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whitepaper By Optimizing Four Key Production Processes, This Manufacturer Reduces Inefficiencies and Cuts Costs2008-01-01 IBM
  The manufacturer was dealing with a changing business environment. Customers were placing smaller orders with shorter fulfillment lead-times and there were regional economic difficulties, production excesses and trade disputes. The company needed to cut costs and be more efficient to stay competitive. IBM was hired to help optimize the four basic areas of steel production - inventory application, slab design, cast design and finishing line scheduling. Each area was treated as a separate project. IBM researchers and consultants worked together to define the issue for each project and break those issues into smaller problems. Next, using client guidelines the team modeled the optimal solutions, inventing new algorithms as needed.

Tags: Warehouse Inventory Management, Application Development		   
whitepaper The IBM Research Constraint Solver Models and Solves Complex Problems Through the Examination and Prioritization of Myriad Variables and Constraints2008-01-01 IBM
  Variables can be a headache. Ask any seventh grader puzzling over a2=9. When variables for a given problem include the myriad manufactured parts that make a truck engine run or the skill sets of thousands of employees, the capabilities of the human mind can be overwhelmed. Enter the IBM Research Constraint Solver. This core technology is offered by IBM On Demand Innovation Services, a partnership between IBM Research and IBM Global Business Services (GBS). The Constraint Solver models and solves problems involving thousands of variables and multi-tiered constraints. A robust general-purpose tool in use for more than a decade, it employs both deterministic and stochastic searches to develop high-level parameters for each problem. It then uses algorithms to solve them.   
whitepaper Enforcing Modeling Guidelines in an ORDBMS-Based UML-Repository2008-01-01 University of Kaiserslautern
  Due to its rich set of modeling concepts and its broad application spectrum the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become widely accepted for modeling many aspects of software systems. Since UML is not related to any particular design method, each software development project has to establish its own modeling guidelines. Hence, tool support is needed for guiding the developer throughout the modeling process and for enforcing project-related integrity of UML models. This paper presents the approach for enforcing guidelines in UML-based software development processes. For managing UML models, the paper implemented a UML repository on top of an Object-Relational Database Management System (ORDBMS). Guidelines are expressed as OCL constraints and are enforced either automatically, i. e., by the UML repository, or on user demand.

Tags: Database Management, UML		   
whitepaper A Formal Framework for Secure Design and Constraint Checking in UML2008-01-01 University of Connecticut
  The design of software applications using the unified modeling language, UML, embodies an incremental process, transitioning a design from state to state over time. The integration of security into this process is critical to satisfy an application's security requirements. This paper reports on a formal approach that incorporates Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Mandatory Access Control (MAC), and lifetimes, with constraint checking, into UML for time-sensitive application design. The resulting framework promotes secure software design by tracking an application's security requirements as UML elements and connections are added, modified, and deleted. It also captures snapshots of each design state by checking constraints on security satisfaction properties for the design.

Tags: Security Management, UML		   
whitepaper Carillion plc: Performance Testing Proves Technology Solution Is Failsafe2007-12-21 AppLabs
  Carillion plc is one of the UK's leading building, infrastructure and business services companies and employs over 50,000 people. The increase in the amount of work that Carillion was now conducting for the client meant that the IT system used to manage construction projects for claimants had to cope with a much greater capacity. AppLabs worked closely with Carillion's application experts to help understand and resolve the errors that had been found. This resulted in a new version of the system and a replacement of the incompatible software. Carillion then recommissioned AppLabs to repeat the performance tests in a staging environment at one of Carillion's offices.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper MSDN Webcast: Developer Series (Part 5 of 5): Learn How to Work Alongside a Designer (Level 200)2007-12-14 Microsoft
  This webcast covers working alongside with designer. This involves using files that have received from designer and finalizing the project using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight 1.1. It explores hooking up events to a splash screen, in addition to creating an action for a video file that contains markers.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Improving Packing Algorithms for Server Consolidation2007-12-14 NEC
  Minimizing the number of servers and preparing sufficient resources are contradictory requirements in server consolidation. These requirements can be formalized as a variant of the bin packing problem, which is known to be NP-hard. The least-loaded, a load-balancing algorithm, is applied to the problem and compared to the classical First-Fit Decreasing algorithm designed to address the bin packing problem. The technique of improving the algorithms is then presented.

Tags: Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper MSDN Webcast: Developer Series (Part 1 of 5) - Introduction to Silverlight 1.1 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Level 200)2007-12-10 Microsoft
  This webcast is dedicated to getting developers acquainted with building Microsoft Silverlight version 1.1 applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. This webcast cover creating first Silverlight application, debugging a Silverlight application, and also showing how to debug JavaScript using Visual Studio 2008.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper UberFlow: A GPU-Based Particle Engine2007-12-01 EUROGRAPHICS Association
  This paper presents a system for real-time animation and rendering of large particle sets using GPU computation and memory objects in OpenGL. Memory objects can be used both as containers for geometry data stored on the graphics card and as render targets, providing an effective means for the manipulation and rendering of particle data on the GPU. To fully take advantage of this mechanism, efficient GPU realizations of algorithms used to perform particle manipulation are essential. The system implements a versatile particle engine, including inter-particle collisions and visibility sorting. By combining memory objects with floating-point fragment programs, the paper has implemented a particle engine that entirely avoids the transfer of particle data at run-time.

Tags: Data Visualization		   
whitepaper Unmanned Vehicle Systems: Leveraging COTS Software2007-12-01 Oracle
  This paper has illustrated how Oracle Commercial off-The Shelf (COTS) software, from Oracle, can reduce Unmanned Vehicle System (UVS) development time, cost and risk. In addition, the Oracle solution provides further value to the developers of UVSs. As an integrated suite from a single vendor, it eliminates much of the overhead for version control and system testing that is so costly when integrating technologies from multiple vendors. The quality of the Oracle solution is reflected in its industry leading products. For instance, the Berkeley DB has over 200 million deployments, and TimesTen is the industry leader for systems that demand high performance, availability and unattended operations.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless