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• Architecture for trusted computing systems
• Trusted computing platform
• Trusted system building; network and protocol security
• Mobile network security
• Network survivability, other critical theories and standard systems
• Credible assessment
• Credible measurement and metrics
• Trusted systems
• Trusted networks
• Trusted mobile networks
• Trusted routing
• Trusted software
• Trusted operating systems
• Trusted storage
• Fault-tolerant computing and other key technologies
• Trusted e-commerce and e-government
• Trusted logistics
• Trusted internet of things
• Trusted cloud and other trusted services and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Standard Conference on Trustworthy Computing and Services, ISCTCS 2014, held in Beijing, China, in November 2014. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 279 submissions. The topics covered are architecture for trusted computing systems; trusted computing platform; trusted system building; network and protocol security; mobile network security; network survivability, other critical theories and standard systems; credible assessment; credible measurement and metrics; trusted systems; trusted networks; trusted mobile networks; trusted routing; trusted software; trusted operating systems; trusted storage; fault-tolerant computing and other key technologies; trusted e-commerce and e-government; trusted logistics; trusted internet of things; trusted cloud and other trusted services and applications.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: A Brief History of User Experience in Government Systems PART I: Public-facing Systems Introduction
• Chapter 2: Usability of Public Web Sites
• Chapter 3: Usability and Government 2.0
• Chapter 4: UX of Transactions
• Chapter 5: Privacy and the Citizen PART II: Internal Systems Introduction
• Chapter 6: Usability in Defense Systems
• Chapter 7: Emergency Response in Simulated Terrorist Attacks
• Chapter 8: National Critical Infrastructures
• Chapter 9: Legislative Drafting Systems PART III: UX Issues Common to Both Public and Internal Systems Introduction
• Chapter 10: Content Strategy
• Chapter 11: Plain Language in Government
• Chapter 12: Ensuring Accessibility for People with Disabilities
• Chapter 13: Mobile Access
• Chapter 14: User Issues in Security
• Chapter 15: Usability of Biometric Systems PART IV: Procurement and Development Introduction
• Chapter 16: Getting UX into the Contract
• Chapter 17: ISO Standards for User-Centered Design and the Specification of Usability
• Chapter 18: User-centered Requirements Definition
• Chapter 19: Models as Representations for Supporting the Development of e-Procedures
• Chapter 20: Evaluation in Government Environments
• Chapter 21: Adapting e-Gov Usability Evaluation to Cultural Contexts PART V: Wider Considerations Introduction
• Chapter 22: Design for Policymaking
• Chapter 23: Service Design and Channel Shifting
• Chapter 24: UX and e-Democracy in Asia Closing Thoughts Resources, Glossary & Acronyms.
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As a usability specialist or interaction designer working with the government, or as a government or contractor professional involved in specifying, procuring, or managing system development, you need this book. Editors Elizabeth Buie and Dianne Murray have brought together over 30 experts to outline practical advice to both usability specialists and government technology professionals and managers. Working with internal and external government systems is a unique and difficult task because of of the sheer magnitude of the audience for external systems (the entire population of a country, and sometimes more), and because of the need to achieve government transparency while protecting citizens' privacy.. Open government, plain language, accessibility, biometrics, service design, internal vs. external systems, and cross-cultural issues, as well as working with the government, are all covered in this book.
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• 1. Systems Thinking and Incident Causation. 2. Systems Thinking and Incident Analysis. 3. A Process Model for Developing an Incident Reporting System. 4.Understanding the Context.5. Identifying the Needs andPriorities of End Users. 6. Adapting Accimap for Use in an Incident Reporting System. 7. Evaluating Reliability and Validity. 8. Designing aPrototype Incident Reporting System. 9. Evaluating Usability. 10. Evaluating Data Quality. 11. Outputs from the Development Process UPLOADS. 12. AnalyzingIncident Data. 13. Designing Incident Prevention Strategies. 14. Lessons Learned, Future Research Directions, and the Incident Reporting Systems of Tomorrow. Appendix A. UPLOADS Contributing Factor Classification Scheme. Appendix B. Examples of Coding Tasks for Reliability and Validity Assessments. Appendix C. UPLOADS Incident Report Form. Appendix D. Training Manual: The UPLOADS Approach to Accident Analysis.

Systems thinking tells us that human error, violations and technology failures result from poorly designed and managed work systems. To help us understand and prevent injuries and incidents, incident reporting systems must be capable of collecting data on contributory factors from across the overall work system, in addition to factors relating to the immediate context of the event (e.g. front-line workers, environment, and equipment). This book describes how to design a practical, usable incident reporting system based on this approach. The book contains all the information needed to effectively design and implement a new incident reporting system underpinned by systems thinking. It also provides guidance on how to evaluate and improve existing incident reporting systems so they are practical for users, collect good quality data, and reflect the principles of systems thinking. Features Highlights the key principles of systems thinking for designing incident reporting systems Outlines a process for developing and testing incident reporting systems Describes how to evaluate incident reporting systems to ensure they are practical, usable, and collect good quality data Provides detailed guidance on how to analyze incident data, and translate the findings into appropriate incident prevention strategies.
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• Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to Qt; The cross-platform programming; Qt Platform Abstraction; Supported platforms; A journey through time; New in Qt 5; Restructured codebase; Qt Essentials; Qt Add-ons; Qt Quick 2.0; Meta-objects; C++11 support; Choosing the right license; An open source license; A commercial license; Summary; Chapter 2: Installation; Installing the Qt SDK; Time for action
• installing Qt using an online installer; Setting up Qt Creator.

• Time for action
• loading an example projectTime for action
• running the Affine Transformations project; Building Qt from sources; Time for action
• setting up Qt sources using Git; Time for action
• configuring and building Qt; Summary; Chapter 3: Qt GUI Programming; Windows and dialogs; Creating a Qt project; Time for action
• creating a Qt Desktop project; Adding child widgets to a window; Managing widget content; Time for action
• implementing a tic-tac-toe game board; Qt meta-objects; Signals and slots; Time for action
• functionality of a tic-tac-toe board; Properties.

• Declaring a propertyUsing a property; Time for action
• adding properties to the board class; Designing GUIs; Time for action
• designing the game configuration dialog; Time for action
• polishing the dialog; Accelerators and label buddies; The tab order; Signals and slots; Using designer forms; Direct approach; The multiple-inheritance approach; The single inheritance approach; Time for action
• the logic of the dialog; An application's main window; The Qt resource system; Time for action
• the main window of the application; Time for action
• adding a pull-down menu.

• Time for action
• creating a toolbarTime for action
• filling in the central widget; Time for action
• putting it all together; Summary; Chapter 4: Qt Core Essentials; Text handling; Manipulating strings; Encoding and decoding text; Basic string operations; The string search and lookup; Dissecting strings; Converting between numbers and strings; Using arguments in strings; Regular expressions; Time for action
• a simple quiz game; Extracting information out of a string; Finding all pattern occurrences; Data storage; Files and devices; Traversing directories; Getting access to the basic file.

• DevicesTime for action
• implementing a device to encrypt data; Text streams; Data serialization; Binary streams; Time for action
• serialization of a custom structure; XML streams; Time for action
• implementing an XML parser for player data; JSON files; Time for action
• the player data JSON serializer; Time for action
• implementing a JSON parser; QSettings; Summary; Chapter 5: Graphics with Qt; Raster painting; Painter attributes; Widget painting; Time for action
• custom-painted widgets; Time for action
• transforming the viewport; Time for action
• drawing an oscillogram; Input events.

• Time for action
• making oscillograms selectable.

A complete guide to designing and building fun games with Qt and Qt Quick 2 using associated toolsets About This Book * Learn to create simple 2D to complex 3D graphics and games using all possible tools and widgets available for game development in Qt * Understand technologies such as QML, Qt Quick, OpenGL, and Qt Creator, and learn the best practices to use them to design games * Learn Qt with the help of many sample games introduced step-by-step in each chapter Who This Book Is For If you want to create great graphical user interfaces and astonishing games with Qt, this book is ideal for you. Any previous knowledge of Qt is not required, however knowledge of C++ is mandatory. What You Will Learn * Install Qt on your system * Understand the basic concepts of every Qt game and application * Develop 2D object-oriented graphics using Qt Graphics View * Build multiplayer games or add a chat function to your games with Qt's Network module * Script your game with Qt Script * Program resolution-independent and fluid UI using QML and Qt Quick * Control your game flow as per the sensors of a mobile device * See how to test and debug your game easily with Qt Creator and Qt Test In Detail Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming more popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. Despite its simplicity, it's a powerful tool that perfectly fits game developers' needs. Using Qt and Qt Quick, it is easy to build fun games or shiny user interfaces. You only need to create your game once and deploy it on all major platforms like iOS, Android, and WinRT without changing a single source file. The book begins with a brief introduction to creating an application and preparing a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. It then dives deeper into the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt core concepts of data processing and display before you try creating a game. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. We then delve into Qt Quick, OpenGL, and various other tools to add game logic, design animation, add game physics, and build astonishing UI for the games. Towards the final chapters, you'll learn to exploit mobile device features such as accelerators and sensors to build engaging user experiences. If you are planning to learn about Qt and its associated toolsets to build apps and games, this book is a must have. Style and approach This is an easy-to-follow, example-based, comprehensive introduction to all the major features in Qt. The content of each chapter is explained and organized around one or multiple simple game examples to learn Qt in a fun way.
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• 1. How SQL Server Work
• s2. Analyzing Wait Statistic
• s3. The Query Stor
• e4. SQL Server Configuratio
• n5. tempdb Troubleshooting and Configuratio
• n6. SQL Server In-Memory Technologie
• s7. Performance Troubleshootin
• g8. Indexin
• g9. SQL Server Storage.
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Design and configure SQL Server instances and databases in support of high-throughput applications that are mission-critical and provide consistent response times in the face of variations in user numbers and query volumes. Learn to configure SQL Server and design your databases to support a given instance and workload. You'll learn advanced configuration options, in-memory technologies, storage and disk configuration, and more, all toward enabling your desired application performance and throughput. Configuration doesn't stop with implementation. Workloads change over time, and other impediments can arise to thwart desired performance. High Performance SQL Server covers monitoring and troubleshooting to aid in detecting and fixing production performance problems and minimizing application outages. You'll learn a variety of tools, ranging from the traditional wait analysis methodology to the new query store, and you'll learn how improving performance is really an iterative process. High Performance SQL Server is based on SQL Server 2016, although most of its content can be applied to prior versions of the product. This book is an excellent complement to performance tuning books focusing on SQL queries, and provides the other half of what you need to know by focusing on configuring the instances on which mission-critical queries are executed.* Covers SQL Server instance-configuration for optimal performance * Helps in implementing SQL Server in-memory technologies * Provides guidance toward monitoring and ongoing diagnostics What You Will Learn* Understand SQL Server's database engine and how it processes queries * Configure instances in support of high-throughput applications * Provide consistent response times to varying user numbers and query volumes Design databases for high-throughput applications with focus on performance * Record performance baselines and monitor SQL Server instances against them * Troubleshot and fix performance problemsWho This Book Is For SQL Server database administrators, developers, and data architects. The book is also of use to system administrators who are managing and are responsible for the physical servers on which SQL Server instances are run.
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• Introduction.- Modeling with Kronecker Products.- Avoiding Unreachable States.- Preprocessing.- Vector-Kronecker Product Multiplication.- Steady-State Analysis.- Transient Analysis.- Conclusion.
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This work considers Kronecker-based models with finite as well as countably infinite state spaces for multidimensional Markovian systems by paying particular attention to those whose reachable state spaces are smaller than their product state spaces. Numerical methods for steady-state and transient analysis of Kronecker-based multidimensional Markovian models are discussed in detail together with implementation issues. Case studies are provided to explain concepts and motivate use of methods. Having grown out of research from the past twenty years, this book expands upon the author's previously published book Analyzing Markov Chains using Kronecker Products (Springer, 2012). The subject matter is interdisciplinary and at the intersection of applied mathematics and computer science. The book will be of use to researchers and graduate students with an understanding of basic linear algebra, probability, and discrete mathematics.
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• Cover ; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface;
• Chapter 1: Introduction to Design Patterns ; Understanding object-oriented programming; Objects; Classes; Methods; Major aspects of object-oriented programming; Encapsulation; Polymorphism; Inheritance; Abstraction; Composition; Object-oriented design principles; The open/close principle; The inversion of control principle; The interface segregation principle; The single responsibility principle; The substitution principle; The concept of design patterns

