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Navrat, Pavol
Slovak University of Technology
Bratislava, Slovakia
 
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   Information visualization: an introduction (3rd ed.)
Spence R., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2014. 321 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319073-40-8)

This is the third edition of a book intended as an introduction to information visualization. The present content is the result of a major revision, whereas its structure remains basically the same. Such a process of natural maturing c...

Jul 22 2015  
   Recommendation systems in software engineering
Robillard M., Maalej W., Walker R., Zimmermann T., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Berlin, Germany, 2014. 562 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-642451-34-8)

This book is the result of a comprehensive effort by a broader community to lay down fundamental knowledge on recommendation systems in software engineering. The aim is very challenging. I am very glad to be able to note that the proce...

Nov 20 2014  
   Web social science: concepts, data and tools for social scientists in the digital age
Ackland R., Sage Publications Ltd., Los Angeles, CA, 2013. 224 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-849204-82-8)

According to the preface, “this book aims to provide students, researchers, and practitioners with the theory and methods for understanding the web as a socially constructed phenomenon that both reflects social, economic, and...

Jul 15 2014  
   Google and the culture of search
Hillis K., Petit M., Jarrett K., Routledge, New York, NY, 2013. 256 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-415883-01-6)

At least to me, a scholarly treatise of one of the most exciting and researched topics in the field of computing is promised by this book’s title and outline. More importantly, the title suggests that the topic is discussed f...

Oct 1 2013  
   Web data management
Abiteboul S., Manolescu I., Rigaux P., Rousset M., Senellart P., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2011. 456 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-107012-43-1)

The stated ambition of this book is to cover the many facets of distributed data management on the Web. I believe the authors have actually achieved more. They study the most precious asset of our age: data. The book is structured into...

May 29 2012  
   Issues in Internet law: society, technology, and the law, 2009 edition
Darrell K., Amber Book Company, 2008. 436 pp.  Type: Book (9780977161164)

This book is a survey of legal issues arising from the Internet, structured into parts that deal with intellectual property, cybercrimes, privacy, free speech, Web contracts, and Web 2.0. Within each part, there are several chapters d...

Jun 4 2009  
   The design of sites: patterns for creating winning Web sites (2nd ed.)
Duyne D., Landay J., Hong J., Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2006. 1024 pp.  Type: Book (9780131345553)

This book is completely devoted to patterns, or to what the authors call patterns. In the book, the authors advocate so-called customer-centered design, which emphasizes customers and their tasks above all else. This is an important sh...

Sep 18 2007  
   Beginning algorithms
Harris S., Ross J., Wrox Press Ltd., Birmingham, UK, 2005.  Type: Book (9780764596742)

“Someone who develops applications, or is just starting to do so, and who wants to understand algorithms and data structures” is the intended reader of this book. The book’s intended readership...

Aug 22 2006  
   Developing semantic Web services
Alesso H., Smith C., A. K. Peters, Ltd., Wellesley, MA , 2004. 445 pp.  Type: Book (9781568812120)

I recommend this book to those who are interested in semantic Web services. The book’s organization resembles a layered format, which is appropriate, given the book’s subject and the fact that the semantic W...

Oct 28 2005  
   Information sharing on the semantic Web
Stuckenschmidt H., Harmelen F., SpringerVerlag, 2004.  Type: Book (9783540205944)

In the world of information, according to Stuckenschmidt and van Harmelen, some problems cease to be significant, and some remain. They identify producing online, digitized information, as well as storing such information and transport...

Feb 21 2005  
 
 
 
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