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Showcasing hardware architecture, operating systems, and network infrastructure, this portfolio provides in-depth coverage of the fundamental building blocks of computing. Featuring cutting-edge research and practical insights, these titles support innovators, engineers, and students in designing efficient, scalable, and secure systems. Addressing emerging trends such as cloud computing, parallel processing, and hardware security, the collection fosters advancements that underpin modern digital infrastructure.

  • Groupware, Workflow and Intranets

    Re-engineering the Enterprise with Collaborative Software
    • 1st Edition
    • Dave Chaffey
    • English
    This comprehensive guide for system developers, IT managers and consultants focuses on how intranets, groupware and work flow technologies can be used to improve the efficiency of their organizations. The focus is on how to use these tools to support organization transformation through business process reengineering, continuous improvement or TQM programs. It gives practical guidelines for evaluating where these tools can be best used, selecting the right tool and managing the stages of process analysis, design and implementation. These stages are illustrated by a case study of typical company applications.This book goes beyond a description of the available groupware and workflow systems to explain how the development and deployment of these systems can be managed to make sure the potential is delivered.Background... Groupware started as simple messaging applications such as email and conferencing and has evolved into more complex task and document management. Groupware and workflow tools are becomng widely available for use on intranets.

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5

    Planning, Design and Implementation
    • 1st Edition
    • Tony Redmond
    • English
    Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5: Planning, Design and Implementation describes the best practices used during the planning, design, and implementation phases of projects to deploy Microsoft Exchange Server. It incorporates the author's general expertise gained from 16 years working with corporate messaging systems as well as experience gained from enterprise-level projects around the world, including Digital's own deployment of 55,000 Exchange clients across 160 servers. The new functionality of Exchange V5.5 is covered, but the real values lies in the pragmatic and practical attitude taken to solving the problems posed by large-scale implementations of any messaging system.This book shows system designers, implementation teams, and e-mail administrators what Exchange V5.5 is capable of and where it needs human assistance to succeed.

  • Switching in IP Networks

    IP Switching, Tag Switching, and Related Technologies
    • 1st Edition
    • Bruce S. Davie + 2 more
    • English
    Label switching, an economical and efficient technique for message forwarding in IP networks, is fast becoming a widely deployed solution for improving performance, scalability, and functionality. Written by leading experts in the field, this guide explores the underlying technology of label switching and provides a detailed analysis and comparison of approaches developed by Ipsilon, Cisco, Toshiba, and IBM. It also compares label switching with conventional routing, culminating in a discussion of the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) standard now being developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETP).This book—the result of a rigorous review process by key designers—is an invaluable resource to network engineers and designers for evaluating the use of label switching in their own networks.

  • Wide Area Network Design

    Concepts and Tools for Optimization
    • 1st Edition
    • Robert Cahn
    • English
    As the cost of building and upgrading complex, large-scale networks skyrockets, carefully crafted network designs become critical- a savings of as little as 5% in your network can amount to tens of thousands of dollars per month. Wide Area Network Design: Concepts and Tools for Optimization provides the information you need to tackle the challenges of designing a network that meets your performance goals within the cost constraints of your organization. If you are considering public service alternatives such as frame relay, designing your own network with the tools provided in this book will empower you to estimate cost savings and evaluate bids from competing carriers. Intended for network designers, planners, and architects, this book enables you to estimate traffic flows and requirements in your network and explains how to use various algorithms to design a network which must meets these requirements.

  • The Student's Guide to VHDL

    • 1st Edition
    • Peter J. Ashenden
    • English
    VHDL is a language for describing digital electronic systems. A vital, efficient step in the system design process, VHDL allows for the design and simulation of a hardware system prior to it actually being manufactured. This new book provides a tutorialintroduction to the fundamental modeling features of VHDL and shows how the features are used for the design of digital systems. Offering the same clear, accessible style as The Designer's Guide to VHDL, The Student's Guide is designed as a main text for introductory VHDL courses, and as a supplementary text for courses that require VHDL-based project work, such as computer architecture, digital design, and digital logic courses. This new condensed text also serves as a quick, self-teaching guide for practicing engineers who need to learn only the basics of VHDL.

  • Setting up a Web Server

    • 1st Edition
    • SIMON COLLIN
    • English
    Setting Up a Web Server was written to help new and prospective web masters choose, configure, use, and understand how web servers work. It details each step required to choose, install, and configure the hardware and software elements, then promote and publish on the web site. It covers Internet and intranet security, communications, and links to other servers in an organization. The book also explains about the main web server software applications, how they differ and which works best in different environments.Setting Up a Web Server ensures that your server is well-connected. It covers communications and hardware, explaining:How to choose the best communications links between the server and the internetHow to link your server to your LANHow TCP/IP works to bind the Internet togetherHow to configure your server for a particular hardware setupThe publishing techniques covered will help you to create a great web site. You'll also find coverage of advanced HTML page design, database publishing, and programming with Perl, Java, Javascript, and Visual Basic.Setting Up a Web Server is the complete reference book for anyone who is setting up a web server-it covers all major platforms, software, links and web techniques!

