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Computerized Work Management Systems for Utility and Plant Operations
Description: Computerized Work Management Systems for Utility and Plant Operations This book shows how new computerized technologies can be used to create more cost-effective work management--and improved ...
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Caring for the Customer, Fourth Edition
Description: Caring for the Customer, Fourth Edition Well-structured and easy to follow, this workbook will enable managers to explain the meaning and significance of customer care, identify internal and ...
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Computational Science
Description: Computational Science Illustrating practical examples from computational science, this applications-oriented book teaches students and engineers how to employ mathematical techniques for ...
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Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
Description: Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms Useful for students of mathematics, computer science, and other technical fields, this book provides a systematic approach for the ...
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Computer Graphics for Architects, Engineers and Environmental Designers
Description: Computer Graphics for Architects, Engineers and Environmental Designers This valuable sourcebook teaches the concepts and specific details required for using digital technology without being tied ...
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Achieving Objectives Through Time Management, Fifth Edition
Description: Achieving Objectives Through Time Management, Fifth Edition Investigating some typical activity traps, this book examines the process of making decisions, the importance of getting the timing ...
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Change-Based Test Management: Improving the Software Validation Process
Description: Change-Based Test Management: Improving the Software Validation Process Specifically written for software engineers and testing specialists, this guide includes an overview of current development ...
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BIM and Construction Management: Proven Tools, Methods, and Workflows
Description: BIM and Construction Management: Proven Tools, Methods, and Workflows Crammed with practical tips, smart tactics, and field-tested techniques, this practical book offers proven tools, methods, ...
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Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance
Description: Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance Practical, applicative, and state-of-the-art, this text provides all the tools ...
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Applied Reliability-Centered Maintenance
Description: Applied Reliability-Centered Maintenance Discussing what reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is, this book explains how RCM makes sense for electric utilities who have been forced to control ...
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AutoCAD 2002 ReferencePoint Suite
Description: AutoCAD 2002 ReferencePoint Suite Use this ReferencePoint Suite for creating drawings, imaging and modeling, storing data with graphics, plotting, using dimensions and customizing AutoCAD 2002. ...
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AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part I
Description: AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part I This step-by-step text meets the updated requirements of AutoCAD 2005 and will help you get acquainted with tables, fields and sheet sets, as it provides ...
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AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part II
Description: AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part II This step-by-step text meets the updated requirements of AutoCAD 2005 and will help you get acquainted with guidelines and splines, MText, dimensions, ...
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AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part III
Description: AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part III This step-by-step text meets the updated requirements of AutoCAD 2005 and will help you get acquainted with plotting, the eTransmit tool, drawing/sheet ...
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AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide
Description: AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide Learn how to network office computers, implement backup strategies, and create drawing standards to make your workflow more efficient. This definitive text ...
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AutoCAD: Secrets Every User Should Know
Description: AutoCAD: Secrets Every User Should Know Whether you're designing houses, landscapes, or machines, there are AutoCAD tricks-of-the-trade that even seasoned users don't know tips that can improve ...
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BackStreet Lean: Solutions for the Job Shop, Plant Edition
Description: BackStreet Lean: Solutions for the Job Shop, Plant Edition Through the successful application of Lean in the job shop, a group of world-class plants share their best practices and numerous photos ...
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Baldrige Award Winning Quality: How to Interpret the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, Twelfth Edition
Description: Baldrige Award Winning Quality: How to Interpret the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, Twelfth Edition The newest edition of this straightforward book illustrates the key relationships ...
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Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers
Description: Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers Improve process and production with this guide's strategies and techniques to a lean organization. ...
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Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management
Description: Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management This concise and easy to use book provides a framework for managing maintenance with options that allow decision makers to select the most ...
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Bottom-Line Automation, 2nd Edition
Description: Bottom-Line Automation, 2nd Edition Based on the results and conclusions of an applied research project of process manufacturing operations directed by the author, this book presents an overview ...
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CAD Manager's Guidebook
Description: CAD Manager's Guidebook Explaining the role of the CAD manager, this guide details how to create and institute your own CAD standards, policies, and procedures and offers tips and suggestions for ...
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Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance
Description: Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance Coupling proven concepts of Lean and Six Sigma with engineering processes of product development, this text's ...
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Accelerating Process Improvement Using Agile Techniques
Description: Accelerating Process Improvement Using Agile Techniques Presenting a proven method for accelerating process improvement that helps set the goals and directions of organizations, this book offers ...
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Customer Relationship Management: Perspectives from the Marketplace
Description: Customer Relationship Management: Perspectives from the Marketplace Presenting a ground-breaking strategic framework for successful CRM policy, this book demonstrates a systematic management ...
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Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools: What Tool? When?
Description: Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools: What Tool? When? Offering an easy-to-read and comprehensive review of the most important current industrial improvement tools, this book offers ...
