Learn IT - Books tags supply

Submarine Warfare An Illustrated History

Brown Books, 1998

The lure of underwater travel seems to have obsessed inventors almost as much as the wish to fly, but the first attempt to address practical problems did not come until the sixteenth century. In 1578 an Englishman called William Bourne wrote of a submersible boat in his book Inventions and Devices.

Although there is no evidence that...

The Art of Lean Software Development: A Practical and Incremental Approach

O'Reilly, 2009

This succinct book explains how you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design, engineering, the supply chain, and now software development. With The Art of...

Challenging Problems in Geometry

Dover Publications, 1996

Stimulating collection of unusual problems dealing with congruence and parallelism, the Pythagorean theorem, circles, area relationships, Ptolemy and the cyclic quadrilateral, collinearity and concurrency and many other topics. Arranged in order of difficulty. Detailed solutions.

The challenge of well-posed problems transcends national...

Business Travel and Tourism

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001

This is a book which is nothing if not ambitious.

First, it attempts to offer a comprehensive overview of the diverse and fragmented world of business travel and tourism. It endeavours to do this at a time when there is still relatively little literature on any aspect of this subject. However, the authors believe that there is a need for...

Data Mining: Special Issue in Annals of Information Systems

Springer, 2009

Over the course of the last twenty years, research in data mining has seen a substantial increase in interest, attracting original contributions from various disciplines including computer science, statistics, operations research, and information systems. Data mining supports a wide range of applications, from medical decision making,...

Planning and Installing Bioenergy Systems: A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers

Earthscan, 2005

* Describes the key features of different bioenergy technologies and offers professionals expert guidance for installation; in full color throughout!
* Includes data on selected regional, national, and international renewable energy support programs
* Written by experts, offering practical insight into the application of this...

System Modeling and Control with Resource-Oriented Petri Nets (Automation and Control Engineering)

CRC Press, 2009

Petri nets are widely used in modeling, analysis, and control of discrete event systems arising from manufacturing, transportation, computer and communication networks, and web service systems. However, Petri net models for practical systems can be very large, making it difficult to apply such models to real-life problems.

System...

Network Enterprises: The Evolution of Organizational Models from Guilds to Assembly Lines to Innovation Clusters (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management)

Springer, 2009

Building on the historical analysis of organizations and theories that have influenced their development, Gianfranco Dioguardi provides an insightful exploration of the network enterprise and its evolution from the Medieval guilds to the present innovation clusters of Silicon Valley, the Research Triangle, Route 128, and other regions in the U.S...

Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability

Earthscan, 2007

Can renewable energy provide reliable power? Will it need extensive backup?

The energy available from wind, waves, tides and the sun varies in ways that may not match variations in energy demand. Assimilating these fluctuations can affect the operation and economics of electricity networks. Is this a significant problem, or can these...

The Portable Machiavelli

Penguin Press, 1979

Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame. For example, the famous 'the ends justifies the...

PIC Microcontrollers: Know It All (Newnes Know It All)

Newnes, 2007

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written over the past few years and creates a one-stop reference for engineers involved in markets from communications to embedded systems and everywhere in between.

PIC design and development a natural fit for this reference series as it is one of the most...

Markovian Demand Inventory Models (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Springer, 2009

Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and a central problem in Operations Management. The problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit or minimize the total expected cost. Over the past two decades, several variations of the formula appeared, mostly in trade...

Result Page: 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9