How to Build a Business Rules Engine or Using Arcgis 3d Analyst

How to Build a Business Rules Engine: Extending Application Functionality Through Engineering

Author: Malcolm Chisholm

[shelving code] Data Management/Programming

Business rules engines can make organizations more agile by allowing them to manage diverse sets of operating rules, such as many different contracts for goods and services with different clients. For example, business rules engines can contain interfaces that allow users to define business rules to add specific functionality to software applications in order to take advantage of particular business arrangements. This enables organizations to overcome the barriers of time, money, and reliability that traditional programming approaches present when trying to include variable business situations within information systems. Rules engines can also speed software implementation, provide increased auditability, and ensure engineering compliance. The capacity to understand and manage business rules outside of the "black box" of program code can improve the overall quality of IT infrastructures.

How to Build a Business Rules Engine is the first book to provide a detailed roadmap, with examples, for building a business rules engine. Written from the author"s 12 years of experience building business rules functionality, this book covers the necessary background and concepts, as well as the specific steps needed to build a rules engine. The book describes not only the components that a rules engine must have, but also the organizational issues that may determine its success after it has been built and implemented.

Features
*The only book that demonstrates how to develop a business rules engine. Covers user requirements, data modeling, repository design, metadata engineering, and more.
*Includes conceptual overview chapterssuitable for management-level readers, including general introduction, business justification, and development and implementation considerations.
*A sample application is used throughout the book to illustrate concepts. The code for the sample application is available online at http://www.bizrulesengines.com.

About the Author
Malcolm Chisholm holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol. He has over 20 years of experience in information technology and 12 years building business rules engines. His expertise has allowed him to work in various industries focusing on systems development and data administration. Recently he has worked with the United Nations Development Program and Deloitte and Touche.

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Using ArcGIS 3D Analyst: ArcGIS 9

Author: ESRI Press

ESRI® ArcGIS™ 3D Analyst™ is one of the available extensions to the ArcGIS™ Desktop products— ArcInfo™, ArcEditor™, and ArcView®. ArcGIS 3D Analyst is a three-dimensional visualization and analysis extension that enables you to create surface models from several input data sources. ArcGIS 3D Analyst also adds two specialized three-dimensional viewing applications, ArcScene™ and ArcGlobe that extend the capabilities of ArcGIS Desktop.

You will learn how to:
Make realistic perspective local and world-wide views of images, scenarios, and models, all including true 3D symbols.
Create and visualize three-dimensional surfaces.
Query and analyze surfaces.
Perform visibility analysis.
Determine the surface area and volume of parts of a surface.
Animate local and world-wide three-dimensional images, surfaces, and other scenarios.
Display and view world-wide raster and vector datasets on a globe surface in their true geodetic locations.

Begin by following the quick-start tutorial to get an overview of how to drape an image over a surface and perform the basics with ArcGIS 3D Analyst. If you prefer, jump right in and experiment on your own. When you have questions, you will find concise, step-by-step answers inside, fully illustrated, to help you complete a task.

Writing Testbenches Using Systemverilog or Succeeding in Business Applications with Microsoft Office 2003

Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog

Author: Janick Bergeron

"Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog presents many of the functional verification features that were added to the Verilog language as part of SystemVerilog. Interfaces, virtual modports, classes, program blocks, clocking blocks and other SystemVerilog features are introduced within a coherent verification methodology and usage model." Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog introduces the reader to all elements of a modern, scalable verification methodology. It is an introduction and prelude to the verification methodology detailed in the Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	What is verification?	1
Ch. 2	Verification technologies	23
Ch. 3	The verification plan	77
Ch. 4	High-level modeling	113
Ch. 5	Stimulus and response	197
Ch. 6	Architecting testbenches	279
Ch. 7	Simulation management	333

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Succeeding in Business Applications with Microsoft Office 2003: A Problem-S

Author: Karin Bast

Part of the new Succeeding in Business Series, this text prepares students to solve real-life business problems using Microsoft Office 2003 applications.

Synchronization Algorithms and Concurrent Programming or Mining the Web

Synchronization Algorithms and Concurrent Programming

Author: Gadi Taubenfeld

Synchronization Algorithms and Concurrent Programming

Gadi Taubenfeld

Synchronization is a fundamental challenge in computer science.  It is fast becoming a major performance and design issue for concurrent programming on modern architectures, and for the design of distributed systems.  This is the first text to give a complete and coherent view of all aspects of synchronization algorithms.

Computer science students, programmers, system designers and researchers will be able to solve problems and master techniques that go beyond the treatment provided in introductory texts on operating systems, distributed computing and concurrency.  Dozens of algorithms are presented and their performance is analyzed according to precise complexity measures.

