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Michael A. Cusumano

Though Japan has successfully competed with U.S. companies in the manufacturing and marketing of computer hardware, it has been less successful in developing computer programs. This book contains the first detailed analysis of how Japanese firms have tried to redress this imbalance by applying their skills in engineering and production management to software development. Cusumano focuses on the creation of "software factories" in which large numbers of people are engaged in developing software in cooperative ways--i.e. individual programs are not developed in isolation but rather utilize portions of other programs already developed whenever possible, and then yield usable portions for other programs being written. Devoting chapters to working methods at System Developing Corp., Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, and Fujitsu, and including a comparison of Japanese and U.S. software factories, Cusumano's book will be important reading for all people involved in software and computer technology, as...

Robert E. Neilson

Collaborative Technologies and Organizational Learning provides new insight from a longitudinal study of a public sector organization's experience with implementing a specific collaborative technology, Lotus Notes. The book includes a discussion of theoretical bases for organizational learning as well as practice prescriptions for those interested in installing or using Lotus Notes to leverage the intellectual capital already existing within an organization. From a theoretical perspective the book discusses a multiplicity of theoretical bases underlying organizational learning including single and double loop learning, expectancy theory, experience curve theory, reciprocity theory, coordination theory, open systems theory, optimal curve theory, and need-pull theory. Tom Davenport, a well-known management "guru" recently lamented that "if you can find a case in which Lotus Notes has fundamentally changed the organizational culture and dynamics of information exchange, I'll waterski...

Jack L. Brock

Gordon E. Smith

Book Description* Explores the components of e-commerce (including EDI). * Shows the risks involved when using an e-commerce system. * Provides controls for protecting an e-commerce site (e.g., securing financial transactions and confidential transactions). * Provides COSO compliant audit approach. * Provides risk/control tables and checklists. * Technical topics are discussed in simple user-friendly language.Download Description* Explores the components of e-commerce (including EDI). * Shows the risks involved when using an e-commerce system. * Provides controls for protecting an e-commerce site (e.g., securing financial transactions and confidential transactions). * Provides COSO compliant audit approach. * Provides risk/control tables and checklists. * Technical topics are discussed in simple user-friendly language.

Sudhanshu Kairab

Book DescriptionThis book is a detailed methodology of performing a security assessment. The book emphasizes the approach of first understanding the business and then the technology that supports it. It focuses on fundamental process areas of security and provides a methodology for security practitioners to uncover security weaknesses in other existing business processes. With the emphasis on the business driving security, this book presents a standard methodology for performing a security assessment as well as the reasons for doing it that way. It also provides checklists for process-oriented areas of information security to provide detailed guidance that can be used in performing a security assessment.

Steve Clarke, Brian Lehaney

The 1980s and 1990s have seen a growing interest in research and practice in information systems design and development from a human-centered perspective. This is an interest that is accelerated by the increase in organizations in which the human resource provides the means to key competitive advantage. Human Centered Methods in Information Systems: Current Research and Practice is a compilation of contributed chapters by researchers and practitioners addressing the relationships between human activity, organizational issues and technology.

Stephen Kelly

Michael Berthold, David J. Hand

This monograph is a detailed introductory presentation of the key classes of intelligent data analysis methods. The twelve coherently written chapters by leading experts provide complete coverage of the core issues. The first half of the book is devoted to the discussion of classical statistical issues, ranging from the basic concepts of probability, through general notions of inference, to advanced multivariate and time series methods, as well as a detailed discussion of the increasingly important Bayesian approaches and Support Vector Machines. The following chapters then concentrate on the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence and provide introductions into the topics of rule induction methods, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and stochastic search methods. The book concludes with a chapter on Visualization and a higher-level overview of the IDA processes, which illustrates the breadth of application of the presented ideas.

Borko Furht

Ed Robinson, Michael James Bond

This is the first book every Visual Basic .NET programmer should read on security. This is an end-to-end guide, with clear prescriptive guidance for best practices, application design, and coding techniques for Windows and Web-based applications. This book makes writing secure applications easier than ever before. It features plain-language explanations of security terms illustrated with step-by-step code walk-throughs and sample files for both Visual Basic .NET 2002 and Visual Basic .NET 2003. Programmers will learn how to use encryption, role-based security, code access security, authentication, authorization along with techniques to help protect against common exploits. Also covered in this end-to-end guide are techniques for locking down Microsoft Windows, Internet Information Services and Microsoft SQL server. Readers will learn how to perform a security audit, how to test for security, how to design with security in mind, and security techniques for deploying Windows and...