This book contains selected research results on non-traditional database systems
from Japanese database research community. In traditional database research, the
main emphases is how to process a large amount of fixed structured data with
minimum amount of selected resources (processing time, communication overhead,
memory size,...
We are very pleased to present this fifth edition of Project Management for Information Systems. As with its predecessors, our ‘target audience’ fall into four groups:
IS project managers and systems developers who find themselves responsible for managing systems projects. Newcomers to this activity will find...
Pharmacists or their pharmaceutical equivalents have
been responsible for compounding medicines for cen
turies. Recently this role has been challenged in the
pharmaceutical literature with suggestions and recom
mendations that it is inappropriate for the pharmaceu
tical practitioner to compound medicines in a local
pharmacy...
You say you want a revolution? Well, sometimes the smallest things can create the
biggest changes. OpenGL ES originated that way—in a modest 3Dlabs project in
2001 that sought to define a standardized subset of OpenGL for a range of embedded
systems. It soon became clear that there was a widespread industry desire for a small...
MATLAB® is a very popular language for technical computing used by
students, engineers, and scientists in universities, research institutes, and industries
all over the world. The software is popular because it is powerful and easy to
use. For university freshmen in it can be thought of as the next tool to use after the
graphic...
ANTS-IX was the ninth edition of the biennial International Symposium on
Algorithmic Number Theory. The first edition of this symposium was held at
Cornell University in 1994. ANTS-IX was held July 19-23, 2010 at INRIA in
Nancy, France.
The ANTS-IX Program Committee consisted of 12 members whose names
are listed on the next...
Business intelligence (BI) has been around for many more years than you might think.
Decision support systems (DSS) and executive information systems (EIS) from the 1970s and
1980s, along with artificial intelligence (AI) systems from the 1990s, can now all be considered
as part of what BI comprises today.
This book has its origin in lecture notes created at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), whose student and faculty support made The book is written for senior undergraduates and first dents. Practicing engineers should especially find the book the basic knowledge of detection and estimation theory. the text deals with detection aspects,...
Computers are at the heart of most activities nowadays. A processor is the central component of
a computer, but nowadays, we can find processors embedded in many other components, such as
game consoles, consumer electronic devices and cars, just to mention a few.
This lecture presents a thorough study of the microarchitecture...
Until recently, most prepress tasks—such as scanning color
photographs, trapping, imposition, color correction, and halftone
screening—were performed exclusively by skilled specialists
working manually or on expensive proprietary systems. Today
many of these tasks can be accomplished on the desktop.
Back in 1997, when I began my career as a professional web developer, I started working with
Classic ASP. After a brief training period in a few different programming languages such as C++
and Java, I was thrown in at the deep end and assigned to a project to build an Intranet application
for a large consultancy firm in the Netherlands...
When local area networks (LANs) first appeared in the business world, their
primary functions were to share files and printers. These are still critical applications
for most business networks, but networks are able to provide many other
functions as well. Virtually all business owners want to provide their users with access
to the...
