This book provides a systematic progression from the legacy networks of the past to the Next Generation Convergent networks of the future. The books aims at providing complete background and relevant details that are required to plan, design and deploy modern day core/backbone telecommunication networks. This is book would be useful to individuals associated with most of the areas of the vast telecom as well as data networking spectrum including planning, engineering, network management & operations, installation and commissioning as well as operations and maintenance, besides any knowledge seeker

The modern day organizational landscape is witnessing rapid changes, both in its structure and management. Managing its intangible assets is of paramount importance to an organization irrespective of its size, sector or domain, to enable it withstand the rigors of the current global economies. Only organizations that have a well defined and integrated Competency Management Framework would be able to successfully survive and compete in the knowledge economies of the future. This book introduces the basis terms, terminologies, processes associated with organizational competency management.

The deployment of Data Warehouses as a business application has grown tremendously over the past decade. Data warehouses are today considered to be one of the key components of an organizations overall IT strategy and architecture. This is especially true in the current Knowledge based global economy. Innovation and creativity is the current buzzword as business enterprises struggle to retain their stranglehold and find new markets for their products or services. Data warehouses are being developed and deployed for all businesses irrespective of its size and nature. Foreseeing a huge growth potential major hardware and software vendors, across the world, have quickly developed products and services specifically targeting the data warehousing market. The objective of this book is to provide the reader with an insight to the world of Data Warehousing, in a lucid manner devoid of mathematical complications.

Data mining is the computational process of discovering patterns in large data sets with the objective of extracting information and transforming it into an understandable structure for further use. Data mining involves data and database management, pre-processing techniques, model and inference considerations alongwith post-processing of uncovered structures, data visualization, and online updation. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases are terms that are generally used interchangeably. The other terms referring to data mining are data or information harvesting, archeology, functional dependency analysis, knowledge extraction and data pattern analysis. Data Mining is used to identify potential knowledge from seemingly plain data sets. This book provides a solid foundation over which the pillars of advanced mining techniques can be built on. The book commences with an introduction to the basic concepts and terminologies related to data mining. The detailed architecture of data mine, the challenges in handling erroneous data, data mining process as well as the data mining tools are also presented subsequently.