  • X.400 and SMTP

    Battle of the E-mail Protocols
    • 1st Edition
    • John Rhoton
    • English
    X.400 and X.500: An Introduction is aimed at those with current or planned involvement in the management of X.400, including messaging managers, system or network planners, and software developers. This book provides background knowledge of mailing systems and functionality as well as a grasp of how the underlying network operates. It explains the terminology and concepts of the standards. Because the standards are very abstract, John Rhoton has illustrated them with an overview of MAILbus 400 and Digital X.500, which are thorough and faithful implementations of the standards.

  • Brain Theory

    Biological Basis and Computational Principles
    • 1st Edition
    • A. Aertsen + 1 more
    • English
    The present collection of papers focuses on the subject of vision. The papers bring together new insights and facts from various branches of experimental and theoretical neuroscience. The experimental facts presented in the volume stem from disparate fields, such as neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, optical imaging and psychophysics. The theoretical models in part are unsophisticated, yet still inspiring, while others skilfully apply advanced mathematical reasoning to results of experimental measurements. The book is the fifth in a series of volumes intending to define a theory of the brain by bringing together formal reasoning and experimental facts. The reader is thus being introduced to a new kind of brain science, where facts and theory are beginning to blend together.

  • Web Server Technology

    • 1st Edition
    • Nancy J. Yeager + 1 more
    • English
    The success of the web depends not only on the creation of stimulating and valuable information, but also on the speed, efficiency and convenient delivery of this information to the Web consumer. This authoritative presentation of web server technology takes you beyond the basics to provide the underlying principles and technical details of how WWW servers really work. It explains current technology and suggests enhanced and expanded methods for disseminating information via the Web.

  • Distributed Algorithms

    • 1st Edition
    • Nancy A. Lynch
    • English
    In Distributed Algorithms, Nancy Lynch provides a blueprint for designing, implementing, and analyzing distributed algorithms. She directs her book at a wide audience, including students, programmers, system designers, and researchers.Distribu... Algorithms contains the most significant algorithms and impossibility results in the area, all in a simple automata-theoretic setting. The algorithms are proved correct, and their complexity is analyzed according to precisely defined complexity measures. The problems covered include resource allocation, communication, consensus among distributed processes, data consistency, deadlock detection, leader election, global snapshots, and many others.The material is organized according to the system model—first by the timing model and then by the interprocess communication mechanism. The material on system models is isolated in separate chapters for easy reference.The presentation is completely rigorous, yet is intuitive enough for immediate comprehension. This book familiarizes readers with important problems, algorithms, and impossibility results in the area: readers can then recognize the problems when they arise in practice, apply the algorithms to solve them, and use the impossibility results to determine whether problems are unsolvable. The book also provides readers with the basic mathematical tools for designing new algorithms and proving new impossibility results. In addition, it teaches readers how to reason carefully about distributed algorithms—to model them formally, devise precise specifications for their required behavior, prove their correctness, and evaluate their performance with realistic measures.

  • Multimedia and Imaging Databases

    • 1st Edition
    • Setrag Khoshafian + 1 more
    • English
    Affordable and mainstream manipulation of multimedia data types will lead to tremendous growth in imaging and multimedia data in general computing environments. Multimedia and imaging applications can now provide benefits to common business applications by integrating voice, sound, images, animation and digitized video. Ultimately, it will be possible to convert all information thatis currently stored on paper, video and film into a digitized environment. This will allow users to organize, search and route multimedia objects over local and wide area networks in real time. The authors' introductory level presentation of this new class of data types supplies the database technology required for effective manipulation and storage. Multimedia and database experts, Khoshafian and Baker aptly illustrate the ability of multimedia database systemsto concurrently share, access, and query large collections of multimedia information. They introduce the elemental concepts of object and relational databases and then apply them to multimedia and imagingdatabases. Fundamental database topics discussed include querying, transaction support, recovery, security, and storage. This book provides information essential to the incorporation of multimedia databases that will improve the quantity and quality ofinformation manipulated by computer users in many areas including medicine, computer aided design, and information retrieval systems.

