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161. |  A Practical Guide to SysML (Revised Printing) By: Sanford Friedenthal; Alan Moore; Rick Steiner Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 20-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Practical Guide to SysML (Revised Printing)
Systems engineers and architects must understand how all the parts of a system work together to satisfy its requirements. SysML is a general purpose graphical modeling language used to specify, analyze, and design systems that may include hardware, software, and personnel. It allows engineers to describe how a system interacts with its environment, and how its parts must interact to achieve the desired system behavior and performance. The SysML model provides a shared view of the system, enabling a design team to surface issues early and prevent problems that would otherwise delay...
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162. |  By: Chauncey Wilson Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 05-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: User Experience Re-Mastered
Good user interface design isn’t just about aesthetics or using the latest technology. Designers also need to ensure their product is offering an optimal user experience. This requires user needs analysis, usability testing, persona creation, prototyping, design sketching, and evaluation through-out the design and development process. User Experience Re-Mastered takes tried and tested material from best-selling books in Morgan Kaufmann’s Series in Interactive Technologies and presents it in typical project framework. Chauncey Wilson guides the reader through each chapter, introducing...
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163. |  IT Manager's Handbook: The Business Edition By: Bill Holtsnider; Brian D. Jaffe Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 25-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: IT Manager's Handbook: The Business Edition
IT Manager’s Handbook: The Business Edition is a MUST-HAVE guide for the advancing technology professional who is looking to move up into a supervisory role, and is ideal for newly-promoted IT managers who needs to quickly understand their positions. It uses IT-related examples to discuss business topics and recognizes the ever-changing and growing demands of IT in today’s world as well as how these demands impact those who work in the field. Specific attention is paid to the latest issues, including the challenges of dealing with a mobile and virtual workforce, managing Gen-X/Yers,...
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164. |  By: Qing Li; Tatuya Jinmei; Keiichi Shima Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 31-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mobile IPv6
Mobile IPv6 has become the key enabling technology for mobile data and multimedia services and devices worldwide (i.e., cellular systems, VoIP handovers over LAN, multi-access network handovers, location privacy, enterprise mobile networking, etc.). This book covers the IPv6 host mobility protocol known as "mobile IPv6" and begins with a basic description of mobile IPv6 and then details protocol specifications and data structures as well as actual implementation. A sample configuration for a real Mobile IPv6 operation is provided at the end of the book. Source code will be...
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165. |  By: William Albert; Thomas Tullis; Donna Tedesco Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 12-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beyond the Usability Lab
Usability testing and user experience research typically take place in a controlled lab with small groups. While this type of testing is essential to user experience design, more companies are also looking to test large sample sizes to be able compare data according to specific user populations and see how their experiences differ across user groups. But few usability professionals have experience in setting up these studies, analyzing the data, and presenting it in effective ways. Online usability testing offers the solution by allowing testers to elicit feedback simultaneously from...
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166. |  How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd Edition By: Ian H. Witten; David Bainbridge; David M. Nichols Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 07-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd Edition
How to Build a Digital Library is the only book that offers all the knowledge and tools needed to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. It is the perfectly self-contained resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries. The Second Edition reflects new developments in the field as well as in the Greenstone Digital Library open source software. In Part I, the authors have added an entire new chapter on user groups, user support, collaborative browsing, user...
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167. |  Processor Description Languages By: Prabhat Mishra; Nikil Dutt Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 29-MAY-2008 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Processor Description Languages
Efficient design of embedded processors plays a critical role in embedded systems design. Processor description languages and their associated specification, exploration and rapid prototyping methodologies are used to find the best possible design for a given set of applications under various design constraints, such as area, power and performance. This book is the first, comprehensive survey of modern architecture description languages and will be an invaluable reference for embedded system architects, designers, developers, and validation engineers. Readers will see that the use of...
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168. |  By: Kari Pulli; Tomi Aarnio; Ville Miettinen; Kimmo Roimela; Jani Vaarala Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 19-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mobile 3D Graphics
Graphics and game developers must learn to program for mobility. This book will teach you how. "This book - written by some of the key technical experts...provides a comprehensive but practical and easily understood introduction for any software engineer seeking to delight the consumer with rich 3D interactive experiences on their phone. Like the OpenGL ES and M3G standards it covers, this book is destined to become an enduring standard for many years to come." - Lincoln Wallen, CTO, Electronic Arts, Mobile “This book is an escalator, which takes the field to new levels. This is...
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169. |  Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS By: XiPeng Xiao Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 08-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS
This book provides a comprehensive examination of Internet QoS theory, standards, vendor implementation and network deployment from the practitioner's point of view, including extensive discussion of related economic and regulatory issues. Written in a technology-light way so that a variety of professionals and researchers in the information and networking industries can easily grasp the material. Includes case studies based on real-world experiences from industry. The author starts by discussing the economic, regulatory and technical challenges of the existing QoS model. Key coverage...
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170. |  By: Sam S. Lightstone; Toby J. Teorey; Tom Nadeau Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 21-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Physical Database Design
The rapidly increasing volume of information contained in relational databases places a strain on databases, performance, and maintainability: DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to optimize database structure for system performance and administration. Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how physical structures of databases affect performance, including specific examples, guidelines, and best and worst practices for a variety of DBMSs and configurations. Something as simple as improving the table index design has a profound impact on performance. Every form of...
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171. |  Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, 4th Edition By: Joe Celko Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 18-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 06-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, 4th Edition
SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 15 years later and in its fourth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book written by a SQL master that teaches programmers and practitioners to become SQL masters themselves! These are not just tips and techniques; also offered are the best solutions to old and new challenges. Joe Celko conveys the way you need to think in order to get the most out of SQL programming efforts for both correctness and...
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172. |  Developing High Quality Data Models By: Matthew West Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 30-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 06-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Developing High Quality Data Models
A multitude of problems is likely to arise when developing data models. With dozens of attributes and millions of rows, data modelers are always in danger of inconsistency and inaccuracy. The development of the data model itself could result in difficulties presenting accurate data. The need to improve data models begins with getting it right in the first place. Using real-world examples, Developing High Quality Data Models walks the reader through identifying a number of data modeling principles and analysis techniques that enable the development of data models that both meet...
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173. |  By: Anthony Steed; Manuel Fradinho Oliveira Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 20-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 06-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Networked Graphics
This broad-ranging book equips programmers and designers with a thorough grounding in the techniques used to create truly network-enabled computer graphics and games. Written for graphics/game/VE developers and students, it assumes no prior knowledge of networking. The text offers a broad view of what types of different architectural patterns can be found in current systems, and readers will learn the tradeoffs in achieving system requirements on the Internet. The book explains the foundations of networked graphics, then explores real systems in depth, and finally considers standards...
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174. |  By: Jon Jagger; Nigel Perry; Peter Sestoft Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 30-JUL-2007 Insert Date: 06-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: C# Annotated Standard
Standards, while being definitive, do not usually serve as the best reference to the use of a programming language. Books on languages usually are able to explain usage better, but lack the definitive precision of a standard. This book combines the two; it is the standard with added explanatory material. * Written by members of the standards committee * Annotates the standard with practical implementation advice * The definitive reference to the C# International Standard
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175. |  By: Israel Koren; C. Mani Krishna Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 06-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fault-Tolerant Systems
There are many applications in which the reliability of the overall system must be far higher than the reliability of its individual components. In such cases, designers devise mechanisms and architectures that allow the system to either completely mask the effects of a component failure or recover from it so quickly that the application is not seriously affected. This is the work of fault-tolerant designers and their work is increasingly important and complex not only because of the increasing number of “mission critical” applications, but also because the diminishing reliability of...
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176. |  Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs By: Hassan Hassan; Mohab Anis Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 28-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 31-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs
Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs Architecture and EDA is an invaluable reference for researchers and practicing engineers concerned with power-efficient, FPGA design. State-of-the-art power reduction techniques for FPGAs will be described and compared. These techniques can be applied at the circuit, architecture, and electronic design automation levels to describe both the dynamic and leakage power sources and enable strategies for codesign. Low-power techniques presented at key FPGA design levels for circuits, architectures, and electronic design automation, form critical,...
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177. |  Embedded Systems Design with Platform FPGAs By: Ronald Sass; Andrew G. Schmidt Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 28-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 31-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Embedded Systems Design with Platform FPGAs
This book will introduce professional engineers and students alike to system development using Platform FPGAs. The focus is on embedded systems but it also serves as a general guide to building custom computing systems. The text describes the fundamental technology in terms of hardware, software, and a set of principles to guide the development of Platform FPGA systems. The goal is to show how to systematically and creatively apply these principles to the construction of application-specific embedded system architectures. There is a strong focus on using free and open source software to...
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178. |  By: Philip Kortum Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 25-APR-2008 Insert Date: 31-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HCI Beyond the GUI
As technology expands and evolves, one-dimensional, graphical user interface (GUI) design becomes increasingly limiting and simplistic. Designers must meet the challenge of developing new and creative interfaces that adapt to meet human needs and technological trends. HCI Beyond the GUI provides designers with this know how by exploring new ways to reach users that involve all of the human senses. Dr. Kortum gathers contributions from leading human factors designers to present a single reference for professionals, researchers, and students. • Explores the human factors involved in the...
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179. |  Wireless Communications & Networking By: Vijay Garg Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 13-JUN-2007 Insert Date: 31-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Wireless Communications & Networking
This book provides comprehensive coverage of mobile data networking and mobile communications under a single cover for diverse audiences including managers, practicing engineers, and students who need to understand this industry. In the last two decades, many books have been written on the subject of wireless communications and networking. However, mobile data networking and mobile communications were not fully addressed in a unified fashion. This book fills that gap in the literature and is written to provide essentials of wireless communications and wireless networking, including...
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180. |  Thoughts on Interaction Design, 2nd Edition By: Jon Kolko Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 25-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 29-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Thoughts on Interaction Design, 2nd Edition
Some books about design focus on web sites or specific products. Others explore the aesthetic and emotional value provided by various elements of design. Few explore the semantic connections that live between technology, and form and people-or "interactions." Thoughts on Interaction Design offers new insights into Interaction Design and the connections between people and technology. Now in its second edition, Jon Kolko’s best-selling title builds upon its engaging material aimed to educate Designers, help Designers educate business owners, and legitimize Interaction Design for...
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