Performability Has its Price
Performability Has its Price

Author: Burkhard Stiller

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-06-21

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 3540354573

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2006, held in St. Malo, France, June 2006 as an associated workshop of ACM Sigmetrics / IFIP Performance 2006. The book presents eight revised full papers together with a keynote paper, organized in topical sections on economy-driven modeling, auctions, peer-to-peer, and secure billing, addressing vital topics in networking research and business modeling.

Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

Author: Raghunath Nambiar

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-11-05

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 3642104231

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This book constitutes the reviewed proceedings of the first Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2009, held in Lyon, France, August 24-28,2009. The 16 full papers and two keynote papers were carefully selected from 34 submissions. This book considers issues such as appliance, business intelligence, cloud computing, complex event processing, database performance optimizations, green computing, data compression, disaster tolerance and recovery, energy and space efficiency, hardware innovations, high speed data generation, hybrid workloads or operational data warehousing, unstructured data management, software management and maintenance, virtualization and very large memory systems

Advanced SQL with SAS
Advanced SQL with SAS

Author: Christian FG Schendera

Publisher: SAS Institute

Published: 2022-05-01

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1955977895

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This book introduces advanced techniques for using PROC SQL in SAS. If you are a SAS programmer, analyst, or student who has mastered the basics of working with SQL, Advanced SQL with SAS® will help take your skills to the next level. Filled with practical examples with detailed explanations, this book demonstrates how to improve performance and speed for large data sets. Although the book addresses advanced topics, it is designed to progress from the simple and manageable to the complex and sophisticated. In addition to numerous tuning techniques, this book also touches on implicit and explicit pass-throughs, presents alternative SAS grid- and cloud-based processing environments, and compares SAS programming languages and approaches including FedSQL, CAS, DS2, and hash programming. Other topics include: Missing values and data quality with audit trails “Blind spots” like how missing values can affect even the simplest calculations and table joins SAS macro language and SAS macro programs SAS functions Integrity constraints SAS Dictionaries SAS Compute Server

Artificial Economics and Self Organization
Artificial Economics and Self Organization

Author: Stephan Leitner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-08-16

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 3319009125

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This volume presents recent advances in the dynamic field of Artificial Economics and its various applications. Artificial Economics provides a structured approach to model and investigate economic and social systems. In particular, this approach is based on the use of agent-based simulations and further computational techniques. The main aim is to analyze the outcomes at the overall systems’ level as results from the agents’ behavior at the micro-level. These emergent characteristics of complex economic and social systems can neither be foreseen nor are they intended. The emergence rather makes these systems function. Artificial Economics especially facilitates the investigation of this emergent systems’ behavior. ​

Unit Pricing
Unit Pricing

Author: Lena Himbert

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-11

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 3658134763

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With a series of experiments, Lena Himbert highlights the influence of the unit price’s unit of measure on the consumer’s price-level perception and quality perception. Furthermore, this thesis shows that the unit price availability and prominence influences the consumer’s store price image. When shopping for pre-packaged products, consumers are offered a variety of product and price information at the point of purchase. The unit price represents price information given to the consumer for which the factor package size is removed and thereby lowers the information load for consumers in the shopping situation. However, retailers have considerable leeway concerning the unit price format. Aspects that can be varied are for example the unit of measure (e.g., price per kg vs price per 100 g) or font size. There is little to no previous research that gives advice to retailers how they should indicate the unit price on the price label.

Handbook of Performability Engineering
Handbook of Performability Engineering

Author: Krishna B. Misra

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-08-24

Total Pages: 1331

ISBN-13: 1848001312

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Dependability and cost effectiveness are primarily seen as instruments for conducting international trade in the free market environment. These factors cannot be considered in isolation of each other. This handbook considers all aspects of performability engineering. The book provides a holistic view of the entire life cycle of activities of the product, along with the associated cost of environmental preservation at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

Word Processing for Technical Writers
Word Processing for Technical Writers

Author: Robert Krull

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 135185447X

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Supports the idea of matching the "system" to the technical writer's needs. This book contains numerous questions and answers.

PC Mag
PC Mag

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1991-03-12

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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PCMag.com is a leading authority on technology, delivering Labs-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. Our expert industry analysis and practical solutions help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology.

Genetic Algorithm Essentials
Genetic Algorithm Essentials

Author: Oliver Kramer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-07

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 331952156X

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This book introduces readers to genetic algorithms (GAs) with an emphasis on making the concepts, algorithms, and applications discussed as easy to understand as possible. Further, it avoids a great deal of formalisms and thus opens the subject to a broader audience in comparison to manuscripts overloaded by notations and equations. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which provides an introduction to GAs, starting with basic concepts like evolutionary operators and continuing with an overview of strategies for tuning and controlling parameters. In turn, the second part focuses on solution space variants like multimodal, constrained, and multi-objective solution spaces. Lastly, the third part briefly introduces theoretical tools for GAs, the intersections and hybridizations with machine learning, and highlights selected promising applications.