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Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps: Second International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2006, Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, ... papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 354071944X |
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2006, held in Leipzig, Germany in October 2006.
The 15 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from a total of 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections headed creation and visualization of topic maps, applied topic maps in industry, administration and sciences, standards related research, leveraging the semantics, technical issues of topic mapping, and social software with topic maps.
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Enterprise System Architectures: Building Client Server and Web Based Systems
Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0849398363 |
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Experts from Andersen Consulting show you how to combine computing, communications, and knowledge to deliver a uniquely new-and entirely indispensable-competitive advantage.Lead, Follow, or get out of the wayYour company's ability to sustain a competitive advantage is in jeopardy. Your competitors can imitate and improve faster than ever. You need to find ways to help your company discover and deliver and astounding solution, control its costs, and move on the next astounding solution.Web-based computing is the vital technology enabler for today's most important business opportunities, like E-Commerce. It is also the flexible foundation for future solutions. However, because of the complexities and difficulties it represents, it can be critical hurdle for IT shops and for an entire business. Enterprise Systems Architecture: Building Client/Server and Web-Based Systems is your guide through these complexities as you integrate your technology capabilities with your strategy, people, and processes to deliver astounding solutions. It ·Introduces you to basic principles and concepts, provides an overview of state-of-the-art in client/server and Web-based computing models, and develops a solid business case for implementation.·Acquaints you with various technologies involved and describes a comprehensive network computing architecture.·Details crucial analysis, design, and implementation issues, including design specifics for architectures, applications, and network; rollout strategies; and ongoing management of distributed operations. ·Explores emerging technologies and their likely impact on the future of netcentric computing.Here you'll find detailed information on the architectures and frameworks for network-based computing strategies for designing and implementing solutions strategies and methods for security. It also provides a full framework for testing applications, and in-depth discussion of transition frameworks for these environments, detailed costs and frameworks for managing the client/server environment, and much more.Customer Reviews:
Lists of all things great and small.......2002-09-18
So, as an overview this book is good, but do no expect anything more than just that, an overview.
Complete roadmap towards best practices and processes.......2001-08-28
Comprehensive, complete and invaluable.......2001-02-05
The book is divided into four sections. The first two sections lay the groundwork by providing an overview of network-centric computing solutions, then providing the foundation in the form of architectural frameworks. Section two, in particular, is valuable because the frameworks address both application delivery (development)and service delivery factors that need to be taken into account. I like this holistic approach because production support requirements are addressed early on - something that is lacking from many such books.
Section three covers the design and implementation of an architecture in great detail, with a lot of emphasis on testing, release strategy and infrastructure requirements. Section four is devoted to special topics, such as security, knowledge management and collaborative computing, and data mining. Some highlights of this section include information delivery and "componentware". What I liked most about this section was the in-depth treatment of managing costs of a production client/server environment.
This book has reinforced some of my previous ideas and experience, and has opened my eyes to factors that I had not carefully considered on past projects that involved application or service delivery. I like the coherent and comprehensive approach taken in this book for all aspects of enterprise architectures, and applaud the authors for addressing the hard part: production support of solutions. This book will travel with me to every engagement and will be the first general purpose reference to which I will turn for ideas and methods. If you are a consultant or practitioner in architecture, applications delivery or service delivery this book will be a valuable addition to your library and bag of tricks.
Enterprise Architectures.......2000-06-27
Enterprise Architectures.......2000-06-27
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Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 354043738X |
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2002, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2002.The 42 revised full papers and 26 short papers presented together with four invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 173 submissions. The book offers topical sections on Web application development, knowledge management, deployment issues, semantics of information, system qualities, integration issues, analysis and adaption, retrieval and performance, requirement issues, schema matching and evolution, workflows, semantics and logical representations, understanding and using methods, and modeling objects and relationships.
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Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprises: First International Workshop, BIRTE 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3540739491 |
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2006, held in Seoul, Korea in September 2006 in conjunction with VLDB 2006, the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.
