Authors
- Binto George
- Vijay Atluri
- Sushil Jajodia
Publication date: 1999-11-30
Dewey code: 005.434
List Price: $185.00
Price: $184.98
Review Multilevel Secure Transaction Processing (THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON ADVANCES IN DATABASE) / Springer:Information security is receiving a great deal of attention as computers increasingly process more and more sensitive information. A multilevel secure database management system (MLS DBMS) is designed to store, retrieve and process information in compliance with certain mandatory security requirements, essential for protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access, modification and abuse. Such systems are characterized by data objects labeled at different security levels and accessed by users cleared to those levels. Unless transaction processing modules for these systems are designed carefully, they can be exploited to leak sensitive information to unauthorized users. In recent years, considerable research has been devoted to the area of multilevel secure transactions that has impacted the design and development of trusted MLS DBMS products. Multilevel Secure Transaction Processing presents the progress and achievements made in this area. The book covers state-of-the-art research in developing secure transaction processing for popular MLS DBMS architectures, such as kernelized, replicated, and distributed architectures, and advanced transaction models such as workflows, long duration and nested models. Further, it explores the technical challenges that require future attention. Multilevel Secure Transaction Processing is an excellent reference for researchers and developers in the area of multilevel secure database systems and may be used in advanced level courses in database security, information security, advanced database systems, and transaction processing.
Authors
- Pete Smith
- Lilian Hobbs
- Susan Hillson
- Shilpa Lawande
Dewey code: 005.7585
List Price: $73.95
Price: $60.30
Review Oracle 10g Data Warehousing / Digital Press:Oracle 10g Data Warehousing is a guide to using the Data Warehouse features in the latest version of Oracle Oracle Database 10g. Written by people on the Oracle development team that designed and implemented the code and by people with industry experience implementing warehouses using Oracle technology, this thoroughly updated and extended edition provides an insiders view of how the Oracle Database 10g software is best used for your application. It provides a detailed look at the new features of Oracle Database 10g and other Oracle products and how these are used in the data warehouse. This book will show you how to deploy the Oracle database and correctly use the new Oracle Database 10g features for your data warehouse. It contains walkthroughs and examples on how to use tools such as Oracle Discoverer and Reports to query the warehouse and generate reports that can be deployed over the web and gain better insight into your business. This how-to guide provides step by step instructions including screen captures to make it easier to design, build and optimize performance of the data warehouse or data mart. It is a must have reference for database developers, administrators and IT professionals who want to get to work now with all of the newest features of Oracle Database 10g. It provides a detailed look at the new features of Oracle Database 10g and other Oracle products and how these are used in the data warehouse, including:* How to use the Summary Management features, including Materialized Views and query rewrite, to best effect to radically improve query performance* How to deploy business intelligence to the Web to satisfy today's changing and demanding business requirements* Using Oracle OLAP and Data Mining options* How to understand the warehouse hardware environment and how it is used by new features in the database including how to implement a high availability warehouseenvironment* Using the new management infrastructure in Oracle Database 10g and how this helps you to manage your warehouse environment Oracle 10g Data Warehousing is a comprehensive guide to building a Data Warehouse using the very latest release of the Oracle database. Written by a member of the Oracle development team, who was actually involved in the design and implementation of some of these features, and by an experienced consultant with practical 'real world' experience of building data warehouses, this book provides both a technical and practical perspective on the subject. We provide step-by-step techniques with a lot of examples, using many of the new features in this major and significant Oracle release. [+]In addition to the updates to the previous book, this book includes new material on the cutting-edge features in Oracle such as Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, Data Guard, Change Data Capture, Data Pump and new performance tuning features such as SQL Tuning Advisor and SQL.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1988-12-12
List Price: $57.95
Price: $57.95
Review Efficient Structures for Geometric Data Management (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:The efficient management of geometric data, such as points, curves, or polyhedra in arbitrary dimensions, is of great importance in many complex database applications like CAD/CAM, robotics, or computer vision. To provide optimal support for geometric operations, it is crucial to choose efficient data representation schemes. The first part of this book contains a taxonomy and critical survey of common operations and representation schemes for geometric data. Then several new schemes for the efficient support of set operations (union, intersection) and search operations (point location, range search) are presented.
