The book is based on interviews with more than 100 computer science students of both sexes from Carnegie Mellon University, a major center of computer science research, over a period of four years, as well as classroom observations and ...

First Published in 1998. This book deals with what may well turn out to be the missing element in the study of individual differences - cognitive style.

The purpose of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge is to provide a validated classification of the bounds of the software engineering discipline and topical access that will support this discipline.

This easily digestible text: Features significant updates that mirror the phenomenal growth of distributed systems Explores new topics related to peer-to-peer and social networks Includes fresh exercises, examples, and case studies ...

Offers comprehensive coverage of discrete-event simulation, emphasizing and describing the procedures used in operations research - methodology, generation and testing of random numbers, collection and analysis of input data, verification ...

This book started out as a disconnected set of lecture notes for two simulation classes taught at the University of Florida. The interdisciplinary nature of the book fits well within the systems approach to studying phenomena.