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Towards the Semantic Web. Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management
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CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook + source code
Aikido The Art Of Fighting Without Fighting

Towards the Semantic Web. Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 05:00 AM PST

Towards the Semantic Web. Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management - Dieter Fensel, Frank Van Harmelen, Glyn Ed. Davies

Generating huge interest and backed by the global WorldWideWeb consortium the semantic web is the key initiative driving the future of the World Wide Web. Towards the Semantic Web focuses on the application of Semantic Web technology and ontologies in particular to electronically available information to improve the quality of knowledge management in large and distributed organizations. Ontologies are formal structures supporting knowledge sharing and reuse. They can be used to represent explicitly the semantics of structured and semi-structured information which enable sophisticated automatic support for acquiring, maintaining and accessing information. Covering the key technologies for the next generation of the WWW, this book is an excellent mixture of theory, tools and applications in an important area of WWW research.
* Aims to support more efficient and effective knowledge management and focuses on weakly-structured online information sources.
* Covers highly significant contributions to the semantic web research effort, including a new language for defining ontologies, several novel software tools and a coherent methodology for the application of the tools for business advantage.
* Provides guidelines for introducing knowledge management concepts and tools into businesses.
* Introduces an intelligent search tool that supports users in accessing information and a tool environment for maintenance, conversion and acquisition of information sources. Also describes information visualisation and knowledge sharing tools.
* Describes a state-of-the-art system for storage and retrieval of metadata expressed in RDF and RDF Schema. Also discusses a system for automatic metadata extraction.
* Examines three significant case studies providing examples of the real benefits to be derived from the adoption of semantic-web based ontologies in “real world” situations.
Aimed primarily at researchers and developers in the area of WWW-based knowledge management and information retrieval. It will also be a useful reference for students in computer science at the postgraduate level, academic and industrial researchers in the field, business managers who are aiming to increase the corporations’ information infrastructure and industrial personnel who are tracking WWW technology developments in order to understand the business implications.

Publishers note

With the current changes driven by the expansion of the World Wide Web, this book uses a different approach from other books on the market: it applies ontologies to electronically available information to improve the quality of knowledge management in large and distributed organizations. Ontologies are formal theories supporting knowledge sharing and reuse. They can be used to explicitly represent semantics of semi-structured information. These enable sophisticated automatic support for acquiring, maintaining and accessing information. Methodology and tools are developed for intelligent access to large volumes of semi-structured and textual information sources in intra- and extra-, and internet-based environments to employ the full power of ontologies in supporting knowledge management from the information client perspective and the information provider.
The aim of the book is to support efficient and effective knowledge management and focuses on weakly-structured online information sources. It is aimed primarily at researchers in the area of knowledge management and information retrieval and will also be a useful reference for students in computer science at the postgraduate level and for business managers who are aiming to increase the corporations’ information infrastructure.
The Semantic Web is a very important initiative affecting the future of the WWW that is currently generating huge interest. The book covers several highly significant contributions to the semantic web research effort, including a new language for defining ontologies, several novel software tools and a coherent methodology for the application of the tools for business advantage. It also provides 3 case studies which give examples of the real benefits to be derived from the adoption of semantic-web based ontologies in “real world” situations. As such, the book is an excellent mixture of theory, tools and applications in an important area of WWW research.
* Provides guidelines for introducing knowledge management concepts and tools into enterprises, to help knowledge providers present their knowledge efficiently and effectively.
* Introduces an intelligent search tool that supports users in accessing information and a tool environment for maintenance, conversion and acquisition of information sources.
* Discusses three large case studies which will help to develop the technology according to the actual needs of large and or virtual organisations and will provide a testbed for evaluating tools and methods.
The book is aimed at people with at least a good understanding of existing WWW technology and some level of technical understanding of the underpinning technologies (XML/RDF). It will be of interest to graduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field, and the many industrial personnel who are tracking WWW technology developments in order to understand the business implications. It could also be used to support undergraduate courses in the area but is not itself an introductory text.

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Posted: 17 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST

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Featured Posts Carousel Panel using jQuery to scroll between next and previous posts;
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Fresh News woo theme

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST

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CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook + source code

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:00 PM PST

CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook

CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook + source code | Mariano Iglesias

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying web applications. While the framework has a lot of documentation and reference guides available for beginners, developing more sophisticated and scalable applications require a deeper knowledge of CakePHP features, a challenge that proves difficult even for well established developers.

The recipes in this cookbook will give you instant results and help you to develop web applications, leveraging the CakePHP features that allow you to build robust and complex applications. Following the recipes in this book you will be able to understand and use these features in no time.

We start with setting up authentication on a CakePHP application. One of the most important aspects of a CakePHP application: the relationship between models, also known as model bindings. Model binding is an integral part of any application's logic and we can manipulate it to get the data we need and when we need. We will go through a series of recipes that will show us how to change the way bindings are fetched, what bindings and what information from a binding is returned, how to create new bindings, and how to build hierarchical data structures. We also define our custom find types that will extend the three basic ones, allowing our code to be even more readable and also create our own find type, with pagination support. This book also has recipes that cover two aspects of CakePHP models that are fundamental to most applications: validation, and behaviors.

A cookbook for CakePHP developers on how to leverage one of the most popular PHP frameworks, including recipes for working with AJAX, datasources, GEO location, routing, performance optimization, and more.

What you will learn from this book :

Add authentication to an application to identify which controllers will need user access, using the Auth component and ACL component
Allow users to log in using either a user name, or an email, and let the system remember their account details
Enable and leverage the use of the Containable behavior to deal with model bindings
Make run time changes to model bindings for a better control of your model relationships
Perform relatively complex GROUP and COUNT queries using CakePHP's built in find types and use virtual fields for a cleaner approach to SQL based calculations
Creating custom find operations, and paginating its result using CakePHP's built in pagination support
Add multiple validation rules per field using built in validation rules in CakePHP
Allow users to search address records by proximity by adding location information to our own Address model using the Geocodable behavior
Implement your own datasource by providing a way to read from and post messages to a twitter account using OAuth as the authentication layer
Modify an existing datasource by adding better transaction support to the MySQL driver and implementing locking operations
Take advantage of the routing flexibility in CakePHP by creating your own route handlers
Build non interactive tasks that run in the command line, including the automation of tasks
Internationalize all areas of your application, including views and model records, to reach a wider audience

Approach

Written in cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for CakePHP developers to create unique web applications. The book is designed in such a way that you can refer to things chapter by chapter, and read them in no particular order.

Who this book is written for

If you are a CakePHP developer who wants to discover quick and easy ways to improve web applications, and to leverage all aspects of the framework, this book is for you. This book assumes that you already have knowledge of CakePHP, and general PHP development skills.

Book Details

Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (March, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849511926
ISBN-13: 978-1849511926

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Aikido The Art Of Fighting Without Fighting

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 05:00 PM PST

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Aikido The Art Of Fighting Without Fighting pdf | Geoff Thompson

Geoff Thompson is an ex-doorman as well as being a first class martial artist. He is 6th Dan at Karate and 1st Dan Judo. If you have read his autobiography ‘Watch my back’ you will know that he has done it all in terms of real fighting.

This book seeks to address the way to avoid fights in the first place, something that even Geoff Thompson now does. As he says in this book if some guy nicks your road space or cuts you up in his car is it worth a fight, when the result might be that one or other of you is seriously injured(or even killed). Is someone nicking your space worth 10 years in prison? When you think of it in that way the answer is clearly no. You may be as tough as hell, but there can always be someone tougher out there…

He breaks the book down into five main areas: Avoidance, Escape, Verbal Dissuasion, Postering & Restraint. Each is dealt with in about fifteen pages and the book is just short of 100 pages in length. I was particularly interested in his explanation of the adrenaline rush that precedes a fight which is frequently mistaken for fear, but is the bodies natural ‘fight or flight’ reaction to a stressful situation.

Whether you are a martial artist, or just somebody who would like to know how better to avoid trouble, this is well worth reading.

Sunday, December 18, 2011