend a majority of their time integrating disparate technologies, manually tracking state, struggling to understand JSF, wrestling with Hibernate exceptions, and constantly redeploying applications, rather than on the logic pertaining to the business at hand. Seam in Action dives deep into thorough explanations of how Seam eliminates these non-core tasks by leveraging configuration by exception, Java 5 annotations, and aspect-oriented programming. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Seamless Learning in the Age of Mobile Connectivity
by Lung-Hsiang Wong Marcelo Milrad Marcus SpechtThe book departs from the approach of related titles by focusing on describing and reflecting upon the notion of seamless learning with regard to salient characteristics of learner mobility and bridging of learning experiences across learning spaces. It is the first such work that is solely dedicated to research on and the practice of seamless learning, uniquely combining interpretations, visions, and past research on and practices in seamless learning from diversified perspectives. The book also strikes a good balance between theoretical and practical perspectivess, going beyond a collection of reports on specific research projects. Instead of thick descriptions of research processes and findings, readers will find significant insights and food for thought intended to inspire further advances in the research on and practice of seamless learning.
Seamless Learning: Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)
by Chee-Kit Looi Lung-Hsiang Wong Christian Glahn Su CaiThis book introduces readers to the latest state of research and development in seamless learning. It consolidates various approaches to and practices in seamless learning from a range of techno-pedagogical, socio-situated and socio-cultural perspectives. Further, it details our current understanding of learning in both formal and informal settings, crossover learning, incidental learning, and context-based learning approaches, together with these aspects’ linkages to the notion of seamlessness. The book is divided into sections addressing the theorization of seamless learning, understanding informal learning, research methodological issues, technology-enabled seamless learning and real-world applications of seamless learning. Rounding out the coverage, the final chapter proposes a research agenda for the next 10 years.
Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp
by Dirk EddelbuettelRcpp is the glue that binds the power and versatility of R with the speed and efficiency of C++. With Rcpp, the transfer of data between R and C++ is nearly seamless, and high-performance statistical computing is finally accessible to most R users. Rcpp should be part of every statistician's toolbox. -- Michael Braun, MIT Sloan School of Management "Seamless R and C++ integration with Rcpp" is simply a wonderful book. For anyone who uses C/C++ and R, it is an indispensable resource. The writing is outstanding. A huge bonus is the section on applications. This section covers the matrix packages Armadillo and Eigen and the GNU Scientific Library as well as RInside which enables you to use R inside C++. These applications are what most of us need to know to really do scientific programming with R and C++. I love this book. -- Robert McCulloch, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Rcpp is now considered an essential package for anybody doing serious computational research using R. Dirk's book is an excellent companion and takes the reader from a gentle introduction to more advanced applications via numerous examples and efficiency enhancing gems. The book is packed with all you might have ever wanted to know about Rcpp, its cousins (RcppArmadillo, RcppEigen .etc.), modules, package development and sugar. Overall, this book is a must-have on your shelf. -- Sanjog Misra, UCLA Anderson School of Management The Rcpp package represents a major leap forward for scientific computations with R. With very few lines of C++ code, one has R's data structures readily at hand for further computations in C++. Hence, high-level numerical programming can be made in C++ almost as easily as in R, but often with a substantial speed gain. Dirk is a crucial person in these developments, and his book takes the reader from the first fragile steps on to using the full Rcpp machinery. A very recommended book! -- Søren Højsgaard, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark "Seamless R and C ++ Integration with Rcpp" provides the first comprehensive introduction to Rcpp. Rcpp has become the most widely-used language extension for R, and is deployed by over one-hundred different CRAN and BioConductor packages. Rcpp permits users to pass scalars, vectors, matrices, list or entire R objects back and forth between R and C++ with ease. This brings the depth of the R analysis framework together with the power, speed, and efficiency of C++. Dirk Eddelbuettel has been a contributor to CRAN for over a decade and maintains around twenty packages. He is the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer for R and other quantitative software, edits the CRAN Task Views for Finance and High-Performance Computing, is a co-founder of the annual R/Finance conference, and an editor of the Journal of Statistical Software. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from EHESS (Paris), and works in Chicago as a Senior Quantitative Analyst.
Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft® SharePoint® Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways
by Michael SampsonTake the lead--and deliver better results--by revolutionizing the way you and your colleagues communicate, collaborate, and coordinate everyday work. Dive in as the author, a collaboration expert, demonstrates how to inspire great teamwork using Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Discover the best practices that enable even far-flung teams to produce powerfully productive results--and apply them to your own projects! Learn how to: Follow a five-phase approach to managing teams and projects Synchronize your team's vision, as well as their work Structure SharePoint sites to give people a place to work and a place to see what's going on Inspire more creative problem-solving through team wikis and blogs Capture and coordinate team and stakeholder feedback more efficiently Drive the smart, timely decisions that keep projects on track Wrap up projects the right way--for results you can repeat Includes bonus chapters online.
Seamless and Secure Communications over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
by Jiannong Cao Chisheng ZhangThis brief provides an overview of the requirements, challenges, design issues and major techniques for seamless and secure communications over heterogeneous wireless networks. It summarizes and provides detailed insights into the latest research on handoff management, mobility management, fast authentication and security management to support seamless and secure roaming for mobile clients. The reader will also learn about the challenges in developing relevant technologies and providing ubiquitous Internet access over heterogeneous wireless networks. The authors have extensive experience in implementing such technologies over heterogeneous wireless networks, thus enabling them to bridge the gap between the theoretical results of research and the real practice. Combining basic theoretical concepts and practical implementation, this brief is ideal for professionals and researchers in the field. Advanced-level students interested in computer communication networks and wireless technologies will also find the content helpful.
Search Analytics for Your Site
by Louis RosenfeldAny organization that has a searchable web site or intranet is sitting on top of hugely valuable and usually under-exploited data: logs that capture what users are searching for, how often each query was searched, and how many results each query retrieved. Search queries are gold: they are real data that show us exactly what users are searching for in their own words. This book shows you how to use search analytics to carry on a conversation with your customers: listen to and understand their needs, and improve your content, navigation and search performance to meet those needs.
Search Based Software Engineering
by Kalyanmoy Deb Federica SarroThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2016, held in Raleigh, NC, USA, in October 2016. The 13 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented together with 7 challenge track and 4 graduate student track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) studies the application of meta-heuristic optimization techniques to various software engineering problems, ranging from requirements engineering to software testing and maintenance.
Search Engine Optimization
by Harold DavisSEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and science of driving web traffic to web sites. Web traffic is food, drink, and oxygen--in short, life itself--to any web-based business. Whether your web site depends on broad, general traffic, or high-quality, targeted traffic, this PDF has the tools and information you need to draw more traffic to your site. You'll learn how to effectively use PageRank (and Google itself); how to get listed, get links, and get syndicated; and much more. The field of SEO is expanding into all the possible ways of promoting web traffic. This breadth requires a range of understanding. In this PDF you'll find topics that cover that range, so you can use SEO to your benefit. Those topics include:Understanding how to best organize your web pages and websites.Understanding technologic and business tools available that you can use to achieve your SEO goals.Understanding how Google works. (Since Google is far and away the most important search engine, effectively using SEO means effectively using Google. This PDF covers how to boost placement in Google search results, how not to offend Google, how best to use paid Google programs, and more.) Understanding best SEO practices (whether your organization is small and entrepreneurial, or whether you have responsibility for a large web presence).When you approach SEO, you must take some time to understand the characteristics of the traffic that you need to drive your business. Then go out and use the techniques explained in this PDF to grab some traffic--and bring life to your business.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
by Jennifer Grappone Gradiva CouzinThe third edition of the bestselling guide to do-it-yourself SEOGetting seen on the first page of search engine result pages is crucial for businesses and online marketers. Search engine optimization helps improve Web site rankings, and it is often complex and confusing. This task-based, hands-on guide covers the concepts and trends and then lays out a day-by-day strategy for developing, managing, and measuring a successful SEO plan. With tools you can download and case histories to illustrate key points, it's the perfect solution for busy marketers, business owners, and others whose jobs include improving Web site traffic.A successful SEO plan is vital to any business with an online presenceThis book provides strategies for setting goals and gaining corporate support, developing and implementing a plan, and monitoring trends and resultsOffers hints, tips, and techniques for everyone from one-person shops to Fortune 500 companiesCompanion Web site includes downloadable tracking spreadsheets, keyword list templates, templates for checking rank and site indexes, and a calendar with daily SEO tasks that you can import into your own calendar systemFully updated and expanded, Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day, Third Edition will help you raise your visibility on the Web.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets
by Danny Dover Erik DaffornTips, tricks, and little-known methods used by professional SEO consultants to rank in some of the most competitive search phrases Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of creating, formatting and promoting web pages in a manner that ensures that they are ranked highly for chosen keyword phrases after a user performs a Web search. This unique book taps the relatively unknown market of advanced SEO knowledge, and reveals secrets used by only the best SEO consultants. You'll take your Internet marketing skills to the next level as you gain a thorough understanding of standard SEO techniques such as on-page optimization, off-page optimization, and link building. Packed with real-world examples, this essential guide demonstrates how real SEO consultants work with Fortune 500 companies to get the results they desire. Coverage includes: Understanding Search Engine Optimization Relearning How You See the Web Picking the Right SEO Tools Finding SEO Problems Solving SEO Problems SEO Best Practices The SEO Consulting Process Comprehensive Site Audit (Informational Website) Comprehensive Site Audit (E-Commerce Website) Understanding the SEO Industry Search Engine Verticals Optimizing for Alternative Search Engines Setting Up a Testing Platform SEO Resources Attending SEO Conferences
Search Engine Optimization Bible
by Jerri L. LedfordDetailed, practical guide to increasing your Web traffic through better search results Wonder how some companies pop up high in search engine rankings? It's all about search appeal. Master the strategies, techniques, and shortcuts in this detailed guide and you can improve your Web site's search rankings and drive the targeted traffic you want to your virtual door. Learn new ways to add social media to the SEO mix, make your site mobile Web-friendly, write SEO tags for maximum exposure, and more. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is hot; the online advertising market is expected to grow at 34% CAGR between 2005 and 2010, and nine out of ten companies are estimated to be implementing SEO strategies Find out how to get listed in the major search engines, directories, and indexes, and learn strategies for planning and implementing a successful SEO campaign Take advantage of the case studies of readers who implemented the SEO techniques outlined in the first edition of this book and significantly improved search rankings Discover how to target and reach the customers you really want; optimize your site specifically for Google, MSN, or Yahoo!; demystify the role of links and linking in search; implement social media and mobile search optimization; and analyze your SEO efforts to see what works If you want to make SEO work for you, the new edition of this practical book is what you need to succeed.
Search Engine Optimization For Dummies
by Peter KentIncrease your online ranking with this beginner guide to SEO!Search engine optimization (SEO) is an integral part of getting a site to rank high in the various search engines in order to attract potential customers. With this new edition of a bestseller, you?ll learn the ins and outs and best practices of successful SEO in order to make your website content more search-engine friendly so that it ranks higher among search engines and draws high-volume traffic.Covers search engine basics to help you get started Introduces new coverage on content marketing and reuse, new tracking tools, platform management, and reputation managementDetails ways to build search-engine friendly sites, register your site with directories and indexes, and use analysis tools to track resultsExplains how to use link popularity in order to boost rankingsZeroes in on advertising your site by using pay-per-click optionsSearch Engine Optimization For Dummies, 5th Edition is the fun and friendly place to start learning how to move your site to the top of the rankings.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing: A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing
by Subhankar DasSearch Engine Optimization and Marketing: A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing analyzes the web traffic for online promotion that includes search engine optimization and search engine marketing. After careful analysis of the nuances of the semantic web, of search engine optimization (SEO), and its practical set up, readers can put their best foot forward for SEO setup, link-building for SERP establishment, various methods with requisite algorithms, and programming codes with process inferences. The book offers comprehensive coverage of essential topics, including: • The concept of SEM and SEO • The mechanism of crawler program concepts of keywords • Keyword generation tools • Page ranking mechanism and indexing • Concepts of title, meta, alt tags • Concepts of PPC/PPM/CTR • SEO/SEM strategies • Anchor text and setting up • Query-based search While other books are focused on the traditional explanation of digital marketing, theoretical features of SEO and SEM for keyword set up with link-building, this book focuses on the practical applications of the above-mentioned concepts for effective SERP generation. Another unique aspect of this book is its abundance of handy workarounds to set up the techniques for SEO, a topic too often neglected by other works in the field. This book is an invaluable resource for social media analytics researchers and digital marketing students.
Search Engine Optimization for Flash: Best practices for using Flash on the web
by Todd PerkinsSome people believe that because search engines can't index all of the content in SWF files, Flash-based websites and Rich Internet Applications don't show up in web searches. This breakthrough book dispels that myth by demonstrating precisely what you can do to make your site fully searchable no matter how much Flash it contains. You'll learn best practices for using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build sites with Flash that will stand tall in search rankings.Search Engine Optimization for Flash shows you how search engines work, what constitutes a search-engine-optimized (SEO) site, and what to watch out for in the way of SEO pitfalls. With this concise book, you will: Know what content is searchable, and why metadata, keywords, and links are so important Learn how to place HTML content in your Flash applications Create an SEO website by connecting Flash to JavaScript and CSS Work effectively with SWFObject by understanding its capabilities and limitations Discover the advantages of using the Adobe Flex framework for SEO The first and most authoritative book on how to optimize Flash content for search engines, Search Engine Optimization for Flash is an invaluable resource if you develop with Flash and want to be sure your audience can easily find your site.
