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Game AnalyticsMaximizing the Value of Player Data

Developing a successful game in today’s market is achallenging endeavor. Thousands of titles are pub-lished yearly, all competing for players’ time andattention. Game analytics has emerged in the past fewyears as one of the main resources for ensuring gamequality, maximizing success, understanding playerbehavior and enhancing the quality of the playerexperience. It has led to a paradigm shift in the devel-opment and design strategies of digital games, bring-ing data-driven intelligence practices into the fray forinforming decision making at operational, tacticaland strategic levels.Game Analytics - Maximizing theValue of Player Data is the first book on the topic ofgame[...]


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N.K. Singh, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Using Event-B for Critical DeviceSoftware SystemsDefining a new development life-cycle methodol-ogy, together with a set of associated techniques andtools to develop highly critical systems using for-mal techniques, this book adopts a rigorous safetyassessment approach explored via several layers (fromrequirements analysis to automatic source code gen-eration). This is assessed and evaluated via a standardcase study: the cardiac pacemaker. Additionally a for-malisation of an Electrocardiogram (ECG) is used toidentify anomalies in order to improve existing med-ical protocols. This allows the key issue - that formalmethods are not currently integrated into established

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M.A. Treiber, ASM Assembly Systems GmbH & Co. KG,Munich, Germany

Optimization for Computer VisionAn Introduction to Core Concepts and Methods

This practical and authoritative text/referencepresents a broad introduction to the optimizationmethods used specifically in computer vision. Inorder to facilitate understanding, the presentation ofthe methods is supplemented by simple flow charts,followed by pseudocode implementations that revealdeeper insights into their mode of operation. Thesediscussions are further supported by examples takenfrom important applications in computer vision. Top-ics and features: provides a comprehensive overviewof computer vision-related optimization; covers arange of techniques from classical iterative multi-dimensional optimization to cutting-edge topics ofgraph cuts and GPU-suited total[...]


Hardcover2013. XI, 257 p. 107 illus., 93 illus. in color. (Advances inComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition)▶ 94,99 €ISBN 978-1-4471-5282-8Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days.







B. Turban, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Tool-Based RequirementTraceability betweenRequirement and Design ArtifactsProcesses for developing safety-critical systemsimpose special demands on ensuring requirementstraceability. Achieving valuable traceability informa-tion, however, is especially difficult concerning thetransition from requirements to design. BernhardTurban analyzes systems and software engineeringtheories cross-cutting the issue (embedded systemsdevelopment, systems engineering, software engi-neering, requirements engineering and management,design theory and processes for safety-critical sys-tems). As a solution, the author proposes a new toolapproach to support designers in their thinking inorder to achieve traceability as a by-product to normaldesign activities and to extend[...]


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Forthcoming

J. Vince, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom

Calculus for Computer GraphicsStudents studying computer animation and com-puter games have to be familiar with geometry, matri-ces, vectors, rotation transforms, quaternions, curvesand surfaces, and as computer graphics softwarebecomes increasingly sophisticated, calculus is alsobeing used to resolve its associated problems.Theauthor draws upon his experience in teaching math-ematics to undergraduates to make calculus appearno more challenging than any other branch of mathe-matics. He introduces the subject by examining howfunctions depend upon their independent variables,and then derives the appropriate mathematical under-pinning and definitions. This gives rise to a function’sderivative and its[...]


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2013. XIII, 227 p. 144 illus.▶ 39,99 €ISBN 978-1-4471-5465-5Due: September 30, 2013



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