Morgan Kaufmann imprint: 454 books
HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks
Toward a Multidisciplinary Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2003
HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks provides a thorough pedagological survey of the science of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). HCI spans many disciplines and professions, including anthropology, cognitive psychology, computer graphics, graphical design, human factors engineering, interaction design,...
Reliability Assurance of Big Data in the Cloud
Cost-Effective Replication-Based Storage
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
With the rapid growth of Cloud computing, the size of Cloud data is expanding at a dramatic speed. A huge amount of data is generated and processed by Cloud applications, putting a higher demand on cloud storage. While data reliability should already be a requirement, data in the Cloud needs to be...
by Alberto Menache
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation discusses the latest technology developments in digital design, film, games, medicine, sports, and security engineering. Motion capture records a live-motion event and translates it into a digital context. It is the technology that converts a live...
Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Plan recognition, activity recognition, and intent recognition together combine and unify techniques from user modeling, machine vision, intelligent user interfaces, human/computer interaction, autonomous and multi-agent systems, natural language understanding, and machine learning.
Plan, Activity,...
Quantifying the User Experience
Practical Statistics for User Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research, Second Edition, provides practitioners and researchers with the information they need to confidently quantify, qualify, and justify their data. The book presents a practical guide on how to use statistics to solve common quantitative...
Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems
Designing for Performance and User Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems: Designing for Performance and User Experience provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the steps necessary to take the leap from research and requirements to product design. The text presents a proven strategy for transforming research into a conceptual...
Social Sensing
Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet. Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data looks at recent advances in the emerging field of social sensing, emphasizing the...
Modern Embedded Computing
Designing Connected, Pervasive, Media-Rich Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Modern Embedded Computing: Designing Connected, Pervasive, Media-Rich Systems provides a thorough understanding of the platform architecture of modern embedded computing systems that drive mobile devices. The book offers a comprehensive view of developing a framework for embedded systems-on-chips....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Economics-driven Software Architecture presents a guide for engineers and architects who need to understand the economic impact of architecture design decisions: the long term and strategic viability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of applications and systems. Economics-driven software development...
by Alan W. Paeth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Graphics Gems V is the newest volume in The Graphics Gems Series. It is intended to provide the graphics community with a set of practical tools for implementing new ideas and techniques, and to offer working solutions to real programming problems. These tools are written by a wide variety of graphics...
Computability, Complexity, and Languages
Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1994
Computability, Complexity, and Languages is an introductory text that covers the key areas of computer science, including recursive function theory, formal languages, and automata. It assumes a minimal background in formal mathematics. The book is divided into five parts: Computability, Grammars...
Green Information Technology
A Sustainable Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized...
Optical Networks
A Practical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Optical Networks, Third Edition continues to be the authoritative source for information on optical networking technologies and techniques. Componentry and transmission are discussed in detail with emphasis on practical networking issues that affect organizations as they evaluate, deploy, or develop...
Silicon Photonics
Fueling the Next Information Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Silicon photonics uses chip-making techniques to fabricate photonic circuits. The emerging technology is coming to market at a time of momentous change. The need of the Internet content providers to keep scaling their data centers is becoming increasing challenging, the chip industry is facing a future...