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Presents a practical hands-on instruction manual for enterprise architects. This book prepares you to better engage IT, management, and business users by equipping you with the tools and knowledge you need to address the most common enterprise architecture challenges.

Explains the crucial role of techniques in a variety of applications including: personal agent assistants; computer and network security; opponent modeling in games and simulation systems; coordination in robots and software agents; web e-commerce and collaborative filtering; dialog modeling; video surveillance; and smart homes.

As deepwater wells are drilled to greater depths, pipeline engineers and designers are confronted with new problems. This book offers coverage of topics ranging from pipe installation and routing selection and planning to design, construction, and installation of pipelines in some of the harshest underwater environments around the world.

By tackling the field of manufacturing processes from this new angle, this book makes the most out of a reader's limited time. It gives the knowledge needed to not only create well-producible designs, but also to understand supplier needs in order to find the optimal compromise.

Teaches you the basic building blocks of programming needed to create advanced graphics applications including interactive art, live video processing, and data visualization. This title offers graphic and web designers working with the Processing programming environment instructions on the basic principles of the language.

Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to empirical research in HCI. The book begins with foundational topics, including historical context, the human factor, interaction elements, and the fundamentals of science and research. From there, the book progresses to the methods for conducting an experiment to evaluate a new computer interface or interaction technique. There are detailed discussions and how-to analyses on models of interaction, focusing on descriptive models and predictive models. Writing and publishing a research paper is explored with helpful tips for success. Throughout the book, readers will find hands-on exercises, checklists, and real-world examples. This is a must-have, comprehensive guide to empirical and experimental research in HCI ¿ an essential addition to your HCI library.

Provides a framework for analysis of public data and being generated by social networks and social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. This book introduces you to these techniques, shows you their application to different types of social media, and discusses how social media can be used as a tool for interacting with online public.

Suitable for engineers who design any products that require fragrances, such as perfumes, healthcare and cleaning products, this book provides practical guidance on perfume design, performance and classification, from its beginnings as a liquid mixture to the vapour phase, by way of odorant dispersion and olfactory perception.

Operational amplifiers are essential in modern electronics design, and are used in medical devices, communications technology, optical networks, and sensor interfacing. This book gives engineers all the methods, techniques and tricks that they need to optimize their analog electronic designs.

Surveys and integrates recent work by psychologists on how emotions come to influence thinking and judgements. The book particularly considers the role of emotions in interpersonal judgements about health and illness and in social decisions.

Natural products present in the plant and animal kingdom offer a diversity of chemical structures which are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. This title covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products.

Suitable for scientists in a number of disciplines, including geology, microbiology, chemistry and environmental science, this title deals with sedimentary sulfides which are the abundant authigenic minerals in sediments. It gives emphasis to the biogeochemistry that plays such a central role in the formation of sedimentary sulfides.

Explains how UHF tags and readers communicate wirelessly. This book gives an understanding of what limits the read range of a tag, how to increase it (and why that might result in breaking the law), and the practical things that need to be addressed when designing and implementing RFID technology.

Teaches OpenCL and parallel programming for complex systems that may include a variety of device architectures: multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and integrated Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) such as AMD Fusion technology. This book explores memory spaces, optimization techniques, graphics interoperability, extensions, and debugging and profiling.

This collection of 22 essays responds to the question: What are the most fundamental things you can say concerning the interrelations between the institutions of government and property? Authors were asked to address this question in a positive analysis and that their essay penetrate to the deepest levels of property-government organization.

A collection 17 articles that presents the history of modeling applications and examines competing points of view. It covers the construction of CGE databases, model solving, and computer-assisted interpretation of results. It shows how CGE modeling has made a contribution to economic policy.

The rare earths represent a group of chemical elements, the lanthanides, together with scandium and yttrium, which exhibit similar chemical properties. This book deals with the science and technology of the rare earth elements in an integrated manner.

Being able to fit design into the Agile software development processes is an important skill in today's market. This book provides you with the tools you need to determine what Agile UX means for you. It includes practical examples and case studies, as well as real-life factors to consider while navigating the Agile UX waters.

Natural gas continues to be fuel of choice for power generation and feedstock for a range of petrochemical industries. This title includes important developments coupled with global concern on green house gas emissions provide a fresh impetus to engage in focused research activities aimed at mitigating or resolving the challenges facing industry.

The field of statistics not only affects all areas of scientific activity, but also many other matters such as public policy. This title addresses the entire community of statisticians and scientists in various disciplines who use statistical methodology in their work. It presents the various aspects of statistical methodology.

What were the driving factors in the development of new technologies? What caused the stasis in stone tool technological innovation in the Early Pleistocene? Were there specific regions and episodes of enhanced technological development, or did it occur at a steady pace where ancestral humans lived? This title addresses these questions.

New developments in mass spectrometry have allowed routine identification and lowered limits of detection at levels only imagined a decade ago. This book covers the basic principles of method development in GC- and LC-TOF-MS as well as the main operational parameters related to TOF-MS. It also focuses on the relevant environmental applications.

Deals with functional materials that are in the frontiers of advanced materials science and technology research, development and manufacture. This title also deals with three classes of materials, magnetic semiconductors, multiferroics, and graphene.

Suitable for students, professionals and those working in shipyards, supervising ship construction, conversion and maintenance, this title covers each core operation and provides detailed understanding of the key ship construction steps and techniques. It includes the advanced developments in computer-aided design and manufacture.