This text presents innovative agile methods and guides readers through the software development process. By describing practical stories, explaining the design and programming process in detail, and using projects as a learning context, the author helps readers understand why a given technique is required and why techniques must be combined to overcome the challenges facing software developers. He discusses the benefits and liabilities of each approach, provides a collection of design patterns, and includes projects that represent real-world tasks. The book also contains review questions, exercises, and selected solutions. Source code and other resources are available on the author’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Programming & Programming Languages
Algorithms & Complexity
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Undergraduate

This textbook covers both classical ideas in experimental design and the latest research topics. It clearly discusses the objectives of a research project that lead to an appropriate design choice, the practical aspects of creating a design and performing experiments, and the interpretation of the results of computer data analysis. Using SAS 9.2 to illustrate the construction of experimental designs and analysis of data, the author presents many applications from the pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial chemicals, and machinery industries. SAS code and ancillaries are available on the author’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
Statistical Theory & Methods
Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
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Professional

Providing a broad toolkit of analytical methods, this book shows how asymptotics, when coupled with numerical methods, becomes a powerful way to acquire a deeper understanding of the techniques used in probability and statistics. It describes core ideas in statistical asymptotics; covers Laplace approximation, the saddle-point method, and summation of series; and includes vignettes of various people from statistics and mathematics whose ideas have been instrumental in the development of the subject. The author also supplements some topics with relevant Maple™ commands and provides a list of common series and products, enabling readers to expand an expression or simplify an expansion.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability
Statistical Theory & Methods
Statistics
Computational Numerical Analysis
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Professional

Electronic, Magnetic, and Optical Materials takes a materials science and engineering approach for teaching the fundamentals of electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of materials. This book integrates the physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering concepts with the technological aspects of materials used by the electronics, magnetics, and photonics industry. It features discussions of applications in nanoscience and technology. Written clearly and concisely, it includes numerous real-world technology examples, from computers to credit cards to optic fibers. This text also provides electronic teaching aids to illustrate concepts, available for download on the web.
• Advanced Materials and Technologies
Electromagnetics & Microwaves
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Electronics
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Undergraduate

Based on courses taught by the author for over 15 years, this text raises the scientific awareness of untrained readers. It lays the foundation of the laws that govern our universe in a nontechnical way and outlines the methods developed by physicists for the scientific investigation of nature, contrasting them with those developed by pseudoscience. Noting the damage incurred by confusing science and technology, the book demonstrates that only science is capable of advancing technology. For those desiring deepended understanding, the author provides a healthy dose of technical detail in the accompanying CD.
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Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how to best protect humans in working environments. The author presents a wide range of methods along with specific criteria for assessing hazard and exposure in the workplace environment; more importantly, she also offers ways to reduce these hazards. Examining the technical, medical, and organizational aspects of work processes, this comprehensive text provides coverage of basic risk factors, law-based protection of labor, shaping conditions of occupational safety and ergonomics, psychophysical capabilities of humans in the working environment, and much more.
• Human Factors and Ergonomics
Health & Safety
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Edited by two leading researchers and with contributions from some of the best in the field, this volume fully reflects the diversity and richness of rough fuzzy image analysis. It first explains how fuzzy, near, and rough sets provide the basis for the stages of pictorial pattern recognition. The text then discusses hybrid approaches that combine fuzzy sets and rough sets in image analysis, illustrates how to perform image analysis using only rough sets, and describes tolerance spaces and a perceptual systems approach to image analysis. It also presents a free, downloadable implementation of near sets and covers an array of applications, particularly in medical imaging.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Imaging Sciences Series
Algorithms & Complexity
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Systems & Control Engineering
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The unprecedented amount of data produced with high-throughput experimentation forces biologists to employ mathematical representation and computation to glean meaningful information in systems-level biology. Applying this approach to the underlying molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis, cancer research is enjoying a series of new discoveries and biological insights. Unique in its dualistic approach, this book introduces the concepts and theories of systems biology and the applications of systems biology in cancer research. It presents basic cancer biology and cutting-edge topics of cancer research for computational biologists alongside systems biology analysis tools for experimental biologists.
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Bioinformatics
Systems Biology
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Written by award-winning engineers, this book provides an all-inclusive examination of wireless sensor network technology, standards, and applications. It includes a wealth of exercises, end-of-chapter reviews, and detailed case studies. It also contains practical sensor network design cases that touch on medical applications that clearly illustrate the steps of design and implementation needed to address real-world challenges. Using straightforward language, this authoritative resource addresses everything product developers and technicians need to know to navigate the field in 2010.
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Digital & Wireless Communication
Networks
Telecommunications
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Undergraduate

A groundbreaking work, this collection provides contributions from leading researchers who bridge the gap between context-awareness and web services. The chapters are organized into three major sections. Methods focuses on the principle of context awareness in web services and various ways to model those services at the specification level. Architectures details the infrastructures, frameworks, and standards needed to build context-aware services. Technologies presents techniques adapted from once isolated research areas including semantic Web, database, and artificial intelligence development, as well as formal methods being employed to improve development of context-aware web services.
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Computation
Internet & Multimedia
Human Computer Interaction
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