The Increment System is the world's first "sports psychology system", a system that allows sportspeople to design their perfect mental state and then achieve it through a simple, repeatable process. The system uses a powerful combination of tools and processes drawn from sports psychology, NLP, business project management, and pure common sense. It also includes new sports psychology theory known as "incrementing" which allows you to change your mental state in competition using an easy-to-achieve staged process. The system relies on, teaches and encourages: self-reflection, self-awareness, planning, preparation, experimentation, structured thinking, and the use of positive language and behavioural changes. It was tested and refined using the input of 25 world class athletes and keen amateurs from a wide range of sports. It has received exceptional feedback from people using the system, and has produced clear improvements in their mental performances. "A highly interesting and a refreshing approach to sports psychology", England Mens' Technical Golf Coach "With this system, we could have finished in the top four last season", Head of Sports Science for a Premier League football team "A fascinating and comprehensive book", New Holland Publishers "Impressive ideas and presentation", Hamlyn Books About the Author: Neil Harris is an NLP Sports Practitioner, a professional golfer, and a sports fanatic. He has a special interest in what separates high achievers from those who should achieve more in their chosen sport. He studied Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and made a career of understanding and designing effective systems and processes around people, technology and businesses. In recent years his lifelong passion for sports psychology has culminated in the creation of the world's first sports psychology system, a system that allows sportspeople to design their perfect mental state and then achieve it through a simple, repeatable process.

Many systems development practitioners find traditional "one-size-fits-all" processes inadequate for the growing complexity, diversity, dynamism, and assurance needs of their products and services. The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM) responds with a principle- and risk-based framework for defining and evolving your project and corporate process assets. This book explains ICSM's framework of decision criteria and principles, and shows how to apply them through relevant examples.

The testing market is growing at a fast pace and ISTQB certifications are being increasingly requested, with more than 180,000 persons currently certified throughout the world. The ISTQB Foundations level syllabus was updated in 2011, and this book provides detailed course study material including a glossary and sample questions to help adequately prepare for the certification exam. The fundamental aspects of testing are approached, as is testing in the lifecycles from Waterfall to Agile and iterative lifecycles. Static testing, such as reviews and static analysis, and their benefits are examined as well as techniques such as Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis, Decision Table Testing, State Transitions and use cases, along with selected white box testing techniques. Test management, test progress monitoring, risk analysis and incident management are covered, as are the methods for successfully introducing tools in an organization. Contents 1. Fundamentals of Testing. 2. Testing Throughout the Software Life Cycle. 3. Static Techniques (FL 3.0). 4. Test Design Techniques (FL 4.0). 5. Test Management (FL 5.0). 6. Tools support for Testing (FL 6.0). 7. Mock Exam. 8. Templates and Models. 9. Answers to the Questions.

In April 1991 BusinessWeek ran a cover story entitled, "I Can't Work This ?#!!@ Thing," about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. More than 15 years later, the situation is much the same-but at a very different level of scale. The disconnect between people and technology has had society-wide consequences in the large-scale system accidents from major human error, such as those at Three Mile Island and in Chernobyl. To prevent both the individually annoying and nationally significant consequences, human capabilities and needs must be considered early and throughout system design and development. One challenge for such consideration has been providing the background and data needed for the seamless integration of humans into the design process from various perspectives: human factors engineering, manpower, personnel, training, safety and health, and, in the military, habitability and survivability. This collection of development activities has come to be called human-system integration (HSI). Human-System Integration in the System Development Process reviews in detail more than 20 categories of HSI methods to provide invaluable guidance and information for system designers and developers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2016, held in Wuhan, China, in September 2016. The 30 full papers and 18 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: body sensor networks and wearable devices; cloud computing and networking; distributed computing and big data; distributed scheduling and optimization; internet of things and its application; smart networked transportation and logistics; and big data and social networks.

This book is the result of a united effort of six European universities to create an overall course on the appplication of artificial intelligence (AI) in process control. The book includes an introduction to key areas including; knowledge representation, expert, logic, fuzzy logic, neural network, and object oriented-based approaches in AI. Part two covers the application to control engineering, part three: Real-Time Issues, part four: CAD Systems and Expert Systems, part five: Intelligent Control and part six: Supervisory Control, Monitoring and Optimization.