System Quality and Software Architecture collects state-of-the-art knowledge on how to intertwine software quality requirements with software architecture and how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system. Contributions from leading researchers and industry evangelists detail the techniques required to achieve quality management in software architecting, and the best way to apply these techniques effectively in various application domains (especially in cloud, mobi...

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CCClassroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the supportof Adobe product experts.Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons that cover the basics, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become ...

Become a digital shutterbug! Which are the best digital cameras for your needs? Review the features of point and shoot cameras, interchangeable lens cameras, "mirrorless" cameras and reflex cameras. Enter a "digital darkroom" where software programs let you alter and touch up your photos, crop them, enlarge them and print them. Set up a studio and find out what equipment you'll need. Make money at weddings, taking product shots, repairing damaged pictures, news and sports photography and s...

A quick and comprehensive tutorial book for media designers to jump-start interactive multimedia production with computer graphics, digital audio, digital video, and interactivity, using the Pure Data graphical programming environment.An introductory book on multimedia programming for media artists/designers who like to work on interactivity in their projects, digital art/design students who like to learn the first multimedia programming technique, and audio-visual performers who like to c...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThe book is best suited for existing Android or Java programmers who want to adapt their skills to make exciting Android games. The book is also for determined readers who might have no Android, game programming or even Java experience, but a reasonable understanding of object oriented programming knowledge is assumed.What you will learnBuild simple to advanced game engines for different types of game, with ...

Over 60 recipes to sculpt digital masterpieces like a modern Michelangelo with this book and ebook.Key FeaturesCreate amazing, high detail sculpts for games, movies, and moreExtract high resolution texture maps to use on your low poly 3d modelsCreate terrain that you can walk on in a virtual worldLearn professional tricks that will improve your workflowWhether you are opening Mudbox for the first time or the thousandth time, t...

Hacking with Kali introduces you the most current distribution of the de facto standard tool for Linux pen testing. Starting with use of the Kali live CD and progressing through installation on hard drives, thumb drives and SD cards, author James Broad walks you through creating a custom version of the Kali live distribution. You'll learn how to configure networking components, storage devices and system services such as DHCP and web services. Once you're familiar with the basic components...

This text presents an overview of smart information systems for both the private and public sector, highlighting the research questions that can be studied by applying computational intelligence. The book demonstrates how to transform raw data into effective smart information services, covering the challenges and potential of this approach. Each chapter describes the algorithms, tools, measures and evaluations used to answer important questions. This is then further illustrated by a divers...

Many designers, policy makers, teachers, and other practitioners are beginning to understand the usefulness of using digital games beyond entertainment. Games have been developed for teaching, recruiting and to collect data to improve search engines. This book examines the fundamentals of designing any game with a serious purpose and provides a way of thinking on how to design one successfully.The reader will be introduced to a design philosophy called “Triadic Game Design.”; a the...

This one-of-a-kind short book walks you through creating fantastic entertainment apps for one of the newest Android platforms. Android TV Apps Development: Building Media and Games will demystify some of the newest APIs and present the tools necessary for building applications that run on Android TV.Walking through example applications, you will learn the vocabulary necessary to solve real-world problems and how to present your content on the television through Android. In...

The area of content-based video retrieval is a very hot area both for research and for commercial applications. In order to design effective video databases for applications such as digital libraries, video production, and a variety of Internet applications, there is a great need to develop effective techniques for content-based video retrieval. One of the main issues in this area of research is how to bridge the semantic gap between low-Ievel features extracted from a video (such as color...

Content protection and digital rights management (DRM) are fields that receive a lot of attention: content owners require systems that protect and maximize their revenues; consumers want backwards compatibility, while they fear that content owners will spy on their viewing habits; and academics are afraid that DRM may be a barrier to knowledge sharing. DRM technologies have a poor reputation and are not yet trusted.This book describes the key aspects of content protection and DRM s...