The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Focussing on different aspects in the lifecycle of business intelligence on very large enterprise-wide operational real-time data sets, the papers discuss the five major aspects of business intelligence for the real-time enterprise: models and concepts for real-time enterprise business intelligence, architectures for real-time enterprise business intelligence, uses cases of real-time enterprise business intelligence, applications of and technologies for the real-time enterprise business intelligence.
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Conceptual Modeling - ER 2007: 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Auckland, New Zealand, November 5-9, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3540755624 |
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2007.
The 37 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data warehousing and data mining, design methodologies and tools, information and database integration, information modelling concepts and ontologies, integrity constraints, logical foundations of conceptual modelling, patterns and conceptual meta-modelling, requirements elicitation, reuse and reengineering, semi-structured data and XML, as well as Web information systems and XML.
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Managing the Web-Based Enterprise
Jesse Feiler Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0122513398 |
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Managing the Web-Based Enterprise is for managers who are embarking on launching a Web strategy, or getting a solid handle on one that already is in place. Although its focus is on the big-picture issues, the book includes numerous specific suggestions and warnings to steer business professionals who have yet to find their Web legs.Managing the Web-Based Enterprise begins with very general discussions, such as "What Is a Web-Based Enterprise" and "How People Use Computers and the Web." These sections help the reader take a look at the whole medium from an analytical point of view.
Most of the content is presented in series of suggestions, terminology coverage, and tips, with two or three paragraphs of explanation. This format lends itself to readers who are used to analyzing information systematically--or have little time to read computer books. Brief "Why This Matters" sections in most of the chapters break the issues down to executive summaries.
Readers who are somewhat familiar with Web technology might find this title a bit underwhelming in terms of technical content. However, those who are new to the world of Web-centric business will find that this book frames the issues of the complete Web life cycle quite well. --Stephen W. Plain
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Readers can choose from among many books that guide them through the technology on which e-commerce relies, but virtually none address the subject from a sound business perspective. Managing the Web-Based Enterprise fills this sizable void, offering managers key insights into the nature and future of commerce on the Web. By demonstrating how technology can contribute to success or failure, this book trains readers to make good decisions about technological investment. More importantly, it re-emphasizes the business principles-both traditional and not so traditional-that must be brought to bear on any Web-based project, whatever the technology involved.Customer Reviews:
Your lifesaver in the dangerous e-seas.......2001-06-22
Not for Managers, Not for Enterprises.......2000-11-28
The author used very few specific, real-world Web project examples, and when these were invoked, they almost always referred back to the author's company's own Web site. It would be impressive or at least appropriate had the example Web site been an "enterprise" system of applications, functionality, backend integration, usability and design; however, it was a simple site with HTML pages, which, though the book purports they are dynamically rendered from a database, may as well have been static for the flatness of the content --not customized, not personalized, not data-driven. More sincere would have been to describe the site content as contextual, but certainly not dynamic.
The word "enterprise," although overused these days, has at least kept its generic meaning of some sort of intense undertaking, or a comprehensive, integrated endeavor. So placing the word in the title of the book implies that the content will reflect that same or similar thread. I am appalled that instead, I was treated to oversimplified arguments using non-industry-standard language; the endorsement of entry-level development tools like Front Page and PageMill; less attention paid to content than to hit counters (which have no place on an Enterprise Web system); and pedantic discourses on, of all things, hyperlinks. If a reader needs to be taught that hyperlinks will generally have a different color and be underlined, and that clicking on one will load the page into your browser, replacing the page you're currently viewing, then the reader is not an enterprise-level manager, but is rather your neighbor selling beanie babies on AOL.