• Advantages of design patternsTaxonomy of design patterns; Context
• the applicability of design patterns; Patterns for dynamic languages; Classifying patterns; Creational patterns:; Structural patterns; Behavioral patterns; Summary; Chapter 2: The Singleton Design Pattern ; Understanding the Singleton design pattern; Implementing a classical Singleton in Python; Lazy instantiation in the Singleton pattern; Module-level Singletons; The Monostate Singleton pattern; Singletons and metaclasses; A real-world scenario
• the Singleton pattern, part 1

• A real-world scenario
• the Singleton pattern, part 2Drawbacks of the Singleton pattern; Summary; Chapter 3: Factory Pattern
• Building Factories to Create Objects ; Understanding the Factory pattern; The Simple Factory pattern; The Factory Method pattern; Implementing the Factory Method; Advantages of the Factory method pattern; The Abstract Factory pattern; Implementing the Abstract Factory pattern; The Factory Method versus Abstract Factory; Summary; Chapter 4: The Façade Pattern
• Being Adaptive with Façade ; Understanding Structural design patterns

• Understanding the Façade design patternA UML class diagram; Façade; System; Client; Implementing the Façade pattern in the real world; The principle of least knowledge; Frequently asked questions; Summary; Chapter 5: The Proxy Pattern
• Controlling Object Access ; Understanding the Proxy design pattern; A UML class diagram for the Proxy pattern; Understanding different types of Proxies; A virtual proxy; A remote proxy; A protective proxy; A smart proxy; The Proxy pattern in the real world; Advantages of the Proxy pattern; Comparing the Façade and Proxy patterns; Frequently asked questions

Leverage the power of Python design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture and design About This Book * Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Python design patterns * Get to know the context and application of design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture, design, and application development * Get practical exposure through sample implementations in Python v3.5 for the design patterns featured Who This Book Is For This book is for Software architects and Python application developers who are passionate about software design. It will be very useful to engineers with beginner level proficiency in Python and who love to work with Python 3.5 What You Will Learn * Enhance your skills to create better software architecture * Understand proven solutions to commonly occurring design issues * Explore the design principles that form the basis of software design, such as loose coupling, the Hollywood principle and the Open Close principle among others * Delve into the object-oriented programming concepts and find out how they are used in software applications * Develop an understanding of Creational Design Patterns and the different object creation methods that help you solve issues in software development * Use Structural Design Patterns and find out how objects and classes interact to build larger applications * Focus on the interaction between objects with the command and observer patterns * Improve the productivity and code base of your application using Python design patterns In Detail With the increasing focus on optimized software architecture and design it is important that software architects think about optimizations in object creation, code structure, and interaction between objects at the architecture or design level. This makes sure that the cost of software maintenance is low and code can be easily reused or is adaptable to change. The key to this is reusability and low maintenance in design patterns. Building on the success of the previous edition, Learning Python Design Patterns, Second Edition will help you implement real-world scenarios with Python's latest release, Python v3.5. We start by introducing design patterns from the Python perspective. As you progress through the book, you will learn about Singleton patterns, Factory patterns, and Facade patterns in detail. After this, we'll look at how to control object access with proxy patterns. It also covers observer patterns, command patterns, and compound patterns. By the end of the book, you will have enhanced your professional abilities in software architecture, design, and development. Style and approach This is an easy-to-follow guide to design patterns with hands-on examples of real-world scenarios and their implementation in Python v3.5. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive, there are more details on the concepts used.
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• Section A. Performance benchmarking and optimization ; Algebraic multigrid on a dragonfly network : first experiences on a Cray XC30 / Hormozd Gahvari, William Gropp, Kirk E. Jordan, Martin Schulz, and Ulrike Meier Yang
• Performance evaluation of scientific applications on POWER8 / Andrew V. Adinetz, Paul F. Baumeister, Hans Böttiger, Thorsten Hater, Thilo Maurer, Dirk Pleiter, Wolfram Schenck, and Sebastiano Fabio Schifano
• SPEC ACCEL : a standard application suite for measuring hardware accelerator performance / Guido Juckeland, William Brantley, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Barbara Chapman, Shuai Che, Mathew Colgrove, Huiyu Feng, Alexander Grund, Robert Henschel, Wen-Mei W. Hwu, Huian Li, Matthias S. Müller, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Maxim Perminov, Pavel Shelepugin, Kevin Skadron, John Stratton, Alexey Titov, Ke Wang, Matthijs van Waveren, Brian Whitney, Sandra Wienke, Rengan Xu, and Kalyan Kumaran
• A CUDA implementation of the high performance conjugate gradient benchmark / Everett Phillips and Massimiliano Fatica
• Performance analysis of a high-level abstractions-based hydrocode on future computing systems / G.R. Mudalige, I.Z. Reguly, M.B. Giles, A.C. Mallinson, W.P. Gaudin, and J.A. Herdman

