Credit Risk Scorecards: Developing and Implementing Intelligent Credit Scoring
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Praise for Credit Risk Scorecards
“Scorecard development is important to retail financial services in terms of credit risk management, Basel II compliance, and marketing of credit products. Credit Risk Scorecards provides insight into professional practices in different stages of credit scorecard development, such as model building, validation, and implementation. The book should be compulsory reading for modern credit risk managers.”
—Michael C. S. Wong Associate Professor of Finance, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Regional Director, Global Association of Risk Professionals
“Siddiqi offers a practical, step-by-step guide for developing and implementing successful credit scorecards. He relays the key steps in an ordered and simple-to-follow fashion. A ‘must read’ for anyone managing the development of a scorecard.”
—Jonathan G. Baum Chief Risk Officer, GE Consumer Finance, Europe
“A comprehensive guide, not only for scorecard specialists but for all consumer credit professionals. The book provides the A-to-Z of scorecard development, implementation, and monitoring processes. This is an important read for all consumer-lending practitioners.”
—Satinder Ahluwalia Vice President and Head-Retail Credit, Mashreqbank, UAE
“This practical text provides a strong foundation in the technical issues involved in building credit scoring models. This book will become required reading for all those working in this area.”
—J. Michael Hardin, PhD Professor of StatisticsDepartment of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management ScienceDirector, Institute of Business Intelligence
“Mr. Siddiqi has captured the true essence of the credit risk
Operations Research: An Introduction (8th Edition)
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For junior/senior undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in Operations Research in departments of Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. Significantly revised, this text streamlines the coverage of the theory, applications, and computations of operations research. Numerical examples are effectively used to explain complex mathematical concepts. A separate chapter of fully analyzed applications aptly demonstrates the diverse use of OR. The popular commercial and tutorial software AMPL, Excel, Excel Solver, and Tora are used throughout the book to solve practical problems and to test theoretical concepts. New materials include Markov chains, TSP heuristics, new LP models, and a totally new simplex-based approach to LP sensitivity analysis.
Human-Computer Interaction Fundamentals
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Hailed on first publication as a compendium of foundational principles and cutting-edge research, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook has become the gold standard reference in this field. Derived from select chapters of this groundbreaking and authoritative resource, Human-Computer Interaction Fundamentals emphasizes emerging topics such as sensor based interactions, tangible interfaces, augmented cognition, cognition under stress, ubiquitous and wearable computing, and privacy and security. It puts the spotlight not only on the fundamental issues involved in the technology of human-computer interactions and but also on the users themselves. The book features visionary perspectives and developments that fundamentally transform the way in which researchers and practitioners view this discipline.
Learning Web Design
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Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning — defining how the Web and web pages work — and builds from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you’ll know how to get your pages up on the Web.
This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. Learning Web Design explains:
The book includes exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you’re up to speed with key concepts. If you’re interested in web design, Learning Web Design is the place to start.
About the Author
Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the Web. As the designer of O’Reilly’s Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. She is the author of the bestselling “Web Design in a Nutshell” (O’Reilly), and has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales University in Providence. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including SXSW Interactive, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos. Jen and her family reside in Seekonk, MA.
19 Deadly Sins of Software Security
This essential book for all software developers–regardless of platform, language, or type of application–outlines the «19 deadly sins» of software security and shows how to fix each one. Best-selling authors Michael Howard and David LeBlanc, who teach Microsoft employees how to secure code, have partnered with John Viega, the man who uncovered the 19 deadly programming sins to write this much-needed book.
Coverage includes:
Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X
C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Perl, and Visual Basic
Web, small client, and smart-client applications
Building on Knowledge: Developing Expertise, Creativity and Intellectual Capital in the Construction Professions
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This guide shows design practices and other construction professionals how to manage knowledge successfully. It explains how to develop and implement a knowledge management strategy, and how to avoid the pitfalls, focusing on the techniques of learning and knowledge sharing that are most relevant in professional practice. Expensive IT-based ‘solutions’ bought off-the-shelf rarely succeed in a practice context, so the emphasis here is on people-centred techniques, which recognise and meet real business knowledge needs and fit in with the organisational culture.
Knowledge is supplanting physical assets as the dominant basis of capital value and an understanding of how knowledge is acquired, shared and used is increasingly crucial in organisational success. Most business leaders recognise this, but few have yet succeeded in making it the pervasive influence on management practice that it needs to become; that has turned out to be harder than it looks.
Construction professionals are among those who have furthest to go, and most to gain. Design is a knowledge-based activity, and project managers, contractors and clients, as well as architects and engineers, have always learned from experience and shared their knowledge with immediate colleagues. But the intuitive processes they have traditionally used break down alarmingly quickly as organisations grow; even simply dividing the office over two floors can noticeably reduce communication. At the same time, increasingly sophisticated construction technology and more demanding markets are making effective management of knowledge ever more important. Other knowledge-intensive industries (such as management consultancy, pharmaceuticals, and IT), are well ahead in adopting a more systematic approach to learning and sharing knowledge, and seeing the benefits in improved technical capacity, efficiency, customer satisfaction and reduced risk.
Eclipse Cookbook
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You’ve probably heard the buzz about Eclipse, the powerful open source platform that gives Java developers a new way to approach development projects. It’s like a shiny new car–no longer content to just admire Eclipse, you’re now itching to get in and drive.
As with any extensive programming tool, however, there’s a lot to learn. And there s no better guy than well-known Java expert Steve Holzner to teach you. An award-winning and best-selling author who has been writing about Java topics since the language first appeared, Holzner delivers just the kind of targeted, practical, everyday knowledge you need to hone your mastery of Eclipse.
Perfect as a companion to an Eclipse programming tutorial (such as Holzner’s own Eclipse, O’Reilly, April 2004) or an ideal stand-alone for all those developers who either don’t want or don’t need the tutorial approach, the Eclipse Cookbook contains task-oriented recipes for more than 800 situations you may encounter while using this new Java platform–from deploying a web application automatically to reverse engineering compiled code, from re-naming all references to a class across multiple packages to initializing the SWT JNI libraries.
Each recipe in the ever-popular and utterly practical problem-solution-discussion format for O’Reilly cookbooks contains a clear and thorough description of the problem, a brief but complete discussion of a solution, and in-action examples illustrating that solution. The Eclipse Cookbook will satiate Java programmers at all levels who are ready to go beyond tutorials–far beyond writing plug-ins and extensions–and actually use the powerful and convenient Eclipse day to day.
About the Author
Steve Holzner is an award-winning author who has been writing about Java topics since Java first appeared. He’s a former PC Magazine contributing editor, and his many books have been translated into 18 languages around the world. His books sold more than 1.5 million copies, and many of his bestsellers have been on Java. Steve graduated from MIT and got his PhD at Cornell; he’s been a very popular member of the faculty at both MIT and Cornell, teaching thousands of students over the years and earning an average student evaluation over 4.9 out of 5.0. He also runs his own software company and teaches week-long classes to corporate programmers on Java around the country.
Web 2.0 The lastest Wave
Web 2.0 The lastest Wave
Publisher: Linda Rembowski | ISBN: N\A | edition 2008 | PDF | 37 pages | 1,38 mb
Write Your Own Lead Pulling Squeeze Pages
Master The Skill of Crafting your Own Web Page that sucks Fresh Leads like a Vacuum, Without the OFF Switch. Introduction To Squeeze Pages. Squeeze Page System. What You Need. Planning Your Theme. How To Write A Squeeze Page That Converts. Increaseing Your Conversions. Driving Targeted Traffic.
Pro Wicket (Expert's Voice in Java)
Wicket is an open source, component-oriented (POJOs-based), lightweight Java web application development framework that brings the Java Swing event-based programming model to web development. Wicket pages can be mocked up, previewed, and later revised using standard WYSIWYG HTML design tools.
Wicket provides stateful components, thereby improving productivity. It has an architecture and rich component suite that aims to bring back the object orientation and, more importantly, the fun that is missing from the Java web development space. With the impending 1.2 release, Wicket is set for wider adoption.
Pro Wicket gets you up and running quickly with this framework. Youll learn how to configure Wicket, then gradually gain exposure to the �Wicket way� of addressing web development requirements. Youll want to pick up a copy because it
Hacking the IT Cube: The Information Technology Department Survival Guide
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Hacking the Cube is a straightforward and sometimes comical look into the everyday world of information technology. It answers questions that many IT professionals and newcomers ask about the tools and skills needed to survive one of the most complex career fields in the world. Most computer books deal with configuring software and do little to help you learn what you need to know to work in a network office environment. Most people are rarely prepared for the social, political, or psychological aptitude needed to survive the office workplace. Most computer books are software proprietary and never tell you what types of programs you will really need to know.