  • High Performance Computing: Technology, Methods and Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • J.J. Dongarra + 3 more
    • English
    High Performance Computing is an integrated computing environment for solving large-scale computational demanding problems in science, engineering and business. Newly emerging areas of HPC applications include medical sciences, transportation, financial operations and advanced human-computer interface such as virtual reality. High performance computing includes computer hardware, software, algorithms, programming tools and environments, plus visualization.The book addresses several of these key components of high performance technology and contains descriptions of the state-of-the-art computer architectures, programming and software tools and innovative applications of parallel computers. In addition, the book includes papers on heterogeneous network-based computing systems and scalability of parallel systems.The reader will find information and data relative to the two main thrusts of high performance computing: the absolute computational performance and that of providing the most cost effective and affordable computing for science, industry and business. The book is recommended for technical as well as management oriented individuals.

  • Oracle's Cooperative Development Environment

    A Reference and User's Guidesfs
    • 1st Edition
    • Kevin Kline
    • English
    'Oracle's Cooperative Development Environment' provides a comprehensive examination of all the programming tools in Oracle's new Cooperative Development Environment (CDE).This unique book explores the capabilities of the CDE and details the creation of powerful, GUI-based, client-server and centralized information systems. Experts and novices alike will acquire the skills necessary to quickly and easily complete the most complex information management projects.

  • HRT-HOOD™: A Structured Design Method for Hard Real-Time Ada Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • A. Burns + 1 more
    • English
    The increasing use of computers for real-time control on board spacecrafts has brought with it a greater emphasis on the development methodology used for such systems. By their nature, spacecraft control computers have to operate unattended for long periods and because of the programmatics of space, systems are subject to a long development cycle. As a result, there are two distinct concerns, the first being that the development approach guarantees functional and timing correctness, the second being that problems, particularly those associated with timing, are considered as early as possible in the spacecraft development life cycle.The European Space Agency has, for a number of years, encouraged the development of software using HOOD. It was thus a natural next step to investigate the incorporation of time within the existing HOOD framework. This has proven to be very beneficial and this book describes the approach developed by the authors for handling Hard Real-Time applications. It describes both the background scheduling theory, provides practical examples of its application to real life problems, and demonstrates how it is used in the various phases of the development of Hard Real-Time systems.

  • Understanding and Designing Computer Networks

    • 1st Edition
    • Graham King
    • English
    Understanding and Designing Computer Networks considers the ubiquitous nature of data networks, with particular reference to internetworking and the efficient management of all aspects of networked integrated data systems. In addition it looks at the next phase of networking developments; efficiency and security are covered in the sections dealing with data compression and data encryption; and future examples of network operations, such as network parallelism, are introduced.A comprehensive case study is used throughout the text to apply and illustrate new techniques and concepts as they are introduced. Presented in a format which is specifically tailored to modular courses, this comprehensive text should be essential reading for undergraduates in the fields of computer science, electronics or telecommunications.

  • Algorithms and Parallel VLSI Architectures III

    • 1st Edition
    • M. Moonen + 1 more
    • English
    A comprehensive overview of the current evolution of research in algorithms, architectures and compilation for parallel systems is provided by this publication.The contributions focus specifically on domains where embedded systems are required, either oriented to application-specific or to programmable realisations. These are crucial in domains such as audio, telecom, instrumentation, speech, robotics, medical and automotive processing, image and video processing, TV, multimedia, radar and sonar.The book will be of particular interest to the academic community because of the detailed descriptions of research results presented. In addition, many contributions feature the "real-life" applications that are responsible for driving research and the impact of their specific characteristics on the methodologies is assessed.The publication will also be of considerable value to senior design engineers and CAD managers in the industrial arena, who wish either to anticipate the evolution of commercially available design tools or to utilize the presented concepts in their own R&D programmes.

  • Industrial Applications of Formal Methods to Model, Design and Analyze Computer Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Dan Craigen + 1 more
    • English
    Formal methods are mathematically-based techniques, often supported by reasoning tools, that can offer a rigorous and effective way to model, design and analyze computer systems. The purpose of this study is to evaluate international industrial experience in using formal methods. The cases selected are representative of industrial-grade projects and span a variety of application domains. The study had three main objectives: · To better inform deliberations within industry and government on standards and regulations; · To provide an authoritative record on the practical experience of formal methods to date; and À To suggest areas where future research and technology development are needed. This study was undertaken by three experts in formal methods and software engineering: Dan Craigen of ORA Canada, Susan Gerhart of Applied Formal Methods, and Ted Ralston of Ralston Research Associates. Robin Bloomfield of Adelard was involved with the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Shutdown System case. Support for this study was provided by organizations in Canada and the United States. The Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada (AECB) provided support for Dan Craigen and for the technical editing provided by Karen Summerskill. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratories (NRL), Washington, DC, provided support for all three authors. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provided support for Ted Ralston.

