Data mining has developed rapidly and has become very popular in the past two decades, but actually has
its origin in the early stages of IT, then being mostly limited to one-dimensional searching in databases.
The statistical basis of what is now also referred to as data mining has often been laid centuries ago. In
corporate...
The Handbook of Research on Green ICT: Technology, Business and Social Perspectives is the outcome
of various debates, discussions, investigations and actions into a vital topic of today – Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) -based business activities and the environment. This handbook draws
on thoughts, insights,...
As it turns out Bennis underestimated the impact that bad leadership
can have. A combination of greed, hubris, flawed judgment, and miscalculation
has made the Enron debacle seem almost quaint by comparison
to the global financial crisis that we now face. Although numerous pundits
and scholars have advanced many reasons for the...
Good system administrators recognize problems long before anyone asks, "Hey, is the Internet down?" Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool, has emerged as the most popular solution for sys admins in organizations of all sizes. It's robust but also complex, and Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd...
The history of database research over the past 30 years is one of exceptional
productivity that has led to the database system becoming arguably the most impor
tant development in the field of software engineering- The database is now the
underlying framework of the information system, and has fundamentally changed
the way many...
The source of life is water. Life began in the
oceans, which represent the largest stock of water
on Earth. Much less water is stored below the land
surface in the form of fresh groundwater, amounting
to not quite 0.8% of the earth’s total water
reserves, while lakes and rivers combined only
contribute a further...
This book takes a novel approach to the presentation and understanding of a controversial topic in
modern-day society: hacking. The term hacker was originally used to denote positively-motivated individuals
wanting to stretch the capabilities of computers and networks. In contrast, the term cracker was
a later version of the term,...
As a programmer working for Logica UK in London in the mid-1980’s, I became a passionate advocate of formal methods. Extrapolating from small successes with VDM and JSP, I was sure that widespread use of formal methods would bring an end to the software crisis.
One approach especially intrigued me. John Guttag and Jim...
This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at MIRAGE 2011.
The MIRAGE conference is recognized internationally with presentations
coming from 19 countries despite the large worldwide economical crisis. Submissions
from Asia dropped compared with two years ago, and were fewer, than
those from Europe. France proved...
Information technology auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance have several overlapping characteristics. They both require ethical accounting practices, focused auditing activities, a functioning system of internal control, and a close watch by the board’s audit committee and CEO. Written as a contribution to the accounting and auditing...
Financial Accounting in an Economic Context is a trendsetting textbook in the area of
introductory financial reporting and analysis. Since the publication of the first edition
in 1989, this text has become an important part of the curriculum at a large and impressive
group of forward-thinking schools. The eighth edition continues...
During the financial crisis of 2008, things got scary. Large Wall Street firms were going under, stock prices were plummeting, and layoffs and unemployment rates were soaring. And, all this was happening in the midst of the 2008 presidential election. Talk of another Great Depression was in the air. In fact, polls showed a majority of...
