The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written by and for IT professionals, IT Architectures and Middleware, Second Edition, will help you rise above the conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor wars, allowing you to think clearly and productively about the particular challenges you face.This book focuses on the essential principles and priorities of s...

Implement and manage your software-defined, massively scalable storage systemKey FeaturesExplore Ceph's architecture in order to achieve scalability and high availabilityLearn to utilize Ceph efficiently with the help of practical examplesSuccessfully implement Ceph clusters to scale-out storage solutions along with outstanding data protectionBook DescriptionLearning Ceph, Second Edition will give you all the skills you need ...

Having a Business Intelligence Competency Center can improve performance. “The Modern Business Intelligence (BI) organization” is the outcome from research of 529 management, business, and academic professionals from 50 countries representing 30 industries and telephone interviews with a subset of 10 survey respondents. The research found that when respondents could identify a decision-making support entity of any name or structure within their organization, the organization has several be...

Packed with examples, Simply SQL is a step-by-step introduction to learning SQL. You'll discover how easy it is to use SQL to interact with best-practice, robust databases. Rather than bore you with theory, it focuses on the practical use of SQL with common databases and uses plenty of diagrams, easy-to-read text, and examples to help make learning SQL easy and fun.Step through the basic SQL syntaxLearn how to use best practices in database designMaster ad...

This book provides the most complete formal specification of the semantics of the Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 standard (BPMN) available to date, in a style that is easily understandable for a wide range of readers – not only for experts in formal methods, but e.g. also for developers of modeling tools, software architects, or graduate students specializing in business process management.BPMN – issued by the Object Management Group – is a widely used standard for busines...

Get unstuck and start stacking!Key Features\[\*\]Easily fix the nagging problems that commonly plague OpenStack and become the go-to person in your organization\[\*\]Get better equipped to troubleshoot and solve common problems in performance, availability, and automation that confront production-ready OpenStack environments\[\*\]Save time and decrease frustration by solving significant issues that arise from OpenStack deployments pertaining to...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, IIP 2016, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in October 2016. The 24 full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 40 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on machine learning, data mining, deep learning, social computing, semantic web and text processing, image understanding, and brain-machine coll...

This book covers state of the art techniques for health personnel training using natural interfaces, immersive systems and serious games paradigms.Opening with a comprehensive introduction to the state of immersive visualisation techniques of interaction and simulation used in the industry and training research, the authors then focus on computer vision techniques used to develop realtime training systems effectively, providing recognition of actions and re-identification of person...

The three volume proceedings LNAI 10534 – 10536 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2017, held in Skopje, Macedonia, in September 2017.The total of 101 regular papers presented in part I and part II was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions; there are 47 papers in the applied data science, nectar and demo track.The contributions were organized in topical sections n...

This book constitutes revised papers from the eleven International Workshops held at the 15th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2017:BPAI 2017 – 1st International Workshop on Business Process Innovation with Artificial Intelligence; BPI 2017 – 13th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence; BP-Meet-IoT 2017 – 1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Business Processes Meeting Internet-of-Things; BPMS2 ...

The three-volume set LNCS 10288, 10289, and 10290 constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017, jointly with 14 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1228 papers presented at the HCII 2017 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4340 submissions. These papers a...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, September 2015.The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections similarity measure and clustering; data mining; social computing; heterogeneos networks and data; data warehouses; stream processing; applications of big data analys...