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Go beyond gamification's badges and leaderboards with the new edition of the book, first published in 2011, that helped transform education. Going far beyond the first edition of The Multiplayer Classroom, forthrightly examining what worked and what...

Placing contemporary technological developments in their historical context, this book argues for the importance of law in their regulation. Technological developments are focused upon overcoming physical and human constraints. There are no normative...

High-Performance Computing for Big Data: Methodologies and Applications explores emerging high-performance architectures for data-intensive applications, novel efficient analytical strategies to boost data processing, and cutting-edge applications in...

Software Engineering for Science provides an in-depth collection of peer-reviewed chapters that describe experiences with applying software engineering practices to the development of scientific software. It provides a better understanding of how...

Although multicore is now a mainstream architecture, there are few textbooks that cover parallel multicore architectures. Filling this gap, Fundamentals of Parallel Multicore Architecture provides all the material for a graduate or senior undergraduate...

Parallel Programming with Co-Arrays describes the basic techniques used to design parallel algorithms for high-performance, scientific computing. It is intended for upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students who need to develop parallel...

High Performance Computing: Programming and Applications presents techniques that address new performance issues in the programming of high performance computing (HPC) applications. Omitting tedious details, the book discusses hardware architecture...

Computers, Commmunication, and Mental Models is a far-ranging, focused treatment of the cognitive and behavioural issues in computer-mediated communication, knowledge representation and computer-supported co- operative work. It is also an argued...

Exploring fundamental research questions, Conceptual Structures in Practice takes you through the basic yet nontrivial task of establishing conceptual relations as the foundation for research in knowledge representation and knowledge mining. It includes...

The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel...

The Microsoft (R) Robotics Developer Studio (MSRDS) and LEGO (R) robots together offer a flexible platform for creating robotic systems. Designed for novices with basic programming skills, Robot Development Using Microsoft (R) Robotics Developer Studio...

Waves generated by opportunistic or ambient noise sources and recorded by passive sensor arrays can be used to image the medium through which they travel. Spectacular results have been obtained in seismic interferometry, which open up new perspectives in...

Discover important Internet resources for research data made public individually and collectively by researchers from a variety of entities in the fields of environmental studies and ecology Online Ecological and Environmental Data explores innovative...

Learn leadership skills from achievements at special libraries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central America! Leadership and Management Principles in Libraries in Developing Countries is a compilation of success stories epitomizing management and...

Develop new strategies for using computers in the classroomEducators have talked about using information technology to improve teaching since the beginning of the modern computer movement but true integration remains an elusive goalfor most. Classroom...

Control health care costs with these cost-effective, technology-based prevention/intervention techniques!In 2001, Americans spent $1.4 trillion on health care services. By 2010, health care costs are forecasted to approach 20% of the United States' Gross...

In the United States, approximately one in five women experiences rape during college, and LGBTQ students experience sexual violence at even higher rates. An increasing number of interested parties, from activists and students to legislators and...

Human-Robot Interaction: Safety, Standardization, and Benchmarking provides a comprehensive introduction to the new scenarios emerging where humans and robots interact in various environments and applications on a daily basis. The focus is on the current...

AutoCAD for Theatrical Drafting provides an introduction to the software AutoCAD, specifically focusing on how to navigate the commands most commonly used when creating design, construction and installation drafting plates for theatrical use. Beginning...

Support vector machines (SVMs) are used in a range of applications, including drug design, food quality control, metabolic fingerprint analysis, and microarray data-based cancer classification. While most mathematicians are well-versed in the distinctive...

Focusing on algorithms for distributed-memory parallel architectures, Parallel Algorithms presents a rigorous yet accessible treatment of theoretical models of parallel computation, parallel algorithm design for homogeneous and heterogeneous platforms,...

Unmatched: 50 Years of Supercomputing: A Personal Journey Accompanying the Evolution of a Powerful ToolThe rapid and extraordinary progress of supercomputing over the past half-century is a powerful demonstration of our relentless drive to understand and...

Written in an informal yet informative style, Programming Language Fundamentals by Example uses active learning techniques, giving students a professional learning experience based on professional methods applied with professional standards. It provides...

JPEG2000 Standard for Image Compression presents readers with the basic background to this multimedia compression technique and prepares the reader for a detailed understanding of the JPEG2000 standard, using both the underlying theory and the principles...

In many ways, estimation by an appropriate minimum distance method is one of the most natural ideas in statistics. However, there are many different ways of constructing an appropriate distance between the data and the model: the scope of study referred...

It is beyond trite to say that technology is prevalent in our daily lives. However, many of us remain clueless as to how much of it works. Unfortunately, even for the curious among us, the Web is not always the best vehicle to acquire such knowledge:...

HPC is used to solve a number of complex questions in computational and data-intensive sciences. These questions include the simulation and modeling of physical phenomena, such as climate change, energy production, drug design, global security, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300306Author Suzette MayrFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120338166Author M.T. SomashekaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint PHI LearningPublisher PHI LearningDimensions(mm) 241mm * 184mm * 20mm

To effectively plan production costs, you know that guesswork and projections aren't enough. Optimize your production processes-and increase profitability-with this guide to production variance analysis in SAP S/4HANA. Start with the planning basics, and...

Systems Analysis and Design, 8th Edition offers students a hands-on introduction to the core concepts of systems analysis and systems design. Following a project-based approach written to mimic real-world workflow, the text includes a multitude of cases...

This book introduces differential geometry and cutting-edge findings from the discipline by incorporating both classical approaches and modern discrete differential geometry across all facets and applications, including graphics and imaging, physics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938549694Author Roger W. PryorFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Mercury Learning & InformationPublisher Mercury Learning & InformationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493222100Author Thomas SaueressigFormat HardbackPage Count 465Imprint SAP PressPublisher SAP PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 185mm * 38mm

Using a beginner's approach that's ideal for anyone who has never programmed, McMullen/Matthews/Parsons' PROGRAMMING WITH C++ helps you develop a useful understanding of computer science while equipping you with the skills to use C++ programming language...

The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the idea that advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as solely a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift, instead introducing the world to the once-unthinkable idea of a technological...

No detailed description available for "Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Simplified".About the AuthorKhan Arshad : Arshad Khan is a consultant who has worked since 1995 on numerous SAP projects in many roles including Project Manager, BI...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938549106Author Oswald CampesatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Mercury Learning & InformationPublisher Mercury Learning & InformationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264811966Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493222643Author Steve BiskieFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint SAP PressPublisher SAP PressWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 177mm * 35mm