Computer Science Reconsidered The Invocation Model of Process Expression

A groundbreaking, seminal work that challenges the theoretical foundations of computer science This seminal work will challenge and change your understanding of computers and computing. Since the invention of the computer, it has been accepted with lit...

 Model Order Reduction Techniques with applications in finite element analysis

Despite the continued rapid advance in computing speed and memory the increase in the complexity of models used by engineers persists in outpacing them. Even where there is access to the latest hardware, simulations are often extremely computationally int...

 The One-Dimensional Hubbard Model

The description of solids at a microscopic level is complex, involving the interaction of a huge number of its constituents, such as ions or electrons. It is impossible to solve the corresponding many-body problems analytically or numerically, although mu...

 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...

 Pro WCF Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

Part of Microsofts radical new WinFX API is the Indigo foundation, more formally known as the Windows Communication Foundation, or WCF. Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to WCF from the SOA architecture perspective and sh...

 Approximation of Large-Scale Dynamical Systems

Mathematical models are used to simulate, and sometimes control, the behavior of physical and artificial processes such as the weather and very large-scale integration (VLSI) circuits. The increasing need for accuracy has led to the development of highly ...

 A Geometric Mechanism for Diffusion in Hamiltonian Systems Overcoming the Large Gap Problem Heuristics and Rigourous Verification on a Model

We introduce a geometric mechanism for diffusion in a priori unstable nearly integrable dynamical systems. It is based on the observation that resonances, besides destroying the primary KAM tori, create secondary tori and tori of lower dimension. We argue...

 Weibull models

A comprehensive perspective on Weibull models The literature on Weibull models is vast, disjointed, and scattered across many different journals. Weibull Models is a comprehensive guide that integrates all the different facets of Weibull models in a s...

 The Chinese Model Of Modern Development

This book examines the Chinese model of modern development, reflecting on the historical experience of China's reform, and highlighting theoretical issues that are crucial for understanding the reform in its historical and global contexts. The book brings...

 Linear Model Theory Univariate, Multivariate, and Mixed Models

A precise and accessible presentation of linear model theory, illustrated with data examples Statisticians often use linear models for data analysis and for developing new statistical methods. Most books on the subject have historically discussed uni...

 Multivariate and Mixture Distribution Rasch Models Extensions and Applications

This volume covers extensions of the Rasch model, one of the most researched and applied models in educational research and social science. This collection contains 22 chapters by some of the most recognized international experts in the field. They cover ...

 Essential Windows Workflow Foundation

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a groundbreaking approach to writing and executing programs. WF programs are assembled out of resumable program statements called activities, which provide encapsulation of both domainspecific logic and control flow pat...

 Integrated it project management A model-centric approach

A long overdue book for today's IT professionals, this unique resource offers you a practical, model-centric approach to integrated IT project management that supports state-of-the-art software development. A valuable and topical reference, the book enabl...

 Data mining cookbook

Get a data mining recipe for success to increase profits and reduce costs in today's business world with Data Mining Cookbook This book shows yov how to croate and Implenient model of the most commonly asked data mining questions for marketing , sales...

 Oracle Performance Tuning for 10gR2

Features: Fully updated for version iogR2 and provides all necessary transition material from version 91 Includes all three aspects of Oracle database tuning: data model tuning, SQL & PL/SQL code tuning, physical plus configuration tuning. Cont...

 Data Model Patterns A Metadata Map

In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equip...

 Model-Driven Software Development

Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) is currently a highly regarded development paradigm among developers and researchers. With the advent of OMG's MDA and Microsoft's Software Factories, the MDSD approach has moved to the centre of the programmer's a...

 Neural Networks in a Softcomputing Framework

Conventional model-based data processing methods are computationally expensive and require experts' knowledge for the modelling of a system; neural networks provide a model-free, adaptive, parallel-processing solution. Neural Networks in a Softcomputing F...

 A Course in Model Theory An Introduction to Contemporary Mathematical Logic

This book, translated from the French, is an introduction to first-order model theory. The first six chapters are very basic: starting from scratch, they quickly reach the essential, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness, which are illustrated...

 A Software Process Model Handbook for Incorporating People's Capabilities

A Software Process Model Handbook for Incorporating People's Capabilities offers the most advanced approach to date, empirically validated at software development organizations. This handbook adds a valuable contribution to the much-needed literature on p...

 Oracle Data Warehouse Tuning for 10g

Tuning a data warehouse database focuses on large transactions, mostly requiring what is known as -throughput. Throughput is the passing of large amounts of information through a server, network and Internet environment, backwards and forwards, constantly...