• Section B. Performance analysis and prediction ; Insight into application performance using application-dependent characteristics / Waleed Alkohlani, Jeanine Cook, and Nafiul Siddique
• Roofline model toolkit : a practical tool for architectural and program analysis / Yu Jung Lo, Samuel Williams, Brian Van Straalen, Terry J. Ligocki, Matthew J. Cordery, Nicholas J. Wright, Mary W. Hall, and Leonid Oliker
• Modeling stencil computations on modern HPC architectures / Raúl de la Cruz and Mauricio Araya-Polo
• Performance modeling of the HPCG benchmark / Vladimir Marjanović, José Gracia, and Colin W. Glass
• On the performance prediction of BLAS-based tensor contractions / Elmar Peise, Diego Fabregat-Traver, and Paolo Bientinesi

• Section C. Power, energy and checkpointing ; Assessing general-purpose algorithms to cope with fail-stop and silent errors / Anne Benoit, Aurélien Cavelan, Yves Robert, and Hongyang Sun
• A case for epidemic fault detection and group membership in HPC storage systems / Shane Snyder, Philip Carns, Jonathan Jenkins, Kevin Harms, Robert Ross, Misbah Mubarak, and Christopher Carothers
• Analysis of the tradeoffs between energy and run time for multilevel checkpointing / Prasanna Balaprakash, Leonardo A. Bautista Gomez, Mohamed-Slim Bouguerra, Stefan M. Wild, Franck Cappello, and Paul D. Hovland
• On the energy proportionality of distributed NoSQL data stores / Balaji Subramaniam and Wu-chun Feng.

This volume contains the 14 papers that were presented at the 5th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation of High Performance Computing Systems (PMBS 2014), which was held as part of the 26th ACM/ IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC 2014) at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Centre in New Orleans during November 16-21, 2014. The SC conference series is the premier international forum for high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. The conference is unique in that it hosts a wide range of international participants from academia, national laboratories, and industry; this year's conference attracted over 10,000 attendees and featured over 350 exhibitors in the industry's largest HPC technology fair. This year's conference was themed HPC Matters, recognizing the immense impact that high-performance computing has on our lives. Specifically, SC 2014 was focused not only on the very visible way in which HPC is changing the world around us, but also on how HPC is improving every aspect of our lives in the most unexpected ways.

• Processors and circuits
• High performance computing
• GPUs and accelerators
• Cloud and data centers
• Energy and reliability
• Intelligence computing and mobile computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Advanced Computer Architecture, ACA 2016, held in Weihai, China, in August 2016. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers address issues such as processors and circuits; high performance computing; GPUs and accelerators; cloud and data centers; energy and reliability; intelligence computing and mobile computing.

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Committees; Photocurrent characteristics of organic dye copper phthalocyanine transistors; Current transport mechanism analysis of organic dye copper phthalocyanine thin film transistors; Design of a fast transient response output-capacitorless LDO; Designing a 12 bit pipeline ADC based on the CMOS process; Photoelectric properties of organic pigment zinc phthalocyanine Schottky diodes; On two practical student-oriented auxiliary devices for learner autonomy in English; Digital decimation filter design for Sigma-Delta ADC

• Research on the thermal stability and mechanism of PI/TiO2 nanocomposite filmA fault-tolerant routing algorithm for NoC based on 2D Mesh; 20nm and beyond physical design implementation take PR changes; Research on intelligent control system of greenhouse planting; Mechanical properties and toughening mechanism of Csf/SiC ceramic composites; Establishment of the IOV technology innovation alliances and its influencing factors; Geometry modeling program implementation of virtual surgery systems; The analysis of Gd/Sm-Mn substitution on the phase composition of strontium ferrite

• Fabrication and characteristics analysis of a ZnO thin film transistorA modified non-maximum suppression algorithm; A modified measure for image quality analysis; Combination collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm; Modeling and simulation of extended counting ADC; Numerical simulations for near-field acoustic holographic data extrapolation based on the neural network ELM method; Research on high quality intelligent test paper generation based on a genetic algorithm; Self-tuning descriptor Kalman filter with correlated noise

• An approach based on support vector regression for single-image super-resolutionHand-vein image enhancement based on gradient domain; Hand vein recognition based on reference point and NMI; Trade-off performance analysis for SED scheduling in cognitive radios; A selective diversity cooperative spectrum-sensing algorithm for cognitive radios; An improved image super-resolution reconstruction algorithm based on centralised sparse representation; The research and implementation of impact point testing based on acoustic target sensors

