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- Global Media Company Cuts Costs and Extends Sales Reach
- Reed Elsevier is a leading global media company employing 36,500 people in every part of the world. Its business is people intensive, demanding constant travel and meetings. The company looked for a collaborative software solution that would help it to make better use of its specialists, product development people, and...
- Tags: Media Company, Solution, Reed Elsevier Inc., Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Research & Development, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Management, Office Suites, Software
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- A Transaction Model for Web Services
- Most, if not all, of today's Java transaction managers implement the flat transaction model, in compliance with JTA and/or JTS. Also, most transactions today are executed within the scope of one enterprise, within one trust domain, and with all resources under the control of one transaction manager. A business transaction...
- Tags: Web, Transaction, Reed Elsevier Inc., Web Service, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
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- Transaction Management
- The notion of a transaction is fundamental to business systems architectures. A transaction, simply put, ensures that only agreed-upon, consistent, and acceptable state changes are made to a system - regardless of system failure or concurrent access to the system's resources. This paper introduces the fundamental concepts behind transactions and...
- Tags: Transaction, Transaction Management, Reed Elsevier Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Bioinformatics Hastens Drug Discovery and Development
- Gene Logic Inc., a bioinformatics and biocontent firm in Gaithersburg, Md., is at the forefront of using highly sophisticated technologies to create genomic information-based research tools. To enable the free flow of critical information to its customers, Gene Logic uses information storage systems and software from EMC Corp., Hopkinton, Mass.,...
- Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Bioinformatics, Healthcare
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- Aventis Goes Global: Integrated Registration System Unites Far-Flung Labs
- Determined to ensure consistent, high quality data at each site and integrated access to a global network of information, Aventis set out to replace the existing systems. The result was the Aventis Registration Process ARP, a business process and registration system, implemented with professional guidance and tools from MDL. The...
- Tags: Aventis, Reed Elsevier Inc., Operational Planning, Process Improvement, Team Management, Productivity, Servers, Business Operations, Quality, Management, Hardware
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- Federated Grid Clusters Using Service Address Routed Optical Networks
- Clusters of computers have emerged as cost-effective parallel and/or distributed computing systems for computationally intensive tasks. Normally, clusters are composed of high performance computational nodes linked together by low-latency/high-bandwidth interconnection networks. With the advent of modern optical networking technologies, geographically distant clusters can be federated to yield systems considered tightly-coupled....
- Tags: Optical Network, Reed Elsevier Inc., Distributed Computing, Grid, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Networking, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Telecommunications
- White papers 2007-05-05
- A Novel Method for QoS Provisioning With Protection in GMPLS Networks
- In this paper, a new optimal policy is introduced to determine, adapt, and protect the Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching GMPLS network topology based on the current traffic load. The Integrated Traffic Engineering ITE paradigm provides mechanisms for dynamic addition of physical capacity to optical networks. In the absence of such...
- Tags: QoS, Reed Elsevier Inc., Policy, Integrated Traffic Engineering Paradigm, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Networking, Workforce Management, Telecommunications, Human Resources
- White papers 2006-03-09
- Effects of Corner Frequency on Bandwidth and Resonance Amplitude in Designing PZT Thin-Film Actuators
- In the last decade, lead zirconate titanate oxide PZT thin-film actuators have received increasing attention because of their high frequency bandwidth, large actuation strength, fast response, and small size. The PZT film thickness is usually less than several microns as opposed to hundreds of microns for bulk PZT patches that...
- Tags: Frequency, Bandwidth, Reed Elsevier Inc., PZT
- White papers 2005-08-26
- Load Balancing and OpenMP Implementation of Nested Parallelism
- Many problems have multiple layers of parallelism. The outer-level may consist of few and coarse-grained tasks. Next, each of these tasks may also be rich in parallelism, and be split into a number of fine-grained tasks, which again may consist of even finer subtasks, and so on. Here this paper...
- Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Load Balancing, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2005-10-17
- Offline/Realtime Traffic Classification Using Semi-Supervised Learning
- Identifying and categorizing network traffic by application type is challenging because of the continued evolution of applications, especially of those with a desire to be undetectable. The diminished effectiveness of port-based identification and the overheads of deep packet inspection approaches motivate us to classify traffic by exploiting distinctive flow characteristics...
