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Awareness Systems: Advances in Theory, Methodology and Design (Human-Computer Interaction Series)

Springer, 2009

People go about their daily tasks with an in-built awareness of their social and physical environments. This awareness helps them to work cooperatively in groups, coordinate actions, and to maintain and enhance social communication with others. Networked technology has extended the reach of people's awareness to remote and distributed groups and...

OS X and iOS Kernel Programming

Apress, 2011

Kernel development can be a daunting task and is very different from programming traditional user applications. The kernel environment is more volatile and complex. Extraordinary care must be taken to ensure that kernel code is free of bugs because any issue may have serious consequences to the stability, security, and performance...

Managing the Design Process-Concept Development: An Essential Manual for the Working Designer

Rockport Publishers, 2010

Every aspect of business is impacted by design—from the products or services a company provides, to the various forms of communications that express these products and services, to the many environments, physical or virtual, where customers interact with these offerings. Graphic design can captivate, persuade, motivate, and delight....

Visual Data Mining: The VisMiner Approach

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

A visual approach to data mining.

Data mining has been defined as the search for useful and previously unknown patterns in large datasets, yet when faced with the task of mining a large dataset, it is not always obvious where to start and how to proceed.

This book introduces a visual methodology for data...

Family Wealth--Keeping It in the Family: How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations

Bloomberg Press, 2004

The landmark book that changed the way exceptional families think about their heritage, their wealth, and their legacy to future generations--now revised and expanded.

Every family, looking at the next generation, hopes to confer advantages that are more than just material and financial--to inculcate character...

Food Webs and Biodiversity: Foundations, Models, Data

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Food webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more than 50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still hotly debated. One difficulty is that a multitude of processes need to be taken into account to understand the patterns found empirically in the structure of food webs and communities.

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Handbook of Parenting: Volume 5: Practical Issues in Parenting, Second Edition

Psychology Press, 2002

Completely revised and expanded from four to five volumes, this new edition of the Handbook of Parenting appears at a time that is momentous in the history of parenting. Parenting and the family are today in a greater state of flux, question, and redefinition than perhaps ever before. We are witnessing the emergence of striking...

Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, Second Edition

Addison Wesley, 2002

"This is the single best book on software quality engineering and metrics that I've encountered."-Capers Jones, from the Foreword

Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, Second Edition, is the definitive book on this essential topic of software...

Relevance in Argumentation

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

A textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in such fields as philosophy, law, artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science, and speech communications. It explains how to evaluate the relevance of arguments, using examples and drawing on a new dialectical theory of relevance.

The purpose of this book is to...

Discrimination at Work: The Psychological and Organizational Bases

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of workplace discrimination. Many of the contributors to this book participated in a conference on workplace discrimination held at Rice University in May 2000. The idea came...

A Distributed Pi-Calculus

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Distributed systems are fast becoming the norm in computer science. Formal mathematical models and theories of distributed behavior are needed in order to understand them. This book proposes a distributed pi-calculus called Dpi, for describing the behavior of mobile agents in a distributed world. It is based on an existing formal language, the...

3D Shape: Its Unique Place in Visual Perception

MIT Press, 2008

The uniqueness of shape as a perceptual property lies in the fact that it is both complex and structured. Shapes are perceived veridically—perceived as they really are in the physical world, regardless of the orientation from which they are viewed. The constancy of the shape percept is the sine qua non of shape perception; you are...

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