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Business Component Factory : A Comprehensive Overview of Component-Based Development for the Enterprise

John Wiley & Sons, 1999

In this book, Peter Herzum and Oliver Sims present a complete component based strategy, the business component approach, that applies and extends component thinking to all aspects of the software life cycle for enterprise systems. The approach includes a conceptual framework that brings components into the world of scalable systems, and outlines...

New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)

IOS Press, 2005

Software is the essential enabler for the new economy and science. It creates new markets and new directions for a more reliable, flexible, and robust society. It empowers the exploration of our world in ever more depth.

However, software often falls short of our expectations. Current software methodologies, tools, and techniques remain...

Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

Why Programs Fail is about bugs in computer programs, how to find them, how to reproduce them, and how to fix them in such a way that they do not occur anymore. This is the first comprehensive book on systematic debugging and covers a wide range of tools and techniques ranging from hands-on observation to fully automated diagnoses,...

Wireless Mesh Networks

Auerbach Publications, 2005

Wireless mesh networking is a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize how we access the Internet and communicate with co-workers and friends. Wireless Mesh Networks examines the concept and explores its advantages over existing technologies. This book explores existing and future applications, and examines how some of the networking...

Design Reliability: Fundamentals and Applications

CRC Press, 1999

As engineering systems become more and more complex, industry has recognized the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase. Despite its efforts, however, industry continues to lose billions of dollars each year because of unexpected system failures. Therefore, it becomes...

Game Physics Engine Development (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

Simulating physics helps cutting-edge games distinguish themselves by making virtual objects behave as we expect them to in the real world. Physics engines are the software programs that run these simulations. Building an engine is difficult, however. There are a large number of new developers (and hobbyists) coming into this market who need help...

Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering

CRC Press, 2006

Our fascination with new technologies is based on the assumption that more powerful automation will overcome human limitations and make our systems 'faster, better, cheaper,' resulting in simple, easy tasks for people. But how does new technology and more powerful automation change our work? Research in Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) looks at...

Smart Grapics: Third International Symposium, SG 2003, Heidelberg, Germany, July2-4, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2003

The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2003 was held on July 2–4, 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany. It was the fourth event in a series that started in 1999 as an AAAI Spring Symposium. In response to the overwhelming success of the 1999 symposium, its organizers decided to turn it into a self-contained event in 2000. With the support of...

The Oracle Hacker's Handbook: Hacking and Defending Oracle

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Knowledge is power, and the power can be yours

While Oracle continues to improve the security features of its product, it still has a long way to go. David Litchfield has devoted years to relentlessly searching out the flaws in this ubiquitous database system and creating defenses against them. Now he offers you...

Modern Physical Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Sixth Edition

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999

For many years, various editions of Smallman's Modern Physical Metallurgy have served throughout the world as a standard undergraduate textbook on metals and alloys. In 1995, it was rewritten and enlarged to encompass the related subject of materials science and engineering and appeared under the title Metals & Materials: Science,...

Smart Graphics: 4th International Symposium, SG 2004, Banff, Canada, May 23-25, 2004, Proceedings

Springer, 2004

The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2004 was held on May 23–25, 2004 in Banff, Canada. It was the fifth event in a series which originally started in 2000 as a AAAI Spring Symposium. In response to the overwhelming success of the 2000 symposium, its organizers decided to turn it into a self-contained event in 2001. With the support...

Microsoft(R) XNA(TM) Unleashed: Graphics and Game Programming for Xbox 360 and Windows

Sams Publishing, 2007

Many developers became interested in programming because they saw a video game and thought, “How did they do that?” This book helps demystify what is required to make video games. Being able to write games on a next-generation console like the Xbox 360 has never been an option for the masses before. Now with the XNA Framework, games can...

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