Authors
- Jennifer Welch
- Hagit Attiya
Publication date: 2004-03-25
Dewey code: 004.36
List Price: $111.50
Price: $57.95
Review Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations, and Advanced Topics (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing) / Wiley-Interscience:* Comprehensive introduction to the fundamental results in the mathematical foundations of distributed computing * Accompanied by supporting material, such as lecture notes and solutions for selected exercises * Each chapter ends with bibliographical notes and a set of exercises * Covers the fundamental models, issues and techniques, and features some of the more advanced topics
Authors
- Rudolf J. Heijink
- Jan Kroon
- Netherlands) IFIP TC6 International Workshop on Protocol Test Systems (4th : 1991 : Leidschendam
Publication date: 1992-04
Dewey code: 004.620287
Price: $117.50
Review Protocol Test Systems, IV: Proceedings of the Ifip Tc6 Fourth International Workshop on Protocol Test Systems Organized by Ptt Research : Leidschend (Ifip Transactions. C, Communication Systems, C-3) / North-Holland:
Creator: Armin Mikler
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-08-05
Dewey code: 004.678
List Price: $57.95
Price: $57.92
Review Innovative Internet Computing System / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second international workshop on Innovative Internet Computing Systems, IICS 2002, held in Kühlungsborn, Germany, in June 2002. The 19 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from over 30 submissions. Among the topics addressed are large-scale distributed computing infrastructures presenting new challenges to information and Web technology, the management and retrieval of web-based information, content classification, web-based communities management, structure and retrieval of information from large distributed data bases, and the representation of the distributed nature of information by means of graph-theoretical models.
Authors
- Maarten Van Steen
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Publication date: 2006-10-12
Dewey code: 005.4476
List Price: $115.00
Price: $64.60
Review Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition) / Prentice Hall:Virtually every computing system today is part of a distributed system. Programmers, developers, and engineers need to understand the underlying principles and paradigms as well as the real-world application of those principles. Now, internationally renowned expert Andrew S. Tanenbaum – with colleague Martin van Steen – presents a complete introduction that identifies the seven key principles of distributed systems, with extensive examples of each. Adds a completely new chapter on architecture to address the principle of organizing distributed systems. Provides extensive new material on peer-to-peer systems, grid computing and Web services, virtualization, and application-level multicasting. Updates material on clock synchronization, data-centric consistency, object-based distributed systems, and file systems and Web systems coordination. For all developers, software engineers, and architects who need an in-depth understanding of distributed systems.
Creator: Lexie Henderson-Lancett
Publication date: 1993-12-01
Dewey code: 005.75
Price: $39.95
Review Interactive Multimedia: Practice and Promise / Kogan Page:
Creator: Pierre America
Publication date: 1991-09
Dewey code: 004.35
List Price: $71.95
Price: $71.95
Review Parallel Database Systems: Prisma Workshop Noordwijk, the Netherlands, September 24-26, 1990 : Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This volume presents the proceedings of a workshop on parallel database systems organized by the PRISMA (Parallel Inference and Storage Machine) project. The invited contributions by internationally recognized experts give a thorough survey of several aspects of parallel database systems. The second part of the volume gives an in-depth overview of the PRISMA system. This system is based on a parallel machine, where the individual processors each have their own local memory and communicate with each other over a packet-switched network. On this machine a parallel object-oriented programming language, POOL-X, has been implemented, which provides dedicated support for database systems as well as general facilities for parallel programming. The POOL-X system then serves as a platform for a complete relational main-memory database management system, which uses the parallelism of the machine to speed up significantly the execution of database queries. The presentation of the PRISMA system, together with the invited papers, gives a broad overview of the state of the art in parallel database systems.
