Michael Schumacher

Sie möchten Ihre Internet-Präsenz ohne HTML- und Programmierkenntnisse verwalten? Alle Mitarbeiter sollen sich inhaltlich an Ihrem Internet-Auftritt beteiligen? Sie planen die Einführung eines Intranet-Portals in Ihrem Unternehmen? Ihre Kunden und Partner sollen eigene Extranet-Bereiche nutzen können? Möglichst kostenlos? Anpassbar? Für Sie ist dieses Buch geschrieben. Es behandelt alle Aspekte des weit verbreiteten Open Source Content Management Systems "PostNuke". Anhand praktischer Beispiele werden die Installation, Konfiguration und die Anwendung von Internet-Auftritten, Intranet-Portalen und Extranets mit PostNuke erläutert. Auch die Erweiterung und Anpassung des Content Management Systems wird ausführlich behandelt – auf externe Module gehen die Autoren genau so ein wie auf die PostNuke API, welche die Programmierung eigener Blöcke und Module in PHP ermöglicht.

Based on a suitably defined coordination model distinguishing between objective (inter-agent) coordination and subjective (intra-agent) coordination, this book addresses the engineering of multi-agent systems and thus contributes to closing the gap between research and applications in agent technology. After reviewing the state of the art, the author introduces the general coordination model ECM and the corresponding object-oriented coordination language STL++. The practicability of ECM/STL++ is illustrated by the simulation of a particular collective robotics application and the automation of an e-commerce trading system.Situated at the intersection of behavior-based artificial intelligence and concurrent and distributed systems, this monograph is of relevance to the agent R&D community approaching agent technology from the distributed artificial intelligence point of view as well as for the distributed systems community.

I wonder, "Why me? Why have I survived?"' Eric Clapton, Rolling Stone, 1991The million-selling, Grammy award-winning master of the blues guitar, Eric Clapton still generates the kind of adulation that led fans to graffiti London underground stations in 1965 with the statement, 'Clapton is God'. And yet Clapton has more thanan astonishing professional story to tell: he has survived a personal journey blighted by tragedy and heartbreak. In 1990 he lost four of his closest friends in a helicopter crash, followed a year later by the devastating death of his four-year-old son Conor.In this definitive study of the man and his music, Michael Schumacher reveals with compassion and insight both the depths of Clapton's sorrow and the roots of his remarkable musical power. From his days with the Yardbirds, through spells with Cream and Derek and the Dominoes to a solo career that has spanned over a quarter of a century, Schumacher superbly charts the development of an enduring guitar legend.