• Research and implementation of camera calibration system for machine vision

Information Science and Electronic Engineering is a collection of contributions drawn from the International Conference of Electronic Engineering and Information Science (ICEEIS 2016) held January 4-5, 2016 in Harbin, China. The papers in this proceedings volume cover various topics, including:- Electronic Engineering- Information Science and Information Technologies- Computational Mathematics and Data Mining- Image Processing and Computer Vision- Communication and Signal Processing- Control and Automation of Mechatronics- Methods, Devices and Systems for Measurement and Monitoring- Engineering of Weapon Systems- Mechanical Engineering and Material Science- Technologies of Processing. The content of this proceedings volume will be of interest to professionals and academics in the fields of Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering

• PART I. Services, Virtualization, Handhelds, and Clouds
• Chapter 1. The Imperative: IT Integration
• Chapter 2. The Merger: Enterprise Business and IT Management
• Chapter 3. The Bridge: Service Management
• Chapter 4. The Buzz: Handhelds in the Workplace
• Chapter 5. The Hard Part: Clouds PART II. Service Management
• Chapter 6. The Infrastructure: ITIL and Service Management
• Chapter 7. The Superstructure: Service Management Architecture PART III. Enterprise Integration
• Chapter 8. The Harder They Fall: Integration in the Enterprise
• Chapter 9. The Contenders: Enterprise Integration Architectural Patterns PART IV. Virtualization
• Chapter 10. Not in Kansas: Virtualization Challenges
• Chapter 11. Splendid Isolation: Virtual Architecture Patterns PART V. Clouds
• Chapter 12. Slipping the Surly Bonds: Cloud Architecture Patterns
• Chapter 13. Tricky Business: Cloud Integration Patterns
• Chapter 14. Fish nor Fowl: Mixed Architectures
• Chapter 15. Conclusion.
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Gain the practical knowledge you need to plan, design, deploy, and manage mixed cloud and on-premises IT management systems. Drawing on his experience as senior principal software architect at CA Technologies, Marvin Waschke lays out the nuts and bolts of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-the 5-volume bible of standard IT service management practices that is the single most important tool for aligning IT services with business needs. Many enterprise IT management applications, and the ways they are integrated, come directly from ITIL service management requirements. Types of integration include integrated reporting and dashboards, event-driven integration, device integration, and application data integration. Enterprise integration depends critically on high performance, scalability, and flexibility. Failure to integrate applications to service management requirements results in such wryly anticipated spectacles as the annual crash of the websites of Super Bowl advertisers such as Coca-Cola and Acura. Waschke weighs in on the debate between those who advocate integrating "best-of-breed" applications and those who favor a pre-integrated set of applications from a single vendor. He also rates the strengths and weaknesses of the major architectural patterns-central relational databases, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and enterprise data buses-for IT integration of service management applications. He examines the modifications to traditional service management that are required by virtualized systems of datacenter management and application design. Clouds present special problems for integration. How Clouds Hold IT Together details solutions for integration problems in private, community, and public clouds-especially problems with multi-tenant SaaS applications. Most enterprises are migrating to the cloud gradually rather than at one go. The transitional phase of mixed cloud and on-premises applications presents thorny problems for IT management. Waschke shows the reader how to normalize the performance and capacity measurements of concurrent traditional and cloud resources. .
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• Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to Qt; The cross-platform programming; Qt Platform Abstraction; Supported platforms; A journey through time; New in Qt 5; Restructured codebase; Qt Essentials; Qt Add-ons; Qt Quick 2.0; Meta-objects; C++11 support; Choosing the right license; An open source license; A commercial license; Summary; Chapter 2: Installation; Installing the Qt SDK; Time for action
• installing Qt using an online installer; Setting up Qt Creator.

• Time for action
• loading an example projectTime for action
• running the Affine Transformations project; Building Qt from sources; Time for action
• setting up Qt sources using Git; Time for action
• configuring and building Qt; Summary; Chapter 3: Qt GUI Programming; Windows and dialogs; Creating a Qt project; Time for action
• creating a Qt Desktop project; Adding child widgets to a window; Managing widget content; Time for action
• implementing a tic-tac-toe game board; Qt meta-objects; Signals and slots; Time for action
• functionality of a tic-tac-toe board; Properties.

• Declaring a propertyUsing a property; Time for action
• adding properties to the board class; Designing GUIs; Time for action
• designing the game configuration dialog; Time for action
• polishing the dialog; Accelerators and label buddies; The tab order; Signals and slots; Using designer forms; Direct approach; The multiple-inheritance approach; The single inheritance approach; Time for action
• the logic of the dialog; An application's main window; The Qt resource system; Time for action
• the main window of the application; Time for action
• adding a pull-down menu.

• Time for action
• creating a toolbarTime for action
• filling in the central widget; Time for action
• putting it all together; Summary; Chapter 4: Qt Core Essentials; Text handling; Manipulating strings; Encoding and decoding text; Basic string operations; The string search and lookup; Dissecting strings; Converting between numbers and strings; Using arguments in strings; Regular expressions; Time for action
• a simple quiz game; Extracting information out of a string; Finding all pattern occurrences; Data storage; Files and devices; Traversing directories; Getting access to the basic file.

