BIS 2011 held in Pozna´n, Poland, was the 14th in a series of international conferences on business information systems. The BIS conference series has been recognized by professionals from the very beginning as a forum for the exchange and dissemination of topical research in the development, implementation, application and...

In the five months that I have been researching and writing Cloud Computing Bible, it has become clear to me that most people recognize that cloud computing is a big deal, even if they are not really clear why that is so. Every day newspaper and magazine articles and radio and TV stories report on cloud computing. The phrase “in the...

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Risk control, capital allocation, and realistic derivative pricing and hedging are critical concerns for major financial institutions and individual traders alike. Events from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the Greek sovereign debt crisis demonstrate the urgent and abiding need for statistical tools...

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• Display address information for any point on the map through the location-based REST services...

• Architect a Hadoop solution with a modular design for data collection, distributed processing, analysis, and reporting
• Build a multi-node Hadoop cluster on Windows servers
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Bitcoin has traditionally been the payment system of choice for a criminal trading on the Dark Web, and now many other blockchain cryptocurrencies are entering the mainstream as traders are accepting them from low-end investors putting their...

In their previously published, top-selling book Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, Robert Bacal and Douglas Max described past employee performance. In Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals,...