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Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties

Advanced SQL Programming

by Joe Celko ...

Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 10 years later and in the third edition, this classic still reigns supreme as the book written by an SQL master that teaches future SQL masters. These are not just tips and techniques; Joe also offers the best solutions to old and new ... Read more

$58.49 USD

SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 10 years later and in the third edition, this classic still reigns supreme as the book written by an SQL master that teaches future SQL masters. These are not just tips and techniques; Joe also offers the best solutions to old and new
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PROGRAMMARE IN C# 10 - Tecniche di base

by Mario De Ghetto ...

Vuoi imparare le tecniche di base per programmare in C# 10 e acquisire un livello di conoscenza sufficiente per iniziare a creare le tue applicazioni? Vuoi conoscere come funzionano .NET 6.0, il compilatore, il Garbage Collector e Visual Studio 2022? Vuoi iniziare a porre le basi per la tua nuova professione nel campo dello sviluppo del software? Oppure semplicemente devi superare degli esami ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Vuoi imparare le tecniche di base per programmare in C# 10 e acquisire un livello di conoscenza sufficiente per iniziare a creare le tue applicazioni? Vuoi conoscere come funzionano .NET 6.0, il compilatore, il Garbage Collector e Visual Studio 2022? Vuoi iniziare a porre le basi per la tua nuova professione nel campo dello sviluppo del software? Oppure semplicemente devi superare degli esami
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SDL Game Development

by Shaun Ross Mitchell ...

Written as a practical and engaging tutorial, SDL Game Development guides you through developing your own framework and the creation of two engaging games.If you know C++ and you're looking to make great games from the ground up, then this book is perfect for you. ... Read more

$26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Written as a practical and engaging tutorial, SDL Game Development guides you through developing your own framework and the creation of two engaging games.If you know C++ and you're looking to make great games from the ground up, then this book is perfect for you.
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Digital Decisioning

Using Decision Management to Deliver Business Impact from AI

by James Taylor ...

"I've worked as a C-level executive in multiple insurance companies and engaged countless strategy consultants, IT consultants and technology vendors over the past two decades. This book describes the only approach that has actually allowed me to operationalize predictive models and deliver real ROI!"Digital Decisioning ensures your systems act intelligently on your behalf, making precise, ... Read more

$18.99 USD

"I've worked as a C-level executive in multiple insurance companies and engaged countless strategy consultants, IT consultants and technology vendors over the past two decades. This book describes the only approach that has actually allowed me to operationalize predictive models and deliver real ROI!"Digital Decisioning ensures your systems act intelligently on your behalf, making precise,
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Expert T-SQL Window Functions in SQL Server

by Clayton Groom, Kathi Kellenberger ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Expert T-SQL Window Functions in SQL Server takes you from any level of knowledge of windowing functions and turns you into an expert who can use these powerful functions to solve many T-SQL queries. Replace slow cursors and self-joins with queries that are easy to write and fantastically better performing, all through the magic of window functions.First introduced in SQL Server 2005, window ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Expert T-SQL Window Functions in SQL Server takes you from any level of knowledge of windowing functions and turns you into an expert who can use these powerful functions to solve many T-SQL queries. Replace slow cursors and self-joins with queries that are easy to write and fantastically better performing, all through the magic of window functions.First introduced in SQL Server 2005, window
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Haptic Teleoperation Systems

Signal Processing Perspective

by Jae-young Lee, Shahram Payandeh ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book examines the signal processing perspective in haptic teleoperation systems. This text covers the topics of prediction, estimation, architecture, data compression and error correction that can be applied to haptic teleoperation systems. The authors begin with an overview of haptic teleoperation systems, then look at a Bayesian approach to haptic teleoperation systems. They move onto a ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book examines the signal processing perspective in haptic teleoperation systems. This text covers the topics of prediction, estimation, architecture, data compression and error correction that can be applied to haptic teleoperation systems. The authors begin with an overview of haptic teleoperation systems, then look at a Bayesian approach to haptic teleoperation systems. They move onto a
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Reversible Logic Synthesis Methodologies with Application to Quantum Computing

by Saleem Mohammed Ridha Taha ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book opens the door to a new interesting and ambitious world of reversible and quantum computing research. It presents the state of the art required to travel around that world safely. Top world universities, companies and government institutions are in a race of developing new methodologies, algorithms and circuits on reversible logic, quantum logic, reversible and quantum computing and nano ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book opens the door to a new interesting and ambitious world of reversible and quantum computing research. It presents the state of the art required to travel around that world safely. Top world universities, companies and government institutions are in a race of developing new methodologies, algorithms and circuits on reversible logic, quantum logic, reversible and quantum computing and nano
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Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

9th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2017, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, November 1-3, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Ana Fred, David Aveiro, Jan L. G. Dietz, Kecheng Liu, Jorge Bernardino, Ana Salgado, Joaquim Filipe ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2017, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in November 2017.The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2017, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in November 2017.The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and
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High Performance Computing

