Service-Oriented Architecture is becoming the leading architecture for IT, and it is changing the way organisations work. IT is slowly but steadily gaining maturity, and becoming the flexible yet stable and reliable support for business it should be. At the same time, IT is regaining its potential to create real business innovation. SOA will...

The C++ programming language, which includes C as a proper subset, has become the preeminent programming language in the engineering and scientific fields. For most engineers and scientists, however, using the full potential of C++, which is a hybrid language containing both structured and object-oriented features, involves a gradual...

We are deluged by data—scientific data, medical data, demographic data, financial data, and marketing data. People have no time to look at this data. Human attention has become a precious resource. So, we must find ways to automatically analyze the data, to automatically classify it, to automatically summarize it, to...

Gary Mak, the author of the best-selling...

The book provides a pragmatic approach to evaluating security at a companyand putting together an effective information security program. The bookfocuses on three key themes; People, Processes, and Technology and isorganized according to the steps executives would follow in order to developan information security program for their company....

This text allows instructors to teach a course on heat and mass transfer that will equip students with the pragmatic, applied skills required by the modern chemical industry. This new approach is a combined presentation of heat and mass transfer, maintaining mathematical rigor while keeping mathematical analysis to a minimum. This allows...

Ask any business leader how tough today ’ s environment is and they ’ ll most likely tell you they ’ ve never worked harder. Many talk of an environment where the pressure to deliver has reached a “ white hot ” level of intensity, where careers that use  to be measured in decades are now measured in a couple...

Software engineering is one of the most knowledge intensive jobs. Thus, having a good knowledge management (KM) strategy in these organisations is very important. This book examines software processes from a knowledge perspective flow, in order to identify the particular knowledge needs of such processes to then be in a better position for...

Achieving Service-Oriented Architecture helps to set up an SOA Architecture Practice defining the policies, procedures, and standards that apply not just to IT developers but to the entire...

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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...