Mission Critical or Ontological Engineering

Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems

Author: Thomas H Davenport

"Mission Critical is a clear and comprehensive account of the enduring value of enterprise systems. Davenport's experience consulting for the world's leading companies gives his research an undeniable veracity. Anyone interested in how the real world of business works will gain a great deal of insight from this book."
--Henning Kagermann, Co-Chairman of the Executive Board and Co-CEO of SAP AG

"Finally, here is a book that provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of enterprise systems-their promise, their peril, and their future. Any manager not familiar with Davenport's book and its emphasis on information management will be lacking in the business literacy so necessary for success."
--Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and Co-author of Organizing Genius and Co-Leaders

"Transformation in any corporation requires excellence in strategy, organization, and systems. Davenport illustrates the success that results when all three components are effectively addressed and the risks in implementing systems when they are not."
--William Stavropoulos, President and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company

What People Are Saying

Warren Bennis
Finally, here is a book that provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of enterprise systems....their promise, their peril, and their future.

Book about: Hizb Allah in Lebanon or John Quincy Adams

Ontological Engineering

Author: Asuncion Gomez Perez

Ontologies provide a common vocabulary of an area and define - with different levels of formality - the meaning of the terms and the relationships between them. Ontologies may be reused and shared across applications and groups Concepts in the ontology are usually organized in taxonomies and relations between concepts, properties of concepts, and axioms are typically used for representing the knowledge contained in ontologies. With the growth of information available, e.g. on the WWW, they are popularly applied in knowledge management, semantic web, natural language generation, enterprise modelling, knowledge-based systems, ontology-based brokers, e-commerce platforms and interoperability between systems. This book looks at questions such as: * What is an ontology? * What are the uses of ontologies? * What types of ontologies exist? What are the most well-known ones? * How do I select the best ontology for my application? * What are the principles for building an ontology? * What methodologies should I use to build my own ontology? Which techniques are appropriate for each step? * How do software tools support the process of building and using ontologies? * What language can I use to implement ontologies? * How can I integrate ontologies in a given language? The book presents the theoretical foundations of ontological engineering and covers the practical aspects of selecting and applying methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies. The applications of ontologies are also illustrated with case studies taken from the areas of knowledge management, e-commerce and the semantic web.

Table of Contents:

1	Theoretical Foundations of Ontologies	1
2	The Most Outstanding Ontologies	47
3	Methodologies and Methods for Building Ontologies	107
4	Languages for Building Ontologies	199
5	Ontology Tools	293
	Bibliography	363
	Index	389
	Index of figures	397
	Index of tables	403

Database and Applications Security or DeBugging C

Database and Applications Security

Author: Miguel J Bagajewicz

As the demand for data management increases, so does the need for maintaining security of databases, applications, and information systems. The advent of the Web increased the likelihood of unauthorized access and malicious corruption, bringing to the forefront the necessity for effective mechanisms that secure critical information. Database and Applications Security: Integrating Information Security and Data Management reviews recent developments in security, with a special emphasis on the protection of databases. The author pays particular attention to securing emerging applications such as e-commerce, sensor information processing, and knowledge management. The book begins by providing essential background in database security, followed by descriptions of discretionary access control, multilevel secure databases, and models, functions, prototypes, and products of multilevel secure relational systems. It then discusses facets of the inference problem and addresses secure distributed databases. Following an analysis of secure object systems, the book focuses on security aspects of data warehousing and data mining. It also covers threats to privacy due to data mining, and concludes with an exploration of emerging technologies. This volume delivers a comprehensive overview of database and applications security for technical managers, technologists, and executives, as well as for those intending to pursue research in the field. It provides a high-level overview while discussing many technical details.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Supporting technologies for database and applications security
2	Data management technologies	23
3	Information security	61
4	Information management technologies	77
Pt. II	Discretionary security for database systems
5	Security policies	115
6	Policy enforcement and related issues	127
Pt. III	Mandatory security from database systems
7	Historical developments	141
8	Design principles	159
Pt. IV	Multilevel secure relational database systems
9	Multilevel relational data models	175
10	Security impact on database functions	187
11	Prototypes and products	197
Pt. V	The inference problem
12	A perspective of the inference problem	217
13	Security-constraint processing for inference control	229
14	Conceptual structures for inference control	253
Pt. VI	Secure distributed and heterogeneous database systems
15	Discretionary security for distributed database systems	281
16	Multilevel security for distributed database systems	295
17	Secure heterogeneous and federated database systems	309
Pt. VII	Secure object and multimedia systems
18	Discretionary and multilevel security for object database systems	331
19	Aspects of objects and security	349
20	Secure multimedia data management systems	361
Pt. VIII	Data warehousing, data mining, security, and privacy
21	Secure data warehousing	381
22	Data mining for security applications	399
23	Privacy	419
Pt. IX	Secure Web data and information management technologies
24	Secure Web data management and digital libraries	441
25	Security for XML, RDF, and the semantic Web	465
26	Secure E-commerce, collaboration, and knowledge management	487
Pt. X	Emerging secure data management technologies and applications
27	Secure dependable data management	505
28	Secure sensor and wireless information management	523
29	Digital identity, forensics, and related topics	549
30	Summary and directions	565
App. A	Data management systems : developments and trends	577
App. B	Suggested reading : books in database systems and information security	593

Interesting book: Judgment of Paris or The Three Trillion Dollar War

DeBugging C++: Troubleshooting for Programmers

Author: Chris H Pappas

Write error-free programs from development to deployment! This unique reference shows you how to prevent problematic procedure-oriented and object-oriented code and handle ActiveX,COM,STL,and MFC coding problems.

"Great advice with practical,real-world examples. C++ programmers will avoid all kinds of headaches with this book. " —Elden Nelson,Editor-in-Chief,Visual C++ Developer's Journal Prevent problematic code and fix bugs with help from the expert techniques and strategies found in this unique resource. Debugging C++ shows you how to recognize and stamp out common and little-known code bugs quickly and easily. You'll get complete coverage of procedure-oriented and object-oriented debugging. And there's more—learn how to debug STL and Windows applications also developed with the MFC. Software bugs cause chaos and downtime which can result in lost revenue. Save the day! Use the real-world solutions offered in this handbook to prevent bugs from crippling your company's systems.

• Optimize your code with the compiler
• Investigate logical and syntactical errors
• Debug code in the procedure-oriented environment-at the command line and in Windows
• Locate,analyze,and repair object-oriented code errors at the command line and in the Microsoft Foundation Class (FMC) Library
• Handle Standard Template Library (SQL) code debugging
• Work with DLLs and fix ActiveX and COM errors

Embedded Linux System Design and Development or Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Illustrated

Embedded Linux System Design and Development

Author: P Raghavan

· Contains an entire roadmap for embedded Linux systems
· Explains the MTD (Memory Technology Device) model for Flash based storage
· Illustrates real-time programming techniques using POSIX.1b real-time extensions such as memory locking, real-time signals and asynchronous IO
· Examines how uClinux differs from standard Linux
· Discusses porting applications from a traditional
RTOS to embedded Linux

Based upon the authors' experience in designing and deploying an embedded Linux system with a variety of applications, Embedded Linux System Design and Development contains a full embedded Linux system development roadmap for systems architects and software programmers. Explaining the issues that arise out of the use of Linux in embedded systems, the book facilitates movement to embedded Linux from traditional real-time operating systems, and describes the system design model containing embedded Linux.

