CMMI Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement

CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their entire lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI provides a single, comprehensive framework...

 Guided Waves Optics Selected Topics

Guided Wave Optics forms the basic science underlying the field of optical fiber communication and integrated topics. These areas have seen tremendous growth over the past three decades and continue to be in the forefront of the research under the broad a...

  Programming in ADA 2005

Ada has carved itself a niche in the safety-critical/embedded/real-time areas. It is the language of choice in application areas where reliability, long term maintainability and similar features are very important. Typical of such areas are defence embedd...

 Applied Combinatorics on Words

A series of important applications of combinatorics on words has emerged with the development of computerized text and string processing, for example in biology and linguistics. The aim of this volume the third in a trilogy, is to present a unified treatm...

  3ds Max 6 Animation CG Filmmaking from Concept to Completion

Bring your animation career to life with this one-of-a-kind guide illustrating in detail each step of production of a short film. Follow examples and situations proposed by the author designed to facilitate coverage of most aspects of CG animation, touchi...

 Data analysis, classification, and related methods

The volume presents new developments in data analysis and classification, and gives a state of the art impression of these scientific fields at the turn of the Millennium. Areas that receive considerable attention in this book are Cluster Analysis, Data ...

 Introduction to expert systems

The third edition of Peter Jackson's book, Introduction to Expert Systems, updates the technological base of expert systems research and embeds those results in the context of a wide variety of application areas. The earlier chapters take a more practical...

 Fractals in multimedia The IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications - Volume 132

This volume describes the status of fractal imaging research and looks to future directions. It will be useful to researchers in the areas of fractal image compression, analysis, and synthesis, iterated function systems, and fractals in education. In part...