Libraries are increasingly demanding the ability to exploit their library systems (LIS) using application programming interfaces (APIs), Web services, or other technologies. This issue of “Library Technology Reports” explores how vendors of open source library technology are approaching this desire for customization plus an in-depth exploration of trends towards APIs, Web services, and the service-oriented architecture. Topics covered in this issue include: Why Should Libraries Care about Application Programming Interfaces; APIs – Basic Concepts; Vendors and Products – Case Studies and Customer Responses; API Hype and Reality; and, Conclusions and resources.Libraries are increasingly demanding the ability to exploit their library systems (LIS) using application programming interfaces (APIs), Web services, or other technologies. This issue of “Library Technology Reports” explores how vendors of open source library technology are approaching this desire for customization plus an in-depth… More >>

Opening Up Library Systems Through Web Services and SOA: Hype, or Reality?

Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems presents research and development and industrial experience of usability engineering for multimedia user interfaces. The book discusses the methods, tools and guidelines for multimedia use and implementation and covers the following topics in detail: Design methods for multimedia (MM) systems; Social and cognitive models for MM interaction; Empirical studies of the effects of MM on learning and behavior; Design and prototyping support tools; Intelligent MM Systems and Design support; Usability evaluation. £/LIST£ Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems contains the proceedings of the International Working Conference on Designing Effective and usable Multimedia Systems, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), held in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 1998. It is essential reading for computer scientists, software developers, information systems managers and human scientists, esp… More >>

Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems

The volume presents innovations in data analysis and classification and gives an overview of the state of the art in these scientific fields and relevant applications. Areas that receive considerable attention in the book are discrimination and clustering, data analysis and statistics, as well as applications in marketing, finance, and medicine. The reader will find material on recent technical and methodological developments and a large number of applications demonstrating the usefulness of the newly developed techniques…. More >>

Innovations in Classification, Data Science, and Information Systems: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation … of Technology, Cottbus, March 12-14, 2003

This state-of-the art book deals with innovative trends in e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government. Information Systems: The e-Business Challenge presents recent results of research and development in the following areas: + E-Business: proceeding from vision to reality; + Information and knowledge management; + Business models for e-Commerce; + Online one-stop Government; + Evaluation of the web presence; + Requirements engineering; + Designing collaborative business systems; + Guiding communities of practice; + Establishing trust in virtual organizations; + Technical design issues. Information Systems: The e-Business Challenge comprises the proceedings of Stream 5 of the 17th World Computer Congress (WCC2002), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in August 2002…. More >>

Information Systems: The e-Business Challenge

FULFILL is intended to be an instructional guide for corporate leaders who are responsible for the corporate transition from inadequate project management practices to a comprehensive project management methodology.
FULFILL is designed for corporate leaders of all disciplines who recognize the need for their organization to improve on project execution and implementation. Development and adoption of a project methodology that holds individuals accountable for milestone deliverables will favorably improve project outcomes. The likelihood of the corporation achieving their revenue and efficiency goals will vastly increase by successful completion of properly prioritized and managed projects.
FULFILL outlines best practices for formal project management methodology and helps corporate leaders select the level of detail appropriate for their unique culture to adopt and embrace.

The material in all four guides is extremely dry, begging for a little humor and a touch of cando… More >>

Sweet Bitch’s Guides to Practical ITS – Information Technology Systems – FULFILL Volume Four

Membrane systems are finding increasing application worldwide in the purification of potable and industrial water, and their design and use is set to grow considerably in years to come.

This comprehensive book is written in a practical style with emphasis on process description, key unit operations, plant equipment description, equipment installation, safety and maintenance, process control, plant start-up, operation and troubleshooting. It is supplemented by case studies and useful engineering rules-of-thumb.

The author is a chemical engineer with many years experience in the field and his technical knowledge and practical know-how in the water purification industry are summarised succinctly in this volume.

This book…

* Will ensure your system design is fit for its purpose

* Informs readers of which membranes to use; why, where and when

* Will help readers to trouble-shoot and improve performance

* Provides case studies help underst… More >>

Hybrid Membrane Systems for Water Purification: Technology, Systems Design and Operations

Educational technology in the broadest sense is knowledge and competence forimproving the educational process: for using hardware (equipment), software (methods), and “underware” (underlying organizational structures). This volume in the Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology presents the results of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on educational systems design as a new educational technology. The objective of the workshop was toadvance our knowledge about the comprehensive systems design approach for improving educational systems. The workshop was organized for the transdisciplinary interaction of three scientific groups representing design science, organizational/systems science, and educationaltechnology. Participants were selected based on their scholarship as members of one or more of these three groups. The book opens with theframing papers sent by the editors to participants prior to the workshop, then pre… More >>

Comprehensive Systems Design: A New Educational Technology

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM’99, held in Zurich, Switzerland in October 1999 with the topical focus on Active Technologies for Network and Service Management. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on decentralized monitoring and anomaly detection, management components and multi-domain management, the future of SNMP-based management, programmable SNMP-based management, management of programmable and active networks, IT and enterprise management, and management tools…. More >>

Active Technologies for Network and Service Management: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM’99, … October 11-13, 1999, Proceedings

Telecommunications service providers face increasing information assistance requests to help law enforcement while they simultaneously struggle with CapEx and OpEx reductions. On the other hand, law enforcement agencies face expensive telecommunication interface options for data collection as they battle with a growing backlog of subpoena requests. Intelligence Support Systems: Technologies for Lawful Intercepts addresses the information and intelligence needs of service providers, law enforcement agencies, representatives of governments and international standards bodies, and product and service vendors.

This volume offers solutions for many technological challenges, explaining how to provide networking equipment and probes for lawful intercepts, and detailing methods for reducing the performance impacts on network equipment that result from intercepts. It explores how to access, collect, and deliver information in real-time and how to improve mediation efficiency while serving… More >>

Intelligence Support Systems: Technologies for Lawful Intercepts

This ebook provides a reproduction of the Department of Energy the 2008-2012 Multi-Year Program Plan for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Program (Solar Program). The Solar Program is responsible for carrying out the Federal role in researching, developing, demonstrating and deploying solar energy technologies. This document presents a look inside the Solar Program’s plans for the next five years, as well as areas of work that are emphasized. The Solar Program is driven by the Solar America Initiative (SAI), a Presidential initiative launched in 2007 with the goal of achieving grid-parity for solar electricity produced by photovoltaic (PV) systems across the nation by 2015 – making the SAI a nine-year effort. This plan covers years two through six of the SAI, which can be considered the core of the initiative. The activities covered within this plan highlight what efforts the Solar Program will undertake to reach the SAI goal. During the first year of the S… More >>

21st Century Solar Power and Photovoltaics: Energy Department Multi-year Program Plan through 2012 for Solar Development and Research, Systems, Materials, CSP Technologies