• DevicesTime for action
• implementing a device to encrypt data; Text streams; Data serialization; Binary streams; Time for action
• serialization of a custom structure; XML streams; Time for action
• implementing an XML parser for player data; JSON files; Time for action
• the player data JSON serializer; Time for action
• implementing a JSON parser; QSettings; Summary; Chapter 5: Graphics with Qt; Raster painting; Painter attributes; Widget painting; Time for action
• custom-painted widgets; Time for action
• transforming the viewport; Time for action
• drawing an oscillogram; Input events.

• Time for action
• making oscillograms selectable.

A complete guide to designing and building fun games with Qt and Qt Quick 2 using associated toolsets About This Book * Learn to create simple 2D to complex 3D graphics and games using all possible tools and widgets available for game development in Qt * Understand technologies such as QML, Qt Quick, OpenGL, and Qt Creator, and learn the best practices to use them to design games * Learn Qt with the help of many sample games introduced step-by-step in each chapter Who This Book Is For If you want to create great graphical user interfaces and astonishing games with Qt, this book is ideal for you. Any previous knowledge of Qt is not required, however knowledge of C++ is mandatory. What You Will Learn * Install Qt on your system * Understand the basic concepts of every Qt game and application * Develop 2D object-oriented graphics using Qt Graphics View * Build multiplayer games or add a chat function to your games with Qt's Network module * Script your game with Qt Script * Program resolution-independent and fluid UI using QML and Qt Quick * Control your game flow as per the sensors of a mobile device * See how to test and debug your game easily with Qt Creator and Qt Test In Detail Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming more popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. Despite its simplicity, it's a powerful tool that perfectly fits game developers' needs. Using Qt and Qt Quick, it is easy to build fun games or shiny user interfaces. You only need to create your game once and deploy it on all major platforms like iOS, Android, and WinRT without changing a single source file. The book begins with a brief introduction to creating an application and preparing a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. It then dives deeper into the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt core concepts of data processing and display before you try creating a game. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. We then delve into Qt Quick, OpenGL, and various other tools to add game logic, design animation, add game physics, and build astonishing UI for the games. Towards the final chapters, you'll learn to exploit mobile device features such as accelerators and sensors to build engaging user experiences. If you are planning to learn about Qt and its associated toolsets to build apps and games, this book is a must have. Style and approach This is an easy-to-follow, example-based, comprehensive introduction to all the major features in Qt. The content of each chapter is explained and organized around one or multiple simple game examples to learn Qt in a fun way.
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• Network analysis and dimensioning.- Bargaining over Fair Channel Sharing between Wi-Fi and LTE-U Networks.- Time-Dependent SIR Analysis in Shopping Malls Using Fractal-Based Mobility Models.-Analysis and performance evaluation of SDN queue model.- Analysis of a retrial queue with limited processor sharing operating in the random environment.- Stationary Distribution of Waiting Time in MAP/G/1/N Queueing System with LIFO Service Discipline.- 5G communications. -Distributed Sleep Mode Power Control in 5G Ultra Dense Networks.- System Model for Multi-level Cloud Based Tactile Internet System. -Task Scheduling Scheme Based on Cost Optimization in 5G/Hetnets C-RAN.- Energy Efficiency Performance for 5G Cellular Networks.- Network design and planning.- Interaction of the IoT traffic generated by a Smart city segment with SDN core network.- Evaluation of Geocast Routing Trees on Random and Actual Networks.- A NURBS Based Technique for an Optimized Transmit Opportunity Map Processing in WLAN Networks.- Network protocols.- Load-Balancing Adaptive Clustering Refinement Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network Clusters.- Simulation and Testing of a Platooning Management Protocol Implementation.- Research of Interaction between Applications of Augmented Reality and Control Methods of UAVs.- Energy-efficient Power Control and Clustering in Underlay Device to Multi-Device Communications.- Adaptive-Segmentation and Flexible-Delay Based Broadcasting Protocol For VANETs.-Information technology. -NetFlow Anomaly Detection Though Parallel Cluster Density Analysis in Continuous Time-Series.- Investigation of traffic pattern for the augmented reality applications.- Benefits of Multiply-cascaded TCP Tunnel with Network Coding over Lossy Networks.- Circuit design.- A Broadband Power Amplifier Applied in GSM/TD-SCDMA/WLAN System.- An 8-bit 6GS/s Current Steering DAC with Optimized Current Switch Drive.- IBIS-AMI based PAM4 Signaling and FEC Technique for 25 Gb/s Serial Link.- Spur-free MASH DDSM with Eliminable Dither.- A 20 Gb/s Wireline Receiver with Adaptive CTLE and Half-rate DFE in 0.13 m Technology.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th IFIP International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2017, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2017. The 27 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: network analysis and dimensioning; 5G communications; network design and planning; network protocols; information technology; and circuit design. .
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• Power control and management
• Network architecture and deployment
• Positioning and location-based services in wireless sensor networks
• Security and privacy
• Wireless communication systems and protocols
• Routing algorithm and transport protocols in wireless sensor networks
• Wireless communication protocols and sensor data quality, integrity and trustworthiness
• Internet of Things
• Wireless mobile network architecture, in-vehicle network
• Indoor positioning and location-based services
• Applications of wireless sensor networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference of Wireless Sensor Networks, held in Xi'an, China, in October/November 2014. The 64 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 365 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on power control and management; network architecture and deployment; positioning and location-based services in wireless sensor networks; security and privacy; wireless communication systems and protocols; routing algorithm and transport protocols in wireless sensor networks; wireless communication protocols and sensor data quality, integrity and trustworthiness; Internet of Things; wireless mobile network architecture, in-vehicle network; indoor positioning and location-based services; applications of wireless sensor networks.