ISC High Performance 2018 International Workshops, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, June 28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Rio Yokota, Michèle Weiland, John Shalf, Sadaf Alam ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 13 workshops held at the 33rd International ISC High Performance 2018 Conference, in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2018: HPC I/O in the Data Center, HPC-IODC 2018; Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems, WOPSSS 2018; 13th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, VHPC 2018; Third International ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 13 workshops held at the 33rd International ISC High Performance 2018 Conference, in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2018: HPC I/O in the Data Center, HPC-IODC 2018; Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems, WOPSSS 2018; 13th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, VHPC 2018; Third International
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High-Performance Computing Applications in Numerical Simulation and Edge Computing

ACM ICS 2018 International Workshops, HPCMS and HiDEC, Beijing, China, June 12, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Changjun Hu, Wen Yang, Congfeng Jiang, Dong Dai ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the referred proceedings of two workshops held at the 32nd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, ACM ICS 2018, in Beijing, China, in June 2018. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Second International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Nuclear Energy and Environmental ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of two workshops held at the 32nd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, ACM ICS 2018, in Beijing, China, in June 2018. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Second International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Nuclear Energy and Environmental
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Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

24th International Symposium, IFL 2012, Oxford, UK, August 30 - September 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Ralf Hinze ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book contains the selected peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 24th International Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages, IFL 2012, held in Oxford, UK, in August/September 2012. The 14 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 revised submissions received from originally 37 presentations at the conference. The papers relate ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This book contains the selected peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 24th International Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages, IFL 2012, held in Oxford, UK, in August/September 2012. The 14 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 revised submissions received from originally 37 presentations at the conference. The papers relate
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Digitalisation, Innovation, and Transformation

18th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2018, Reading, UK, July 16-18, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Kecheng Liu, Keiichi Nakata, Weizi Li, Cecilia Baranauskas ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2018, held in Reading, UK, in July 2018.The 30 full papers and 4 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: organisational semiotics: theory and application; ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2018, held in Reading, UK, in July 2018.The 30 full papers and 4 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: organisational semiotics: theory and application;
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Advances in Human Factors in Sports and Outdoor Recreation

Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors in Sports and Outdoor Recreation, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA

Edited by Paul Salmon, Anne-Claire Macquet ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sport and outdoor recreation disciplines and provides practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in sports domains. Contributions in this book show how various human factors methods, applied historically in the complex safety critical domains, are suited ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sport and outdoor recreation disciplines and provides practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in sports domains. Contributions in this book show how various human factors methods, applied historically in the complex safety critical domains, are suited
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Design of Video Quality Metrics with Multi-Way Data Analysis

A data driven approach

by Christian Keimel ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book proposes a data-driven methodology using multi-way data analysis for the design of video-quality metrics. It also enables video- quality metrics to be created using arbitrary features. This data- driven design approach not only requires no detailed knowledge of the human visual system, but also allows a proper consideration of the temporal nature of video using a three-way prediction ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book proposes a data-driven methodology using multi-way data analysis for the design of video-quality metrics. It also enables video- quality metrics to be created using arbitrary features. This data- driven design approach not only requires no detailed knowledge of the human visual system, but also allows a proper consideration of the temporal nature of video using a three-way prediction
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Computer Supported Education

7th International Conference, CSEDU 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Susan Zvacek, Maria Teresa Restivo, James Uhomoibhi, Markus Helfert ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2015.The 34 revised full papers presented together with an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The papers address topics such as information technologies supporting learning; learning/teaching ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2015.The 34 revised full papers presented together with an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The papers address topics such as information technologies supporting learning; learning/teaching
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Cross-Cultural Computing: An Artist's Journey

by Naoko Tosa ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This exciting new book explores the relationship between cultural traditions and computers, looking at how people from very different cultures and backgrounds communicate and how the use of information technologies can support and enhance these dialogues.Historically we developed our understanding of other cultures through traditional means (museums, printed literature, etc.) but the advent of ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This exciting new book explores the relationship between cultural traditions and computers, looking at how people from very different cultures and backgrounds communicate and how the use of information technologies can support and enhance these dialogues.Historically we developed our understanding of other cultures through traditional means (museums, printed literature, etc.) but the advent of
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Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Keras

Build and deploy supervised, unsupervised, deep, and reinforcement learning models, 3rd Edition

by Amita Kapoor, Antonio Gulli, Sujit Pal, Francois Chollet ...

