“Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? ‘The Innovative CIO’ presents a pragmatic guide to overcoming the 10 ‘innovation killers’ within your company.” --Dennis McCafferty “CIO Insight”, 1/23/2013...
Approaches to building machines that can learn from experience abound - from connectionist learning algorithms and genetic algorithms to statistical mechanics and a learning system based on Piaget's theories of early childhood development. This monograph describes results derived from the mathematically oriented framework of computational...
Many stakeholders within and outside the company can be identified, ranging
from top-level management to software engineers. Each stakeholder
requires specific information presented in an accessible way, to deal with
the impact of such wide-ranging developments. To predict the effects of
such developments and modifications of an...
This step-by-step guide shows how to enhance your fortune through the cultivation of new friendships and relationships while enjoying the game you love to play. It tells you how you can properly structure a golf game so that it becomes both the ideal setting to create and promote deals, both small and large. It will teach you not only how to...
Quality is not a fixed or universal property of software; it depends on the context and goals of its stakeholders. Hence, when you want to develop a high-quality software system, the first step must be a clear and precise specification of quality. Yet even if you get it right and complete, you can be sure that it will become invalid over...
At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still holds many challenges and motivates researchers from different backgrounds to propose innovative solutions.
Representing geographical space beyond our mere perception is key to making relevant...
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 provides a collection of tools and services you can use to improve user and team productivity, make information sharing more effective, and facilitate business decision–making processes. In order to get the most out of SharePoint 2013, you need to understand how to best use the capabilities to support your...
We are entering a new era in production agronomics. Agricultural scientists the world over call for the development of techniques that simultaneously increase soil carbon storage and reduce agriculture’s energy use. In response, site-specific or precision agriculture has become the focus and direction for the three motivating forces...
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are finding increasing use in everyday life. Many of the commonplace environments where the systems are used are noisy, for example users calling up a voice search system from a busy cafeteria or a street. This can result in degraded speech recordings and adversely affect the performance of speech...
Get the very most out of the ArcGIS for Desktop products through ArcObjects and .NET
ArcGIS for Desktop is a powerful suite of software tools for creating and using maps, compiling, analyzing and sharing geographic information, using maps and geographic information in applications, and managing geographic databases. But...
Who else wants to be able to communicate effectively? From early theorists to modern social scientists studies in communication have undergone a number of significant changes. Many of the concepts of early researchers can be seen to underpin many of the practices of business communication today. Whether in an internal sense where radical...
Imagine you have been given the time and leisure to spend a day wandering
around a busy Further Education (FE) college in the Lifelong Learning sector.
You decide to use this opportunity to see what issues are facing people in
leadership roles at various levels within the organisation. So, as well as finding
the time to complete...