Forecasting Oracle Performance Review

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(More customer reviews)This is not a book about Oracle Performance tuning. This is a book about Oracle Performance Forecasting. This should be evident after carefully reading the book.
Good books, like good professionals, are rare. This is why I have developed a tendency to choose carefully before buying one and, in the Oracle area in particular, I can smell the author's intellectual honesty and trustworthiness from the first page.
Forecasting Oracle Performance is one of those. I enjoyed the fluid style and closeness of the author. I enjoyed the simplicity and clarity, almost reminding me of Wittgenstein's famous quote ("everything that can be said can be said clearly"). I also enjoyed these short touches of humanism (cf Erlang Krarup's life).
On the forecasting subject, I liked the book construction and the quality of the examples.
Chapter 1 gives a landscape picture of Oracle forecasting and puts the reader in scope and context.
Chapter 2 introduces the reader to the basics of forecasting and the basic concepts over which the book is built: Transactions, response time, arrival time and basic formulas are described here.
Chapter 3 shows the limits of basic forecasting (essential formulas) and the problem of baseline and model selection. It shows how to increase forecasting precision with ErlangC or weighted averages. Most importantly, it shows why it is essential to understand the concepts and implications of the application of a given formula, model or method. The author is very careful in the choice of terms and always clears potential ambiguities. Those who know how difficult it can be to forecast will appreciate it.
Chapter 4 introduces to statistics applied to forecasting.
Chapter 5, on practical queuing theory, is probably the biggest chapter of the book. After a brief introduction to queuing theory, Little's law and Kendall notation, this chapter provides such a diverse set of examples (27!) making the topic very intuitive to non-specialists.
Chapters 6 & 7 describe forecasting methodology and workload characterization. The first describes the steps across a solid performance forecasting methodology, from the initial question to the actual forecast. The second deals with workload characterization: how to get system and Oracle data, how to choose the source and peak. It describes the workload modelling and the risks of data collection.
Chapters 8 and 9 are about models: ratio and linear regression models. They describe their respective foundations, limitations and advantages. Each chapter also contain several examples and case studies to illustrate the subject.
The last chapter deals with scalability models and their relationship with forecasting models.
Overall, I found this book very useful. You will find additional resources at the author's website (there is also a discussion forum on forecasting). The errata page is always up-to-date and some examples have even been extended. Great work!


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Craig Shallahamer's Forecasting Oracle Performance is the first, Oracle-specific book to provide database administrators with help in forecasting future performance of new and existing database systems. Most (if not all) Oracle performance optimization books on the market today focus on troubleshooting acute problems such as a poorly performing report. The other side of the coin however, lies in forecasting: Will the current hardware last the year? What happens when we merge the employees from a newly acquired company? Will the current system keep up with the demands of a new application? These are strategic questions that database administrators are expected to answer. Until now, there has been no book to help them.Of all the problems that an Oracle database administrator has to worry about, those dealing with performance often provoke the most stress, thus providing the greatest impetus for administrators to seek help in the form of books. This book shows administrators how to create a model of a database system. Different types of models are introduced: mathematical, simulation, benchmark. Administrators learn how to create the right model for the risks they seek to mitigate. They learn to validate their model. They learn to interpret the results in the form of a forecast. This book gives administrators the knowledge they need to confidently work with business management in preparing for the future of their systems.

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Environmental Economics and Management: Theory, Policy and Applications Review

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(More customer reviews)The book contains VERY thorough explanations! Sometimes the equations are hard to follow, but overall, a very resourceful academic tool!

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Succed in economics with, ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT: THEORY, POLICY AND APPLICATIONS. Learn to use economic analytical tools such as market models, benefit-cost analysis, and risk analysis to assess environmental problems and to evaluate policy solutions. Margin definitions and internet links help you master the terminology and offer updates and information beyond the text.

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Bad And Beautiful: Inside the Dazzling And Deadly World of Supermodels Review

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(More customer reviews)I read this book straight through last weekend. I could barely put it down. This book really hits home for anyone involved in the fashion industry. I have been involved in fashion for more than 20 years. It's about time someone was brave enough to expose some of the bad dealings of the industry. Hopefully, Mr. Halperin's startling revelations will help make more people aware that it's important to beware of who you get involved with in this business. There are many bad apples out there. I encourage all parents and young models to pick up this book before getting involved in the industry. All your questions of what it's like to be a model and how to choose the right agent will be answered. And of course, you'll be intrigued by some of the horrific experiences some of the top models you see on TV have encountered. The author posed undercover as a model to get all the dirt. And he certainly does not hold back in revealing the truth about our glamorous industry.

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Automatic Control Systems Review

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(More customer reviews)I had to use this book for my last semester in electrical engineering. It is really interesting, well explained and complete for a concise introduction about control engineering and design of controllers.
All you need to follow the text are basic notions in engineer's mathematics (a bit of calculus and algebra). A few chapters offer reviews of important notions (transfert functions, state variable modeling, differential equations, ...) Then, you get to the essential, control theory.
The book is well divided. First chapters cover mathematical notions you have to master in order to succeed in the next part (signal flow diagrams, block diagrams, a bit of mechanic). Then, a few chapters introduce control loops, poles and zeros interpretation (explained very well with a lot of graphs examples). A single chapter covers root loci drawing. Great explanations about controllers are complete and easy to understand. The last chapter is kept for design only with A LOT of examples for PID, phase-lag, filters, etc.
Emphasis is made on computer design with examples all along the book. The CD included offers a few useful tools to use for design with Matlab.
The author knows his subject more than anyone else. He has good experience in design and the text is well written. A must for anyone studying the subject.

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Automatic Control Systems provides engineers with a fresh new controls book that places special emphasis on mechatronics. It follows a revolutionary approach by actually including a physical lab. In addition, readers will find authoritative coverage of modern design tools and examples. Current mechatronics applications build motivation to learn the material. Extensive use of virtual lab software is also integrated throughout the chapters. Engineers will gain a strong understand of control systems with the help of modern examples and exercises.

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Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and Applications (Natural Computing Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This collection of academic papers maintains the high standards I expect from Springer, but leaves a disjointed feel. Referring to the table of contents, there are eight papers, divided between "Introduction" (half of the book) and "Applications". The four papers in Part 1 are nice, extensive surveys. Two of these, (3-4), are sufficiently specific to suggest relabeling to "Applications", leaving only two papers of broad interest. If I were a Springer marketer, I might wonder whether specialists doing research in the subjects of (3-8) would need the book, to complement the sources they already have. I myself came to it with an interest in optimization, and (a) found (2) to be a nice survey of ACO and PSO - but, again, a survey, so I would need to go to the referenced papers to see the implementation - but (b) discovered that "dynamic optimization" in (6) was not what's usually meant by the term.

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New Software Engineering Paradigm Based on Complexity Science: An Introduction to NSE Review

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(More customer reviews)Reading first 100 pages, even the complexity science is not clear to me. I think the book talked too much around without clarifying the key idea. Also it contains awful repetition of same things. Perhaps, I have expected too much from a book of such title.

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This book describes a complete revolution in software engineering based on complexity science through the establishment of NSE - Nonlinear Software Engineering paradigm which complies with the essential principles of complexity science, including the Nonlinearity principle, the Holism principle, the Complexity Arises From Simple Rules principle, the Initial Condition Sensitivity principle, the Sensitivity to Change principle, the Dynamics principle, the Openness principle, the Self-organization principle, and the Self-adaptation principle. The aims of this book are to offer revolutionary solutions to solve the critical problems existing with the old-established software engineering paradigm based on linear thinking and simplistic science complied with the superposition principle, and make it possible tohelp software development organizations double their productivity, halve their cost, and remove 99% to 99.99% of the defects in their software products, and efficiently handle software complexity, conformity, visibility, and changeability. It covers almost all areas in software engineering.

The tools NSE_CLICK- an automatic acceptance testing platform for outsourcing (or internally developed) C/C++ products, and NSE_CLICK_J - an automatic acceptance testing platform for outsourcing (or internally developed) Java products are particularly designed for non-technical readers to view/review how the acceptance testing of a software product developed with NSE can be performed automatically, and how the product developed with NSE is truly maintainable at the customer site.

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Modelling Transport Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a valuable resource for students, teachers and
researchers. The coverage is broad within the subject area,
whilst the material is both accessible and authoritative.
This third edition includes valuable extensions and updates
to the earlier ones.
I am glad to recommend this text to my students at each of
undergraduate (BEng/MEng), taught postgraduate (MSc) and
research (MPhil, PhD)levels to support their learning and
use of transport models. The book makes an especially suitable
text for transport modelling courses at MSc level.