Authors
- David McKendrick
- Richard Doner
- Stephan Haggard
Publication date: 2000-12-01
Dewey code: 338.476213976
List Price: $57.95
Price: $57.92
Review From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry (Stanford Business Books) / Stanford Business Books:Momentous developments in the global economy over the last two decades have dramatically increased the availability of industrial investment sites and lowered the cost of relocating core activities to new countries. But how should these developments be exploited for competitive advantage? Firms face competing pressures: scale economies and the advantages of proximity push them to concentrate activities in one or only a few locations, while low wages and new markets invite dispersal across several countries. This book examines how location decisions have contributed to the global dominance of U. S. firms in the hard disk drive industry. In analyzing the industry since its beginnings some forty years ago, the book explains how American leadership in disk drives has rested on the formation of two complementary industrial clusters. Fundamental research and product development has been located almost entirely in the United States, principally California. Manufacturing has been concentrated in Southeast Asia (initially in Singapore and later in Thailand and Malaysia as well). This duality has proven key to the successful competitive position of the U. S. [+]disk drive industry. Beyond the particulars of the disk drive industry, the authors present new perspectives on the sources of industrial leadership, the strategic behavior of multinational corporations, the geographic evolution of industry, and the creation and endurance of industrial clusters. Managers will gain insight into how location decisions can contribute to organizational effectiveness, and will learn that globalizing production, while keeping innovative activities at home, can contribute to their firms’ competitive advantage. Policy makers will find that first mover advantages may be as important for countries as for companies, since early and systematic efforts to attract a specific industry can generate a critical mass of investments that, over time, will make a location resistant to inducements offered by other countries.
Publication date: 2007-06-30
List Price: $78.95
Price: $57.63
Review Programacion con SQL Server 2005/ Programming with SQL server 2005 / Anaya Multimedia:
Publication date: 1995-03
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $79.00
Price: $57.67
Review SQL/Ds Version 3 Release 4 Performance Guide / Ibm:
Authors
- Lixiang Shen
- Francis Tay Eng Hock
- Francis E. H. Tay
- Lijuan Cao
Dewey code: 332.632042
List Price: $72.00
Price: $57.67
Review Ordinary Shares. Exotic Methods: Financial Forecasting Using Data Mining Techniques / World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd:Exotic methods refer to specific functions within general soft computing methods such as genetic algorithms, neural networks and rough sets theory. They are applied to ordinary shares for a variety of financial purposes, such as portfolio selection and optimization, classification of market states, forecasting of market states and data mining. This is in contrast to the wide spectrum of work done on exotic financial instruments, wherein advanced mathematics is used to construct financial instruments for hedging risks and for investment. In this book, particular aspects of the general method are used to create interesting applications. For instance, genetic niching produces a family of portfolios for the trader to choose from. Support vector machines, a special form of neural networks, forecast the financial markets; such a forecast is on market states, of which there are three — uptrending, mean reverting and downtrending. A self-organizing map displays in a vivid manner the states of the market. Rough sets with a new discretization method extract information from stock prices.
Publication date: 2002-09-02
Review Instructors Manual / Prentice-Hall:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-07-22
Dewey code: 300.15195
List Price: $83.95
Price: $57.88
Review Quantitative Data Analysis with Minitab: A Guide for Social Scientists / Routledge:Quantitative Data Analysis with Minitab explains statistical tests for Minitab users using the same formula-free, non-technical approach as the very successful SPSS version. Students are introduced to the basic commands of the package and shown how quantitative data analysis techniques can be implemented through the latest version of Minitab. Techniques covered include univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis, with discussion of issues such as sampling, conceptualization and measurement. Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises. Social science students will welcome this integrated, non-mathematical introduction to quantitative data analysis and the Minitab package.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-09-15
Dewey code: 005.276
List Price: $120.00
Price: $57.90
Review Producing for the Web / Routledge:Producing for the Web is a clear and practical guide to the planning, setting up and management of a web site. It gives readers a comprehensive overview of the current technologies available for on-line communications and shows how to use them for maximum effect when planning a web site planning, setting up and management of a web site. Producing for the Web sets out the practical toolkit that a web producer will require to create their site, from web and image editors to information processing and programme applications.
