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New and Noteworthy
Cassandras, Christos G.;
Lafortune, Stephane
A comprehensive introduction to the field
of discrete event
systems, o ering a breadth of coverage that makes the material accessible to readers of
varied backgrounds. The book emphasizes a
unified modeling framework that transcends specific application areas, linking the following
topics in a coherent manner: language and
automata theory, supervisory control, Petri net
theory, Markov chains and queueing theory, discrete-event simulation, and concurrent
estimation techniques. Distinctive features of the second edition include 7 more detailed treatment of equivalence of automata, event
diagnosis, and decentralized event diagnosis 7 expanded treatment of centralized and decentralized control of partially-observed systems 7 new sections on timed automata
with guards (in the Alur-Dill formalism) and hybrid automata 7 an introduction to hybrid systems 7 updated coverage of discrete event
simulation, including new software tools available 7 recent developments in sensitivity analysis for discrete event systems as well as
hybrid systems
2nd ed., 2008, XXIV, 776 p., Hardcover
ISBN 978-0-387-33332-8 7 $89.95
O’Regan, Gerard
This useful and lively
text provides a comprehensive
introduction to the key
topics in the history of computing, in an easy-to-follow and concise
manner. It covers the significant areas and
events in the field - from the ancient Egyptians
through to the present day - and both gives the reader a flavour of the history and stimulates
further study in the subject.
2008, XX, 252 p. 72 illus., Hardcover ISBN 978-1-84800-083-4 7 $29.95
Successfully
Industrialize SAP®
Projects O shore
Hendel, Anja; Messner,
Wolfgang; Thun, Frank
(Eds.)
This book describes
successful global delivery models utilizing
industrialized methods to deliver SAP® projects from India. While the first part is devoted to
management concepts, service o erings and
the peculiarities of working together with India, the second part features eight case
studies from di erent industries and from
around the world describing how India delivery
centers have been successfully deployed in SAP® development projects.
2008, XVIII, 292 p. 74 illus., Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-540-77287-3 7 $64.95
The Basic Toolbox
Mehlhorn, Kurt, Sanders,
Peter
This book is a concise introduction addressed
to students and
professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Individual
chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash
tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences,
graph representation, graph traversal, shortest
paths, minimum spanning trees, and
optimization. The algorithms are presented in a modern way, with explicitly formulated
invariants, and comment on recent trends such
as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries and certifying algorithms.
The authors use pictures, words and high-level
pseudocode to explain the algorithms, and then they present more detail on e cient
implementations using real programming
languages like C++ and Java.
2008, Approx. 310 p., Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-540-77977-3 7 $44.95
Mens, Tom; Demeyer,
Serge (Eds.)
Mens and Demeyer, both
international authorities
in the field of software evolution, together with
the invited contributors, focus on novel trends in
software evolution research and its relations
with other emerging disciplines such as model-driven software engineering, service-oriented
software development, and aspect-oriented
software development. They do not restrict themselves to the evolution of source code but
also address the evolution of other, equally
important software artifacts such as databases and database schemas, design models, software
architectures, and process management. The
contributing authors provide broad overviews of
related work, and they also contribute to a comprehensive glossary, a list of acronyms, and
a list of books, journals, websites, standards and
conferences that together represent the community’s body of knowledge.
2008, XVIII, 347 p. 100 illus., Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-540-76439-7 7 $89.95
Shull, Forrest; Singer,
Janice; Sjøberg,
Dag I.K. (Eds.)
Empirical studies have become an integral
element of software engineering research and
practice. This unique text/reference includes chapters from some of the top international
empirical software engineering researchers and
focuses on the practical knowledge necessary for conducting, reporting and using empirical
methods in software engineering.
2008, XII, 388 p. 37 illus., Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-84800-043-8 7 $99.00
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