Running Linux, 5th Edition
The Linux operating system has made a lot of progress in the past few years, and Running Linux has progressed right along with it to remain the single best general-purpose book for curious computer users who want to install, use, and enjoy Linux. The team of authors present a text that’s simultaneously detailed and readable. Coupled with an inquisitive and capable reader, that’s a recipe for success with the world’s most popular open-source operating system.
This new edition adds coverage of the GNOME desktop environment, the Apache/MySQL/PHP server suite, and the Postfix mail transfer daemon. It also covers core capabilities and behaviors of Linux through kernel version 2.4. There’s better coverage of network security (including firewalling and ADSL link configuration), and coverage of how to set up audio-related hardware and software.
Perhaps best of all, this book conveys a sense of the “Linux attitude” as the authors see it. Linux, they say, is largely about experimentation, research, trial and error, and participation in a community. This comes in welcome contrast to books that focus on recipes (follow these steps to accomplish A; do these things to make your system do B). Though the authors of this book provide lots of how-to information, it’s always presented with an eye toward further exploration. In explaining how to build the kernel, for example, the authors provide six concise steps as a reference, but then go on for several pages about designing makefiles and how to deal with error messages. This book’s a treat. –David Wall
Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience
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Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades.
Computer Shopper - April 2009
Computer Shopper
Pages: 100 | Scan & PDF: Antfer | PDF | 13.3 mb
Basic Structures for Engineers and Architects
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This book provides students of civil engineering and architecture with a grounding in the fundamentals of structures, and a ‘feel’ for the way buildings behave structurally. The book aims to explain structural concepts clearly, using analogies and examples to illustrate the points, and it expresses mathematical aspects of the subject in a straightforward way.
Linux Bible 2005 Edition
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* Detailed installation instructions and step-by-step descriptions of key desktop and server components help new users get up and running immediately
* Descriptions of the various distributions from people in the Linux community help users zero in on the best Linux for their needs
* The perfect migration guide for Windows and Macintosh desktop users who want to switch to Linux, as well as for systems administrators who want to set up secure, fully functioning server systems
* Covers Linux embedded systems, firewalls, and routers plus desktops and servers
* Includes Fedora Core 3, Debian Linux, SUSE Linux, Knoppix, Gentoo Linux, Slackware Linux, Mandrake Linux, Damn Small Linux, and a Linux firewall and router on DVD
Samba-3 by Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment, Second Edition
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“Samba-3 by Example provides useful, thoroughly documented explanations for all aspects of a Samba deployment. They’re the same kind of patient answers I got when my dad taught me how to ride a bike without training wheels.
Now, if only dad knew active Directory…” –Will Enestvedt, UNIX System Administrator, Johnson & Wales University”When my colleague and I were first reading John Terpstra’s Samba-3 by Example, we were impressed by how easy it was to find the chapter we wanted to implement, and the ease of following his step-by-step approach. We always felt Terpstra was there with us, for every configuration line. It was like having our own personal tutor. I always take his book to every client that uses Samba. Additionally, Terpstra does something most authors don’t, he keeps his documentation up to date. When we were doing our first implementation, he just released the update that morning; we downloaded it, printed it, and implemented it. Now, to me, that is cutting-edge technology at its best.” –Steven C. Henry”A cook learns to follow a recipe until he has mastered the art. This is your cookbook to successful Windows networks.I followed this recipe to migrate our NT4 domain to Samba-3, and the recipe just worked great. I could not have completed this project without the Samba-3 by Example book–it brings dry, lifeless man-pages down to the reality IT support people face.” –Geoff Scott, IT Systems Administrator, Guests Furniture Hire Pty Ltd”I used the book Samba-3 by Example to get started at 8:30 last night. I finished my complete PDC and it was up and running in six hours with Windows 2000 and XP Pro clients ready for work in the morning. That’s from someone who is brand new to Linux. This book is awesome!” –Jesse Knudsen, Windows Systems AdministratorThe Practical, Tested, Step-by-Step Samba-3 Guidebook Has Now Been Fully Updated! The definitive Samba-3 guidebook has been completely updated to reflect the latest Samba releases and migration techniques. This book’s complete configuration files, step-by-step implementation instructions, network diagrams, and automated scripts make deployment a breeze–even if you’ve never worked with Samba before.From small office networks to enterprise environments, here are proven configurations, backed by guidance from one of the world’s most respected Samba experts, Samba Team contibutor John H. Terpstra. This edition has added comprehensive diagnostic techniques and validation steps, as well as solutions to common implementation mistakes: everything you need to assure reliability and performance regardless of your network environment. In response to reader requests, the author has also added detailed coverage of updating existing Samba networks, as well as a practical primer on how Samba stores essential network information. Samba-3 by Example, Second Edition, covers all these scenarios, and more.