Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development is the first book of its kind. It offers a comprehensive introduction to MapServer, the development platform for integrating mapping technology into Internet applications. You'll learn how to build and extend dynamic applications using popular languages like PHP, Perl, and Python.

After a thorough introduction to installation and configuration, you'll uncover basic MapServer topics and examples. You'll also learn about advanced MapServer features, and how to query and incorporate dynamic data into your application. The book culminates with the creation of an actual mapping application.

This new edition has been completely updated to accommodate the needs of users of SPSS Release 12 and 13 for Windows, whilst still being applicable to those using SPSS Release 11 and 10. Alan Bryman and Duncan Cramer provide a non-technical approach to quantitative data analysis and a user-friendly introduction to the widely used SPSS. No previous familiarity with computing or statistics is required to benefit from this step-by-step guide to techniques including: Non-parametric tests Correlation Simple and multiple regression Multivarate analysis of variance and covariance Factor analysis The authors discuss key issues facing the newcomer to research, such as how to decide which statistical procedure is suitable, and how to interpret the subsequent results. Each chapter contains worked examples to illustrate the points raised and ends with a comprehensive range of exercises which allow the reader to test their understanding of the topic. This new edition of this hugely successful textbook will guide the reader through the basics of quantitative data analysis and become an essential reference tool for both students and researchers in the social sciences. The datasets used in Quantitative Data Analysis for SPSS Release 12 and 13 are available online at www.psypress.com/brymancramer/ .

Any Microsoft Outlook® user knows that the program is about more than just email: it's a suite of organizational tools that can help you manage your schedule, contacts, and deadlines with remarkable efficiency. Regardless of experience, you'll find that the Outlook Pocket Guide significantly decreases the amount of time you spend trying to figure out tricky problems and decipher the various settings.

Dieses essential betrachtet die Erfolgsfaktoren von Plattform-Geschaftsmodellen am Beispiel der international erfolgreichen Livestreaming-Plattform Twitch. Die Funktionsweise des Geschaftsmodells wird dabei mit Hilfe einer Adaption des Business Model Canvas fur zweiseitige Plattformen untersucht. Das Vorgehen fur die Analyse lasst sich im Sinne eines Werkzeugkastens auf andere Unternehmen ubertragen. Das Verstandnis fur die im Buch beschriebenen Erfolgsfaktoren von Twitch kann eigene Geschaftsmodelle inspirieren.

The release of R5 has made Domino easier for its 55 million users than ever before. For example, it's now possible to centrally modify client configurations or visually monitor the health and status of the network's Domino servers from a single screen. Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell is the quick reference for getting the most out of this reliable and scalable integrated server platform.

Dieses Buch stellt neue Geschaftsmodelle und Methoden vor, mit denen Dienstleistungsinnovationen durch den Einsatz digitaler Technologien erfolgreich umgesetzt werden. Ein Schwerpunkt des zweiten Bandes sind neue Methoden fur die digitale Transformation von Dienstleistungsprozessen in der Industrie, Logistik und Gesundheitsbranche. Das Buch stellt dabei auch besondere Herausforderungen und Loesungen fur die digitale Transformation kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) vor und zeigt, wie dort neue Geschaftsmodelle umgesetzt werden. Die Entwicklung und Nutzung digitaler Plattformen stellt abschliessend eine spezifische Perspektive auf neue Kooperationsformen in Wertschoepfungsnetzwerken dar. Zahlreiche Umsetzungsbeispiele zeigen konkret und praxisnah auf, wie Unternehmen digitale Geschaftsmodelle selbst entwickeln, neue Methoden sicher anwenden und Dienstleistungsinnovationen erfolgreich realisieren koennen.

Das Aufkommen des Internets und insbesondere die Verbreitung von Smartphones haben den E-Commerce in Deutschland und weltweit wachsen lassen und setzen den stationaren Einzelhandel wirtschaftlich unter Druck. Mit der Digitalisierung eroeffnen sich aber auch neue Chancen fur stationar tatige Handelsunternehmen entlang der gesamten Wertschoepfungskette, die mit Blick auf Kundenmehrwert, Implementierung, Effizienz und Nachhaltigkeit einzuordnen sind.

