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of the Architecture Forum, and to the evolution of TOGAF, to ensure that others make a fair contribution in return. So much for legal necessities. I turn now to the additional information and resources that I hope the reader will ?nd of interest. The Development of TOGAF TOGAF has come a long way since its inception in 1994 at the instigation of The Open Group's User Council (as it then was)-representatives of the computer user community among The Open Group membership. The original motivations for TOGAF were very much as Tony and Col have expounded so eloquently in the early chapters of this book. The original development of TOGAF was based on the Technical - chitecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM) developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. The DoD gave The Open Group - plicit permission and encouragement to create TOGAF by building on the TAFIM, which itself represented hundreds of person-years of dev- opment effort and millions of dollars of U.S. government investment. Starting from this sound foundation, the members of The Open Group's Architecture Forum have developed successive versions of TOGAF over the years and published them on The Open Group's public Web site. TOGAF-Related Resources The Open Group's Architecture Forum portal at http://www.opengroup. org/architecture/ provides a ''way in'' to the information sources - scribed in the remainder of this Foreword. The TOGAF documentation can be viewed freely online at http:// www.opengroup.org/public/arch/.

Existence of huge amounts of data on the Web has developed an undeferring need to locate right information at right time, as well as to integrating information effectively to provide a comprehensive source of relevant information. There is a need to develop efficient tools for analyzing and managing Web data, and efficiently managing Web information from the database perspective. The book proposes a data model called WHOM (Warehouse Object Model) to represent HTML and XML documents in the warehouse. It defines a set of web algebraic operators for building new web tables by extracting relevant data from the Web, as well as generating new tables from existing ones. These algebraic operators are used for change detection.

Written by specialists in teaching computer animation, this text addresses key international topics of computer animation, such as: mathematics, modelling, rendering, and compositing.

Alias|Wavefront's Maya 3D animation software is an integrated collection of tools for creating computer generated images, used in nearly every blockbuster special effects film that has been released in the last few years.

Written by specialists in teaching computer animation, this text addresses key international topics of computer animation, such as: mathematics, modelling, rendering, and compositing.

Anchored by a comprehensive treatment of the practical aspects of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), this guide explains the basic mathematics, describes implementation methods, and presents standardized protocols for public-key encryption, digital signatures, and key establishment.

Covering nearly the full spectrum of architectural concern, the authors also illustrate and concretize the notion of traceability from business goals, strategy through to technical architecture, providing the reader with a holistic and commanding view.

The emerging Second-Generation Web is based entirely on XML and related technologies. (5) key Semantic Web technologies,such as RDF (Resource Description Framework), RDF Schema and OWL (Web Ontology Language);

A tool-independent and process-independent roadmap for successfully applying the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Based on the needs of the educational community, and the software professional, this title takes a different approach to teaching software testing. It introduces testing concepts that are managerial, technical, and process oriented, using the Testing Maturity Model (TMM) as a guiding framework.

The level or parallelism supported ranges from two floating point operations, at a time on the AMD K6 architecture to 16 byte operations at a time on the Intel P4 architecture.

Enterprise Java experts John Hunt and Chris Loftus take the reader through the core technologies that make up the Enterprise Edition of the Java 2 platform (J2EE). They cover all the aspects of J2EE that both the professional and student needs to know to build multi-tier enterprise applications in Java.

Features the basic core of the language, with practical examples of some of the useful features available in version 5.0. This comprehensive manual covers MySQL database creation and development, as it is the developer database commonly used alongside PHP. It is useful for professionals wanting to use PHP to develop their own dynamic web pages.

This book describes a new class of computing devices which are becoming omnipresent in every day life. Besides a comprehensive state-of-the-art description of the Pervasive Computing technology itself, this book gives an overview of today's real-life applications and accompanying service offerings.

1.1 Introduction This book introduces and guides the you through the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Unified Process (both originally devised by Grady Booch,James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson) and their application to Java systems.This means that the book will present you, thereader,withthenotationusedintheUMLandthestepsdescribedbytheUnifiedProcesswith particular reference to the Java environment (including the classes and the syntax). The book itself is structured in three parts. Part 1 introduces object-oriented analysis and design and the Unified Process. The UML is introduced, as necessary, to support the Unified Process steps.Part 2 discusses the topic of design patterns,while Part 3 looks at the UnifiedProcessandUMLintherealworld. The first part of the book is structured in the following manner: Chapter 2: Object -Oriented Analysis and Design This chapter surveys the most significant object-oriented design and analysis methods to emerge since the late 1980s. Chapter 3: An Introduction to the UML and the Unified Process This chapter provides the background to the UML and the Unified Process. It also presents a summary of both. Chapter 4: Software Architecture and Object-Oriented Design This chapter explains and justifies why an architecture is essential to the successful design and implementation of a large object-oriented system. Chapter 5: Requirements Discipline: Use Case Analysis Thischapterintroducestherequirementsdiscipline(whichmayalsobeknownasUseCaseAna- sis).Thisdisciplineattemptstoidentifywhatthefunctionalityofthesystemwillbe.Theseusecases will be essential as the backbone to the whole design process.

Starting with fingerprints more than a hundred years ago, there has been ongoing research in biometrics. With the matu ration of biometrics, the separate biometrics areas are coalescing into the new discipline of biometrics.