Digital Sculpting with Mudbox Essential Tools and Techniques for Artists

Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier sculpting solution for digital artists, allowing them to natu...

 3ds Max 2010 Bible

Covers both 3ds Max 2010 and 3ds Max 2010 Design Hands down, the best book on 3ds Max around Whether you're a novice eager to get started or a full-fledged animator seeking new ways to dazzle, the new edition of this perennial hot seller is the perf...

 Introducing ZBrush

Learn to sculpt detailed, lush, organic models with the hottest tool on the 3D market - ZBrush - and this step-by-step guide. Introducing ZBrush is the ideal initiation to this revolutionary software. Starting with the basics, it builds from the ground up...

 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 legal, ethical, and international environment of business

When confronted with a problem, a person can take any number of actions. Some actions may be useful, whereas others may create more problems. Philosophers have developed various ethical decision-making models to help a person to resolve a dilemma. Some mo...

 A Course on Queueing Models

The application of engineering principles in divergent fields such as management science and communications as well as the advancement of several approaches in theory and computation have led to growing interest in queueing models, creating the need for a...

 Useless Arithmetic Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future

Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic a...

 Building Financial Models A Guide to Creating and Interpreting Financial Statements

Financial modeling is essential for determining a company's current value and projecting its future performance, yet few books explain how to build models for accurately interpreting financial statements. Building Financial Models is the first book to cor...

 Models of Political Economy

Models of Political Economy will introduce students to the basic methodology of political economics. It covers all core theories as well as new developments including: decision theory game theory mechanism design games of asymmetric information ...

 Actuarial Theory for Dependent Risks Measures, Orders and Models

The increasing complexity of insurance and reinsurance products has seen a growing interest amongst actuaries in the modelling of dependent risks. For efficient risk management, actuaries need to be able to answer fundamental questions such as: Is the cor...

 Molecular Models for Fluids

This book presents the development of modern molecular models for fluids from the interdisciplinary fundamentals of classical and statistical mechanics, of electrodynamics and of quantum mechanics. The concepts and working equations of the various fields ...

 Stock Valuation An Essential Guide to Wall Street's Most Popular Valuation Models

A practical look at the valuation models used by Wall Street Veteran consultant and educator Scott Hoover analyzes the limitations and idiosyncrasies of major valuation models. He examines the time value of money, cash flow analysis, discount rates, ...

  Option Pricing Models and Volatility Using Excel-VBA

Praise for Option Pricing Models & Volatility Using Excel-VBA "Excel is already a great pedagogical tool for teaching option valuation and risk management. But the VBA routines in this book elevate Excel to an industrial-strength financial engineer...

 Modeling and Computational Methods for Kinetic Equations

In recent years kinetic theory has developed in many areas of the physical sciences and engineering, and has extended the borders of its traditional fields of application. This monograph is a self-contained presentation of such recently developed aspects ...

 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...

 Models for Discrete Data Includes Examples in SAS

Discrete or count data arise in experiments where the outcome variables are the numbers of individuals classified into unique, non-overlapping categories. This revised edition describes the statistical models used in the analysis and summary of such data,...

 Disease Evolution Models, Concepts, and Data Analyses

Infectious diseases are continuing to threaten humankind. While some diseases have been controlled, new diseases are constantly appearing. Others are now reappearing in forms that are resistant to drug treatments. A capacity for continual re-adaptation fu...

 Remote Sensing Models and Methods for Image Processing

Remote sensing is a technology that engages electromagnetic sensors to measure and monitor changes in the earth's surface and atmosphere. Normally this is accomplished through the use of a satellite or aircraft. This book, in its 3rd edition, seamlessly c...

 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...

  Univariate and Multivariate General Linear Models Theory and Applications with SAS

Provides expanded and new material with examples revised to include options available using SAS version 9.0 Presents analyses of simple and complex models, both univariate and multivariate, using data sets from the behavioral sciences Incorporates rec...

 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 ...

 Modeling Aggregate Behavior and Fluctuations in Economics Stochastic Views of Interacting Agents

This book analyzes how a large but finite number of agents interact, and what sorts of macroeconomic statistical regularities or patterns may evolve from these interactions. By keeping the number of agents finite, the book examines situations such as fluc...

