Welcome to Microsoft Excel 2010—Illustrated
Complete. If this is your first experience with
the Illustrated series, you’ll see that this book
has a unique design: each skill is presented on
two facing pages, with steps on the left and
screens on the right. The layout makes it easy
to learn a skill without...
The A-to-Z guide to spotting and fixing usability problems Frustrated by pop-ups? Forms that make you start over if you miss a field? Nonsensical error messages? You're not alone! This book helps you simply get it right the first time (or fix what's broken). Boasting a full-color interior packed with design and layout...
Pricing is a complicated subject and is used in several functionalities, including Sales
and Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM). Currently no book in the
market specifically focuses on pricing. We decided to write a book that addresses
pricing not only in SD but also in MM to enable you to learn pricing applications...
The supply chain of both manufacturing and commercial enterprises comprises a highly distributed environment,
in which complex processes evolve in a network of companies (see Figure 1). Such processes
include materials procurement and storage, production of intermediate and final products, warehousing,
sales, customer service, and...
In 2004, Joel Cohen published a paper in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology, titled
“Mathematics is Biology’s Next Microscope, only Better; Biology is Mathematics’ Next Physics,
Only Better”. The premise of the article was that in the near future there will be an explosion in
both math and biology...
Vision plays a fundamental role for living beings by allowing them to interact with the environment in an effective and efficient way. The Machine Vision goal is to endow computing devices, and more generally artificial systems, with visual capabilities in order to cope with not a priori predetermined situations. To this end, we have to take...
This book is intended to have three roles and to serve three associated audiences: an
introductory text on Bayesian inference star ting from first principles, a graduate text on
effective current approaches to Bayesian modeling and computation in statistics and
related fields, and a handbook of Bayesian meth ods in applied...
Everyone manages projects from time to time. For example, students manage a
project fulfilling class requirements. The do-it-yourselfer manages a project furng
or building something around the house. A host manages a social event. These
people can capitalize on the same concepts of project management as those used by
engineers,...
If you're a print designer or other creative professional who needs to create digital documents for multiple devices, you will be thrilled with the powerful new tools in Adobe InDesign CS6. Now you just need to know what to do with them. Digital Publishing with Adobe InDesign CS6 examines not just the How of...
This text covers what must still be the most important element of the marketing mix for most students and practitioners. With a move away from the selling function towards more esoteric areas of marketing over the past few years, this vital aspect of marketing has been somewhat neglected. However, in the end it has to be face-toface contact...
Thinking is what sets human beings apart from the rest of the animal
kingdom. And thinking is what distinguishes each individual human from
all the others. We think differently, and that makes us different people,
because it also makes us do things in a host of different ways. Companies
differ too, due to the fact that they think...