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More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form
ISBN: 9780719063657 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, readable manner. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.
The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices ...
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Deductive Databases and Their Applications
ISBN: 9780748407972 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deductive Databases and their Applications is an introductory text aimed at undergraduate students with some knowledge of database and information systems. The text comes complete with exercises and solutions to encourage students to tackle problems practically as well as theoretically. The author presents the origins of deductive databases in Prologue before proceeding to analyse the main deductive database paradigm - the data-log model. The final chapters are dedicated to closely related topics such as prepositional expert systems, integrity constraint specification and evaluation, and...
Deductive Databases and their Applications is an introductory text aimed at undergraduate students with some knowledge of database and information sys...
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352,59 |
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Scientific Programmer's Toolkit: Turbo Pascal Edition
ISBN: 9780750301275 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Scientific Programmer's Toolkit: Turbo Pascal Edition presents a complete software environment for anyone writing programs in mathematical, engineering, or science areas. This toolkit package is designed for use with Turbo Pascal, the de facto standard Pascal system for PC and compatible machines.
The book and its software provides an integrated software library of programming tools. The programs and routines fall into three categories: graphical, mathematical, and utilities. Routines are further subdivided into three levels that reflect the experience of the user. For graphics and... The Scientific Programmer's Toolkit: Turbo Pascal Edition presents a complete software environment for anyone writing programs in mathematical, engine...
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Computer-Aided Graphics and Design
ISBN: 9780824791643 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text, now in its third edition, presents all common methods of computer/automated graphical construction most helpful to the engineering student, draftsperson or designer, describing, in easy-to-understand terms, a wide range of hardware platforms that will run a single set of software options from the Autodesk Corporation.
This text, now in its third edition, presents all common methods of computer/automated graphical construction most helpful to the engineering student,...
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587,73 |
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Disruptive Security Technologies with Mobile Code and Peer-To-Peer Networks
ISBN: 9780849322723 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference on network security integrates material on mobile computing and peer-to-peer communications. The author presents the initial steps that can be used to create systems that overcome security attacks through adaptation as opposed to the earlier fortress mentality, and provides instruction on creating disruptive applications that are much more secure than in the past. The book provides a fundamental understanding of design principles, and provides a model explaining mobile code and the methods that can be used to design secure robust peer-to-peer networks. Also included are recent...
This reference on network security integrates material on mobile computing and peer-to-peer communications. The author presents the initial steps that...
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734,66 |
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Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach [With Dvdrom]
ISBN: 9781558609211 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Games are poised for a major evolution, driven by growth in technical sophistication and audience reach. Characters that create powerful social and emotional connections with players throughout the game-play itself (not just in cut scenes) will be essential to next-generation games. However, the principles of sophisticated character design and interaction are not widely understood within the game development community. Further complicating the situation are powerful gender and cultural issues that can influence perception of characters. Katherine Isbister has spent the last 10 years examining...
Games are poised for a major evolution, driven by growth in technical sophistication and audience reach. Characters that create powerful social and em...
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308,51 |
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The Dictionary of Multimedia 1999: Terms and Acronyms
ISBN: 9781579580841 / Angielski / Twarda / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This updated edition of the dictionary now contains over 3000 terms. There are several new features, including: in-depth treatment of Internet technologies such as JavaScript, SML, HTML 4.0; analysis of new video codecs such as DVD, MPEG-2, VRML, Dolby Audio; new bus architectures and operating systems; updated treatment of new hardware; JAVA programming references.
This updated edition of the dictionary now contains over 3000 terms. There are several new features, including: in-depth treatment of Internet technol...
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Scalable and Secure Internet Services and Architecture
ISBN: 9781584883777 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scalable and Secure Internet Services and Architecture provides an in-depth analysis of many key scaling technologies. Topics include: server clusters and load balancing; QoS-aware resource management; server capacity planning; Web caching and prefetching; P2P overlay network; mobile code and security; and mobility support for adaptive grid computing.
The author discusses each topic by first defining a problem, then reviewing current representative approaches for solving it. He then describes in detail the underlying principles of the technologies and the application of these principles,... Scalable and Secure Internet Services and Architecture provides an in-depth analysis of many key scaling technologies. Topics include: server clusters...
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808,12 |
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Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis
ISBN: 9781584883975 / Angielski / Twarda / 1216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Researchers in management, industrial engineering, operations, and computer science have intensely studied scheduling for more than 50 years, resulting in an astounding body of knowledge in this field. Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis, the first handbook on scheduling, provides full coverage of the most recent and advanced topics on the subject. It assembles researchers from all relevant disciplines in order to facilitate cross-fertilization and create new scheduling insights.
The book comprises six major parts, each of which breaks down into smaller... Researchers in management, industrial engineering, operations, and computer science have intensely studied scheduling for more than 50 years, resultin...
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1053,01 |
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Handbook of Computational Molecular Biology
ISBN: 9781584884064 / Angielski / Twarda / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The enormous complexity of biological systems at the molecular level must be answered with powerful computational methods. Computational biology is a young field, but has seen rapid growth and advancement over the past few decades. Surveying the progress made in this multidisciplinary field, the Handbook of Computational Molecular Biology offers comprehensive, systematic coverage of the various techniques and methodologies currently available. Accomplished researcher Srinivas Aluru leads a team of experts from around the world to produce this groundbreaking, authoritative reference. With...
The enormous complexity of biological systems at the molecular level must be answered with powerful computational methods. Computational biology is a ...