Furthermore, the writer is a frames apologist, which raised instant and vivid red flags on my amateur detector. The author acknowledges that there are reasons not to use them, but he pushes for them anyway; he does not say that the reasons are, namely, proven unreliability in search engines, difficulty in printing, and poor usability in terms of bookmarking, nor that frames have been considered "cheats" to creating good, simple, clean, professional code. He mistakenly asserts that download speeds are faster with frames than using single pages, though an expert knows that navigation buttons and other images are cached and reload quickly. He does not pass along for the reader's benefit the idea that though they remain supported by browsers, frames have been widely dismissed in the professional Web development world.
This review may beg the question of why I bought a book like this if I considered myself such an "expert." I maintain an office library for my clients, who often require solid documentation to support decisions that I as a manager, my designers, or my developers may make. It goes without question that when I can point to not my own but a published "expert's" educated recommendations, along with a high-profile, professional Web site to corroborate, the confidence factor for the whole project increases. (In that light, may I recommend Collaborative Web Development by Jessica Burdman, and Creating Killer Interactive Web Sites -- not the similarly titled David Siegel one, but the one by Andrew Sather, Ardith Ibanez, and Stefan Grunspan, who excelled at producing real enterprise sites before they were called that.) These types of books are absolutely valuable to beginners and experts alike.
I don't question that this book could be helpful to a newbie: there are practical guidelines to steer the poor marketing guy thrown into creating a Web page through the morass of questions and confusion and political messes in corporate settings. I think that the inexperienced person who seems to be the target for this book would be a lamb led to slaughter if the project truly were an "enterprise" system. And for the person even barely experienced enough to run an enterprise Web project, this book is not only underwhelming, but it's also misleading, elementary, and poorly supported by professional examples, all of which make it inappropriate to its cover copy, target audience, and cost.
Give A Copy to Every Manager..........2000-08-30
The Next Best Thing To An On-Staff Consultant.......2000-08-24
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Web-Based Information Management: For the Enterprise
Sean Harnedy Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0130960187 |
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Very Interesting.......1999-08-31
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High-Performance Information Aggregation Using XML-Based Operational Data Servers White Paper: Empowering Flexible Data Aggregation in the Financial Services Markets
ZapThink , and Ronald D. Schmelzer Manufacturer: ZapThink, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00078U5VO |
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Financial Service Providers are essentially information-based businesses: their primary asset is the information they store and share. These companies are struggling today with finding the most flexible and cost-effective means to integrate and aggregate information from a wide range of unstructured and semi-structured enterprise data sources. Today's integration solutions are either targeted only at structured sources of information such as databases, or are too rigid and expensive to handle enterprise information integration and aggregation needs. Furthermore, the unique requirements of Financial Services firms for real-time, scalable access to disparate information has not been successfully met by today's vendors.This paper presents a solution in the form of a mid-tier information aggregation server that provides an XML-based operational data store as a way of providing aggregated access to multiple data sources. Raining Data's TigerLogic XDMS is used as a strong example of an XML operational data server that provides a way to store and aggregate semi-structured and structured data from a wide variety of sources, XML-enables access to aggregated information and does not require the user to know the structure of data in advance or make any modifications, mapping, or transformations to those data.
Targeted at line-of-business users, corporate architects, as well as IT managers at Financial Services firms, this paper helps readers find a better way to integrate and aggregate disparate systems in the enterprise while lowering costs and off-loading performance from back-end operational servers. Readers will gain a critical understanding of how XML operational data stores can be used in the mid-tier to aggregate data from the heterogeneous sources in the Financial Services enterprise.
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Managerial issues for expanding into international Web-based electronic commerce. : An article from: SAM Advanced Management Journal
Lannette A. Sheldon , and Troy J. Strader Manufacturer: Society for the Advancement of Management ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009FRM3E Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from SAM Advanced Management Journal, published by Society for the Advancement of Management on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 4777 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Proceedings Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (Wecwis 2002): Newport Beach, California, 26-28 June 2002
Edward A. McCourt , and IEEE Computer Society Manufacturer: IEEE Computer Society Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0769515673 |
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