books by Morgan & Morgan, Publishers     books:       Digital Control in Power Electronics (Synthesis Lectures on Power Electronics) Simone Buso Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2006 This book presents the reader, whether an electrical engineering student in power electronics or a design engineer, some typical power converter control problems and their basic digital solutions, based on the most widespread digital control techniques. The presentation is focused on different applications of the same power converter topology, the half-bridge voltage source inverter, considered both in its single- and three-phase implementation. ...             Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise Multidisciplinary Introduction Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2008 Game theory is the mathematical study of interaction among independent, self-interested agents. The audience for game theory has grown dramatically in recent years, and now spans disciplines as diverse as political science, biology, psychology, economics, linguistics, sociology, and computer science, among others. What has been missing is a relatively short introduction to the field covering the common basis that anyone with a professional ...             Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies) Jimmy Lin, Chris Dyer Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010 Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science, and computing applications. Processing the enormous quantities of data necessary for these advances requires large clusters, making distributed computing paradigms more crucial than ever. MapReduce is a programming model for expressing distributed computations on massive ...             Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies) Bing Liu Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012 Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the field of study that analyzes people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language. It is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing and is also widely studied in data mining, Web mining, and text mining. In fact, this research has spread outside of computer science to the management sciences and social sciences due to its importance to ...             Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice, ... Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012 This book discusses how model-based approaches can improve the daily practice of software professionals. This is known as Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) or, simply, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). MDSE practices have proved to increase efficiency and effectiveness in software development, as demonstrated by various quantitative and qualitative studies. MDSE adoption in the software industry is foreseen to grow exponentially in the near ...             Science Fiction Prototyping: Designing the Future with Science Fiction Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011 Science fiction is the playground of the imagination. If you are interested in science or fascinated with the future then science fiction is where you explore new ideas and let your dreams and nightmares duke it out on the safety of the page or screen. But what if we could use science fiction to do more than that? What if we could use science fiction based on science fact to not only imagine our future but develop new technologies and products? ...             Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design (Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics) Austin Henderson, Jeff Johnson Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011 People make use of software applications in their activities, applying them as tools in carrying out tasks. That this use should be good for people--easy, effective, efficient, and enjoyable--is a principal goal of design. In this book, we present the notion of Conceptual Models, and argue that Conceptual Models are core to achieving good design. From years of helping companies create software applications, we have come to believe that building ...             Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996 "Once in a great while, a landmark computer-science book is published. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition, is such a book. In an era of fluff computer books that are, quite properly, remaindered within weeks of publication, this book will stand the test of time, becoming lovingly dog-eared in the hands of anyone who designs computers or has concerns about the performance of computer programs. " - Robert Bernecky, ...             Bad to the Bone: Crafting Electronics Systems with Beaglebone and BeagleBone Black (Synthesis Lectures on ... Steven Barrett, Jason Kridner Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2013 This comprehensive book provides detailed materials for both novice and experienced programmers using all BeagleBone variants which host a powerful 32-bit, super-scalar TI Sitara ARM Cortex A8 processor. Authored by Steven F. Barrett and Jason Kridner, a seasoned ECE educator along with the founder of Beagleboard.org, respectively, the work may be used in a wide variety of projects from science fair projects to university courses and senior ...             Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010 Ensemble methods have been called the most influential development in Data Mining and Machine Learning in the past decade. They combine multiple models into one usually more accurate than the best of its components. Ensembles can provide a critical boost to industrial challenges -- from investment timing to drug discovery, and fraud detection to recommendation systems -- where predictive accuracy is more vital than model interpretability. ...             Modeling Bipolar Power Semiconductor Devices (Synthesis Lectures on Power Electronics) Tanya K. Gachovska, Jerry L. Hudgins, ... Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2013 This book presents physics-based models of bipolar power semiconductor devices and their implementation in MATLAB and Simulink. The devices are subdivided into different regions, and the operation in each region, along with the interactions at the interfaces which are analyzed using basic semiconductor physics equations that govern their behavior. The Fourier series solution is used to solve the ambipolar diffusion equation in the lightly doped ...             The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2009 As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These new large datacenters are quite different from traditional hosting facilities of earlier times and cannot be viewed simply as a collection of co-located servers. Large portions of the hardware and software resources in these facilities must work in concert to efficiently ...             Microcontroller Programming and Interfacing: Texas Instruments MSP430 (Synthesis Lectures on Digital Circuits ... Steven Barrett, Daniel Pack Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011 This book provides a thorough introduction to the Texas Instruments MPS430 microcontroller. The MPS430 is a 16-bit reduced instruction set (RISC) processor that features ultra low power consumption and integrated digital and analog hardware. Variants of the MPS430 microcontroller have been in production since 1993. This provides for a host of MPS430 products including evaluation boards, compilers, and documentation. A thorough introduction to ...             Context-Aware Mobile Computing: Affordances of Space, Social Awareness, and Social Influence (Synthesis ... Geri Gay Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2009 The integration of ubiquitous mobile computing resources into physical spaces can potentially affect the development, maintenance, and transformation of communities and social interactions and relations within a particular context or location. Ubiquitous mobile computing allows users to engage in activities in diverse physical locations, to access resources specific to the location, and to communicate directly or indirectly with others. Mobile ...             Linked Data (Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology) Tom Heath, Christian Bizer Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011 The World Wide Web has enabled the creation of a global information space comprising linked documents. As the Web becomes ever more enmeshed with our daily lives, there is a growing desire for direct access to raw data not currently available on the Web or bound up in hypertext documents. Linked Data provides a publishing paradigm in which not only documents, but also data, can be a first class citizen of the Web, thereby enabling the extension ...             The Answer Machine (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services) Susan E. Feldman Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012 The Answer Machine is a practical, non-technical guide to the technologies behind information seeking and analysis. It introduces search and content analytics to software buyers, knowledge managers, and searchers who want to understand and design effective online environments. The book describes how search evolved from an expert-only to an end user tool. It provides an overview of search engines, categorization and clustering, natural language ...             User-Centered Agile Methods Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010 With the introduction and popularization of Agile methods of software development, existing relationships and working agreements between user experience groups and developers are being disrupted. Agile methods introduce new concepts: the Product Owner, the Customer (but not the user), short iterations, User Stories. Where do UX professionals fit in this new world? Agile methods also bring a new mindset -- no big design, no specifications, ...             Latent Semantic Mapping: Principles and Applications (Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing) Jerome Bellegarda Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008 Latent semantic mapping (LSM) is a generalization of latent semantic analysis (LSA), a paradigm originally developed to capture hidden word patterns in a text document corpus. In information retrieval, LSA enables retrieval on the basis of conceptual content, instead of merely matching words between queries and documents. It operates under the assumption that there is some latent semantic structure in the data, which is partially obscured by the ...             Engineering and Society: Working Towards Social Justice (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and ... Caroline Baillie Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2009 Engineers work in an increasingly complex entanglement of ideas, people, cultures, technology, systems and environments. Today, decisions made by engineers often have serious implications for not only their clients but for society as a whole and the natural world. Such decisions may potentially influence cultures, ways of living, as well as alter ecosystems which are in delicate balance. In order to make appropriate decisions and to co-create ...             Nonimaging Optics in Solar Energy (Synthesis Lectures on Energy and the Environment: Technology, Science, and ... Joseph J. O'Gallagher Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008 Nonimaging optics is a subdiscipline of optics whose development over the last 35–40 years was led by scientists from the University of Chicago and other cooperating individuals and institutions. The approach provides a formalism that allows the design of optical devices that approach the maximum physically attainable geometric concentration for a given set of optical tolerances. 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