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Already the market leader in the field, Modelling Transport has become still more indispensible following a thorough and detailed update. Enhancements include two entirely new chapters on modelling for private sector projects and on activity-based modelling; a new section on dynamic assignment and micro-simulation; and sizeable updates to sections on disaggregate modelling and stated preference design and analysis. It also tackles topical issues such as valuation of externalities and the role of GPS in travel time surveys.
Providing unrivalled depth and breadth of coverage, each topic is approached as a modelling exercise with discussion of the roles of theory, data, model specification, estimation, validation and application. The authors present the state of the art and its practical application in a pedagogic manner, easily understandable to both students and practitioners.
Follows on from the highly successful third edition universally acknowledged as the leading text on transport modelling techniques and applications
Includes two new chapters on modelling for private sector projects and activity based modeling, and numerous updates to existing chapters
Incorporates treatment of recent issues and concerns like risk analysis and the dynamic interaction between land use and transport
Provides comprehensive and rigorous information and guidance, enabling readers to make practical use of every available technique
Relates the topics to new external factors and technologies such as global warming, valuation of externalities and global positioning systems (GPS).

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Introduction to Discrete Event Systems Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a great textbook for students who are interested in the control engineering field. Due to the difficulty, it is more focused for graduate students. This book has won the 1999 harold chestnut prize awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The topics are language and automata theory, supervisory control, Petri net theory, (max,+) algebra, Markov chains and queueing theory, discrete-event simulation, perturbation analysis, and concurrent estimation techniques. This book is used in many universities in the US but also in countries like Korea as well.

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Introduction to Discrete Event Systems is a comprehensive introduction to the field of discrete event systems, offering a breadth of coverage that makes the material accessible to readers of varied backgrounds. The book emphasizes a unified modeling framework that transcends specific application areas, linking the following topics in a coherent manner: language and automata theory, supervisory control, Petri net theory, Markov chains and queuing theory, discrete-event simulation, and concurrent estimation techniques. This edition includes recent research results pertaining to the diagnosis of discrete event systems, decentralized supervisory control, and interval-based timed automata and hybrid automata models.

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Adaptive Filtering: Algorithms and Practical Implementation Review

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(More customer reviews)The book by Prof. Diniz is indeed amongst the best on adaptive signal processing. Most of the fundamental concepts are well explained, suitable examples are given and practical applications are also discussed. The chapter on adaptive IIR filters is unique and still cannot be found in any other book. Moreover, solutions to the problems can be obtained by ftp, which is something very useful for students. Despite this is an excellent book (5 star), the price is ridiculous, as occurs with most titles from this publisher. If I were Prof. Diniz I would change from Kluwer Academic Publishers to a more competitive publisher.

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This book presents the basic concepts of adaptive signal processing and adaptive filtering in a concise and straightforward manner, using clear notations that facilitate actual implementation. Important algorithms are described in detailed tables which allow the reader to verify learned concepts. The book covers the family of LMS and algorithms as well as set-membership, sub-band, blind, IIR adaptive filtering, and more. Includes a CD supplement for instructors and students, offering lecture transparencies as well as MATLAB codes for all algorithms described in the text. The book is also supported by a web page maintained by the author.

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The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals Review

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(More customer reviews)I really like things in the ocean. They are thinking about drilling in the Artic Ocean. Then they are fighting about who should own the Artic Circle.Its really stupid. I wish it would stop.

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This book gives a state-of-the-art overview of modeling growth and form of marine sessile organisms - such as stromatolites, algae, and metazoans including stony corals, hydrocorals, octocorals, and sponges -, using large-scale computing techniques, scientific visualization, methods for analyzing 2D and 3D forms, and particle-based modeling techniques. It originates from the workshop on Modeling Growth and Form of Marine Sessile Organisms, held at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, August 1999. Experts from various disciplines including developmental biology, ecology, computer science, physics and mathematics, who have research interests in modeling the development of these organisms have been invited to contribute. The book describes all the steps required to develop and experimentally validate morphological models including collecting biological information and methods for specifying and comparing forms. Examples are given of how models are currently being applied to simulate growth and form of marine sessile organisms. Potential applications of growth models and morphological analyses in modern and paleo-bio-monitoring, the detection of environmental change, and the conservation and restoration of marine ecosystems and aquaculture are addressed. The combination of simulation models with laboratory and field experiments provides a powerful tool to obtain insights on how the growth forms of marine organisms emerge from physical, genetic and environmental influences.

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Artificial Life Models in Software Review

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(More customer reviews)Remember Conway's Game of Life? Surely you must, if you are interested in this book. The Game has been around since the 70s. The editors have cultivated recent research papers that demonstrate how far the field has advanced. Reinforced by some pretty colour plates that depict artificial entities [dare we call them living?] in some surroundings. These include the modelling of bee flights through a garden, and simulated trajectories of a group of bacteria.
Nor is the Game of Life ignored. One plate shows it in three dimensions. The Game is played in 2 dimensions, with time as the third dimension. An obvious choice that gives interesting trajectories of the cells.
The narrative adds to the illustrations. By describing a variety of computer simulations [worlds?]. Where the experimenter can tweak many parameters, and watch her world unfold. Some worlds are impressively rich in complexity of observed behaviours.
The only drawback in the book is its skimpy index. A mere two pages. It should have been more detailed.

