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The Computing collection presents a range of foundational and applied content across computer and data science, including fields such as Artificial Intelligence; Computational Modelling; Computer Networks, Computer Organization & Architecture, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Data Management; Embedded Systems & Computer Engineering; HCI/User Interface Design; Information Security; Machine Learning; Network Security; Software Engineering.

  • Management of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • October 13, 1998
    • Ahmed K. Elmagarmid + 2 more
    • English
    "As organizations have become more sophisticated, pressure to provide information sharing across dissimilar platforms has mounted. In addition, advances in distributed computing and networking combined with the affordable high level of connectivity, are making information sharing across databases closer to being accomplished...With the advent of the internet, intranets, and affordable network connectivity, business reengineering has become a necessity for modern corporations to stay competitive in the global market...An end-user in a heterogeneous computing environment should be able to not only invoke multiple exiting software systems and hardware devices, but also coordinate their interactions."--From the IntroductionSeventee... leaders in the field contributed chapters specifically for this unique book, together providing the most comprehensive resource on managing multidatabase systems involving heterogeneous and autonomous databases available today. The book covers virtually all fundamental issues, concepts, and major research topics.

  • Database Modeling and Design

    • 3rd Edition
    • October 9, 1998
    • Toby J. Teorey
    • English
    This new edition of Database Modeling & Design continues to focus on the techniques for relational database design introduced in previous editions, starting with the entity-relationship (ER) approach for data requirements specification and conceptual modeling. Author Toby Teorey then looks ahead to the common properties in data modeling and operations shared among the relational model and advanced database technologies such as the object-oriented, temporal, and multimedia models. A full chapter is devoted to database design techniques for data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP).Teorey covers the database life cycle from requirements analysis and logical design to physical design for local, distributed, and multidatabases. The discussion of basic principles is supplemented with a common, running example: a company personnel and project database based on real-life experiences and classroom testing.Written for both the novice and the professional database designer, this book is the essential resource for database modeling, including the building of standard SQL data definitions. The design rules set forth in this book are applicable to any SQL-based system, including IBM DB2, Oracle V8.0, Informix IDS-UDO, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise.

  • Applications of Artificial Intelligence

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 47
    • October 8, 1998
    • English
    Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in hardware and software and in computer theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributors with a medium in which they can examine their subjects in greater depth and breadth than that allowed by standard journal articles. As a result, many articles have become standard references that continue to be of significant, lasting value despite the rapid growth taking place in the field.Volume 47 contains seven chapters. The first four cover artificial intelligence, which is the use of technology to perform tasks generally assumed to require human thinking. These chapters present natural language processing, visualization, and self-replication as machine implementations of human activities. The remaining three chapters cover other recent advances that are important to the information processing field.

  • Wireless Communications Design Handbook

    Space Interference: Aspects of Noise, Interference and Environmental Concerns
    • 1st Edition
    • October 2, 1998
    • Reinaldo Perez
    • English
    Volume One of the Wireless Communications Design Handbook provides an in-depth look at interference problems in satellite communications. The material presented is from a satellite or spacecraft hardware point of view rather than from theoretical models. Each satellite subsystem is described in detail to point out interference and noise problems associated with it. The book also addresses typical architectures and hardware design issues in satellites. In addition, a detailed look at space interference is discussed with emphasis on the possible impact on satellite electronics.

  • Reference MWAPI

    • 1st Edition
    • September 29, 1998
    • James Hay
    • English
    Reference MWAPI shows readers how to develop robust Windows applications using the innovative M Windowing Applications Interface (MWAPI). This book uses numerous tables, illustrations, sample programs, images and discussions to demonstrate how high quality graphical user interface applications are created using a technology that insulates the user from the intricacies and complexities of any particular Windows environment. It shows how applications created through the host-independent development environment can be ported to any Windows platform with no change in source code while maintaining the look and feel of event-processing methodology. It examines portability and compact code, some of the traits the MWAPI shares with the Java programming language.Reference MWAPI includes valuable appendices designed for quick reference, and it is organized with the needs of a developer in mind. The material is structured to serve as a learning tool and resource for applications development. The integration of the MWAPI is divided into seven chapters that focus on particular components of the system. Exercises test the knowledge of the reader on selected highlights of each chapter.

