Entirely rewritten for Apple’s Swift programming language, this updated cookbook helps you overcome the vexing issues you’re likely to face when creating apps for iOS devices.
You’ll find hundreds of new and revised recipes for using the iOS 8 SDK, including techniques for working with Health data and...
Writing comprehensive design documents, accurately estimating tasks and schedules, setting up a comprehensive QA planthese are all important aspects of the game development process that are often underplanned. Game company executive Erik Bethke provides a guidebook...
This book presents some of the most recent research results on the applications of computational intelligence in healthcare. The contents include: Information model for management of clinical content; State-based model for management of type II diabetes; Case-based reasoning in medicine; Assessing the quality of care in artificial intelligence...
Transforming Enterprise Cloud Services addresses the fundamental ideology of Cloud Services and how enterprises in commercial, federal, and defense industries can transform their current information technology and management models to adopt this new method. It goes beyond the mere description of service frameworks in relation to...
The main motivation to write this book came from all our problems to find suitable material for a textbook that would really help us to teach the practical aspects of data analysis together with the needed theoretical underpinnings. Many books out there tackle either one or the other of these aspects (and, especially for the latter, there are...
It is a great pleasure for me to write this foreword about a book that comes out
of one of the first research projects funded by ANR, the French National Research
Agency. ANR was established by the French government in 2005 to fund research
projects, based on competitive schemes giving researchers the best opportunities to
realize...
As it turns out Bennis underestimated the impact that bad leadership
can have. A combination of greed, hubris, flawed judgment, and miscalculation
has made the Enron debacle seem almost quaint by comparison
to the global financial crisis that we now face. Although numerous pundits
and scholars have advanced many reasons for the...
Now updated for the 21st century with the very latest on NLP and other cutting-edge research
Not restricted to the workplace, but covering every social and domestic situation, this guide offers readers the knowledge and understanding to be able to use and interpret body language...
Warren Buffett is the most famous investor of all time and one of today’s most admired business leaders. He became a billionaire and investment sage by looking at companies as businesses rather than prices on a stock screen. The first two editions of The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the...
Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications presents the state of the art approaches for obtaining a correct and complete Web software product from conceptual schemas, represented via well-known design notations.
Describing mature and consolidated approaches to developing complex applications, this edited volume is divided into...
Microsoft Code Name “Indigo” is an advanced infrastructure and programming model for creating connected applications. It's like nothing that has come before. That's a bold statement, so allow me to put it in perspective for you.
I wrote my first communication program over 20 years ago and...
In a devastating exposé in the tradition of Silent Spring and Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald warns how thousands of man-made chemicals in our food, water, medicine, and environment are making humans the most polluted species on the planet. A century ago in 1906, when Congress enacted the...
