This publication is designed to provide (Master’s and PhD) students with a concise introduction to research, especially, in organisations. The aim is to familiarise them with the knowledge they need to make well-reasoned methodological choices when preparing an (applied) approach and provide them with the tools they need to develop what is referred to in this book as a research design. Wh…
This book has not been written for fellow academic methodologists. It is mainly aimed at teachers and lecturers who want to pay attention to methodology in their courses. This may involve working on research assignments, explaining certain methodological aspects of specialised knowledge, as well as supervising Master’s and, sometimes, PhD projects. Above all, this book is aimed at students wh…
Econometrics by Example (EBE) is written primarily for undergraduate students in economics, accounting, finance, marketing, and related disciplines. It is also intended for students in MBA programs and for researchers in business, government, and re- search organizations. There are several excellent textbooks in econometrics, written from very elementary to very advanced levels. The writers of…
Despite the current explosion in programming languages, C++ soldiers on. It is the fourth-most popular programming language, per the July 2013 Tiobe index. (You can find the latest index at http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paper- info/tpci/index.html.) The 2011 ISO standard (ISO/IEC 14822:2011, aka C++11) brings features to C++ that may increase its acceptance...or at least soften objecti…
Econometrics by Example (EBE) is written primarily for undergraduate students in economics, accounting, finance, marketing, and related disciplines. It is also intended for students in MBA programs and for researchers in business, government, and re- search organizations. There are several excellent textbooks in econometrics, written from very elementary to very advanced levels. The writers of…
Statistics is concerned with the science of uncertainty and can help the scientist deal with these questions. Many classical methods (regression, hypothesis testing, parameter estimation, confidence intervals, etc.) of statistics developed over the last century are familiar to scientists and are widely used in many disciplines [Efron and Tibshirani, 1991]. Now, what do we mean by computational…
This first part of the book introduces the MySQL stored program language and provides a detailed description of the language structure and usage. Chapter 1 asks the fundamental questions: Where did the language come from? What is it good for? What are the main features of the language? Chapter 2 is a tutorial that is designed to get you started with the language as quickly as possible; it shows…
This book is targeted at both developers and enthusiasts who have a basic or even no Java programming knowledge. No previous knowledge of neural networks is required, this book will teach from scratch. Even if you are familiar with neural networks and/or other machine learning techniques but have little or no experience with Java, this book will take you to the level at which you will be able t…
It’s day one on the job. You have programming chops, you’ve landed the job, you’re sitting at your workstation…now what? Before you, a new jungle awaits: • Programming at industry scale, with code bases measured in thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of lines of code. How do you get your bearings and start contributing quickly? • Navigating an organization containing programmers …
Modern software systems are increasingly required to be open and distributed. Such systems are open not in terms of network connections and interoperability support heterogeneous hardware and software platforms, but, above all, in terms of evolving and changing requirements.
We consider some classical games and show how they can arise in the context of the internet. We also introduce some of the basic solution concepts of game theory for studying such games, and some computational issues that arise for these concepts.
This book assumes you may have never programmed before. The book is also written for someone who may have never programmed before using object-oriented programming (OOP) languages. There are many Objective-C books out there, but all of these books assume you have programmed before and know OOP and computer logic. We wanted to write a book that takes readers from knowing little or nothing about …
Objective-C has a Smalltalk-like object model. If you come from Java, you will find this very easy to understand. If you come from a Simula-family language, such as C++, you may find it a bit more difficult. Alan Kay described the idea of objects as a simple exercise in reduction. When solving a problem, you want to decompose it into simple parts. The simplest thing that can run a part of a p…
Today, learning programming is about learning how to shape our world. Objective-C programmers are in a unique position to create applications that people all over the world can use in their daily lives. Objective-C is a delight to use. While other programming languages can feel clumsy at times, Objective-C will show you its power and reach with grace. Problems that seem intractable in other pro…
Object-oriented programming is largely about the ability to hide what's not important to the user and to highlight what is. PHP 5 offers standardized means for specifying the variety of property scopes typically offered by full-featured OO languages.
As the title indicates,this book is about the object-oriented (OO) thought process. Obviously,choosing the theme and title of the book are important decisions;however,these decisions were not all that simple.Numerous books deal with various levels of object orientation.Several popular books deal with topics including OO analysis,OO design,OO programming,design patterns,OO data (XML),the Unified…
OData (Open Data Protocol) is a web protocol for querying and updating data, which can be freely incorporated in various kind of data access applications. OData makes it quite simple and flexible to use by applying and building upon existing well-defined technologies such as HTTP, XML, AtomPub, and JSON. WCF Data Services (formerly known as ADO.NET Data Services) is a well-encapsulated componen…
Investigations in this department are of great interest, and have attracted to the field a host of workers; but a general review of the mass of published matter exhibits the fact that the uses to which the material has been put have not always been wise. In the monuments of antiquity found throughout North America, in camp and village sites, graves, mounds, ruins, and scattered works of art, t…
Let's start the journey by looking back into the history of computing and why OpenCL is important from the respect that it aims to unify the software programming model for heterogeneous devices. The goal of OpenCL is to develop a royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers, and handheld/embedded devices. This effort i…
Parallel Computing has been extensively researched over the past few decades and had been the key research interest at many universities. Parallel Computing uses multiple processors or computers working together on a common algorithm or task. Due to the constraints in the available memory, performance of a single computing unit, and also the need to complete a task quickly, various parallel com…
No longer are financial instruments confined to bank loans and deposits, stocks and bonds, and other traditional forms. Numer- ous financial products have emerged to meet new needs and pref- erences of individuals and institutions. At the same time, opera- tions of major financial institutions increasingly have extended beyond national borders and are now carried out on a worldwide basis. Su…
This chapter will teach you the basic elements of OpenCV and will show you how to accomplish the most fundamental tasks: reading, displaying, and saving images. Before you can start with OpenCV, you need to install the library. This is a simple process that is explained in the first recipe of this chapter. You also need a good development environment (IDE) to run your OpenCV applications. We pr…