Modeling and Simulation: Theory and Practice A Memorial Volume for Professor Walter J. Karplus Review

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(More customer reviews)I haven't, as yet, read this book of Dr. Karplus', but I was one of those fortunate enough to have been a student of his, and I have most of his other books, and many binders of notes from his classes.
Dr. Karplus was one of those minds that inspired awe and humility in his students. He had an incredible breadth and depth of knowledge in so many areas and subjects that it seemed he must have spent every second reading, thinking, and integrating to have created his mind. I was so struck by his achievements, and more, by him personally, that after the last class I took from him I wrote him a letter telling him how much I admired him, and how much of an inspiration he was to me. After he got it, he called me into his office and thanked me, telling me how touched he was.
I was very saddened when I heard of his death, and I'm very glad that his colleagues got together and created this volume. Thank you, gentlemen.
I urge anyone who is interested in the subject of computer modeling and simulation to read this book, or any of Karplus' books. You can't do any better in this area.

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Modeling and Simulation: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive review of both methodologies and applications of simulation and modeling. The methodology section includes such topics as the philosophy of simulation, inverse problems in simulation, simulation model compilers, treatment of ill-defined systems, and a survey of simulation languages. The application section covers a wide range of topics, including applications to environmental management, biology and medicine, neural networks, collaborative visualization and intelligent interfaces. The book consists of 13 invited chapters written by former colleagues and students of Professor Karplus. Also included are several short 'reminiscences' describing Professor Karplus' impact on the professional careers of former colleagues and students who worked closely with him over the years.

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Silicon Germanium: Technology, Modeling, and Design Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a florist currently working in Kaluville, CA. I was very interested in Germaniums and accidently picked up this book. I was amazed to read this book, though the subject matter was quite difficult to follow, I ended up just reading the pictures. They were pretty. I dont think i have learned anything about germaniums and didnt find anything about silicone implants but its great for the coffee table (its a bit bent).

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"An excellent introduction to the SiGe BiCMOS technology, from the underlying device physics to current applications."-Ron Wilson, EETimes"SiGe technology has demonstrated the ability to provide excellent high-performance characteristics with very low noise, at high power gain, and with excellent linearity. This book is a comprehensive review of the technology and of the design methods that go with it."-Alberto Sangiovanni-VincentelliProfessor, University of California, BerkeleyCofounder, Chief Technology Officer, Member of Board Cadence Design Systems Inc.Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Silicon Germanium covers all the key aspects of this technology and its applications. Beginning with a brief introduction to and historical perspective of IBM's SiGe technology, this comprehensive guide quickly moves on to:* Detail many of IBM's SiGe technology development programs* Explore IBM's approach to device modeling and characterization-including predictive TCAD modeling* Discuss IBM's design automation and signal integrity knowledge and implementation methodologies* Illustrate design applications in a variety of IBM's SiGe technologies* Highlight details of highly integrated SiGe BiCMOS system-on-chip (SOC) designWritten for RF/analog and mixed-signal designers, CAD designers, semiconductor students, and foundry process engineers worldwide, Silicon Germanium provides detailed insight into the modeling and design automation requirements for leading-edge RF/analog and mixed-signal products, and illustrates in-depth applications that can be implemented using IBM's advanced SiGe process technologies and design kits."This volume provides an excellent introduction to the SiGe BiCMOS technology, from the underlying device physics to current applications. But just as important is the window the text provides into the infrastructure-the process development, device modeling, and tool development."-Ron WilsonSilicon Engineering Editor, EETimes"This book chronicles the development of SiGe in detail, provides an in-depth look at the modeling and design automation requirements for making advanced applications using SiGe possible, and illustrates such applications as implemented using IBM's process technologies and design methods."-John KellySenior Vice President and Group Executive, Technology Group, IBM

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AutoCAD 2000: 3D Modeling,: A Visual Approach Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book with little 3D experience, hoping it would help guide me. I work in a small company and I am the only CAD user, so there isn't any help in the next office. This book taught me how to use 3D drawings to produce prints in probably a third of the time it used to by drawing all three views. Plus, in our shop, isometric views are almost a must to understand many prints, which has reduced our production time greatly. I am fairly well versed now in 3D, but I still reference the book almost weekly.
I recommend this book to anyone who doesn't have time for courses and understands 2D construction.

