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• 3ds Max 2012 Bible
• Distinctive Design: A Practical Guide to a Useful, Beautiful Web
• Evolutionary Computing in Advanced Manufacturing
• A Tiny Handbook of R
• Grids, Clouds and Virtualization
• On the Performance of Web Services
• Semantic Web Services for Web Databases

3ds Max 2012 Bible Posted: 08 Nov 2011 08:26 AM PST Book Description Updated version of the bestselling 3ds Max book on the market 3ds Max 2012 Bible is one of the most popular 3ds Max how-tos on the market. If you’re a beginner just itching to create something right away, the Quick Start project in Part 1 is for you. If you’re an experienced user checking out 3ds Max 2012′s latest and greatest features, you’ll love the fact that the 3ds Max 2012 Bible continues to be the most comprehensive reference on this highly complex application. Find out what’s new, what’s tried and true, and how creative you can get using the tips, tricks, and techniques in this must-have guide. Don’t miss the 16-page color insert with examples from cutting-edge 3D artists, as well as the DVD packed with all kinds of extras. Loaded with expert advice, timesaving tips, and more than 150 step-by-step tutorials Highlights the work of some of today’s most cutting-edge 3D artists in a 16-page color insert Includes a companion DVD with all examples from the book, including unique models and texture that you can customize DVD also features 500 pages of extra content from previous editions of the 3ds Max Bible, including a set of Quick Start tutorials If you want to gain 3ds Max 2012 skills, whether you’re just beginning or not, this is the book you need to succeed. From the Back Cover Covers both 3ds Max 2012 and 3ds Max 2012 Design The book for all things 3ds Max Whether you’re a beginner in search of 3D basics or a veteran animator seeking timesaving tips, the new edition of this perennial favorite is the perfect 3ds Max book for you. Packed with the very latest features, professional techniques, and over 150 step-by-step tutorials, it will help you quickly build your skills. Find out what’s new, what’s tried and true, and how creative you can get with this must-have guide. Jump right into animation with the new Quick Start tutorial Create optimized procedural substance textures that are a fraction of the size of bitmaps Sculpt and model faster and easier with new Graphite Modeling tools Create custom character rigs with the CAT (Character Animation Toolkit) Send scenes to Mudbox, MotionBuilder, or Softimage automatically Take the guesswork out of rendering with the iray progressive renderer View physics simulations with the new MassFX system Lay siege to a castle wall and animate with MassFX Achieve results more quickly with Nitrous viewport options Create stylized effects with ink, pastel, or graphite Book Details Paperback: 1312 pages Publisher: Wiley (August 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1118022203 ISBN-13: 978-1118022207 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Introducing Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 (16-09-2011) Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 Essentials (02-11-2011) ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games: Beginner's Guide (08-04-2011) XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 (26-01-2011) XNA 3D Primer (15-01-2011) WordPress Bible, 2nd Edition (29-10-2011) Windows Phone 7 Game Development (21-12-2010) Unity 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide (29-10-2010) Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot (08-09-2011) Thor's Microsoft Security Bible (15-09-2011)

Distinctive Design: A Practical Guide to a Useful, Beautiful Web Posted: 08 Nov 2011 08:26 AM PST Book Description Learn to produce a web site that stands out from the crowd One of the web designer’s greatest challenges is to create a site distinctive enough to get noticed among the millions of sites already on the web. This book examines the bond between code, content and visuals to guide you through the factors that increase your design’s visibility, usability and beauty. Using this practical advice, even web designers who lack strong artistic skills can develop super sites that strengthen the message and stand out from the crowd. Most books focus primarily on graphic design principles; this one shows you how to maximize and prioritize every design decision to help your site achieve its primary purpose: showcasing your content and services Explores the bond between code, content and visuals to guide you through the factors that increase your design’s visibility, usability and beauty Enables even artistically challenged web designers to create elegant, functional layouts that attract visitors and are user-friendly Every web designer can benefit from this practical advice on creating an informative, attractive, easy-to-use site that gets noticed. From the Back Cover Standing out from the crowd Producing website designs that stand out and get noticed is one of the web designer's greatest challenges. Distinctive Design examines the bond between code, content, and visuals to guide you through the factors that increase your design's visibility, usability, and beauty. Award-winning web designer Alexander Dawson guides you through the principles that underpin beautiful, user-friendly design, with helpful hints and tricks to maximize a site's visual performance. Inside, you will learn: What makes a web design distinctive How to design for different devices How to make your content distinctive How design affects emotions and influences behavior How to design outstanding user interfaces How to promote user interaction How to ensure your site is accessible to all users How design is related to usability How to optimize your site for searches From the fonts and colors you choose to the amount of white space you provide, the ultimate goal of any website is to effectively display your services and content. By exploring the power of influential design, Distinctive Design will show you how to strengthen your message. Alexander Dawson is an award-winning web professional and writer with more than 10 years of industry experience. Dawson spends his days running his web consultancy firm, writing professionally about web design, and giving his free time to assist others in the field. Please visit www.wiley.com/go/distinctivedesign to download project files and bonus material. Book Details Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Wiley (August 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1119992982 ISBN-13: 978-1119992981 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts WordPress Web Design For Dummies (07-11-2011) WordPress Theme Design (18-05-2009) WordPress 2.8 Theme Design (05-12-2009) Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (05-07-2009) Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads (20-05-2011) Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques (19-12-2009) Web Design DeMYSTiFieD (15-03-2011) The Ultimate HTML Reference (20-08-2009) The Ultimate CSS Reference (20-08-2009) The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, 2nd Edition (27-11-2010)

