"Dr. Shubu Mukherjee's book is a welcome surprise: books by architecture leaders in major companies are few and far between. Written from the viewpoint of a working engineer, the book describes sources of soft errors and solutions involving device, logic, and architecture design to reduce the effects of soft errors." - Max Baron, Microprocessor Report - May 27, 2008

Award winning author provides a much needed book in an emerging field he has helped design!

This book provides a comprehensive description of the architetural techniques to tackle the soft error problem. It covers the new methodologies for quantitative analysis of soft errors as well as novel, cost-effective architectural techniques to mitigate them. To provide readers with a better grasp of the broader problem deffinition and solution space, this book also delves into the physics of soft errors and reviews current circuit and software mitigation techniques.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Device- and Circuit-Level Modeling, Measurement, and Mitigation
Chapter 3: Architectural Vulnerability Analysis
Chapter 4: Advanced Architectural Vulnerability Analysis
Chapter 5: Error Coding Techniques
Chapter 6: Fault Detection via Redundant Execution
Chapter 7: Hardware Error Recovery
Chapter 8: Software Detection and Recovery

* Provides the methodologies necessary to quantify the effect of radiation-induced soft errors as well as state-of-the-art techniques to protect against them

I started working with the new Microsoft WinFX technology stack early in the beta and Community Technology Preview (CTP) stages. The foundations that began their life as WinFX (Windows Presentation, Windows Communication, and Windows Workflow) became a shipping Microsoft product named .NET Framework 3.0 in November 2006. I actually started to learn and use all three of these foundations at the same time in my day job. Talk about a massive learning curve.

While I was impressed with the flexibility and capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), I was somehow inexplicably drawn to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). WF isn’t just a new way to implement a user interface or a new way to communicate between applications and services. WF represents a completely new way to develop applications. It is declarative, visual, and infinitely flexible. It promotes a model that cleanly separates what to do from when to do it. This separation allows you to change the workflow model (the when) without affecting the what. Business logic is implemented as a set of discrete, testable components that are assembled into workflows like building blocks.

Workflow isn’t a new concept. But when Microsoft spends years developing a workflow foundation and provides it to us without cost, it is an event worth noting. Other workflow frameworks exist, but WF is the de facto standard workflow framework for Windows applications.

I originally wrote the first edition of this book because I was excited about workflow, and about WF in particular. I was excited about the opportunities that it held for application developers like us. And that excitement continues today, especially with the release of .NET Framework 3.5. With this release, Microsoft has continued to provide additional enhancements to WF. In particular, .NET 3.5 includes support for workflow services. These are Windows Communication Foundation services that are implemented as workflows.

My hope is that this book will help you to use WF to build an exciting new generation of workflow-enabled applications.

Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and ERP on Accounting provides a foundation in digital accounting by covering fundamental topics such as accounting software, XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), and EDI. The effects of the Internet and ERP on accounting are classified and presented for each accounting cycle, along with a comprehensive discussion of online controls. Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and ERP on Accounting provides a conceptual approach to handling the latest developments at the intersection of the accounting and IT fields.

About the Author

Dr. Ashutosh Deshmukh is an Associate Professor of Accounting & Information Systems at the Pennsylvania State University–Erie. He received his M.B.A from the University of Alabama and Ph.D. from the University of Memphis. His research and teaching interests are in accounting information systems and auditing. He has published over 20 articles and made numerous conference presentations in the areas of accounting information systems and auditing. He is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Certified Fraud Examiner; and has practical experience in public and industrial accounting. A bean counter by profession and a byte counter by choice, he has also consulted with numerous organizations. He is a member of American Accounting Association, Institute of Charted Accountants of India, Information Systems Audit and Control Association, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Phi Kappa Phi, and Beta Gamma Sigma. He lives in Erie, PA with his wife and son and enjoys Tae Kwon Do, Chess, and Science Fiction in his spare time.

Despite traffic circles, four-way stop signs, lights regulated by timers or sensors, and other methods, the management of urban intersections remains problematic. Consider that transportation systems have all the features of so-called complex systems: the great number of state and control variables, the presence of uncertainty and indeterminism, the complex interactions between subsystems, the necessity to optimize several optimization criteria, and active behavior of the controlled process, to name just a few. Therefore, a mathematical approach to these systems can resolve their complex issues more elegantly than other methods. Addressing both efficiency and traffic safety issues, Optimal Traffic Control: Urban Intersections examines the traffic control optimization problem and presents a novel solution method. Using an approach based on control theory, graph theory, and combinatorial optimization, the authors derive a full mathematical description of the traffic control problem and enumerate all combinatorial aspects. The result is a set of algorithmic solutions to various problems along with computer implementation that you can incorporate into real traffic control systems for immediate results. The book concludes by evaluating how the choice of a complete set of signal groups influences intersection performance. Although modern cities throughout the world have a unique character influenced by culture, geography, and population, most of them share one main feature: busy intersections and the issue of controlling the traffic traveling through them. The development of information technologies, especially computer and telecommunications techniques, has changed the complexity of the problem and influenced the development of new solutions. Clearly stating the issues and presenting a possible solution, this book shows you how to take full advantage of all the capabilities of microprocessor-based traffic signal controllers.

Companies make a huge investment of 4 to 10% of their turnover on IT - this book reveals how this is evaluated and measured.

The adoption of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) represents significant financial investments, with alternative perspectives to the evaluation domain coming from both the public and private sectors.

As a result of increasing IT/IS budgets and their growing significance within the development of an organizational infrastructure, the evaluation and performance measurement of new technology remains a perennial issue for management. This book offers a refreshing and updated insight into the social fabric and technical dimensions of IT/IS evaluation together with insights into approaches used to measure the impact of information systems on its stakeholders. In doing so, it describes the portfolio of appraisal techniques that support the justification of IT/IS investments.

Evaluating Information Systems explores the concept of evaluation as an evolutionary and dynamic process that takes into account the ability of enterprise technologies to integrate information systems within and between organisations. In particular, when set against a backdrop of organisational learning. It examines the changing portfolio of benefits, costs and risks associated with the adoption and diffusion of technology in today?s global marketplace. Finally approaches to impact assessment through performance management and benchmarking is discussed.

* A unique reference work and examination of the IS evaluation 'life-cycle'
* An holistic treatment of the subject beyond the normal prescriptive 'investment appraisal' approaches that reflects recent developments in the field
* Essential text for students on business information systems courses and an insightful resource for professionals engaged in justifying IT/IS expenditure

About the Author

Director of Postgraduate Studies in the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK. He is a non-executive director of a leading engineering company and consults for global organizations such as Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum, DERA, BMW and Adidas. Director of Research for the Working e-Business (We-B)Centre and Postgraduate Research Degree Coordinator in the School of Management Information Systems at Edith Cowan University, Australia. He also acts as the Asia Pacific Editor for Journal of Enterprise Information Management and Senior Editor for e-Government Quarterly.

In a November 2001 Java Pro magazine article, noted Java pundit Daniel Savarese states, "The days of Object-Oriented Programming may be numbered, One day we may all be using Aspect-Oriented Programming ." While this may be hyperbole, the AOP bring certain needed improvements to the OOP. AspectJ is a Java-based tool that allows developers to apply standard Java syntax to AOP principles, much as C++ allowed C programmers to use C syntax in an object-oriented manner. There are AspectJ add-ons available for Borland's JBuilder, Sun's Forte for Java and for the EMACS text editor. Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ introduces AOP and the AspectJ tool. The book also shows how, by using existing Java programming knowledge, the developer can use AOP in meaningful development work.

About the Author

Ivan Kiselev has over 20 years of software engineering and business experience. He is a chief technology officer at APP Design Group, Inc., a software company. Previously, Mr. Kiselev held technology leadership positions with a number of other software, financial, and telecommunication companies.

Mr. Kiselev is a senior-level architect and technologist with extensive experience in analysis, architecture, and development of large-scale, distributed information systems, as well as a recognized expert in object-oriented technology, the Internet, and EDI. Mr. Kiselev takes particular interest in applications of reusable frameworks and application servers to electronic commerce systems and development environments, as well as integrating scripting languages into all of these. Most of his efforts are devoted to architecture of distributed enterprise scale applications for the Web-based environment where he advocates a very pragmatic approach to system development.

Mr. Kiselev served on the ANSI C++ Standardization Committee from 1991Ð1993 and published over 20 articles and white papers in Dr. DobbÕs Journal, Java DeveloperÕs Journal, Software Development Magazine, and other publications. Mr. Kiselev is a member of the Association for Computer Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.