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The three-dimensional capabilities of AutoCAD are more extensive than ever, and learning to use them is easier than ever. This reference guide, which covers over 70 AutoCAD commands relating to 3D space and 3D modelling, should be useful in teaching the reader the 3D side of AutoCAD. Learn how to construct true 3D objects from clear, concise, and easy to understand instructions that help you get the most out of each and every 3D feature of AutoCAD. Coverage begins with the basics of coordinate systems and three dimensional space; the text explains how to construct wireframe, surface, and solid models; and describes how 3D models can be transformed into multi-view 2D drawings and photo-realistic renderings. Numerous practical tips for getting the most out of specific features are also included. An Online Companion allows users to access the Autodesk Press web site for information on job resources, professional organizations, updates and more.

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Systems Modeling for Business Process Improvement Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is technology-focused with an emphasis on software-to-business alignment from the perspectives of quality and fit. It's a collection of papers that cover the range of related topics, including systems dynamics, object-oriented business process modeling, exploiting knowledge in adaptive workflow systems and modeling and metrics techniques.
Process improvement strategies are related to software quality and are highlighted in two chapters: (1) ISO 15504, SPICE (Software Process Improvement Capability dEtermination) and FEAST/1 (Feedback, Evolution And Software Technology), which was sponsored by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The material on FEAST/1 has been superseded by FEAST/2, but is still valid. Both SPICE and FEAST/1 chapters provide evaluation frameworks for determining software processes, which in turn is an indicator of how well systems modeling aligns to aspects of business processes.
The chapters which I felt were especially useful dealt with requirements and modeling, including:
- "Information Systems Specifications within the Framework of Client-Led Design"
- "Developing a Business-IT Co-Evolutionary Change Plan"
- "Relating Organizational Symbiotics, Process Modeling, and Stakeholder Viewpoints to Elucidate and Record Requirements"
- "Modeling Organizational Communication: Top Down Analysis & Bottom Up Diagnosis"
These reflect my current professional interests; however, I also gained insights from the chapter on FEAST/1 and "Modeling Information System Requirements for Complex Systems", both of which were thought provoking and addressed subtle issues that I hadn't previously thought of.
This book is not a primary text on business process modeling. It is most useful to experienced process improvement and requirements analysts and modeling professionals. Also not that much of the material needs to be force-fit to approaches such as UML, but does supplement UML and Unified Process methodologies if you keep an open mind and extract the key ideas presented.

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The effective application of information technology (IT) can be the key to achieving organizational change and improvements that directly impact your company's success in today's highly competitive business. This manual provides approaches for developing system models that bridge the traditional gap between information systems and software engineering and allow you to manage change and outcomes effectively. With contributions from researchers and practitioners in the field - including Ian Somerville, Wendy Currie, Frank Stowell and Dave Bustard - the book examines change from business, information systems and software engineering perspectives, and addresses major concepts and issues in systems engineering and business process improvement.

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Systems Modeling and Requirements Specification Using ECSAM: An Analysis Method for Embedded and Computer-Based Systems Review

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(More customer reviews)I have seen many a new textbook come to the market advancing the use of a new and novel approach to specifying system and/or software requirements. All too often these approaches breakdown when you try to implement them because not all of the details have been worked out. As a direct consequence, users of the methodology experience considerable pain because they have to mature the methodology and address the details as they try to develop their requirements specifications.
In contrast, this book provides its readers with a tried and true approach to systems/software requirements specification and analysis. The book steps you through the Embedded Computer Systems Analysis and Modeling (ECSAM) method. It shows you how to use the methodology to develop static and dynamic models of the system using an end-to-end example. The book emphasizes how to capture the functional, interface and performance requirements by overlaying the static with dynamic models and by verifying the results via analysis as they are generated. In addition, the book takes operational considerations into account as the evolving specification is developed and tested for completeness and consistency. The book also shows you how to decompose the system requirements to the subsystem level and test for correctness. Results are easy to understand because the methodology uses familiar graphical representations that adhere to well-defined semantics and strict modeling rules (functional flow diagrams, state charts, etc.) to portray its outputs. Most importantly, the book provides the reader with insights into what to look for and what not. This is what I find missing in most of the newer and more revolutionary works on the topic.
The ECSAM methodology seems applicable to many classes of systems which are driven by performance and operational considerations. The book is extremely useful for those who want to use a methodology that permits them to develop a robust and consistent set of requirements for a system or subsystem.

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Discover ECSAM, a method for requirements engineering and the modeling of computer-based systems (CBS).Practiced since 1980 in evolving versions by systems and software engineers, ECSAM was developed in part at Israel Aircraft Industries for the analysis and design of complex reactive embedded systems and software and has been presented in numerous undergraduate, graduate, and industrial courses.The method guides engineers in modeling operational, functional, and design requirements, considering both static and dynamic aspects of systems. With an end-to-end example of the method, developed throughout the book, readers learn how to * develop conceptual models of the structural and operational properties of computer-based systems and their software* develop systematically operational scenarios and use cases describing the interaction of the system with its environment * elicit and specify functional and nonfunctional requirements * allocate requirements to components of a conceptual model and use the model for the refinement and derivation of requirements* understand the issues of mapping the conceptual model to the design modelCore audiences include those involved in the development of complex or mission-critical computer-based systems and their software, systems engineers, computer-based-systems engineers, software engineers, engineering managers, and students at undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Iterative Algebra and Dynamic Modeling : A Curriculum for the Third Milennium Review

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(More customer reviews)This is aimed at the high school level but does an amazingly good job explaining dynamic modeling, difference equations, and scalar contractions at that level. This is good for building intuition since there are a lot of bite-sized problems. The pure mathematical content could be compressed into a book about one-third the size. The author makes interesting connections between classical Greek mathematics and iterative algebra.

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Iterative Algebra and Dynamic Modeling links together the use of technology (Excel spreadsheets, Stella modeling software) and modern mathematical techniques to explore the interaction of algebra (at the pre-calculus level) with computer and graphing calculator technology. This book was developed to teach modern applications of mathematics at an introductory level. It is based on the authors well-received teacher-training workshops using the materials.

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Monte Carlo Modeling for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis (Monte Carlo Modelling for Electron Microscopy & Microanalysi) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book provides a good introduction into Monte Carlo simulation for so-called microbeam analysis.
I read this book to start up my work on image formation of scanning electron microscopy. This book was really useful to understand how the Monte Carlo technique could be realized in my lap-top.
Although the author provides a complete set of PASCAL codes,
it was not difficult to convert them into C/C++ based my programming codes.
This book contains many references, mainly journal papers.
So advanced modificaion may require ones to read these articles.
But without this kind of text book,
the analysis by Monte Carlo technique would be more difficult.
To understand the physical background of electron transport in a specimen,
I recommend to read SEM text books by Reimer or by Goldstein et al.


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This book describes for the first time how Monte Carlo modeling methods can be applied to electron microscopy and microanalysis.Computer programs for two basic types of Monte Carlo simulation are developed from physical models of the electron scattering process--a single scattering program capable of high accuracy but requiring long computation times, and a plural scattering program which is less accurate but much more rapid.Optimized for use on personal computers, the programs provide a real time graphical display of the interaction.The programs are then used as the starting point for the development of programs aimed at studying particular effects in the electron microscope, including backscattering, secondary electron production, EBIC and cathodo-luminescence imaging, and X-ray microanalysis.The computer code is given in a fully annotated format so that it may be readily modified for specific problems.Throughout, the author includes numerous examples of how such applications can be used. Students and professionals using electron microscopes will want to read this important addition to the literature.

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Building the Flying Aces Moth (Doug Pratt's Modeling Guides) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is really hard to find. It is out of print, and I get letters all the timne asking me if I have any. I don't. This is the Third in the Hey Kid how to Build a Model Aeroplane series. Takes you from intermediate to building a NATS winning scale model ...
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The Flying Aces Moth is a favourite model aeroplane, with its long nose and stable landing gear position which eliminates the tendency to stall in midflight due to tail-heavy design. This guide to building it gives advice on finding, selecting and using tools and materials, on understanding aerodynamics, and on assembling the model.

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Introduction to FACTS Controllers: Theory, Modeling, and Applications (IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering) Review

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(More customer reviews)The disadvantages of the use of high power electronics apparatus in utility applications, I believe, are their high installation cost and the operating cost, especially, in terms of continuous power loss in the semiconductor devices. Therefore, I am always interested to know the theory of the lowest loss Voltage-Sourced Converters for industrial/utility applications. The detailed switching model in chapter 7 and the behavioral switching model in chapter 6 and the comparison with the behavioral average model in chapter 8 are exceptional. The book is written by Engineers for the Engineers. Great work!

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Demystifies FACTS controllers, offering solutions to power control and power flow problems

Flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) controllers represent one of the most important technological advances in recent years, both enhancing controllability and increasing power transfer capacity of electric power transmission networks. This timely publication serves as an applications manual, offering readers clear instructions on how to model, design, build, evaluate, and install FACTS controllers. Authors Kalyan Sen and Mey Ling Sen share their two decades of experience in FACTS controller research and implementation, including their own pioneering FACTS design breakthroughs.
Readers gain a solid foundation in all aspects of FACTS controllers, including:

Basic underlying theories

Step-by-step evolution of FACTS controller development

Guidelines for selecting the right FACTS controller

Sample computer simulations in EMTP programming language

Key differences in modeling such FACTS controllers as the voltage regulating transformer, phase angle regulator, and unified power flow controller

Modeling techniques and control implementations for the three basic VSC-based FACTS controllers-STATCOM, SSSC, and UPFC

In addition, the book describes a new type of FACTS controller, the Sen Transformer, which is based on technology developed by the authors. An appendix presents all the sample models that are discussed in the book, and the accompanying FTP site offers many more downloadable sample models as well as the full-color photographs that appear throughout the book.
This book is essential reading for practitioners and students of power engineering around the world, offering viable solutions to the increasing problems of grid congestion and power flow limitations in electric power transmission systems.