This book delivers practical solutions for writing, debugging, and profiling applications and drivers in embedded Linux, and for understanding Linux BSP architecture. It enables you to understand: various drivers such as serial, I2C and USB gadgets; uClinux architecture and its programming model; and the embedded Linux graphics subsystem. The text also promotes learning of methods to reduce system boot time, optimize memory and storage, and find memory leaks and corruption in applications.

This volume benefits IT managers in planning to choose an embedded Linux distribution and in creating a roadmap for OS transition. It also describes the application of the Linux licensing model in commercial products.

What People Are Saying

David McCullough
"A good overview of uClinux, and the infrastructure that supports it."
—uClinux Core Maintainer

Todd Fischer
"The authors have done a good job fitting all the pieces together that are necessary for embedded Linux development. The book discusses topics such as board support packages, embedded storage and real-time Linux programming in depth. Embedded graphics and uCLinux are also explained with clarity. "
—President, Cadenux, from the Foreword

Greg Haerr
"A great job covering the Linux framebuffer interface in detail – a lot of people will find this useful."
—CEO & Founder, Century Software

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Illustrated

Author: Sherry Bishop

Part of the Illustrated Series, this text covers the fundamental concepts of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with a strong emphasis on design. Fully revised to include coverage of the latest version of Dreamweaver, this title takes users from learning all the basic functions to fully understanding how to get Web sites up and running.

Table of Contents:

Unit A: Getting Started with Dreamweaver CS3 Unit B: Creating a Web Site Unit C: Developing a Web Page Unit D: Formatting Text and Using Cascading Style Sheets Unit E: Inserting and Managing Images Unit F: Creating Links and Navigation Bars Unit G: Laying Out Pages with Tables Unit H: Laying Out Pages with CSS Unit I: Collecting Data with HTML Forms
Appendix: Updating, Maintaining and Publishing a Web Site

Information Seeking in Electronic Environments or 3ds Max 8 Essentials

Information Seeking in Electronic Environments

Author: Gary Marchionini

In the computer age, it is essential for individuals to develop skills and strategies for manipulating, storing, and retrieving electronic information. This book considers how electronic technologies have changed these skills and strategies and augmented the fundamental human activity of information seeking. Writing from the point of view of the user rather than the computer, the author makes a case for creating new interface designs that allow information seekers to choose what strategy to apply according to their immediate needs. Such systems may be designed by providing information seekers with alternative interface mechanisms for displaying and manipulating multiple levels of representation for information objects. This book is multidisciplinary in approach and aims to bridge the perspectives of information science, computer science and education. It will be essential reading for researchers and graduate students in these fields.

Interesting textbook: Shattered Peace or National Geographic Kids Almanac 2010

3ds Max 8 Essentials: Autodesk Media and Entertainment Courseware

Author: Autodesk

Welcome to the Autodesk Media and Entertainment Official Training Courseware for 3ds max X software! Consider this book an all-access pass to the production and training experience of Autodesk developers and training experts. Written for self-paced learning or instructor-led classroom training, the manual will teach you the fundamentals of using 3ds max X. The book is organized into sections dedicated to animation, modelling, materials, lighting and rendering. Each section covers basic theory, and then includes exercises for hands-on demonstration of the concept. By the end of the book, you will have mastered the basics and moved onto full-length projects. Flexibility is built in, so that you can complete the tutorials in the way that works best for you. Complete the book and you will be a seasoned 3ds max pro, ready to work confidently in a production environment.

•For beginners or those new to 3ds max
•Tutorials and exercises designed for flexibility and ease of use
•CD contains 3ds max support models, materials, textures, and animations for completing the exercises

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Getting started	3
	User interface	5
	Overview lab	57
	Files and objects	97
	Transforms	149
	Applying modifiers	195
Ch. 2	Modeling	243
	Low poly modeling	245
	Shapes	279
	Using compound objects	341
	Modeling lab	375
Ch. 3	Animation	395
	Animation basics	397
	Hierarchies	431
	Character animation - biped	455
	Animation lab	481
Ch. 4	Materials & mapping	499
	Introduction to materials	501
	Using maps	535
	Mapping coordinates	561
	Materials and mapping	601
Ch. 5	Rendering	623
	Cameras	625
	Basic lighting	651
	Global illumination	677
	Rendering the scene	697
	Scene assembly lab	725

Pro SQL Server 2008 Xml or The Internet and Society

Pro SQL Server 2008 XML

Author: Apress

Knowledge and ability to apply XML are de rigueur in today’s world, and SQL Server developers and administrators are no exception to that rule. Pro SQL Server 2008 XML is your key to unlocking the powerful XML feature set first introduced in SQL Server 2005 and since refined in SQL Server 2008. Author Michael Coles shows how to store XML using SQL Server’s built–in XML data type. Learn to query and manipulate XML data using standard technologies such as XQuery and XSLT. No SQL Server database professional can afford to be without knowledge of the XML feature set. Pro SQL Server 2008 XML delivers on the knowledge that you need to remain competitive in your career.

Shows how to store, query, and manipulate XML documents in SQL Server

Provides step–by–step examples showing best practices and advanced features

Accurately discusses how SQL Server’s XML feature set stacks up against the ISO XML standards

What you’ll learn

Store XML documents using SQL Server’s built–in XML data type.

Query those stored documents using SQL/XML and XQuery.

Manipulate and transform XML using XSLT and XPath.

Understand how SQL Server’s XML support compares to the ISO XML standards.

Create SOAP endpoints for use in web services applications.

Create primary and secondary XML indexes to improve performance of XML queries.

Who is this book for?

SQL Server SQL/T–SQL developers and .NET developers who want to take advantage of the specific server–side XML functionality available in SQL Server2008

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

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The Internet and Society

Author: James Slevin

The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.

Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens or Practical CakePHP Projects

Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens

Author: Marc Campbell

You see them in magazines, pass them around in emails, and run across them everywhere on the web—incredibly cool, crazy, and sometimes strange images that you know have been doctored using Photoshop. Have you ever looked at them and wondered, "How did they do that?" Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens is filled with the tips and techniques that you need to know to use these powerful programs to create your own amazing images or retouch your digital photographs. Begin with the fundamentals of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements as you conquer the essential features and functions of each program. Master the interface and learn how to create and manage layers. Next, get ready to edit your images as you develop the skills you need to paint with the Brush, draw shapes and text, and apply special effects to your images. Put your new skills to the test as you complete a variety of hands-on projects, including making prints, dressing up your computer desktop, creating animation, laying out websites, and creating logos.

New interesting textbook: Belleza universal or YMCA Healthy Back Book

Practical CakePHP Projects

Author: Kai Chan

If you’ve been using PHP for sometime now and would like to start using a web framework, you’ll want to try CakePHP, which is an open source rapid development web framework built on PHP.

PHP experts Kai Chan and John Omokore guide you through a variety of practical CakePHP applications. You will work on projects such as a video gallery, unit testing application, an e–commerce app, a blog site, and much more. Practical CakePHP Projects covers the key architectural concepts as well as including mini projects that you can use to enhance your own applications.

A friendly introduction for any web programmer looking to choose a PHP framework

Real–world projects based on current and future trends

Practical CakePHP techniques that you can use right away

What you’ll learn

Painlessly create a secure and dynamic web site with CakePHP and MySQL.

Discover how CakePHP can be used in high–level and demanding applications using CakePHP built–in components as well as methods such as Smarty, caching, and unit testing.

See how CakePHP integrates with technologies such as Ajax and web services.

Integrate your own components into CakePHP’s framework.

Apply CakePHP to mainstream technologies such as Google Video, blogging, mashups, and e–commerce.

Work through the few pitfalls of some of the CakePHP framework, for example, Access Control Lists.

Who is this book for?

Aimed primarily at CakePHP novices to professionals and PHP programmers seeking to build web applications easily usingCakePHP and related web technologies, this book will also appeal to programmers using other frameworks in other languages, for example, Ruby on Rails and Java Spring.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: A Digital Photographer's Guide

Author: David Huss

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has taken the photography world by storm! Let two industry experts, Dave Huss and David Plotkin, help you get up to speed fast with the all-new version 2. This complete reference for all users of Lightroom starts out with the basics, covering each available tool found in Lightroom with step-by-step clarity. The book then moves on to more in-depth discussions of the most often used tools and techniques, so you can customize a workflow that best suits your own needs. Start at the beginning to develop a complete set of Lightroom skills, or skip ahead to the sections that delve deeper into the tools you want to use immediately. Learn how to work smarter, faster, and more creatively to improve the overall quality of your work so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind your camera!

*Maximize your productivity and learn from two experts exactly how to incorporate Adobe Photoshop Lightroom into your own workflow, whether you use Windows or a Mac
*Fully up-to-date with the latest features of Lightroom 2 and packed with full color, step-by-step screenshots and photographs
*Visit focalpress.com/Lightroom for additional Lightroom tutorials, software news and updates

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 Lightroom Fundamentals 1

Ch. 2 Getting to Know the Library Module 37

Ch. 3 Getting Your Photos into Lightroom 57

Ch. 4 Organizing Your Photos 97

Ch. 5 Fixing Photos Fast Using Quick Develop 153

Ch. 6 Precision Correction and Enhancement Using Develop Module 179

Ch. 7 Making Local Adjustments 241

Ch. 8 Showtime: Making Slideshows 263

Ch. 9 Web Wizard: Creating and Posting Images on the Web 293

Ch. 10 Layout and Composition 311

Index 361

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Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

Author: Jonathan Gennick

The Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference is a must-have for anyone working with Oracle databases, especially those looking to maximize the effectiveness of SQL*Plus. As Oracle's long-standing interactive query tool, SQL*Plus is available at every Oracle site, from the largest data warehouse to the smallest single-user system. Despite its wide use, however, SQL*Plus is still often not completely understood or fully utilized.

Database administrators and developers alike will therefore find the Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference to be extremely beneficial. In addition to summarizing all of the SQL*Plus syntax and format options, including new Oracle Database 10g features, this handy, on-the-job guide specifically shows readers how to:

Differentiate between SQL and SQL*Plus Interact with SQL*Plus from both the command line and the web browser Select, insert, update, and delete data Format both text and HTML reports with SQL*Plus Specify SQL*Plus commands and format elements Tune SQL queries The new third edition of this book has been updated for Oracle Database 10g to include information on both SQL*Plus and SQL. New SQL information includes the SELECT statement's new MODEL clause, flashback queries, partition outer joins, and DBMS_XPLAN.

With its quick-reference format and compact size, the Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference follows in the long line of successful "pocket references" offered by O'Reilly. It also serves as the ideal companion to O'Reilly's larger, more comprehensive book on SQL*Plus, the bestselling Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide.

Author Jonathan Gennick is an editor for O'Reilly specializing in database and programming titles, having amassed some 17 years of programming and database management experience.

Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials or Oracle Wait Interface

Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials

Author: David L Demets

Randomized clinical trials are the gold standard for establishing many clinical practice guidelines and are central to evidence based medicine. Obtaining the best evidence through clinical trials must be done within the boundaries of rigorous science and ethical principles. One fundamental principle is that trials should not continue longer than necessary to reach their objectives. Therefore, trials must be monitored for recruitment progress, quality of data, adherence to patient care or prevention standards, and early evidence of benefit or harm. Frequently, a group of external experts, independent from the investigators and trial sponsor, is charged with this monitoring responsibility, especially for safety and early benefit. This group is referred to by various names, such as a data monitoring committee or a data and safety monitoring board. This book, through a series of case studies presented by many distinguished clinical trial experts, illustrates the complexity of this monitoring process. The editors provide an overview of the process and a summary of a multitude of the lessons learned from the cases presented.

This book should be useful to anyone serving on a data and safety monitoring board, or planning to do so, for colleagues in academia, industry and governmental agencies, and for teaching students in biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical trials and medical ethics. No other text has as extensive a collection of cases which provide insight into the many issues, often conflicting, that must be examined before recommendations to continue or discontinue a trial can be made. While depth in statistical methods is not required, some familiarity with statistical design andanalysis issues in clinical trials is helpful. The cases cover trials which were terminated early for convincing evidence of benefit, or for harmful effects. Cases with complex issues are also included. This series of cases should provide broad background information for potential monitoring committee members and better prepare them for the challenges that may exist in the trials for which they are responsible.

Table of Contents:

1	Monitoring committees : why and how	3
2	Lessons learned	14
3	FDA and clinical trial data monitoring committees	39
	Introduction to case studies showing benefit from the intervention	53
	Assessing possible late treatment effects early : the diabetic retinopathy study experience	55
	Data and safety monitoring in the beta-blocker heart attack trial : early experience in formal monitoring methods	64
	Data monitoring for the aspirin component of the physicians' health study : issues in early termination for a major secondary endpoint	73
	Early termination of the stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation I trial : protecting participant interests in the face of scientific uncertainties and the cruel play of chance	85
	Early termination of the diabetes control and complications trial	93
	Data monitoring in the AIDS clinical trials group study #981 : conflicting interim results	109
	Challenges in monitoring the breast cancer prevention trial	118
	Data monitoring experience in the metoprolol CR/XL randomized intervention trial in chronic heart failure : potentially high-risk treatment in high-risk patients	136
	Stopping the randomized aldactone evaluation study early for efficacy	148
	Data monitoring in the heart outcomes prevention evaluation and the clopidogrel in unstable angina to prevent recurrent ischemic events trials : avoiding important information loss	158
	The data monitoring experience in the candesartan in heart failure assessment of reduction in mortality and morbidity program	166
	Introduction to case studies showing harmful effects of the intervention	179
	Breaking new ground : data monitoring in the coronary drug project	183
	The data monitoring experience in the cardiac arrhythmia suppression trial : the need to be prepared early	198
	Data monitoring in the prospective randomized milrinone survival evaluation : dealing with an agonizing trend	209
	Stopping the carotene and retinol efficacy trial : the viewpoint of the safety and endpoint monitoring committee	220
	Monitoring a clinical trial with waiver of informed consent : diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin for emergency treatment of post-traumatic shock	228
	Consideration of early stopping and other challenges in monitoring the heart and estrogen/progestin replacement study	236
	Data monitoring in the antihypertensive and lipid-lowering treatment to prevent heart attack trial : early termination of the doxazosin treatment arm	248
	Data monitoring experience in the moxonidine congestive heart failure trial	260
	Data monitoring of a placebo-controlled trial of daclizumab in acute graft-versus-host disease	269
	Introduction to case studies with special issues	281
	Clinical trials of herpes simplex encephalitis : the role of the data monitoring committee	285
	The nocturnal oxygen therapy trial data monitoring experience : problem with reporting lags	292
	Stopping a trial for futility : the cooperative new Scandinavian enalapril survival study II	302
	Lessons from warfarin trials in atrial fibrillation : missing the window of opportunity	312
	Data monitoring experience in the AIDS toxoplasmic encephalitis study	320
	Data monitoring in the randomized evaluation of strategies for left ventricular dysfunction pilot study : when reasonable people disagree	330
	The data monitoring experience in the carvedilol post-infarct survival control in left ventricular dysfunction study : hazards of changing primary outcomes	337
	Controversies in the early reporting of a clinical trial in early breast cancer	346
	Making independence work : monitoring the bevacizumab colorectal cancer clinical trial	360

Look this: Unimagined Community or Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning

Author: Richmond She

Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially.

