ARIS Design Platform: Advanced Process Modelling and Administration

ARIS Design Platform: Advanced Process Modelling and AdministrationPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 184800110X
Paperback: 408 pages
Data: Jun 2008
Format: PDF
Description: ARIS is ranked as the leading Business Process Modelling tool in the Gartner Quadrant for Business Process Analysis and Optimization. The ARIS Design Platform is being used as a business process management (BPM) tool for projects in BPM, quality management, business analysis and design, software development, implementation of service-oriented architectures and so forth.

Following on from Rob Davis’ successful introductory text, ARIS Design Platform: Getting Started with BPM, this new book covers in detail some of the more advanced concepts of using ARIS Business Architect in the new ARIS 7 Design Platform. Written in a reader-friendly style, it contains detailed explanations of key concepts combined with numerous examples, hints and tips gained from many years of practical experience of using ARIS. Topics covered include:
* The Matrix Editor
* Find and Query
* Model Generation
* Method Filters and Method Changes
* Templates and Fonts
* Reports, Semantic Checks and Macros
* Database Administration
* The Symbol Editor
* User Management

This easy-to-follow advanced text is a must-have guide and reference for all users who want to increase their ARIS skills, and for those who need to undertake advanced model and database management.

More information can be found at www.rob-davis.co.uk.

Rob Davis works for British Telecommunications Plc. He has practical knowledge of working with ARIS in industry for over ten years and has already authored two very successful texts on ARIS - Business Process Modelling with ARIS: A Practical Guide and ARIS Design Platform: Getting Started with BPM.


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Understanding Forensic Digital Imaging

Understanding Forensic Digital ImagingPublisher: Academic Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0123704510
Paperback: 416 pages
Data: Aug 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Understanding Forensic Digital Imaging offers the principles of forensic digital imaging and photography in a manner that is straightforward and easy to digest for the professional and student. It provides information on how to photograph any setting that may have forensic value, details how to follow practices that are acceptable in court, and recommends what variety of hardware and software are most valuable to a practitioner.

In addition to chapters on basic topics such as light and lenses, resolution, and file formats, the book contains forensic-science-specific information on SWGIT and the use of photography in investigations and in court. Of particular note is Chapter 17, “Establishing Quality Requirements,” which offers information on how to create a good digital image, and is more comprehensive than any other source currently available.

A companion website offers exercises for the student and practicing professional.

* Covers topics that are of vital importance to the practicing professional
* Serves as an up-to-date reference in the rapidly evolving world of digital imaging
* Uses clear and concise language so that any reader can understand the technology and science behind digital imaging


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Mathematical Methods for Mechanics: A Handbook with MATLAB Experiments

Mathematical Methods for Mechanics: A Handbook with MATLAB ExperimentsPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540692789
Paperback: 624 pages
Data: Oct 2008
Format: PDF
Description: The interaction between mathematics and mechanics is a never ending source of new developments. This present textbook includes a wide –ranging spectrum of topics from the three body problem and gyroscope theory to bifurcation theory, optimization, control and continuum mechanics of elastic bodies and fluids. For each of the covered topics the reader can practice mathematical experiments by using a large assortment of Matlab-programs which are available on the author’s homepage. The self-contained and clear presentation including Matlab is often useful to teach technical details by the program itself (learning by doing), which was not possible by just presenting the formula in the past. The reader will be able to produce each picture or diagram from the book by themselves and to arbitrarily alter the data or algorithms.

Recent Review of the German edition

“This book introduces the engineering-oriented reader to all the mathematical tools necessary for solving complex problems in the field of mechanics. The mathematics- oriented reader will find various applications of mathematical and numerical methods for modelling comprehensive mechanical-technical practical problems. Therefore this book will be interesting not only for students of various fields but also for practitioners, development engineers or mathematicians” (Hans Bufler, in: Zentralblatt MATH, 2007, Vol. 1100, Issue 2)


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XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution ApproachPublisher: Apress
Language: English
ISBN: 159059925X
Paperback: 648 pages
Data: Jul 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Join the game development revolution today! XNA greatly simplifies the development of your own games, lowering the barrier for programmers to get into game development. In XNA, you can start coding your games from the very start, a true revelation compared to other game programming environments. XNA doesn’t sacrifice power for this ease of use - it is built entirely on DirectX technology.

XNA expert Riemer Grootjans brings together a selection of the hottest recipes in XNA programming for the Windows PC and Xbox360 console. Advanced XNA programmers, experienced coders new to games development, and even complete beginners will find XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes an invaluable companion when building games for fun or as commercial products.
What you’ll learn

XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes covers virtually every feature of the XNA 2.0 framework. It focuses primarily on 2D and 3D graphics programming, but other game programming features such as Audio playback and Networking are also discussed in detail.

These are some of the topics that are being covered in-depth:

* How to create 2D graphics
* 3D rendering techniques at various levels of difficulty
* Loading, rendering and animating 3D Models
* To read input devices: Keyboard, Mouse, Xbox360 Controller
* Use Audio to spice up your game
* Add Networking to your game to challenge your friends
* Learn about the architectural XNA features, such as GameComponents
* The Content pipeline: one of the 3 major components in XNA Game Development
* A whole list of HLSL techniques!


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Data Mining and Applications in GenomicsPublisher

Data Mining and Applications in GenomicsPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 1402089740
Paperback: 164 pages
Data: Oct 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Data Mining and Applications in Genomics contains the data mining algorithms and their applications in genomics, with frontier case studies based on the recent and current works at the University of Hong Kong and the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford. It provides a systematic introduction to the use of data mining algorithms as an investigative tool for applications in genomics. Data Mining and Applications in Genomics offers state of the art of tremendous advances in data mining algorithms and applications in genomics and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working on data mining algorithms and applications in genomics.


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Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and ApplicationsPublisher

Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and ApplicationsPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540740880
Paperback: 286 pages
Data: Oct 2008
Format: PDF
Description: The laws that govern the collective behavior of social insects, flocks of birds, or fish schools continue to mesmerize researchers. While individuals are rather unsophisticated, in cooperation they can solve complex tasks, a prime example being the ability of ant colonies to find shortest paths between their nests and food sources. Task-solving results from self-organization, which often evolves from simple means of communication, either directly or indirectly via changing the environment, the latter referred to as stigmergy. Scientists have applied these principles in new approaches, for example to optimization and the control of robots. Characteristics of the resulting systems include robustness and flexibility. This field of research is now referred to as swarm intelligence.

The contributing authors are among the top researchers in their domain. The book is intended to provide an overview of swarm intelligence to novices, and to offer researchers in the field an update on interesting recent developments. Introductory chapters deal with the biological foundations, optimization, swarm robotics, and applications in new-generation telecommunication networks, while the second part contains chapters on more specific topics of swarm intelligence research such as the evolution of robot behavior, the use of particle swarms for dynamic optimization, and organic computing.


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Multidisciplinary PerspectivesPublisher: Springer

Web Search: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540758283
Paperback: 352 pages
Data: Mar 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities untouched. Search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual’s everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities.

This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas about Web searching. They examine the various roles and impacts of Web searching on the social, cultural, political, legal, and informational spheres of our lives, such as the impact on individuals, social groups, modern and postmodern ways of knowing, and public and private life. By critically examining the issues, theories, and formations arising from, and surrounding, Web searching, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives represents an important contribution to the emerging multidisciplinary body of research on Web search engines.

The new ideas and novel perspectives on Web searching gathered in this volume will prove valuable for research and curricula in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, cultural studies, information science, and related disciplines.

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