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New and Noteworthy

Introduction to
Discrete Event
Systems

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

A Brief History
of Computing

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

Rightshore!

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

Algorithms and
Data Structures

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

Software
Evolution

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

Guide to
Advanced
Empirical
Software
Engineering

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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