* Deploying “no frills” servers for small, convenient networks *Implementing small- to-mid-sized networks using basic security *Implementing full-fledged enterprise network environments, with tips for enhancing availability and performance *Building secure, scalable networks with domain logons and roaming profiles *Deploying Samba in environments that utilize routers and firewalls *Examples that minimize desktop management requirements, using policy controls and folder redirection *Integrating Samba-3 with Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Active Directory domains *Migrating seamlessly from Windows NT 4 to Samba-3 *Adding Samba servers as Windows domain members *Configuring DHCP, DNS, and OpenLDAP servers to get the most out of your Samba network *An example of Squid, using Windows authentication through Samba *Estimating server hardware, using the practical guidelines included here If you’re a Windows network administrator responsible for deploying or managing Samba, Samba-3 by Example, Second Edition, is your indispensable resource. CD-ROM Included The CD-ROM contains all example configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book.
High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering’08
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This book presents the state of the art in simulation using supercomputers. Leading researchers present results achieved on systems of the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) for the year 2008. The reports cover all fields of computational science and engineering, ranging from CFD and computational physics and chemistry to computer science, with a special emphasis on industrially relevant applications.
Presenting results for both vector-based and microprocessor-based systems, the book makes it possible to compare the performance levels and usability of various architectures. As the HLRS operates the largest NEC SX-8 vector system in the world, this book gives an excellent insight into the potential of such systems. The book further covers the main methods utilized in high performance computing. Its outstanding results in achieving the highest performance for production codes are of particular interest for both scientists and engineers. The book includes a wealth of coloured illustrations and tables.
Configuring User-Designer Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
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‘User-designer relations’ concerns the sorts of working relationships that arise between developers and end users of IT products - the different ways designers of IT products seek to engage with users, and the ways users seek to influence product design. It is through the shifting patterns of these relations that IT products are realised. Although it has generally been accepted that achieving better user-designer relations will improve the quality of IT products, there has been little consensus on how this might be achieved.
This book aims to deepen our understanding of the relationships between users and designers both as they emerge in the wild and as a consequence of our attempts to intervene. Through a series of case studies the book juxtaposes in-depth explorations of different perspectives and approaches to thinking about - and doing - user-designer relations, considering important implications for design and computer science more generally.
With contributions from leading authors and new voices in the field of user-designer relations, the text will be of interest to students and practitioners in information systems development. It will also be of interest to educators in the fields of information systems, design studies, and computer science.
Automated Face Analysis: Emerging Technologies and Research
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Since research on face recognition began in the 1960’s, the field has rapidly widened to automated face analysis including face detection, facial gesture recognition, and facial expression recognition.
Jaewon Sung received his BS degree in computer engineering from Chungnam National University, Taejeon, Korea (2000) and his MS and PhD degrees in computer science and engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea (2002 and 2007, respectively). He was a postdoctoral researcher at POSTECH in 2007. He is currently a senior research engineer of LG electronics, Korea. His research interests include pattern recognition, machine vision, and video compression and coding.
Computational Systems Biology
Description: The recent confluence of high throughput methodology for biological data gathering, genome-scale sequencing, and computational processing power has driven a reinvention and expansion of the way we identify, infer, model, and store relationships between molecules, pathways, and cells in living organisms.
In Computational Systems Biology, expert investigators contribute chapters which bring together biological data and computational and/or mathematical models of the data to aid researchers striving to create a system that provides both predictive and mechanistic information for a model organism. The volume is organized into five major sections involving network components, network inference, network dynamics, function and evolutionary system biology, and computational infrastructure for systems biology. As a volume of the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, this work provides the kind of detailed description and implementation advice that is crucial for getting optimal results.
