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Programming Entity Framework

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 09:40 PM CST

Programming Entity Framework

Programming Entity Framework

Product Description
Programming Entity Framework is a thorough introduction to Microsoft’s new core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. This book not only gives experienced developers a hands-on tour of the Entity Framework and explains its use in a variety of applications, it also provides a deep understanding of its architecture and APIs. From the Entity Data Model (EDM) and Object Services to EntityClient and the Metadata Workspace, Programming Entity Framework covers it all.

Written by Julia Lerman, the leading independent authority on the framework, Programming Entity Framework, includes scores of reusable examples — written in both Visual Basic and C# — that you can implement right away.

This book will help you:

  • Understand the core concepts you need to make the best use of the Entity Framework (EF) in your applications
  • Learn to query your data, using either LINQ to Entities or Entity SQL
  • Create Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET applications
  • Build ASMX web services and WCF services
  • Use Object Services to work directly with your entity objects
  • Delve into model customization, relationship management, change tracking, data concurrency, and more

Presented in a clear narrative style that reflects the hundreds of hours the author has spent consulting, teaching, and writing about this new data access technology and testing its myriad features, Programming Entity Framework will help you master the technology and put it to work.

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Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 09:38 PM CST

Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data

Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data

Product Description

Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data is aimed at developers interested in taking advantage of the new REST–style data services that ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code–named Astoria) provides. The book shows how to incorporate ADO.NET Data Services into a wide range of common environments including BizTalk, AJAX and Silverlight client applications. The material is intended for professional developers who are comfortable with the .NET 3.5 Framework but are coming to ADO.NET Data Services for the first time and want to understand how to integrate it into their own applications and enterprise solutions. The book is packed full with extensive real–world solutions and exercises, ensuring you walk away with a deep understanding of how to use ADO.NET Data Services to your best advantage.

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Formal Concept Analysis

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 09:36 PM CST

Formal Concept Analysis

Formal Concept Analysis

Product Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2008, held in Montreal, Canada, in February 2008.

The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers comprise state of the art research and present new results in Formal Concept Analysis and related fields. These results range from theoretical novelties to advances in FCA-related algorithmic issues, as well as application domains of FCA such as data visualization, information retrieval, machine learning, data analysis and knowledge management.

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Querying Databases Privately: A New Approach to Private Information Retrieval

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 09:35 PM CST

Product Description

The Internet and the worldwide web play an increasingly important role in our private and professional activities, for example in accessing information about cultural, political, economical, medical or scientific information. Many people assume that they can access such information privately.

This book addresses the topic of querying information privately in a systematic and comprehensive way, developing practical solutions in the context of database systems. Based on thorough theoretical analyses, the author develops concepts for solutions of real-world settings, in particular for scalable database systems.

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Weather Derivative Valuation: The Meteorological, Statistical, Financial and Mathematical Foundations

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 09:20 PM CST

 Weather Derivative Valuation: The Meteorological, Statistical, Financial and Mathematical Foundations

Weather Derivative Valuation: The Meteorological, Statistical, Financial and Mathematical Foundations

Description: Weather Derivative Valuation is the first book to cover all the meteorological, statistical, financial and mathematical issues that arise in the pricing and risk management of weather derivatives. There are chapters on meteorological data and data cleaning, the modelling and pricing of single weather derivatives, the modelling and valuation of portfolios, the use of weather and seasonal forecasts in the pricing of weather derivatives, arbitrage pricing for weather derivatives, risk management, and the modelling of temperature, wind and precipitation. Specific issues covered in detail include the analysis of uncertainty in weather derivative pricing, time-series modelling of daily temperatures, the creation and use of probabilistic meteorological forecasts and the derivation of the weather derivative version of the Black-Scholes equation of mathematical finance. Written by consultants who work within the weather derivative industry, this book is packed with practical information and theoretical insight into the world of weather derivative pricing.

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Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 09:18 PM CST

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In Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications, Neil Schofield provides a complete and accessible reference for anyone working in, or studying commodity markets and their associated derivatives. Dealing primarily with over the counter structures, the book provides extensive coverage of both hard and soft commodities, including gold, crude oil, electricity, plastics, emissions and agriculturals.

Using structures unique to the individual market, each chapter includes an explanation of the commodity and an analysis of its physical market, discussion on the typical patterns of demand and supply and the main factors that will influence the price of the commodity, and the main products.

Each chapter focuses on how the products could be used along the physical supply chain and seeks to identify the main market risks and how they can be hedged. The book then brings into perspective how the structuring banks hedge their own resultant exposure and examines the attraction of OTC investment structures for the wholesale market.

Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications is essential reading for those wishing to learn about the main features of the commodity markets, the mechanics of derivatives, and how they are applied.

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Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modelling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and Energy

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 09:02 PM CST

Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modelling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and Energy

Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modelling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and Energy

Product Description
The last few years have been a watershed for the commodities, cash and derivatives industry. New regulations and products have led to an explosion in the commodities markets, creating a new asset for investors that includes hedge funds as well as University endowments, and has resulted in a spectacular growth in spot and derivative trading.

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Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 09:00 PM CST

Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing

Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing

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Collaborative design has attracted much attention in the research community in recent years. With increasingly decentralized manufacturing systems and processes, more collaborative approaches and systems are needed to support distributed manufacturing operations. “Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing” presents a focused collection of quality chapters on the state-of-the-art research efforts in the area of collaborative design and planning, as well as their practical applications towards digital manufacturing.

“Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing” provides both a broad-based review of the key areas of research in digital manufacturing, and an in-depth treatment of particular methodologies and systems, from collaborative design to distributed planning, monitoring and control. Recent development and innovations in this area provide a pool of focused research efforts, relevant to a wide readership from academic researchers to practicing engineers.

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An Introduction to Thermogeology: Ground Source Heating and Cooling

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 08:59 PM CST

An Introduction to Thermogeology: Ground Source Heating and Cooling

An Introduction to Thermogeology: Ground Source Heating and Cooling

Product Description
The use of the heat stored in the shallow subsurface for space heating (ground source heat) is widely used in North America and many European nations, such as Sweden, and is regarded as the most important and reliable ‘green’ space heating technology. In many nations, including Britain, the technology remains poorly understood and under used. This situation is about to change, however, with the UK market for ground source heat pumps growing at over 100% per annum.

This book offers practical guidance and will equip engineers, planners and geologists with the fundamental skills to assess and implement this new technology and to introduce them to the science behind thermogeology.

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Google Web Toolkit GWT Java AJAX Programming

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 06:51 PM CST

Google Web Toolkit GWT Java AJAX Programming

Google Web Toolkit GWT Java AJAX Programming

This book is for Java developers who want to create Ajax interfaces using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). It focuses on useful, practical tasks from the first chapter. The book is aimed at programmers who want to use GWT to create interfaces for their professional web applications. It concentrates on the serious side of Ajax: creating powerful, productive applications for browser platforms. GWT Ajax Programming shows you how to create reliable user interfaces that enhance the user experience.

GWT is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile. GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

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