5 Engineering / Technology e-Books

* Game of X v.1: Xbox
* Game of X v.2: The Long Road to Xbox
* Business Models and ICT Technologies for the Fashion Supply Chain
* Ubiquitous Computing and Computing Security of IoT
* Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Engineering: SIGMA 2018, Volume 1

Game of X v.1: Xbox
English | September 25th, 2018 | ISBN: 1138350176, 1138350168 | 258 Pages | EPUB | 7.67 MB
Based on 48 interviews and years of research, Game of X v.1: Xbox tells the many stories of Microsoft's unlikely entry into the game console business. In addition to the personal insights of the key players in the story, Game of X includes many previously unreleased documents that show what was going on behind the scenes. This is the story of Xbox and Xbox Live.

Game of X v.2: The Long Road to Xbox
English | September 25th, 2018 | ISBN: 1138350184 | 358 Pages | EPUB | 3.82 MB
Game of X v.2 is the story that leads up to Xbox. It is a story of DOS games, Microsoft culture, the crazy stories around the development and promotion of DirectX and the graphics standards that were required for Xbox to happen. Stories based on dozens of interviews include a colorful cast of characters and some solid technical background. The history of games for DOS and the initial challenges of Windows, the surprising source of the earliest Windows games, and much, much more. This is the fascinating prequel to Game of X v.1: Xbox.

Business Models and ICT Technologies for the Fashion Supply Chain
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 (2019 Edition) | 179 Pages | ISBN : 3319980378 | 6.93 MB
This book presents high-quality original contributions on the fashion supply chain. A wide spectrum of application domains are covered, processing of big data coming from digital and social media channels, fashion new product development, fashion design, fashion marketing and communication strategy, business models and entrepreneurship, e-commerce and omni-channel management, corporate social responsibility, new materials for fashion product, wearable technologies.
The contents are based on presentations delivered at IT4Fashion 2017, the 7th International Conference in Business Models and ICT Technologies for the Fashion Supply Chain, which was held in Florence, Italy, in April 2017, and at IT4Fashion 2018, the 8th edition of the same conference, which was held in Florence, Italy, in April 2018. This conference series represents a targeted response to the growing need for research that reports and debates supply chain business models and technologies applied to the fashion industry, with the aim of increasing knowledge in the area of product lifecycle management and supply chain management in that industry.

Ubiquitous Computing and Computing Security of IoT
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 (2019 Edition) | 132 Pages | ISBN : 3030015653 | 5.45 MB
This provides a comprehensive overview of the key principles of security concerns surrounding the upcoming Internet of Things (IoT), and introduces readers to the protocols adopted in the IoT. It also analyses the vulnerabilities, attacks and defense mechanisms, highlighting the security issues in the context of big data. Lastly, trust management approaches and ubiquitous learning applications are examined in detail. As such, the book sets the stage for developing and securing IoT applications both today and in the future.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Engineering: SIGMA 2018, Volume 1
English | PDF | 2018 (2019 Edition) | 625 Pages | ISBN : 9811318182 | 26.29 MB
The book is a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed innovative research papers from the International Conference on Signals, Machines and Automation (SIGMA 2018) held at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi, India. The conference offered researchers from academic and industry the opportunity to present their original work and exchange ideas, information, techniques and applications in the field of computational intelligence, artificial intelligence and machine intelligence. The book is divided into two volumes discussing a wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques.