Apr 17 2015 Added eBooks

Managing the Design Process-Implementing Design focuses on design implementation and execution. This is where design ideas become real, tangible goods in the marketplace and beyond. This book examines design management concepts and methods in real-world applications. Unlike other books on design management, this book is visually stunning, featuring many image-rich case studies to illustrate the fundamentals of design management in a way that speaks to a design audience. The information is not something that is typically taught in design (or business) school-it's learned on the job, making this an invaluable reference for designers....

This book has evolved over three years with the development of new techniques and perspectives within Professor Ribeiro's Probabilistic Aspects of Harmonics Task Force of the IEEE Power Engineering Society. Key features: * Exhaustive reference on the analysis of time-varying waveform distortions in power systems , detailing many different approaches * Contains case studies and basic application examples, tables, and graphs to enable better understanding of the methods presented* Written by a range of professionals, varying from university lecturers to practising power engineers, and edited by a well-known professor in power issues...

This book is a clear and lucid presentation of Evolutionary Algorithms, with a straightforward, bottom-up approach that provides the reader with a firm grasp of the basic principles of EAs. Covering the theory, history, mathematics, and applications of evolutionary optimization algorithms, this timely and practical book offers lengthy examples, a companion website, MATLAB code, and a Solutions Manual--making it perfect for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and practicing engineers involved in engineering and computer science....

Give your business the edge with crowd-power! Crowdsourcing is an innovative way of outsourcing tasks, problems or requests to a group or community online. There are lots of ways business can use crowdsourcing to their advantage: be it crowdsourcing product ideas and development, design tasks, market research, testing, capturing or analyzing data, and even raising funds. It offers access to a wide pool of talent and ideas, and is an exciting way to engage the public with your business. Crowdsourcing For Dummies is your plain-English guide to making crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation work for you. It gives step-by-step advice on how to plan, start and manage a crowdsourcing project, where to crowdsource, how to find the perfect audience, ...