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Oracle Architecture and Tuning on AIX

whitepaper This paper contains best practices that have been collected during the extensive period of time that the authors team colleagues and the author have spent working in the Oracle RDBMS based environment.

Tags: aix

[16 May 2008]

Building an Enterprise Service Bus Using WebSphere ESB - Part 1

whitepaper The authors received questions asking what is the relationship (and, respectively, what is the difference) between SIBus and WebSphere ESB, and which technology to use when. Some people simply wondered how they could use the features of WebSphere...

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

Telecommunications Leader Safeguards Sensitive Information and Critical Documents

whitepaper With a single mouse click, document authors can safeguard files from unauthorized access and minimize the risk to sensitive information. An internal audit at Swisscom, the leading Swiss telecommunications enterprise, showed that the company did not...

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003

[15 May 2008]

The Essential Role of Mental Models in HCI: Card, Moran and Newell

whitepaper This was a powerful concept because it meant that if the authors, as interface designers, understood what kind of model the user constructed as well as the process of constructing it, the author could make computers easier to use by developing...

Tags: artificial intelligence

[14 May 2008]

Requirements Process for SOA Projects, Part 2: Business Requirements for Your First SOA Services - Business Requirements for Your First SOA Services

whitepaper Although there is no "Correct" answer, but in the authors experience most, if not all, SOA projects are led by Information Technology (IT) departments, discussions tend to begin with technology. In the first paper in this series one learned about...

Tags: business management

[14 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 11: The Resurgence of the Mainframe - Reassess the Mainframe as the Center of Your Business Management System

whitepaper On the software side, the authors hear about lightweight scripting, high-level languages, distributed application architectures such as Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and so on.

Tags: mainframes

[14 May 2008]

Getting to Know You: Activities for Young Students

whitepaper Teaching is all about borrowing ideas, and the author would give credit if he or she remembered where or from whom they originally came (some ideas actually are the authors), but now these suggestions are of the users too.

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[11 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News The company said Java technology is now ready to be used by designers and content authors demanding rich web content. Our JavaFX platform now builds on the power of Java to enable content authors, designers and developers to collaboratively deliver...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News In the past, the Storm worm authors would directly link to malware on websites or within spam emails. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux techniques to mask their URLs have been identified by the security company, which issued...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Greenpass: Decentralized, PKI-Based Authorization for Wireless LANs

whitepaper On a practical level, the authors want to enable only authorized users to access an internal wireless network - while also permitting appropriate users to delegate internal access to external guests, and doing this all with standard client software.

Tags: firewalls

[06 May 2008]

Performance Analysis of the Linux Firewall in a Host

whitepaper In order to be able to measure the performance and the sensitivity of the firewall, the authors designed and instrumented each layer of the Linux TCP/IP stack. Firewalls are one of the most commonly used security systems to protect networks and hosts.

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

Characterizing Intrusion Tolerant Systems Using a State Transition Model

whitepaper The authors believe that this narrow focus of attacks accounts for both the successes and limitation of commercial in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). The authors also show how this model helps one to describe both known and unknown security...

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

Towards a Definition of a CRM System Life-Cycle

whitepaper Many authors have made individual proposals of interesting topics to be researched around CRM systems, but no overarching research agenda has yet been proposed. In recent years, the interest on research in Customer Relationship Management (CRM...

[11 Apr 2008]

Balancing Site Goals and Service Goals in Datacenter Management

whitepaper As yesterday's clusters grow into today's data centers, the authors are seeing a push back towards the centralized placement of servers, driven by high initial costs of ownership and complex cooling and power infrastructure demands.

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

Compress-and-Forward Cooperative Relaying in MIMO-OFDM Systems

whitepaper Then the authors derive the mutual information of a sub-optimum relaying scheme in which the relay applies Karhunen-Loeve transform to the signal received from the source before quantizing it and forwarding it to the destination as a new codeword.

Tags: wireless lan, ofdm, rate, scheme

[11 Apr 2008]

Real-Time Multistage Attack Awareness Through Enhanced Intrusion Alert Clustering

whitepaper It also incorporate this scheme into a real-time attack detection framework and prototype presented by the authors in previous work and provide some results from testing against multistage attack scenarios.

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

Reusable Learning Object Authoring Guidelines: How to Build Modules, Lessons, and Topics

whitepaper It provides authors with the detailed guidelines they need to structure specific types of objects. In this paper, authors will find structural specifications for each type of object, as well as helpful guidelines and examples for classifying...

Tags: online - distance education, structure, learning, objects

[10 Apr 2008]

Avoiding Unforeseen Consequences When Drafting Anti-spam Legislation: Some Key Technical Issues to Consider

whitepaper After providing this framework, the white paper's authors explore how technically inaccurate or unclear bill language potentially can result in unintended adverse consequences. This white paper discusses key definitions and operative language used...

Tags: spam and e-mail marketing, anti, language, spam

[10 Apr 2008]

OFDM Receiver Design

whitepaper In this project, authors implemented an OFDM receiver based 802.11a standard. Othogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) has gained considerable attention in recent years. It has been adopted for various standards include the 802.11a wireless...

Tags: modems, ofdm, implemented, receiver

[10 Apr 2008]

Practical Approaches to Channel Estimation and Interference Suppression for OFDM Based UWB Communications

whitepaper In particular, authors develop practical approaches for channel estimation and interference suppression. Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication is a potential technique for future high-speed networks. This paper investigates low complexity signal...

Tags: modems, ofdm, uwb, channel

[10 Apr 2008]

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