"This book provides a very helpful and informative insight into an aspect of finance that has become quite intricate and complex but is nevertheless very fascinating."--Dr. Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.
Strategies and advice on balancing financial risk for leveraged companies
While the REST design philosophy has captured the imagination of web and enterprise developers alike, using this approach to develop real web services is no picnic. This cookbook includes more than 100 recipes to help you take advantage of REST, HTTP, and the infrastructure of the Web. You'll learn ways to design RESTful web...
Since its introduction for market basket analysis in the early 1990s, association rule mining has had a lot of research attention, and it is now widely used in many fields, for example in retail, telecom, insurance, and bioinformatics applications.
One familiar problem encountered in association mining exercises is that they...
was very pleased to be asked to produce the sixth edition of my artificial intelligence
book. It is a compliment to the earlier editions, started over twenty years ago, that our
approach to AI has been so highly valued. It is also exciting that, as new development in
the field emerges, we are able to present much of it in each new...
This monograph on Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and
Solutions aims at introducing, surveying and assessing the fundamentals of secu
rity with respect to computing. Here, “computing” refers to all activities which
individuals or groups directly or indirectly perform by means of computing sys
tems,...
Over the past three years, I have witnessed something
remarkable as iPhone and iPad developers have created
and posted apps to Apple’s App Store at a breathtaking
pace. The App Store has swelled to more than 400,000
apps and still shows no signs of abating. The gold rush to
sell iPhone and...
Psychiatrists often treat both the causes and the consequences of addictive behaviors. As a psychiatrist, I have treated many people with serious addictive behaviors ranging from cocaine addiction to kleptomania. I have also treated patients who have come to me with a broad range of other psychiatric problems. In addition, some of my patients...
The first year of developing a new sales territory is a daunting task—especially in dog-eat-dog industries. The traditional advice is to train quickly on product, grab a customer list, start calling for appointments, discover opportunities, and close deals. In fact, almost every sales model out there is based on nothing more than...
The genesis of this book arose from our educational consultations with many physiotherapy
and occupational therapy colleagues around the world. In the course of presenting
workshops that were primarily focused on problem-based learning (PBL), it
became very clear to us that educators in the rehabilitation sciences were very...
Do you know Java is being used worldwide? These days it is difficult to find a platform not running on Java. Their uses begin from commercial e-commerce website to Android apps, from desktop applications to games, from financial applications to scientific applications, from J2ME applications to open source library...
This open access book features a selection of articles written by Erich Ch. Wittmann between 1984 to 2019, which shows how the “design science conception” has been continuously developed over a number of decades. The articles not only describe this conception in general terms, but also demonstrate various substantial...