Usability Testing and Research or Groovy Programming

Usability Testing and Research (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication)

Author: Carol M Barnum

Built on a solid foundation of current research in the field, Usability Testing and Research provides a comprehensive, up-to-date perspective in this increasingly important area of technical communication. Based on the most current research in the field, this book reflects the most recent developments and studies on this topic available. Sidebars throughout the book catch the attention of the readers and highlight key concepts in the text. A chapter on web testing provides coverage of what is now the hottest area in usability testing. End of chapter discussions and exercises reinforce learning. Frequent examples of planning, conducting, and reporting usability tests present current samples of projects. An appendix on teamwork gives pertinent advice in an area neglected by other texts: building and coordinating cross-functional teams for usability testing. For those interested in usability testing and research.

Book review: Anlagengebäude & Gemeinschaftsentwicklung

Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers

Author: Kenneth Barclay

Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers
Kenneth Barclay and John Savage

"For a book targeting those new to scripting, OO or dynamic languages in general, this book is fabulous!"
— Andrew Glover, President, Stelligent Incorporated

Groovy is a unique scripting language designed to augment the Java platform. It offers Java-like syntax, native support for maps and lists, methods, classes, closures, and builders. With its dynamic weak typing and seamless access to the Java API, it is well suited to the development of many small- to medium-size applications.

Groovy is more expressive and operates at higher levels of abstraction than Java. This results in more rapid application development and increased programmer productivity. It can be used for "gluing" applications together rather than implementing complex data structures and algorithms.

Another major strength of Groovy is that the coding effort required is relatively small by comparison with code written in Java. Often the latter appears to be overly complex and difficult to understand and maintain. This is because it requires extensive boilerplate or conversion code not required by Groovy.

In one of the first guides to Groovy, authors Kenneth Barclay and John Savage introduce all the major aspects of Groovy development and explain the dynamic features this innovative programming language brings to the Java platform. This book assumes only a general knowledge of Java programming. Whether a seasoned Java developer or new to scripting languages, you'll receive expert guidance on how to make Groovy work for you.

Features
* The first comprehensive book on Groovyprogramming that shows how writing applications and scripts for the Java platform is fast and easy

* Written by leading software engineers and acclaimed computing instructors

* Offers numerous programming examples, code samples, detailed case studies, exercises for self-study, and a companion website with a Windows-based Groovy editor

About the Authors
Kenneth Barclay and John Savage are both lecturers at the School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Their speciality is object-oriented software engineering, development, and programming. They are - coauthors of Object-Oriented Design with UML and Java (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003).

Java/Programming
ISBN 978-0-12-372507-3

Table of Contents:

Preface; Chapter 1: Groovy; Chapter 2: Numbers and Expressions; Chapter 3: Strings and Regular Expressions; Chapter 4: Lists, Maps and Ranges; Chapter 5: Simple Input and Output; Chapter 6: Case Study: A Library Application (Modelling); Chapter 7: Methods; Chapter 8: Flow of Control; Chapter 9: Closures; Chapter 10: Files; Chapter 11: Case Study: A Library Application (Methods); Chapter 12: Classes; Chapter 13: Case Study: A Library Application (Objects); Chapter 14: Specialization; Chapter 15: Unit Testing (JUnit); Chapter 16: Case Study: A Library Application (Specialization); Chapter 17: Persistence; Chapter 18: Case Study: A Library Application (Persistence); Chapter 19: XML Builders and Parsers; Chapter 20: GUI Builders; Chapter 21: Template Engines; Chapter 22: Case Study: A Library Application (GUI); Chapter 23: Server Side Programming; Chapter 24: Case Study: A Library Application (Web); Chapter 25: Epilogue; Bibliography; Appendix A: Software Distribution; Appendix B: Groovy; Appendix C: More on Numbers and Expressions; Appendix D: More on Strings and Regular Expressions; Appendix E: More on Lists, Maps and Ranges; Appendix F: More on Simple Input and Output; Appendix G: More on Methods; Appendix H: More on Closures; Appendix I: More on Classes; Appendix J: Advanced Closures; Appendix K: More on Builders; Appendix L: More on GUI Builders; Index

Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner or Logistic Regression Using the SAS System

Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Author: Jerry Lee Ford

Want to learn the fundamentals of Ruby programming but aren't sure where to start? Look no further! Ruby is a free, easy-to-learn, yet powerful scripting programming language that can run on any operating system. These attributes have made Ruby an extremely popular language in recent years for almost any programming task. Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner teaches you the basics of computer programming with Ruby through the creation of simple computer games. Not only will this "learn by doing" approach provide you with an instant sense of accomplishment, but it's also a fun way to learn. In addition to learning Ruby, you'll also learn the basics of computer programming, so you'll have a solid foundation from which you can confidently jump to other programming languages.

Interesting book: Still Going Strong or Antipasto Table

Logistic Regression Using the SAS System: Theory and Application

Author: Paul D Allison

If you are a researcher or student with experience in multiple linear regression and want to learn about logistic regression, this book is for you! Informal and nontechnical, this book both explains the theory behind logistic regression and looks at all the practical details involved in its implementation using the SAS System. Several social science real-world examples are included in full detail. This book also explains the differences and similarities among the many generalizations of the logistic regression model. The following topics are covered: binary logit analysis, logit analysis of contingency tables, multinomial logit analysis, ordered logit analysis, discrete-choice analysis with the PHREG procedure, and Poisson regression. Other highlights include discussions on how to use the GENMOD procedure to do loglinear analysis and GEE estimation for longitudinal binary data. Only basic knowledge of the SAS DATA step is assumed. Supports releases 6.12 and higher of SAS software.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Binary Logit Analysis: Basics	5
Ch. 3	Binary Logit Analysis: Details and Options	31
Ch. 4	Logit Analysis of Contingency Tables	81
Ch. 5	Multinomial Logit Analysis	111
Ch. 6	Logit Analysis for Ordered Categories	133
Ch. 7	Discrete Choice Analysis	161
Ch. 8	Logit Analysis of Longitudinal and Other Clustered Data	179
Ch. 9	Poisson Regression	217
Ch. 10	Loglinear Analysis of Contingency Tables	233
	Appendix	267
	References	275
	Index	279

Essential C for Engineers and Scientists or Health Information Technology

Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists

Author: Jeri Hanly

Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists focuses readers on the key elements of good programming and C++ using a multitude of engineering and scientific examples that are relevant to future engineers. The book covers the features of C++ needed for writing engineering programs, including many features of object-oriented programming. Early on, it makes some simplifying assumptions that allow the use of C++ topics without lengthy explanation, and then later discusses the intricacies of the features. Readers will come away with the confidence needed to solve problems with C++.

THIS SECOND EDITION FEATURES:

• Over 50% more programming projects than in the first edition.
• Two new case studies with complete algorithm development.
• Over 80 engineering and scientific examples and programming projects drawn from interesting areas such as solar heating, environmentally sound power production, water conservation, automated manufacturing, pipeline and power grid modeling, and others.
• Updated and enhanced coverage of many topics including member operators and member functions, files, and structs.
• Reference appendices on using the C programming language and about both the Borland and Visual C++ integrated development environments.
• Fundamentals of numerical methods that represent commonly used techniques for solving engineering and scientific problems.