Highlights of the book include

Ø      A wide variety of synchronization problems, algorithms and  key concepts covered in detail.

Ø      Self-review questions with solutions to check your understanding.

Ø      A wealth of end-of-chapter exercises and bibliographic notes.

Ø      Over 300 annotated references guiding you through the contemporary research literature.

Ø      A companion website provides PowerPoint slides and other teaching and learning aids for students and instructors at pearsoned.co.uk/taubenfeld.

 

About the author

Gadi Taubenfeld is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He is an established authority in the area of concurrentand distributed computing and has published widely in leading journals and conferences. He was the head of the computer science division at Israel’s Open University; member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories; consultant to AT&T Labs - Research; and a research scientist and lecturer at Yale University. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

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Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data

Author: Soumen Chakrabarti

Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data is the first book devoted entirely to techniques for producing knowledge from the vast body of unstructured Web data. Building on an initial survey of infrastructural issues—including Web crawling and indexing—Chakrabarti examines low-level machine learning techniques as they relate specifically to the challenges of Web mining. He then devotes the final part of the book to applications that unite infrastructure and analysis to bring machine learning to bear on systematically acquired and stored data. Here the focus is on results: the strengths and weaknesses of these applications, along with their potential as foundations for further progress. From Chakrabarti's work—painstaking, critical, and forward-looking—readers will gain the theoretical and practical understanding they need to contribute to the Web mining effort.

* A comprehensive, critical exploration of statistics-based attempts to make sense of Web Mining.
* Details the special challenges associated with analyzing unstructured and semi-structured data.
* Looks at how classical Information Retrieval techniques have been modified for use with Web data.
* Focuses on today's dominant learning methods: clustering and classification, hyperlink analysis, and supervised and semi-supervised learning.
* Analyzes current applications for resource discovery and social network analysis.
* An excellent way to introduce students to especially vital applications of data mining and machine learning technology.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
1	Introduction
Pt. I	Infrastructure
2	Crawling the Web
3	Web Search and Information Retrieval
Pt. II	Learning
4	Similarity and Clustering
5	Supervised Learning
6	Semisupervised Learning
Pt. III	Applications
7	Social Network Analysis
8	Resource Discovery
9	The Future of Web Mining
	References
	Index
	About the Author

50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques or Introducing Reason

50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques

Author: Kevin L Moss

Praise for 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques

"Applying the lively techniques in this book will make anyone's digital camera a more productive tool."
-Al Francekevich, professional photographer, on the first edition

Your digital camera is an amazing and versatile creative tool, with features and capabilities you probably haven't even explored-until now. Here are step-by-step instructions for 50 hot new techniques that take advantage of all the latest camera features, fully illustrated with stunning color photos taken by the author. No matter what type of digital camera you have, this book will help you create more professional pictures.

Your guide to amazing results with your digital camera
* Select the right shooting mode and change critical settings in seconds
* Use exposure and focal length to get sharper photos
* Shoot fantastic candid, nature, and pet pictures
* Learn the secrets of shooting dramatic skyscapes and urban landscapes
* Plan shots for creative digital manipulation
* Download and print your photos or share them on the Web
* Create a photographic essay or convert color shots to artsyblack-and-white

Table of Contents:

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Getting the Most from Your Digital Camera.

Chapter 2: Taking Better Photographs.

Chapter 3: Using Advanced Features.

Chapter 4: Increasing the Quality of Your Photos.

Chapter 5: Taking Pictures of People and Pets.

Chapter 6: Photographing Nature.

Chapter 7: “Scape” Photography.

Chapter 8: Creative and Alternative Photography.

Chapter 9: Displaying and Taking Care of Your Digital Images.

Chapter 10: Becoming a Better Photographer.

Index.

About the Author.

Colophon.

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Introducing Reason, Vol. 4

Author: Cliff Truesdell

Today's digital audio programs continue to grown and expand both in feature sets and complexity, and Reason, in particular, offers literally limitless possibilities for creating and sequencing digital audio. In this book you'll learn everything you need to know to create music with Reason 4. Starting with necessary information about system requirements and acquiring external hardware for your specific needs, recording engineer and musician Cliff Truesdell will walk you through how to install and configure the program. You'll then find detailed instructions and real-world examples that show you how to use all of the program's included instruments, effects and routing devices, followed by important tips on arranging, mixing, and exporting complete songs. By the time you're through, you'll have the tools and information you need to create your own workflow and be ready to harness the power of Reason 4's resources to make your own original music.