McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation (11th Edition)

Financial Engineering with Finite Elements (The Wiley Finance Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The pricing of derivative instruments has always been a highly complex and time-consuming activity. Advances in technology, however, have enabled much quicker and more accurate pricing through mathematical rather than analytical models. In this book, the author bridges the divide between finance and mathematics by applying this proven mathematical...

Bayesian Models for Categorical Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The use of Bayesian methods for the analysis of data has grown substantially in areas as diverse as applied statistics, psychology, economics and medical science. Bayesian Methods for Categorical Data sets out to demystify modern Bayesian methods, making them accessible to students and researchers alike. Emphasizing the use of statistical...

Computer Vision and Action Recognition: A Guide for Image Processing and Computer Vision Community for Action Understanding

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011

The book is about computer vision and action recognition & understanding. If you have a basic knowledge on image processing and would like to study or to do research on action/activity understanding and recognition in computer vision and related arenas – then this is the book for you!

Throughout my endeavor to write...

Foundations of Green IT: Consolidation, Virtualization, Efficiency, and ROI in the Data Center

Prentice Hall, 2009

“This book comprehensively discusses design considerations for the truly energy efficient data center.”

Scott Davis, Chief Data Center Architect, Office of the CTO, VMware, Inc.

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Interferon Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine)

Humana Press, 2005

A compendium of optimized methods to measure type I interferon efficacy as an antiproliferative or an antiviral agent. These cutting-edge techniques range from the simple to the highly complex and serve to illuminate the signaling cascades and the activation of enzymatic pathways prompted by interferon. The protocols follow the successful...

Metaheuristics: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series)

Springer, 2007

Metaheuristics has grown and continues to grow steadily. Seen both from the technical point of view and from the application-oriented side, these optimization tools have established their value in a remarkable story of success. Researchers have demonstrated the ability of these methods to solve hard combinatorial problems of practical sizes within...