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Mechanical Behaviors of Carbon Nanotubes
Author Lu-Wen Zhang , Yan Jianwei , K.M. Liew
Mechanical Behaviors of Carbon Nanotubes: Theoretical and Numerical Approaches presents various theoretical and numerical studies on mechanical behaviors of carbon nanotubes. The main theoretical aspects included in the book contain classical molecular dynamics sim....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Petar Zečević Marko Bonaći
SummarySpark in Action teaches you the theory and skills you need to effectively handle batch and streaming data using Spark. Fully updated for Spark 2.0.About the TechnologyBig data systems distribute datasets across clusters of machines, making it a challenge to ....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Giulio Zambon
Learn practical C techniques, including often-needed algorithms within reusable functions. In this book, you'll have the following code and advice at your fingertips: layout and pre-processors; control structures, iterations, and selections; pointers and structure....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Norhayati Zakaria
Global virtual teams (GVTs) have evolved as a common work structure in multinational corporations due to their efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The cultural differences can produce great benefits in terms of perspective, creativity, and innovation, but can also exacerbate interpersonal tensio....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Lossless Information Hiding in Images
Author Shi-Ze Guo , Zhe-Ming Lu
Lossless Information Hiding in Images introduces many state-of-the-art lossless hiding schemes, most of which come from the authors' publications in the past five years. After reading this book, readers will be able to immediately grasp the status, the typical alg....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Pollution Control and Resource Recovery
Author Huang Sheng , Zhao Youcai
Pollution Control and Resource Recovery: Industrial Construction and Demolition Wastes provides engineers with the techniques and technologies to cope with the common pollutants that are persistent in C&D waste. Dedicated to pollution control and resource reuse....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Multi-Dimensional Summarization in Cyber-Physical Society
Author Hai Zhuge
Text summarization has been studied for over a half century, but traditional methods process texts empirically and neglect the fundamental characteristics and principles of language use and understanding. Automatic summarization is a desirable technique for process....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Alireza Bahadori , Sohrab Zendehboudi
Shale Oil and Gas Handbook: Theory, Technologies, and Challenges provides users with information on how shale oil and gas exploration has revolutionized today’s energy industry. As activity has boomed and job growth continues to increase, training in this area for ....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Intelligent Vibration Control in Civil Engineering Structures
Author Fei-Hong Xu , Jun-Tao Zhu , Ying-Qing Guo , Zhao-Dong Xu
Intelligent Vibration Control in Civil Engineering Structures provides readers with an all-encompassing view of the theoretical studies, design methods, real-world implementations, and applications relevant to the topicThe book focuses on design and property tests ....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Learning Robotics, with Robotics, by Robotics
Author Elisabetta Zibetti , Ilaria Gaudiello
The relationship between technological and pedagogical innovation has recently created a new field of research at the crossroads between Psychology, Educational Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Educational Robotics (ER).Through analysis of the achievable educa....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Lutz Kaufmann , Barbara Gaudenzi , Janet L. Hartley , George A. Zsidisin
Almost every organization is exposed to financial risk stemming from commodity price volatility. Risk exposure may be direct, from the prices paid for raw materials transformed into products sold to customers, or indirect, from higher energy, transportation costs, ....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Signal Processing for 5G: Algorithms and Implementations
Author Charlie Zhang , Fa-Long Luo
A comprehensive and invaluable guide to 5G technology, implementation and practice in one single volume. For all things 5G, this book is a must-read. Signal processing techniques have played the most important role in wireless communications since the second genera....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Author Erchin Serpedin , Khalid A. Qaraqe , Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir , Muhammad Ismail
This book focuses on the emerging research topic "green (energy efficient) wireless networks" which has drawn huge attention recently from both academia and industry. This topic is highly motivated due to important environmental, financial, and quality-of-experienc....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Future Trends in Microelectronics
Author Alexander Zaslavsky , Jimmy Xu , Serge Luryi
Presents the developments in microelectronic-related fields, with comprehensive insight from a number of leading industry professionalsThe book presents the future developments and innovations in the developing field of microelectronics. The book’s chapters contain....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Implementing the IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 (including the Storwize V5010, V5020, and V5030)
Author Mikhail Zakharov , Thomas Vogel , Chris Tapsell , Edward Seager , Hartmut Lonzer , Ca
