Theory & Design Books

Frequently not enough attention is given to producing a comprehensive business case or to producing an economic justification for an information systems investment. In fact many organizations are not clear as to what constitutes a sound business case and how to go about producing one. This Professio...

This is your definitive guide to computing concepts! Motivate your students to reveal the relevancy of technology. O'Leary, "Computing Essentials 2011" provides you with a complete learning package, focusing on the most important and essential concepts of information technology. Students are given a...

Are you looking for a book that focuses on just the most important and most useful stuff about your iPod (including the iPod touch, the nano, shuffle, and the iTunes Store)? Well, this is it! There are basically two kinds of iPod books: (1) The "tell-me-all-about-it" kind, which include in...

"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In "Turing's Cathedral," George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Prince...

Our computers and mobile devices do wonderful things for us. But they also impose a burden, making it harder for us to focus, do our best work, build strong relationships, and find the depth and fulfillment we crave. How to solve this problem? "Hamlet's BlackBerry" argues that we just need a new wa...

SAP Pricing is one of the most flexible functionalities in the SAP system, but it's also one of the most complex. Project team members and consultants alike avoid having to deal with Pricing. Why is that? Although the standard SAP documentation explains SAP's individual Pricing capabilities, it does...

Take advantage of the phenomenon that is quickly becoming the most effective way to market brands, products, and services - social media. This easy-to-understand book introduces you to blogging, Twitter, social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn, social news and bookmarking sites, forums, opinio...

The computer has revolutionised the modern age of communication and information. It has touched every part of modern working life to the extent that it would now be inconceivable without it. It has increased the speed and power of complex calculations and is without a doubt one of the Twentieth Cent...

This book is a reprint of a 2005 free ebook under Creative Commons License by Seth Godin.

This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-twentieth century and the people who made it possible. Unlike most histories of computing, it is not a book about machines, inventors, or entrepreneurs. Instead, it tells the story of the vast but largely anonymous legions of computer specialis...

Mechanism design is the field of economics that treats institutions and procedures as variables that can be selected in order to achieve desired objectives. An important aspect of a mechanism is the communication among its participants that it requires, which complements other design features such a...

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community--a community of Wikipedians who are expected to "assume good faith" when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture. Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to...

Computing isn't simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In On Computing, Rosenbloom propos...

This Festschrift published in honor of Vladimir Lifschitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday presents 39 articles by colleagues from all over the world with whom Vladimir Lifschitz had cooperation in various respects. The 39 contributions reflect the breadth and the depth of the work of Vladimir L...

This is the second of Bruce Barnbaum's Tone Poems books. It continues his study of our world-and the visual world he has created-with 91 stunning black-and-white photographs in three more opuses. As its title implies, Opus 4, "Between Real and Surreal," deals with aspects of our world that border on...

This large-format book contains 90 superbly reproduced black-and-white photographs divided into three sections, or opuses. Opus 1, "Enigmas, Abstractions and Surprises," centers on a variety of images that are alternatively abstract, experimental, and unexpected. They are drawn from figure studies, ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2012, held in Nizhny Novgorod in July 2012. The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. CSR 2012 was one of the events of the Alan Turing...

This complete introduction to the basics of wireless technology now contains information on 4G!

The full-color, step-by-step guide that makes it easy to get up and running with Windows 8 "Windows 8 QuickSteps" offers a simple, illustrated introduction to the new operating environment. Featuring full-color screenshots and step-by-step instructions, the book walks you through all the exciting ch...

This is the only cloud security book to provide field-tested best practices and considerations for securely migrating data, apps, and services into the cloud.

Apple has announced a major new upgrade for Mac OS X for Summer 2012, and this new edition of the bestselling How to Do Everything: Mac covers all the important new features. With OS X Mountain Lion, Apple will make many iPad-inspired changes to features Mac users are accustomed to, as well as intro...

Written by expert practitioners at the FEAC Institute, this book explains how to implement cloud solutions using proven patterns from the field of enterprise architecture

The resilience of computing systems includes their dependability as well as their fault tolerance and security. It defines the ability of a computing system to perform properly in the presence of various kinds of disturbances and to recover from any service degradation. These properties are immensel...

Since its first volume in 1960, "Advances in Computers" has presented detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects in greater depth and breadth than journal ...

This book demonstrates that the concept of an instruction sequence offers a novel and useful viewpoint on issues relating to diverse subjects in computer science. Selected issues relating to well-known subjects from the theory of computation and the area of computer architecture are rigorously inves...

Description Logics (DLs) is a family of formalisms used to represent knowledge of a domain. They are equipped with a formal logic-based semantics. Knowledge representation systems based on description logics provide various inference capabilities that deduce implicit knowledge from the explicitly re...

Since the advent of the Semantic Web, interest in the dynamics of ontologies (ontology evolution) has grown significantly. Belief revision presents a good theoretical framework for dealing with this problem; however, classical belief revision is not well suited for logics such as Description Logics....

Computing as a discipline is maturing rapidly. However, with maturity often comes a plethora of subdisciplines, which, as time progresses, can become isolationist. The subdisciplines of modelling, metamodelling, ontologies and modelling languages within software engineering e.g. have, to some degree...

This textbook provides an engaging and motivational introduction to traditional topics in discrete mathematics, in a manner specifically designed to appeal to computer science students. The text empowers students to think critically, to be effective problem solvers, to integrate theory and practice,...

The proceedings represent the state of knowledge in the area of algorithmic differentiation (AD). The 31 contributed papers presented at the AD2012 conference cover the application of AD to many areas in science and engineering as well as aspects of AD theory and its implementation in tools. For all...

"Text Mining with MATLAB" provides a comprehensive introduction to text mining using MATLAB. It's designed to help text mining practitioners, as well as those with little-to-no experience with text mining in general, familiarize themselves with MATLAB and its complex applications. The first part pro...

Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to automating Windows(R) administration with Windows PowerShell(R) 3.0 Teach yourself the fundamentals of Windows PowerShell 3.0 command line interface and scripting language - one step at a time. Written by a leading scripting expert, this practical tutorial delive...

OCR and Hodder Education are working together to provide better support for you and your students. Endorsed by OCR for use with the revised OCR A Level ICT specifications for first teaching in September 2012, these separate books integrate with our interactive Dynamic Learning digital support, to pr...

The Foundations of Computational Mathematics meetings are a platform for cross-fertilisation between numerical analysis, mathematics and computer science. This volume is a collection of articles based on plenary presentations, given at the 2011 meeting, by some of the world's foremost authorities in...

Written for those familiar with the basics and active in the area of mobile and ubiquitous computing, this volume contains papers that aid in understanding key issues and problems being tackled in the field. This text illustrates the design, implementation, and deployment of mobile and ubiquitous sy...

* Covers all three mandatory units and a wide selection of optional units. Each unit of the Student Book is presented in topics to ensure the content is accessible and engaging for learners. * Covers of all the underpinning knowledge and understanding needed at Level 2 to ensure that learners are fu...

A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' ChoiceA "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of 2011 In "That Used to Be Us," Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a country---globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits, and our pattern...

Now you can clearly present even the most complex computational theory topics to your students with Sipser's distinct, market-leading "Introduction to the Theory of Computation, 3E, International Edition". The number one choice for today's computational theory course, this highly anticipated revisio...