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In an updated edition, this book explores real-time computing, placing emphasis on predictable scheduling algorithms. Each chapter offers basic concepts followed by algorithms, illustrated with concrete examples, figures and tables, exercises and solutions.

This book offers a hands-on guide to designing, analyzing and debugging a communication infrastructure based on the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. It focuses on practical implementation and the implications of design choices at all levels.

Eschewing advanced mathematics, this volume provides a practical and accessible approach to the technical aspects of guitar-making, including complete coverage of alternative materials such as composites as well as background and historical information.

This book presents a unified approach to understanding the diverse phenomena observed at metal-dielectric interfaces. It offers a clear account of the relationship between interface science and its applications in interconnect structures.

This book addresses several well-known and new canonical location discovery problems in WSN, including engineering change-based node addition, design and operation of location discovery infrastructure for mobile users, and various security issues.

Covering 100 medicinal plant species of the Lesser Himalayas including Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, this book reviews ethnobotanical aspects, marketing and anthropogenic pressures, and also includes scientific description and traditional uses.

The primary goal of instructional design is improving the quality of learning and instruction. Many of the available books treat instruction as a formal process that proceeds according to specific and detailed instructional systems development models (see, for example, Dick, Carey & Carey, 2005).

This book presents key concepts in stochastic approaches for systems biology. It focuses on both analytical and numerical approaches and features Matlab examples as well as many illustrations.

As supply chain management has matured, maintaining the precise flow of goods to manage schedules (and minimize inventories) on a just-in-time basis still presents major challenges.

This is the first ever book that provides a comprehensive coverage of automotive control systems. The presentation of dynamic models in the text is also unique. The dynamic models are tractable while retaining the level of richness that is necessary for control system design. Much of the mateiral in the book is not available in any other text.

Electrostatic Discharge is a pervasive issue in the semiconductor industry affecting both manufacturers and users of semiconductors. This easy-to-read, practical handbook presents an overview of ESD as it effects electronic circuits and provides a concise introduction for students, engineers, circuit designers and failure analysts.

This text captures the important relationship between religion and the family with a review of relevant literature on the subject, synthesizing it within a theoretical framework. The book shows how these two social institutions work - or don't work together. Literature is drawn from folk religion, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Surgical excision of cancers of the nose typically requires reconstruction. This book offers guided surgical techniques and references, providing insight and practical guidance to the surgeon and trainee performing nasal reconstructions.

This book provides a comprehensive guide for practitioners who wish to understand, construct, and analyze intelligent systems for decision support based on probabilistic networks. The theory and methods presented are illustrated through more than 140 examples.

Depth recovery is important in machine vision applications when a 3-dimensional structure must be derived from 2-dimensional images. This is an active area of research with applications ranging from industrial robotics to military imaging.

It provides a synthesis of two scientific traditions: the high-performance, but often proprietary, Western designs, and the elaborate national standards based on less advanced Eastern designs; Designers will find this book ready with required data, design methods and equations.

Journey through Mathematics offers an in-depth look at some of the most important aspects of about two thousand years of mathematical history. Topics include trigonometry and logarithms, complex numbers, infinite series, calculus, and some of the lesser known, but crucial contributors to modern day mathematics.

The treatment is mathematically rigorous and covers a variety of topics in finance including forward and futures contracts, the Black-Scholes model, European and American type options, free boundary problems, lookback options, interest rate models, interest rate derivatives, swaps, caps, floors, and collars.

This text bridges the gap between standard models, and those where the dynamic structure of the data manifests itself fully. The common thread is stochastic processes. The authors show how martingales and stochastic integrals fit with censored data.

This book presents a thorough development of the modern theory of stochastic approximation or recursive stochastic algorithms for both constrained and unconstrained problems. This second edition is a thorough revision, although the main features and structure remain unchanged.

This book examines recent results in the study of the generalized solutions of operator equations and extreme elements in linear topological spaces. The material presented here offers new methods of identifying these solutions and studying their properties.

This book introduces the notion of an E-semigroup, a generalization of the known concept of E_O-semigroup. These objects are families of endomorphisms of a von Neumann algebra satisfying certain natural algebraic and continuity conditions. Its thorough approach is ideal for graduate students and research mathematicians.

In an extensively updated new edition, this book teaches stochastic programming, with new approaches for discrete variables, new results on risk measures in modeling and Monte Carlo sampling methods, a new chapter on relationships to other methods and more.

As a rigorous analytic framework for dealing with this increasingly serious problem, this engagingly written work for the economics non-specialist brims with tables, charts, and case studies and lays out the economic concepts in clear, real-world terms.

This book offers an introduction to the design and application of participatory systems modeling with diverse communities. Topics span the entire process, from initial engagement and conceptualization to model building, analysis, and project evaluation.

This book surveys theoretical computer science, presenting fundamental concepts and results. Updated and revised, the new edition includes two new chapters on nonuniform complexity, circuit complexity and parallel complexity, and randomized complexity.

Based on a comprehensive analysis of the second International Self-Report Delinquency study (ISRD-2), this book interprets one of the first large-scale international studies to ask 12-16 year olds about their victimization experiences.