  • Windows NT Security Guide

    • 1st Edition
    • September 28, 1998
    • Stewart S. Miller
    • English
    Windows NT is fast becoming the platform of choice for the majority of business applications in the IT industry today. While this platform has offered several significant enhancements in terms of providing a flexible GUI, the main benefit is functionality and control over the computing environment. One of the biggest gaps in computer security has originated with the operating system. For example, hackers have been able to penetrate the Unix operating system and compromise the integrity of the data because it was not designed with security in mind. Windows NT 5.0, however, has been built on a more secure foundation from conception to delivery in an effort to provide security. This text identifies specific ways to implement Windows NT effectively and securely throughout an organization, including mobile locations, and shows how to prepare and protect against information attacks.Protecting your corporate data is crucial to the success of your organization. Windows NT can offer you a secure operating environment, but only if you guard points of entry where a hacker could compromise your data integrity. Knowing how to provide security can literally ensure your business's future.

  • The Engineering of Large Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 46
    • September 17, 1998
    • English
    Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in hardware and software and in computer theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributors with a medium in which they can examine their subjects in greater depth and breadth than that allowed by standard journal articles. As a result, many articles have become standard references that continue to be of significant, lasting value despite the rapid growth taking place in the field.This volume is organized around engineering large scale software systems. It discusses which technologies are useful for building these systems, which are useful to incorporate in these systems, and which are useful to evaluate these systems.

  • UNIX for OpenVMS Users

    • 2nd Edition
    • September 15, 1998
    • Richard Holstein + 2 more
    • English
    UNIX for OpenVMS Users, Second Edition, is for users who are making the transition from OpenVMS to UNIX and provides a comprehensive comparison of commands and utilities. Starting from a working knowledge of OpenVMS, it takes an average user to a comparable knowledge of UNIX. It bridges the gap between OpenVMS and UNIX by explaining things in OpenVMS terms.The book begins with a tutorial discussing the concepts needed when working with UNIX and the common shell programs. Working into practical examples, the book shows simple daily tasks that map one-for-one from OpenVMS to UNIX. These include system access, file manipulation, text editing and mail. The examples provide commands that are as equivalent as possible, and point out subtle differences.Recent releases of OpenVMS and UNIX have added interfaces that are exactly the same between the operating systems, particularly POSIX and CDE. UNIX for OpenVMS Users, describes these interfaces briefly, mainly to reassure users how easy it can be to switch between the operating systems.

  • Computing with Mathematica

    • 1st Edition
    • September 8, 1998
    • Hartmut F.W. Hoft + 1 more
    • English
    Computing With Mathematica is a student-friendly courseware which equips students with the necessary tools to use Mathematica to solve problems in their engineering, physics, statistics, mathematics, or computer science courses. As a tutorial, students will benefit from learning on their own how to use Mathematica for problem-solving in technical fields. This learning program is ideal for introducing students to computing with Mathematica and for investigating topics.

  • Windows 98 Clear & Simple

    • 1st Edition
    • September 3, 1998
    • P K MCBRIDE
    • English
    Using a tutorial approach with easy-to-do tasks, Windows 98 Clear & Simple gets you started on Windows 98. As reviewers have found, this book has a concise and well laid out format that is clear, jargon free, and well-targeted. Ideal for a first-time user, this book contains concise material with excellent illustrations that make it simple to perform a task. Whether you're a manager or office employee who needs to get the job done quickly and efficiently, or someone working from scratch who needs a self-teaching approach that gives results fast, Windows 98 Clear & Simple will allow you to quickly master the essentials.Using a tutorial approach with easy-to-do tasks, Windows 98 Clear & Simple gets you started on Windows 98. As reviewers have found, this book has a concise and well laid out format that is clear, jargon free, and well-targeted. Ideal for a first-time user, this book contains concise material with excellent illustrations that make it simple to perform a task. Whether you're a manager or office employee who needs to get the job done quickly and efficiently, or someone working from scratch who needs a self-teaching approach that gives results fast, Windows 98 Clear & Simple will allow you to quickly master the essentials.For people learning to use Windows, this user-friendly guide will get you up and running quickly, and provide a good foundation to build on as you gain new skills. The author assumes that you're NOT a dummy, and gives you the information you need to get fast results from your Windows 98 operating system.

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