Mathematical Game Theory and Applications 
by Vladimir Mazalov
An authoritative and quantitative approach to modern game theory with applications from diverse areas including economics, political science, military science, and finance.Explores areas which are not covered in current game theory texts, including a thorough examination of zero-sum game; Provides introductory material to game theory, including bargaining, parlour games, sport, networking games and dynamic ...
Price: $45.00 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2014
FREE EBOOK - Rethinking the Internet of Things
by Francis daCosta
Over the next decade, most devices connected to the Internet will not be used by people in the familiar way that personal computers, tablets and smart phones are. Billions of interconnected devices will be monitoring the environment, transportation systems, factories, farms, forests, utilities, soil and weather conditions, oceans and resources.Many of these sensors and actuators will be networked into auton...
Price: $5.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Automation through Chef Opscode
by Navin Sabharwal, Manak Wadhwa
Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in-depth understanding of Chef, which is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management.Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architect, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, ...
Price: $52.17 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
4G: Deployment Strategies and Operational Implications
by Trichy Venkataraman Krishnamurthy, Rajaneesh Shetty
As telecommunications operators and network engineers understand, specific operational requirements drive early network architectural and design decisions for 4G networks. But they also know that because technology, standards, usage practices, and regulatory regimes change on a continuous basis, so do best practices. 4G: Deployment Strategies and Operational Implications helps you stay up to date by providi...
Price: $25.80 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services
by Brian Beach
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of d...
Price: $56.16 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
HTML5 Game Development Insights
by Colt McAnlis, Peter Lubbers, Duncan Tebbs, Brandon Jones, Andrzej Mazur, Sean Bennett, Florian d'Erfurth, Bruno Garcia, Shun Lin, Ivan Popelyshev, Jason Gauci, Jon Howard, Ian Ballantyne, Jesse Freeman, Takuo Kihira, Tyler Smith, Don Olmstead, John M
HTML5 Game Development Insights is a from-the-trenches collection of tips, tricks, hacks, and advice straight from professional HTML5 game developers. The 24 chapters here include unique, cutting edge, and essential techniques for creating and optimizing modern HTML5 games. You will learn things such as using the Gamepad API, real-time networking, getting 60fps full screen HTML5 games on mobile, using langu...
Price: $41.69 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning
by Murali Vallath
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology and principles for testing and tuning RAC databases. The book takes a deep look at optimizing RAC databases by following a methodical approach based on scientific analysis rather than using a speculative approach, twisting and turning knobs and gambling on the system.The book starts with the basi...
Price: $64.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Marko Gargenta, Masumi Nakamura
Want to build apps for Android devices? This book is the perfect way to master the fundamentals. Written by experts who have taught this mobile platform to hundreds of developers in large organizations and startups alike, this gentle introduction shows experienced object-oriented programmers how to use Android's basic building blocks to create user interfaces, store data, connect to the network, and mo...
Price: $23.22 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Andrew Hinton
To make sense of the world, we're always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than ever-starting with "where" and "who" we are.This practical, insightful book provides a powerful toolset to...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Ian F. Darwin
From lambda expressions and JavaFX 8 to new support for network programming and mobile development, Java 8 brings a wealth of changes. This cookbook helps you get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes across a broad range of Java topics. You'll learn useful techniques for everything from debugging and data structures to GUI development and functional programming.Each recipe includes ...
Price: $33.58 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014