Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in the every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The...

Knowledge-based Configuration incorporates knowledge representation formalisms to capture complex product models and reasoning methods to provide intelligent interactive behavior with the user. This book represents the first time that corporate and academic worlds collaborate integrating research and commercial benefits of...

• Improve the productivity of business intelligence solution to satisfy...

• Follow real-world examples to learn how to develop your own machine learning systems with Spark
• A practical tutorial with real-world use cases allowing you to develop your own machine learning systems with Spark
• Combine various techniques and models into an intelligent machine...

Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in...

• Gain comprehensive information on scaling Node.js both vertically and horizontally in the cloud and across virtual machines
• Learn how to use Gulp, Mocha, Chai, PhantomJS, Git,...

• Take your game designs from inspiration to a fully playable game that you can share with the world, without writing a single line of code.
• Learn to use visual scripting to develop gameplay...

• Orchestrate the rich features of GoldenGate 12c and exploit the performance-enhancing features and manageability in your Enterprise environment
• Master data...

Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are multi-user virtual realities which actively support communication and co-operation. This book offers a comprehensive reference volume to the state-of-the-art in the area of design studies in CVEs. It is an excellent mix of contributions from over 25 leading researcher/experts in multiple...

MR technologies play an increasing role in different aspects of human-robot interactions. The visual combination of digital contents with real working spaces creates a simulated environment that is set out to enhance these aspects. This book presents and discusses fundamental scientific issues, technical implementations, lab testing, and...

• Learn the functionalities of each component in the Informatica PowerCenter tool and deploy them to accomplish...