?Software is continuously increasing in complexity. Paradigmatic shifts and new development frameworks make it easier to implement software – but not to test it. Software testing remains to be a topic with many open questions with regard to both technical low-level aspects and to the organizational embedding of testing. However, a...
With the rise of cloud computing and virtualization comes a whole new threat to business security. When dealing with highly confidential information you need your security to be bulletproof. This book will help you do that.
"Instant Citrix Security: How-to" will allow you to achieve simplicity in security when dealing...
When we speak something, it is our body and its gestures that help in conveying the desired message effectively and easily. Sometimes we don’t utter a single word, and yet we are able to communicate a lot. It is because our body parts, especially our facial expressions combined with various other gestures, speak a language of their own,...
Imagine you have been given the time and leisure to spend a day wandering
around a busy Further Education (FE) college in the Lifelong Learning sector.
You decide to use this opportunity to see what issues are facing people in
leadership roles at various levels within the organisation. So, as well as finding
the time to complete...
Who needs to manage a project? Well, frankly, everyone working in the public or private sector. Yet how many of us get adequately trained in how to do it? This is where this book can help. Written by an experienced practitioner, what lies at the beating heart of this book is the structure of a strategy to ensure that every project is...
Software engineering has advanced rapidly in recent years in parallel with the complexity and scale of software systems. New requirements in software systems yield innovative approaches that are developed either through introducing new paradigms or extending the capabilities of well-established approaches.
The credit card industry established the PCI Data Security Standards to provide a minimum standard for how vendors should protect data to ensure it is not stolen by fraudsters. PCI Compliance, 3e, provides the information readers need to understand the current PCI Data Security standards, which have recently been updated to version...
The world of wiring tends to move in cycles, so to speak. The basic science that causes your blender to whir
when you plug the cord into a wall outlet doesn’t change, but the ways we harness and manage electrical
power are constantly improving—always with an eye toward safety. The Complete Guide to Wiring changes, too....
Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web provides a unique introduction to identity and reference theories of the World Wide Web, through the academic lens of philosophy of language and data-driven statistical models. The Semantic Web is a natural evolution of the Web, and this book covers the URL-based Web architecture...
Explosive growth in the size of spatial databases has highlighted the need for spatial
data analysis and spatial data mining techniques to mine the interesting but implicit
spatial patterns within these large databases. Extracting useful and interesting patterns
from massive geo-spatial datasets is important for many application...
Students of Business Information Technology and Business Information Systems will find this book a thorough and engaging introduction to the subject area. Rooted in the global environment in which today¿s organisations¿ operate this book offers a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic, exciting and challenging areas...
The first true revision of the classic book from the bestselling author of The Leadership Challenge
As the world falls deeper into economic downturns and warfare, the question of credibility (how leaders gain and lose it) is more important than ever. Building on their research from The Leadership Challenge, James...
