Learn to set up, run, and support Solaris 9 across your network using this hands-on introductory guide. Beginning with an overview of this powerful operating system, this practical resource will show you how to install the SPARC version of Solaris 9 and manage Internet and intranet services, and will help you become...

In an age where online universities and distance learning courses exist side by side with traditional classroom learning, the development, design, use and challenges of creating web-based learning systems that promote learning in students, whether over a distance or within a university proper, is increasingly complex and often...

Many engineering, operations, and scientific applications include a mixture of discrete and continuous decision variables and nonlinear relationships involving the decision variables that have a pronounced effect on the set of feasible and optimal solutions. Mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems combine the numerical...