Il magistero del cardinale Carlo Maria Martini colpisce per la sua indiscussa attualità e forse ancor più per la sua incisività profetica. Egli ci ha insegnato a pensare il futuro della Chiesa in Italia, e del cristianesimo in Occidente, con una nuova prospettiva conciliare che si riflette sullo stesso uso concettuale e lessicale del termine "laicato" per designare il corpo dei fedeli non consacrati, che è andato in disuso. E Martini lo ha intuito precocemente. Franco Giulio Brambilla e Marco Vergottini avviano, a partire delle suggestioni del Cardinale, un ripensamento radicale del tema, in vista di un riassestamento della "questione laicale", inserendola nel quadro dei problemi che toccano oggi la vita della Chiesa, dentro il contesto dell'attuale vicenda storico-civile e a servizio della città degli uomini.

Interaction Flow Modeling Language describes how to apply model-driven techniques to the problem of designing the front end of software applications, i.e., the user interaction. The book introduces the reader to the novel OMG standard Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML). Authors Marco Brambilla and Piero Fraternali are authors of the IFML standard and wrote this book to explain the main concepts of the language. They effectively illustrate how IFML can be applied in practice to the specification and implementation of complex web and mobile applications, featuring rich interactive interfaces, both browser based and native, client side components and widgets, and connections to data sources, business logic components and services.

Interaction Flow Modeling Language provides you with unique insight into the benefits of engineering web and mobile applications with an agile model driven approach. Concepts are explained through intuitive examples, drawn from real-world applications. The authors accompany you in the voyage from visual specifications of requirements to design and code production. The book distills more than twenty years of practice and provides a mix of methodological principles and concrete and immediately applicable techniques.

• Learn OMG’s new IFML standard from the authors of the standard with this approachable reference
• Introduces IFML concepts step-by-step, with many practical examples and an end-to-end case example
• Shows how to integrate IFML with other OMG standards including UML, BPMN, CWM, SoaML and SysML
• Discusses how to map models into code for a variety of web and mobile platforms and includes many useful interface modeling patterns and best practices

Con un'impostazione innovativa, il volume analizza il legame fra moralità, giudizio e comportamento sociale. Dopo aver presentato i principali modelli elaborati dalla psicologia dell'apprendimento sociale circa lo sviluppo della consapevolezza morale, sono illustrati i processi cognitivi e motivazionali implicati nella percezione e nel ragionamento morale. Gli autori indagano infine gli aspetti emotivi della moralità, delineando il complesso legame fra giudizio ed emozioni morali.

With the proliferation of huge amounts of (heterogeneous) data on the Web, the importance of information retrieval (IR) has grown considerably over the last few years. Big players in the computer industry, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, are the primary contributors of technology for fast access to Web-based information; and searching capabilities are now integrated into most information systems, ranging from business management software and customer relationship systems to social networks and mobile phone applications.

Ceri and his co-authors aim at taking their readers from the foundations of modern information retrieval to the most advanced challenges of Web IR. To this end, their book is divided into three parts. The first part addresses the principles of IR and provides a systematic and compact description of basic information retrieval techniques (including binary, vector space and probabilistic models as well as natural language search processing) before focusing on its application to the Web. Part two addresses the foundational aspects of Web IR by discussing the general architecture of search engines (with a focus on the crawling and indexing processes), describing link analysis methods (specifically Page Rank and HITS), addressing recommendation and diversification, and finally presenting advertising in search (the main source of revenues for search engines). The third and final part describes advanced aspects of Web search, each chapter providing a self-contained, up-to-date survey on current Web research directions. Topics in this part include meta-search and multi-domain search, semantic search, search in the context of multimedia data, and crowd search.

The book is ideally suited to courses on information retrieval, as it covers all Web-independent foundational aspects. Its presentation is self-contained and does not require prior background knowledge. It can also be used in the context of classic courses on data management, allowing the instructor to cover both structured and unstructured data in various formats. Its classroom use is facilitated by a set of slides, which can be downloaded from www.search-computing.org.

Il volume introduce in modo organico e dettagliato tutti gli argomenti oggetto degli esami di certificazione EUCIP Core Level e, al contempo, fornisce una serie di riferimenti utili al loro approfondimento. Il livello Core richiede il superamento di un test a risposte multiple su diversi argomenti legati alle tecnologie dell'informazione e delle telecomunicazioni, per esempio alcune domande riguardano: gestione dei progetti informatici, algoritmi, progettazione di basi di dati, sistemi di comunicazione wireless. Il manuale segue le indicazioni del Syllabus 3.0 (ultima versione), il documento articolato in vari punti che elenca nel dettaglio le competenze necessarie per superare i test di certificazione, ed è suddiviso in tre sezioni che coprono tutti gli ambiti fondamentali del ciclo di vita dei sistemi ICT: Pianificazione (Pian); Realizzazione (Build); Esercizio (Operate). Il testo è stato approvato da AICA, l'unica associazione preposta in Italia a verificare l'effettiva copertura dell'intero programma d'esame (Syllabus) e la correttezza complessiva dell'opera.

Search computing, which has evolved from service computing, focuses on building the answers to complex search queries by interacting with a constellation of cooperating search services, using the ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for service composition. The field is multi-disciplinary in nature and takes advantage of contributions from other research areas such as knowledge representation, human-computer interfaces, psychology, sociology, economics, and legal sciences. This book, the second in the Search Computing series, describes the evolution of theories, technologies, and methods related to search computing. The book has been divided into eight parts, reflecting the main research directions within the Search Computing project. The parts focus on: search as an information exploration task; interaction design issues when dealing with multi-domain search results; modeling and semantic description of search services; the rank-join problem; query processing techniques and architectures; tools and mashups for application development; the application of search computing to bio-informatics; and the exploitation potentials of project results.

Questo testo raccoglie una serie di esercizi relativi all'interrogazione e alla progettazione di basi di dati relazionali. Il testo si rivolge primariamente agli studenti di corsi di basi di dati erogati nella Laurea di Primo Livello (discipline dell'Ingegneria dell'Informazione) e nella Laurea Magistrale, oltre che ai partecipanti a corsi di formazione su basi di dati per realtà aziendali e per programmi Master.