This is a rigorous and complete textbook for a first course on information retrieval from the computer science perspective. It provides an up-to-date student oriented treatment of information retrieval including extensive coverage of new topics such as web retrieval, web crawling, open source search engines and user interfaces.
In an age of me-too products and instant communications, keeping up with the competition is not a winning strategy. You have to out-position, out-maneuver, and out-design the competition. Written by the bestseller "The Brand Gap", this title illustrates the first discipline for building a high-performance brand-radical differentiation.
Contains techniques for estimating and planning any agile project. This is the practical guide to estimating and planning agile projects. It discusses the philosophy of agile estimating and planning and shows you how to get the job done, with real-world examples and case studies. It supports agile, semiagile, or iterative process.
Provides a catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable of messaging and help design effective messaging solutions for an enterprise. This book includes examples covering a variety of different integration technologies, and explores the advantages and limitations of asynchronous messaging architectures.
Suitable for courses in System Identification, this book provides a description of the theory, methodology and practice of System Identification - the science of building mathematical models of dynamic systems by observing input/output data. It includes material on subspace methods, non-linear black box models - such as neural networks.
Containing a chapter on Intelligent Multivariable Measurement Systems, this book covers solid state sensors. Presenting material on structure, software and applications of microcontrollers, it includes a chapter on Data Presentation. It is aimed at students taking modules in measurement and instrumentation as part of degree courses.
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