Im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung fuhrt der Einsatz innovativer Informationstechnologien zu deutlichen Veranderungen in der Unternehmenswelt. Dabei sind nicht nur Unternehmen aller Branchen betroffen, sondern auch alle Funktionsbereiche innerhalb eines Unternehmens. Entsprechend entstehen damit verbundene Herausforderungen auch im Marketing. Gleichzeitig bieten digitale Innovationen aber auch viele neue Moeglichkeiten und Chancen. Das vorliegende essential fokussiert sich auf die Digitalisierung des Marketing sowie die damit verbundenen Chancen und Herausforderungen. Dabei werden zunachst die zentralen Treiber des digitalen Marketing herausgestellt, bevor anschliessend die Implikationen und die Auswirkungen auf die Marketing-Funktion diskutiert werden. Das essential hilft dabei, auf den digitalen Wandel im Marketing nicht nur zu reagieren, sondern eine proaktive Rolle einzunehmen. Der Autor: Prof. Dr. Nils Urbach ist Professor fur Wirtschaftsinformatik und Strategisches IT-Management an der Universitat Bayreuth. Zudem ist er stellvertretender wissenschaftlicher Leiter am Kernkompetenzzentrum Finanz- & Informationsmanagement (FIM) und der Projektgruppe Wirtschaftsinformatik des Fraunhofer-Instituts fur Angewandte Informationstechnik (FIT).

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 201, held in Kuwait City, Kuwait, in October/November 2018. The 65 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. Topics of interest include, amongst others, the following: social media; information systems; marketing and communications; management and operations; public administration; economics, sociology, and psychology; e-finance, e-banking, and e-accounting; computer science and computer engineering; and teaching and learning.

Gain a broad understanding of how PCI DSS is structured and obtain a high-level view of the contents and context of each of the 12 top-level requirements. The guidance provided in this book will help you effectively apply PCI DSS in your business environments, enhance your payment card defensive posture, and reduce the opportunities for criminals to compromise your network or steal sensitive data assets. Businesses are seeing an increased volume of data breaches, where an opportunist attacker from outside the business or a disaffected employee successfully exploits poor company practices. Rather than being a regurgitation of the PCI DSS controls, this book aims to help you balance the needs of running your business with the value of implementing PCI DSS for the protection of consumer payment card data. Applying lessons learned from history, military experiences (including multiple deployments into hostile areas), numerous PCI QSA assignments, and corporate cybersecurity and InfoSec roles, author Jim Seaman helps you understand the complexities of the payment card industry data security standard as you protect cardholder data. You will learn how to align the standard with your business IT systems or operations that store, process, and/or transmit sensitive data. This book will help you develop a business cybersecurity and InfoSec strategy through the correct interpretation, implementation, and maintenance of PCI DSS. What You Will Learn Be aware of recent data privacy regulatory changes and the release of PCI DSS v4.0 Improve the defense of consumer payment card data to safeguard the reputation of your business and make it more difficult for criminals to breach security Be familiar with the goals and requirements related to the structure and interdependencies of PCI DSS Know the potential avenues of attack associated with business payment operations Make PCI DSS an integral component of your business operations Understand the benefits of enhancing your security culture See how the implementation of PCI DSS causes a positive ripple effect across your business Who This Book Is For Business leaders, information security (InfoSec) practitioners, chief information security managers, cybersecurity practitioners, risk managers, IT operations managers, business owners, military enthusiasts, and IT auditors

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2018, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018. The 9 full papers and 3 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: Research Track; Application and Industry Track; and Short Paper Track. They deal with the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of edge computing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things, ICIOT 2018, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018. The 13 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: Research Track - Architecture; Research Track - Smart IoT; Application and Industry Track; and Short Paper Track. They deal with research and application innovations in the internet of things services.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2018, as part of SCF 2018, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover the science and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model, create, operate, and manage business services.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2018, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2018, in Seattle, USA, in June 2018. The 10 full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers cover topics in the field of software foundations and applications with a focus on novel approaches for engineering requirements, design and architectures, testing, maintenance and evolution, model-driven development, software processes, metrics, quality assurance and new software economics models, search-based software engineering, benefiting day-to-day services sectors and derived through experiences, with appreciation to scale, pragmatism, transparency, compliance and/or dependability.

Implement Scrum or improve how Scrum works in your team or organization using this concise, sharp, and programmatic book. You will quickly learn what you need to know without getting confused with unnecessary details. What You'll Learn Become familiar with Agile concepts and understand the path from Waterfall to the Agile Manifesto Understand the most commonly used Agile methodology-Scrum-and how it relates to eXtreme Programming and Kanban as well as to Lean principles Identify the challenges of the Scrum Master role and understand what this role is all about Know the stages of Scrum team development Embrace and solve conflicts in a Scrum team Who This Book Is For Anyone looking for a simple way to understand Scrum methodology

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2017. The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researches, engineers and practitioners interested in technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The 12 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from originally 77 paper submissions. They contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on Web information systems and technologies, comprising unified interfaces, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) as well as a mobile device taxonomy, XML and open data processing, the history of Web engineering, web development for end-users, access control, Web platform assessment, rule engines, and scientific blogging.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2017, held in Bangalore, India, in December 2017. The 28 full and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers reflect the work of researchers in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and microeconomics who have joined forces to tackle problems at the intersection of computation, game theory and economics.

