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- Taxonomy
- The classification, or categorization, of things. For example, a Web taxonomy would classify all the sites on the Web into a hierarchy for searching purposes. This comes from...
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- Security Associations in Personal Networks: A Comparative Analysis
- Introducing a new device to a network or to another device is one of the most security critical phases of communication in personal networks. There have been several different proposals to make this process of associating devices both easy-to-use and secure. Some of them have been adapted by emerging standard...
- Tags: network, taxonomy, analysis, networking, security
- White papers 2007-01-09
- Taxonomy: Will practice make perfect?
- Renee Blodgett points to the upcoming Taxonomy Boot Camp, where David Weinberger author of the upcoming Everything Is Miscellaneous will be giving the keynote. Davids thoughts are always useful and frequently blindingly insightful. Id like to be at the conference, but have a conflict. So, Ill just inject the comments...
- Tags: taxonomy, blog
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- XML grows up as XBRL
- XML grows up as XBRLStandardsWhen open standards are involved, protocols can flourish. So, I have no doubt this will have legs.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/Further thoughts on the XBRL taxonomies as open sourceDana Blankenhorn is absolutely correct in his conclusion that XBRL is lowering the cost of doing business which is good for companies...
- Tags: financial accounting, standards bodies, xml, xbrl, taxonomy, financial reporting, financial
- Discussion threads 2006-06-23
- XML grows up as XBRL
- XML has always been perfect for open source development.As an evolving standard, the tags which can represent anything need cooperation in order to be useful. Early efforts like adXML applied the technology to specific types of business transactions, in the ad space.But business processes are more complex than any set...
- Tags: ubmatrix, darren peterson, taxonomy
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Taxonomy in Fish Species Complexes: A Role for Multimedia Information
- Biologists could make valuable use of the wealth of specimen information in natural history museum databases. "Taxonomy via the Internet" aims to build a centralized database where biologists can store, manipulate and retrieve biologically meaningful data from images of specimens and use the data to classify the specimens taxonomically. Multimedia...
- Tags: tulane university, multimedia, taxonomy, multimedia information representation, storage, databases, hardware, enterprise software, software, data management
- White papers 2006-06-19
- Cisco out on top for vendor short lists, internal study finds
- With September IT Priorities data collected and analyzed, we finally added third quarter results to our vendor deliberations study and discovered that across all IT categories in our taxonomy, Cisco received the greatest proportion of “prefer” (84%) votes to “avoid” (16%) among all named vendors open text responses over the...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2005-09-16
- A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing
- With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Such application scenarios require means for composing and executing complex workflows. Therefore, many efforts have been made towards...
- Tags: taxonomy, university of melbourne, grid computing, workflow, workflow management, process improvement, utility computing, it management, network technology, quality, business operations, it service management, networking
- White papers 2005-09-16
- A Taxonomy of Scientific Workflow Systems for Grid Computing
- With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Such application scenarios require means for composing and executing complex workflows. Therefore, many efforts have been made towards...
- Tags: taxonomy, university of melbourne, grid computing, workflow, process improvement, utility computing, it management, network technology, quality, business operations, it service management, networking
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Effective Learning Content Management Strategies: Metadata Taxonomies and Content Reusability
- In the context of any e-learning initiative beyond a single course, a well thought out content management strategy can provide significant benefits, including time and cost savings associated with increased reusability and maintainability of content. This paper explores key aspects that are absolutely critical to enabling these benefits, specifically metadata...
- Tags: taxonomy, e-learning, content management, web technology, enterprise software, software
- White papers 2003-11-28
- IT Occupation Taxonomy V.3.0
- This white paper provides a taxonomy, or map, to the natural relationships between information technology IT job roles and team roles in the Microsoft Solutions Framework MSF and Microsoft Operations Framework MOF. The intent of this taxonomy is to help customers and partners, regardless of how they organize their business,...