  Applied Linear Regression Models International Edition

Applied Linear Regression Models continues to provide a thoughtful and understandable blend of the theory and applications of regression models in real life situations. In this Fourth Edition, the authors have provided improved organization and expanded c...

 Bayesian Nonparametrics Via Neural Networks

Bayesian Nonparametrics via Neural Networks is the first book to focus on neural networks in the context of nonparametric regression and classification, working within the Bayesian paradigm. Its goal is to demystify neural networks, putting them firmly in...

 LEGO MINDSTORMS Idea Book

No Starch Press shows how to bring ten different robots to lifewith the MINDSTORMS kit, giving readers ideas for creating many more along the way. Extensively illustrated with over 250 original CAD drawings, this tutorial/idea book makes it easy and fun t...

 MDA Distilled Principles of Model-Driven Architecture

As systems have grown more crucial to the operations of organizations worldwide, so too have the costs associated with building and maintaining them. Enter model-driven architecture (MDA), a standard framework from the Object Management Group (OMG) that ...

 Modeling, Identification and Control of Robots

Written by two of Europe's leading robotics experts, this unique book provides the tools for a unified approach to the modeling of robotic manipulators, whatever their mechanical structure. It covers the development of various mathematical models required...

 Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Technical Reference

With its state-of-the-art capabilities for rapidly processing and retrieving huge quantities of data, Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 is quickly growing in popularity among large corporations. But learning how to take advantage of the powerful, built-in data-m...

 Practical Software Engineering Analysis and Design for the .NET Platform

“This book is unique in the way that is demonstrates a full life-cycle approach from business modeling to analysis, security, and testing. It does so by using existing tools such as Visual Studio .NET integrated with Rational's XDE. With a practica...

 Applying UML and Patterns An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

The world's first best-selling introduction to object-oriented analysis/design, iterative development, and the UML-now completely updated! Applying UML and Patterns, Second Edition, helps any developer or student master the core principles and best practi...

  Model Driven Architecture with Executable UML

This book offers a unique insight into a revolution in software development that allows model specifications to be fully and efficiently translated into code. Using the most widely adopted, industry standard, software modelling language, UML, the reader w...

 Model Generation for Natural Langage Interpretation and Analysis

Mathematical theorem proving has undergone an impressive development during the last two decades, resulting in a variety of powerful systems for applications in mathematical deduction and knowledge processing. Natural language processing has become a topi...

 MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture Practice and Promise

Experienced application developers often invest more time in building models than they do in actually writing code. Why? Well-constructed models make it easier to deliver large, complex enterprise systems on time and within budget. Now, a new framework ad...

 Integrating Service Level Agreements Optimizing Your OSS for SLA Delivery

Uncover a revolutionary approach to SLAs that will help you gain a competitive advantage in the field The use of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) will soon become the prevailing business model for delivering a large number of products and services. SLAs o...

 Flash MX Express

Some Flash users like the depth, comfort and security of the linear tutorial approach. Others respond better to a more laid-back model. This book is for you if you're a denizen of the latter group; it's rich in images and examples, and restrained in its u...

  Building a Digital Human

In the 3D animation and graphics universe, the final frontier isn't the vast unknown depths of outer space, but the intimately familiar human form. Replicating the human body is by far the most challenging journey to undertake as a digital artist, because...

 Modeling Embedded Systems and Soc's

This book addresses the need for developing organizing principles for understanding, assessing, and comparing different models of computation. First, Author Axel Jantsch identifies the representation of time as the essential feature for distinguishing the...

  Operations research Applications and algorithms - International student edition

The market-leading textbook for the course, Winston's OPERATIONS RESEARCH owes much of its success to its practical orientation and consistent emphasis on model formulation and model building. It moves beyond a mere study of algorithms without sacrificing...

 Domain-Driven Design Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

The software development community widely acknowledges that domain modeling is central to software design. Through domain modeling, software developers are able to express rich functionality and translate that functionality into software implementation th...

 Security Engineering With Patterns Origins, Theoretical Models, and New Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2754)

For quite some time, in systems and software design, security only came as a second thought or even as a nice-to-have add-on. However, since the breakthrough of the Internet as a virtual backbone for electronic commerce and similar applications, security ...

 The Spin Model Checker Primer and Reference Manual

Master SPIN, the breakthrough tool for improving software reliability SPIN is the world's most popular, and arguably one of the world's most powerful, tools for detecting software defects in concurrent system designs. Literally thousands of people have u...