Driven by the increasing demand for capacity and Quality of Service in wireless cellular networks and motivated by the distributed antenna system, the authors proposed a cooperative communication architecture? Group Cell architecture, which was initially brought forward in 2001. Years later, Coordinated Multiple-Point Transmission and...
The Customer Management Scorecard is based on a unique global survey conducted by QCi that aimed to reveal the true relationship between effective customer management and business performance. Over 300 global assessments of blue chip companies in 22 countries, across all sectors, were conducted using QCi’s Customer Management...
The growing complexity of agent systems calls for models and technologies that allow for system predictability and enable feature discovery and verification. Formal methods and declarative technologies have recently attracted a growing interest as a means for dealing with such issues.
This book presents revised and extended versions of 11...
The only book that provides full coverage of UWB multiband OFDM technology
Ultra-wideband (UWB) has emerged as a technology that offers great promise to satisfy the growing demand for low-cost, high-speed digital networks. The enormous bandwidth available, the potential for high data rates, and the promise for small size and low processing...
A fully updated visual guide on the latest evolution of the amazing iPad!
As the ultimate entertainment and media device, the iPad is ever evolving. This visual guide gets you up to date on all the latest information for accessing and downloading books, apps, music, and video content as well as sending photos and emails,...
Database and information systems technologies have been rapidly evolving in several directions over the past years. New types and kinds of data, new types of applications and information systems to support them raise diverse challenges to be addressed. The so-called big data challenge, streaming data management and processing, social networks...
With solid theoretical foundations and numerous potential applications, Blind Signal Processing (BSP) is one of the hottest emerging areas in Signal Processing. This volume unifies and extends the theories of adaptive blind signal and image processing and provides practical and efficient algorithms for blind source separation, Independent,...
Evolutionary computing paradigms offer robust and powerful adaptive search mechanisms for system design. This book includes thirteen chapters covering a wide area of topics in evolutionary computing and applications including: Introduction to evolutionary computing in system design; evolutionary neuro-fuzzy systems; evolution of fuzzy controllers;...
A clearly written guide for .NET developers who want to get to grips with the NuGet package manager. Filled with practical examples, it leads up to teaching you how to set up your own internal server.
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Easily find and refer third-party libraries from your projects
A guide to completing Python projects for those ready to take their skills to the next level
Python Projects is the ultimate resource for the Python programmer with basic skills who is ready to move beyond tutorials and start building projects.
This manual explains how to use SAS ETL Studio to specify metadata for sources, specify metadata for targets, and create jobs that specify how data is extracted, transformed, and loaded from sources to targets.
Features that are new in SAS ETL Studio 9.1.3 include the following:
Avatars at Work and Play brings together contributions from leading social scientists and computer scientists who have conducted research on virtual environments used for collaboration and online gaming. They present a well-rounded and state-of-the-art overview of current applications of multi-user virtual environments, ranging...