Search Foundations: Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience (History and Foundations of Information Science)
by Sachi Arafat Elham AshooriA call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from search and related processes toward the more general phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. Technology-mediated experience accounts for an increasing proportion of human lived experience; the phenomenon of mediation gets at the heart of the human-machine relationship. Framing IR&S more broadly in this way generalizes its problems and perspectives, dovetailing them with those shared across disciplines dealing with socio-technical phenomena. This reorientation of IR&S requires imagining it as a new kind of science: a science of technology-mediated experience (STME). Arafat and Ashoori not only offer detailed analysis of the foundational concepts underlying IR&S and other technical disciplines but also boldly call for a radical, systematic appropriation of the sciences and humanities to create a better understanding of the human-technology relationship.Arafat and Ashoori discuss the notion of progress in IR&S and consider ideas of progress from the history and philosophy of science. They argue that progress in IR&S requires explicit linking between technical and nontechnical aspects of discourse. They develop a network of basic questions and present a discursive framework for addressing these questions. With this book, Arafat and Ashoori provide both a manifesto for the reimagining of their field and the foundations on which a reframed IR&S would rest.
Search Marketing Strategies
by James ColbornSearch Marketing Strategies focuses on how to make the most from the search engine industry. Concentrating on the strategic element rather than the procedural approach, the author demonstrates how to adapt the tactical techniques, such as paid search, site side optimization and analytics packages, into search strategies in order to achieve marketing or corporate objectives such as branding, sales and customer acquisition.
Search Marketing: A Strategic Approach to SEO and SEM
by Kelly CutlerIncrease the power of your marketing budget and enhance customer reach with fundamental search marketing efforts, SEO and SEM. This comprehensive guide delves into the dynamic world of both paid and organic search marketing strategies, providing an in-depth understanding of the tactics and techniques that drive successful online visibility and business growth. As the digital marketing landscape continues to evolve, this work gets more technical, time-consuming and costly. Discover how to approach both paid and organic search marketing like a digital strategist by reading this book from digital marketing expert and educator, Kelly Cutler. Search Marketing offers insights into high-level fundamentals and advanced applications. Designed to help marketers and businesses leaders get more from this essential digital marketing tactic, the book dives into what marketers can do today to help their companies take a more controlled, intentional, and strategic approach to SEO and SEM. The book delivers techniques for increasing visibility, driving qualified traffic, measuring the success and functionality of SEO, SEM campaigns and advanced methods for campaign optimization. Readers will walk away knowing how to take a more informed approach to the business they bring from sites like Google and Bing, while gaining the insight necessary to effectively oversee search marketing at a strategic level.
Search Methodologies
by Edmund K. Burke Graham KendallThe first edition of Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques was originally put together to offer a basic introduction to the various search and optimization techniques that students might need to use during their research, and this new edition continues this tradition. Search Methodologies has been expanded and brought completely up to date, including new chapters covering scatter search, GRASP, and very large neighborhood search. The chapter authors are drawn from across Computer Science and Operations Research and include some of the world's leading authorities in their field. The book provides useful guidelines for implementing the methods and frameworks described and offers valuable tutorials to students and researchers in the field. "As I embarked on the pleasant journey of reading through the chapters of this book, I became convinced that this is one of the best sources of introductory material on the search methodologies topic to be found. The book's subtitle, "Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques", aptly describes its aim, and the editors and contributors to this volume have achieved this aim with remarkable success. The chapters in this book are exemplary in giving useful guidelines for implementing the methods and frameworks described. " Fred Glover, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder, USA "[The book] aims to present a series of well written tutorials by the leading experts in their fields. Moreover, it does this by covering practically the whole possible range of topics in the discipline. It enables students and practitioners to study and appreciate the beauty and the power of some of the computational search techniques that are able to effectively navigate through search spaces that are sometimes inconceivably large. I am convinced that this second edition will build on the success of the first edition and that it will prove to be just as popular. " Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology and Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Search Patterns: Design for Discovery
