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Visualizing Quaternions (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

Introduced 160 years ago as an attempt to generalize complex numbers to higher dimensions, quaternions are now recognized as one of the most important concepts in modern computer graphics. They offer a powerful way to represent rotations and compared to rotation matrices they use less memory, compose faster, and are naturally suited for...

String Theory For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

Why are scientists so excited about string theory? Because string theory is the most likely candidate for a successful theory of quantum gravity — a theory that scientists hope will unite two major physical laws of the universe into one. Right now, these laws (quantum physics and general relativity) describe two totally different types...

A First Course in String Theory

Cambridge University Press, 2004

An accessible introduction to string theory, this book provides a detailed and self-contained demonstration of the main concepts involved. The first part deals with basic ideas, reviewing special relativity and electromagnetism while introducing the concept of extra dimensions. D-branes and the classical dynamics of relativistic strings are...

Classification and Learning Using Genetic Algorithms: Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence (Natural Computing Series)

Springer, 2007

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are randomized search and optimization techniques guided by the principles of evolution and natural genetics; they have a large amount of implicit parallelism. GAs perform multimodal search in complex landscapes and provide near-optimal solutions for objective or tness func tion of an...

Beginning Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

Apress, 2014

Beginning Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 is your step-by-step guide to learning how to embrace responsive design for all devices. You will learn how to develop your existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to make your sites work for the modern world. Web sites and apps are now accessed on a wide range...

Practical Methods of Financial Engineering and Risk Management: Tools for Modern Financial Professionals

Apress, 2014

Risk control, capital allocation, and realistic derivative pricing and hedging are critical concerns for major financial institutions and individual traders alike. Events from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the Greek sovereign debt crisis demonstrate the urgent and abiding need for statistical tools...

Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security

Springer, 2008

Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications. The wide variety of methods used in terrorism informatics are...

Topological Algorithms for Digital Image Processing (Machine Intelligence and Pattern Recognition)

Elsevier Limited, 1996

Objects in three dimensions, and their two-dimensional images, are approximated digitally by sets of voxels ("volume elements") or pixels ("picture elements"), respectively. Digital geometry is the study of geometric properties of digitized objects (or digitized images of objects); it deals both with the definitions of such...

Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your 3D Printer

Apress, 2014

Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your 3D Printer by Charles Bell is your guide to keeping your 3D printer running through preventive maintenance, repair, and diagnosing and solving problems in 3D printing. If you’ve bought or built a 3D printer such as a MakerBot only to be confounded by jagged edges, corner lift, top layers...

QlikView 11 for Developers: Effective analytics techniques for modern Business Intelligence

Packt Publishing, 2012

Gain an in-depth understanding of how to build applications for Business Intelligence using QlikView

Key Features

Learn to build applications for Business Intelligence while following a practical case - HighCloud Airlines. Each chapter develops parts of the application and it evolves throughout the book...

Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services: DevOps for the AWS Cloud

Apress, 2014

Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few...

Dark Web: Exploring and Data Mining the Dark Side of the Web (Integrated Series in Information Systems)

Springer, 2011

The University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab (AI Lab) Dark Web project is a long-term scientific research program that aims to study and understand the international terrorism (Jihadist) phenomena via a computational, data-centric approach. We aim to collect "ALL" web content generated by international terrorist groups,...

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