In this IBM Redbook we discuss primary processes and various alternatives that prepare you in implementing a DB2 near-realtime business intelligence environment. We discuss architectural alternatives and include overviews of software products that you can use in an implementation. As a primary focus, we tested the capabilities for supporting...

Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) has become the technique of choice for many areas of radiation dosimetry. The technique is finding widespread application in a variety of radiation dosimetry fields, including personal monitoring, environmental monitoring, retrospective dosimetry (including geological dating and accident dosimetry),...

Beautiful mathematical ideas abound in multimedia software! Some are not encountered until late in undergraduate or even postgraduate study, whereas they can be appreciated and used much earlier. This book presents a few dozen such pearls, strung together by their ubiquity in many applications. It is based on the course Topics in...

Five years ago, we extended the world’s leading product for individual developers, Microsoft Visual Studio, into Visual Studio Team System, and it quickly became the world’s leading product for development teams. This addition of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to Visual Studio made life easier and more...

Over the years, Exchange Server has become a complicated messaging solution that many organizations rely on. Many companies have not upgraded to Exchange Server 2007 and are still using Exchange Server 2003. With the release of Exchange Server 2010, they are now contemplating upgrading to take advantage of this new version’s...

Brownian Motion Calculus presents the basics of Stochastic Calculus with a focus on the valuation of financial derivatives. It is intended as an accessible introduction to the technical literature. The sequence of chapters starts with a description of Brownian motion, the random process which serves as the basic driver...

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Smithells is the only single volume work which provides data on all key apsects of metallic materials.

Smithells has been in continuous publication for over 50 years. This 8th Edition represents a major revision.

Four new chapters have been added for this edition. these focus on;
* Non conventional...

Based on a streamlined presentation of the authors' successful work Linear Systems, this textbook provides an introduction to systems theory with an emphasis on control. The material presented is broad enough to give the reader a clear picture of the dynamical behavior of linear systems as well as their advantages and...

Transform data mining model information into actionable business intelligence using the Data Mining Extensions (DMX) language. Practical DMX Queries for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 contains more than 250 downloadable DMX queries you can use to extract and visualize...