Time is a fascinating subject that has captured mankind's imagination from ancient times to the present. It has been, and continues to be studied across a wide range of disciplines, from the natural sciences to philosophy and logic. More than two decades ago, Pnueli in a seminal work showed the value of temporal logic in the specification and verification of computer programs. Today, a strong, vibrant international research community exists in the broad community of computer science and AI. This volume presents a number of articles from leading researchers containing state-of-the-art results in such areas as pure temporal/modal logic, specification and verification, temporal databases, temporal aspects in AI, tense and aspect in natural language, and temporal theorem proving. Earlier versions of some of the articles were given at the most recent International Conference on Temporal Logic, University of Manchester, UK. Readership: Any student of the area - postgraduate, postdoctoral or even research professor - will find the book most valuable. Computing professionals requiring state-of-the-art knowledge in the area will appreciate the volume for its leading results and its links to other relevant literature.

The Encyclopedia of Databases, a comprehensive work, provides easy access to relevant information on all aspects of very large databases. This encyclopedia features alphabetical organization of concepts covering main areas of very large databases. These 1000 entries offer convenient access to information in the field of databases with definitions and illustrations of basic terminology, concepts, methods, and algorithms, references to literature, and cross-references to other entries and journal articles. Topics for the encyclopedia were selected by a distinguished international advisory board, and written by world class experts in the field. The Encyclopedia of Databases is designed to meet the needs of research scientists, professors and graduate-level students in computer science and engineering. This encyclopedia is also suitable for practitioners in industry.

Have you ever poured all your creativity into a Flash movie, but found your friends grumbling at the download size? Have you tried to use just one tiny picture in your movie, and seen the file size go through the roof? Is it possible to do anything remotely effective in a small file? More than you could possibly imagine! This collection shows you just exactly what can be done with tiny Flash files, using some of the hottest Flash designers around. These authors pull designs out of the top drawer and show you exactly how you can go about creating great SWFs with the smallest amount of download pain. We will look at: creating incredible generative designs - so small you can use them for wallpaper producing 3D animations that roll in at under 5k in size creating sound toys in the smallest possible file space de-mystifying the use of JPEGs and photographs while keeping your Flash movies small strategic use of back-end technology to keep your delivery times down to nanoseconds! changing the boundaries to look at new ways of delivering entire sites! From the Publisher Who is this book for You've worked with Flash, but are wondering why people are getting tetchy at the download time. You're willing to start learning some ActionScript tricks to fight the file flab, and you're not afraid to become addicted to optimization! About the Author Genevieve Garand Conceived 3weeksinApril. com, an experimental web site that explores new ways of navigation and features an engaging narrative. David Hirmes is a Flash developer living in Brooklyn, New York. Kip Parker Works through his own company Hi-Rise Limited and in collaboration with Anthony Burrill as Friendchip, which was established in 1998. Keith Peters Found Flash to be the ideal medium for creating graphics with code. Robert Reich lives in Hamburg, Germany. Flash became his favourite besides normal HTML and serverside driven website creation. [+]

Comprised of articles written by experts on selective deals with some major aspects of massive data sets. Addressed to academic and industrial researchers, graduate practitioners interested in the theoretical and technological approaches being pursued.

Post takes a less a theory-oriented, conceptual approach and more of a hands-on, practical approach to DBMS, focusing on teaching students how to design, build, manage database applications and giving them practice doing so. As with the first edition, Post continues to include many examples, exercises, and 2 sample databases to give students plenty of hands-on practice.

Providing a comprehensive theory of data modelling, this book explains the important concepts and principles with real-life examples showing how to apply it directly in practical applications. Topics covered include: a wide variety of functional requirements and query specification capabilities; a formal treatment of the semantics of the data; static and dynamic constraints and business rules; operations on tables, databases, and database universes; data dictionaries and their semantics; and comparisons of incidental properties and structural properties throughout the book. The book is aimed at professional database users such as designers, administrators and programmers, as well as specialists involved in data processing.

The CODES workshop is the major international forum for presentation of the latest research and practice of codesign. Topics in these papers include: application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) design issues; case studies; and codesign methodologies.

Reviewed for accuracy by a team of IBM analysts and DB2 specialists, this authoritative, one-stop reference to development DB2/2 and DB2/6000 applications is the only comprehensive and up-to-date sourcebook on the latest versions of the red-hot database software that doubled its sales in the past year. Author Roger E. Sanders provides complete source code examples in this logically organized, impressively sized volume. He covers the underlying database architecture, application development fundamentals, and the latest tools for developing object-oriented DB2/2 and DB2/6000 database applications.

Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems reflects the state of the art of emerging research on the meaning of multimedia information, as presented during IFIP's Eighth Data Semantics Working Conference (DS-8), organized by its Working Group 2. 6 on Databases, and held at Rotorua, New Zealand, in January 1999. DS-8 was planned as an active forum for researchers and practitioners focusing on those issues that involve the semantics of the information represented, stored, and manipulated by multimedia systems. Depending on the topic and state of research, issues may be covered either deeply theoretically or quite practically, or even both. These proceedings contain twenty-one papers carefully selected by an International Programme Committee and organized in six thematic areas: + Video Data Modelling and Use; + Image Databases; + Applications of Multimedia Systems; + Multimedia Modeling in General; + Multimedia Information Retrieval; + Semantics and Metadata. For almost every area, important topics and issues include: + data modeling and query languages for media such as audio, video, and images; + methodological aspects of multimedia database design; + intelligent multimedia information retrieval; + knowledge discovery and data mining in multimedia information; + multimedia user interfaces. Three visionary keynote addresses, by famous experts Ramesh Jain, Hermann Maurer and Masao Sakauchi, set the stage for discussion and future directions for the field. The collection of papers that resulted now offers a glimpse of the excitement and enthusiasm from DS-8. Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on database systems, multimedia systems, or information retrieval systems and as a reference for practitioners and researchers in industry.

Increase profits and reduce costs by utilizing this collection of models of the most commonly asked data mining questions In order to find new ways to improve customer sales and support, and as well as manage risk, business managers must be able to mine company databases. This book provides a step-by-step guide to creating and implementing models of the most commonly asked data mining questions. Readers will learn how to prepare data to mine, and develop accurate data mining questions. The author, who has over ten years of data mining experience, also provides actual tested models of specific data mining questions for marketing, sales, customer service and retention, and risk management. A CD-ROM, sold separately, provides these models for reader use.

Logic is now widely recognized as one of the foundational disciplines of computing, and its applications reach almost every aspect of the subject, from software engineering and hardware to programming languages and AI. The Handbook of Logic in Computer Science is a multi-volume work covering all the major areas of application of logic to theoretical computer science. The handbook comprises six volumes, each containing five or six chapters giving an in-depth overview of one of the major topics in field. It is the result of many years of cooperative effort by some of the most eminent frontline researchers in the field, and will no doubt be the standard reference work in logic and theoretical computer science for years to come. Volume 3: Semantic Structures covers all the fundamental topics of semantics in logic and computation. The extensive chapters are the result of several years of coordinated research, and each have a thematic perspective. Together, they offer the reader the latest in research work, and the book will be indispensable to anyone seriously involved in the subject.

This CD-ROM, a companion to Len Silverston's The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition, Volume 1, arms you with a powerful set of data models and data warehouse designs that you can use to jump-start your database development projects. It will save you countless hours and thousands of dollars in database development costs by providing the SQL code you'll need to implement the models described in the book or reverse-engineer them into your CASE tool. You'll get actual proven models for such common business functions as ordering and managing products, handling shipments, invoicing, accounting and budgeting, managing human resources, contact management, and project management. Plus, you'll find new and expanded models for call center management, product customization, shipping and receiving, payments and collections, budgeting scenarios, and employee qualification and performance. New data mart designs are also provided in this revised edition, including financial analysis, inventory management, and shipping logistics. You'll also want to check out The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition, Volume 2 (0-471-35348-5), and its companion data model sets (each sold separately), which feature universal data models tailored to various industries and applications. A free demonstration of the Volume 2 Data Models is available on this CD-ROM product. Minimum System Requirements: 32-bit operating system such as Windows 95, Windows NT 4. 0 or higher. Hard Drive Space: 25 MB required space for installation of files. [+]

