Contracts, Scenarios and Prototypes An Integrated Approach to High Quality Software

The number of methods and tools available to the software engineer nowadays is overwhelming; nevertheless many software projects fail to meet their schedules, are over budget, do not meet the user requirements, or simply have considerable quality defects....

 The Text Mining Handbook Advanced Approaches in Analyzing Unstructured Data

Text mining is a new and exciting area of computer science research that tries to solve the crisis of information overload by combining techniques from data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and knowledge manage...

 Mathematical Approaches to Software Quality

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to various mathematical approaches to achieving high-quality software. An introduction to mathematics that is essential for sound software engineering is provided as well as a discussion of various mathemati...

 Practical DV Filmmaking

Master low-budget filmmaking principles with easy step-by-step techniques and practical projects Develop a real world perspective through case studies and interviews with successful filmmakers Combine technical know-how with stylistic approaches to fi...

 Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations

Various approaches have been developed to evaluate the consequences of spatial structure on evolution in subdivided populations. This book is both a review and new synthesis of several of these approaches, based on the theory of spatial genetic structure....

 Enginnering Self-Organising Systems Nature-Inspired Approaches to Software Engineering

As information handling systems get more and more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage them using traditional approaches based on centralized and pre-defined control mechanisms. Over recent years, there has been a significant increase in t...

 Foundations of Genetic Programming

Genetic programming (GP), one of the most advanced forms of evolutionary computation, has been highly successful as a technique for getting computers to automatically solve problems without having to tell them explicitly how. Since its inceptions more tha...

 Algorithmics for Hard Problems Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization, Randomization, Approximation, and Heuristics

There are several approaches to attack hard problems. All have their merits, but also their limitations, and need a large body of theory as their basis. A number of books for each one exist: books on complexity theory, others on approximation algorithms, ...