Posted: October 10th, 2008, 7:11pm CEST
Functional Verification Coverage Measurement and Analysis addresses the subject of coverage measurement and analysis, a means of quantitatively assessing functional verification progress. In the absence of this process, design verification engineers (and their management) are left guessing whether or not they have completed verifying the device they are designing. Using the techniques described in this book, they will learn how to build a toolset which, when applied to the verification of their device, allows them to know how close they are to functional closure.
Functional Verification Coverage Measurement and Analysis will be of interest to both professionals and academics as it instructs verification engineers and designers on how to measure verification progress and opens a number of areas of research for academia.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:36pm CEST
Producing 24pP Video demystifies the emerging standards of film and video production and discusses the 24p video film format to help novice and experienced filmmakers alike learn how to better use the newly available DV cameras. Since the 24p frame rate closely approximates the look and feel of film, it is the speed of choice whenever a "cinematic" look is desired. 24p video also offers certain compression options that are advantageous to web and wireless delivery. This full-color book discusses the special techniques required by 24p productions - all the way through the production, from preproduction planning through post and output. Each chapter includes techniques, examples, tips, and case studies. The field techniques section features real-world setups presented as demonstrations or as tutorials. Case studies present profiles of people producing 24p projects, and the DVD includes step-by-step instructions that illustrate how to work with 24p material in NLE, compositor, DVD authoring, and audio applications.
This introductory 'crash course' in 24p video production is ideal for the student and new filmmaker.
About the Author
has 15 years of experience in software and user interface design. He began his career teaching digital imaging, video, and new media courses at Eastman Kodak's The Center for Creative Imaging in 1992 and has worked for Adobe and Macromedia. His interface and information designs have won two PC Magazine's Editor's Choice awards, an AIGA award of distinction, and recognition in the book Information Architects. He is the author of two books in CMP Books DV Expert Series entitled 'Producing 24p Video' and 'Designing Menus with Encore DVD'.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:36pm CEST
First book on the new generation of data warehouse architecture, DW 2.0--by the "father of the data warehouse".
Data Warehousing has been around for 20 years and has become part of the information technology infrastructure. Data warehousing originally grew in response to the corporate need for information--not data--and it supplies integrated, granular, and historical data to the corporation.
There are many kinds of data warehouses, in large part due to evolution and different paths of software and hardware vendors. But DW 2.0, defined by this author in many talks, articles, and his b-eye-network newsletter that reaches 65,000 professionals monthly, is the well-identified and defined next generation data warehouse.
The book carries that theme and describes the future of data warehousing that is technologically possible now, at both an architectural level and technology level. The perspective of the book is from the top down: looking at the overall architecture and then delving into the issues underlying the components. The benefit of this for people who are building or using a data warehouse can see what lies ahead, and can determine: what new technology to buy, how to plan extensions to the data warehouse, what can be salvaged from the current system, and how to justify the expense--at the most practical level.
All of this gives the experienced data warehouse professional everything and exactly what is needed in order to implement the new generation DW 2.0.
* First book on the new generation of data warehouse architecture, DW 2.0.
* Written by the "father of the data warehouse", Bill Inmon, a columnist and newsletter editor of The Bill Inmon Channel on the Business Intelligence Network.
* Long overdue comprehensive coverage of the implementation of technology and tools that enable the new generation of the DW: metadata, temporal data, ETL, unstructured data, and data quality control.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:17pm CEST
Contributions on UML address the application of UML in the specification of embedded HW/SW systems. C-Based System Design embraces the modeling of operating systems, modeling with different models of computation, generation of test patterns, and experiences from case studies with SystemC. Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems covers rules for solving general modeling problems in VHDL-AMS, modeling of multi-nature systems, synthesis, and modeling of Mixed-Signal Systems with SystemC. Languages for formal methods are addressed by contributions on formal specification and refinement of hybrid, embedded and real-time stems.
Together with articles on new languages such as SystemVerilog and Software Engineering in Automotive Systems the contributions selected for this book embrace all aspects of languages and models for specification, design, modeling and verification of systems. Therefore, the book gives an excellent overview of the actual state-of-the-art and the latest research results.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:17pm CEST
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics II is a collection of the best papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). The purpose of ICINCO was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. The research papers focused on real world applications, covering three main themes: Intelligent Control Systems, Optimization, Robotics and Automation and Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control.
Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Control, Automation and Robotics. This book will be of interest to professionals working on the control and robotics area, especially those who need to maintain knowledge about current trends in development methods and applications.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 7:10am CEST
The latest from a computer graphics pioneer, An Introduction to NURBS is the ideal resource for anyone seeking a theoretical and practical understanding of these very important curves and surfaces. Beginning with Bézier curves, the book develops a lucid explanation of NURBS curves, then does the same for surfaces, consistently stressing important shape design properties and the capabilities of each curve and surface type. Throughout, it relies heavily on illustrations and fully worked examples that will help you grasp key NURBS concepts and deftly apply them in your work. Supplementing the lucid, point-by-point instructions are illuminating accounts of the history of NURBS, written by some of its most prominent figures.
Whether you write your own code or simply want deeper insight into how your computer graphics application works, An Introduction to NURBS will enhance and extend your knowledge to a degree unmatched by any other resource.
* Presents vital information with applications in many different areas: CAD, scientific visualization, animation, computer games, and more.
* Facilitates accessiblity to anyone with a knowledge of first-year undergraduate mathematics.
* Details specific NURBS-based techniques, including making cusps with B-spline curves and conic sections with rational B-spline curves.
* Presents all important algorithms in easy-to-read pseudocode-useful for both implementing them and understanding how they work.
* Provides C-code implementations of worked examples at http://www.mkp.com/nurbs.
* Includes complete references to additional NURBS resources.
About the Author
David F. Rogers, Ph.D., is the author of two computer graphics classics, Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics and Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics, as well as works on fluid dynamics. His early research on the use of B-splines and NURBS for dynamic manipulation of ship hull surfaces led to significant commercial and scientific advances in a number of fields. Founder and former director of the Computer Aided Design/Interactive Graphics Group at the U.S. Naval Academy, Dr. Rogers was an original member of the USNA's Aerospace Engineering Department. He sits on the editorial boards of The Visual Computer and Computer Aided Design and serves on committees for SIGGRAPH, Computer Graphics International, and other conferences.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 7:08am CEST
Integrating Multimedia features in databases in one of the most important new applications in the last 20 years
Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications is focused squarely on database administrators and programmers as the foundation of multimedia database applications. With the release of Oracle8 Database in 1997, Oracle became the first commercial database with integrated multimedia technology for application developers. Since that time, Oracle has enhanced and extended these features to include native support for image, audio, video and streaming media storage; indexing, retrieval and processing in the Oracle Database, Application Server; and development tools. Databases are not only words and numbers for accountants, but they also should utilize a full range of media to satisfy customer needs, from race car engineers, to manufacturing processes to security.
The full range of audio, video and integration of media into databases is mission critical to these applications. This book details the most recent features in Oracle's multimedia technology including those of the Oracle10gR2 Database and the Oracle9i Application Server. The technology covered includes: object relational media storage and services within the database, middle tier application development interfaces, wireless delivery mechanisms, and Java-based tools.
* Gives broad coverage to integration of multimedia features such as audio and instrumentation video, from race cars to analyze performance, to voice and picture recognition for security data bases. As well as full multimedia for presentations
* Includes field tested examples in enterprise environments
* Provides coverage in a thorough and clear fashion developed in a London University Professional Course
About the Author
Professor of IT, TVU London University since September, 2001, formally lecturing posts in Computing at The Open University and the University of Luton, 1986-98. She is currently programme leader for the undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes in Computing and Information Systems at TVU, London. She recently published a textbook on 'Multimedia Databases' for Addison Wesley.
Project Review Officer, responsible for IT and MIS systems, at Local Government Management Board, from 1982-1985, having been promoted from the post of Head of Local Government Examination Section. Database administrator for large-scale UK government databases.
Systems Analyst PPEB/JADPU Home Office & Police Computer Unit, 1975-78
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 7:06am CEST
The field of soft computing is emerging from the cutting edge research over the last ten years devoted to fuzzy engineering and genetic algorithms. The subject is being called soft computing and computational intelligence. With acceptance of the research fundamentals in these important areas, the field is expanding into direct applications through engineering and systems science.
This book cover the fundamentals of this emerging filed, as well as direct applications and case studies. There is a need for practicing engineers, computer scientists, and system scientists to directly apply "fuzzy" engineering into a wide array of devices and systems.