- Tags: Application, Reed Elsevier Inc., Productivity, Networking
- White papers 2007-07-13
- Structured Firewall Design
- A firewall is a security guard placed at the point of entry between a private network and the outside Internet such that all incoming and outgoing packets have to pass through it. The function of a firewall is to examine every incoming or outgoing packet and decide whether to accept...
- Tags: Packet, Reed Elsevier Inc., Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2006-08-15
- A Survey on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
- The availability of low-cost hardware such as CMOS cameras and microphones has fostered the development of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks WMSNs, i.e., networks of wirelessly interconnected devices that are able to ubiquitously retrieve multimedia content such as video and audio streams, still images, and scalar sensor data from the environment....
- Tags: Multimedia, Reed Elsevier Inc., Network, Sensor, Survey, Hardware, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-10-05
- Broadband Household Segmentation: The Impact on Service Provider Consumer Applications Strategies
- This whitepaper examines an alternative methodology for assessing next-generation consumer applications and services. A survey of US and Canada broadband subscribers identified six groups of North American broadband households, each with distinct behavior attributes identified. A multi-step business strategy is outlined to guide the migration to next-generation services. Based on...
- Tags: Strategy, Reed Elsevier Inc., Broadband, Business Strategy, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-01
- The First Functional Demonstration of Optical Virtual Concatenation as a Technique for Achieving Terabit Networking
- The Optical Virtual Concatenation OVC function of The Terabit LAN was demonstrated for the first time at the iGrid 2005 workshop in San Diego, California. The TERAbit-LAN establishes a Lambda Group Path LGP for an application where the number of lambdas/L2 connections in a LGP can be specified by the...
- Tags: Technique, Reed Elsevier Inc., Network, TERAbit-LAN, Latency Deviation, Productivity
- White papers 2006-06-05
- Active Layout Engine: Algorithms and Applications in Variable Data Printing
- Variable Data Printing VDP provides a huge opportunity for HP's imaging and printing business. A core technology required by highly customized VDP applications is the automatic layout engine, whose task is to adjust the original design or generate a new layout to present variable contents. A brand-new layout engine, called...
- Tags: Algorithm, Reed Elsevier Inc., Printing, Layout Engine, Variable Data Printing, Document Management, Engineering, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2005-12-08
- Managing Project Expectations in Human Services Information Systems Implementations: The Case of Homeless Management Information Systems
- Complex information management implementation projects develop cyclical downturn patterns that, if not managed effectively, can throw them off course. These cycles are intrinsically related to contradictions that are normally embedded in the project's goals and expectations. The position presented in this paper is that managing these cycles is more effective...
- Tags: Information System, Information Management, Reed Elsevier Inc., MIS, Contradiction, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-10-21
- Controllable Fair Queuing for Meeting Performance Goals
- Computing and storage utilities must control resource usage to meet contractual performance targets for hosted customers under dynamic conditions, including flash crowds and unexpected resource failures. This paper explores properties of proportional share resource schedulers that are necessary for stability and responsiveness under feedback control. It shows that the fairness...
- Tags: Performance, Reed Elsevier Inc., Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-08-10
- Real-Time Service Provisioning for Mobile and Wireless Networks
- As mobile devices and wireless networks are becoming ubiquitous, the interest of users to deploy real-time applications, e.g. online gaming or Voice-over-IP in such environments is also increasing. Due to the difference between traditional and wireless networks, in particular in terms of available bandwidth and network structure, the concepts used...
- Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Mobile, Network, Real-time Service, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2005-07-11
- Comparison of Vector Detection Algorithms for MIMO-OFDM
- The aim of this paper is to compare detection algorithms for MIMO-OFDM transmissions by simulation. For a coded transmission, it turns out that the list sphere detector, which has been considered a favorite for many applications, is far more complex than other methods yielding the same BER performance. Moreover, iterative...
- Tags: Algorithm, Channel, Reed Elsevier Inc., MIMO-OFDM
- White papers 2005-05-20
- Adaptive Minimum Bit Error Rate Beamforming Assisted Receiver for QPSK Wireless Communication
- This paper considers interference limited communication systems where the desired user and interfering users are symbol-synchronized. A novel adaptive beamforming technique is proposed for Quadrature Phase Shift Keying QPSK receiver based directly on minimizing the bit error rate. It is demonstrated that the proposed Minimum Bit Error Rate MBER approach...
- Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Error, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-03-25