Evolutionary Computing in Advanced Manufacturing Posted: 08 Nov 2011 08:26 AM PST Book Description This cutting-edge book covers emerging, evolutionary and nature inspired optimization techniques in the field of advanced manufacturing. The complexity of real life advanced manufacturing problems often cannot be solved by traditional engineering or computational methods. Hence, in recent years researchers and practitioners have proposed and developed new strands of advanced, intelligent techniques and methodologies. Evolutionary computing approaches are introduced in the context of a wide range of manufacturing activities, and through the examination of practical problems and their solutions, readers will gain confidence to apply these powerful computing solutions. The initial chapters introduce and discuss the well established evolutionary algorithm, to help readers to understand the basic building blocks and steps required to successfully implement their own solutions to real life advanced manufacturing problems. In the later chapters, modified and improved versions of evolutionary algorithms are discussed. The book concludes with appendices which provide general descriptions of several evolutionary algorithms. From the Back Cover A timely and important volume that coherently presents and explains evolutionary computing in the context of manufacturing problems. This cutting-edge book covers emerging, evolutionary, and nature-inspired optimization techniques in the field of advanced manufacturing. The complexity of real-life advanced manufacturing problems often cannot be solved by traditional engineering or computational methods. As a result, researchers and practitioners have proposed and developed in recent years new strands of advanced, intelligent techniques and methodologies. Evolutionary computing approaches are introduced in the context of a wide range of manufacturing activities, and through the examination of practical problems and their solutions, readers will gain confidence to apply these powerful computing solutions. The initial chapters introduce and discuss the well established evolutionary algorithm, to help readers to understand the basic building blocks and steps required to successfully implement their own solutions to real-life advanced manufacturing problems. In the later chapters, modified and improved versions of evolutionary algorithms are discussed. Evolutionary Computing in Advanced Manufacturing Provides readers with a solid basis for understanding the development of mathematical models for production and manufacturing-related issues Explicates the mathematical models and various evolutionary algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Algorithm (ACO) Helps scholars, researchers, and practitioners in understanding both the fundamentals and advanced aspects of computational intelligence in production and manufacturing The volume will interest manufacturing engineers in academia and industry as well as IT/Computer Science specialists involved in manufacturing. Students at MSc and PhD levels will find it very rewarding as well. All large and medium-sized corporations in manufacturing or manufacturing-related industries with complex planning?problems will find this book very useful. Book Details Hardcover: 354 pages Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener (July 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0470639245 ISBN-13: 978-0470639245 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

A Tiny Handbook of R Posted: 08 Nov 2011 07:49 AM PST Book Description This Brief provides a roadmap for the R language and programming environment with signposts to further resources and documentation. Covers everyday use of R: data manipulation, modelling and testing Includes comprehensive pointers to the wide range of on-line materials Presents structured examples to help the user become familiar with R Table of Contents Introduction to R. Data Structures. Tables and Graphs. Hypothesis Tests. Linear Models. About the Author Mike Allerhand is an experienced statistician with a research background in numerical analysis and statistical pattern recognition, and substantial experience of statistical support and teaching. Statistician, (Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh). Since 2009 Statistician at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh. Book Details Paperback: 92 pages Publisher: Springer (April 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 3642179797 ISBN-13: 978-3642179792 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Grids, Clouds and Virtualization Posted: 08 Nov 2011 07:48 AM PST Book Description Research into grid computing has been driven by the need to solve large-scale, increasingly complex problems for scientific applications. Yet the applications of grid computing for business and casual users did not begin to emerge until the development of the concept of cloud computing, fueled by advances in virtualization techniques, coupled with the increased availability of ever-greater Internet bandwidth. The appeal of this new paradigm is mainly based on its simplicity, and the affordable price for seamless access to both computational and storage resources. This timely text/reference introduces the fundamental principles and techniques underlying grids, clouds and virtualization technologies, as well as reviewing the latest research and expected future developments in the field. Readers are guided through the key topics by internationally recognized experts, enabling them to develop their understanding of an area likely to play an ever more significant role in coming years. Topics and features: Presents contributions from an international selection of experts in the field Provides a thorough introduction and overview of existing technologies in grids, clouds and virtualization, including a brief history of the field Examines the basic requirements for performance isolation of virtual machines on multi-core servers, analyzing a selection of system virtualization technologies Examines both business and scientific applications of grids and clouds, including their use in the life sciences and for high-performance computing Explores cloud building technologies, architectures for enhancing grid infrastructures with cloud computing, and cloud performance Discusses energy aware grids and clouds, workflows on grids and clouds, and cloud and grid programming models Presents case-studies and novel results related to interoperability across grids and clouds This useful text will enable interested readers to familiarize themselves with the key topics of grids, clouds and virtualization, and to contribute to new advances in the field. Researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, system designers and programmers, and IT policy makers will all benefit from the material covered. Book Details Hardcover: 250 pages Publisher: Springer (September 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0857290487 ISBN-13: 978-0857290489 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit (20-12-2010) Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V: Insiders Guide to Microsoft's Hypervisor (22-02-2011) Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed (22-11-2010) Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource Kit (25-01-2010) VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration (03-06-2011) VMware vSphere For Dummies (16-09-2011) VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration (28-06-2009) VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere (26-10-2009) VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition (03-03-2011) VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use (26-10-2009)