New interesting book: Last Campaign or Blueprint for Action

Health Information Technology

Author: Nadinia Davis

This book is designed to meet the needs of students at the beginning of their course of study in health information technology - both as a work-based task-oriented function and as a part of a larger profession of health information management. Individuals who wish to acquire basic knowledge of health information technology and how it fits into the health care arena will find this text useful.

Chapter learning objectives are tied to the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) domains and sub-domains of the Health Information Technology (HIT) curriculum to allow instructors to teach to the credentialing exam and to help students prepare for the exam.

Provides job descriptions in every chapter to give students a broader view of the field and show them they many options they have upon graduation.

Includes application-oriented exercises and activities in each chapter to make learning more interactive for students and to also fulfill the AHIMA HIT curriculum requirements.

Each chapter builds on the previous chapter and encourages the application of key concepts to support comprehensive learning of the material.

A clear writing style and easy reading level is appropriate for two-year postsecondary students to make their reading and studying more time-efficient.

A comprehensive Instructor's Resource Manual with CD-ROM makes it easier for instructors to develop and teach the course.

Evolve provides an interactive learning environment instructors can utilize to work with the text.

Workbook exercises are incorporated into the text to keep the core content and review material close together.

Materialon statistics have been broken out into a new, separate chapter to give new students a better foundation for learning.

New Special Health Records chapter includes information on accreditation and major Health Information Management (HIM) issues.

Includes a computer-based health systems chapter to address how HIM is moving to an increasingly electronic environment.

A new Confidentiality and Compliance chapter covers HIPAA Privacy regulations.

Table of Contents:

Environment of Health Information
Health Care Delivery Systems     2
Health Care Professionals     4
Health Information Management     11
Comparison of Facilities     13
Legal and Regulatory Environment     22
Chapter Activities     29
Paying for Health Care     32
Reimbursement     34
Insurance     37
Government Influence on Reimbursement     47
Chapter Activities     51
Collecting Health Care Data     54
Basic Concepts     56
Key Data Categories     59
Medical Decision Making     62
Describing Data     65
Organization of Data Elements in a Health Record     67
Data Quality     74
Chapter Activities     82
Content, Structure, and Processing of Health Information
Acute Care Records     86
Clinical Flow of Data     88
Clinical Data     92
Data Quality     102
Accreditation     104
Chapter Activities     106
Health Information Management Processing     108
Data Quality     110
Postdischarge Processing     114
OtherHealth Information Management Roles     124
Chapter Activities     126
Coding and Reimbursement     128
Coding     130
Prospective Payment Systems     136
Billing     150
Impact of Coding     154
Chapter Activities     158
Health Information Management Issues in Alternative Settings     161
Ambulatory Care     163
Ambulatory Care: Radiology and Laboratory     169
Ambulatory Care: Ambulatory Surgery     172
Long-Term Care     173
Behavioral Health Facilities     175
Rehabilitation Facilities     177
Hospice     178
Home Health Care     180
Other Specialty Facilities     181
Chapter Activities     185
Maintenance and Analysis of Health Information
Storage     188
The Paper Perspective     190
Master Patient Index     191
Filing     197
Alternative Storage Methods     218
Chart Locator Systems     225
Security of Health Information     229
Chapter Activities     236
Statistics     238
Organized Collection of Data      240
Data Retrieval     245
Reporting of Data     252
Statistical Analysis of Patient Information     254
Routine Institutional Statistics     264
Chapter Activities     277
Quality and Uses of Health Information     279
The Quality of Health Care     281
Quality Management Theories     282
History and Evolution of Quality in Health Care     283
Monitoring the Quality of Health Information     288
Health Information in Quality Activities     293
Organization and Presentation of Data     301
Health Care Facility Committees     307
Uses of Health Information     310
Chapter Activities     320
Legal and Supervisory Issues in Health Information
Confidentiality and Compliance     324
Confidentiality     326
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act     328
Access     333
Consent     339
Release of Information     342
Preparing a Record for Release     345
Internal Requests for Information     348
Sensitive Records     349
Federal, Corporate, and Facility Compliance     349
Chapter Activities     353
Electronic Health Records     355
The Evolution of the Electronic Health Record     357
Government and Private Sector Intervention     363
Advantages of and Barriers to Implementing an Electronic Health Record     366
Electronic Health Record Management     368
Career Opportunities     375
Chapter Activities     378
HIM Department Management     380
Human Resources     382
Organization Charts     384
Health Information Management Department Workflow     389
Department Planning     393
Prioritization of Department Functions     396
Evaluation of Department Operations and Services     397
Department Policies and Procedures     398
Health Information Personnel     400
Employee Productivity     403
Employee Evaluations     406
Hiring Health Information Management Personnel     409
Fair Employment Practices     416
Department Equipment and Supplies     417
Ergonomics     420
Chapter Activities     423
Training and Development     425
Orientation     427
Training      432
Inservice Education     436
Educating the Public     436
Continuing Education     436
Communication     439
Department Meetings     442
Chapter Activities     447
Sample Paper Records     450
Sample Electronic Medical Record     466
Minimum Data Set     472
Using Microsoft Excel to Perform Calculations     486
Glossary     493

C or Microsoft Visual C 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner

C++: The Core Language

Author: Gregory Satir

A first book for C programmers transitioning to C++, an object-oriented enhancement of the C programming language. Designed to get readers up to speed quickly, this book thoroughly explains the important concepts and features and gives brief overviews of the rest of the language. Covers features common to all C++ compilers, including those on UNIX, Windows NT, Windows, DOS, and Macs

Book about: Services Marketing or Organization Modeling

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Author: Premier Development

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner focuses on teaching first time programmers how to program using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition as a foundation language. Written for the entry-level user, the book assumes no prior programming or scripting experience. Whether you are a new or experienced C++ developer, this book delivers the tools and libraries you need to write a variety of programs. Written in a straight-forward style, using a games-based approach that makes learning beginning-level programming fun and easy, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner is the perfect introductory programming book.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	An introduction to Visual C++ 2005 express	1
Ch. 2	Navigating the Visual C++ 2005 express edition environment	27
Ch. 3	Creating an application interface	63
Ch. 4	Working with menus and toolbars	101
Ch. 5	Storing and retrieving data in memory	141
Ch. 6	Applying conditional logic	177
Ch. 7	Processing lots of data with loops	207
Ch. 8	Enhancing code structure and organization	241
Ch. 9	Getting comfortable with object-oriented programming	279
Ch. 10	Integrating graphics and audio	307
Ch. 11	Debugging Visual C++ applications	335

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

Author: Lynette Kent

The amateur and home photographers today take many more photos than they ever would have with film cameras, and the sorting process alone can be an ominous and time consuming chore. Unlike Photoshop, Lightroom enables the photographer to organize, process, and output large numbers of files and effectively streamline the so called digital workflow, reducing the work and enhancing the flow of processing digital photographs. All the features of Lightroom such as moving the cursor directly on the image to adjust it, which are intended to simplify digital editing for the professional photographer, also make the photo editing process easier for the amateur. For once the professional level application is easier to use for everyone. This book provides the general photo enthusiast easy to follow steps to get past the intimidation factor of "a professional tool." Teach Yourself Visually Adobe Photoshop Lightroom will simplify the "photo geek speak," explain the interface and tools so the average person with a digital camera will feel comfortable and be able to start organizing, editing, and outputting photos right away.

