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Posted: October 26th, 2007, 11:55am CEST by eBooks
Publisher Newnes
Author(s) Timothy Stapko
ISBN 0750682159
Release Date 24 August 2007
The great strides made over the last decade in the complexity and network functionality of embedded systems have significantly enhanced their attractiveness for use in critical applications such as medical devices and military communications. However, this expansion into critical areas has presented embedded engineers with a serious [...]
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Posted: July 16th, 2007, 12:25pm CEST by eBooks
Publisher Crown
Author(s) Scott Rosenberg
ISBN 1400082463
Release Date 16 January 2007
In the 80s, Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine attempted to define the story of the development of a minicomputer: from the new science to the business and nascent culture of electronic hardware and software that was characteristic of that time. Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in [...]
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Posted: June 19th, 2007, 12:26pm CEST by eBooks
Publisher Auerbach Publishing
Author(s) C. Ravindranath Pandian
ISBN 0849305241
Release Date 15 December 2006
Few software projects are completed on time, on budget, and to their original specification. Research supports that projects usually fail due to management, rather than technical, mistakes. Focusing on what practitioners need to know about risk in the pursuit of delivering software projects, Applied Software [...]
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Posted: May 31st, 2007, 5:00am CEST by eBooks
Publisher Auerbach Publishing
Author(s) Stanislaw Jarzabek
ISBN 0849335922
Release Date 04 May 2007
With software maintenance costs averaging 50% of total computing costs, it is necessary to have an effective maintenance program in place. Aging legacy systems, for example, pose an especially rough challenge as veteran programmers retire and their successors are left to figure out how the systems [...]
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Posted: May 26th, 2007, 10:57am CEST by eBooks
Publisher Oxford University Press
Author(s) Michele Mosca
ISBN 019857049X
Release Date 01 January 2007
This concise, accessible text provides a thorough introduction to quantum computing - an exciting emergent field at the interface of the computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences. Aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in these disciplines, the text is technically detailed and is [...]
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Posted: May 25th, 2007, 8:37am CEST by eBooks
Publisher Springer-Verlag
Author(s) Takashi Yokomori
ISBN 3540490248
Release Date 01 January 2007
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 11th International Workshop on DNA Based Computers, DNA11, held in London, ON, Canada, in June 2005.
The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from an initial total of 79 submissions. [...]
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Posted: April 18th, 2007, 5:58am CEST by eBooks
Publisher Pragmatic
Author(s) Michael Nygard
ISBN 0978739213
Release Date 30 March 2007
“Feature complete” is not the same as “production ready.” Whether it’s in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survive a “Slashdotting”? Or an influx of real world customers from 100 [...]
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Posted: April 1st, 2007, 11:13am CEST by eBooks
Publisher Springer-Verlag
Author(s) Claes Wohlin
ISBN 3540250433
Release Date 08 August 2005
Requirements engineering is the process by which the requirements for software systems are gathered, analyzed, documented, and managed throughout their complete lifecycle. Traditionally it has been concerned with technical goals for, functions of, and constraints on software systems. Aurum and Wohlin, however, argue that it is no [...]
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Posted: March 23rd, 2007, 2:40pm CET by eBooks
Publisher Springer-Verlag
Author(s) Natalia Juristo
ISBN 0387242619
Release Date 10 March 2005
Software Process Modeling brings together experts to discuss relevant results in software process modeling, and expresses their personal view of this field. This book focuses on new aspects of software process modeling. Specifically, it deals with socio-technological aspects, process modeling for new development types (open source software, [...]
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Posted: March 17th, 2007, 4:15pm CET by eBooks
Publisher Springer-Verlag
Author(s) Kwang H. Lee
ISBN 3540229884
Release Date 23 November 2004
This basic textbook gives an easily accessible introduction to fuzzy theory and its applications. It provides basic and concrete concepts of the field in a self-contained, condensed and understandable style. This First Course on Fuzzy Theory and Applications includes numerous examples, descriptive illustrations and figures of [...]
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