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Morgan Kaufmann

  • RISC System/6000 PowerPC System Architecture

    • 1st Edition
    • International Business Machines, Inc.
    • English
    Offers support for a wide range of products for the RISC System/6000product line and AIX operating system, including Uni-processor (UP) andSymmetric Multiple Processor (SMP) systems. Provides important informationfor building many system features such as memory controllers with cachesand bus-to-bus bridges. RISC System/ 6000 PowerPC System Architecturedefines an architecture that allows each operating system--in particular,the AIX operating system--to run unchanged on all systems that comply withthis architecture. It provides a consistent software interface across abroad range of system implementations and offers all hardware/softwaredep... necessary for a successful system identification,confi... and performance tuning process.An important reference for all programmers and product developmentengineers who are developing software and hardware products for theRISC/System 6000 PowerPC systems. Also useful for system programmersinvolved in operating system design, system integrators building productsand parts for the system family, and anyone interested in porting otheroperating systems to the RISC System/6000 family.

  • Intelligent Scheduling

    • 1st Edition
    • Monte Zweben + 1 more
    • English
    Scheduling complex processes, such as chemical manufacturing or space shuttle launches, is a focus of substantial effort throughout industry and government. In the past 20 years, the fields of operations research and operations management have tackled scheduling problems with considerable success. Recently, the artificial intelligence community has turned its attention to this class of problems, resulting in a fresh corpus of research and application that extends previous results.This book, comprising original contributions from experts in the field, highlights these new advances. These chapters present complete systems, stressing their unique characteristics, rather than presenting simple research results. Applications-oriente... chapters are also included to inform researchers of state-of-the-art methodologies. Researchers and practitioners in industry and government will find this book valuable. It will also serve as an ideal text for a graduate course in knowledge-based scheduling.

  • Radiosity and Global Illumination

    • 1st Edition
    • François Sillion + 1 more
    • English
    The radiosity method, originally a computation tool for thermal engineers, has evolved in recent years into a powerful and flexible simulation technique for radiant energy transfer. The ability to compute quantitatively accurate simulations of light transfers has opened a vast domain of applications for computer graphics. Thermal radiation studies, lighting design and remote sensing are a few of the fields affected by this exciting technique for producing synthetic images.Here, the authors reformulate some of the most recent and innovative research results into a consistent framework, allowing readers to quickly acquire a comprehensive view of the technique and its derivatives. In addition to reviewing practical issues and offering recommendations, the authors also provide a complete theoretical presentation of the various radiosity algorithms.Special highlights include 93 illustrations and 45 color plates and a practical guide which provides detailed information on various design issues for the development of global illumination software.

  • DARPA Proceedings

    Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative
    • 1st Edition
    • DARPA
    • English

  • Graphics Gems IV (IBM Version)

    • 1st Edition
    • Paul Heckbert
    • English
    Graphics Gems IV is the newest volume in the Graphics Gems series. All of the books in the series contain practical solutions for graphics problems using the latest techniques in the field. The books in this series have become essential, time saving toolsfor many programmers. Volume IV is a collection of carefully crafted gems which are all new and innovative. All of the gems are immediately accessible and useful in formulating clean, fast, and elegant programs. The C programming language has been used for most of the program listings, although several of the gems have C++ implementations. *IBM version Includes one 3 1/2" high-density disk. System Requirements: 286 or higher IBM PC compatible, DOS 4.0 or higher

  • Cost-Justifying Usability

    • 1st Edition
    • Randolph G. Bias + 1 more
    • English
    Today's increasingly competitive and fiscally constrained business environment is fostering the need to cut costs and justify expenditures. Usability engineering is not yet universally accepted, nor is it yet an integrated aspect of software engineering, and would-be usability champions need more help than ever to win the funding necessary to introduce and promote usability engineering techniques.Cost-Just... Usability is the first book to address pragmatically and in detail the question of how usability engineering professionals and their managers can cost-justify their proposals and efforts. The book offers specific techniques for quantifying costs and benefits, making a convincing and successful business case for investment in usability engineering.This book comprises a thorough and well-integrated collection of chapters written by experienced and prominent usability experts. Taken together, these chapters provide readers with:An overall framework for cost-justifying usability engineering programs that can be applied to any contextAn examination of the unique factors and issues in cost-justifying usability efforts for three very different types of organizations: vendor companies, international development organizations, and contractor companiesCase studies of successful cost-justification effortsA look at some special issues regarding cost-justification of usability, including"discount"u... engineering techniques, success factors for introducing usability engineering into development organizations, specialized tools for usability cost-justification, and a look to the future of usability engineeringPractical and effective insight for human factors professionals, interface designers, software development managers, and human factors educators

  • Parallel Computing Works!

    • 1st Edition
    • Geoffrey C. Fox + 2 more
    • English
    A clear illustration of how parallel computers can be successfully appliedto large-scale scientific computations. This book demonstrates how avariety of applications in physics, biology, mathematics and other scienceswere implemented on real parallel computers to produce new scientificresults. It investigates issues of fine-grained parallelism relevant forfuture supercomputers with particular emphasis on hypercube architecture.The authors describe how they used an experimental approach to configuredifferent massively parallel machines, design and implement basic systemsoftware, and develop algorithms for frequently used mathematicalcomputat... They also devise performance models, measure the performancecharacter... of several computers, and create a high-performancecomp... facility based exclusively on parallel computers. By addressingall issues involved in scientific problem solving, Parallel ComputingWorks! provides valuable insight into computational science for large-scaleparallel architectures. For those in the sciences, the findings reveal theusefulness of an important experimental tool. Anyone in supercomputing andrelated computational fields will gain a new perspective on the potentialcontributio... of parallelism. Includes over 30 full-color illustrations.

  • Machine Learning

    A Multistrategy Approach, Volume IV
    • 1st Edition
    • Ryszard S. Michalski + 1 more
    • English
    Multistrategy learning is one of the newest and most promising research directions in the development of machine learning systems. The objectives of research in this area are to study trade-offs between different learning strategies and to develop learning systems that employ multiple types of inference or computational paradigms in a learning process. Multistrategy systems offer significant advantages over monostrategy systems. They are more flexible in the type of input they can learn from and the type of knowledge they can acquire. As a consequence, multistrategy systems have the potential to be applicable to a wide range of practical problems. This volume is the first book in this fast growing field. It contains a selection of contributions by leading researchers specializing in this area.

  • Computability, Complexity, and Languages

    Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science
    • 2nd Edition
    • Martin Davis + 2 more
    • English
    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 and Automata, Logic, Complexity, and Unsolvability.

  • The MIPS Programmer's Handbook

    • 1st Edition
    • Erin Farquhar + 1 more
    • English
    A hands-on view of the highly successful MIPS family of microprocessors, written for programmers developing systems applications for the MIPS platform. The MIPS Programmer's Handbook describes the MIPS architecture from the perspective of assembly- and C-language programmers, with special emphasis on issues related to embedded applications. Engineers writing system-level programs for MIPS-based embedded systems will find the topic selection especially useful including the sections on software conventions, initializing the processor in a bare machine environment, and writing exception handlers. For convenient use, the instruction set reference is presented with only one page per instruction. The authors focus on the instructions available to assembly-language programmers, rather than on the hardware-level instruction set documented in data books released by vendors of the MIPS processor. Provides enough detail for anyone doing serious system-level programming. Also included are ten complete program examples, with line-by-line explanations.

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