A skills-oriented, practitioner perspective on strategy, thoroughly updated with current research and concepts.
In today’s economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2012, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2012 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2012. The 69 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 initial submissions: 56 out of 231 in track design...
Threading and concurrency are crucial to building high-performance Java applications -- but they have a reputation for complexity. High Performance Java Computing thoroughly demystifies these advanced development techniques. It delivers practical programming solutions, proven design patterns, and a rigorously-tested code library -- everything...
Mathematical and computational biology is playing an increasingly important role in the biological sciences. This science brings forward unique challenges, many of which are, at the moment, beyond the theoretical techniques available. Developmental biology, due to its complexity, has lagged somewhat behind its sister disciplines (such as...
This book/lecture is intended for a college freshman level class in problem solving, where the particular problems deal with electrical and electronic circuits. It can also be used in a junior/senior level class in high school to teach circuit analysis. The basic problem-solving paradigm used in this book is that of resolution of a problem...
This volume is dedicated to a range of CDMA and MC-CDMA transmission aspects of systems designed for communicating over fading wireless channels.
Currently, a technical in-depth book on this subject, which has a similar detailed exposure of the recent advances in CDMA, M-ary CDMA and MC-CDMA, is unavailable. A...
There is a perception in the scientific community that the discipline of Physiology
is in crisis, or at least, in a phase of profound transition and change. At the root of
the problem is confusion between objectives (the biological questions to be solved)
and the methods and technologies to be applied. Traditionally, ever since...
Cerebral palsy is a lifelong condition that affects the individual, family, and
immediate community. Therefore, the goal of allowing the individual with
cerebral palsy to live life with the least impact of the disability requires complex
attention to the individual and the family. Furthermore, society needs
to be sensitive and to...
Knowing that experienced hackers are itching to test your skills makes security one of the most difficult and high-pressure concerns of creating an application. The complexity of properly securing an application is compounded when you must also integrate this factor with existing code, new technologies, and other frameworks. Use this book to...
From the earliest cities on earth through the Great Wall of China on to the Three Rivers Gorges Dam project, project management has been a part of the march of civilization. Common Sense Project Management is a straightforward, often entertaining workbook approach to organizing and managing projects of virtually any size or complexity. Its...
In the context of systems and control, incomplete information refers to a dynamical system in which knowledge about the system states is limited due to the difficulties in modelling complexity in a quantitative way. The well-known types of incomplete information include parameter uncertainties and norm-bounded nonlinearities. Recently, in...
Since I wrote The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), I have had the
opportunity to meet and speak with thousands of information technology (IT) professionals
around the world, both in person and virtually via different venues. Even as
that last book was being printed, the ideas to be found in this new book were coming...
