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Digital Government: Principles and Best Practices

Idea Group Publishing, 2003

E-government has emerged not merely as a specialization in public administration but as a transformative force affecting all leaves and functions in government. Digital Government: Principles and Best Practices, written by a collection of practitioners and researchers, provides an overview of the management challenges and issues...

Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

"Michael Scott's book could have been entitled: Why Programming Languages Work. It takes a fresh look at programming languages by bringing together ideas and techniques usually covered in disparate language design, compiler, computer architecture, and operating system courses. Its comprehensive and integrated presentation of language...

Technology Due Diligence: Best Practices for Chief Information Officers, Venture Capitalists, and Technology Vendors

Information Science Publishing, 2008

Due diligence conducted around technology decisions is complex. Done correctly, it has the power to enable outstanding positive outcomes; done poorly, it can wreak havoc on organizations, corporate cultures, and markets.

Technology Due Diligence: Best Practices for Chief Information Officers, Venture Capitalists, and Technology Vendors...

Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems

Springer, 2003

Advances in automatic fingerprint recognition are driven by improved fingerprint sensing and advancements in areas such as computer architecture, pattern recognition, image processing, and computer vision. In addition to the new developments in science and technology, several recent social and political events have increased the level of interest...

The Design Analysis Handbook: A Practical Guide to Design Validation

Newnes, 1998

If you need to create reliable, cost-effective, optimized designs, The Design Analysis Handbook provides a practical framework for integrating quality into the design process from start to finish. The methodology used is called Worst Case Analysis Plus (WCA+), a design-validation tool that demands thoroughness and analytical thinking by the user....

LDAP Metadirectory Provisioning Methodology: a step by step method to implementing LDAP based metadirectory provisioning

Writer's Showcase Press, 2003

This work provides system architects a methodology for the implementation of x.500 and LDAP based metadirectory provisioning systems. In addition this work assists in the business process analysis that accompanies any deployment. DOC Safe Harbor & European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection (Directive 95/46/EC) issues are also...

Interface Science in Drinking Water Treatment, Volume 10: Theory and Applications (Interface Science and Technology)

Academic Press, 2006

It is difficult to imagine anything more important to the human population than safe drinking water. Lack of clean drinking water is still the major cause of illness and death in young children in developing countries. In more fortunate communities, where water treatment is practiced, the primary aim of water authorities is to provide water that is...

Control and Automation: International Conference, CA 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference

Springer, 2010

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to others. Presentation of recent results obtained in different disciplines encourages this interchange for the...

Introduction to Contextual Processing: Theory and Applications

CRC Press, 2010

Contextual computing has been around for several years with a variety of names such as pervasive computation and omnipresent computing. Recently there has been a drive toward making personal digital assistants (PDAs) more aware of their environment. For example, a cell phone may sense that it is in a conference room and reason that it should...

The Soft Science of Road Racing Motorcycles

Acrobat Books, 1986

If your intention is to improve, not just pick up some "tricks," you should understand exactly what is going on with the most mportant part of the riding package, the rider. After all. whether your bike works well or not is measured in ten/thousandths of inches and millimeters, that's how far machine technology has...

Beyond Constructivism: Models and Modeling Perspectives on Mathematics Problem Solving, Learning, and Teaching

Routledge, 2003

This book evolved out of research that began more than 25 years ago, based on a National Science Foundation-supported project investigating the question: what is needed, beyond having a mathematical idea that enables students to use it in everyday problem-solving situations! (Lesh, Landau, & Hamilton, 1983). Large portions...

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2010

This book (CS:APP) is for computer scientists, computer engineers, and others

who want to be able to write better programs by learning what is going on “under the hood” of a computer system.

Our aim is to explain the enduring concepts underlying all...

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