“…We will then see how functions are split between processes and the usage of POSIX threads, which have a big impact on the responsiveness and performance of the final device The closing sections look at the techniques available to developers for profiling and tracing applications and kernel code using perf and ftrace. …”

“…Design and code your own 2D and 3D games efficiently using OpenGL and C++ About This Book Create 2D and 3D games completely, through a series of end-to-end game projects Learn to render high performance 2D and 3D graphics using OpenGL Implement a rudimentary game engine using step-by-step code Who This Book Is For If you are a prospective game developer with some experience using C++, then this book is for you. …”

“…After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, we'll dive into the internals of the .NET class libraries, covering topics such as performance, monitoring, debugging, internationalization, serialization, and encryption. …”

“…You will learn how to use SAS to perform analytics and model using both basic and advanced techniques like multiple regression, logistic regression, and time series analysis, among other topics. …”

“…Multi-touch code gives these games and their players dynamic input and exchange ability, for a more realistic arcade game experience. Faster and better performance offers Android game players a more seamless, fun arcade experience like never before. …”

“…Without the burden of short-term performance benchmarks, individual investors have the advantage of focusing on the long view, and the freedom to construct the kind of portfolio that will serve their investment goals best. …”

“…Next, popular options for performing reporting and orchestration tasks will be introduced in this book. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.2.3 Evolutionary Stochastic Search: The Genetic Algorithm3.2.4 Evolutionary Genetic Algorithms; 3.2.5 Hybridization: Coupling Gradient-Descent, Stochastic, and Genetic Search Methods; 3.3 Repeated Estimation and Thick Models; 3.4 MATLAB Examples: Numerical Optimization and Network Performance; 3.4.1 Numerical Optimization; 3.4.2 Approximation with Polynomials and Neural Networks; 3.5 Conclusion; 3.5.1 MATLAB Program Notes; 3.5.2 Suggested Exercises; 4 Evaluation of Network Estimation; 4.1 In-Sample Criteria; 4.1.1 Goodness of Fit Measure; 4.1.2 Hannan-Quinn Information Criterion…”

“…You'll start with a deep dive into methods like A/B testing, and then graduate to advanced techniques used to measure performance in industries such as finance and social media. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Variazione e gestione della performance dei sistemi sanitari regionali -- 4.5. Ottenere una maggior qualità dai sistemi sanitari regionali italiani -- 4.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exploring different types of regression -- Introducing linear regression -- Linear regression model in MATLAB -- Making predictions with regression analysis in MATLAB -- Multiple linear regression with categorical predictor -- Evaluating model performance -- Reducing outlier effects -- Using advanced techniques for model evaluation and selection in MATLAB -- Understanding k-fold cross-validation -- Exploring leave-one-out cross-validation -- Introducing the bootstrap method -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Clustering Analysis and Dimensionality Reduction -- Technical requirements -- Understanding clustering - basic concepts and methods -- How to measure similarity -- How to find centroids and centers -- How to define a grouping -- Understanding hierarchical clustering -- Partitioning-based clustering algorithms with MATLAB -- Introducing the k-means algorithm -- Using k-means in MATLAB -- Grouping data using the similarity measures -- Applying k-medoids in MATLAB -- Discovering dimensionality reduction techniques -- Introducing feature selection methods -- Exploring feature extraction algorithms -- Feature selection and feature extraction using MATLAB -- Stepwise regression for feature selection -- Carrying out PCA -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Introducing Artificial Neural Network Modeling -- Technical requirements -- Getting started with ANNs -- Basic concepts relating to ANNs -- Understanding how perceptrons work -- Activation function to introduce non-linearity -- ANN's architecture explained -- Training and testing an ANN model in MATLAB -- How to train an ANN -- Introducing the MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox -- Understanding data fitting with ANNs -- Discovering pattern recognition using ANNs -- Building a clustering application with an ANN -- Exploring advanced optimization techniques -- Understanding SGD -- Exploring Adam optimization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Developing edge applications -- Scalability with automation -- Prepping an edge device -- Prepping an edge cluster -- Operational security -- Limiting physical access -- Limiting connectivity -- Trusted hardware and provisioning -- Trusted data -- Trusted compute -- Tactical Edge -- Automation with AI -- LLMs and generative AI -- Using AI in automation -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Monitoring and Observability -- Monitoring and observability -- How monitoring works -- How observability works -- How network observability works -- Measuring to improve -- Network observability example -- What to measure -- Real user monitoring -- Network performance management -- Anomaly detection -- Capacity -- Business outcomes -- Improving edge solution -- Monitoring challenges at the edge -- Configuration changes at the edge -- Edge application monitoring -- Personas -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Connect Judiciously but Thoughtlessly -- Suggested pre-reading material -- Declarative versus imperative configuration -- Comparing the two approaches -- What slows down application deployment on the edge? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Business financials -- Cross Functional Teams (CFTs) -- Managing business relationships -- Vendors and suppliers -- Internal stakeholders -- Partners and clients -- Industry groups and associations -- Regulatory agencies -- Summary -- Chapter 5: The Mindset of the Network Architect - the Principles of Design -- Principles of network architecting -- Hierarchical -- Additional design patterns -- Scalability -- Modularity -- Resilience -- Performant -- Thinking like a CxO -- What other industries are doing -- Always thinking - innovating, exploring new trends -- Summary -- Part 3 - Constructing the Core: Building Blocks of a Network Architect -- Chapter 6: Foundations of Network Architecture - Part 1: Route/Switch -- Overview of the OSI model -- OSI model versus TCP/IP model -- Physical infrastructure -- Network cabling -- Switches and switching concepts -- Switching concepts -- Switches -- Key switching functions -- Routers and routing concepts -- Routing concepts -- Router types -- Supporting vendors -- Fiber optics -- Networking -- Security -- Virtualization -- Server -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: The Foundation of Network Architecture, Part Two - Network Services -- Understanding load balancers -- Types of load balancers -- Network load balancer (NLB) -- Global server load balancer (GSLB) -- Load balancing algorithms -- Which load balancer should you choose? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.1 Wireless Access Technologies -- 5.1.1 IEEE 802.16 WiMAX -- 5.1.2 Wireless Mesh Networks -- 5.2 Hybrid Optical / Wireless Access Network Architecture -- 5.2.1 Leveraging TDM-PON for Smooth Upgrade of Hierarchical Wireless Access Networks -- 5.2.2 Upgrading Path -- 5.2.3 Reconfigurable Optical Backhaul Architecture -- 5.3 Integrated Routing Algorithm for Hybrid Access Networks -- 5.3.1 Simulation Results and Performance Analysis -- 5.4 Summary -- References -- INDEX…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.3 Challenges: Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy 6.4 Contributions to Growth; 6.5 Critical Success Factors; 6.6 Summary; 6.6.1 Cost Impact; 6.6.2 Innovation Impact; 6.6.3 Environmental Impact; 6.6.4 Stakeholder Impact; References; Chapter 7 Capital Cooling: Sustainable Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineering; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Context; 7.3 Environmental and Legal Challenges; 7.4 Contributions to Growth; 7.5 Sustainable Performance; 7.6 Critical Success Factors; 7.7 Sustainability/CSR Charter: Setting the Course with Subcontractors and Suppliers; 7.8 Summary; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Working with SQL Server deployment tasks -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Integrating Testing, Security Tasks, and Other Tools -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the Azure DevOps extensibility model -- Installing a code quality assessment tool, SonarQube -- Including automated tests for your build -- Increasing code quality -- Configuring a SonarQube project -- Creating a service connection to SonarQube in Azure DevOps -- Creating an Azure Pipeline to analyze your code -- Reviewing SonarQube analysis results -- Integrating with Jenkins for artifacts and release pipelines -- Creating a Jenkins job that produces an artifact -- Creating a service connection to Jenkins in Azure DevOps -- Creating a release pipeline to use Jenkins artifacts -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Monitoring Azure Pipelines -- Technical requirements -- Understanding monitoring concepts -- Monitoring pipeline tasks and their performance -- Using the pipeline's user interface -- Using dashboards -- Monitoring pipeline agents -- Job runs -- Agent status -- Agent jobs -- Analytics -- Measuring application quality with monitoring -- Code quality metrics -- Deployment health -- Integration with Azure Monitor -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Provisioning Infrastructure Using Infrastructure as Code -- Technical requirements -- Installing Azure tools -- Installing AWS tools -- Installing Terraform tools -- Installing the Terraform Marketplace extension -- Access to an Azure account -- Access to an AWS account -- Understanding IaC -- Working with ARM templates -- Creating a service principal in Azure -- Creating a service connection to Azure -- Creating an ARM template -- Validating the ARM template -- Creating a pipeline variable -- Deploying ARM templates -- Working with AWS CloudFormation -- Creating an IAM user with the AWS CLI -- Creating a service connection to AWS…”

