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This report examines contemporary trends in data storage technology. It explores issues such as the expanding role of networking, the Internet and intranets and the impact these technologies will have on the enterprise.

This portable reference to Windows PowerShell summarizes both the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the major tasks that make PowerShell so successful. It's an ideal on-the-job tool for Windows administrators who don't have time to plow through huge books or search online. Written by Microsoft PowerShell team member Lee Holmes, "Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference" offers up-to-date coverage of PowerShell's 1.0 release, and the MOM V3 and Exchange 2007 imp...

Style is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of the human experience: Everyone instantly and constantly assesses people and things according to their individual styles, academics establish careers by researching musical, artistic, or architectural styles, and entire industries maintain themselves by continuously creating and marketing new styles. Yet what exactly style is and how it works are elusive: We certainly know it when we see it, but there is no shared and clear understanding of the dive...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2019, held in Linz, Austria, in August 2019 in conjunction with DEXA 2019. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: privacy; and audit, compliance and threat intelligence.The chapter "A data utility-driven benchmark for de-identification methods" i...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2013 held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2013. The 24 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling and ETL, query optimization and parallelism, spatial data warehouses and applications, text mining and OLAP, recommendation and prediction,...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2014, held in Lubeck, Germany, in February 2014. The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: parallelization: applications and methods; self-organization and trust; system design; system design and sensor systems; and virtualization: I/O, memory, cloud; dependability: safety, securi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Knowledge Technology Week, KTW 2011, held in Kajang, Malaysia, in July 2011. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. KTW 2011 consisted of a number of co-located events. This volume contains selected papers from the proceedings of the Third Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MJCAI 2011), the Third Semantic Technology and Knowledge En...

There's quite a buzz about content delivery networks (CDNs) today. To deliver your company's content across the world, you'd normally need to traverse several networks in a series of time-consuming and quality-degrading hops. With this practical book, you'll learn how using the right CDN providers can serve your content and applications much faster while maintaining high availability and high performance. Author Paddy Ganti examines CDN architecture and internals to help you find the solution th...

This text provides a guide for people who want to use the Internet with children or set up access so that children can use it free of inappropriate material. It covers services such as America Online and CompuServe, and additional software that limits access to inappropriate matrial such as CyberPatrol, SurfWatch and Web Track. The etxt is accompanied by a CD-ROM with demoware, shareware including demo versions of safeguard software.

Many data-intensive applications that use machine learning or artificial intelligence techniques depend on humans providing the initial dataset, enabling algorithms to process the rest or for other humans to evaluate the performance of such algorithms.Not only can labeled data for training and evaluation be collected faster, cheaper, and easier than ever before, but we now see the emergence of hybrid human-machine software that combines computations performed by humans and machines in conjunctio...

Managing and Mining Graph Data is a comprehensive survey book in graph management and mining. It contains extensive surveys on a variety of important graph topics such as graph languages, indexing, clustering, data generation, pattern mining, classification, keyword search, pattern matching, and privacy. It also studies a number of domain-specific scenarios such as stream mining, web graphs, social networks, chemical and biological data. The chapters are written by well known researchers in the...

One of the most valuable skills a student can learn is researching using the Web. The second edition of Working the Web: A Student's Research Guide helps students become savvy about this powerful research tool. Whether they are learning for the first time about the resources available online, trying to get the most valuable information from a search engine, documenting Internet sources in a research paper, or building their own Web site, this popular guide will help them each step of the way.