Practical API Design

A comprehensive practical guide that walks you through the multiple stages of data management in enterprise and gives you numerous design patterns with appropriate code examples to solve frequent prob

Teaching Science and Technology in the Early Years (3-7) celebrates young children’s amazing capabilities as scientists, designers and technologists. Research-based yet practical and accessible, it de

Contrary to popular mythology, the designs of favorable products and successful systems do not appear suddenly, or magically. This second edition of Engineering Design demonstrates that symbolic representation and related problem-solving methods, offer significant opportunities to clarify and articulate concepts of design to lay a better framework for design research and design education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a substantial body of material concerned with understanding and modeling cognitive processes. This book adopts the vocabulary and a paradigm of AI to enhance the presentation and explanation of design. It includes concepts from AI because of their explanatory power and their utility as possible ingredients of practical design activity. This second edition has been enriched by the inclusion of recent work on design reasoning, computational design, AI in design, and design cognition, with pointers to a wide cross section of the current literature.

Aimed at both students and designers, Sustainable Fashion is a much-needed practical guide on how to bring sustainable strategies into the fashion design and production process.

This practical handbook of properties for soils and rock contains in a concise tabular format the key issues relevant to geotechnical investigations, assessments and designs in common practice. There

Packed with numerous examples this easy-to-use manual provides designers of interactive media with a practical guide to screen design. Written for the working designer the manual shows how to rework i

Written by an engineer with decades of practical manufacturing experience, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and is a complete modern guide to sheet metal forming processes and die design –

This book provides a practical and theoretical foundation to the design of human social systems. It demonstrates how systems design is applied to projects around the world, creating democratic and sus

Emphasizing fundamental concepts that allow a student, novice, or practicing engineer to carry out practical design decisions, Polymer Processing: Principles and Design provides the numerical methods

Offers a practical approach to robust design from a statistical and engineering perspective. With Design for Six Sigma training programs primarily in mind, this book offers practical examples that can

Practical and easy to understand, DATABASE SYSTEMS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND MANAGEMENT, Eleventh Edition, gives you a solid foundation in database design and implementation. Filled with visual aid

This book is practical and immediate, without being condescending or overly technical. It is like having a graphic design mentor who will help you come up with ideas, develop your concepts, and implem

A practical guide packed with step-by-step recipes to design a virtual datacenter using VMware 5.x This book is a guide for anyone interested in designing virtualized datacenters using VMware vSphere

"This book provides a definitive guide for the future direction of the practice and profession of architecture. This comprehensive and practical handbook is a timely response to the reality that the t

Tools for the Design Revolution critically examines the history and influences on current designs trends, giving practical guidelines and tools for creating sustainable design processes into the futur

This unique book provides a bridge between digital control theory and vehicle guidance and control practice. It presents practical techniques of digital redesign and direct discrete-time design suitab

This book offers a deep, principle-based examination of Representational State Transfer (REST), its applications and limitations as an architectural style. Covers design and deployment of RESTful syst

Wireless Sensor Networks presents the latest practical solutions to the design issues presented in wireless-sensor-network-based systems. Novel features of the text, distributed throughout, include wo

Design Masterclass is the definitive home-decorating guide from Kelly Hoppen, offering invaluable professional advice on both the practical and aesthetic aspects to interior design.

In the first edition of A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, Steve Shelley cracked open his production book and showed how to prepare a lighting design and create the paperwork needed to mount a produ

In the first edition of A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, Steve Shelley cracked open his production book and showed how to prepare a lighting design and create the paperwork needed to mount a produ

The intent of this book is to bring readers a straight-forward, crisp, and practical approach to designing world-class high-availability systems from the ground up, i.e., systems in which high availab

"An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design is organized around a groundbreaking new way of conceptualizing instructional design practice. Both practical and theoretically sound, this approach

"An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design is organized around a groundbreaking new way of conceptualizing instructional design practice. Both practical and theoretically sound, this approach

Written for practicing engineers and students alike, this book emphasizes the role of finite element modeling and simulation in the engineering design process. It provides the necessary theories and t

This book is about developing Rich Internet Applications / Single Page Applications using "Single Master Application Resource Template" web pages. These "SMART-Pages" slot content resources into web

Delft Design Guide details roughly seventy strategies, techniques, and methods taught at the Delft University Faculty of Industrial Design in a practical one-page text, illustrated for further clarifi

The Graphic Design Reference & Specification Book should always be next to a designer's computer. Completely practical with only the most needed information, this valuable book provides designers

Do you need to know what signal type to select for a wireless application? Quickly develop a useful expertise in digital modulation with this practical guide, based on the author's experience of over thirty years in industrial design. You will understand the physical meaning behind the mathematics of wireless signals and learn the intricacies and tradeoffs in signal selection and design. Six modulation families and twelve modulation types are covered in depth, together with a quantitative ranking of relative cost incurred to implement any of twelve modulation types. Extensive discussions of the Shannon Limit, Nyquist filtering, efficiency measures and signal-to-noise measures are provided, radio wave propagation and antennas, multiple access techniques, and signal coding principles are all covered, and spread spectrum and wireless system operation requirements are presented.

With this toolbox of practical logo templates a la Neubau Welt, Alexander Tibelius provides designers with useful groundwork for implementing their own ideas. All designers are familiar with this prob

"This book presents theoretical and practical aspects on the activities concerning measurement technologies and instrumentation"--Provided by publisher.

Digital Design Essentials takes a practical, highly accessible approach to creating graphical user interface designs for desktop, mobile, and touch screen devices. Written by an expert in the realm of

Using fundamentals of communication theory, thermodynamics, information theory and propagation theory, this book explains the universal principles underlying a diverse range of electro-optical systems. From fiber optics and infra-red imaging to free space communications and laser remote sensing, the authors relate key concepts in science and device engineering to practical systems issues. A broad spectrum of coherent and incoherent imaging and communications systems is considered, accompanied by many real-world examples. The authors also present new insights into LIDAR and free space communications and imaging, providing practical guidance on identifying the fundamental limitations of transmission and imaging through deleterious channels. Accompanied by online examples of processed images and videos, this uniquely tailored guide to the fundamental principles underlying modern electro-optical systems is an essential reference for all practising engineers and academic researchers in opti

This reference book communicates the basic theoretical knowledge, the practical requirements and experience for designing, mapping, calculating and checking roads and the planning process overall - an

This comprehensive reference covers all the important aspects of heat exchangers (HEs): design and modes of operation and practical, large-scale applications in process, power, petroleum, transport, a

Reverse engineering in control design proposes practical approaches to build a standard H8 problem taking into account an initial controller. Such approaches allow to mix various control objectives an

Robust Control Design with MATLABR (second edition) helps the student to learn how to use well-developed advanced robust control design methods in practical cases. To this end, several realistic contr

Offers theoretical principles of desalination and their practical application The step-by-step approach presented for selection, design and cost estimating of key desalination plant treatment componen

Learn the latest SQL Server 2012 database design methods for career advancement; among them FileTable FILESTREAM storage and ColumnStore indexes. Relational database design teach-by-practical-diagrams

Winning by Design is a practical book for both the people concerned with the real world of change and its results and for the people expected to execute this change.The first part of the book was writ