Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21st century has turned this...
New paradigms for communication/networking systems are needed in order to tackle such emerging issues as heterogeneity, complexity and management of evolvable infrastructures, thus requiring approaches that are both task- and knowledge-driven. The networking and seamless integration of concepts, technologies and devices in a dynamically changing...
This book is designed not to provide detailed audit/review programs for ERP systems but to underline the main concepts involved in each major phase of the ERP life cycle, as well as the major components of ERP systems of special interest to auditors. It is intended to familiarize the reader with the built-in controls in the ERP architecture...
After completing my master’s degree, I moved from Poland to Germany and began working as a .NET developer for a company full of experts in … Clarion. The Clarion folks were developing the company’s flagship—very successful leasing software—and I was left to do “the rest”: a bit of...
The development of modern integration technologies is normally driven by the needs
of digital CMOS circuit design. As the sizes of integrated devices decrease, so maximum
voltage ratings also rapidly decrease. Although decreased supply voltages do not
restrict the design of digital circuits, it is harder to design high performance...
Given that you’re reading this book, the chances are good that you’ve built a
web page in HTML. You’ve styled it by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
and maybe written a little JavaScript to validate your custom-built web
forms. If that wasn’t enough, you’ve learned a lot more...
In today’s dynamic business world, the success of a company increasingly depends on its ability to react to changes in its environment in a quick and flexible way. Companies have therefore identified process agility as a competitive advantage to address business trends like increasing product and service variability or faster time to...
This book systematically classifies the mathematical formalisms of computational models that are required for solving problems in mathematics, engineering and various other disciplines. It also provides numerical methods for solving these problems using suitable algorithms and for writing computer codes to find solutions. For discrete...
Gain a practical introduction to DataOps, a new discipline for delivering data science at scale inspired by practices at companies such as Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, Twitter, and eBay. Organizations need more than the latest AI algorithms, hottest tools, and best people to turn data into insight-driven action and useful...
SQL Server Integration Services, with the acronym SSIS, is a comprehensive ETL tool that made its debut with SQL Server 2005. It is a tool tightly integrated with Visual Studio 2005, having all the functionalities that its forerunner DTS (Data Transformation Services) had in SQL Server 2000. This does not mean that it is just an improvement over...
Bacterial contamination of food and water resources, as well as the increasing incidence of nosocomial infections, has us on our toes, looking for ways of recognizing these elements. In addition, the recent and growing threats to personal and territorial securities make this task even more urgent. Therefore, accurate assessment of the state...
This pragmatic book offers the real world knowledge you need to develop lean and maintainable Java EE 5 / 6 applications. Real World Java EE Patterns - Rethinking Best Practices guides you to efficient patterns and best practices in a structured way, with code from real world projects. This book includes coverage of: An introduction into the...
