This volume contains the best papers presented at the 7th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (BalticDB&IS’2006). The series of Baltic DB&IS conferences has been initiated by Janis Bubenko jr. and Arne Solvberg in 1994. The conferences are highly international and bring together academics and...
Many people use Outlook either by choice or by force, but few of them do more than scratch the surface of the personal information manager's many features. And after years of spending hours each day within Outlook, most users become at least proficient with its base features.
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CLSC Exam Certification Guide is a comprehensive preparation tool for the CLSC exam (#640-404) and Foundation Routing and Switching exam (#640-409). Coverage of all CLSC exam objectives ensures readers will arrive at a complete understanding of the exam topics. This title reviews the main features of the Catalyst family of switches and the...
Since 1993, the Information Security Management Handbook has served not only as an everyday reference for information security practitioners but also as an important document for conducting the intense review necessary to prepare for the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) examination. Now completely revised and updated and...
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The service-oriented approach has become more and more popular, now allowing highly integrated and yet heterogeneous applications. Web services are the natural evolution of conventional middleware technologies to support Web-based and enterprise-level integration.
The highly dynamic characteristics of service-oriented applications means...
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation, INLG 2004, held in Brockenhurst, UK in July 2004.
The 18 revised full papers presented together with an invited keynote paper and 4 student papers reporting ongoing PhD research work were carefully reviewed and selected from 46...
The Distance Education Evolution: Case Studies addresses issues regarding the development and design of online courses, and the implementation and evaluation of an online learning program. Several chapters include design strategies for online courses that range from the specific to the universal. Many authors address pedagogical issues from both a...
MythTV is a powerful open source personal video recorder (PVR) application that runs on Linux. Developed for several years by volunteers, it offers a stable and extensible platform for automating all of the things you would expect from a PVR, and much more.
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