With the increasing popularity of games that run on all PC platforms whether Windows, Mac, or Linux the search is on for game developers who can create cross-platform games. Cross-Platform Game Development explains to both beginners and experts how to use cross-platform tools, provides tutorials on setting up and compiling key gaming...

A complete and comprehensive handbook for the application of data mining techniques in marketing and customer relationship management. It combines a technical and a business perspective, bridging the gap between data mining and its use in marketing.
 
It guides readers through all the...

Unlike many AutoCAD competitors, this book covers all of the basics of Level 1 and Level 2 AutoCAD concepts. It uses "mixed units" e.g., inches, meters, feet, kilometers, etc., to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the DVD to set up all the drawing lessons and projects in the text, see...

Although the core of the SQL language remains relatively unchanged, the most recent release of the SQL standard (SQL:2008) includes two sets of extensions: 1) support for object-relational databases and 2) support for XML. The second edition of this book included some material about the object-relational extensions. However, that set of...

The professional programmer’s DEITEL^® guide to iPhone app development using iPhone SDK 3.x, Xcode^®, Objective-C^® and Cocoa^®

More than 1.5 billion iPhone apps were downloaded from Apple’s App Store in just one year! This book gives you everything...

This book considers classical and current theory and practice, of supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised pattern recognition, to build a complete background for professionals and students of engineering. The authors, leading experts in the field of pattern recognition, have provided an up-to-date, self-contained volume encapsulating...

Collaborative Computer Security and Trust Management combines perspectives of leading researchers in collaborative security to discuss recent advances in this burgeoning new field. Practitioners, researchers, and academicians are presented with lessons learned by international experts to meet the new challenges of security in the...

At last this work can appear in the form it was intended to take when I started on it nearly twenty years ago. Half...

Extended and revised, Plasma Waves, 2nd Edition provides essential information on basic formulas and categorizes the various  possible types of waves and their interactions. The book includes modern and complete treatments of electron cyclotron emission, collisions, relativistic effects, Landau damping, quasilinear and nonlinear...

The Unabridged Pentium 4 offers unparalleled coverage of Intel's IA32 family of processors, from the 386 through the Pentium 4 and Pentium M processors. Unlike other texts, which address solely a hardware or software audience, this book serves as a comprehensive technical reference for both audiences. Inside, the Mindshare trainers cover...

Ground Vehicle Dynamics is devoted to the mathematical modelling and dynamical analysis of ground vehicle systems composed of the vehicle body, the guidance and suspension devices and the corresponding guideway. Automobiles on uneven roads and railways on flexible tracks are prominent representatives of ground vehicle systems. All these...