Developing Quality Complex Database Systems: Practices, Techniques and Technologies

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The objective of Developing Quality Complex Database Systems is to provide opportunities for improving today's database systems using innovative development practices, tools and techniques. Each chapter of this book will provide insight into the effective use of database technology through models, case studies or experience reports. An emphasis is placed on organizational and management issues associated with the use of such technology inclusive of lessons learned and best practices.

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Definitions for Hardware and Software Safety Engineers

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Compiled by an experienced practitioner in the field, this book contains definitions of the major terms used in Reliability Engineering and Software Assessment. Approximately 2000 definitions have been carefully selected from standards and literature published by leading institutions such as the IEEE and IEC. Alternative definitions of the same term are given where relevant, enabling the reader to compare and contrast, thereby giving useful insights into different aspects of the same term. There is also extensive cross-referencing to make the book easy to use and practical.
This book will provide an invaluable reference book for anyone working in the fields of reliability engineering or software assessment but should be of particular interest to industrial researchers and practitioners, members of standards committees, reliability consultants, students on Software Quality courses, technical authors and sub-editors.

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Analysis of Piecewise Linear Dynamics (Umist Control Systems Centre Series, 3)

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Hardware and Software for Real Time Process Control: Proceedings of the Ifip Wg 5.4/Ifac/Ewics Working Conference on Hardware and Software for Real

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As the title suggests, the focus of this volume is on the hardware and software aspects of real time process control, rather than on control problems. The (mostly invited) papers may be divided into three themes: hardware, software, and integration. Providing extensive coverage of the state-of-the-art in real time computer control, the papers examine both recent developments and future trends in the field. The contributors are from universities, industry and government institutions, and the volume will be of interest to hi-tech research institutes in e.g. the nuclear, aerospace, chemical and electronics fields, and to those concerned with standardization issues.

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Methods, Standards, and Maturity: Developing the Standard for Ssadm (Mcgraw-Hill International Series in Software Engineering)

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Standards in IT are becoming prevalent, often driven by the multinational supplier, but now increasingly by the customer too, as IS managers recognize their contribution to planning, organization and control. This text describes the role standards can play, distinguishing between different types of standard and their relevance to organizations at different stages of development. In particular, the development of the BS standard for SSADM is described in detail as a large-scale example.

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Standards Battles in Open Source Software: The Case of Firefox

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In many ways, the rise of the open source web browser Firefox contradicts common wisdom and expectations. An industry with network effects, as is the case in the web browser industry, should follow the rationale of "the strong grows stronger, and the weak becomes weaker". This means that in the long run, a single dominant technology will prevail that prevents competing technologies from obtaining a foothold in the market. We can therefore explain the victory of Internet Explorer (IE) over Netscape mainly because IE was bundled with the Windows operating system; however, we still need to understand the rise of Firefox in a 'winner-takes-all market'. Could the characteristics of Firefox, an open source software web browser, explain this unexpected success? This book brings together insights from open source software, open standards, and standards-setting, and illustrates the dynamics of standards-settings by examining two standards battles: Internet Explorer versus Netscape, and Internet Explorer versus Firefox.

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Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)

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“Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems” provides a comprehensive coverage of reliability issues and their corresponding countermeasures in the field of large-scale digital control systems, from the hardware and software in digital systems to the human operators who supervise the overall process of large-scale systems. Unlike other books which examine theories and issues in individual fields, this book reviews important problems and countermeasures across the fields of software reliability, software verification and validation, digital systems, human factors engineering and human reliability analysis. Divided into four sections dealing with software reliability, digital system reliability, human reliability and human operators in large-scale digital systems, the book offers insights from professional researchers in each specialized field in a diverse yet unified approach.

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Computer Safety, Reliability and Security: 20th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2001, Budapest, Hungary, September 26-28, 2001 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2001, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2001. The 20 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected. The book offers topical sections on reliability assessment and security, safety case and safety analysis, medical systems, human-machine interface, COTS - components off the shelf, testing, formal methods, and control systems.

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Modeling for Reliability Analysis: Markov Modeling for Reliability, Maintainability, Safety, and Supportability Analyses of Complex Systems (IEEE ... on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems)

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"Markov modeling has long been accepted as a fundamental and powerful technique for the fault tolerance analysis of mission-critical applications. However, the elaborate computations required have often made Markov modeling too time-consuming to be of practical use on these complex systems. With this hands-on tool, designers can use the Markov modeling technique to analyze safety, reliability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness factors in the full range of complex systems in use today.

Featuring ground-breaking simulation software and a comprehensive reference manual, MARKOV MODELING FOR RELIABILITY ANALYSIS helps system designers surmount the mathematical computations that have previously prevented effective reliability analysis. The text and software compose a valuable self-study tool that is complete with detailed explanations, examples, and a library of Markov models that can be used for experiments and as derivations for new simulation models. The book details how these analyses are conducted, while providing hands-on instruction on how to develop reliability models for the full range of system configurations.

Computer-Aided Rate Modeling and Simulation (CARMS) software is an integrated modeling tool that includes a diagram-based environment for model setup, a spreadsheet like interface for data entry, an expert system link for automatic model construction, and an interactive graphic interface for displaying simulation results."

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Systems Reliability and Failure Prevention (Artech House Technology Management Library)

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Offers a comprehensive treatment of the techniques and practices of systems reliability and failure prevention, without the use of advanced mathematics. Features real-world examples from communication networks, aircraft and missile systems, the process industry, and satellite missions.

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