• A Hybrid Remote Rendering Approach for Graphic Applications on Cloud Computing
• A Policy-based Application Service Management in Mobile Cloud Broker
• Personalized Video Recommendations with Both Historical and New Items
• A VM Reservation-based Cloud Service Broker and Its Performance Evaluation
• Virtualizing IMS Core and its Performance Analysis
• VM3: Virtual Machine Multicast Migration Based on Comprehensive Load Forecasting
• A Phased Workflow Scheduling Scheme with Task Division Policy in Cloud Broker
• An Efficient Data Extracting Method Based on Hadoop
• Based Big Data Analysis of Fraud Detection for Online Transaction Orders
• Question Classification based on Hadoop Platform
• A Dynamic and Static Combined Replication Management Mechanism Based on Frequency Adaptive
• A distributed business process collaboration architecture based on entropy in cloud computing
• DSBAF: Running My Web Services in your WS Environment
• Cloud-based Iterative RFID Tag Search Protocol Using Bloom Filters
• Design and Optimizations of The MD5 Crypt Cracking Algorithm Based on CUDA
• A Model of Cloud Computing Federation Based on Complex Network Theory
• The Implementation of IKEV2 For IPSec.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2014, held in Guilin, China, in October 2014. The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions and cover topics such as mobile cloud computing, services, applications, IoT on cloud, architectures and big data, cloud-assisted pervasive computing and services, management and virtualization for cloud, cloud security.

• Scalable and Self-Sustained Algorithms for Femtocell Interference Mitigation
• Enhancing Video Delivery in the LTE Wireless Access Using Cross-Layer Mechanisms
• Novel Schemes for Component Carrier Selection and Radio Resource Allocation in LTE-Advanced Uplink
• Optimising LTE Uplink Scheduling by Solving the Multidimensional Assignment Problem
• Virtualization and Software Defined Networking
• SDN and NFV Dynamic Operation of LTE EPC Gateways for Time-varying Traffic Patterns
• Towards a High Performance DNSaaS Deployment Network Configuration In Open Flow Networks A Novel Model for WiMAX Frequency Spectrum Virtualization and Network Federation Mobile Network Architecture evolution options: GW decomposition and Software Defined Networks.

This book constitutes the post-proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2014, held in Wurzburg, Germany, in September 2014. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. In addition, MONAMI 2014 hosted a workshop on enhanced living environments which also featured 10 papers. The volume is organized thematically in six parts, covering: LTE networks, virtualization and software defined networking, self-organizing networks, energy awareness in wireless networks, wireless networks algorithms and techniques, and applications and context-awareness. The workshop on enhanced living environments is organized in thematic sessions on ambient assisted living architectures, human interaction technologies, devises and mobile cloud.
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• Cellular Network Management and Self-Organizing Networks
• Techniques and Algorithms for Wireless Networks
• Applications and Services
• Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT Architecures.

This book constitutes the post-proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2015, held in Santander, Spain, in September 2015. The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. In addition there appears one short and 5 invited papers. These are organized thematically in five parts starting with Cellular Network Management and Self-Organizing Networks in Part I. Radio Resource Management in LTE and 5G Networks aspects are discussed in Part II. Part III presents novel Techniques and Algorithms for Wireless Networks, while Part IV deals with Video Streaming over Wireless Networks. Part V includes papers presenting avant-garde research on applications and services and, finally, Part VI features two papers introducing novel architectural approaches for Wireless Sensor Networks.