 Cost Optimization of Structures Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, and Parallel Computing

This comprehensive book focuses on the models and algorithms for traffic incident detection, including computational models specific to ITS (Intelligent Transport System), which is a key issue in creating efficient and reliable intelligent transportatio...

 Concurrency State Models & JavaProgramming

Concurrency provides a thoroughly updated approach to the basic concepts and techniques behind concurrent programming. Concurrent programming is complex and demands a much more formal approach than sequential programming. In order to develop a thorough un...

 Pattern Recognition in Industry

Two wave fronts are upon us today: we are being bombarded by an enormous amount of data, and we are confronted by continually increasing technical and business advances. Ideally, the endless stream of data should be one of our major assets. However, ...

 Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria Stepping Stones for the Analyst

Formal decision and evaluation models are sets of explicit and well-defined rules to collect, assess, and process information in order to be able to make recommendations in decision and/or evaluation processes. They are so widespread that almost no one ca...

 Evolving Connectionist Systems Methods and Applications in Bioinformatics, Brain Study and Intelligent Machines

Many methods and models have been proposed for solving difficult problems such as prediction, planning and knowledge discovery in application areas such as bioinformatics, speech and image analysis. Most, however, are designed to deal with static processe...

 Data Mining Methods and Models

Provides an introduction into data mining methods and models, including association rules, clustering, K-nearest neighbor, statistical inference, neural networks, linear and logistic regression, and multivariate analysis Presents a unified approach bas...

 CMMC Computer Models of Musical Creativity

In this original and provocative study of computational creativity in music, David Cope asks whether computer programs can effectively model creativity -- and whether computer programs themselves can create. Defining musical creativity, and distinguishing...

 Analysis Patterns Reusable Object Models

This innovative book recognizes the need within the object-oriented community for a book that goes beyond the tools and techniques of the typical methodology book. In Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models, Martin Fowler focuses on the end result of ob...

 Verification and Validation for Quality of UML 2.0 Models

A practical approach to enhancing quality in software models using UML Version 2.0 "Despite its increasing usage, many companies are not taking the best advantage of UML and, occasionally, individuals have experienced frustration in applying its stan...

  Data-Driven Business Models

Using measured performance has become a favorite topic of seminars and articles in the trades and business press. This means how you view, develop and run your business - using all of the data available to do that - and how to model and to continuously re...

 Introduction to RF Propagation

An introduction to RF propagation that spans all wireless applications This book provides readers with a solid understanding of the concepts involved in the propagation of electromagnetic waves and of the commonly used modeling techniques. While many...

 Les business models de la Nouvelle Economie Stratégies de développement pour les entreprises de l'Internet et du secteur high tech

Dans la nouvelle économie des NTIC, créer et développer une entreprise consiste avant tout à dégager la juste proposition de valeur et à s'inscrire dans le bon modèle de croissance, ou business model. Cet ouvrage propose une approche du développement et d...

 Grammars and automata for string processing From mathematics and computer science to biology, and back

This book contains a collection of articles related to areas where Gheorghe Paun has made major contributions. The first section, Grammars and Grammar Systems, contains papers related to one of the fundamental concepts of the theory of formal languages, n...

 Value Creation from E-Business Models

Value Creation from E-Business Models provides a thorough analysis of what constitutes an e-business model. Unlike many e-business books available, this text draws together theoretical and empirical contributions from leading academic scholars in the fiel...

  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...

 Excel Models for Business and Operations Management

Excel Models for Business and Operations Management, Second Edition, adopts a structured approach to management decision-making by integrating the activities of a manufacturing organization. The text is entirely assignment-based and uses Microsoft's Excel...

 Modeling in the Neurosciences From Biological Systems to Neuromimetic Robotics

Emphasizes continuum models, demonstrating how to overcome errors caused by compartmentalizing and ignoring dynamical details Supplies a theoretical link to the results garnered from experimental neuroscience and yields greater insight into real-world ...

 Broadband Services Buiness models and technologies for community networks

Ubiquitous access to the Internet is essential to prevent the deepening of modern society's digital divide. Remote communities are at a disadvantage when it comes to seeking better education, better jobs, and higher levels of civic participation. G...