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61. |  By: Paul Westerman Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 18-AUG-2000 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Warehousing
At 70 terabytes and growing, Wal-Mart's data warehouse is still the world's largest, most ambitious, and arguably most successful commercial database. Written by one of the key figures in its design and construction, Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model gives you an insider's view of this enormous project. Continuously drawing from this example, the author teaches you the general principles and specific techniques you need to understand to be a valuable part of your organization's own data warehouse project, however large or small. You'll emerge with a practical understanding of...
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62. |  The Designer's Guide to VHDL, 2nd Edition By: Peter J. Ashenden Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 29-MAY-2001 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Designer's Guide to VHDL, 2nd Edition
Since the publication of the first edition of The Designer's Guide to VHDL in 1996, digital electronic systems have increased exponentially in their complexity, product lifetimes have dramatically shrunk, and reliability requirements have shot through the roof. As a result more and more designers have turned to VHDL to help them dramatically improve productivity as well as the quality of their designs. VHDL, the IEEE standard hardware description language for describing digital electronic systems, allows engineers to describe the structure and specify the function of a digital...
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63. |  Information Modeling and Relational Databases By: Terry Halpin Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 02-APR-2001 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Information Modeling and Relational Databases
Information Modeling and Relational Databases provides an introduction to ORM (Object Role Modeling)-and much more. In fact, it's the only book to go beyond introductory coverage and provide all of the in-depth instruction you need to transform knowledge from domain experts into a sound database design. Inside, ORM authority Terry Halpin blends conceptual information with practical instruction that will let you begin using ORM effectively as soon as possible. Supported by examples, exercises, and useful background information, his step-by-step approach teaches you to develop a...
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64. |  By: David F. Rogers Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 21-JUL-2000 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to NURBS
The latest from a computer graphics pioneer, An Introduction to NURBS is the ideal resource for anyone seeking a theoretical and practical understanding of these very important curves and surfaces. Beginning with Bézier curves, the book develops a lucid explanation of NURBS curves, then does the same for surfaces, consistently stressing important shape design properties and the capabilities of each curve and surface type. Throughout, it relies heavily on illustrations and fully worked examples that will help you grasp key NURBS concepts and deftly apply them in your work. Supplementing...
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65. |  Advanced Graphics Programming Using OpenGL By: Tom McReynolds; David Blythe Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 02-FEB-2005 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Graphics Programming Using OpenGL
Today truly useful and interactive graphics are available on affordable computers. While hardware progress has been impressive, widespread gains in software expertise have come more slowly. Information about advanced techniques—beyond those learned in introductory computer graphics texts—is not as easy to come by as inexpensive hardware. This book brings the graphics programmer beyond the basics and introduces them to advanced knowledge that is hard to obtain outside of an intensive CG work environment. The book is about graphics techniques—those that don’t require esoteric hardware or...
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66. |  By: Tom Brinck; Darren Gergle; Scott D. Wood Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 15-OCT-2001 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Usability for the Web
Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site's usability. This book tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and incorporating usability principles from the project's inception. This systematic usability process for web design has been developed by the authors and proven again and again in their own successful businesses. A beacon in a sea of web...
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67. |  Business Modeling and Data Mining By: Dorian Pyle Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 06-MAY-2003 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Modeling and Data Mining
Business Modeling and Data Mining demonstrates how real world business problems can be formulated so that data mining can answer them. The concepts and techniques presented in this book are the essential building blocks in understanding what models are and how they can be used practically to reveal hidden assumptions and needs, determine problems, discover data, determine costs, and explore the whole domain of the problem. This book articulately explains how to understand both the strategic and tactical aspects of any business problem, identify where the key leverage points are and...
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68. |  By: B.J. Fogg Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 16-DEC-2002 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Persuasive Technology
Can computers change what you think and do? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy insurance, or convince you to join the Army? "Yes, they can," says Dr. B.J. Fogg, director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. Fogg has coined the phrase "Captology"(an acronym for computers as persuasive technologies) to capture the domain of research, design, and applications of persuasive computers.In this thought-provoking book, based on nine years of research in captology, Dr. Fogg reveals how Web sites, software applications, and mobile devices can be used to...
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69. |  Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns By: Serge Demeyer; Stéphane Ducasse; Oscar Nierstrasz Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 03-JUL-2002 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all, of the components. When you fix a bug in one place, another bug pops up somewhere else in the system. Long rebuild times make any change difficult. All of these are signs of software that is close to the breaking point. Many systems can be upgraded or simply thrown away if they no longer serve their purpose. Legacy software, however, is crucial for operations and needs to be continually available and...
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70. |  By: Russell C. Eberhart; Yuhui Shi; James Kennedy Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 26-MAR-2001 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Swarm Intelligence
Traditional methods for creating intelligent computational systems have privileged private "internal" cognitive and computational processes. In contrast, Swarm Intelligence argues that human intelligence derives from the interactions of individuals in a social world and further, that this model of intelligence can be effectively applied to artificially intelligent systems. The authors first present the foundations of this new approach through an extensive review of the critical literature in social psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary computation. They then show in detail...