• Introduction.-Usability in the Developing World.-Issues in Adapting Usability Test Methodology.-Cultural Issues in Online Trust Related to Website Design.-International Ethnographic User Experience Research.-Brazil.-China.-Czech Republic.-India.-Israel.-Japan.-Malaysia.-Mexico.-New Zealand.-Philippines.-Poland.-Russia.-Singapore.-South Korea.-Thailand.
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The concept of usability has become an increasingly important consideration in the design of all kinds of technology. As more products are aimed at global markets and developed through internationally distributed teams, usability design needs to be addressed in global terms. Interest in usability as a design issue and specialist area of research and education has developed steadily in North America and Europe since the 1980's. However, it is only over the last ten years that it has emerged as a global concern. Global Usability provides an introduction to the important issues in globalizing design and an insight into the development of usability expertise around the world. The book is divided into two sections. The first section deals with the general issues in cross-cultural design and the methods for conducting usability design and evaluation across geographical boundaries. The second section describes the state of usability development in fifteen countries. The descriptions include a history and review of activities and include some unique perspectives that have developed in relation to usability work. Researchers and practitioners from a variety of design-related disciplines will find the book a useful guide for understanding the issues and an excellent reference source for working in any of the countries covered.
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• Foreword.- Preface.- Modeling and Analysis of Resilience for Distribution Networks.- Optimal Scheduling Networked Microgrids to Resilience Enhancement Under Uncertainty.- Multi-Stage Resilient Distribution System Expansion Planning Considering Non-Utility Gas-Fired Distributed Generation.- Power System Flexibility and Resiliency.- Power System Connectivity and Resiliency.- Malicious and Deliberate Attacks and Power System Resiliency.- Resilient Thorough Microgrids.- Power Systems Recovery and Restoration Encounter with Natural Disaster and Deliberate Attacks.- Resilience Enhancement of Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review.- Issues in Securing Critical Infrastructure Networks for Smart Grid Based on Scada, and Other Industrial Control and Communication Systems.- Continuity of Electricity Supply and Specific Indicators.- Resilience Metrics Development for Power Systems.- Resilient Optimal Power Flow with Evolutionary Computation Methods - Short Survey.
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This book presents intuitive explanations of the principles and applications of power system resiliency, as well as a number of straightforward and practical methods for the impact analysis of risk events on power system operations. It also describes the challenges of modelling, distribution networks, optimal scheduling, multi-stage planning, deliberate attacks, cyber-physical systems and SCADA-based smart grids, and how to overcome these challenges. Further, it highlights the resiliency issues using various methods, including strengthening the system against high impact events with low frequency and the fast recovery of the system properties. A large number of specialists have collaborated to provide innovative solutions and research in power systems resiliency. They discuss the fundamentals and contemporary materials of power systems resiliency, theoretical and practical issues, as well as current issues and methods for controlling the risk attacks and other threats to AC power systems. The book includes theoretical research, significant results, case studies, and practical implementation processes to offer insights into electric power and engineering and energy systems. Showing how systems should respond in case of malicious attacks, and helping readers to decide on the best approaches, this book is essential reading for electrical engineers, researchers and specialists. The book is also useful as a reference for undergraduate and graduate students studying the resiliency and reliability of power systems.
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• Preface; Contents; Kerncraft: A Tool for Analytic Performance Modeling of Loop Kernels ; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Related Work; 1.2 Performance Models; 1.2.1 Roofline; 1.2.2 Execution-Cache-Memory; 2 Kerncraft; 2.1 Kernel Code; 2.2 Machine Description; Compute Architecture; Memory Hierarchy; Benchmarks; 2.3 Models; Roofline; ECM; Layer Conditions; Benchmark; 2.4 Cache Miss Prediction; 2.4.1 Cache Simulation with Pycachesim; 2.4.2 Layer Conditions; 2.5 Underlying In-Core Execution Prediction; 3 Kerncraft Usage; 3.1 Single-Core Performance; 3.2 Single-Socket Scaling and Saturation Point.

• 3.3 Layer Conditions4 Future Work; References; Defining and Searching Communication Patterns in Event Graphs Using the g-Eclipse Trace Viewer Plugin; 1 Introduction; 2 Pattern Definition; 3 Pattern Search; 3.1 Pattern Description; 3.2 Execution of the Description; 3.3 Event Sequence Search; Modified Karp-Rabin Algorithm; 3.4 Sequence Dependency Graph; 3.5 Merge of Potential Matches to Pattern Instances; 3.5.1 Constraints for Searching Patterns in Event Graphs; 3.5.2 Dynamic Backtracking; 4 g-Eclipse Trace Viewer Pattern Search Plugin; 5 Examples; 6 Future Work; 7 Conclusion; References.

• Monitoring Heterogeneous Applications with the OpenMP Tools Interface1 Introduction; 2 Related Work; 3 Integration of the OpenMP Tools Interface; 3.1 Integration into the Parallel Runtime; 3.2 Integration into the Monitoring Tool; 4 Experimental Setup; 5 Results; 5.1 OmpSs Runtime Improvements; 6 Conclusions; References; Extending the Functionality of Score-P Through Plugins: Interfaces and Use Cases; 1 Introduction and Related Work; 2 Score-P Overview; 3 The Metric Plugin Interface; 3.1 Metric Design Criteria; 3.2 Calls to Plugins; 3.3 Introduced Overhead; 3.4 Use Case: Uncore Counter.

• 3.5 Use Case: Watchpoints4 The Substrate Plugin Interface; 4.1 Substrates Design Criteria; 4.2 Calls to Plugins; 4.3 Introduced Overhead; 4.4 Use Case: Region-Based Energy Efficiency Tuning; 4.5 Use Case: Balancing-Based Energy Efficiency Tuning; 4.6 Use Case: Event Flow Graphs; 5 Conclusion and Further Work; References; Debugging Latent Synchronization Errors in MPI-3 One-Sided Communication; 1 Introduction; 2 MPI-3 One-Sided Communication Semantics; 2.1 Modeling Memory Consistency; 2.2 Consistency Properties; 3 Uncovering Latent Synchronization Errors; 3.1 Conceptual Overview.

• 3.2 Nasty-MPI Rescheduling Process3.2.1 Completion Stage; 3.2.2 Atomicity Stage; 3.2.3 Reordering Stage; 4 Experimental Evaluation; 4.1 Methodology; 4.2 Nasty-MPI Test Cases; 4.3 Discussion; 5 Related Work; 6 Conclusion and Future Work; References; Trace-Based Detection of Lock Contentionin MPI One-Sided Communication; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Work; 3 Lock Contention; 4 Wait-State Detection; 4.1 The Active-Message Infrastructure; 4.2 Detecting Lock Contention; 5 Results; 5.1 Micro Benchmark; 5.2 SOR; 6 Conclusion and Outlook; References.

This book presents the proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Tools Workshop, held October 4-5, 2016 in Stuttgart, Germany - a forum to discuss the latest advances in parallel tools. High-performance computing plays an increasingly important role for numerical simulation and modelling in academic and industrial research. At the same time, using large-scale parallel systems efficiently is becoming more difficult. A number of tools addressing parallel program development and analysis have emerged from the high-performance computing community over the last decade, and what may have started as collection of small helper script has now matured to production-grade frameworks. Powerful user interfaces and an extensive body of documentation allow easy usage by non-specialists.
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