Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Between the high-level concepts of business intelligence and the nitty-gritty instructions for using vendors¿ tools lies the essential, yet poorly-understood layer of architecture, design and process. Without this knowledge, Big Data is belittled ¿ projects flounder, are late and go over budget. Business Intelligence Guidebook: From Data Integration to Analytics shines a bright light on an often neglected topic, arming you with the knowledge you need to design rock-solid business intelligence and data integration processes. Practicing consultant and adjunct BI professor Rick Sherman takes the guesswork out of creating systems that are cost-effective, reusable and essential for transforming raw data into valuable information for business decision-makers. After reading this book, you will be able to design the overall architecture for functioning business intelligence systems with the supporting data warehousing and data-integration applications. You will have the information you need to get a project launched, developed, managed and delivered on time and on budget ¿ turning the deluge of data into actionable information that fuels business knowledge. Finally, yoüll give your career a boost by demonstrating an essential knowledge that puts corporate BI projects on a fast-track to success.

Archives and special collections departments have a long history of preserving and providing long-term access to organizational records, rare books, and other unique primary sources including manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and artifacts in various formats. The careful curatorial attention to such records has also ensured that such records remain available to researchers and the public as sources of knowledge, memory, and identity. Digital curation presents an important framework for the continued preservation of digitized and born-digital collections, given the ephemeral and device-dependent nature of digital content. With the emergence of analog and digital media formats in close succession (compared to earlier paper- and film-based formats) came new standards, technologies, methods, documentation, and workflows to ensure safe storage and access to content and associated metadata. Researchers in the digital humanities have extensively applied computing to research; for them, continued access to primary data and cultural heritage means both the continuation of humanities scholarship and new methodologies not possible without digital technology. Digital curation and Digital Humanities, therefore, comprise a joint framework for preserving, promoting, and accessing digital collections. This book explores at great length the conceptualization of digital curation projects with interdisciplinary approaches that combine the digital humanities and history, information architecture, social networking, and other themes for such a framework. The individual chapters focus on the specifics of each area, but the relationships holding the knowledge architecture and the digital curation lifecycle model together remain an overarching theme throughout the book; thus, each chapter connects to others on a conceptual, theoretical, or practical level.

Presenting the results of investigations of particular aspects of ion dynamics, this book also discusses solvation in ion-molecule reactions. It also provides information on reaction thermodynamics which determines reaction spontaneity and availability of reaction channels. It also presents studies on the ionization process and its nature.

Provides to the scientific community, the state-of-the art on photochemistry, photophysics and photobiology of cyclodextrin complexes. This book features chapters which contain information for readers working in the field of cyclodextrins, and researchers working on areas like supramolecular chemistry, nanochemistry, and nano- and biotechnology.