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1108,43 |
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Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures
ISBN: 9781584884477 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until now, there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative execution, a topic that is crucial to the development of high performance computer architectures. Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures describes many recent advances in speculative execution techniques. It covers cutting-edge research projects, as well as numerous commercial implementations that demonstrate the value of this latency-hiding technique.
The book begins with a review of control speculation techniques that use instruction cache prefetching, branch prediction and... Until now, there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative execution, a topic that is crucial to the development of high p...
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759,15 |
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Adversarial Reasoning: Computational Approaches to Reading the Opponent's Mind
ISBN: 9781584885887 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rising tide of threats, from financial cybercrime to asymmetric military conflicts, demands greater sophistication in tools and techniques of law enforcement, commercial and domestic security professionals, and terrorism prevention. Concentrating on computational solutions to determine or anticipate an adversary's intent, Adversarial Reasoning: Computational Approaches to Reading the Opponent's Mind discusses the technologies for opponent strategy prediction, plan recognition, deception discovery and planning, and strategy formulation that not only applies to security issues but... The rising tide of threats, from financial cybercrime to asymmetric military conflicts, demands greater sophistication in tools and techniques of l... |
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661,20 |
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Computational Methods of Feature Selection
ISBN: 9781584888789 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feature selection is an essential step for successful data mining applications and has practical significance in many areas, such as statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, and knowledge discovery. Through a clear, concise, and coherent presentation of topics, Computational Methods of Feature Selection systematically covers the key concepts, representative approaches, and inventive applications of various aspects of feature selection. The book bridges the widening gap between existing texts and rapid developments in the field by presenting recent research works from... Feature selection is an essential step for successful data mining applications and has practical significance in many areas, such as statistics, pa... |
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612,21 |
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Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications
ISBN: 9781584889090 / Angielski / Twarda / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the highly anticipated petascale computers of the near future will perform at an order of magnitude faster than today s quickest supercomputer, the scaling up of algorithms and applications for this class of computers remains a tough challenge. From scalable algorithm design for massive concurrency toperformance analyses and scientific visualization, Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications captures the state of the art in high-performance computing algorithms and applications. Featuring contributions from the world s leading experts in computational science, this edited...
Although the highly anticipated petascale computers of the near future will perform at an order of magnitude faster than today s quickest supercompute...
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661,20 |
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Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
ISBN: 9781584889335 / Angielski / Twarda / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Equipping you with the tools to explore the world of the semantic Web, this practical resource builds a firm foundation in the concept of the semantic Web, its principal technologies, its real-world applications, and its relevant coding examples. After an introduction to the semantic Web concept, the book discusses its major technical enablers and the relationships among these components. The author then presents several applications of the semantic Web, including Swoogle, FOAF, and a detailed design of a semantic Web search engine. The book concludes with discussions on how to add semantics...
Equipping you with the tools to explore the world of the semantic Web, this practical resource builds a firm foundation in the concept of the semantic...
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710,17 |
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Introduction to 3D Game Engine Design Using DirectX 9 and C#
ISBN: 9781590590812 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This tutorial goes through the requirements for a game engine and addresses those requirements using the applicable aspects of DirectX with C#. This tutorial goes through the requirements for a game engine and addresses those requirements using the applicable aspects of DirectX with C#. ... |
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Pro Java 6 3D Game Development: Java 3d, Jogl, Jinput and Joal APIs
ISBN: 9781590598177 / Angielski / Twarda / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Create strange lands filled with mysterious objects (cows frozen in blocks of ice, chirping penguins, golden globes with wavering eyes) and throw away your keyboard and mouse, to go exploring armed only with a gamepad, power glove, or just your bare hands Java gaming expert Andrew Davison will show you how to develop and program 3D games in Java technology on a PC, with an emphasis on the construction of 3D landscapes. It's assumed you have a reasonable knowledge of Java--the sort of thing picked up in a first Java course at school. Topics are split into three... Create strange lands filled with mysterious objects (cows frozen in blocks of ice, chirping penguins, golden globes with wavering eyes) and throw a... |
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Recent Progress in Computational Sciences and Engineering
ISBN: 9789004155428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings together selected contributed papers presented at the International Conference of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE 2006), held in Chania, Greece, October 2006. This conference aims to bring together computational scientists from several disciplines in order to share methods and ideas.
Brings together selected contributed papers presented at the International Conference of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE 2006...
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1175,45 |
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Stochastic Linear Programming Algorithms: A Comparison Based on a Model Management System
ISBN: 9789056991449 / Angielski / Twarda / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A computationally oriented comparison of solution algorithms for two stage and jointly chance constrained stochastic linear programming problems, this is the first book to present comparative computational results with several major stochastic programming solution approaches.
The following methods are considered: regularized decomposition, stochastic decomposition and successive discrete approximation methods for two stage problems; cutting plane methods, and a reduced gradient method for jointly chance constrained problems. The first part of the book introduces the algorithms,... A computationally oriented comparison of solution algorithms for two stage and jointly chance constrained stochastic linear programming problems, this...
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426,05 |
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Analysis and Modelling of Discrete Dynamical Systems
ISBN: 9789056996253 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of dynamical systems, or mappings, plays an important role in various disciplines of modern physics, including celestial mechanics and fluid mechanics. This comprehensive introduction to the general study of mappings has particular emphasis on their applications to the dynamics of the solar system. The book forms a bridge between continuous systems, which are suited to analytical developments and to discrete systems, which are suitable for numerical exploration.
Featuring chapters based on lectures delivered at the School on Discrete Dynamical Systems (Aussois, France, February... The theory of dynamical systems, or mappings, plays an important role in various disciplines of modern physics, including celestial mechanics and flui...
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406,47 |