COMING SOON: Writing Effective Business Rules by Graham Witt
November 17, 2011
SteveH
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Morgan Kaufmann is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Writing Effective Business Rules by Graham Witt. The 360-page reference is due out in January 2012. |
About the Book
Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholders. Designed to meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an exhaustive analysis of rule types and a set of syntactic templates from which unambiguous natural language rule statements of each type can be generated. A user guide to the SBVR specification, it explains how to develop an appropriate business vocabulary and generate quality rule statements using the appropriate templates and terms from the vocabulary. The resulting rule statements can be reviewed by business stakeholders for relevance and correctness, providing for a high level of confidence in their successful implementation.
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COMING SOON: The UX Book by Rex Hartson and Pardha S. Pyla
November 15, 2011 SteveH
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Morgan Kaufmann is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience by Rex Hartson & Pardha S. Pyla. The 840-page reference is due out in February 2012. |
About the Book
This is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm grounding in HCI concepts and theory.
The authors will guide you through the UX lifecycle process, including contextual inquiry and analysis, requirements extraction, design ideation and creation, practical design production, prototyping, and UX evaluation. Development activities are linked via handoffs between stages as practitioners move through the process. The lifecycle template concept introduced in this book can be tailored to any project environment, from large enterprise system development to commercial products.
Students and practitioners alike will come away with knowledge and understanding of how to create and refine interaction designs to ensure a quality user experience.
For more information, see theuxbook.com.
COMING SOON: Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook by Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt and Bill Buxton
November 9, 2011 SteveH
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Morgan Kaufmann is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook by Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt & Bill Buxton. The 288-page reference is due out in January 2012. |
About the Book
In Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook, you will learn, through step-by-step instructions and exercises, various sketching methods that will let you express your design ideas about user experiences across time. Collectively, these methods will be your sketching repertoire: a toolkit where you can choose the method most appropriate for developing your ideas, which will help you cultivate a culture of experience-based design and critique in your workplace.
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COMING SOON: Digital Video and HD, 2nd Edition
October 31, 2011 Cedric
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Morgan Kaufmann is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces, 2nd Edition by Charles Poynton. The 750 page reference book is due out January 2012. |
Key Features
Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces provides a one-stop shop for the theory and engineering of digital video systems. Equally accessible to video engineers and those working in computer graphics, Charles Poynton’s revision to his classic text covers emergent compression systems, including H.264 and VP8/WebM, and augments detailed information on JPEG, DVC, and MPEG-2 systems. This edition also introduces the technical aspects of file-based workflows and outlines the emerging domain of metadata, placing it in the context of digital video processing. Read more …
COMING SOON: Joe Celko’s Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, 2nd Edition
October 31, 2011 SteveH
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Morgan Kaufmann is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Joe Celko’s Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, 2nd Edition by Joe Celko. The 288-page reference is due out in January 2012. |
About the Book
The demand for SQL information and training continues to grow with the need for a database behind every website capable of offering web-based information queries. SQL is the de facto standard for database retrieval, and if you need to access, update, or utilize data in a modern database management system, you will need SQL to do it. The Second Edition of Joe Celko’s Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties covers two new sets of extensions over three entirely new chapters and expounds upon the changes that have occurred in SQL standards since the previous edition’s publication. Benefit from mastering the challenging aspects of these database applications in SQL as taught by Joe Celko, one of the most-read SQL authors in the world.
Key Features
- Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist who has given 10 years of service to the ANSI SQL standards committee
- Teaches scores of advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment
- Offers graph theory and programming techniques for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges
Who Should Read This Book
Database application developers (from enterprise-level application builders to small business developers)
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Graphs, Trees and Hierarchies
Chapter 2: Adjacency List Model
Chapter 3: Path Enumeration Models
Chapter 4: Nested Set Model of Hierarchies
Chapter 5: Frequent Insertion Trees
Chapter 6: The Linear Version of the Nested Sets model
Chapter 7: Binary Trees
Chapter 8: Other Models for Trees
Chapter 9: Proprietary Extensions for Trees
Chapter 10: Hierarchies in Data Modelling
Chapter 11: Hierarchical Encoding Schemes
Chapter 12: General Graphs (NEW)
Chapter 13: Petri Nets (NEW)
Chapter 14 State Transition Graphs (NEW)
ISBN: 9780123877338 | View in bookstore
