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The official Ubuntu book (4th ed.)
his fourth edition consists of 11 chapters and two appendices. The book includes a DVD of the desktop, server, and alternate edition installation files for the Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) release. The first four chapters introduce the Ubuntu operating... more
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By shifting the burden-of-accountability to the producers of defective software, strict liability would... more
- Helen Nissenbaum (1997)
Articles
A model-based representation of configuration knowledge: FOSD 09

Barreiros and Moreira describe a graphical model for the representation of configuration knowledge--graphical means that you should not expect any formal definitions. The paper deals with feature... more

Design Tools and Techniques (D.2.2) | Dec 21 09

F--a model of events based on the foundational ontology DOLCE+DnS ultralight: K-CAP 09

This well-written paper proposes a model of a system of events, as opposed to the existing models of (more or less) isolated events. Scherp et al.’s model supports... more

General (H.1.0) | Dec 21 09

Content-based and algorithmic classifications of journals: perspectives on the dynamics of scientific communication and indexer effects: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

In terms of measuring information, the Science Citation Index (SCI) evaluates the quality of scientific research based on a frequency-of-use measure called the impact factor (IF). The IF “is... more

Indexing Methods (H.3.1...) | Dec 18 09

Conceptual data model-based software size estimation for information systems: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

The authors propose an approach for estimating software size from conceptual data models of information systems. Three independent variables characterize the... more

Product Metrics (D.2.8...) | Dec 18 09

Incremental aggregation of RFID data: ICWE 2009

Nowadays, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is widely adopted to enable the monitoring and efficient tracking of inventory objects moving in a supply chain. Since an enormous amount... more

Logical Design (H.2.1) | Dec 16 09

Semantic reconciliation in peer multi-data source management system: IDEAS 09

The music site Napster debuted the file sharing of songs using a peer-to-peer (P2P) approach. However, the catalog of files was centralized--a central server records where each file resides and... more

Heterogeneous Databases (H.2.5) | Dec 15 09

Input-sensitive scalable continuous join query processing: ACM Transactions on Database Systems

This paper provides an excellent overview of continuous query processing. It successfully shows why continuous queries are an important part of today’s applications. Agarwal et al. make a... more

Query Processing (H.2.4...) | Dec 14 09

Tracking the power in an enterprise decision support system: ISLPED 09

This paper was presented at the 2009 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED); the conference’s themes were green data centers and green computing. According... more

Miscellaneous (H.2.m) | Dec 11 09

Author name disambiguation in MEDLINE: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Solving the difficult problem of author name disambiguation will help greatly with social networking analysis and determining an individual author’s “image.” Partitioning articles along... more

Information Search And Retrieval (H.3.3) | Dec 11 09

Genetic hybrid tuning of VARMAX and state space algorithms: Soft Computing

The journal in which this paper was published focuses on artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid and evolutionary systems, neural nets, and other soft computing techniques and applications. Although the paper deals with... more

Artificial Intelligence (I.2) | Dec 10 09

Books
Implicit curves and surfaces: mathematics, data structures and algorithms

The main problem with this text is that there’s simply too much in it. The authors attempt to include everything that possibly relates to the mathematics and graphics... more
Comp. Geometry & Obj. Modeling (I.3.5) | Dec 22 09

The official Ubuntu Server book

This book not only teaches readers how to use the Ubuntu Server Edition operating system (OS), but also contains essential information for system administrators. The book claims to be the official description of the Ubuntu server, since its... more
Linux (D.4.0...) | Dec 21 09

Learning machine translation

With the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW), people have become increasingly thirsty for knowledge and information. This perceived need is made more complex by the international cooperation of people who contribute information in... more
Probability And Statistics (G.3) | Dec 18 09

Exploratory software testing: tips, tricks, tours, and techniques to guide test design

Proust said: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” While I believe that Whittaker set out in this text to provide a set of testing landscapes--called explorations--his real contribution is in... more
Testing And Debugging (D.2.5) | Dec 17 09

Transactions on rough sets IX

Pawlak originally developed rough sets to be used in the same situations as Zadeh’s better-known fuzzy sets [1]. Although they are less popular than fuzzy sets, they do have a devoted following and are proven to be a good tool when properly applied. This... more
Set Theory (F.4.1...) | Dec 16 09

Causality: models, reasoning, and inference (2nd ed.)

The publishing of the first edition of this book was a landmark in the study of causality [1]. It provided a coherent statement of more than two decades of previous research by Pearl and his students and colleagues. Pearl's approach rigorously distinguishes causality--which accounts for dynamics... more
Knowledge Rep. Form. & Methods (I.2.4) | Dec 16 09

Optical networks: a practical perspective (3rd ed.)

Optical communication has become a classic networking technology. If this year’s Nobel Prize is not proof enough, the third edition of the book by Ramaswami et al. confirms it. The book includes thorough coverage of basic optical technology... more
High-Speed (C.2.5...) | Dec 15 09

Pro BAM in BizTalk Server 2009

One information technology (IT) mantra is that information is a valuable business asset. A clear trend to extract more value from information assets is called real-time business intelligence (BI)... more
Systems And Software (H.3.4) | Dec 15 09

Introduction to abstract algebra

Abstract algebra is a central course in the undergraduate curriculum for mathematics majors. In many colleges and universities, it is taught at the beginning of the third year of study, after students have completed a calculus sequence and an introductory course in... more
Numerical Linear Algebra (G.1.3) | Dec 14 09

Cloud security and privacy: an enterprise perspective on risks and compliance

This book provides timely guidance for both end users and suppliers of cloud technologies. Predictably, it begins with a discussion of the definition of cloud computing that includes its commonly agreed-upon attributes of multitenancy, massive scalability... more
Security and Protection (K.6.5) | Dec 14 09


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