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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 By shifting the burden-of-accountability to the producers of defective software, strict liability would... more - Helen Nissenbaum (1997) 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 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 Display 510152550100 per column
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