A number of forces are driving this explosion. The first is internationalization encompassing a dramatic growth in...

The third edition of this text contains key improvements and changes that continue to provide instructors and students with the best information technology auditing text available. This edition has been reorganized and expanded to address the internal control and audit issues mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. The third edition...

Traditional Internet performance and...

Faced with the steadily increasing complexity and rapidly shortening timeto- market requirements designing electronic systems is a very challenging task. To manage this situation effectively the level of abstraction in modeling has been raised during the past years in the computer aided design community. Meanwhile, for the so-called...

Sun refers to this as the "end-to-end architecture." Typical tiers include powerful database...

At Stanford, we are on the quarter system, and as a result, our introductory database instruction is divided into two courses. The first, CS145, is designed for students who will use database systems but, not necessarily take a job im plementing a DBMS. It is a prerequisite for CS245, which is the introduction...

People use databases to organize and to manage their data. Oracle Database is the leader in the relational database management systems market, with a broad adoption in many industries. Using the best tool is not enough to be sure that the results of our efforts will be satisfactory—driving the fastest car in a Formula 1...

GRAPHS AND GRAPH algorithms are pervasive in modern computing applications. This book describes the most important known methods for solving the graph-processing problems that arise in practice. Its primary aim is to make these methods and the basic principles behind them accessible to the growing number of people in need of knowing them. The...