This practical book is a complete guide to installing, configuring, and managing Pentaho Kettle. If you’re a database administrator or developer, you’ll first get up to speed on Kettle basics and how to apply Kettle to create ETL...

The May 26, 2011 edition of the Economist magazine cites a report by the the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) about data becoming a factor of production, such as physical or human capital. Across the industry, enterprises are investing significant resources in harnessing value from vast amounts of data to innovate, compete, and reduce...

Intelligent systems are required to facilitate the use of information provided by the internet and other computer based technologies. This book describes the state-of-the-art in Intelligent Automation and Systems Engineering. Topics covered include Intelligent decision making, Automation, Robotics, Expert systems, Fuzzy systems,...

At the forefront of life sciences today is the emerging discipline of chembiomolecular science. This new term describes the integration of the frontier fields of chemical biology, chemistry, and pharmacology. Chembiomolecular science aims to elucidate new biological mechanisms as potential drug targets and enhance the creation of new drug...

• Build high performance real-time web applications.
• Broadcast messages from the server to many clients simultaneously.
• Implement complex and reactive...

• Write customizable scripts that are easy to adjust to suit the needs of different projects
• Combine your knowledge of modular scripting elements to build a complete...

• Identify the high level steps such as verifying user input, using command lines and conditional statements in creating and executing simple shell scripts
• Create and edit dynamic shell scripts to manage complex and repetitive tasks
• Learn about scripting in Perl and programming in...