Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals, now in its 17th edition, has set the standard as the single best resource for students and professionals looking to brush up on how communication technologies have developed, grown, and converged, as well as what's in store for the future. The book covers the fundamentals of communication technology in five chapters that explain the communication technology ecosystem, its history, theories, structure,...

To succeed, teams must assure the quality of IoT systems. The world of technology continually moves from one hot area to another; this book considers the next explosionof IoTfrom a quality testing viewpoint. You'll first gain an introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT), V&V, and testing. Next, you'll be walked through IoT test planning and strategy over the full life cycle, including the impact of data analytics and AI. You will then delve deeper...

"A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which determines how much we can spend on our schools, highways, and defense; economists decide how much unemployment is acceptable and whether it is right to print money...

"Holistic approach to new product development - Links technology and product development to business needs - Structures technology and product development from idea to off-the-shelf product - Describes the broad range of skills which engineers will need to deploy their technical expertise effectively - Explains the maturity levels of new technologies and products and hence where they are in the development cycle Market description: Primary: Engineers...

"Sea-changes in society, technology, consumer expectations and our understanding of behavioral economics have caused us to rethink our understanding of the scope of knowledge required to navigate, analyze and shape consumer behavior. You hold in your hand a field guide for this adventure. Ron Hill and Cait Lamberton have gathered together the very top professors from around the world and invited them to share the beliefs, practices and wisdom that...

"Recent industry surveys expect the quantity of connected devices and sensors to be in excess of 50 billion worldwide by 2020, and these devices can generate huge amounts of data every single day. It becomes a big challenge to analyze and create actionable information from the data. Fog computing, as a promising solution to extend the capability of Clouds, has attracted considerable attention. Fogs are lightweight distributed technology platforms...