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Environmental Data Analysis with MatLab
Author Joshua Menke , William Menke
Environmental Data Analysis with MatLab is for students and researchers working to analyze real data sets in the environmental sciences. One only has to consider the global warming debate to realize how critically important it is to be able to derive clear conclusio....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, 5th Edition
Author Daniel Valentine , Brian Hahn
The fifth edition of Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists provides a concise, balanced overview of MATLAB's functionality that facilitates independent learning, with coverage of both the fundamentals and applications. The essentials of MATLAB are illustra....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Agile Data Warehousing Project Management
Author Ralph Hughes
You have to make sense of enormous amounts of data, and while the notion of “agile data warehousing might sound tricky, it can yield as much as a 3-to-1 speed advantage while cutting project costs in half. Bring this highly effective technique to your organization ....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Agile Data Warehousing for the Enterprise
Author Ralph Hughes
Building upon his earlier book that detailed agile data warehousing programming techniques for the Scrum master, Ralph's latest work illustrates the agile interpretations of the remaining software engineering disciplines:Requirements management benefits from strea....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Designing the Search Experience
Author Tyler Tate , Tony Russell-Rose
Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. But in order to guide people along this journey, designers must understand both the art and science of search.In Designing th....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Advances in Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation
Author Ronghui Liu , Rosaldo F Rossetti
The Intelligent Systems Series encompasses theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications. It publishes titles in three core sub-topic areas: Intelligent Automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Intelligent Computing.....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author April Reeve
Managing Data in Motion describes techniques that have been developed for significantly reducing the complexity of managing system interfaces and enabling scalable architectures. Author April Reeve brings over two decades of experience to present a vendor-neutral ap....
Release Date 2013/02 -
The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint
Author Nir Shavit , Maurice Herlihy
Revised and updated with improvements conceived in parallel programming courses, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming is an authoritative guide to multicore programming. It introduces a higher level set of software development skills than that needed for efficient ....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Design Theory and Methods using CAD/CAE
Author Kuang-Hua Chang
The fourth book of a four-part series, Design Theory and Methods using CAD/CAE integrates discussion of modern engineering design principles, advanced design tools, and industrial design practices throughout the design process. This is the first book to integrate di....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Conformal Prediction for Reliable Machine Learning
Author Vladimir Vovk , Shen-Shyang Ho , Vineeth Balasubramanian
The conformal predictions framework is a recent development in machine learning that can associate a reliable measure of confidence with a prediction in any real-world pattern recognition application, including risk-sensitive applications such as medical diagn....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Author Aurel Spataru
Probability theory is a rapidly expanding field and is used in many areas of science and technology. Beginning from a basis of abstract analysis, this mathematics book develops the knowledge needed for advanced students to develop a complex understanding of probabil....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Author Nauman Sheikh
Implementing Analytics demystifies the concept, technology and application of analytics and breaks its implementation down to repeatable and manageable steps, making it possible for widespread adoption across all functions of an organization. Implementing Analytics ....