- Tags: taxonomy, information technology, microsoft corp., team management, strategy, recruitment & selection, management, human resources, workforce management
- White papers 2003-02-01
- A Taxonomy of Wireless Micro-Sensor Network Models
- In future smart environments, wireless sensor networks will play a key role in sensing, collecting, and disseminating information about environmental phenomena. Sensing applications represent a new paradigm for network operation, one that has different goals from more traditional wireless networks. This paper examines this emerging field to classify wireless micro-sensor...
- Tags: network, taxonomy, networking, wi-fi, wireless
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- A Taxonomy for Denial-of-Service Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks WSNs are transitioning to real-world applications, where they face attacks already experienced by the Internet and wireless ad hoc networks. One such attack is that of Denial-Of-Service DOS, which is believed will only become more prevalent as sensor networks become more pervasive and accessible. With the inherent...
- Tags: denial of service, university of virginia, network, taxonomy, sensor, attack, wi-fi, wireless, security
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Additional Resources
- Google goes investing
- The news that Google is close to launching its own venture capital fund may raise a lot of hopes, but the history of corporate investment isn't fantastic and comes with a heavy price for portfolio companies that win a corporate sweepstakes. It also tells a lot about Google's own sense...
- Tags: google inc., investor, investment, finance, mitch ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- News to know: Apple vs. Psystar; Intel; Microsoft and multicore; Linux kernel
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple sues Psystar Sam Diaz: Complaint: 'Invaluable good is being eroded' Larry Dignan: The end of the Mac clones? Jason D. O'Grady: Apple: See you in court Larry Dignan: Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand...
- Tags: apple iphone, web, larry dignan, linux kernel, apple inc., microsoft corp., multi-core, twitter, intel corp., virtualization, linux, channel management, mainframes, open source, telecommunications, hardware, operating systems, software, marketing, servers
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Free Taxonomy & Folksonomy Book
- Following on from my previous post about AIIM's upcoming 'Findability' report, Daniela Barbosa of Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions, has created a colorful free ebook called 'The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook: Finding the right recipe for organizing enterprise metadata' Designed in the style...
- Tags: folksonomy, river, tool, productivity, social networking, e-books, online communications, marketing, advertising & promotion, personal technology, oliver marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Since mobile search still sux, is it time for cellphone content "decks" to die?
- First of all, the briefest of primers to let all of you know what I'm talking about. Most cell carriers, including mine (AT&T Mobility) offer subject-oriented content decks that offer links to stories and services from favored content partners. Just one example: AT&T's MediaNet,...
- Tags: mobile, mobile search, cell phone, cashier, advertising & promotion, search, marketing, russell shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 billion; Likely to trigger enterprise search consolidation
- Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 billion; Likely to trigger enterprise search consolidationCould be a prudent purchase...... or could be money down the tubes. This is a drop in the ocean for their finances, so it will be interesting to see how this pans out.a futile moveFAST is...
- Tags: search, nothing, microsoft corp., enterprise search consolidation, enterprise search
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Toward Cost-Sensitive Modeling for Intrusion Detection and Response
- Intrusion Detection Systems IDSs must maximize the realization of security goals while minimizing costs. This paper studies the problem of building cost-sensitive intrusion detection models. The paper examines the major cost factors associated with an IDS, which include development cost, operational cost, damage cost due to successful intrusions, and the...
- Tags: columbia university, intrusion detection system, intrusion detection, network security, security, networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- XRay Web Log Analyzer STD (exe)
- Explore your Web log in a systematic way. Focus on any feature of interest, such as a specific Web page and immediately see related features like country and used keywords. Get insight, track intruders, and know your visitors. This product is based on patented dynamic taxonomy exploration. This version is...
- Tags: web, knowledge, channel management, strategy, marketing, management
- Software downloads 2007-12-14
- Collaborating in virtual environments
- Engineers have been using collaborating tools in virtual reality environments for almost 20 years. Now, South Korean and Japanese researchers have tried to compare different experiences of users working together using the Virtual Dollhouse application where two people working together have to build a virtual dollhouse using virtual building blocks,...
- Tags: network, environment, object, physics law, virtual reality, networking, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
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