Pro VS 2005 Reporting using SQL Server and Crystal Reports
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Pro VS 2005 Reporting Using SQL Server and Crystal Reports offers a proven methodology for building reporting solutions. The authors focus on SQL Server 2005 and Crystal Reports, but also cover other popular technologies like Oracle and ActiveReports, to give you a thorough grounding in the reporting field. The book presents the requirements for a real-world reporting application in a distributed environment, and covers all the phases of development. Youll learn to
In many business applications, reports play a critical role. The stakeholders of a software system expect reports to summarize data and efficiently present it to business users and decision markers. They expect reports to present data in ways they can easily interpret, and in ways that help them evaluate and analyze business performance. Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and Crystal Reports contain powerful capabilities to help you build and deliver sophisticated presentation output. This is the only book available that shows you how to use all these disparate technologies together to create a cohesive solution.
About the Author
Kevin S. Goff is the author of CoDe magazine’s The Baker’s Dozen series. He selects a development topic each month and writes 13 productivity tips. Most topics cover .NET in some manner. In late 2004, he wrote an article on productivity tips for Crystal Reports in .NET, a subject close to his heart. The article discussed reporting for line-of-business applications, and focused on producing efficient, effective results. The article caught the attention of many people and organizations, and he’s been talking to people and building up the ideas for this book ever since.
Rod Paddock is the editor of CoDe magazine. CoDe is well known in the development community, and is on an aggressive path to grow into being the number one Microsoft development community magazine resource.
Pro Windows Small Business Server 2003
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Microsofts Windows Small Business Server has taken the market by storm, offering a compelling solution for business with 50 or fewer employees. Pro Windows Small Business Server 2003 is a complete guide for you intermediate-to-advanced administrators who have deployed SBS, gotten it working for your organizations, and want to take the product and its features to the next level. This book is your solid reference to SBS 2003, and youll gain great insight to IT security.
Inside this book, youll find everything you need to know about managing SBS 2003 on a daily basis. Author Tony Campbell walks you through all aspects of installing and running the products in the suite. Specific topics include Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Shared Fax Service, Routing and Remote Access, as well as coverage of the Premium Edition, and even a chapter on troubleshooting. A requirements gathering and mapping exercise will teach you how to best plan a small businesss IT system.
About the Author
Tony Campbell is a veteran Microsoft consultant (MCP) specializing in the architecture and design of secure Microsoft-centric business solutions. He also has vast experience in many other industry niches such as networking, collaboration, security, business logic, and disaster recovery and resilience. Tony has been involved with all sizes of business, from the very small to the very large, and has successfully delivered secure, reliable, robust solutions to over 150,000 clients in his 18 years in the business. Tony started his career back in the 1980s as a “green screen” mainframe programmer for the British Meteorological Office, finally arriving after a long journey in his current role as a self-employed IT consultant for over a dozen full-time customers.
Tony is a regular contributor to a number of IT journals distributed across the globe, and has been involved in the production of software manuals, user guides, white papers, hardware manuals, and training courses. His love of writing has led to publication of some fiction by a number of small presses as well as by a few more obscure magazines.
Pro XML Development with Java Technology
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Pro XML Development with Java Technology has been written to help you, the professional Java developer who needs a practical hands-on guide to marrying these technologies together effectively. There are a lot of books out there, but none really explore the combination deeply, and they are largely theoretical. The main objective here was to consolidate the theory and practice of XML and Java technologies in a single, up-to-date source, that is firmly grounded in underlying XML concepts, and can be consulted time and again to rapidly speed up enterprise application development!
Ajay Vohra is senior architect at DataSynapse Inc., currently working on virtualizing business-critical applications on a shared infrastructure. He has 15 years experience in the software industry, working on diverse projects such as making X Windows Toolkit thread-safe, developing embedded software for an ATM network switch, and architecting J2EE business-critical applications. He is the founder and a principal member of NuBean. He has an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a master of science in computer science from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Deepak Vohra
Deepak Vohra is an independent consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com software company. He has worked in the area of XML and Java programming for over 5 years and has published numerous articles on related topics in various print and online trade journals. He has masters of science in mechanical engineering from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and has published original research papers in the area of fluidized bed combustion. Currently, he is working on an automated, web-based J2EE development environment for NuBean.com.
Computer News - April 2009
Computer News - Issue 208
Pages: 56 | Scan & PDF: Antfer | PDF | 7,6 mb