Dieses essential gibt einen UEberblick uber die Werkzeuge des digitalen Kundenmanagements. Durch die steigende Nutzung neuer Medien hat sich auch das Kundenmanagement verandert. Kunden wollen alle Informationen schnell, einfach und insbesondere an jedem Ort vorfinden. Unternehmen stehen dabei vor der Herausforderung, dies zum einen technisch umzusetzen und zum anderen der Erwartungshaltung der Kunden mit neuen Entwicklungen nachzukommen. Welchen Stellenwert der Konsument einnimmt und welche unternehmerischen Handlungen relevant werden, sind Aspekte, die in diesem Band thematisiert werden. Der Fokus liegt in der Veranschaulichung des Wandels der Kundenstellung bedingt durch die Weiterentwicklung der digitalen Umwelt.

This invaluable resource can help transform online courses into exciting, meaningful, and active e-learning experiences. "75 e-Learning Activities" is filled with scores of e-learning activities and games that offer trainers and instructors a handbook for creating interactive and engaging online courses. Much like the activities and games used in traditional classroom training, these e-learning activities can be used to increase interactivity, engage learners, accomplish learning objectives, develop online relationships, promote active learning, and create learning communities. With many examples available on the CD-ROM for easy online transfer, the activities can help elaborate on course content through the use of online technologies such as chat rooms, email, or discussion boards.

Das Buch untersucht aus der Perspektive der germanistischen Mediavistik, inwieweit facheinschlagige Wikipedia-Artikel profunde Informationsquellen liefern oder zumindest eine verlassliche Erstinformation bieten. Zur Klarung dieser Frage rekapituliert die Autorin die allgemeine Geschichte der Enzyklopadie bis hin zur Etablierung der Online-Enzyklopadie Wikipedia. Reprasentative Metadaten auf Basis des Qualitatsbegriffs der Wikipedia bilden im Anschluss den Ausgangspunkt fur eine semiautomatische Analyse von Artikeln zur mittelalterlichen Sprache und Literatur. Die Autorin stutzt das Ergebnis durch kritische Detailanalysen.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2015, held in Dublin, Ireland, in June/July 2015. The 25 long and 7 short papers of the research paper track were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers reflect the conference theme "Contextualizing the World", highlighting the significance and impact of user modeling and adaptive technologies on a large number of everyday application areas such as: intelligent learning environments, recommender systems, e-commerce, advertising, personalized information retrieval and access, digital humanities, e-government, cultural heritage, and personalized health.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2018, held in Seville, Spain, in September 2018. The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researches, engineers and practitioners interested in technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The 12 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from originally 68 paper submissions. They cover different aspects of Web information systems, namely internet technology, mobile and NLP information systems, service-based information systems, platforms and eco-systems, Web intelligence and Web interfaces.

Die innovative Blockchain erlaubt eine neue Form der Dezentralitat. Sie ist entstanden aus Kryptographie, Internet, P2P und schwindendem Vertrauen durch Finanzkrisen. Ein erstes Versuchsfeld bildet dabei das Zahlungsmittel Bitcoin, welches durch Mining erzeugt wird und die popularste Internetwahrung und Pionier fur weitere Ideen ist. Ziel der Publikation ist es, Blockchain sowie Bitcoin innerhalb der deutschen Rechtsordnung zu untersuchen. Dabei ergibt sich eine Einordnung innerhalb des Zivilrechts, Immaterialguterrechts, Wahrungsrechts, Bank- und Kapitalmarktrechts. Die rechtlichen Erkenntnisse der Untersuchung lassen sich auf alle kunftigen Vorhaben und Produkte mit einer Blockchain ubertragen. Der Autor zeigt Wege auf, wie derartige Daten als Immaterialguter Rechte begrunden koennen.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2014, which took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2014. The 27 papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions and were revised and extended after the event. The workshop topics covered applications and economics of knowledge-based technologies (AKTB), business and IT alignment (BITA), digital currencies (DC), modern applications of business information systems (MODAPP), and tools for setting up and running a business in cloud computing (TSRB). In addition a keynote paper is included in this book.