Written by four experienced Nokia Telecommunications software developers, this practical book focuses on object-based and component-based software development. The authors concentrate on the most important issues in real-life software development, such as the development process itself, software architecture, the development of user...
Current search paradigms for the Web, direct access through search engines and
navigational access via static taxonomies, have recently been strongly criticized.
A third paradigm, dynamic taxonomies or faceted search, is gaining acceptance to
the extent that it is now the de facto standard in product selection for e-commerce.
This new...
MAXON understands that making a transition into 3D graphics and animation can be a daunting
proposition for artists already pressed for time keeping up with the ever evolving progression of more
traditional graphics technology. With that in mind, they have crafted CINEMA 4D, a software that is
intuitive yet amazingly powerful. Using...
This book offers clear, illustrative, and easy-to-follow recipes to create character rigs and
animations for common situations. Bring your characters to life by understanding the
principles, techniques, and approaches involved in creating rigs and animations; you'll
be able to adapt them to your own characters and films.
Essential guide to learning Autodesk Inventor and Inventor LT
The new Essentials books from Sybex are beautiful, task-based, full-color Autodesk Official Training Guides that help you get up to speed on Autodesk topics quickly and easily. Inventor Essentials thoroughly covers core features and functions of...
When the first edition of this book was published, the idea of combining a text on digital
design with one on VHDL seemed novel. At about the same time, several other books
with similar themes were published. This book has now been adopted by several universities
as a core text. Moreover, the first edition has now been translated into...
A major part of natural language processing now depends on the use of text data to build linguistic analyzers. We consider statistical, computational approaches to modeling linguistic structure. We seek to unify across many approaches and many kinds of linguistic structures. Assuming a basic understanding of natural language processing and/or...
If you have an abundance of data, but no idea what to do with it, this book was written for you! Packed with examples from an array of industries, Introduction to Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner provides you with excellent starting points and practical guidelines to begin data mining today. Author Patricia Cerrito encourages you to...
SolidWorks as a topic of learning is a huge, sprawling expanse. There is a lot to know, and a lot to write about. While I have made every effort to be complete in this book, I'm sure there are some niche topics that have gone untreated. New in 2011, I have taken this book from a single volume of an immense scope to two individual volumes,...
It has been my experience as a .Net trainer and lead programmer that most people do not have trouble
picking up the syntax of the language. What perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level
concepts of object-oriented programming methodology and design. To compound the problem, most
introductory programming books and...
Since the World Wide Web became widely available in the
mid 1990s, Web-based applications have developed rapidly.
The Web has come to be used by a range of people for many
different purposes, including online banking, e-commerce,
distance education, social networking, data sharing, collaborating
on team projects, and...
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...