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The Effective Measurement and Management of ICT Costs and Benefits, Third Edition
Description: The Effective Measurement and Management of ICT Costs and Benefits, Third Edition Covering a wide spectrum of IT cost and benefit solutions, this book takes you through a basic understanding of ...
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Writing Effectively, Fourth Edition
Description: Writing Effectively, Fourth Edition We communicate because we need to; all of our social and economic structures depend on it. Spoken language has its limits, however. Let this concise workbook ...
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Machine Learning Applications In Software Engineering
Description: Machine Learning Applications In Software Engineering Providing an overview of machine learning, this text summarizes the state-of-the-practice in this niche area, gives a classification of the ...
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Metrics For Software Conceptual Models
Description: Metrics For Software Conceptual Models Providing an overview of the most relevant existing proposals of metrics for conceptual models, this detailed guide covers conceptual models for both ...
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Reliability Modeling, Analysis and Optimization
Description: Reliability Modeling, Analysis and Optimization Bringing together many of the leading experts in the field, this volume presents a broad picture of current research on system modeling and ...
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Response Modeling Methodology: Empirical Modeling for Engineering and Science
Description: Response Modeling Methodology: Empirical Modeling for Engineering and Science Introducing a new approach for an empirical modeling of a response variation, relating to both systematic and random ...
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Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics: The State of the Art
Description: Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics: The State of the Art Taking readers through all the steps necessary for solving hard problems in continuum mechanics with smooth particle methods, this book pays ...
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Software Maintenance: Concepts And Practice, Second Edition
Description: Software Maintenance: Concepts And Practice, Second Edition To work with software systems at any level, we need to understand the way software evolves. This book should equip the reader with a ...
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Supply Chain And Finance: Series on Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 2
Description: Supply Chain And Finance: Series on Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 2 Written for theoreticians and practitioners in economics and finance, this text describes recently developed ...
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Advances In Data Mining and Modeling
Description: Advances In Data Mining and Modeling Containing selected papers presented at the 2002 Advances in Data Mining and Modeling workshop in Hong Kong, this book deals with pattern discovery, clustering ...
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An Introduction to the Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis: Series in Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics, Vol. 13
Description: An Introduction to the Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis: Series in Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics, Vol. 13 Providing an introduction to the principal concepts and issues ...
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Artificial War: Multiagent-Based Simulation of Combat
Description: Artificial War: Multiagent-Based Simulation of Combat Based on an eight-year study, this text examines a sophisticated multiagent-based model of combat that uses a suite of artificial-life-like ...
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Chinese Yuan: Renminbi Derivative Products
Description: Chinese Yuan: Renminbi Derivative Products Based on the perception that the CNY will be revaluated in the future, this thought-provoking book introduces and studies existing financial derivative ...
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Component-Based Software Development: Case Studies
Description: Component-Based Software Development: Case Studies Component-based software development (CBD) is an emerging discipline that promises to take software engineering into a new era. The articles in ...
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Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications
Description: Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications This review volume introduces computational Web intelligence based on computational intelligence and Web technology, ...
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Data Mining in Time Series Databases
Description: Data Mining in Time Series Databases Covering the state-of-the-art methodology for mining time series databases, this book presents novel data mining methods including techniques for efficient ...
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Graph-Theoretic Techniques for Web Content Mining
Description: Graph-Theoretic Techniques for Web Content Mining Describing exciting new opportunities for utilizing robust graph representations of data with common machine learning algorithms, this book ...
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Information Technology Investment: Decision-Making Methodology
Description: Information Technology Investment: Decision-Making Methodology Containing financial investment models and complex decision-making models from management science, this unique book presents ...
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Intelligent Virtual World: Technologies and Applications In Distributed Virtual Environment
Description: Intelligent Virtual World: Technologies and Applications In Distributed Virtual Environment Building on the recent explosive growth of multimedia computing, communication and applications, this ...
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A Practical Guide to CRM
Description: A Practical Guide to CRM This book is a guide to achieving customer satisfaction by choosing the right CRM systems, and explains how to use CRM to integrate all channels of customer contact. ...
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Plasticity:Mathematical Theory and Numerical Analysis
Description: Plasticity:Mathematical Theory and Numerical Analysis Focusing on theoretical aspects of the small-strain theory of hardening elastoplasticity, this book covers the mathematical theory and ...
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Product Engineering: Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy
Description: Product Engineering: Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy Addressing a wide range of readers, from students to professors, from industrial experts to the researchers, this book covers ...
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Quantitative Methods in Project Management
Description: Quantitative Methods in Project Management This book combines theoretical and practical applications and takes project managers through the most important quantitative methods, integrates them, ...
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Reliability and Six Sigma
Description: Reliability and Six Sigma Containing a carefully developed integration of mathematical models that relate Six Sigma and reliability measures, this text is filled with case studies to illustrate ...
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Ruby Developer's Guide
Description: Ruby Developer's Guide Designed for programmers and developers looking to embrace the object-oriented features and functionality of this robust programming language, this comprehensive guide ...
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Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide
Description: Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide This interesting guide contains the knowledge you need to understand and assess how semantics can help your information systems. It also ...
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Sendmail: Theory and Practice, Second Edition
Description: Sendmail: Theory and Practice, Second Edition A comprehensive guide to the nooks and crannies of Sendmail, the most-popular electronic mail utility for those using Unix-based servers. ...
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SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook
Description: SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook An explanation of fundamental performance tuning concepts for SQL Server targeted to intermediate level database developers and ...
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Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent
Description: Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent This book outlines a fictional plot to "own the box" by compromising an entire continent's network infrastructure. It combines a set of stories with ...
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Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity
Description: Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity Delivering real-world network attack methodologies and hacking techniques within a context of fictional accounts, this book breaks new ground by ...
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Stealth KM: Winning Knowledge Management Strategies for the Public Sector
Description: Stealth KM: Winning Knowledge Management Strategies for the Public Sector Presenting an innovative way to drive successful knowledge management initiatives in the public sector, this book contains ...
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Strategic Management: From Theory to Implementation, Fourth Edition
Description: Strategic Management: From Theory to Implementation, Fourth Edition A thorough text which helps understand where strategic management comes from, and how a corporate strategy can be formed and ...
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System Requirements Analysis
Description: System Requirements Analysis Offering a methodology for breaking a large project down into stepwise questions and categorical needs lists, this text provides the tools to set up an effective ...
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The Quantum Leap: Next Generation
Description: The Quantum Leap: Next Generation Documenting the forces shaping today's demand-driven markets, this comprehensive desk reference provides a proven mathematically based roadmap for implementing ...
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The Unified Process Construction Phase: Best Practices for Completing the Unified Process
Description: The Unified Process Construction Phase: Best Practices for Completing the Unified Process Dozens of magazine articles about the third phase of the Unified Process, which encompasses analysis, ...
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Total Performance Scorecard: Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with Integrity
Description: Total Performance Scorecard: Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with Integrity In the post-Enron climate, this book introduces a concept of organizational improvement and change ...
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Value-Based Metrics for Improving Results: An Enterprise Project Management Toolkit
Description: Value-Based Metrics for Improving Results: An Enterprise Project Management Toolkit Featuring a roadmap that can be applied in any organization, this book presents a value-based methodology for ...
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World Class Applications of Six Sigma: Real World Examples of Success
Description: World Class Applications of Six Sigma: Real World Examples of Success With examples from well-known manufacturing and service companies around the world, this book shows what real organizations ...
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World Class Master Scheduling: Best Practices and Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement
Description: World Class Master Scheduling: Best Practices and Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement Providing a complete detailed understanding of world class master scheduling, this up-to-date how-to guide ...
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World Class Sales & Operations Planning: A Guide to Successful Implementation and Robust Execution
Description: World Class Sales & Operations Planning: A Guide to Successful Implementation and Robust Execution Explaining how to implement and execute robust S&OP process excellence, this comprehensive ...
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XML for Data Architects: Designing for Reuse and Integration
Description: XML for Data Architects: Designing for Reuse and Integration This book describes the challenges of using XML in a manner that promotes simplification of integration, and a high degree of schema ...
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A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing
Description: A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing Examining the reigning assumptions of asset pricing theory, this book constructs a solid, intact structure that challenges classic assumptions and at the ...
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Accounting and Financial Analysis in the Hospitality Industry
Description: Accounting and Financial Analysis in the Hospitality Industry Providing hospitality managers with the knowledge and experience to be comfortable in using numbers to operate their departments, this ...
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Achieve Lasting Process Improvement: Reach Six Sigma Goals Without the Pain
Description: Achieve Lasting Process Improvement: Reach Six Sigma Goals Without the Pain A step-by-step approach to the issue of effective process improvement, offering more than 200 tips and guidelines as ...
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Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
Description: Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction A practical guide focusing on the applications of PDF in the solution of "engineering" problems which may arise in a number of ...
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After Effects in Production: A Companion for Creating Motion Graphics
Description: After Effects in Production: A Companion for Creating Motion Graphics Tutorials and case studies for anyone who uses Adobe s After Effects multimedia authoring and product software for 2D or 3D ...
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Agile Software Construction
Description: Agile Software Construction Featuring a down-to-earth approach that focuses on how different methods can work together, this text covers the emerging methods and approaches that are loosely ...
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Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler's Children
Description: Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler's Children Presenting on-the-ground coverage of enabling IT governance in ...
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ASP .NET Web Developer's Guide
Description: ASP .NET Web Developer's Guide Learn to develop Web applications for Microsoft's .NET platform using ASP.NET. ...
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Basic MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow
Description: Basic MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow Designed to be modular and thus flexible for use in a variety of teaching and time formats, or for self-study, this book takes a practical, hands-on approach ...
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BeOS: Porting UNIX Applications
Description: BeOS: Porting UNIX Applications A how-to book for programmers porting applications to BeOS -- as well as those writing new apps for BeOS. ...
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Breakthrough IT Change Management: How to Get Enduring Change Results
Description: Breakthrough IT Change Management: How to Get Enduring Change Results With this book, readers will develop a change management strategy that starts by diagnosing the current culture and ...
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Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide: Getting Onboard with Emerging IT
Description: Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide: Getting Onboard with Emerging IT This quick reference guide overviews the best practices, tools, methods, and processes used to transform an ...
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Business Process Management Applied: Creating the Value Managed Enterprise
Description: Business Process Management Applied: Creating the Value Managed Enterprise Featuring a guiding framework and a presentation of the underlying architecture, this straightforward book provides the ...
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Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations, Second Edition
Description: Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations, Second Edition Providing leaders with an understanding of BPM and its benefits to an organization, this ...
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C# .NET Web Developer's Guide
Description: C# .NET Web Developer's Guide Learn the C# language to develop Web applications for Microsoft's .NET platform. ...
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Cisco Security Professional's Guide to Secure Intrusion Detection Systems
Description: Cisco Security Professional's Guide to Secure Intrusion Detection Systems This book includes complete coverage of the Cisco Secure Policy Manager (CSPM), as well as step-by-step instructions for ...
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Competitive Engineering: A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage
Description: Competitive Engineering: A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage Written for anyone involved in management and risk control, this ...
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Component-Based Software Testing with UML
Description: Component-Based Software Testing with UML Offering a comprehensive treatment of the intricacies of testing component-based software systems, this text using UML models to derive the testing ...
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Computer Animation for TV, Games, Multimedia and Web
Description: Computer Animation for TV, Games, Multimedia and Web Expert advice and a huge range of resources to help you make the most of animation opportunities in TV, games, multimedia and web. ...
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Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows XP Professional
Description: Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows XP Professional Learn and master how to configure and troubleshoot Windows XP Professional. ...
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Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency
Description: Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency Use this guide to understand the practices that guarantee regularity in user interfaces. ...
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Corporate Portals Empowered with XML and Web Services
Description: Corporate Portals Empowered with XML and Web Services This reference provides decision makers with a clear and concise explanation of what portals are all about, why you really need a portal ...
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Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Volume 1: The Essentials, 2nd Edition
Description: Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Volume 1: The Essentials, 2nd Edition Learn how After Effects works and get firsthand experience with the features award-winning artists use. ...
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Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification
Description: Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification Presenting a design for a portable, flexible high-security cryptographic architecture, this text unveils an alternative means of ...
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CYA: Securing Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook Web Access: Cover Your A** By Getting It Right the First Time
Description: CYA: Securing Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook Web Access: Cover Your A** By Getting It Right the First Time This book features accessible coverage of most documented Microsoft Exchange Server ...
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CYA: Securing IIS 6.0: Cover Your A** By Getting It Right the First Time
Description: CYA: Securing IIS 6.0: Cover Your A** By Getting It Right the First Time This book clearly identifies those features of IIS that represent the highest risk factors for attacks, performance ...
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Cyber Adversary Characterization: Auditing the Hacker Mind
Description: Cyber Adversary Characterization: Auditing the Hacker Mind Recognizing and understanding hackers and the potential threats they pose is key to securing any network. This book answers questions ...
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Deploying Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 with Windows Terminal Server 2003 Terminal Services
Description: Deploying Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 with Windows Terminal Server 2003 Terminal Services Whether you are building thin client environments for disaster recovery purposes or rolling ...
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Designing Menus with Encore DVD
Description: Designing Menus with Encore DVD Learn to create great looking, functional menus using Encore DVD 1.5 with this insider's guide. To help you design better menus, this book explains all the facets ...
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Digital UNIX System Administrator's Guide
Description: Digital UNIX System Administrator's Guide Tru64 UNIX (a.k.a. Digital UNIX) system administration for beginners. ...
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Digital Watermarking
Description: Digital Watermarking Learn about this key ingredient to copyright protection. ...
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Dynamics of Profit-Focused Accounting: Attaining Sustained Value and Bottom-Line Improvement
Description: Dynamics of Profit-Focused Accounting: Attaining Sustained Value and Bottom-Line Improvement This easy-to-understand reference articulates the best attributes of Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, ...
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Economics of Tourism Destinations
Description: Economics of Tourism Destinations Combining theory and practice to focus on the central theme of tourism destinations, this succinct guide emphasizes new aspects such as measurement of tourism, ...