Book review: Workplace Communications for Engineering Technicians and Technologists or Accounting Information Systems

Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management

Author: Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review paperback series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Reviewas required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe. The eight articles in Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management highlight the leading-edge thinking and practical applications that are defining the field of knowledge management. Includes Peter Drucker's prophetic "The Coming of the New Organization" and Ikujiro Nonaka's "Knowledge-Creating Company." A Harvard Business Review Paperback.

Library Journal

This collection of eight Harvard Business Review articles are written by leading business authors (including a contribution from management guru Peter Drucker), and together they present a solid introduction to and overview of the practice of knowledge management. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

A collection of eight articles first published in the during the 1980s-90s, focusing on the way companies generate, communicate, and leverage their intellectual assets. Each article is preceded by a summary. Topics include teaching smart people how to learn, doing research that reinvents the corporation, and managing professional intellect. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	The Coming of the New Organization	1
	The Knowledge-Creating Company	21
	Building a Learning Organization	47
	Teaching Smart People How to Learn	81
	Putting Your Company's Whole Brain to Work	109
	How to Make Experience Your Company's Best Teacher	137
	Research That Reinvents the Corporation	153
	Managing Professional Intellect: Making the Most of the Best	181
	About the Contributors	207
	Index	213

Design and Launch Your Ecommerce Business in a Week or Blogs Wikis Myspace and More

Design and Launch Your eCommerce Business in a Week

Author: Jason R Rich

WWW.(Your Online Store).COM

Have you fantasized about your own retail store-selling your own specialty items, showcasing unique products or better promoting existing products? Or have you dreamed of working from home, setting your own hours and still making great money? Today's technology makes it easier than ever to take your retail dreams to the world's largest marketplace-the Internet. In just days, you can build your own eCommerce website, reach potential customers by the millions, process orders 24/7 and accept payments from all over the world-with no technical background or graphic design skills!

• Design a professional eCommerce site using inexpensive, turnkey solutions from established companies like Google, Yahoo! and Go Daddy that require no programming or graphic design knowledge
• Create content and online deals that capture shoppers and keep them coming back
• Use surefire online tools that work 24/7 to handle payments and accept orders
• Drive traffic using Search Engine Optimization and other marketing and advertising techniques
• Skillfully handle inventory, order fulfillment, customer service and all other operations

The world's largest marketplace is at your fingertips…take advantage of it!

Jason R. Rich is a bestselling author of more than 35 books, including several e-commerce guides; a frequent contributor to several national magazines and daily newspapers; and a consultant to individuals and businesses looking to launch a successful e-commerce website.

New interesting textbook: The Russian Roots of Nazism or The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

Blogs, Wikis, Myspace, and More: Everything You Want to Know about Using Web 2. 0 but Are Afraid to Ask

Author: Terry Burrows

For both internet gurus and online novices, this handy mini-encyclopedia explores the useful and interesting sites—big and small, popular and obscure—that make up Web 2.0, the new online community. From YouTube and Flickr to eBay and Facebook, each website and online application is explained through step-by-step screen shots and examines what each site does, why people use it, how to get started, and any special features. Simple yet thorough definitions for commonly used internet elements—such as tags, bookmarks, blogs, and podcasts—are provided as well as little-known usage tips for expert surfers. Grouped by type, this detailed guide also offers dozens of alternative URLs that cover similar online territory, but with their own unique takes.

The Hacker Crackdown or Network Maturity Model

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Author: Bruce Sterling

The AT&T long-distance network crashes, and millions of calls go unanswered. A computer hacker reprograms a switching station, and calls to a Florida probation office are shunted to a New York phone-sex hotline. An underground computer bulletin board publishes a pilfered BellSouth document on the 911 emergency system, making it available to anyone who dials up. How did so much illicit power reach the hands of an undisciplined few - and what should be done about it? You are about to descend into a strange netherworld - one that sprang into existence when computers were first connected to telephones. This place has no physical location; it exists only in the networks that bind together its population. Like any frontier, it is home to a wide range of personalities, from legitimate computer professionals to those known only by their noms de net; denizens like Knight Lightning, Leftist, Compu-Phreak, Major Havoc, and Silver Spy; groups like the Lords of Chaos, Phantom Access Associates, Shadow Brotherhood, and the Coalition of Hi-Tech Pirates. This is not normal space, but "cyberspace." And if you use a computer, cyberspace is moving inexorably closer to you with each passing day. Your guide on this journey is bestselling science fiction author and longtime computer user Bruce Sterling, who was galvanized into action following the massive "hacker crackdowns" of 1990, in which law enforcement officers executed search warrants across the country against lawbreakers - and suspected lawbreakers - in the computer underground. In The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling - respected by hackers, law officers, and civil libertarians alike - uses his unique reportorial access and his considerable powers as a novelist to weave a startling narrative that informs, compels, and appalls. Sterling has researched all corners of this challenging and controversial new world for this book. In it we meet outlaws and cops, bureaucrats and rebels, geniuses and grifters: all denizens of a dazzling e

Publishers Weekly

Cyberpunk novelist Sterling (Involution Ocean) has produced by far the most stylish report from the computer outlaw culture since Steven Levy's Hackers. In jazzy New Journalism proE;e, sounding like Tom Wolfe reporting on a gunfight at the Cybernetic Corral, Sterling makes readers feel at home with the hackers, marshals, rebels and bureaucrats of the electronic frontier. He opens with a social history of the telephone in order to explain how the Jan. 15, 1990, crash of AT&T's long-distance switching system led to a crackdown on high-tech outlaws suspected of using their knowledge of eyberspace to invade the phone company's and other corporations' supposedly secure networks. After explaining the nature of eyberspace forms like electronic bulletin boards in detail, Sterling makes the hackers-who live in the ether between terminals under noms de nets such as VaxCat-as vivid as Wyatt Earp and Doe Holliday. His book goes a long way towards explaining the emerging digital world and its ethos. (Oct.)

Library Journal

This well-written history of ``cyberspace'' and computer hackers begins with the failure of AT&T's long-distance telephone switching system in January 1990 (the subject of Leonard Lee's The Day the Phones Stopped , LJ 7/91). Subsequently, a number of hackers were accused of being responsible, although AT&T formally acknowledged otherwise. In detailing various formal efforts to prosecute the ``phone phreaks'' and hackers, cyberpunk sf author Sterling ( Islands in the Net , LJ 6/15/88) avoids attributing the near-mystical genius qualities that too many authors have bestowed upon the computer and telephone ``outlaws.'' Instead, he realistically describes their biases and philosophical shortcomings. Sterling's concern for the Steve Jackson Games prosecution, which occurred erroneously in conjunction with several legitimate raids in Austin, leads him to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and he concludes with a well-balanced look at this new group of civil libertarians. Written with humor and intelligence, this book is highly recommended. See also Katie Hafner and John Markoff's Cyperpunk , LJ 6/1/91.--Ed.-- Hilary D. Burton, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, Cal.

