Inside the Emerging Multibillion-Dollar Nanotechnology Industry
Suddenly, nanotechnology isn't science fiction or mere theory: It's becoming one of the world's fastest-growing, highest-impact industries. In Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and...
A virtual evolution in IT organizations throughout the world has begun. It is estimated that currently 3% of all servers run virtually and that number is expected to grow rapidly over the next 5 years. Server Sprawl and escalating IT costs have managers and system administrators scrambling to find ways to cut costs and reduce Total Cost of...
The A+ Certified Professional certification is a well-recognized certification and will serve as a basic foundation for a number of other certifications that you may eventually pursue. The certification exam tests your knowledge of both hardware and software used in today’s computer world and the certification is one of...
KI 2004 was the 27th edition of the annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers
from all areas of AI and which enjoys increasing international attendance. KI 2004 received 103 submissions from 26 countries. This volume contains the 30 papers that were...
The only Cisco-endorsed study guide for the new CCNA #640-507 examCoverage of all CCNA exam topics enables you to discover and fill your knowledge gaps before sitting the exam. You will learn about:Internetworking functions of each layer of the OSI reference model and how they are performed in network devicesDesign, implementation, configuration,...
Get up and running with ASP.NET using this innovative virtual classroom approach!
Are you ready to learn how to write clean, reusable, scalable code for Web pages using ASP.NET? Experienced trainer Glenn Johnson takes you inside his virtual classroom to provide you with seventeen one-hour lessons that recreate a typical introductory seminar on...
Here’s the book you need to prepare for the latest versions of CompTIA’s A+ Exams. This Deluxe Edition of Sybex’s Best Selling A+ Study Guide provides:
Following on from the successful MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-4 Visual is enabling a new wave of multimedia applications from Internet video streaming to mobile video conferencing. The new H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ standard promises impressive compression performance and is gaining support from developers and manufacturers. The first...
Essential reading for anyone involved in fiber optic cable applications, from installation engineers to IT professionals.
Fiber Optic Cabling is a practical guide to all aspects of designing, specifying and installing systems for LANs and other data communications applications. The second edition has been completely revised and updated...
"…an excellent handbook on automation for manufacturing or industrial engineering." -- Ergonomics in Design
"…provides the essential concepts and methods required for solving technical and managerial problems…. "…a well presented and comprehensive reference text." --...
Every industrial engineer should purchase Using Hoshin Kanri to Improve the Value Stream. It provides the key to using the Hoshin Kanri framework and integrating it with the foundations of industrial engineering.
— Marjorie Koch, President, Lean Division, Institute of Industrial Engineers
Today, when computing is pervasive and deployed over a range of devices by a multiplicity of users, we need to develop computer software to interact with both the ever-increasing complexity of the technical world and the growing fluidity of social organizations. The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling presents a new conceptual model for...