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Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Compliance Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)The Authors have done an excellent job putting together, compiling and sorting the teory related with dispersion modeling.
The Book is written in a clear way to let you go deep and deep on the phenomena of dispersion, and the tools (mathematicals/procedures/etc) are introduced as needed.
The CDRom is an excellent to ilustrate and validate the teory and it let you begin the simulation process in a smooth way.
Excellent Book!

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ULTIMATE CLEAN AIR ACT COMPLIANCE KITNow there's a complete manual for anyone concerned with volatile organic compounds and particulate matter in the air. Focusing on stationary sources (stack emissions), Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Compliance Guide, by Karl B. Schnelle, Jr. and Partha R. Dey, gives you a framework for understanding air pollution modeling. With worked-outproblems clarifying important models and concepts, this handy book/disc package is the clearest, most comprehensive and up-to-date, tool available for assuring compliance under the Clean Air Act and its amendments, and similar international regulations. You get:*Formulas for multiple sources and receptors*The Industrial Source Complex (ISC) model, puff and urban models, and boundary layer parameterizations models*Guidance on accidental emissions and chimney design*Review of harmonization of European models*Much more [CD-ROM logo - box]Included CD-ROM puts atmospheric diffusion modeling programs fordealing with real-world problems at your fingertips.

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Dam Breach Modeling Technology (Water Science and Technology Library) Review

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(More customer reviews)El libro ofrece al interesado en el tema de rompimiento de presas, un completo compendio de las ecuaciones y de las distintas aproximaciones matemáticas o modelos numéricos con los cuales es posible realizar predicciones para evaluar resultados de la hidrógrafa a la salida de la presa o características de la brecha.

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The book provides a comprehensive treatment of earth-dambreaching and its modeling. The material contained in the book can bereadily used for planning and designing dam-disaster relief work.The data and the technical matter contained in the book are notavailable under one cover anywhere else. The book is timely in that it is being completed in the United NationsDecade for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation. Audience: Practitioners, managers, academians, researchers, aswell as graduate students in hydrology, water resources management,natural hazards research and environmental management.

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Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: A Petri Net Approach (Series in Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation) Review

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(More customer reviews)Application of Petri net in Flexible Manufacturing Systems modelling and perfomance analysis

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One critical barrier leading to successful implementation of flexible manufacturing and related automated systems is the ever-increasing complexity of their modelling, analysis, simulation, and control. Research and development over the last three decades has provided new theories and graphical tools, based on Petri nets and related concepts for the design of such systems. The purpose of this book is to introduce a set of Petri-net-based tools and methods to address a variety of problems associated with the design and implementation of flexible manufacturing systems 9FMSs), with several implementation examples. There are there ways this book will directly benefit readers, First, the book will allow engineers and managers who are responsible for the design and implementation of modern manufacturing systems to evaluate Petri nets for applications in their work. Second, it will provide sufficient breadth and depth to allow development of Petri-net-based industrial applications. Third, it will allow the basic Petri net material to be taught to industrial practitioners, students, and academic researchers much more efficiently.This will foster further research and applications of Petri nets in aiding the successful implementation of advanced manufacturing systems.

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Melanie and the Modeling Mess (Twelve Candles Club) Review

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(More customer reviews)A very nice book with a nice moral inside for you to find out! Easy to read, book you can't stop reading! Two thumbs up!

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A Modeling Stint Four Klutzes = One Wild Fashion Show!A new face has moved into Santa Rosita Estates, and her name is Melanie Lin. Becky, Cara, Tricia, and Jess are very impressed when they discover that their beautiful new Asian friend is also a model but inside, Melanie is far from confident about herself. With a wacky Chinese aunt and a younger brother who runs around karate-chopping her friends, Melanie wishes her family wouldn't make their heritage so obvious. More than anything, she wants to feel as if she belongs, and she's sure that being part of the Twelve Candles Club will do just that.Determined to fit in, Melanie offers to get modeling jobs for her new friends but when Tricia, Becky, Jess, and Cara show off their modeling skills, it looks as if the fashion show might be heading for disaster!Watch Out! Melanie's Stuck Her Foot in Her Mouth Again!

