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Database Design for Smarties: Using UML for Data Modeling

Morgan Kaufmann, 1999

If you want to see how your next database project can profit from object-oriented design, check out Database Design for Smarties, a lively and intelligent guide to using objects in databases.

The book begins with a tour of some underlying factors in modeling databases. Here, the author distinguishes between the external,...

Applying Knowledge Management: Techniques for Building Corporate Memories

Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

The wholesale capture and distribution of knowledge over the last thirty years has created an unprecedented need for organizations to manage their knowledge assets. Knowledge Management (KM) addresses this need by helping an organization to leverage its information resources and knowledge assets by "remembering" and applying its...

Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics: Modeling, Rendering and Animation

Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

Even as developments in photorealistic computer graphics continue to affect our work and leisure activities, practitioners and researchers are devoting more and more attention to non-photorealistic (NPR) techniques for generating images that appear to have been created by hand. These efforts benefit every field in which illustrationsthanks to...

Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate, and the UML

Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

Design Methods for Reactive Systems describes methods and techniques for the design of software systemsparticularly reactive software systems that engage in stimulus-response behavior. Such systems, which include information systems, workflow management systems, systems for e-commerce, production control systems, and embedded...

Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach

Morgan Kaufmann, 2001

Modern computer architectures designed with high-performance microprocessors offer tremendous potential gains in performance over previous designs. Yet their very complexity makes it increasingly difficult to produce efficient code and to realize their full potential. This landmark text from two leaders in the field focuses on the pivotal role...

Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)

Morgan Kaufmann, 1998

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and...

Tcl/Tk, Second Edition: A Developer's Guide

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

Tcl/Tk (Tool Command Language/Tool Kit) makes it fast and easy to implement any type of application, from games to network analyzers. Tcl/Tk is a full-bodied, mature programming platform used by NASA rocket scientists, Wall Street database experts, Internet designers, and open source programmers around the world. Tcl/Tk's multi-faceted and...

Collision Detection in Interactive 3D Environments

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

The heart of any system that simulates the physical interaction between objects is collision detectionthe ability to detect when two objects have come into contact. This system is also one of the most difficult aspects of a physical simulation to implement correctly, and invariably it is the main consumer of CPU cycles. Practitioners, new to the...

Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming Third Edition

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

In the SQL database community, Joe Celko is a well-known columnist and purveyor of valuable insights. In Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming, he picks up where basic SQL training and experience leaves many database professionals and offers tips, techniques, and explanations that help readers extend their capabilities to...

Quantum Computing for Computer Architects (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

Quantum computationmay seem to be a topic for science fiction, but small quantum computers have existed for several years and larger machines are on the drawing table. These efforts have been fueled by a tantalizing property: while conventional computers employ a binary representation that allows computational power to scale linearly with resources...

Real-Time Image and Video Processing: From Research to Reality

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

This book presents an overview of the guidelines and strategies for transitioning an image or video processing algorithm from a research environment into a real-time constrained environment. Such guidelines and strategies are scattered in the literature of various disciplines including image processing, computer engineering, and software...

Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

Groovy Programming is an introduction to the Java-based scripting language Groovy. Groovy has much in common with popular scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Ruby, but is written in a Java-like syntax. And, unlike these other languages, Groovy is sanctioned by the Java community for use on the Java platform. Since it is...

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