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71. |  Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics By: Philip Schneider; David H. Eberly Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 26-SEP-2002 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics
Do you spend too much time creating the building blocks of your graphics applications or finding and correcting errors? Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics is an extensive, conveniently organized collection of proven solutions to fundamental problems that you'd rather not solve over and over again, including building primitives, distance calculation, approximation, containment, decomposition, intersection determination, separation, and more. If you have a mathematics degree, this book will save you time and trouble. If you don't, it will help you achieve things you may feel are...
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72. |  By: Pawel Plaszczak; Richard Wellner, Jr. Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 26-AUG-2005 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Grid Computing
A decade ago, the corporate world viewed grid computing as a curiosity. Today, it views it as an opportunity--a chance to reduce costs, improve performance, fund new projects, and take advantage of under-utilized capacity. The engineering behind this transformation has been amply documented. Until now, however, little has been written to prepare managers, executives, and other decision-makers to implement grid computing in a sensible and effective way. Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide examines the technology from a rigorous business perspective, equipping you with the practical...
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73. |  Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard, and Practice By: Mark F. Hornick; Erik Marcadé; Sunil Venkayala Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 07-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard, and Practice
Whether you are a software developer, systems architect, data analyst, or business analyst, if you want to take advantage of data mining in the development of advanced analytic applications, Java Data Mining, JDM, the new standard now implemented in core DBMS and data mining/analysis software, is a key solution component. This book is the essential guide to the usage of the JDM standard interface, written by contributors to the JDM standard. The book discusses and illustrates how to solve real problems using the JDM API. The authors provide you with: * Data mining introduction—an...
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74. |  By: Frank Cohen Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 17-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fast SOA
Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1.5 transactions per second (TPS) on expensive modern servers. This is a disaster enterprises, organizations, or institutions avoid by using Frank Cohen's FastSOA patterns, test methodology, and architecture. In FastSOA you will learn how to apply native XML technology to SOA for: * Data mediation using mid-tier data and service caching to handle the explosion of new schemas and...
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75. |  Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL By: Joe Celko Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 24-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL
Before SQL programmers could begin working with OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) systems, they had to unlearn procedural, record-oriented programming before moving on to SQL’s declarative, set-oriented programming. This book covers the next step in your growth. OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing), Data Warehousing and Analytics involve seeing data in the aggregate and over time, not as single transactions. Once more it is time to unlearn what you were previously taught. This book is not an in-depth look at particular subjects, but an overview of many subjects that will give the...
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76. |  High-Performance Embedded Computing By: Wayne Wolf Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 11-SEP-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: High-Performance Embedded Computing
Over the past several years, embedded systems have emerged as an integral though unseen part of many consumer, industrial, and military devices. The explosive growth of these systems has resulted in embedded computing becoming an increasingly important discipline. The need for designers of high-performance, application-specific computing systems has never been greater, and many universities and colleges in the US and worldwide are now developing advanced courses to help prepare their students for careers in embedded computing. High-Performance Embedded Computing: Architectures,...
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77. |  By: Borja Sotomayor; Lisa Childers Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 16-DEC-2005 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Globus® Toolkit 4
The Globus Toolkit (http://www.globus.org/toolkit/) is a key technology in Grid Computing, the exciting new computing paradigm that allows users to share processing power, data, storage, and other computing resources across institutional and geographic boundaries. Globus Toolkit 4: Programming Java Services provides an introduction to the latest version of this widely acclaimed toolkit. Based on the popular web-based The Globus Toolkit 4 Programmer's Tutorial, this book far surpasses that document, providing greater detail, quick reference appendices, and many additional examples. If...
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78. |  By: Erik T. Mueller Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 19-JAN-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Commonsense Reasoning
To endow computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research. One approach to this problem is to formalize commonsense reasoning using mathematical logic. Commonsense Reasoning is a detailed, high-level reference on logic-based commonsense reasoning. It uses the event calculus, a highly powerful and usable tool for commonsense reasoning, which Erik T. Mueller demonstrates as the most effective tool for the broadest range of applications. He provides an up-to-date work promoting the use of the event calculus for commonsense reasoning, and...
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79. |  By: Jan L. Harrington Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 08-APR-2005 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Network Security
Network Security is a comprehensive resource written for anyone who plans or implements network security measures, including managers and practitioners. It offers a valuable dual perspective on security: how your network looks to hackers who want to get inside, and how you need to approach it on the inside to keep them at bay. You get all the hands-on technical advice you need to succeed, but also higher-level administrative guidance for developing an effective security policy. There may be no such thing as absolute security, but, as the author clearly demonstrates, there is a huge...
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80. |  Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing By: Pei Zheng; Lionel Ni Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 16-DEC-2005 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing
This in-depth technical guide is an essential resource for anyone involved in the development of “smart? mobile wireless technology, including devices, infrastructure, and applications. Written by researchers active in both academic and industry settings, it offers both a big-picture introduction to the topic and detailed insights into the technical details underlying all of the key trends. Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing shows you how the field has evolved, its real and potential current capabilities, and the issues affecting its future direction. It lays a solid...
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