This is an invaluable five-volume reference on the very broad and highly significant subject of computer aided and integrated manufacturing systems. It is a set of distinctly titled and well-harmonized volumes by leading experts on the international scene.
The techniques and technologies used in computer aided and integrated...
The Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering is the first comprehensive handbook covering these two important areas that have become interwoven in recent years. Many international experts contribute to this Hand book. Each article is written in a way that a practitioner of software engineering and knowledge engineering can...
Boring, boring, boring. Isn’t this what immediately comes to mind when one
sees books on foundational concepts of information security? Monotonous
coverage of theory, dry details of history, brief yet inadequate coverage of every
topic known to man, even though you know that you’ll never be hired by the
NSA as a...
Don’t be fooled: Just because the Droid 2 is a smartphone doesn’t mean
that it’s harboring some form of insidious intelligence. There’s no alien
brain in the device. It isn’t going to take over the world, though it can intimidate
you — that is, until you understand and accept that it’s your...
Inside the Machine is an introduction to computers that
is intended to fill the gap that exists between classic
but more challenging introductions to computer
architecture, like John L. Hennessy’s and David A.
Patterson’s popular textbooks, and the growing mass
of works that are simply too basic...
GIVEN THAT YOU’RE READING the introduction to a Wrox book about Ektron, you likely have
(or will soon have) some level of technical responsibility for a website powered by the Ektron
Framework. Maybe you’re tasked with the duty of maintaining an existing site and are looking for
information to help make that process more...
The Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB) of BCS (www.bcs.org.uk/iseb)
instigated the Foundation Certificate in Software Testing in 1998; since then over
40,000 Foundation Certificates have been awarded. An intermediate level qualification
was introduced in 2007 as a step towards the more advanced Practitioner...
This book is structured in a sequential way that walks you through the steps necessary to set up your Alfresco Records Management system. Chapters follow a logical progression with each chapter building on the knowledge and implementation details learned in earlier chapters. If you are a records manager, business analyst, or a software...
The Blender 3D suite is probably one of the most used 3D creation and animation tools currently in existence. The reason for that popularity is both its tool set and the extraordinary fact that it can be downloaded free of charge. Blender has been around since 1998 but it was not until it entered the GNU General Public License, open source...
Developing software with testable requirements is the theme of this book. A
testable requirement is one with an acceptance test. Acceptance tests drive the
development of the software. As many development groups have experienced,
creating acceptance tests prior to implementing requirements decreases defects
and...
Welcome to the official Mac OS X Server Essentials training course offered
by Apple Computer. This book serves as a self-paced guide and is designed
to help you build the basic skills you need to effectively administer Mac
OS X Server. Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Server Essentials details the
graphical tools that Apple provides to...
This book contains the papers of the 7th Computer and Games Conference
(CG 2010) held in Kanazawa, Japan. The conference took place during
September 24–26, 2010 in conjunction with the 15th Computer Olympiad and
the 17th World Computer Chess Championship.
The Computer and Games conference series is a major international...
