Data Modeling category: 403 books
The Hidden Half
How the World Conceals its Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.
We humans are very clever creatures - but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining...
by Wajahat Karim, Siddharth Shekar
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Create enthralling Android games with Unity Faster Than Ever Before
About This Book
Develop complex Android games with the help of Unity's advanced features such as artificial intelligence, high-end physics, and GUI transformations.
Create amazing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) with Unity's...
Designing Sorting Networks
A New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Designing Sorting Networks: A New Paradigm provides an in-depth guide to maximizing the efficiency of sorting networks, and uses 0/1 cases, partially ordered sets and Haase diagrams to closely analyze their behavior in an easy, intuitive manner.
This book also outlines new ideas and techniques...
by Victoria Zukas, Jonas A. Zukas
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The book is structured to serve the needs of several types of readers interested in 3D printing. It serves as a general introduction to the subject and its application in many fields, including industry, space, medicine, housing, clothing and consumer-oriented products. Next, methods and available...
Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices
Practical architectural patterns for building modern, distributed cloud-native systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Learn to apply cloud-native patterns and practices to deliver responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven systems with confidence
Key Features
Understand the architectural patterns involved in cloud-native architectures
Minimize risk by evolving your monolithic applications into distributed...
by Alberto Moreno Conde, Dipak Kalra
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Aligned with the increased adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, it is recognized that semantic interoperability provides benefits for promoting patient safety and continuity of care. This research proposes a framework of quality metrics and recommendations for developing semantic interoperability...
Mapping Scientific Frontiers
The Quest for Knowledge Visualization
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This is an examination of the history and the state of the art of the quest for visualizing scientific knowledge and the dynamics of its development. Through an interdisciplinary perspective this book presents profound visions, pivotal advances, and insightful contributions made by generations of...
Human Motion Simulation
Predictive Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Simulate realistic human motion in a virtual world with an optimization-based approach to motion prediction. With this approach, motion is governed by human performance measures, such as speed and energy, which act as objective functions to be optimized. Constraints on joint torques and angles are...
by Chetan Giridhar
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Leverage the power of Python design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture and design
About This Book
Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Python design patterns
Get to know the context and application of design patterns to solve real-world problems in...
View Updating and Relational Theory
Solving the View Update Problem
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Views are virtual tables. That means they should be updatable, just as "real" or base tables are. In fact, view updatability isn’t just desirable, it’s crucial, for practical reasons as well as theoretical ones. But view updating has always been a controversial topic. Ever since the...
SQL Antipatterns
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Bill Karwin has helped thousands of people write better SQL and build stronger relational databases. Now he's sharing his collection of antipatterns--the most common errors he's identified in those thousands of requests for help.
Most developers aren't SQL experts, and most of the SQL that...
Algorithms for Sensor Systems
13th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2017, Vienna, Austria, September 7-8, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2017, held in Vienna, in September 2017.
The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions....
Healthcare Simulation
A Guide for Operations Specialists
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
A focused guide for healthcare simulation operations in education and training
With the growing use of simulation within the field of healthcare, Healthcare Simulation: A Guide for Operations Specialists provides a much needed resource for developing the roles and responsibilities of simulation...
Numerical Modelling of Wave Energy Converters
State-of-the-Art Techniques for Single Devices and Arrays
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Numerical Modelling of Wave Energy Converters: State-of-the Art Techniques for Single WEC and Converter Arrays presents all the information and techniques required for the numerical modelling of a wave energy converter together with a comparative review of the different available techniques. The authors...