SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN A CHANGING WORLD teaches the...

Welcome to the world of Excel. Okay, that’s a bit cheesy. But if you look around the business world, the fi nancial world, the manufacturing world, and any other industry you can of, you will see people using Excel. Excel is everywhere. It is by far the most used program in the history of business applications. So...

• The 12th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS 2011) • The 16th...

Microsoft Offi ce 2010 is the leading software package for communicating and organizing everything you need for work, school, or home. Microsoft Offi ce 2010 is available in three versions: Home and Student, Home and Business, and Professional. This book covers all three versions of Microsoft Offi ce 2010, so you can use it with any of...

Welcome to the world of developing web software using Node (also known as Node.js). Node is a newly-developed software platform that liberates JavaScript from the web browser, enabling it to be used as a general software development platform in server-side applications. It runs atop the ultra-fast JavaScript engine from the Chrome browser,...

The SPSS 13.0 Brief Guide provides a set of tutorials designed to acquaint you with the various components of the SPSS system. You can work through the tutorials in sequence or turn to the topics for which you need additional information. You can use this guide as a supplement to the online tutorial that is included with the...

This volume is based on the International Conference Logic at Work, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 1992. The 14 papers in this volume are selected from 86 submissions and 8 invited contributions and are all devoted to knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty, which are core issues of formal artificial...

On a weekly basis, some poor IT workers — both IT pros and developers — are saddled with new projects and or technology they know nothing about and are asked to run with them. They ’ re expected to be successful with little guidance, direction, or training. They ’ re also expected to pull off these tremendous...

There is a huge amount of information available on the how's and why's of performance testing .NET applications, but it is often fairly subjective, narrow in scope, or doesn't quite cover everything you were hoping to learn. The Complete Guide to Performance Testing and Optimizing .NET Applications (by Paul Glavich and Chris...

A FEW YEARS AGO some students and I were looking at a map that pinpointed the locations of about loo cities. We asked ourselves, "Which of these cities are neighbors of each other?" We knew intuitively that some pairs of cities were neighbors and others were not; we wanted to find a formal mathematical characterization that...

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Having your own blog isn’t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to have one. But to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes...