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Branch Office Modernization Best Practices using the Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Model
Jun 2009
For large organizations whose IT infrastructure includes supporting branch offices or sites, ensuring that the branch infrastructure is optimized can be a key factor in organizational success....
Provided by Microsoft
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Wondering Why Strategy Is Not Producing Results?
Sep 2009
Execution is the difference™. It is the critical success factor. While every company has a strategy, most also have a giant execution deficit. The reality is that it's almost impossible to get...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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Implementation and Use of Transactional Memory With Dynamic Separation
Jan 2009
The paper introduces the design and implementation of Dynamic Separation (DS) as a programming discipline for using transactional memory. The approach is based on the programmer indicating which...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Taking the Heat Off Transactions: Dynamic Selection of Pessimistic Concurrency Control
Feb 2009
This paper investigates feedback-directed dynamic selection between different implementations of atomic blocks. The paper initially executes atomic blocks using STM with optimistic concurrency...
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Compress Compound Images in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC by Fully Exploiting Spatial Correlation
May 2009
Compound images consist of text, graphics and natural images, which present strong anisotropic features. It makes existing image coding standards inefficient on compressing them. To solve the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Transactional Memory With Strong Atomicity Using Off-the-Shelf Memory Protection Hardware
Feb 2009
This paper introduces a new way to provide strong atomicity in an implementation of transactional memory. Strong atomicity lets one offer clear semantics to programs, even if they access the same...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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A Composable Model for Analyzing Locality of Multi-Threaded Programs
Aug 2009
In a multi-threaded execution, threads may negatively interfere when their private data contends for shared cache or positively interact when the data brought in by one thread is used by other...
Provided by Microsoft
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Biorthogonality, Step-Indexing and Compiler Correctness
Sep 2009
This paper defines logical relations between the denotational semantics of a simply typed functional language with recursion and the operational behaviour of low-level programs in a variant SECD...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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The PlusCal Algorithm Language
Jan 2009
Algorithms are different from programs and should not be described with programming languages. The only simple alternative to programming languages has been pseudo-code. PlusCal is an algorithm...
Provided by Microsoft
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Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing With Satellite Kernels
Aug 2009
Helios is an operating system designed to simplify the task of writing, deploying, and tuning applications for heterogeneous platforms. Helios introduces satellite kernels, which export a single,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140, and T5240 Server Architecture: Unleashing the UltraSPARCT2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processors With Innovative Multi-Core Multi-Thread Technology
Jul 2009
Use of the Web is changing in fundamental ways, driven by Web 2.0 applications and the thousands of people who join the global Internet every day through a proliferation of new interactive...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Tips for Creating Services in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009: Concepts and Recommendations for Developers That Are Creating Custom Services
Jun 2009
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 ships with document services that encapsulate common business logic and provide a method for exchanging data with other systems. If an existing document service does not...
Provided by Microsoft
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An Overview of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Nov 2007
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 delivers on Microsoft's vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality, rich user...
Provided by Microsoft
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Key Benefits of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Dec 2007
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 helps individual developers and small development teams accelerate solution development; deliver breakthrough user experiences; and collaborate more effectively while...
Provided by Microsoft
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The Department of Defense and Open Source Software
Mar 2009
Is open source software a viable strategy for large-scale SOA deployments, especially at the U.S. Department of Defense? This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
Web Server Improvements with Microsoft Server 2008
Sep 2009
This is another in our series about Microsoft Longhorn, also known as Server 2008. In this series we break down the most important components of Longhorn and give listeners the benefit of some of...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Outlook Add-In Helps Web Design Firm Get More Out of Visual Studio Team System
Jul 2009
Personify Design, a custom Web design and development firm, wanted to streamline the process of entering and retrieving information from its application lifecycle management solution. Personify...
Provided by Microsoft
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Introducing the Windows Azure Platform: An Early Look at Windows Azure, .Net Services, SQL Services, and Live Services
May 2009
Using computers in the cloud can make lots of sense. Rather than buying and maintaining own machines, why not exploit the acres of Internet-accessible servers on offer today? For some...
Provided by Microsoft
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Windows Azure and ISVS: A Guide for Decision Makers
Jul 2009
Why should an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) care about cloud computing? The answer is simple: Using the cloud has the potential to increase an ISV's revenues and/or decrease its costs. Running...
Provided by Microsoft
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Requirements Management and Visual Studio Team System
Sep 2008
Failures to define, communicate, or validate business requirements are the root causes of many software-project delays, overruns, and failures. There is a growing realization in the industry of...
Provided by Microsoft
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Massive But Agile: Best Practices for Scaling the Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse - Forrester Report
Oct 2009
Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals continue to expand the scale, scope, and deployment roles for their enterprise data warehouse (EDW) investments. Information managers are...
Provided by Aster Data
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How to Become a C# Programmer: A Systematic Approach to Learning C# That Anyone Can Follow
Oct 2009
The idea for this paper came about one day when author received two emails from two people in completely different hemispheres of the world, both asking the same thing: "How should one get started...
Provided by LearnItFirst.com
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Intel Premier IT Magazine
Oct 2009
Access bottom line best practices from Intel IT for your client fleet in the Intel Premier IT magazine
Provided by Intel
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Picis Transforms Healthcare Processes with Business Intelligence from Business Objects
Jan 2008
Find out how Picis incorporated business intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis technology from SAP BusinessObjects in the development of the Picis CareSuite family of products, comprising best...
Provided by SAP
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The Pursuit of a Standardized Solution for Secure Enterprise RBAC
Oct 2009
Each RBAC implementation varies in its capabilities and method of management. In a multi-platform environment, these differences introduce higher administration hours and costs because the various...
Provided by BeyondTrust
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Ziff Davis Research: Supporting Employees Anytime, Anywhere
Oct 2009
This white paper takes an in-depth look at the challenges of supporting today's workforce and how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enables IT to provide secure, effective remote support - anytime and...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Webcasts
The Converging Paths of SQL Server and SharePoint - Don't Wait Until It's Too Late!
Oct 2009
SharePoint and SQL server have much in common, and understanding their similarities will help you streamline your day-to-day tasks and help you work more efficiently. Do you know what those...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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Reducing the Risk of DNS Cache Poisoning Via the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability
Sep 2008
To help provide further protection, NitroSecurity worked with several outside security agencies - including the Rochester Institute of Technology - to develop a method wherein intrusion prevention...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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Storm Worm & Botnet Analysis
Jun 2008
When worm is running, it unpacks itself first, and then drops a malicious PE file that is embedded in the executable file. Then, it decrypts the malicious PE file into heap memory. When these...
Provided by Websense
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Introducing Xomega for XML Object Modeling and Code Generation
Nov 2009
XML-based Model Driven Development can be a simple, but very powerful alternative to the UML-based MDA and can result in significantly increased productivity, clean and robust designs and improved...
Provided by Xomega.Net
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Increase Reliability with IBM WebSphere File Transfer Edition (FTE)
Nov 2009
"Does your organization still use FTP software? Did you know these links require 3 to 4 times more time and effort to build and maintain versus SOA-based Application Integration projects? Read...
Provided by IBM
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Designing High Availability for Internet Information Services
Nov 2009
End downtime forever! - Organizations today are relying more and more on Web services for the implementation of mission-critical applications. With the advent of Service-Oriented Architectures...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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MapScale: A Cloud Environment for Scientific Computing
Jun 2009
Parallel programming languages have sought out many different means by which many numbers of cores can be utilized for a common goal. Programming languages such as MPI provide a low-level, message...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Design of an RFID-Based Battery-Free Programmable Sensing Platform
Nov 2008
This paper presents the Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP), which is a programmable battery-free sensing and computational platform designed to explore sensor-enhanced Radio...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Citizants: Bringing IT In-House
Nov 2009
Citizant enhances IT flexibility and scalability by creating a virtualized Dell infrastructure that will pay for itself in 18 months.
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
Energy Monitoring Firm Saves Money, Scales Business With Hosted Computing Platform
Nov 2009
Advanced Telemetry develops systems to help businesses monitor and control energy usage, onsite or via the Internet. The company employees 22 people. Advanced Telemetry needed a cost-effective way...
Provided by Microsoft
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A Fully Programmable 40 GOPS SDR Single Chip Baseband for LTE/WiMAX Terminals
Jan 2009
The increasing number of radio protocols along with the need for multimedia support in mobile communication devices call for heterogeneous, programmable multi-core processors. This paper presents...
Provided by Dresden University of Technology
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Iterative MAP Equalization and Decoding in Wireless Mobile Coded OFDM
Nov 2007
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system suffers extra performance degradation in fast fading channels due to InterCarrier Interference (ICI). Combining frequency domain...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Video-Centric Network Coding Strategies for 4G Wireless Networks: An Overview
Nov 2009
The impact of Internet content and IP based television on networks is growing. Video is now ubiquitous in the home and on the street. It demands new approaches to video transmission to meet the...
Provided by MIT
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Min-Cut Determination for Linear Network Code in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Mar 2008
This paper proposes an implementation neutral protocol, called Multiple Disjoint Path (MDP), for the determination of the min-cut in wireless ad hoc networks by summarizing the capacity of...
Provided by Sun Yat-sen University
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Podcasts
Railscasts #352: Securing an API
May 2012
There are many approaches to locking down an API. In this podcast, the speaker will start off with HTTP Basic authentication then move on to generating a unique token which can be passed through a...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Podcasts
Railscasts #348: The Rails API Gem
May 2012
It is often asked: Is Rails a good fit if the user only need to serve an API? In this podcast, the speaker will show how to use the Rails API gem to create a slimmer Rails application designed to...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Podcasts
Railscasts #344: Queue Classic
Apr 2012
PostgreSQL can act as a worker queue which can replace the need for a separate process to manage the background jobs. In this podcast, the speaker will explain about the Queue Classic the user can...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Podcasts
Railscasts #342: Migrating to PostgreSQL
Apr 2012
PostgreSQL is a feature-packed relational database that every Rails developer should consider using. In this podcast, the user will learn how to install it, add it to a new application, and...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Podcasts
Railscasts #340: DataTables
Apr 2012
DataTables makes it easy to convert a plain HTML table into one with pagination, sorting, and searching - all done with JavaScript and jQuery. In this podcast, the speaker will show how to set...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Webcasts
Google I/O 2012 - Use What You Know: HTML and JavaScript in Apps Script
Aug 2012
In this webcast, the presenter covers how to build dynamic webapps and services in Apps Script, using skills that one already have. The presenter will also how to create rich interactive apps...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Whitepapers
Energy Efficient Coalition Game Theoretic Approach for MIMO Based Wireless Sensor Network
Apr 2012
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) requires robust and efficient communication protocols to save energy and enhance network lifetime. However the adverse impacts caused by radio irregularities and...
Provided by EuroJournals
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A Survey of the Correlation Properties of the Generalized Barker Codes
Nov 2009
The Barker codes (signals) were invented in the beginning of the 1950s of the twentieth century. Due to their positive auto-correlation properties the classical Barker signals have been applied in...
Provided by TELFOR
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An Approach for Light-Weight Encryption Employing Dedicated Coding
Nov 2012
This paper proposes an improvement of certain encryption approaches designed based on hardness of the Learning from Parity with Noise (LPN) problem. The proposal employs a dedicated homophonic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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SIMAGE: Secure and Link-Quality Cognizant Image Distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks
Nov 2012
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used in a range of critical domains (e.g., health care, military, critical infrastructure) where it is necessary that the nodes be reprogrammed with a new or...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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An Efficient Configurable Architecture for 3GPP Interleaving/Deinterleaving in Turbo Coded Systems
Jun 2012
Interleaving along with error correction coding is an effective way to deal with different types of error in digital data communication. Error burst due to multipath fading and from other sources...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Implementation of High Speed Reed Solomon Decoder Using Nanotechnology Based Quantum Dot Cellular Automata
Jun 2012
Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an emerging technology that can be considered as a possible alternative for semiconductor transistor technology. It has many attractive features such as very...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Optimizing JavaScript Object Behavior and Global Function Object
Aug 2012
In JavaScript, there are some built-in objects or common objects like Number, String, Math and Boolean etc. They have some common behaviors or internal properties. Before going to interpret any...
Provided by EuroJournals
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LDPC Decoder for WiMAX Applications
Nov 2012
In this paper, a memory based partially parallel Low Density Parity Check Decoder architecture for WiMAX applications is proposed to achieve good tradeoff between hardware complexity and decoding...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Low Power Analysis on Viterbi Decoder and FFT as Common Operator
Nov 2012
The SoftWare Radio (SWR) is a technique which is capable of supporting different transmission standards in a single platform. The way of implementing SWR is known as Software Defined Radio (SDR)....
Provided by EuroJournals
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Downlink Linear Precoder Design with Channel Mismatch Error and Feedback Delay
Dec 2012
Linear precoder design in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system improves system performance and also reduces system complexity. It is well known that the design of linear precoder requires...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Performance Enhancement of Max-Log-MAP Turbo Decoding Algorithm
Dec 2012
Turbo decoder uses any one of the decoding algorithms, Maximum A posteriori Probability (MAP), or Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm (SOVA) because it produces error correction near to Shannon's limit...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Optimizing Microsoft Exchange in the Enterprise: Optimizing the Mailbox Server Role and the Client Access Server
Jan 2013
In this white paper, we first explore key Microsoft Exchange 2010 features: the Mailbox Server Role and Client Access Server (CAS). Through configuration of Exchange databases, resource mailboxes,...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Learning How To Learn Hadoop
Jan 2013
Learning how to program and develop for the Hadoop platform can lead to lucrative new career opportunities in Big Data. But like the problems it solves, the Hadoop framework can be quite complex...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Program Spectra Analysis with Theory of Evidence
Jan 2012
In this paper, the authors present an approach to automatically analyzing program spectra, an execution profile of program testing results for fault localization. Using a mathematical theory of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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A Simple Application Program Interface for Saving Java Program Data on a Wiki
Jan 2012
A simple Application Program Interface (API) for Java programs running on a wiki is implemented experimentally. A Java program with the API can be running on a wiki, and the Java program can save...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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An Empirical Study on the Impact of Duplicate Code
Mar 2012
In this paper, the authors define a new indicator "Modification frequency" to measure the impact of duplicate code and compare the values between duplicate code and non-duplicate code. The...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Evaluating the Effect of Control Flow on the Unit Testing Effort of Classes: An Empirical Analysis
Mar 2012
The aim of this paper is to evaluate empirically the relationship between a new metric (Quality Assurance Indicator-Qi) and testability of classes in object-oriented systems. The Qi metric...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Whitepapers
Genetic Programming for Automating the Development of Data Management Algorithms in Information Technology Systems
Mar 2012
Information Technology (IT) systems are present in almost all fields of human activity, with emphasis on processing, storage, and handling of datasets. Automated methods to provide access to data...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Improving Model Checking with Context Modelling
May 2012
In this paper, the authors deal with the problem of the usage of formal techniques, based on model checking, where models are large and formal verification techniques face the combinatorial...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Applying a Goal Programming Model to Support the Selection of Artifacts in a Testing Process
Nov 2012
In this paper, the authors propose the definition of a goal programming model for the selection of artifacts to be developed during a testing process, so that the set of selected artifacts is more...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Whitepapers
Minimum Mean Squared Error Interference Alignment
Jan 2013
To achieve the full multiplexing gain of MIMO interference networks at high SNRs, the interference from different transmitters must be aligned in lower-dimensional subspaces at the receivers....
Provided by Technische Universitat Ilmenau
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Whitepapers
Automation of Library (Codes) Development for Content Management System (CMS)
Sep 2012
Previous researchers have found that most programmers or web developer usually have problems with the generation of libraries, creation of databases and the integration of the two aforementioned....
Provided by University of Illinois, Rehab Services
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Whitepapers
Software Rejuvenation in Web Services
Sep 2012
In this paper, the authors describe the formatting guidelines for IJCA Journal Submission. Software Aging is a phenomenon in which the state of a software system degrades with time and eventually...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Design, Implementation and Integration of Heterogeneous Applications
Sep 2012
This paper is about integrating heterogeneous web applications using web services. A SOAP web service is being used to integrate applications like ASP.NET, Java and database. As usage of internet...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Analytical Evaluation of a Hybrid Chaotic Shift Keying [CS-QCSK] in a CDMA System
Sep 2012
In recent years, various chaos based modulation schemes were evolved, of which the CS-DCSK modulation technique provides a better BER performance and bandwidth efficiency, due to its code domain...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Behavior based Automated Test Case Generation for Object Oriented Systems
Sep 2012
Software Testing is the process of executing a program with the intention of finding errors. Every software code has been reviewed and verified through SQA activities but these activities are not...
Provided by Thapar Institute
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Comparative Analysis of Classification Algorithms on Different Datasets using WEKA
Sep 2012
Data mining is the upcoming research area to solve various problems and classification is one of main problem in the field of data mining. In this paper, the authors use two classification...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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A Simulated Enhancement of Fisher-Yates Algorithm for Shuffling in Virtual Card Games using Domain-Specific Data Structures
Sep 2012
Generally stated Algorithms are often preferred because of their wider horizon of applications owing to their freedom from any underlying language specification - they are not tied to any language...
Provided by Federal University of Technology
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Whitepapers
The Study on Cooperative Relay Coding in Multicarrier System
Oct 2012
Cooperative relay systems represent a promising solution overcoming the drawbacks of Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) propagation in future wireless communications. In this paper, the authors propose a...
Provided by Sejin
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Whitepapers
A Study on Verification and Analysis of Symbol Tables for Development of the C++ Compiler
Oct 2012
The existing C++ compilers are designed to translate C++ source programs into target codes and then execute them. This translation method is that a compiler that translates C++ source programs to...
Provided by Dongguk University
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Whitepapers
Design and Implementation of Location Awareness and Sharing System using GPS and 3G/GPRS
Oct 2012
In this age of significant telecommunications competition, mobile network operators continuously seek new and innovative ways to create differentiation and increase profits. One of the best ways...
Provided by Aligarh Muslim University
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Whitepapers
The Service Generation Apparatus for IPTV Interactive Digital Channel
Sep 2009
Now-a-days, based on the needs of audio-video entertainments by customers and advanced network development, the IPTV has been intensely developed by the telecommunication, multi-media, and network...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
SOCP Approach for Reducing PAPR for Mimo-OFDM Via Tone Reservation
May 2011
A combination of multiple-input multiple-output with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing has become a promising candidate for wireless communications. However, like OFDM, a serious...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
An Approach to Provide Type Safety of Languages for Programming Wireless Sensor Networks
Sep 2011
On the design of a reliable programming model for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), the authors must deal with various concerns, such as heterogeneousness of sensors, different sensing capabilities,...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Case Studies
Solution Provider Upgrades Platform for Efficient Application Lifecycle Management
Mar 2010
Northwest Cadence helps organizations manage and simplify their software development efforts so development teams can deliver applications more efficiently and organizations can meet their...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
New Tools Help IT Firm Visualize, Improve, and Validate Architecture in Large Projects
Mar 2010
Sogeti is a global IT consulting firm that specializes in professional software services. Its developers, architects, and testers often work in different locations and had issues collaborating on...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Xerox Services Division Accelerates Database Build and Deployment Time Significantly
Mar 2010
Xerox Global Services - a division of document outsourcing and business services leader Xerox - offers solutions that include business applications for customers. Its database development team...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
3M Streamlines Development, Accelerates Product Delivery With Integrated Tools
Mar 2010
Innovation is the key to success at 3M. With products as diverse as Scotch Tape, medical devices, and Web-based applications, 3M research teams are constantly exploring new ideas for consumer and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Mine-Planning Software Uses Parallelization to Deliver Powerful New Capabilities
Apr 2010
In developing its own mine-planning software, consultancy ORElogy needed to capitalize on the performance gains enabled by multicore processors and multiprocessor servers, but it wanted to avoid...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Global Software Developer Expects to Double Productivity, Cut Costs by 10 Percent
Mar 2010
ICONICS, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, provides industrial automation and visualization software to organizations in more than 60 countries. The company's development teams include employees...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Consulting Company Uses Latest Development Tools to Improve Software Test Process
Apr 2010
Consulting services and software company Notion Solutions wanted to improve the quality of its software products, but was having difficulty ensuring adequate test coverage across different client...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Content Management Solution Uses Parallelization to Deliver Huge Performance Gains
Apr 2010
Content management system vendor Composite needed to parallelize its software to realize the performance gains enabled by today's multicore processors. Composite took advantage of the new...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Insurance Company Uses Parallel Programming to Move Rating Engine Off Mainframe
Apr 2010
From 1999 to 2010, Grange Insurance maintained its mission-critical rating engine in two places: a Windows-based Web site for agents, and a mainframe for heavy batch processing. To eliminate...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Startup Cuts Code by 5 Percent, Minimizes Costs and Resources With Microsoft Solution
Apr 2010
SignSwift, a startup company that provides digital signage services, needed to build a Web site to support its offerings. To do so, the company sought an affordable yet robust development and Web...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Web Content Management Firm Streamlines Development, Testing With Integrated Tools
Mar 2010
EPiServer delivers Web content management, online social community, and e-commerce solutions to businesses worldwide. To improve product lifecycles through closer collaboration between developers...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Global Software Company Cuts Development Time for Workflow Solution by 80 Percent
Apr 2010
SYSPRO, a global software manufacturer, wanted to offer customers a workflow solution that would integrate with its enterprise resource planning software and other applications. However, it could...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
An Introduction to Agile Software Development
Apr 2010
What is Agile? How can Agile help improve my organization? This paper discusses answers to these questions. First comes an introduction to the two broad schools of thought common to software...
Provided by CollabNet
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White Papers
Agile Roles and Responsibilities
Apr 2010
This article presents a generalized framework of roles and responsibilities for an Agile project which includes three roles: the Customer, the Implementer, and the Facilitator. It also discusses...
Provided by CollabNet
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Webcasts
The New Wave of eLearning Technologies
Dec 2009
Ed Prentice, President of Centrax, covers the practical use of new technologies in eLearning, including the Second life, mobile applications, the iPhone, video programming, and text messaging.
Provided by Adobe Systems
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White Papers
Looking for an Ultra-Lightweight Code Generator?
Mar 2010
Global competition makes software an indispensable element of success - without software many of today's products and services would be impossible to develop and sell. On the other hand, creating...
Provided by actifsource
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Case Studies
Consulting Firm Improves Productivity With Expanded Reporting, Version Control Tools
Mar 2010
Fujitsu Canada is a consulting firm offering business and IT services. The company had deployed Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 but wanted expanded reporting, version control,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Banking Firm Uses Functional Language to Speed Development by 50 Percent
Mar 2010
A large financial services firm in Europe sought new development tools that could cut costs, boost productivity, and improve the quality of its mathematical models. To address its needs, the bank...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Software Developer Uses Integrated Tool Set to Cut Costs and Streamline Development
Mar 2010
Minitab, a creator of statistical analysis and process improvement software, wanted to simplify and accelerate development. It deployed an integrated solution that includes Microsoft Visual Studio...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Software Company Eases Development, Reduces Server Requests by 90 Percent
Apr 2010
Epicor is a global software company that creates Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for manufacturing firms and other customers. A growing number of Epicor customers wanted a more...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Solution Provider Streamlines Processes, Will Speed Some Development by 50 Percent
Mar 2010
Based in Sydney, Australia, Dataract is an independent software vendor that develops workflow task automation solutions based on Microsoft software. The company wanted to design workflows inside...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Development Tools Help Software Company Improve Collaboration, Reduce Project Costs
Mar 2010
Avanquest Software, a leading software developer with operations in North America, Europe, and Asia, was looking for a development system to help it create a state-of-the-art desktop and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Software Vendor Speeds Testing, Improves Collaboration, and Wins New Business
Apr 2010
Readify, a software vendor based in Australia, performs most of its consulting work at customer sites, billing on a time-and-materials basis. To appeal to customers who need high visibility into...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Insurance Company Expects to Cut Rework Time in Half, Improves Customer Satisfaction
Mar 2010
The Dutch insurance company Achmea wanted to improve efficiency and customer satisfaction. Developers often had to rebuild applications that did not meet customer requirements, and it was...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
IT Company Uses Solution to Improve Product Tracking, Accelerate Development
Apr 2010
Minnesota-based Navitaire produces and manages a range of online business process solutions for airlines and other travel providers around the world. The company wanted to improve development and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
IT Services Firm Helps Customers Improve Software Testing and Team Collaboration
Apr 2010
Access IT, a software provider and technology trainer based in France, helps more than 300 European customers deploy and learn about Microsoft products and technologies. Recently, the company...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Insurance Company Expects to Cut Software Development Time and Costs by 20 Percent
Apr 2010
The application development team at Lansforsakringar AB, a Swedish insurance and banking company, wanted to simplify and speed software development. The team's customers relied on it for...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Share Registrar Cuts Testing Time and Improves Application Lifecycle Management
Apr 2010
Equiniti, a leading share registrar in the United Kingdom, wanted to manage development processes more efficiently. It sought to reduce costly, time-consuming manual testing and gain better...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Leopold Fiebig GmbH & Co. KG Guarantees Top Performance for Inquiries and Orders
Apr 2010
Leopold Fiebig GmbH & Co. wanted to reduce drug order response times to improve customer satisfaction and end ordering process delays on the company's Web site, especially during peak periods,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Portfolio Optimization
Nov 2009
Since its founding in 1987, the company's proactive approach to tax-efficient investing has performed consistently and allowed many of the country's wealthiest families and taxable institutions to...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Multi-Mode Message Passing Switch Networks Applied for QC-LDPC Decoder
Jun 2008
The multi-mode message passing switch networks for multi-standard QC-LDPC decoder are presented. An enhanced self-routing switch network with only one barrel shifter permutation structure and a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Enhancing the Reliability of TCP With Network Coding
Apr 2009
Reliable transport protocols such as TCP are tuned to perform well in traditional networks where packet losses occur mostly because of congestion. However, networks with wireless and other lossy...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Agro-Based Decision Support System Using Linear Programming
Oct 2009
This paper proposed an agro-based decision support system for optimal utilization of available resources. DSS incorporates a mathematical model that has defined all variables, constraints and...
Provided by Sarhad University
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Searching for a Diamond in the Rough: Finding and Integrating SAS Programming Talent
Apr 2010
Although the current economy has seen a lot of companies cutting back on hiring programmers, there is still a high demand for talented SAS programmers. It can be a challenge to find highly...
Provided by Biogen Idec
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Creating a Successful Support Model for the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform
Apr 2010
SAS has a robust set of tools that provide business analysts many capabilities ranging from statistics and data mining to data integration and business intelligence. In the early years, prior to...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Quality Outcomes and SAS: Structuring, Managing and Working in SAS-Based Programming Groups
Mar 2010
Compliance with programming standards is part and parcel of managing or working a programming group; whether a C++ or SAS based group. Managers and programmers find themselves in a constant...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
SAS Beyond Measure
Mar 2010
One's "Work life" is a journey with diverging and converging pathways that require decisions about their career direction each step of the way. The author's journey includes the enlightenment...
Provided by SAS Institute
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SAS Arrays, Both Implicit and Explicit
Mar 2010
In SAS, arrays can be defined with implicit or explicit subscripting. Current documentation only covers the explicit version and the implicit version is only supported for backward compatibility....
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2: Getting to Code You
Mar 2010
Both experienced and new users to SAS have a need for SAS Enterprise Guide to write and run their code. Experienced users are accustomed to entering all their code into the Program Editor window...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
A SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 and SAS/CONNECT Mainframe Project Which Makes the Mainframe Behave Like a Modern Computer
Mar 2010
For those SAS Users who, like us, want to use Enterprise Guide and SAS/Connect as the interface to a mainframe, but, do not own SAS Integration Technologies, the paper presents here a...
Provided by SAS Institute