On the Performance of Web Services Posted: 08 Nov 2011 07:48 AM PST Book Description Performance of Web Services provides innovative techniques to improve the performance of Web Services, as well as QoS (Quality of Service) requirements. This includes Qos performance, reliability and security. The author presents two levels of Web Services: the "kernel" (ithe SOAP engine which delivers messages from one point to another through various networks), and the "server side" (which processes heavy load / requests). The primary objective of this book is execution of applications delivered in a timely fashion. Case studies and examples are provided throughout this book. Table of Contents Introduction. Background. Benchmarking SOAP Bindings. The Use of Similarity & Multicast Protocols to Improve Performance. Network Traffic Optimisation. Scheduling for Heavy Traffic. Scheduling with Time Sharing. Conclusion. WSDL Specification for the Stock Quote Service. SMP Message Schema. A Sample SMP Message. Book Details Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Springer (November 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1461419298 ISBN-13: 978-1461419297 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g (30-10-2010) Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 Unleashed, 2nd Edition (22-11-2010) Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA (02-10-2010) Umbraco User's Guide (15-06-2011) The Definitive Guide to Grails, 2nd Edition (05-07-2009) SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (24-08-2011) Silverlight 4: Problem - Design - Solution (07-05-2010) Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint (12-08-2010) Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services (05-11-2011) Semantic Web Services for Web Databases (08-11-2011)

Semantic Web Services for Web Databases Posted: 08 Nov 2011 07:48 AM PST Book Description Semantic Web Services for Web Databases introduces an end-to-end framework for querying Web databases using novel Web service querying techniques. This includes a detailed framework for the query infrastructure for Web databases and services. Case studies are covered in the last section of this book. Semantic Web Services For Web Databases is designed for practitioners and researchers focused on service-oriented computing and Web databases. Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Ontological Organization of Web Databases 2.1 Information Space Organization and Modeling 2.2 Inter-Ontology Relationships Maintenance 2.3 Providing Metadata Support through the Concept of Co-Databases 2.4 Language Support for Distributed Ontologies of Web Databases 2.5 WebFINDIT – An Ontology-based Architecture for Web Databases Chapter 3 Web Services Query Model 3.1 Three-Level Service Query Model 3.2 Virtual Operations Representation 3.3 Quality of Web Service Model 3.4 Web Services Monitoring Chapter 4 Web Services Query Execution and Optimization 4.1 Web Services Execution Plan 4.2 Processing and Optimizing Web Service Queries Chapter 5 Implementation and Experiments 5.1 WebDG – A Web Service based Infrastructure for Digital Government 5.2 Complexity of the Proposed Algorithms 5.3 Analytical Evaluation 5.4 Experiments Chapter 6 Current Advances in Semantic Web Services and Web Databases 6.1 Web Databases Integration and Efficient Querying 6.2 Web services Querying and Optimization Chapter 7 Conclusions, Open Issues, and Future Directions Book Details Hardcover: 155 pages Publisher: Springer (November 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1461416434 ISBN-13: 978-1461416432 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g (30-10-2010) Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 Unleashed, 2nd Edition (22-11-2010) Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA (02-10-2010) Umbraco User's Guide (15-06-2011) The Definitive Guide to Grails, 2nd Edition (05-07-2009) SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (24-08-2011) Silverlight 4: Problem - Design - Solution (07-05-2010) Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint (12-08-2010) Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services (05-11-2011) Secure Semantic Service-Oriented Systems (15-02-2011)

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