White-collar crime is rampant, and has been for some time, in the business community of the U.S. economy. Experts have estimated that the costs of white-collar crime averages about 20 times the costs of street crimes each year. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) estimated that fraud cost the U.S. economy $660 billion in 2004. But white-collar crime has taken a backseat to stree…
There is an ever-increasing need for advanced information and decision support systems in today’s fierce global competitive environment. The profitability and the overall business can be managed better with access to predictive tools—to predict, even approximately, the market prices of raw materials used in production, for instance. Business analytics involves, among others, quantitative te…
Malware, virus, e-mail scam, identity theft, evil maid, password logger, screen scraper… Cyber security concerns everyone. Computers can be your trusted friends or traitors. The Internet is a scary place. Going on the Internet is like walking the streets of a crime-ridden neighborhood. Cyber criminals work to steal your privacy, money, assets, and even identity. Cyber-attacks are intangible, …
When the World Wide Web was first developed, it was a static place. It was mainly a really big library with information that visitors could read. Documents were linked together so that the information was easy to find, but the Web pages were basically static. Every visitor to a Web site saw the same Web page. Over time, the Web has evolved. It’s now a dynamic environment where visitors inter…
Security and privacy issues have risen in importance as the use of technology increases. Newly devel- oped technological devices for asset security can only be successful if people are willing to use them. Gaining an understanding of individuals’ acceptance and possible use of new security technologies would be beneficial to entities that are developing, marketing, and implementing new securi…
The papers in this volume, and the symposium on which it is based, reflect the work of managers and union representatives, engineers and consultants, professors, and practitioners. Despite their common interests in the implementation of new technologies, these groups do not often meet and talk together. There are language barriers across the groups as well as within; there is no more automatic …
PDF Hacks is ideal for anyone who works with PDF on a regular basis. Learn how to create PDF documents that are far more powerful than simple representations of paper pages. Hacks cover the full range of PDF functionality, including generating, manipulating, annotating, and consuming PDF information. Far more than another guide to Adobe Acrobat, the book covers a variety of readily available to…
OSWorkflow is a Java-based open-source workflow engine. It helps you to focus your work on the business logic and rules rather than working on heavy coding. Integrating OSWorkflow into your application is very easy and fast. OSWorkflow provides all of the workflow constructs that you might come across in real-life processes like steps, conditions, loops, splits, joins, roles, etc. The latest ve…
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) may consist of many interconnected components. As a result of this, the Oracle SOA Suite is a large piece of software that initially seems to be overwhelmingly complex. In this chapter, we will provide a roadmap for your understanding of the SOA Suite and provide a reference architecture to help you understand how to apply SOA principles with the SOA Suite. A…
The Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference is a quick reference guide to the PL/SQL programming language, which provides procedural extensions to the SQL relational data- base language and a range of Oracle development tools. Where a package, program, or function is supported only for a particular version of the Oracle database (e.g., Oracle Data- base 11g), we indicate this in the text. The …
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management and security. This book will introduce the reader to those features, providing a step-by-step guide to building a complete system from scratch. The aim of the book is to equip a developer or analyst with a good basic understanding of what…
An ETL (or ELT, if you focus on Oracle Data Integrator) tool will perform the BI data integration process. In this way, the Data becomes accessible to the BI solution's end user. The data warehouse is the central point of the BI solution. This contains structured data–detailed and consistent–for query analysis, and provides support for all BI operations from data mining to reporting. Unli…
Oracle ADF is a powerful Java application framework for building next generation enterprise applications. Oracle ADF in combination with JDeveloper IDE offers visual and declarative approaches to enterprise application development. This book will teach you to build scalable, rich enterprise applications by using the ADF Framework, with the help of many real world examples. This book discusses…
Chapter 1: Establish your SME. Chapter 2: Set up your production. Chapter 3: Market and sell your products. Chapter 4: Support your customers. Appendix: Various policies, procedures and checklists.
Organic Sensations and Emotions.—Discomfort accompanied by square form of the mouth (149). Craving for food shown by cooing sound (155). Strongest feeling connected with appeasing of hunger (157). Restless nights (162). Astonishment at new sounds and sights; with fright (86). Thirty-first week, at clapping of fan. Thirty-fourth week, at imitation of voices of animals (173).