Publication date: 1998-11-30
Dewey code: 005.14
List Price: $440.00
Price: $78.91
Review PDCA/Test / Auerbach Publications:Most manuals assume software testing is being performed as part of a well-defined, structured development cycle based on clearly stated requirements and standards. Unfortunately, this is not often the case in the real world. Indeed, the one true constant in software development is change. PDCA/TEST presents a continuous quality framework based on Dr. Edward Deming's famous rapid application "spiral" development model for quality through a continuous improvement process to promote effective testing methods in both structured and unstructured environments. William E. Lewis shows you Deming's spiral approach as an alternative to the traditional waterfall method. In the waterfall method, one set of predefined sequential steps is followed with clearly enumerated requirements. But the spiral approach is one where these rigid sequential steps may, to varying degrees, be either lacking or different as circumstances demand. Starting from this fundamental building block, Lewis shows you how to: · Apply the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) quality wheel to the software testing process· Integrate a continuous quality framework into all phases of software development, including requirements analysis, logical design, physical design, program unit design, and coding· And choose the right testing tool (such as Bender & Associates Softtest) for the right test. [+]The book also details the spiral methodology for software testing broken down into parts, steps and tasks documented with extensive checklists, templates, and technical discussions. You will also learn to:· Master black box, white box and gray box testing· Incorporate continuous improvement into inspections and walkthroughs· Verify the logical design, physical design, program unit design, and coding phases· And more. In sum, PDCA/TEST: A Framework for Software Testing gives you all the tools and knowledge you need to assure quality software testing throughout all stages of development, no matter how unstructured that process may wind up being.
Publication date: 2004-08-19
Dewey code: 004.35
List Price: $58.00
Price: $57.97
Review Protocols by Invariants (Cambridge International Series on Parallel Computation) / Cambridge University Press:Algorithms are a set of rules that specify a sequence of actions to be taken to solve a problem. Distributed algorithms, which are designed to solve many problems at once, are conceptually far more complex than algorithms in a single processing unit environment. When the number of simultaneous events becomes large, human minds cannot keep track of all of them. Naturally, it is necessary to know whether a distributed algorithm will have the desired effect. In this book, Dr. Schoone discusses assertational verification by system-wide invariants for use in verifying the behavior of distributed algorithms. The approach is entirely pragmatic; the author considers many different examples, over a wide range of algorithms and protocols. This volume will be an essential purchase for all those with an interest in distributed algorithms. Distributed algorithms are conceptually far more complex than algorithms in the single processing unit environment. When the number of possibilities of what can happen at any one time becomes large, human minds cannot keep track of all of them. [+]Naturally, however, it is necessary to know whether the distributed algorithm in question will have the desired effect. In this book Dr. Schoone discusses assertaional verification by system-wide invariants for verifying the behaviour of distributed algorithms. The approach is entirely pragmatic and many different examples, from a wide range of algorithms and protocols, are considered in detail. This self contained volume will be an essential purchse for all those with an interest in distributed algorithms.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1989-06-01
Review Dbase IV Programming. H/C / TAB Books Inc:
Creator: Jose M. Turull-Torres
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-03-19
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $69.95
Price: $69.92
Review Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: Third International Symposium, FoIKS 2004, Wilhelminenburg Castle, Austria, February 17-20, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2004 held at Wilheminenburg Castle, Austria in February 2004. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. Among the topics covered are data integration, data security, logic programming and databases, relational reasoning, database queries, higher-order data models, updates, database views, OLAP, belief modeling, fixpoint computations, interaction schemes, plan databases, etc.
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