The evolution of Oracle has led to a revolution in design practices. For Oracle 10g, database physical structures have become more complex than ever before and database designers face multiple ways to implement their logical models. IS students studying database design and administration need to be able to implement management systems in a...

The key to understanding the breathtaking development of mankind lies in the ability to objectify knowledge. Just like human knowledge has undergone changes, so have the libraries in their role as treasure chambers of said knowledge. With the advent of the digital age, traditional libraries were complemented by huge collections of digital...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 21st Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computations (ISAAC 2010), held in Jeju, Korea during December 15–17, 2010. Past editions have been held in Tokyo, Taipei, Nagoya, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cairns, Osaka, Singapore, Taejon, Chennai, Taipei, Christchurch, Vancouver, Kyoto, Hong...

CMMI® for Development (CMMI-DEV) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI-DEV provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations to assess their development and maintenance processes and...

According to the TIOBE Programming Community Index, PHP is the most popular programming language after C/C++ and Java.1 Gartner predicts that dynamic programming languages will be critical to the success of many next-generation application development efforts and sees PHP as one of the strongest representatives of this type of...

Since the first edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist came out in June 2008, we have been encouraged by the reception the book has received. Practitioners from a wide variety of industries— health care, energy, environmental science, life sciences, national intelligence, and publishing, to name a few—have told...

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CMMI^® for Services (CMMI-SVC) is a comprehensive set of guidelines to help organizations establish and improve processes for delivering services. By adapting and extending proven standards and best practices to reflect the unique challenges faced in service industries, CMMI-SVC offers providers a...

Android is hot, and many people are developing Android applications (apps for short). Perhaps you would also like to develop apps, but are unsure about how to get started. Although you could study Google’s online Android Developer’s Guide (http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html) to acquire the needed knowledge, you...

More and more people are using the query language SPARQL (pronounced “sparkle”) to pull data from a growing collection of public and private data. Whether this data is part of a semantic web project or an integration of two inventory databases on different platforms behind the same firewall, SPARQL is making it easier to access...