Blockchain technology offers a powerful foundation for building trust, privacy and verifiability into AI frameworks. This book will focus on how a blockchain can enable AI frameworks and applications to scale in a responsible fashion, reshaping the future of numerous industries from financial markets to healthcare and education.You’ll see that in the next wave of AI products, blockchain can provide a “Trust Layer,” a fundamental feature previously only implemented for parties withi...

Learn all about blockchain and its applications in cryptocurrency, healthcare, Internet of Things, finance, decentralized organizations, and more. Featuring case studies and practical insights, this book covers a unique mix of topics and offers insight into how to overcome hurdles that arise as the market and consumers grow accustomed to blockchain-based organizations and services.The book is divided into three major sections. The first section provides a historical background to b...

Work with blockchain and understand its potential application beyond cryptocurrencies in the domains of healthcare, Internet of Things, finance, decentralized organizations, and open science. Featuring case studies and practical insights generated from a start-up spun off from the author’s own lab, this book covers a unique mix of topics not found in others and offers insight into how to overcome real hurdles that arise as the market and consumers grow accustomed to blockchain based start-...

Updated new edition of Ralph Kimball's groundbreaking book on dimensional modeling for data warehousing and business intelligence!The first edition of Ralph Kimball's The Data Warehouse Toolkit introduced the industry to dimensional modeling, and now his books are considered the most authoritative guides in this space. This new third edition is a complete library of updated dimensional modeling techniques, the most comprehensive collection ever. It covers ...

This book aims to give you a brief understanding of Blockchain. It also explains you the Bitcoin, one of the most buzzing words of financial technology. This is a quick book for everyone who is interested in understanding Blockchain and its baby Bitcoin.You will learn about Blockchain and how it works technically. You will also get to know about the applications and platforms working in Blockchain space. Surprisingly it's much more than Bitcoins. You will get an understanding of Bi...

This book contains information on how to use Bitcoins and what are the possible ways it can be used as digital money. The Internet has vast connections that can also create irreversible algorithms. Therefore, it is possible to have a crypto-currency such as Bitcoin, to be treated as paper money online that can be transferred from one person to another with transaction fees as little as possible. There are many advantages and disadvantages behind on using Bitcoins but it also has a lot of r...

“There’s an incredible amount of depth and thinking in the practices described here, and it’s impressive to see it all in one place.”—Win Treese, coauthor of Designing Systems for Internet CommerceThe Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2, focuses on “distributed” or “cloud” computing and brings a DevOps/SRE sensibility to the practice of system administration. Unsatisfied with books that cover either design or operations in isolation, ...

Master Oracle Hyperion Financial ManagementConsolidate financial data and maintain a scalable compliance framework with expert instruction from an Oracle ACE. Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Tips & Techniques provides advanced, time-saving procedures not documented in user manuals or help files. Find out how to configure Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, import and reconcile data, deliver dynamic business reports, and automate administrative tasks. Stragegies fo...

It's clear that PeopleSoft HRMS is the leader in enterprise human resource management, but finding relevant resources can be difficult. PeopleSoft HRMS Interview Questions, Answers, andExplanations guides you through your learning process. From helping to assess the skills you will need on a project to screening a new hire,PeopleSoft HRMS Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations will put you on the path to under- standing what you really need to know. The book is organi...

Software test automation has moved beyond a luxury to become a necessity. Applications and systems have grown ever larger and more complex, and manual testing simply cannot keep up. As technology changes, and more organizations move into agile development, testing must adapt—and quickly. Test automation is essential, but poor automation is wasteful—how do you know where your efforts will take you?Authors Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster wrote the field’s seminal text, Software T...

Secure Your Systems Using the Latest IT Auditing TechniquesFully updated to cover leading-edge tools and technologies, IT Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets, Second Edition, explains, step by step, how to implement a successful, enterprise-wide IT audit program. New chapters on auditing cloud computing, outsourced operations, virtualization, and storage are included. This comprehensive guide describes how to assemble an effective IT audit team and max...

Telecom Management for Call Centers offers a practical guide to addressing the most common issues faced by telecom management in large call-centers. This handbook was written primarily for the telecom manager; the techniques described here are practical and easily applicable, focusing on the issues the telecom manager faces in his or her daily operational work. The lessons learned by the professionals in this growing field are not often documented and shared. This guide provides d...