The purpose of this book is to give some practical insight into how public telecommunications networks have advanced from the old days of offering just simple telephony services to becoming today’s ‘intelligent’ networks. Telephone companies now operate in an intensely competitive environment, and so they have to constantly...
This book covers a vast array of information related to packetC. It is a complete language reference and contains background information on many unique parts of packetC. As packetC shares much of its grammar with C, the book focuses on being an instructional language reference and not a general C programming introduction, since extensive...
Software is the essential enabler for the new economy and science. It creates new markets and new directions for a more reliable, flexible, and robust society. It empowers the exploration of our world in ever more depth. However, software often falls short behind our expectations. Current software methodologies, tools, and techniques remain...
This book centers on programming.All of the program examples involve the actions within a map (or level), so you can readily expand on the programs you create during the course of this book to modify the game. This book focuses on the creation of programs using UnrealScript. The programs are often made fairly long and involved so that you have a...
Learn Project Management on time and under budget! "Project Management Demystified" is valuable for both the novice project manager and the experienced. For the novice, it is a great way to understand PM basics in an easy-to-understand and practical way. Personalized stories demonstrate both what to do and what not to do. Experienced...
C# 4.0 Unleashed is a practical reference focusing on the C# language and the .NET platform as a whole. While covering the language in lots of detail, it also provides enough coverage of various popular .NET technologies and techniques (such as debugging) for the reader to be successful on the .NET platform. The...
Scalable Hardware Verification with Symbolic Simulation presents recent advancements in symbolic simulation-based solutions which radically improve scalability. It overviews current verification techniques, both based on logic simulation and formal verification methods, and unveils the inner workings of symbolic simulation. The...
This volume contains the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS
2011). TACAS 2011 took place in Saarbr¨ucken, Germany, March 28–31, 2011,
as part of the 14th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software
(ETAPS 2011), whose...
The book is the first of its kind to specifically outline the psycho-educational nursing interventions required by the anxious, adult patient undergoing elective, ambulatory surgery. Anxiety management is a considerable issue for the majority of surgical patients and has been recognised as such for many decades. However, no formal nursing...
Two issues make debugging in the Microsoft Windows environment difficult and time consuming. The first issue is that debugging has always been a self-taught skill—you've basically been on your own to figure it out. Even if you have a computer science degree, I'm willing to bet that you never took a single college class dedicated to...
The goals, overall structure, and approach of this tenth edition of Concepts
of Programming Languages remain the same as those of the nine earlier
editions. The principal goals are to introduce the main constructs
of contemporary programming languages and to provide the reader with the
tools necessary...
This book provides a set of readings on the state-of-the-art and the state-of-thepractice of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Unified Process (UP).
UML is a language for specifying, visualizing, constructing and documenting software- intensive systems. It is a unifier of proven software modeling languages that...