  • RISC System/6000 PowerPC System Architecture

    • 1st Edition
    • International Business Machines, Inc.
    • English
    Offers support for a wide range of products for the RISC System/6000product line and AIX operating system, including Uni-processor (UP) andSymmetric Multiple Processor (SMP) systems. Provides important informationfor building many system features such as memory controllers with cachesand bus-to-bus bridges. RISC System/ 6000 PowerPC System Architecturedefines an architecture that allows each operating system--in particular,the AIX operating system--to run unchanged on all systems that comply withthis architecture. It provides a consistent software interface across abroad range of system implementations and offers all hardware/softwaredep... necessary for a successful system identification,confi... and performance tuning process.An important reference for all programmers and product developmentengineers who are developing software and hardware products for theRISC/System 6000 PowerPC systems. Also useful for system programmersinvolved in operating system design, system integrators building productsand parts for the system family, and anyone interested in porting otheroperating systems to the RISC System/6000 family.

  • Parallel Computing Works!

    • 1st Edition
    • Geoffrey C. Fox + 2 more
    • English
    A clear illustration of how parallel computers can be successfully appliedto large-scale scientific computations. This book demonstrates how avariety of applications in physics, biology, mathematics and other scienceswere implemented on real parallel computers to produce new scientificresults. It investigates issues of fine-grained parallelism relevant forfuture supercomputers with particular emphasis on hypercube architecture.The authors describe how they used an experimental approach to configuredifferent massively parallel machines, design and implement basic systemsoftware, and develop algorithms for frequently used mathematicalcomputat... They also devise performance models, measure the performancecharacter... of several computers, and create a high-performancecomp... facility based exclusively on parallel computers. By addressingall issues involved in scientific problem solving, Parallel ComputingWorks! provides valuable insight into computational science for large-scaleparallel architectures. For those in the sciences, the findings reveal theusefulness of an important experimental tool. Anyone in supercomputing andrelated computational fields will gain a new perspective on the potentialcontributio... of parallelism. Includes over 30 full-color illustrations.

  • Parallelism in Production Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Anoop Gupta
    • English

  • The Steiner Tree Problem

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 53
    • F.K. Hwang + 2 more
    • English
    The Steiner problem asks for a shortest network which spans a given set of points. Minimum spanning networks have been well-studied when all connections are required to be between the given points. The novelty of the Steiner tree problem is that new auxiliary points can be introduced between the original points so that a spanning network of all the points will be shorter than otherwise possible. These new points are called Steiner points - locating them has proved problematic and research has diverged along many different avenues.This volume is devoted to the assimilation of the rich field of intriguing analyses and the consolidation of the fragments. A section has been given to each of the three major areas of interest which have emerged. The first concerns the Euclidean Steiner Problem, historically the original Steiner tree problem proposed by Jarník and Kössler in 1934. The second deals with the Steiner Problem in Networks, which was propounded independently by Hakimi and Levin and has enjoyed the most prolific research amongst the three areas. The Rectilinear Steiner Problem, introduced by Hanan in 1965, is discussed in the third part. Additionally, a forth section has been included, with chapters discussing areas where the body of results is still emerging.The collaboration of three authors with different styles and outlooks affords individual insights within a cohesive whole.

  • High-Speed Analog-to-Digital Conversion

    • 1st Edition
    • Michael J. Demler
    • English
    This book covers the theory and applications of high-speed analog-to-digital conversion. An analog-to-digital converter takes real-world inputs (such as visual images, temperature readings, and rates of speed) and transforms them into digital form for processing by computer. This book discusses the design and uses of such circuits, with particular emphasis on improving the speed of the conversion process and the accuracy of its output--how well the output is a corresponding digital representation of the output*b1input signal. As computers become increasingly interfaced to the outside world, "ADC" techniques will become ever more important.

  • Parallel and Distributed Processing

    • 1st Edition
    • K. Boyanov
    • English
    The aim of this volume is to present discussion of the main problems in the theory of parallel and distributed architectures. It covers a wide range of basic topics, most of the papers being theoretical, though some cover application areas with the possibility of direct implementation.

  • Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

    A Book of Readings
    • 1st Edition
    • Irene Greif
    • English
    Computer-supported cooperative work is a field devoted to understanding group work processes and developing tools to enhance collaborative efforts. This book provides a comprehensive view of this dynamic area through a collection of articles from its diverse contributing fields, with introduction and analysis by the editor.Part 1 provides a concise history of the field, defining its early goals and seminal projects. In Part 2, current projects and their underlying technologies, including hypertext and database technologies for information sharing, are presented and evaluated. Finally, Part 3 outlines the theories and empirical studies guiding system design based on understanding human dynamics as well as system dynamics. Each section includes reprints, attractively re-typeset, of important papers from the seminal conferences and publications laying the foundations for the field.

  • The Representation Theory of Finite Groups

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • W. Feit
    • English

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