by Peter Morville Jeffery CallenderWhat people are saying about Search Patterns"Search Patterns is a delight to read -- very thoughtful and thought provoking. It's the most comprehensive survey of designing effective search experiences I've seen." --Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google"I love this book! Thanks to Peter and Jeffery, I now know that search (yes, boring old yucky who cares search) is one of the coolest ways around of looking at the world." --Dan Roam, author, The Back of the Napkin (Portfolio Hardcover)"Search Patterns is a playful guide to the practical concerns of search interface design. It contains a bonanza of screenshots and illustrations that capture the best of today's design practices and presents a fresh perspective on the broader role of search and discovery." --Marti Hearst, Professor, UC Berkeley and author, Search User Interfaces (Cambridge University Press)"It's not often I come across a book that asks profound questions about a fundamental human activity, and then proceeds to answer those questions with practical observations and suggestions. Search Patterns is an expedition into the heart of the web and human cognition, and for me it was a delightful journey that delivered scores of insights." --Dave Gray, Founder and Chairman, XPLANE"Search is swiftly transforming everything we know, yet people don't understand how mavens design search: by stacking breadcrumbs, scenting widgets, and keeping eyeballs on the engine. I urge you to put your eyeballs on this unique and important book." --Bruce Sterling, Writer, Futurist, and Co-Founder, The Electronic Frontier Foundation"As one who searches a lot (and often ends up frustrated), Search Patterns is a revelation." --Nigel Holmes, Designer, Theorist, and Principal, Explanation Graphics"Search Patterns is a fabulous must-have book! Inside, you'll learn the whys and wheres of practically every modern search design trick and technique." --Jared Spool, CEO and Founder, User Interface EngineeringSearch is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. In this provocative and inspiring book, you'll explore design patterns that apply across the categories of web, ecommerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real-time search and discovery. Filled with colorful illustrations and examples, Search Patterns brings modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance, faceted navigation, multi-touch, personalization, visualization, multi-sensory search, and augmented reality.By drawing on their own experience-as well as best practices and evidence-based research-the authors not only offer a practical guide to help you build effective search applications, they also challenge you to imagine the future of discovery. You'll find Search Patterns intriguing and invaluable, whether you're a web practitioner, mobile designer, search entrepreneur, or just interested in the topic.Discover a pattern language for search that embraces user psychology and behavior, information architecture, interaction design, and emerging technologyBoost enterprise efficiency and e-commerce salesEnable mobile users to achieve goals, complete tasks, and find what they needDrive design innovation for search interfaces and applications
Search Techniques in Intelligent Classification Systems
by Andrey V. SavchenkoA unified methodology for categorizing various complexobjects is presented in this book. Through probability theory, novelasymptotically minimax criteria suitable for practical applications in imagingand data analysis are examined including the special cases such as theJensen-Shannon divergence and the probabilistic neural network. An optimalapproximate nearest neighbor search algorithm, which allows fasterclassification of databases is featured. Rough set theory, sequential analysisand granular computing are used to improve performance of the hierarchicalclassifiers. Practical examples in face identification (including deep neuralnetworks), isolated commands recognition in voice control system andclassification of visemes captured by the Kinect depth camera are included. This approach creates fast and accurate search procedures by using exactprobability densities of applied dissimilarity measures. Thisbook can be used as a guide for independent study and as supplementary materialfor a technically oriented graduate course in intelligent systems and datamining. Students and researchers interested in the theoretical and practicalaspects of intelligent classification systems will find answers to: - Why conventional implementation of the naive Bayesianapproach does not work well in image classification? - How to deal with insufficient performance of hierarchicalclassification systems? - Is it possible to prevent an exhaustive search of thenearest neighbor in a database?
Search Theory
by V. S. Subrahmanian Leszek Gąsieniec Steve Alpern Roy Lindelauf Robbert FokkinkSearch games and rendezvous problems have received growing attention in computer science within the past few years. Rendezvous problems emerge naturally, for instance, to optimize performance and convergence of mobile robots. This gives a new algorithmic point of view to the theory. Furthermore, modern topics such as the spreading of gossip or disease in social networks have lead to new challenging problems in search and rendezvous. Search Theory: A Game Theoretic Perspective introduces the first integrated approach to Search and Rendezvous from the perspectives of biologists, computer scientists and mathematicians. This contributed volume covers a wide range of topics including rendezvous problems and solutions, rendezvous on graphs, search games on biology, mobility in governed social networks, search and security, and more. Most chapters also include case studies or a survey, in addition to a chapter on the future direction of Search and Rendezvous research. This book targets researchers and practitioners working in computer science, mathematics and biology as a reference book. Advanced level students focused on these fields will also find this book valuable as a secondary text book or reference.