“…While Central Asia has proven relatively resilient to the shocks of COVID-19, China's slowdown and Russia's war in Ukraine, declining trend rates of growth across the region, lacklustre productivity performance and lingering global uncertainty underscore the need to address weaknesses in the business and investment climate…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Damping schedule and convergence acceleration -- 7.4. Performance assessment on synthetic data -- 7.5. Feature selection -- 7.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.4 Utilizations of Data Science to CR-IoV -- 3.5 Machine Learning in Conjunction with Data Science for CR-IoV -- 3.6 Patterns Identification from CR-IoV Data using Data Science and Machine Learning -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- Section 4 Data Science Applications -- 4 Minimized Channel Switching and Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Cognitive Radio Architecture -- 4.1.2 Cognitive Radio in the IoV -- 4.1.3 Channel Assignment in Cognitive Radio -- 4.2 Literature Review -- 4.3 Problem Statement -- 4.4 Research Questions -- 4.5 Proposed MCSR -- 4.5.1 Channel Assignment Algorithm -- 4.5.2 Case Study -- 4.6 Performance Evaluation -- 4.6.1 Simulation Environment -- 4.6.2 Results and Discussion -- 4.6.3 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- 5 Time Synchronization in Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles -- 5.1 Time Synchronization and Its Importance -- 5.2 Fundamentals -- 5.2.1 Clocks -- 5.2.2 Physical/Hardware Clocks -- 5.2.3 Logical/Software Clocks -- 5.2.4 Imperfections of Clocks -- 5.2.5 Synchronized Clocks -- 5.2.6 Clock Adjustments -- 5.3 Synchronization Concerns -- 5.3.1 Global Time Access -- 5.3.2 Limitations -- 5.3.3 Critical Metrics -- 5.3.4 Basic Principles -- 5.3.5 Challenges -- 5.3.6 Various Types -- 5.4 Approaches to Time Synchronization in Wired Media -- 5.5 Approaches to Time Synchronization in Wireless Media and the CR-IoV -- 5.5.1 Protocols -- 5.5.2 Significance in the CR-IoV -- 5.5.3 Requirement Analysis for Time Synchronization in the CR-IoV -- 5.6 Advances towards CR-IoV Time Synchronization -- 5.6.1 Timing Synchronization Function-Based Synchronization in the CR-IoV -- 5.6.2 Global Navigation Satellite System-Based Synchronization in the CR-IoV -- 5.6.3 Single Timestamp-Based Cross-Layer Synchronization in the CR-IoV…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 8: Limitations of Coding with LLMs -- Technical requirements -- Inherent limitations of LLMs -- Core limitations -- Other limitations to LLMs -- Evaluating LLM performance -- Overcoming inherent limitations -- Challenges in integrating LLMs into coding workflows -- Relevant workflow example -- Security risks -- IP concerns -- Dependency management -- Explainability -- Future research directions to address limitations -- Continuous learning -- Novel architectures -- Computational efficiency -- Specialized training -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Cultivating Collaboration in LLM-Enhanced Coding -- Technical requirements -- Why share LLM-generated code? …”