"The past few years have witnessed a growing recognition of the centrality of soft computing as a principal component of methodologies that underlie the conception, design, construction and utilization of information/intelligent systems. Soft Computing and Intelligent System makes an important contribution to a better understanding of the basics of soft computing and is an authoritative exposition of the principal tools of soft computing and their applications" Lofti Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley.
Soft computing is a new, emerging discipline rooted in a group of technologies that aim to exploit the tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty in achieving solutions to complex problems. Over recent years information and intelligent systems, which form the core of modern technology, have become extremely variable and have greatly increased in complexity. Engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists can no longer rely on one single method or tool to deal with them. This book deals with the major methodologies that make up the emerging field of soft computing; fuzzy logic, neuro-computing, evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and machine learning theory.
In Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, the editors invited and edited contributions from 44 world-renowned researchers to complete the 25 chapters of this book. The reader receives a complete range of coverage of soft computing with the book divided into the following sections: foundations, theory, implications and applications, and future perspectives.
About the Author
Madan M. Gupta is a Professor of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory. Professor Gupta is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the SPIE. He is the author of numerous books in the areas of fuzzy logic, fuzzy control, neural systems and control systems and the author or co-author of more than 650 research publications. In addition to numerous honors and awards, in 1998 Dr. Gupta received the prestigious Kaufman Prize Gold Medal for research in the field of fuzzy logic.
Naresh K. Sinha is Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University where he has previously served as department chairman and as the Director of Instructional Computing in the Faculty of Engineering. Professor Sinha is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada. His current research interests are in the areas of adaptive control, system modeling and identification, robotics, intelligent control systems and industrial applications of modern control theory.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:58am CEST
The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field.
In 2000, the first edition was widely acclaimed and received high praise. J.B. Rosen crowned it “an indepensible resource” and Dingzhu Du lauded it as “the standard most important reference in this very dynamic research field.” Top authors such as Herbert Hauptman (winner of the Nobel Prize) and Leonid Khachiyan (the Ellipsoid theorist) contributed and the second edition keeps these seminal entries.
The second edition builds on the success of the former edition with more than 150 completely new entries, designed to ensure that the reference addresses recent areas where optimization theories and techniques have advanced. Particularly heavy attention resulted in health science and transportation, with entries such as “Algorithms for Genomics,” “Optimization and Radiotherapy Treatment Design,” and “Crew Scheduling.”
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:57am CEST
“This book is an invaluable one-stop reference for deploying, configuring, and managing Windows Server 2008. It’s filled with John’s unique and hard-earned nuggets of advice, helpful scripts, and shortcuts that will save you time and money.”
--Mark Russinovich
The Start-to-Finish, Comprehensive Windows Server 2008 Book for Every Working Administrator and Architect
To make the most of Windows Server 2008 in production environments, you need a deep understanding of its technical details. However, accurate and reliable information is scarce, and even most skilled Windows professionals don’t know Windows Server 2008 as well as they should. The Complete Guide to Windows Server 2008brings together more than 1,500 pages of practical Windows Server 2008 insight and in-depth knowledge that you can't find anywhere else, all based on final code. John Savill—one of the world’s most visible and trusted experts on Windows Server technology—specializes in helping real companies use Windows Server 2008 to run their businesses. His access to Microsoft’s product team as a Microsoft MVP and one of 50 elite “Windows Server 2008 Delta Force Rangers” benefited this book’s accuracy and value.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:56am CEST
This 14th volume of the classic series on machine intelligence contains papers on complex decision taking, inductive logic programming, applied machine learning, dynamic control, and computational learning theory.
About the Author
K. Furukawa is at Keio University, Tokyo. D. Michie is at University of Edinburgh.
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:53am CEST
Apple Training Series: Mac OS X v10.5 Deployment v10.5 uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach intermediate and advanced users how to deploy a wide range of files and systems to multiple users in a large organization. Author Kevin White takes readers through the deployment of software, ranging from individual files, to complete systems, to multiple users, discussing the range of methodologies used. Intermediate users will learn how to use Apple deployment tools, including Disk Utility, PackageMaker, Apple Software Restore, and NetBoot. Advanced users will learn how to customize deployment solutions with scripts to provide post-installation configuration. Throughout the book, users learn how to tie all of the solutions together to create fully integrated software and hardware deployment plans..