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The Mechanics of Constitutive Modeling Review

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(More customer reviews)The book provides quite complete knowledge in Constitutive Model. If you are doing the research in this area, Don't Miss.

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Constitutive modelling is the mathematical description of how materials respond to various loadings. This is the most intensely researched field within solid mechanics because of its complexity and the importance of accurate constitutive models for practical engineering problems. Topics covered include:Elasticity - Plasticity theory - Creep theory - The nonlinear finite element method - Solution of nonlinear equilibrium equations - Integration of elastoplastic constitutive equations - The thermodynamic framework for constitutive modelling - Thermoplasticity - Uniqueness and discontinuous bifurcations . More comprehensive in scope than competitive titles, with detailed discussion of thermodynamics and numerical methods.. Offers appropriate strategies for numerical solution, illustrated by discussion of specific models.. Demonstrates each topic in a complete and self-contained framework, with extensive referencing.

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Handbook of Formal Languages: Volume 2. Linear Modeling: Background and Application Review

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(More customer reviews)As a Ph.D. candidate working in parsing and interested in model-theoretic syntax, I have found this book to be very useful. I have become very interested in the relation between languages, automata and logic, and how they relate to parsing and deduction. This handbook presents these things with some extra tidbits in chapters which from what I have read - I haven't read the whole book - are well-written and accessible. And the authors point out connections between each other's work.
What is especially interesting to me is the focus on languages where the chosen models are not strings, but instead trees, graphs, etc. For example, my present work is about semiring parsing, with tree automata as the operational model. I am interested in applying parsing as deduction to models which are arbitrary classes of graphs described by grammars written as formulas in some logic. Having recently bought this handbook for future reference, I was delighted to find a very accessible and useful chapter on tree automata which related to work I just started.
For my interests, the chapters on graph grammars, term rewriting and on automata, languages and logic are also enticing and I look forward to reading them as well. The other chapters aren't central to my own work, but I also look forward to reading them, for they seem interesting.
I encourage any researcher working with languages, whether they be artificial ones like XML trees, graphs representing networks or proofs, or they are natural languages, who would like to enter the new millenium to read this book as well as the other volumes of the Handbook of Formal Languages.

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This second volume of the Handbook of Formal Languages contains the most fundamental applications of language theory. Various aspects of linguistics and parsing, both natural and programming languages, symbolic manipulation, and pattern matching are discussed. A special feature is the recently very active field of DNA computing.

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Hollywood, Here I Come: An insider's guide to a successful Acting and Modeling career Review

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(More customer reviews)I picked this book up when it was hot off the press in February and found it to be an invaluable tool for any actor or actress planning on moving to Los Angeles. The book contains thousands of phone numbers for just about anything the working actor needs. It familiarizes you with the city, lets you know what to expect about the field, and encourages you to give it your best. There are chapters that explain all the major guilds and how to be admitted. The book takes you through a guided program on getting headshots, landing an agent, and fitting yourself into the Los Angeles acting market. One chapter is all about finding a night time survival job to pay the bills while you attend auditions during the day. Another chapter covers the audition process and most of the publications in the industry. The only problem with this book is the title. Modeling is mentioned sporadically throughout the book even though the title makes you think that modeling is covered as much as acting. If you are an aspiring model I do not recommend this book. I only recommend this book to anyone planning on pursuing an acting career in the Los Angeles area.

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Everyone secretly dreams of being famous or knows someone who does.This book can make that dream a reality.Specifically designed to help newcomers pursue their show business aspirations or to help veterans to jump-start their passions.This easy to follow advice works.This first edition copy is now a collectors item.

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Object Modeling and Design Strategies: Tips and Techniques (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology) Review

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(More customer reviews)I just recently completed reading this book (Sep 00) and although it is a couple of years old, it is still very relevant to building object-oriented systems today. The notation is not UML - perhaps they should update that - but the content, the tips and techniiques we have found to be very useful indeed at my company.
Worth buying!

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Object Modeling and Design Strategies goes beyond the method hype to help the practising object-oriented modeler, manager and architect understand how to use object-oriented concepts in practice, not just in theory. It utilizes strategies and tactics from several different methods while maintaining its practical 'get the job done' approach. Written in a clear, no-nonsense style, Object Modeling and Design Strategies describes the methods and tools for modeling real-world problems using object technology. It satisfies the practical object-oriented designer's need-to-know with information both on how to avoid the more difficult design and implementation pitfalls and to succeed with objects.

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