An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture is the culmination of several decades of experience that I have gained through work initially as an information technology manager and then as a consultant to executives in the public and private sectors. I wrote this book for three major reasons: (1) to help move business and technology planning from a systems and process-level view to a more strategy-driven enterprise-level view, (2) to promote and explain the emerging profession of EA, and (3) to provide the first textbook on the subject of EA, which is suitable for graduate and undergraduate levels of study. To date, other books on EA have been practitioner books not specifically oriented toward a student who may be learning the subject with little to no previous exposure. Therefore, this book contains references to related academic research and industry best practices, as well as my own observations about potential future practices and the direction of this emerging profession.

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, 'arts' end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the newest research-the 'science' aspects. A series of short thematic chapters look in turn at such areas as the prehistory of languages and their common origins, language and evolution, language in time and space (the nature of change inherent in language), grammars and dictionaries (how systematic is language?), and phonetics. Explication of the newest discoveries pertaining to language in the brain completes the coverage of all major aspects of linguistics from a refreshing and insightful angle.

Designed primarily as a text for senior undergraduate students of Computer Science and Engineering, and postgraduate students of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, this compact book describes the theoretical aspects of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic.

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If you feel the need to improve your current Agile practice and are looking for practical ideas, this is the book for you. This book clears the air about Agile (a simple yet overloaded term in software industry) and explains the what/why/how of Agile - WHAT is Agile, WHY one must go for it and HOW to be Agile? For the 'how' part, the book shares the key essence of Agile in a framework agnostic manner, then provides condensed summary of two most popular approaches for implementing Agile - Scrum and Kanban.