The influence of embedded systems is constantly growing. Increasingly powerful and versatile devices are being developed and put on the market at a fast pace. The number of features is increasing, and so are the constraints on the systems concerning size, performance, energy dissipation and timing predictability. Since most systems today use a...
Finally a book on Wireless Sensor Networks that covers real world applications and contains practical advice!
Kuorilehto et al. have written the first practical guide to wireless sensor networks. The authors draw on their experience in the development and field-testing of autonomous wireless sensor...
If you’ve been photographing digitally for any length of time, you have probably been seduced by the easy way you can continue pressing the shutter release and seeing your work pop up on your camera’s view screen. All goes well as you download memory card after memory card into your computer. After a number of months or even years go...
Queries not running fast enough? Wondering about the in-memory database features in 2014? Tired of phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey’s book SQL Server Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization...
Get quick answers for developing and debugging applications with Swift, Apple’s multi-paradigm programming language. This pocket reference is the perfect on-the-job tool for learning Swift’s modern language features, including type safety, generics, type inference, closures, tuples, automatic memory management, and...
The practical task of building a talking robot requires a theory of how natural language communication works. Conversely, the best way to computationally verify a theory of natural language communication is to demonstrate its functioning concretely in the form of a talking robot, the epitome of human–machine communication. To...
Performance Engineering is the core of all software products!! By improving the performance of their application, an enterprise can provide better user experience which leads to increased revenue. The cause of most performance issues is bottlenecks around CPU Utilization, Memory Access and Input/Output devices. There are methods to identify...
Real-time computing plays a vital role in ultra-reliable and safety-critical applications in fields as diverse as flight control, telecommunication systems, nuclear plant supervision and surgical operation monitoring. Providing a comprehensive overview, this book examines the most significant real-time scheduling policies in use today....
Welcome to the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Scientific
and Statistical Database Management held in Portland, Oregon, where it celebrated
its 30th birthday. The first incarnation of SSDBM (then called the Workshop
on Statistical Database Management) took place in Menlo Park, California,
in December 1981. Since...
Boost libraries are developed by professionals, tested on multiple platforms and processor architectures, and contain reliable solutions for a wide range of tasks. This Cookbook takes you on a journey of simplifying the process of application development and guides you through writing perfect applications fast.