Mastering Mathematica®: Programming Methods and Applications presents the mathematical results and turn them into precise algorithmic procedures that can be executed by a computer. This book provides insight into more complex situations that can be investigated by hand. Organized into four parts, this book begins with an overview of the use of a pocket calculator. This text then looks in more detail at numerical calculations and solving equations, both algebraic and differential equations. Other parts consider the built-in graphics and show how to make pictures without programming. This book discusses as well the four styles of programming, namely, functional programming, imperative programming, rewrite programing, and object oriented programming. The reader is also introduced to differentiable mapping to show the analysis of critical points of functions and the developments in differential geometry that are required to study minimal surfaces. This book is a valuable resource for graduate students in mathematics, mathematics education, engineering, and the sciences.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th Asian Symposium on Progr- ming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2009) held in Seoul, Korea, December 14–16, 2009. The symposium was sponsored by the Asian Association for Fo- dation of Software (AAFS), Research on Software Analysis for Error-free C- puting (ROSAEC) Center of Seoul National University, and SIGPL of Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers. Following our call for papers, 56 full submissions from 18 countries were - ceived.Eachpaper wasreviewedby at leastthree ProgramCommittee members with the help of external reviewers. The Program Committee meeting was c- ducted electronically over a period of two weeks in August 2009. As a result of active discussions, 21 papers (37.5%) were selected. I would like to thank all the members of the APLAS 2009 ProgramCommittee for the tremendous e?ort they put into their reviews and deliberations, and all the external reviewers for their invaluable contributions. The submission and review process was managed using the EasyChair system. In addition to the 21 contributed papers, the symposium also featured three invited talks by Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), NaokiKobayashi(TohokuUniversity,Japan),andArmandoSolar-Lezama(M- sachusetts Institute of Technology, USA).

Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.

This practical, example-driven introduction teaches the foundations of the Mathematica language so it can be applied to solving concrete problems.

Since its release, Spring Framework has transformed virtually every aspect of Java development including web applications, security, aspect-oriented programming, persistence, and messaging. Spring Batch, one of its newer additions, now brings the same familiar Spring idioms to batch processing. Spring Batch addresses the needs of any batch process, from the complex calculations performed in the biggest financial institutions to simple data migrations that occur with many software development projects. Pro Spring Batch is intended to answer three questions: What? What is batch processing? What does it entail? What makes it different from the other applications we are developing? What are the challenges inherent in the development of a batch process? Why? Why do batch processing? Why can’t we just process things as we get them? Why do we do batch processing differently than the web applications that we currently work on? How? How to implement a robust, scalable, distributed batch processing system using open-source frameworks Pro Spring Batch gives concrete examples of how each piece of functionality is used and why it would be used in a real-world application. This includes providing tips that the "school of hard knocks" has taught author Michael Minella during his experience with Spring Batch. Pro Spring Batch includes examples of I/O options that are not mentioned in the official user’s guide, as well as performance tips on things like how to limit the impact of maintaining the state of your jobs. The author also walks you through, from end to end, the design and implementation of a batch process based upon a theoretical real-world example. This includes basic project setup, implementation, testing, tuning and scaling for large volumes.

This annually published Bibliography provides an overview of cartographical literature published around the world. Each annual volume lists approximately 2,000 monographs and articles published in some 400 periodicals. These are all analysed by an international group of collaborating experts. Among the topics covered are the history of cartography, cartographic personalities and institutions, the making of maps, areas such as topographical or atlas cartography, or maps for the blind, film and screen maps and the use of maps. Titles are listed in their original language and can be looked up either in the Author Index or in the English, French or German list of contents.