Written by active members of the Counting Practices Committee and a past president of the IFPUG, this book provides a complete review of the rules and guidelines prescribed in version 4.3 of the Function Point Counting Practices Manual (CPM). It supplies a fundamental understanding of the IFPUG Functional Size Measurement method and includes helpful tips on how to use the CPM manual during the exam. Complete with two sample exams and detailed examples throughout, this is the ideal study guide for the CFPS examination. Following certification, this is a valuable reference for applying the IFPUG method for sizing proficient software design, development, and deployment.
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Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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Professional

Explaining how the engineering of mega-systems is inherently different from that of large-scale monolithic systems, this book supplies the vocabulary and framework needed to explore the issues relevant to mega-systems. This framework then evolves into a diagnostic tool that helps readers to understand the nature and context of the system at hand and, on that basis, select the most appropriate processes, tools, and techniques. The text examines commercial and government applications of mega-systems and includes two case studies in engineering mega-systems that illustrate valuable lessons learned and highlight emerging practices.
• CRC Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Systems & Control Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Manufacturing Engineering
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Professional

This complete guide to telecom resource and service management basics supplies an end-to-end understanding of telecom management layers. Each section starts with basics, details how the system fits into the telecom management framework, and concludes by introducing more complex concepts. From the initial efforts in managing elements to the latest management standards, the text includes chapters devoted to popular market products and contains case studies that illustrate real-life implementations. Complete with detailed references and lists of web resources to keep you current, this book supplies the understanding required to begin developing telecom management solutions tailored to your customer’s needs.
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Telecommunications
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Networks
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Professional

Supplying an accessible introduction, this book details the analysis and design principles in process-centric architecture. Illustrative examples demonstrate how to architect and design enterprise systems based on business processes central to your organization. The text covers the architectural aspects of business process management, the evolution of IT systems, the importance of a business process focus, the role of workflows, business rules, enterprise application integration, and business process modeling languages such as WS-BPEL and BPML. This forward-looking resource explains how to architect enterprise systems using a BPMS technology platform, J2EE components, and Web services.
• Infosys Press
Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Business Information Systems
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Updated annually, this handbook is the single most comprehensive resource on information security and assurance. Reflecting the latest changes to the CISSP ® Common Body of Knowledge (CBK ® ), Volume 4 updates the benchmark Volume 1 with a wealth of new information on mobile device security, adaptive threat defense, Web 2.0, virtualization, data leakage, and governance. New material also addresses risk management, business continuity planning, disaster recovery planning, and cryptography. The Handbook is also available in a CD-ROM version, which contains the complete contents of Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well as an extra volume's worth of information—including chapters from other security and networking books that have never appeared in the print editions.
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IT Security
Management of IT
Computing & IT Security
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Authored by renowned expert Günther Ruhe, this book presents methods and tools to apply sound planning for product development and product management. It covers aspects of supporting product release decisions ranging from foundations to methods, tools, and applications. Equal parts art and science, the actual decision-making is described as a process of combining rigorous methods with the intuition and experience of the human experts. Ruhe provides a guided tour through the release planning, starting with technology and market needs and proceeding to product planning and finally to development projects.
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Software Engineering & Systems Development
Business Information Systems
Engineering Project Management
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Professional

Many of the software books available clearly highlight the problems with current software development but don't provide comprehensive, easily actionable, ground-level solutions. Covering the entire secure software development life cycle that ties all development together, this book presents quality software development strategies and practices stressing resilience requirements with precise, actionable, and ground-level inputs that connect directly with their creators. The text helps developers understand fundamental problems and provides them with best practices, principles, design methodology, programming guidance, and testing practices.
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IT Security
Programming & Programming Languages
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Describing efficient transmission schemes for broadband wireless systems, this book examines advances in transmission techniques and receiver designs capable of supporting the emergent wireless needs for multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) requirements. It summarizes the R&D taking place in wireless communications for multimedia MBMS and addresses the means to improved spectral efficiency to allow for increased user bit rate, as well as increased capacity of the digital cellular radio network. The text highlights essential requirements for new services and supplies the understanding of the corresponding fundamentals and theory needed to fulfill such requirements.
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Communications System Design
Digital & Wireless Communication
Telecommunications
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Highlighting the differences between terrestrial and underwater sensor networks, this book investigates the fundamental aspects of underwater communication. Prominent researchers consider the challenges in the development of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UW-ASNs). They introduce an effective cross-layer approach for effectively integrating communication functionalities as well as a realistic acoustic model characterized by channel utilization efficiency that enables proper setting of the optimal packet size for underwater communications. Discussing architectures for two- and three-dimensional sensor networks, the text covers the wide range of topics relating to UW-ASNs.
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Digital & Wireless Communication
Communications System Design
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Professional

Written by award-winning engineers, this book provides an all-inclusive examination of wireless sensor network technology, standards, and applications. It includes a wealth of exercises, end-of-chapter reviews, and detailed case studies. It also contains practical sensor network design cases that touch on medical applications that clearly illustrate the steps of design and implementation needed to address real-world challenges. Using straightforward language, this authoritative resource addresses everything product developers and technicians need to know to navigate the field in 2010.
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Digital & Wireless Communication
Networks
Telecommunications
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Undergraduate