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Developing Modern Applications with a Converged Database
Single-purpose databases were designed to address specific problems and use cases. Given this narrow focus, there are inherent tradeoffs required when trying to accommodate multiple datatypes or workloads in your enterprise environment. The result is data fragmentation that spills over into applicat.... -
Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts
Each year we witness several paradigm shifts in mobility systems and services, increasingly so as technology progresses. The future of mobility is people-centric, software-defined, connected, and electric. Now more than ever, it is imperative for current and aspiring leaders in the field to understa.... -
Author Pradeeka Seneviratne
Electronic textiles (e-textiles) involves the combination of electronics and textiles to form "smart" textile products. It is an emerging technology with immense opportunities in the field of wearables fashion technology. And while there are many e-textile development pla....
Release Date 2020/11 -
Author Reichental
Become empowered to build and maintain smarter cities At its core, a smart city is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban centers across ....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Author Assad Abbas , Samee U. Khan , Albert Y. Zomaya
Summarizes the current state and upcoming trends within the area of fog computingWritten by some of the leading experts in the field, Fog Computing: Theory and Practice focuses on the technological aspects of employing fog computing in various application domains, su....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author Joseph McCormack
Teaches managers and leaders to cut through the static and hone their focusing skills In the current digital age, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to stay focused. Smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and other devices constantly vie for our attention. In b....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Author Stephen Duneier
Smarter decision-making based on cognitive scienceAlphaBrain is the investor's guide to achieving more, doing better, and reaching higher. At its core, the magnitude of your success is based on the quality of your decisions. The problem is that human beings are po....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Author Nazire D. Yilmaz
Smart Textiles: Wearable Nanotechnology provides a comprehensive presentation of recent advancements in the area of smart nanotextiles giving specific importance to materials and production processes. Different materials, production routes, performance characterist....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Transportation and Power Grid in Smart Cities
Author Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Hussein T. Mouftah
With the increasing worldwide trend in population migration into urban centers, we are beginning to see the emergence of the kinds of mega-cities which were once the stuff of science fiction. It is clear to most urban planners and developers that accommodating the ....
Release Date 2018/11 -
Author Claude Rochet
The intelligence of a city is the capacity to learn: to learn the past, its history and the culture of its territory. Unlike the smart city, we do not build a city from scratch and there is nothing, there is no smart city standard car intelligence is measured this ....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures
Author Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian , Feng Ye
A comprehensive resource that covers all the key areas of smart grid communication infrastructuresSmart grid is a transformational upgrade to the traditional power grid that adds communication capabilities, intelligence and modern control. Smart Grid Communication ....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Energy Processing and Smart Grid
Author James A. Momoh
The first book in the field to incorporate fundamentals of energy systems and their applications to smart grid, along with advanced topics in modeling and controlThis book provides an overview of how multiple sources and loads are connected via power electronic dev....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author Dermot Crowley
Communicate, congregate and collaborate more effectively than everSmart Teams will help your team to go beyond personal productivity to enhance team productivity. Building on the concepts presented in Smart Work, which focuses on personal productivity, this book sh....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance
Author Karen Martin
Award-winning business performance improvement and Lean management expert Karen Martin diagnoses a ubiquitous business management and leadership problem—the lack of clarity—and outlines specific actions to dramatically improve organizational performance.Through her....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Bella Zanesco
Own your screw ups, get inspired and create the life you want.Sick of chasing the perfect relationship, career or bank balance? Tired of feeling like you’re never quite ‘enough’? You’re not alone. And it’s time to do something about it. Smart Girls Screw Up Too, is....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author David Bakken
The utilization of sensors, communications, and computer technologies to create greater efficiency in the generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption of electricity will enable better management of the electric power system. As the use of smart grid tech....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Michael R. Miller
This full-color introduction to the smart home has been written from the ground up with one audience in mind: seniors. No ordinary "beginner's book," My Smart Home for Seniors approaches every topic from a 50+ person's point of view, using meaningful, realistic e....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Author Richard Hammond
SMART RETAIL IS THE HOW-TO RETAIL BIBLE. Smart Retail reveals what the most successful retailers in the world know and how you can apply their secrets to your own business. Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes the latest success stories, new ideas a....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Katherine Ludwig , Edward D. Hess
Humility Is the New Smart Your job is at risk—if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Heidi K. Gardner
A Washington Post BestsellerNot all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right.Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems—everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kin....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Mr. David Cotton
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOLS, GAMES AND TECHNIQUES USED BY BRAINSTORMERS, GAMECHANGERS AND TRAILBLAZERS. As working life becomes more complex, we are increasingly faced with problems which may at first seem insoluble. The Smart Solut....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Kimberly Palmer
Of all life’s financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise—not including college!How will you pay for it? That agonizing question fuels mothers’ choices about their careers, budgets, and families. Some lean ....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Rob Fazio
Whether you are at work or at home, you are probably being asked to do more with less. We often become consumed with what doesn't really matter, and spend far too much of our precious time on what doesn't even count. In Simple Is the New Smart, Dr. Rob Fazio show....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Author Franz Lanz
This book is intended to support ISPF application programmers to become professional in the smart programming of ISPF applications using the REXX language. The contents are presented in a modular manner to suit reading with heterogeneous ISPF programming knowledge.....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Author Paul Dr. Smith , Florian Skopik
The Smart Grid security ecosystem is complex and multi-disciplinary, and relatively under-researched compared to the traditional information and network security disciplines. While the Smart Grid has provided increased efficiencies in monitoring power usage, directi....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Smart Sensor Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications
Author Gerard Meijer , Michiel Pertijs , Kofi Makinwa
With contributions from an internationally-renowned group of experts, this book uses a multidisciplinary approach to review recent developments in the field of smart sensor systems, covering important system and design aspects. It examines topics over the whole rang....
Release Date 2014/06 -
David Busch’s Compact Field Guide for the Canon® EOS® 70D
Author David D. Busch
Are you tired of squinting at the tiny color-coded tables and difficult-to-read text you find on the typical laminated reference card that you keep with you when you're in the field or on location? Well throw away your cheat sheets and command cards! DAVID BUSCH'S....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling, 2nd Edition
Author Art Sobczak
Proven techniques to master the art of the cold callCold calling is not only one of the fastest and most profitable ways to initiate a new sales contact and build business; it's also one of the most dreaded—for the salesperson and the recipient. Smart Calling has t....
Release Date 2013/04