BookList

Sterling collaborated with William Gibson on "The Difference Engine" (BKL D 1 90), about what might have resulted had Charles Babbage's 1842 prototype of the computer succeeded. That novel seems to have impelled Sterling toward the present effort, a feisty survey of the dilemmas electronic technologies present for software firms, law enforcement agencies, hackers, and civil libertarians. He begins with a colorful portrait of Alexander Graham Bell and the Bell System, since Bell's divestiture in 1982 heralded much of the contemporary confusion, and it was with the telephone that cyberspace, that place somewhere between speakers, became "real." He discusses the Computer Fraud and Abuse and the Electronic Communications and Privacy acts of 1986. But his attentions center on the AT&T long-distance crash of 1990 and subsequent federal raids on hackers such as NuPrometheus, which once stole a jealousy guarded piece of Apple software, and Knight Lightning, actually tried for software piracy. Nineteen ninety was a year of raids, arrests, and trials, the upshot of which is that a host of groups have dug in on the battle for the free flow of electronic information. At the same time, electronic crimes are likely to become more sophisticated and international. Sterling relates all this with an insider's grasp of detail, and with irreverent humor. Offbeat and brilliant.

Booknews

Father of "cyberpunk" science fiction and techno-journalist, Sterling writes in his popular style for this nonfiction book that looks at computer hacking from both sides of the law. He interviews outlaw hackers and phone phreaks, law enforcement personnel, and civil libertarians, and presents a look at the people involved in the world of cyberspace and the politics of the new technological world. No references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New interesting textbook: Collège Estimant 1-13

Network Maturity Model

Author: William J Baumann

The Network Maturity Model (NMM) addresses the need for a process-based approach to ensuring network quality. Application of the model to enterprise networks provides gains in terms of over all quality, process reliability and positive impacts on customers.

The extensive background in academia and real-world industry of the engineer authors has produced a work which synergistically integrates a myriad of disciplines and experience relevant to an effective network quality system. For example, within the model the authors have crafted network activities related to Enterprise business models, and integrated Enterprise Management with Network Engineering and Network Operations.

The Network Maturity Model (NMM) provides a process model for a network management system. Compliance to the NMM ensures that processes are defined, established and continuously improved to support the development of quality networks in a repeatable manner. Unique to the NMM is it provides a strong focus on stakeholder satisfaction, and the integration of network management, development and operations processes to provide higher quality networks. Another unique feature of the NMM is its components which address the security, acquisition, hardware, customer, and other activities unique to networks.

The model describes a comprehensive quality and process capability across all aspects of computer networks. It is designed as a stand-alone model which provides quality system elements for network management, engineering, and operational components. It encompasses a multi-discipline approach which integrates elements of quality standards including ISO 9000, TL 9000 and Baldrige. Use of the modelprovides network quality managers and professionals with a single integrated maturity model, eliminating the need to use separate models for different network activities such as the software CMM for network software development.

Adobe PageMaker 70 Basics or Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions

Adobe PageMaker 7.0 BASICS

Author: Rick Braveheart

This book from our BASICS series provides a step-by-step introduction to Adobe PageMaker 7 software. Everything from creating a publication and working with styles and graphics to working with tables and templates is covered in this text.

Interesting textbook: GNU Autoconf Automake and Libtool or Mistake Proofing for Operators

Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions

Author: Jeffrey A Shapiro

This is the definitive resource for every network administrator, consultant, and architect who needs to maximize availability, scalability, and performance in Windows server environments.

Drawing on two decades of Windows server experience, Jeffrey Shapiro and Marcin Policht have written the most realistic, comprehensive, and independent Windows high availability guide ever published. One step at, a time, they help you plan, implement, and manage clustering, load balancing, fault tolerance, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and much more. Along the way, they address crucial high availability topics that are virtually ignored by most books, such as disaster recovery, performance monitoring, and operations management.

Shapiro and Policht offer a clear, concise roadmap for keeping Windows servers running 24x7 and delivering on even the most challenging service-level agreements. They provide real-world case studies and easy-to-use instructions designed to help readers make better decisions more rapidly.

Coverage includes

• Building the foundations for a highly available Active Directory and network architecture

• Selecting and integrating high-performance hardware, storage, and networks

• Installing and configuring Windows Clustering Services for both scale-out and failover

• Leveraging the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA)

• Delivering high-performance, high availability file- and print-server solutions

• Using clustering to maximize SQL Server and Exchange Server availability

• Restoring failed servers: best practices and step-by-step techniques for recovering from downtime or disaster

• Deploying Network Load Balancing (NLB) IIS and application servers

• Administering Windows Server 2003 high-performance systems—including performance monitoring and alerts with Microsoft Operations Manager

• Avoiding the pitfalls associated with Windows high availability solutions

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	High-performance Windows computing
Ch. 1	The world of high-performance, high availability Windows computing	3
Ch. 2	Choosing high-performance hardware	25
Ch. 3	Storage for highly available systems	35
Ch. 4	Highly available networks	71
Ch. 5	Preparing the platform for a high-performance network	97
Ch. 6	Building the foundations for a highly available architecture	163
Pt. II	Building high availability Windows server 2003 solutions
Ch. 7	High-performance print-server solutions	217
Ch. 8	High-performance file-server solution	225
Ch. 9	High availability, high-performance SQL server solutions	245
Ch. 10	High availability, high-performance exchange	297
Ch. 11	Load balancing	335
Ch. 12	Internet information server	373
Ch. 13	Looking for trouble : setting up performance monitoring and alerts	401

Conquest in Cyberspace or Learning Red Hat Linux

Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare

Author: Martin C Libicki

With billions of computers in existence, cyberspace, 'the virtual world created when they are connected,' is said to be the new medium of power. Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's computers, stealing their information, corrupting their workings, and shutting them down. Modern societies and militaries, both pervaded by computers, are supposedly at risk. As Conquest in Cyberspace explains, however, information systems and information itself are too easily conflated, and persistent mastery over the former is difficult to achieve.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures     x
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
What Does Conquest Mean in Cyberspace?     4
Precis     10
Hostile Conquest as Information Warfare     15
An Ideal-Type Definition of Information Warfare     16
Control at One Layer Is Not Control at Another     24
Applying the Ideal-Type Definition     27
There Is No Forced Entry in Cyberspace     31
Information Warfare Only Looks Strategic     37
IW Strategy and Terrorism     43
Conclusions     49
Information Warfare as Noise     50
Disinformation and Misinformation     51
Defenses against Noise     55
Redundancy     55
Filtration     57
What Tolerance for Noise?     59
Tolerance in Real Environments     60
Castles and Agoras     62
Hopping from Agoras to Castles?     64
Castling Foes     66
Concluding Observations     71
Can Information Warfare Be Strategic?     73
Getting In     75
Mucking Around     79
Spying     79
Denial of Service     80
Corruption     81
Distraction     83
Countermeasures     84
Redundancy     84
Learning     85
Damage Assessment     87
Prediction     90
Intelligence Is Necessary     90
Intelligence Alone Is Hardly Sufficient     93
Is Information Warfare Ready for War?     95
The Paradox of Control     96
Other Weaponization Criteria     97
Conclusions     100
Information Warfare against Command and Control     102
The Sources of Information Overload     103
Its Effect on Conventional Information Warfare Techniques     105
Coping Strategies     107
Who Makes Decisions in a Hierarchy?     107
Responses to Information Overload     111
Know the Enemy's Information Architecture     116
Elements of Information Culture     117
Elements of Nodal Architecture     118
Injecting Information into Adversary Decision Making     118
Ping, Echo, Flood, and Sag     121
Ping and Echo     121
Flood and Sag     122
Conclusions     124
Friendly Conquest in Cyberspace      125
A Redefinition of Conquest     126
The Mechanisms of Coalitions     128
The Particular Benefits of Coalitions     130
Information and Coalitions     131
The Cost of Coalitions in Cyberspace     136
Enterprise Architectures and Influence     142
Alliances with Individuals     148
The Special Case of Cell Phones     151
Alliances of Organizations     155
Ecologies of Technological Development     155
DoD's Global Information Grid (GIG)     159
Merging the Infrastructures of Allies     164
Conclusions     166
Friendly Conquest Using Global Systems     169
Geospatial Data     170
Coping with Commercial Satellites     175
Manipulation through Cyberspace     178
Getting Others to Play the Game     180
Some Conclusions about Geospatial Services     182
National Identity Systems     182
Two Rationales for a National Identity System     183
Potential Parameters for a Notional System     184
Constraints from and Influences over Foreign Systems     187
Compare, Contrast, and Conclude     191
Retail Conquest in Cyberspace     193
Information Trunks and Leaves     194
Where Does Cheap Information Come From?     195
Surveillance in Cyberspace     198
Making Information Global     203
Privacy     204
Amalgamating Private Information     206
Using the Information     208
General Coercion     208
Specific Coercion     209
Persuasion     211
Some Limits of Retail Warfare in Cyberspace     214
Using Retail Channels to Measure Wholesale Campaigns     215
Conclusions     218
From Intimacy, Vulnerability     220
Do the Walls Really Come Down?     220
Intimacy as a Target     222
The Fecklessness of Friends     225
Betrayal     228
Conclusions     230
Talking Conquest in Cyberspace     231
Four Layers of Communications     232
Human Conversation in Layers     232
Cyberspace in Layers     236
Complexity Facilitates Conquest     240
Complexity and Hostile Conquest     241
Complexity and Friendly Conquest     242
Semantics     245
Pragmatics      249
Lessons?     255
Managing Conquest in Cyberspace     256
Conducting Hostile Conquest in Cyberspace     257
Warding Off Hostile Conquest in Cyberspace     262
Byte Bullies     262
Headless Horsemen     265
Perfect Prevention     268
Total Transparency     270
Nasty Neighborhoods     272
Exploiting Unwarranted Influence     276
Against Unwarranted Influence     281
In Microsoft's Shadow     282
Microsoft and Computer Security     285
Conclusions     289
Why Cyberspace Is Likely to Gain Consequence     291
More Powerful Hardware and Thus More Complex Software     292
Cyberspace in More Places     294
Fuzzier Borders between Systems     297
Accepted Cryptography     299
Privatized Trust     301
The Possible Substitution of Artificial for Natural Intelligence     303
Conclusions     306
Index     307