Release Date 2013/05 -
System Parameter Identification
Author Jose C. Principe , Jinchun Hu , Yu Zhu , Badong Chen
Recently, criterion functions based on information theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, information divergence) have attracted attention and become an emerging area of study in signal processing and system identification domain. This book presents a syst....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Author Jules J. Berman
Principles of Big Data helps readers avoid the common mistakes that endanger all Big Data projects. By stressing simple, fundamental concepts, this book teaches readers how to organize large volumes of complex data, and how to achieve data permanence when the conten....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Research Approaches to Sustainable Biomass Systems
Author Tadashi Hirasawa , Seishu Tojo
Researchers, students and engineers working with biofuels and biomass are increasingly expected to comprehend a new holistic systems perspective that begins with wise crop breeding and cultivation techniques and informs the entire conversion to energy process. This ....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Practical Web Analytics for User Experience
Author Michael Beasley
Practical Web Analytics for User Experience teaches you how to use web analytics to help answer the complicated questions facing UX professionals. Within this book, you'll find a quantitative approach for measuring a website's effectiveness and the methods for pos....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, 2nd Edition
Author John Kruschke
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan, Second Edition provides an accessible approach for conducting Bayesian data analysis, as material is explained clearly with concrete examples. Included are step-by-step instructions on how to carry out....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Data Warehousing in the Age of Big Data
Author Krish Krishnan
Data Warehousing in the Age of the Big Data will help you and your organization make the most of unstructured data with your existing data warehouse.As Big Data continues to revolutionize how we use data, it doesn't have to create more confusion. Expert author Kris....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Relevance Ranking for Vertical Search Engines
Author Yi Chang , Bo Long
In plain, uncomplicated language, and using detailed examples to explain the key concepts, models, and algorithms in vertical search ranking, Relevance Ranking for Vertical Search Engines teaches readers how to manipulate ranking algorithms to achieve better results....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Joe Celko’s Complete Guide to NoSQL
Author Joe Celko
Joe Celko's Complete Guide to NoSQL provides a complete overview of non-relational technologies so that you can become more nimble to meet the needs of your organization. As data continues to explode and grow more complex, SQL is becoming less useful for querying d....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Design of Modern Communication Networks
Author Christofer Larsson
Design of Modern Communication Networks focuses on methods and algorithms related to the design of communication networks, using optimization, graph theory, probability theory and simulation techniques. The book discusses the nature and complexity of the network des....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Computation and Storage in the Cloud
Author Jinjun Chen , Yun Yang , Dong Yuan
Computation and Storage in the Cloud is the first comprehensive and systematic work investigating the issue of computation and storage trade-off in the cloud in order to reduce the overall application cost. Scientific applications are usually computation and data in....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Designing with the Mind in Mind, 2nd Edition
Author Jeff Johnson
In this completely updated and revised edition of Designing with the Mind in Mind, Jeff Johnson provides you with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that user interface (UI) design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a l....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Author Tom Johnston
Bitemporal data has always been important. But it was not until 2011 that the ISO released a SQL standard that supported it. Currently, among major DBMS vendors, Oracle, IBM and Teradata now provide at least some bitemporal functionality in their flagship products. ....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Accelerating MATLAB with GPU Computing
Author Youngmin Kim , Jung W. Suh
Beyond simulation and algorithm development, many developers increasingly use MATLAB even for product deployment in computationally heavy fields. This often demands that MATLAB codes run faster by leveraging the distributed parallelism of Graphics Processing Units (....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Efficient Computation of Argumentation Semantics
Author Beishui Liao
Efficient Computation of Argumentation Semantics addresses argumentation semantics and systems, introducing readers to cutting-edge decomposition methods that drive increasingly efficient logic computation in AI and intelligent systems. Such complex and distributed ....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Business Intelligence Guidebook
Author Rick Sherman
Between the high-level concepts of business intelligence and the nitty-gritty instructions for using vendors’ tools lies the essential, yet poorly-understood layer of architecture, design and process. Without this knowledge, Big Data is belittled – projects flounder....
Release Date 2014/11 -
The Case for the Chief Data Officer
Author Michael M. Gorman , Peter Aiken
Data are an organization's sole, non-depletable, non-degrading, durable asset. Engineered right, data's value increases over time because the added dimensions of time, geography, and precision. To achieve data's full organizational value, there must be dedicated ....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics, 3rd Edition
Author Orjan G. Martinsen , Sverre Grimnes
Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics, 3rd Edition paves an easier and more efficient way for people seeking basic knowledge about this discipline. This book's focus is on systems with galvanic contact with tissue, with specific detail on the geometry of the measu....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Emerging Trends in ICT Security
Author Hamid R Arabnia , Babak Akhgar
Emerging Trends in ICT Security, an edited volume, discusses the foundations and theoretical aspects of ICT security; covers trends, analytics, assessments and frameworks necessary for performance analysis and evaluation; and gives you the state-of-the-art knowledge....
Release Date 2013/11