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In My Father's House: The Chronicles of Bentley L. Dean (Thorndike Press Large Print African American Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)The book was ok. You can tell it has Lynn's hand on it but also you can tell some parts was not his writing.
The end was very disappointing because Lynn always gave you a complete finish and this book was like he pass away before he could finish the end. He was a great writer and he will be greatly missed.


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The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini Review

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(More customer reviews)In the gothic thriller _The Mysteries of Udolpho_ (1794), the mysteries consist of distinguishing the real from the supernatural, and one of the scary visions seen by the heroine Emily was a body in grave clothes, being eaten by worms. She really saw it, and the author reflects, "On such an object, it will be readily believed, that no person could endure to look twice." Is it a horrific supernatural vision, or is it a mere waxwork? If you didn't look twice, you could not tell, because waxworks were of a high degree of artistry at the time. In the eighteenth century, Anna Morandi Manzolini made waxworks not to scare people but to educate them in anatomy. Her spectacular creations were in demand in palaces all over Europe, and while she got some acclaim for her work at the time, her position as a woman without formal education meant she did not get all the recognition she deserved. Though she amplified and corrected the work of more famous anatomists of the time, like Valsalva and Malpighi, her name is not in the anatomy hall of fame today. _The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini_ (University of Chicago Press) by Rebecca Messbarger offers an appreciation of this remarkable woman, and gives lots of lovely pictures of the anatomical waxworks that made her famous.
Bologna, Italy, was in the eighteenth century a center for anatomical studies. There Anna Morandi was born in 1714. We know almost nothing of her education; how she learned to use Latin or to write scientific treatises with exactitude is a mystery. It is only upon her marriage at twenty six years old to Giovanni Manzolini that she comes into view. Anna Morandi began as an assistant to her husband, and became his equal. When died unexpectedly she took over the business. Wax models were an efficient way to teach anatomy. They did not rot or stink or convey disease, and lasted for centuries. The parts of a model could be laid out in the best way to distinguish them and their relationships. This was the sort of model that the husband and wife team made. It was a household business; there was still a stigma of dissecting the dead, and so the teaching of practical anatomy and surgery was not done in the university itself. The couple had a well-regarded anatomy school, and hundreds of cadavers would come into the home for their research. We don't know, but this must have made for bizarre domesticity, as such quotidian activities as child-rearing and cooking had to go on, too. Those making the Grand Tour would stop in for anatomical demonstrations, and she taught anatomy classes to those pursuing a medical career and to amateurs who just wanted the best offered in this branch of science. Anna Morandi was famous, and she received commissions from royalty such as Catherine the Great. Bologna valued her as showing how a woman might be part of the local renaissance and enlightenment; indeed, there was a tradition of "learned women" within Bologna. However, she still had much prejudice to overcome, some of it surprising to our way of thinking. For instance, anyone who regards her career can tell that she was part of the anatomical scientific effort, but her contemporaries would have regarded her at the lower level of artisan, providing her exceptional instruments to science but not being a scientist herself. She had financial struggles after the death of her husband, and was denied by the elite of Bologna a fair stipend for her services to the community or a position in an educational institution.
Two and a half centuries after her death, her vibrant models can be found in many collections, but most shown in the amazing photographs here are at the University of Bologna. Anna Morandi could not find a position at the university, but her sculptures remain, strange and detailed and beautiful, illustrating the complex cosmos that all of us carry about with us every day without thinking. Anna Morandi had a new way to bring to light those hidden regions; Messbarger's handsome book brings to light a previously hidden scientific personality.


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Principles of Distributed Database Systems Review

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(More customer reviews)This books is a must for someone who is not familiar with distributed databases (both for graduate students and practitioners). It will quickly bring you up to speed. It contains enough depth with respect to the algorithms to give the reader a good grasp of the concepts. However, if the reader wants to implement the concepts then he needs to have systems experience. The book does not contain enough implementation details with respect to real systems. In the next edition, for each of the chapters the authors should talk about the algorithms used by real commercial products (such as Oracle, Informix and DB2). The parallel database chapter and the object databases chapter are both for the most part excellent. The book does not contain replication consistency protocols and the object DBMS transaction section is quite weak. The second edition is definitely a major improvement over the first edition and this book is definitely Number 1 in the distributed databases area.

