Rapid advancements in the application of soft computing tools and techniques have proven valuable in the development of highly scalable systems. Although many resources on the subject adequately cover the theoretic concepts, few provide clear insight into their practical application. Filling this need, this book explains such applications, including the underlying technology and its implementation. It covers the theoretical foundations of soft computing and supply a concise explanation of various models, principles, algorithms, tools, and techniques, including artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, and hybrid algorithms.
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Software Engineering & Systems Development
Intelligent Systems
Intelligent Systems
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Helping readers avoid common mistakes and build better models, this is one of the first books to apply the popular patterns perspective to database systems and the data models that are used to design state-of-the-art, efficient database systems. Best-selling author and database expert Dr. Michael Blaha provides detailed data model patterns as a basis for expertly building data models. Since most commercial software is built around a database, he focuses on databases rather than programming. He emphasizes how database representation sets the path for the software, determines its flexibility, affects its quality, and influences whether the software succeeds or fails.
• Database Systems and Applications
Algorithms & Complexity
Data Preparation & Mining
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Emphasizing the power of up-front planning techniques to prevent projects from imploding, this book explains the tools and concepts of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) in an easy to understand style. By adding a layer of statistical methods and tools to the front-end of a project, DFSS augments the standard Six Sigma process to ensure that a project fully meets the customers' needs so that delays caused by new requirements and rework after implementation are either eliminated or substantially reduced. Detailed case studies demonstrate project management fundamentals and common pitfalls to translate concepts into practical applications.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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When implemented correctly, release management can help to ensure quality is integrated throughout the development, implementation, and delivery of services, applications, and infrastructure. Clearly illustrating the effective implementation of a release process, this hands-on guide examines the similarities and differences of release management and project management to clarify the distinctions between the two complementary processes. Shedding light on the day-to-day challenges that need to be overcome, it details the principles of effective implementation—including what to implement, how to do it, and when to do it.
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Software Engineering & Systems Development
Operations Management
Engineering Project Management
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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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Understanding the basics of speech coding is necessary for the design of various modern devices that rely on speech interfaces such as cell phones and PDAs. Offering a detailed yet easily accessible introduction to the field, Principles of Speech Coding provides an in-depth examination of the underlying signal processing techniques that are used in speech coding. The authors present speech coding standards from various organizations, including the ITU. With a focus on applications such as Voice-over-IP telephony, this comprehensive text demonstrates the practical implementation of a popular standardized speech coder on a DSP processor and covers the most recent research findings.
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Digital Signal Processing
Telecommunications
Computer Graphics & Visualization
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Undergraduate

Filled with practical guidance on how to conduct selenium risk assessments in the aquatic environment, this book offers the latest information on assessment techniques, gives the current state of contamination in industrialized countries, and raises awareness for developing nations. Written by leading experts, it describes best practices for designing experiments to collect information on aquatic effects and trophic transfer of selenium for risk assessments, presents numerous case studies both US and international, and gives insight as to how current and future ecosystems may or may not be affected.
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Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
Environmental Chemistry
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With over 20 easy-to-use template protocols for cleaning validation of extensively used equipments, this book provides technical solutions to assist in fulfilling the training needs of finished pharmaceutical manufacturers. Drawing on the authors’ more than two decades of experience, the text offers hands-on training based on current approaches and techniques. The manual is organized as a database to support those involved in the development, manufacturing, auditing, and validation of bio-pharmaceuticals on a pilot scale, that can lead to scaled-up production. It also provides exclusive training guidelines in a CD-ROM to enable the users to amend or adapt processes as necessary.
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Analysis & Pharmaceutical Quality
Biopharmaceutics
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Focusing on postharvest management and the wide array of industrial processes used to manufacture foods, this text provides current information about the physicochemical and nutritional properties of cereals and their products. It covers the chemistry, physical properties, and morphology of cereal grains and provides a better understanding of the storage and manufacturing processes. The text covers the chemical and physical grain properties of various types of cereals and cereal-based products as well as industrial dry-milling and wet-milling techniques.
• Food Preservation Technology
Nutrition
Food Chemistry
Food 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.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Systems Biology
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