The ITIL Editions 2011 has been updated for clarity, consistency, correctness and completeness. By focusing on delivery and control process activities, ITIL Service Operation describes how a highly desirable steady state of managing services can be achieved on a day-to-day basis. Key Features The updated ITIL publications share a similar...
The ITIL Editions 2011 has been updated for clarity, consistency, correctness and completeness. By focusing on delivery and control process activities, ITIL Service Operation describes how a highly desirable steady state of managing services can be achieved on a day-to-day basis. Key Features The updated ITIL publications share a similar...
Software Engineering for Students presents a range of current techniques and tools for people who have experienced the pleasures of writing programs and who want to see how things change in the scale up to large programs and software systems. The students' familiarity with programming gives them relevant background and the confidence to...
A Bayesian approach can contribute to an understanding of the brain on multiple levels, by giving normative predictions about how an ideal sensory system should combine prior knowledge and observation, by providing mechanistic interpretation of the dynamic functioning of the brain circuit, and by suggesting optimal ways of deciphering...
Unlock the secrets of the Terminal and discover how this powerful tool solves problems the Finder can’t handle. With this handy guide, you’ll learn commands for a variety of tasks, such as killing programs that refuse to quit, renaming a large batch of files in seconds, or running jobs in the background while you do other...
By 2001, the software industry was in trouble—more projects were failing than
succeeding.
Customers began demanding contracts with penalties, and increasingly
sending work offshore. Some software developers, though, had increasing success with
a development process known as...
In a broad sense, speech dynamics are time-varying or temporal characteristics in all stages
of the human speech communication process. This process, sometimes referred to as speech
chain [1], starts with the formation of a linguistic message in the speaker’s brain and ends with
the arrival of the message in the...
The purpose of this book is to collect and to present the results of theoretical and empirical research
into various aspects of Knowledge Management (KM), innovation and, especially, the conjunction of
KM and innovation. To this end, chapters are included from both academics and practitioners, and the
contributions represent...
Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial intelligence with statistics, are growing in popularity. Their versatility and modelling power is now employed across a variety of fields for the purposes of analysis, simulation, prediction and diagnosis.
This book provides a general introduction to Bayesian networks,...
Pricing is a complicated subject and is used in several functionalities, including Sales
and Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM). Currently no book in the
market specifically focuses on pricing. We decided to write a book that addresses
pricing not only in SD but also in MM to enable you to learn pricing applications...
The evolution of managing Cloud Computing Services in principles and practices provided
by the best practices IT Service Management framework provides the more holistic
guidance needed for an industry that continues to mature and develop at a rapid pace.
Many organizations and individuals who had previously struggled...
When we wrote the first edition of iPhone SDK Development, we knew we
weren’t writing something like The C Programming Language that would live
on unchanged for decades. But was two years on the shelf too much to ask
for?
Apparently so! And we’re not complaining. Since the release of...