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This third edition of a classic textbook can be used to teach at the senior undergraduate and graduate levels. The material concentrates on fundamental theories as well as techniques and algorithms. The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and, more recently, the emergence of cloud computing and streaming data applications, has forced a renewal of interest in distributed and parallel data management, while, at the same time, requiring a rethinking of some of the traditional techniques. This book covers the breadth and depth of this re-emerging field. The coverage consists of two parts. The first part discusses the fundamental principles of distributed data management and includes distribution design, data integration, distributed query processing and optimization, distributed transaction management, and replication. The second part focuses on more advanced topics and includes discussion of parallel database systems, distributed object management, peer-to-peer data management, web data management, data stream systems, and cloud computing. New in this Edition: ' New chapters, covering database replication, database integration, multidatabase query processing, peer-to-peer data management, and web data management. ' Coverage of emerging topics such as data streams and cloud computing ' Extensive revisions and updates based on years of class testing and feedback Ancillary teaching materials are available.

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Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering Review

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(More customer reviews)Two years ago when I started my masters in structural engineering, I had to learn about random field theory. The books that I found, considered the "must reads" for random field theory, might as well have been in Chinese (I don't understand Chinese - just for the record). It was extremely painful and frustrating trying to understand the completely not clear or easy to understand concepts - as they were presented in those books. Upon searching the internet, I found some papers written by Gordon Fenton. His description of random field theory and his work in general, was like an oasis in the desert. This is one very rare person who can explain complicated concepts so that they are easy to understand and apply. So when I found out he was publishing a book, I thought, this is a must have. And I haven't been disappointed. The first section on probability theory is without a doubt, the best explanation of the theory I have seen, with simple examples to help me concrete my understanding of the theory being presented. Therefore, this is the first textbook that I would recommend for people trying to understand the concepts of probability theory. Similarly, all other sections in the book are equally easy to understand and can make even me look intelligent - as he enables me to really understand the concepts being presented, because of his fantastic ability to communicate ' I like in particular, how he explains the practical reasons for why the theory can be simplified or assumptions can be made. Most boffin writers of textbooks don't explain "the obvious" which is not so obvious to the novice person reading their books. Sometimes I think that they don't realise that not everybody has done the mathematics degree required to understand some of the intricacies, which if not clearly explained, can stump the reader for days until they find out why they have assumed this or that. That's where Gordon Fenton is a real a gem. He doesn't leave you scratching your head, scrambling for other textbooks to fill in the gaps before you can continue with his explanations. So I highly recommend this book to anybody trying to understand probability theory, random field theory, estimation, reliability, Monte Carlo simulation and all other topics he covers in his book.

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Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind Review

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(More customer reviews)[A review of the 4th Edition, 2003.]
This book studies complexity and nonlinearity across a diverse range of applications. Much of the book revolves around organic evolution and the evolution of a sentient mind. And how complexity analysis might aid in the understanding of these fields. Not the least in devising deeper forms of artificial intelligence.
So intriguing techniques like cellular automata and neural networks are studied. There is a fair amount of speculation as to how these and other topics might ultimately relate to sentience or consciousness. But the musings are grounded in solid science. Like that of a Hopfield system or a Boltzmann machine. This 4th edition is a good reflection of the boundaries of our knowledge.

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Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling: Computational Methods and Applications Review

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(More customer reviews)I am PhD student in economics and I do research in heterogeneous agents models.I found this book to be extremely useful. It provides you with all the tools that you need in order to start and do your own research. Also most topics are up to date. The book comes also with a web page with the computer codes for the examples in the book. My only complain is that there are no MatLab codes, but only Gauss and FORTRAN.

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Modern business cycle theory and growth theory uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models. In order to solve these models, economists need to use many mathematical tools. This book presents various methods in order to compute the dynamics of general equilibrium models. In part I, the representative-agent stochastic growth model is solved with the help of value function iteration, linear and linear quadratic approximation methods, parameterised expectations and projection methods. In order to apply these methods, fundamentals from numerical analysis are reviewed in detail. In particular, the book discusses issues that are often neglected in existing work on computational methods, e.g. how to find a good initial value.In part II, the authors discuss methods in order to solve heterogeneous-agent economies. In such economies, the distribution of the individual state variables is endogenous. This part of the book also serves as an introduction to the modern theory of distribution economics. Applications include the dynamics of the income distribution over the business cycle or the overlapping-generations model.In an accompanying home page to this book, computer codes to all applications can be downloaded.

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