Build cutting edge machine and deep learning systems for the lab, production, and mobile devices.Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesUnderstand the fundamentals of deep learning and machine learning through clear explanations and extensive code samplesImplement graph neural networks, transformers using Hugging Face and TensorFlow Hub, and joint and ... Read more

$35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Build cutting edge machine and deep learning systems for the lab, production, and mobile devices.Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesUnderstand the fundamentals of deep learning and machine learning through clear explanations and extensive code samplesImplement graph neural networks, transformers using Hugging Face and TensorFlow Hub, and joint and
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Adaptive Instructional Systems. Design and Evaluation

Third International Conference, AIS 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24–29, 2021, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Robert A. Sottilare, Jessica Schwarz ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This two-volume set LNCS 12792 and 12793 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Instructional Systems, AIS 2021, held as Part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 ... Read more

$107.99 USD

This two-volume set LNCS 12792 and 12793 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Instructional Systems, AIS 2021, held as Part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021
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Applied Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise

by Ankur A. Patel, Ajay Uppili Arasanipalai ...

NLP has exploded in popularity over the last few years. But while Google, Facebook, OpenAI, and others continue to release larger language models, many teams still struggle with building NLP applications that live up to the hype. This hands-on guide helps you get up to speed on the latest and most promising trends in NLP.With a basic understanding of machine learning and some Python experience, ... Read more

$53.99 USD

NLP has exploded in popularity over the last few years. But while Google, Facebook, OpenAI, and others continue to release larger language models, many teams still struggle with building NLP applications that live up to the hype. This hands-on guide helps you get up to speed on the latest and most promising trends in NLP.With a basic understanding of machine learning and some Python experience,
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Emotion Recognition using Speech Features

by K. Sreenivasa Rao, Shashidhar G. Koolagudi ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
“Emotion Recognition Using Speech Features” provides coverage of emotion-specific features present in speech. The author also discusses suitable models for capturing emotion-specific information for distinguishing different emotions. The content of this book is important for designing and developing natural and sophisticated speech systems. In this Brief, Drs. Rao and Koolagudi lead a discussion ... Read more

$49.99 USD

“Emotion Recognition Using Speech Features” provides coverage of emotion-specific features present in speech. The author also discusses suitable models for capturing emotion-specific information for distinguishing different emotions. The content of this book is important for designing and developing natural and sophisticated speech systems. In this Brief, Drs. Rao and Koolagudi lead a discussion
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Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

Flexible, Robust Services for Queries, Mutations, and Subscriptions

by Bruce Williams, Ben Wilson ...

Your domain is rich and interconnected, and your API should be too. Upgrade your web API to GraphQL, leveraging its flexible queries to empower your users, and its declarative structure to simplify your code. Absinthe is the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, a functional programming language designed to enable massive concurrency atop robust application architectures. Written by the creators of Absinthe ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Your domain is rich and interconnected, and your API should be too. Upgrade your web API to GraphQL, leveraging its flexible queries to empower your users, and its declarative structure to simplify your code. Absinthe is the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, a functional programming language designed to enable massive concurrency atop robust application architectures. Written by the creators of Absinthe
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A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, Volume 1

by Jay Wengrow ...

p>If you thought data structures and algorithms were all just theory, you're missing out on what they can do for your Python code. Learn to use Big O notation to make your code run faster by orders of magnitude. Choose from data structures such as hash tables, trees, and graphs to increase your code's efficiency exponentially. With simple language and clear diagrams, this book makes this complex ... Read more

$35.99 USD

p>If you thought data structures and algorithms were all just theory, you're missing out on what they can do for your Python code. Learn to use Big O notation to make your code run faster by orders of magnitude. Choose from data structures such as hash tables, trees, and graphs to increase your code's efficiency exponentially. With simple language and clear diagrams, this book makes this complex
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Neural Systems to Data Science

Edited by Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Eros Pasero ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book provides an overview on the current progresses in artificial intelligence and neural nets in data science. The book is reporting on intelligent algorithms and applications modeling, prediction, and recognition tasks and many other application areas supporting complex multimodal systems to enhance and improve human–machine or human–human interactions. This field is broadly addressed by ... Read more

$179.99 USD

This book provides an overview on the current progresses in artificial intelligence and neural nets in data science. The book is reporting on intelligent algorithms and applications modeling, prediction, and recognition tasks and many other application areas supporting complex multimodal systems to enhance and improve human–machine or human–human interactions. This field is broadly addressed by
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The AI-Driven Data Team

Improve Your Analytics with AI

by Nicholas Kelly ...

Rapidly transform your analytics teams to deliver AI-driven insights.The AI-Driven Data Team by Nicholas Kelly is a proven-to-work playbook for data and analytics leaders who want to align analytics capabilities with the demands of an AI-powered business environment. Written for leaders accountable for data, analytics and business intelligence, this book provides tools for diagnosing capability ... Read more

$38.99 USD

Rapidly transform your analytics teams to deliver AI-driven insights.The AI-Driven Data Team by Nicholas Kelly is a proven-to-work playbook for data and analytics leaders who want to align analytics capabilities with the demands of an AI-powered business environment. Written for leaders accountable for data, analytics and business intelligence, this book provides tools for diagnosing capability
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