Book review: The Anatomy of Hope or Cardio Free Diet

Learning Red Hat Linux

Author: Bill McCarty

New users are flocking to Linux literally by the millions. Yet most of these new users draw from Microsoft Windows as their primary computing experience; for them an operating system from the UNIX family is an unfamiliar experience. In Learning Red Hat Linux, Bill McCarty has written a book aimed specifically at this new audience.

Learning Red Hat Linux will guide any new user of Linux through the installing and use of Red Hat Linux, the free operating system that is shaking up the commercial world of software. It demystifies Linux in terms familiar to Windows users and gives readers only what they need to start being successful users of Linux.

Built around the popular Red Hat distribution of Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux takes the reader step by step through the process of installing and setting up a Red Hat Linux system, and provides a thorough but gentle introduction to the basics of using Red Hat Linux.

Because the book is written specifically for the enclosed CD, the reader needs nothing else to get started with this exciting new operating system.

Booknews

This second edition of a book/CD-ROM guide to installing and running Red Hat Linux on a PC has been upgraded to cover installation and configuration of Red Hat version 7.2, with improved sections on how to use the GNOME and KDE desktop environments and the use of the Red Hat Package Manager. The two CD-ROMs contain tools needed to install and configure a Red Hat Linux system. The book is written for first-time Linux users. McCarty teaches management information systems at Azusa Pacific University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Approximate Dynamic Programming or Teaching and Learning with Technology

Approximate Dynamic Programming: Solving the Curses of Dimensionality

Author: Warren Buckler Powell

A complete and accessible introduction to the real-world applications of approximate dynamic programming

With the growing levels of sophistication in modern-day operations, it is vital for practitioners to understand how to approach, model, and solve complex industrial problems. Approximate Dynamic Programming is a result of the author's decades of experience working in large industrial settings to develop practical and high-quality solutions to problems that involve making decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This groundbreaking book uniquely integrates four distinct disciplines—Markov design processes, mathematical programming, simulation, and statistics—to demonstrate how to successfully model and solve a wide range of real-life problems using the techniques of approximate dynamic programming (ADP). The reader is introduced to the three curses of dimensionality that impact complex problems and is also shown how the post-decision state variable allows for the use of classical algorithmic strategies from operations research to treat complex stochastic optimization problems.

Designed as an introduction and assuming no prior training in dynamic programming of any form, Approximate Dynamic Programming contains dozens of algorithms that are intended to serve as a starting point in the design of practical solutions for real problems. The book provides detailed coverage of implementation challenges including: modeling complex sequential decision processes under uncertainty, identifying robust policies, designing and estimating value function approximations, choosing effective stepsize rules, and resolving convergence issues.

With a focus on modeling andalgorithms in conjunction with the language of mainstream operations research, artificial intelligence, and control theory, Approximate Dynamic Programming:

• Models complex, high-dimensional problems in a natural and practical way, which draws on years of industrial projects
• Introduces and emphasizes the power of estimating a value function around the post-decision state, allowing solution algorithms to be broken down into three fundamental steps: classical simulation, classical optimization, and classical statistics
• Presents a thorough discussion of recursive estimation, including fundamental theory and a number of issues that arise in the development of practical algorithms
• Offers a variety of methods for approximating dynamic programs that have appeared in previous literature, but that have never been presented in the coherent format of a book

Motivated by examples from modern-day operations research, Approximate Dynamic Programming is an accessible introduction to dynamic modeling and is also a valuable guide for the development of high-quality solutions to problems that exist in operations research and engineering. The clear and precise presentation of the material makes this an appropriate text for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, while also serving as a reference for researchers and practitioners. A companion Web site is available for readers, which includes additional exercises, solutions to exercises, and data sets to reinforce the book's main concepts.

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Teaching and Learning with Technology

Author: Judy Lever Duffy

Written by teachers for teachers, this text offers a clear and current look at the range of educational technologies and how teachers can effectively use technology to enhance learning.

Written by Teachers for Teachers, this text provides readers with a clear understanding of educational media and how it can be used effectively to enhance learning.  The text explores the current and emerging technologies and multimedia available to teachers while consistently maintaining an instructional focus. Pre-service and in-service teachers.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
Pt. 1	Technologies for Teaching and Learning	1
Ch. 1	Theoretical Foundations	2
Ch. 2	Designing and Planning Technology-Enhanced Instruction	32
Pt. 2	Applying Technologies for Effective Instruction	71
Ch. 3	Introduction to Personal Computers in the Classroom	72
Ch. 4	Digital Technologies in the Classroom	102
Ch. 5	Administrative Software	128
Ch. 6	Academic Software	166
Ch. 7	Networks and the Internet	200
Ch. 8	Using the Web for Teaching and Learning	232
Ch. 9	Audio and Visual Technologies	270
Ch. 10	Video Technologies	308
Pt. 3	Technology in Schools, Changing Teaching and Learning	339
Ch. 11	Distance Education: Using Technology to Redefine the Classroom	340
Ch. 12	Issues in Implementing Technology in Schools	374
App. A	National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers and Students	405
App. B	Educational Technology Resources and Organizations	407
	Photo Credits	408
	Glossary	409
	References	421
	Index	429