This is a book for business analysts about modeling. A model is a simplified representation of a situation or problem, and modeling is the process of building, refining, and analyzing that representation for greater insight and improved decision making. Some models are so common that they are thought of as routine instruments rather...

In an ideal world, every student would...

The idea of describing how to make multimodal computer systems usable arose in the European Network of Excellence SIMILAR – “Taskforce for creating human-machine...

Congratulations. You have been given your own project to run. If you are like most project managers, part of you is elated that your company has entrusted you with an important assignment, while the rest of you is petrified that it will soon discover the magnitude of its error. Whether the project is your first and you are being...

TO THOSE OF US WHO PAY ATTENTION to such things, the world of software development has changed a lot in the last few years. In the .NET world, Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 is undoubtedly the most successful development environment. Since the release of the fi rst .NET version in February 2002, this product has undergone dramatic...

You are a father or mother, a son or daughter, husband or wife, a significant other, a rock climber, a kite-flyer, a bicycle enthusiast, a marathon runner, a collector of old movies, a secret novelist, a boxing fan. You are the center of your universe. On the picture collage from the...

As the Dilbert cartoon suggests, it is always a good idea to know whether a project fits the company’s overall strategy. You will learn more about the relationship between systems projects and...

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) allows software development time to be shortened by the composition of existing services across the Internet. Further exploitation of this revolutionary trend is feasible through automation, thanks to the use of software agents and techniques from distributed artificial intelligence. This book provides an...

Numerous textbooks address software testing in a structured development environment. By “structured” is meant a well-defined development cycle in which discretely defined steps provide measurable outputs at each step. It is assumed that software testing activities are based on clearly defined requirements and software...

We have long felt that the traditional approach to teaching about Operating Systems (OSs) was not the best approach. The purpose of this book is to support a different approach to this task. When studying any complex domain of knowledge, the order in which one learns the hierarchy of principles, laws, ideas, and concepts can make the...

The Unity Game Engine has been shaking things up. The engine is only a little over five years old now and in 2010 they have earned Develop Magazine's Grand Prix Award and surpassed 170,000 developers. The user base of consuming Unity products has grown dynamically as well. There are over 30 million total Unity Web Player...

Managers do not have the luxury of abdicating participation in information systems decisions.Managers who choose to do so risk limiting their future business options. Information systems are at the heart of virtually every business interaction, process, and decision, especially when one considers the vast penetration of the Web in the...