New automated, application-independent methodology for designing and deploying sensor networks
Following this book's clear explanations, examples, and illustrations, domain experts can design and deploy nontrivial networked sensing applications without much knowledge of the low-level networking aspects of deployment. This new approach is based...
A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection of ideas for plant improvement
Most of the world's supply of legumes is cultivated under adverse conditions that make this commercially important crop susceptible to the vagaries of nature and damaging stresses. Genetic manipulation has become a proven way for cultivators to battle these...
This monograph covers theoretical aspects of simultaneous localization and map building for mobile robots, such as estimation stability, nonlinear models for the propagation of uncertainties, temporal landmark compatibility, as well as issues pertaining the coupling of control and SLAM. One of the most relevant topics covered in this monograph is...
Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) is the latest approach to software development, promising to greatly increase the speed and ease of software creation. Early adopters of DSM have been enjoying productivity increases of 500–1000% in production for over a decade. This book introduces DSM and offers examples from various fields to illustrate to...
Project infrastructure and software repositories are now widely available at low cost with easy extraction, providing a foundational base to conduct detailed cyber-archeology at a scale not open to researchers before. Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices provides a collection of empirical research acting as a focal point to the status...
A cutting-edge guide to the latest innovations in laser technology
The latest addition to the Wiley Series in Lasers and Applications, Phase Conjugate Laser Optics provides a complete review of the state of the art of phase conjugate lasers, including laser demonstrations, performance, technology, and a selection of the most...
A cogent and useful introduction to thetheory and application of electrochemistry
A significantly revised and improved edition of a noted text, this Second Edition of Fundamentals of Electrochemistry is designed to serve both professionals and novices with the essential information they require to understand and apply electrochemical processes....
Textbook summarizing the state of pattern languages in human-computer interaction (HCI), proposing a new pattern-based framework for interactive systems design, drawn from the authors experience from a number of interactive exhibits and public 'kiosk' systems. DLC: Human-computer interaction.
Agile development methods began to emerge around 20 years ago. However, it was not until the early 2000s that they began to be widely used in industry. This growth was often due to the advent of Internet services requiring faster cycles of development in order to heighten the rate at which an ever-greater number of functionalities...
This preface tells the story of how Multimodal Usability responds to a special
challenge. Chapter 1 describes the goals and structure of this book.
The idea of describing how to make multimodal computer systems usable
arose in the European Network of Excellence SIMILAR – “Taskforce for creating
human-machine...
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