Improve scientific data management across the global R&D enterprise to improve R&D productivity. Ideal for Scientists, R&D Managers and Executives in the scientific community.

In this white paper, you will gain valuable information on how scientists and engineers at R&D organizations can:
- Easily access and aggregate both structured and unstructured data from multiple research areas into a single environment
- Conduct advanced scientific analytics allowing them to integrate the applications and algorithms that work best for them
- View results in the manner most effective for their needs
- Unlock their data’s true value by delivering the precise information they need when and how they need through real time interactive reports and dashboards.
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In about 15 minutes, this guide will examine the issues that make claims processing so problematic.

It will discuss how improving process efficiency through transactional applications based on an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform can address those issues. This guide will also provide a conceptual model that can be applied to claims processing and offer deployment guidelines and suggestions.

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This book provides an in-depth guide to security in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks introduces the reader to the fundamentals and key issues related to wireless ad hoc networking, with an emphasis on security. It discusses the security attacks and counter measures in wireless ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks, and briefly presents the standards on related topics. The authors offer a clear exposition of various challenges and solutions in this field including bootstrapping, key distribution and exchange, authentication issues, privacy, anonymity and tamper resilience.

Key Features:

• Introduces the fundamentals and key issues of the new technologies followed by comprehensive presentation on security attacks and counter measures
• Covers Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, hardware aspects of secure wireless ad hoc and sensor networks and secure routing
• Contains information on cryptographic primitives and electronic warfare
• Includes problems at the end of each chapter to enhance learning.

This book is well suited for graduate students in computer, electrical and communications engineering and computer science departments, researchers in academia and industry, as well as C4I engineers and officers in the military. Wireless network designers for internet service providers and mobile communications operators will also find this book very useful.

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Improve scientific data management across the global R&D enterprise to improve R&D productivity. Ideal for Scientists, R&D Managers and Executives in the scientific community.

In this white paper, you will gain valuable information on how scientists and engineers at R&D organizations can:
- Easily access and aggregate both structured and unstructured data from multiple research areas into a single environment
- Conduct advanced scientific analytics allowing them to integrate the applications and algorithms that work best for them
- View results in the manner most effective for their needs
- Unlock their data’s true value by delivering the precise information they need when and how they need through real time interactive reports and dashboards.
Learn how you can do this while limiting the burden on IT resources!

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Waste Management World is the leading international publication for the global waste management industry.

Waste Management World delivers the latest news and global developments from across the industry. Articles report on international projects, best practices, technological developments, trends and legislation. Each issue covers biological waste treatment, collection and transport, recycling and waste minimization, sanitary landfill and thermal treatment of waste.

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With forewords by Jan Bosch, Nokia and Antero Taivalsaari, Sun Microsystems.

Learn how to programme the mobile devices of the future!

The importance of mobile systems programming has emerged over the recent years as a new domain in software development. The design of software that runs in a mobile device requires that developers combine the rules applicable in embedded environment; memory-awareness, limited performance, security, and limited resources with features that are needed in workstation environment; modifiability, run-time extensions, and rapid application development.

Programming Mobile Devices is a comprehensive, practical introduction to programming mobile systems. The book is a platform independent approach to programming mobile devices: it does not focus on specific technologies, and devices, instead it evaluates the component areas and issues that are common to all mobile software platforms. This text will enable the designer to programme mobile devices by mastering both hardware-aware and application-level software, as well as the main principles that guide their design.

Programming Mobile Devices:

• Provides a complete and authoritative overview of programming mobile systems.
• Discusses the major issues surrounding mobile systems programming; such as understanding of embedded systems and workstation programming.
• Covers memory management, the concepts of applications, dynamically linked libraries, concurrency, handling local resources, networking and mobile devices as well as security features.
• Uses generic examples from JavaTM and Symbian OS to illustrate the principles of mobile device programming.

Programming Mobile Devices is essential reading for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field as well as software developers, and programmers.

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This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service calls, and Microsoft’s new ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Framework. With this book, you will:

Know when and how to use LINQ to JSON, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to Objects

• Learn how Silverlight 2 applications bind, pass, read, save, query and present data
• Discover how your application can call web services to work with SOAP, REST, RSS, AtomPub, POX and JSON Design REST, ASMX, and WCF web services that communicate with Silverlight 2
• Harness RESTful web services such as Digg, Amazon and Twitter
• Retrieve and save data using the new Entity Framework and WCF
• Work with RESTful ADO.NET Data Services and its Silverlight client library to move data between your Silverlight application and database

Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 offers many tips and tricks for building data-rich business applications, and covers the scenarios you’re most likely to encounter. Complete examples in C# and VB can be downloaded from the books companion website.
About the Author
John Papa is a Microsoft C# MVP, MCSD.NET, and INETA Speaker who has been working with Microsoft distributed architectures for over 10 years. He has enterprise experience architecting and developing with .NET technologies focusing on architecture, patterns and practices, data access and mobile development. John has authored or co-authored several books on data access technologies, is the author of the “Data Points” column in MSDN Magazine, has presented MSDN WebCasts and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as DevConnections and VSLive.

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What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today’s leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for its purpose.

Some of the engineers in this book reveal how they developed a specific project, including decisions they faced and tradeoffs they made. Others take a step back to investigate how certain architectural aspects have influenced computing as a whole. With this book, you’ll discover:

• How Facebook’s architecture is the basis for a data-centric application ecosystem
• The effect of Xen’s well-designed architecture on the way operating systems evolve
• How community processes within the KDE project help software architectures evolve from rough sketches to beautiful systems
• How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
• The magic behind the Jikes RVM self-optimizable, self-hosting runtime
• Design choices and building blocks that made Tandem the choice platform in high-availability environments for over two decades
• Differences and similarities between object-oriented and functional architectural views
• How architectures can affect the software’s evolution and the developers’ engagement

Go behind the scenes to learn what it takes to design elegant software architecture, and how it can shape the way you approach your own projects, with Beautiful Architecture.

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Engineered Systems (ES) Magazine provides smart, sustainable solutions for mechanical engineering projects. Whether it’s a renovation or new construction, ES delivers new ideas to help your commercial, institutional, industrial, and government buildings achieve LEED and Energy Star certification. Written by engineers for engineers.

Each monthly magazine is written in technically sound language, yet retains a non-theoretical application-oriented approach to the commercial/industrial/institutional HVACR markets. Engineered Systems examines the latest changes in the design, specification, maintenance and management of non-residential HVACR systems and components.

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