This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005!   Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed provides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool that helps implement operations management, but it is not a piece of software that you can simply install and instantly have working.   This book provides reference material that will guide you through the steps to design, deploy, and configure MOM within your environment. You learn how to tune your MOM environment and tackle common challenges, such as managing your Microsoft operating systems, directory services, messaging platforms, and databases. Inside you will find comprehensive information on how to develop your own reports and management packs for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM experience.   ·         Plan your MOM deployment ·         Architect MOM for performance, redundancy, and security ·         Install or upgrade to MOM 2005 ·         Back up important MOM components ·         Implement, troubleshoot, deploy, and manage management packs ·         Work with rules and tune them ·         Manage different aspects of your environment, including the Windows operating system, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server ·         Extend MOM using connectors and third-party management packs ·         Develop management packs, reports, and scripts ·         Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager   CD–ROM includes   ·         Microsoft’s MOM 2005 Resource Kit and MOM 2005 Sizer ·         MOM Agent Monitor ·         Management packs and scripts written or customized for this book ·         Live Links—more than 100 (clickable) hypertext links and references to materials and sites related to Operations Manager     Contents About the Authors  xxi Acknowledgments  xxiii Introduction  1 Part I              Operations Management Overview and Concepts Chapter 1        Operations Management Basics   7 Chapter 2        What’s New   41 Chapter 3        How Does It Work?   57 Part II             Planning and Installation Chapter 4        Planning Your MOM Deployment   99 Chapter 5        Planning Complex Configurations   151 Chapter 6        Installing MOM 2005   173 Chapter 7        Upgrading to MOM 2005   211 Part III            Deploying MOM Chapter 8        Post-Installation Tasks   237 Chapter 9        Installing and Configuring Agents   267 Chapter 10      Complex and High Performance Configurations   297 Chapter 11      Securing MOM   329 Part IV            Administering MOM Chapter 12      Backup and Recovery   365 Chapter 13      Administering Management Packs   395 Chapter 14      Monitoring with MOM   423 Part V             Managing with MOM Chapter 15      Managing the Operating System   487 Chapter 16      Managing Directory Services   527 Chapter 17      Managing Microsoft Messaging   565 Chapter 18      Database Management   595 Part VI            Moving Beyond MOM 2005 Chapter 19      Interoperability   625 Chapter 20      Developing Management Packs   661 Chapter 21      Using and Developing Reports   719 Chapter 22      Using and Developing Scripts   777 Chapter 23      Touring Operations Manager 2007   825 Part VII          Appendixes Appendix A    MOM Internals   865 Appendix B    Registry Settings   887 Appendix C    Performance Counters   895 Appendix D    Database Views   901 Appendix E     Reference URLs   907 Appendix F     On the CD   917 Index   919  .

The Data Model Resource Book provides a common set of data models for specific functions common to most businesses, such as sales, marketing, order processing, budgeting, and accounting. Readers can apply more than one data model to their own company to meet specific data needs. A CD-ROM, sold separately, contains all of the data models contained in the book in electronic form.

Uncertainty Management in Information Systems: From Needs to Solutions is a book about how information systems can be made to manage information permeated with uncertainty. This subject is at the intersection of two areas of knowledge: information systems is an area that concentrates on the design of practical systems that can store and retrieve information; uncertainty modeling is an area in artificial intelligence concerned with accurate representation of uncertain information and with inference and decision-making under conditions infused with uncertainty. The first part of this book describes issues and challenges in the area of imperfect information that confront information systems, and the second part covers the principal theories for modeling imperfect information, and shows how these theories may be adapted to information systems. All chapters are original contributions and present solutions that have been applied and the experiences that have been gained from those solutions. The material has been closely edited by the book's editors for content, consistency and style. This authoritative book is state-of-the-art coverage of `Uncertainty Management in Information Systems'.

The multi-volume Encyclopedia of Database Systems provides easy access to relevant information on all aspects of very large databases, data management, and database systems. Over 1,400 illustrated essays and definitional entries, organized alphabetically, present basic terminology, concepts, methods and data processing algorithms, key results to date, references to the literature, and cross-references to other entries and journal articles. Topics for the Encyclopedia — including areas of current interest as well as research results of historical significance — were selected by a distinguished international advisory board and written by world class experts in the field. The Encyclopedia of Database Systems is designed for a wide audience including researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and other professionals and practitioners. Database specialists, software developers, scientists and engineers who need to deal with structured, semi-structured or unstructured large datasets will benefit from this comprehensive reference. In addition, database and data mining researchers and scholars in the many areas that apply database technologies, such as artificial intelligence, software engineering, robotics and computer vision, machine learning, finance and marketing will also benefit from the Encyclopedia. Publication by Springer is planned for fall 2008; the Encyclopedia of Database Systems will be available as a multi-volume set and an online reference work.