Organizations of all sizes face the challenge of managing massive volumes of increasingly valuable data. But storing this data can be costly, and extracting value from the data is becoming more difficult. IT organizations have limited resources but must stay respon....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Optimization of Manufacturing Systems Using the Internet of Things
Author Fei Tao , Yingfeng Zhang
Optimization of Manufacturing Systems Using the Internet of Things extends the IoT (Internet of Things) into the manufacturing field to develop an IoMT (Internet of Manufacturing Things) architecture with real-time traceability, visibility, and interoperability in ....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Practical Oracle E-Business Suite: An Implementation and Management Guide
Author Erman Arslan , Syed Zaheer
Learn to build and implement a robust Oracle E-Business Suite system using the new release, EBS 12.2. This hands-on, real-world guide explains the rationale for using an Oracle E-Business Suite environment in a business enterprise and covers the major technology st....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Data Mining and Learning Analytics
Author Osmar R. Zaïane , Donald Ipperciel , Samira ElAtia
Addresses the impacts of data mining on education and reviews applications in educational research teaching, and learning This book discusses the insights, challenges, issues, expectations, and practical implementation of data mining (DM) within educational mandate....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
Author Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi
Natural language processing (NLP) is a scientific discipline which is found at the interface of computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. Providing an overview of international work in this interdisciplinary field, this book gives t....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author David Zientara
Master the art of managing, securing, and monitoring your network using the powerful pfSense 2.3About This BookYou can always do more to secure your software – so extend and customize your pfSense firewallBuild a high availability security system that’s fault tolera....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Data Science Essentials in Python
Author Dmitry Zinoviev
Go from messy, unstructured artifacts stored in SQL and NoSQL databases to a neat, well-organized dataset with this quick reference for the busy data scientist. Understand text mining, machine learning, and network analysis; process numeric data with the NumPy and ....
Release Date 2016/08 -
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing, 5th Edition
Author Joseph Zale , John Hogan , Tom Nagle
For undergraduate introduction to Market Pricing courses.A comprehensive and practical, step-by-step guide to pricing analysis and strategy development.The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing shows readers how to manage markets strategically—rather than simply calculat....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Yao Shen , Feilong Tang , Jingyu Zhou , Minyi Guo
This book introduces fundamental concepts and theories in pervasive computing as well as its key technologies and applications. It explains how to design and implement pervasive middleware and real application systems, covering nearly all aspects related to pervasi....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Chamath Divarathne , Mohammad Zomorrodi , Nemai Chandra Karmakar
Introduces advanced high-capacity data encoding and throughput improvement techniques for fully printable multi-bit Chipless RFID tags and reader systemsThe book proposes new approaches to chipless RFID tag encoding and tag detection that supersede their predecesso....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Laura Zanetti , Gianfranco Gianfrate , Mario Massari
Risk consideration is central to more accurate post-crisis valuationCorporate Valuation presents the most up-to-date tools and techniques for more accurate valuation in a highly volatile, globalized, and risky business environment. This insightful guide takes a mul....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Honwing Ngan , Yongjun Zhang , Haoyong Chen
An original look from a microeconomic perspective for power system optimization and its application to electricity marketsPresents a new and systematic viewpoint for power system optimization inspired by microeconomics and game theoryA timely and important advanced ....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Getting Started with TensorFlow
Author Giancarlo Zaccone
Get up and running with the latest numerical computing library by Google and dive deeper into your data!About This BookGet the first book on the market that shows you the key aspects TensorFlow, how it works, and how to use it for the second generation of machine l....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook
Author Lee Zhi Eng
Use Qt5 to design and build a graphical user interface that is functional, appealing, and user-friendly for your software applicationAbout This BookLearn to make use of Qt5 to design and customize the look-and-feel of your applicationImprove the visual quality of y....
Release Date 2016/07 -
RFID for the Supply Chain and Operations Professional, Second Edition
Author Victor Sower , Pamela Zelbst
RFID (radio-frequency identification) is increasing its presence in our personal and business lives—you name it and RFID is likely to be finding its way there. RFID has many advantages over other auto-ID technologies, including its ability to read tags at the....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering
Author Thomas Zimmermann , Laurie Williams , Tim Menzies
Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering presents the best practices of seasoned data miners in software engineering. The idea for this book was created during the 2014 conference at Dagstuhl, an invitation-only gathering of leading computer scientist....
Release Date 2016/07