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Monitoring with Graphite: Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale
by Jason DixonGraphite has become one of the most powerful monitoring tools available today, due to its ease of use, rapid graph prototyping abilities, and a friendly rendering API. With this practical guide, system administrators and engineers will learn how to use this open source tool to track operational data you need to monitor your systems, as well as application-level metrics for profiling your services.Author Jason Dixon, member of the Graphite project, provides a thorough introduction of Graphite from the basics to the skills and tools you need for troubleshooting and scaling out its software components. If you want to learn more about monitoring systems, services, or applications, this is the book you need.Get an introduction to monitoring, including important concepts and terminologyExamine the features and functionality of key Graphite components, including Carbon and WhisperLearn the typical user workflow necessary to create a basic line chartBuild complex charts with chained functions and multiple axes that interact directly with the rendering APIUnderstand how to use the native Graphite dashboard, as well as the more popular third-party dashboardsMaster the art of scaling and troubleshooting high-performance or highly available Graphite clusters
Moodle Administration Essentials
by Gavin Henrick Karen HollandIf you are an experienced system administrator and know how to manage servers and set up web environments but now want to explore Moodle, this book is perfect for you. You'll get to grips with the basics and learn to manage Moodle quickly, focusing on essential tasks. Having prior knowledge of virtual learning environments would be beneficial, but is not mandatory to make the most of this book.
Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition
by William RiceThis book is for anyone who wants to get the best out of Moodle. Experienced Moodle users will find powerful insights into developing successful educational courses.
Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom
by Esther Wojcicki Lance T. Izumi Alicia Chang Alex Silverman Elliott ParisiThis book explores blended and project based learning in which online learning is used in conjunction with classroom learning with several models and examples of schools that are already implementing digital learning and what the success rate has been.
More Playful User Interfaces
by Anton NijholtThis book covers the latest advances in playful user interfaces - interfaces that invite social and physical interaction. These new developments include the use of audio, visual, tactile and physiological sensors to monitor, provide feedback and anticipate the behavior of human users. The decreasing cost of sensor and actuator technology makes it possible to integrate physical behavior information in human-computer interactions. This leads to many new entertainment and game applications that allow or require social and physical interaction in sensor- and actuator-equipped smart environments. The topics discussed include: human-nature interaction, human-animal interaction and the interaction with tangibles that are naturally integrated in our smart environments. Digitally supported remote audience participation in artistic or sport events is also discussed. One important theme that emerges throughout the book is the involvement of users in the digital-entertainment design process or even design and implementation of interactive entertainment by users themselves, including children doing so in educational settings.
More Very British Problems
by Rob TempleDo you . . .Carry emergency teabags in your backpack?Quietly tut at badly formed 'queues'?Cleverly avoid blisters by wearing socks with your sandals?. . . then you may be suffering from (more) VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS.In this sequel to the original and quite-funny-if-you-like-that-sort-of-thing Very British Problems book, Rob Temple is taking us out of our comfort zone. We're going to that worrying place where crisps don't taste quite the same - and where ordering chips gets you . . . well, crisps. We're going abroad. Whether you're in Magaluf or the Maldives, indulging in après ski or Aperol, no one is immune to the raging superbug that is Very British Problems.Previously published as Very British Problems Abroad.
More iPhone Development with Objective-C
by Alex Horovitz David Mark Jayant Varma Jeff Lamarche Kevin KimIf you are looking to extend your iOS programming skills beyond the basics then More iPhone Development with Objective-C is for you. Authors Dave Mark, Jayant Varma, Jeff LaMarche, Alex Horovitz, and Kevin Kim explain concepts as only they can--with code snippets you can customize and use, as you like, in your own apps. More iPhone Development with Objective-C is an independent companion to Beginning iPhone Development with Objective-C. That is, it is a perfect second book, but it is also a great book for those looking to improve their skills who have already programmed for iOS. In particular it includes a series of chapters devoted to Core Data, the standard for Apple persistence. The authors carefully step through each Core Data concept and show techniques and tips specifically for writing larger apps--offering a breadth of coverage you won't find anywhere else. More iPhone Development with Objective-C covers a variety of other topics, including Multipeer Connectivity's relatively simple Bluetooth/WiFi peer-to-peer model, MapKit, and media library access and playback so that your applications can utilize media on your users' computer. You'll also find coverage of Interface Builder, Live Previews and Custom Controls and some advanced techniques for debugging your applications. The book is filled with useful topics that will bring your programs up-to-date with the new functionality built into iOS. What you'll learn How to embed maps with Map Kit and use in-application email How to access a user's iPod music library and integrate music into apps Working with data from the web and the cloud, including Apple's iCloud Using the Camera to integrate into your apps, scan and create barcodes Live previews from Interface Builder to create custom components and frameworks Who this book is for This book serves as a complementary book to More iOS 6 Development: Further Explorations of the iOS SDK and is suitable for those aspiring app developers new to iPad app development. Prior Objective-C programming experience would be helpful, but not required. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Here We Go Round Again Chapter 2: Core Data, What, Why and How Chapter 3: A Super Start Chapter 4: The Devil in the Detail View Chapter 5: Preparing for Change: Migrations and Versioning Chapter 6: Custom Managed Objects Chapter 7: Relationships, Fetched Properties, and Expressions Chapter 8: Behind Every iCloud Chapter 9: Peer-to-Peer Over Bluetooth Using Multipeer Connectivity Chapter 10: MapKit Chapter 11: Messaging: Mail, Social, and iMessage Chapter 12: Media Library Access and Playback Chapter 13: Lights, Camera and Action Chapter 14: Interface Builder and Storyboards Chapter 15: Unit Testing, Debugging, and Instruments Chapter 16: The Road Goes Ever On
More iPhone Development with Swift
by Alex Horovitz David Mark Jayant Varma Jeff Lamarche Kevin KimInterested in iPhone and iPad apps development? Want to learn more? Whether you are a relative newcomer to iPhone and iPad or iOS development or an old hand looking to expand your horizons, we have the perfect Swift-flavored book for you. (Source code has been updated to reflect Xcode 6. 3. 2 and Swift 1. 2!) The update to the bestselling More iPhone Development by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche, More iPhone Development with Swift digs deeper into the new Apple Swift programming language and iOS 8 SDK, explaining complex concepts and techniques in the same friendly, easy-to-follow style you've come to expect. More iPhone Development with Swift covers topics like Swift, Core Data, peer-to-peer networking using Multipeer Connectivity, working with data from the web, MapKit, in-application e-mail, Camera Live-Previews integration, Barcode scanning and more. All the concepts and APIs are clearly presented with code snippets you can customize and use, as you like, in your own apps. You'll journey through coverage of concurrent programming and some advanced techniques for debugging your applications. What you'll learn All about Swift, Core Data: key concepts and techniques for writing larger applications How to leverage the new Swift programming language with the new iOS SDK How to utilize a variety of networking mechanisms, including peer-to-peer connections over Bluetooth/WiFi using Multipeer Connectivity Essentials of concurrent programming and advanced debugging techniques Tips on working with data from the web and the cloud, including Apple's iCloud Who this book is for This book is a perfect more advanced companion to Beginning iPhone Development with Swift. So, this book is for those who have some experience with Swift and the iOS SDK already and for readers of the Beginning iPhone Development book. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Here We Go Round Again Chapter 2: Core Data, What, Why and How Chapter 3: A Super Start Chapter 4: The Devil in the Detail View Chapter 5: Preparing for Change: Migrations and Versioning Chapter 6: Custom Managed Objects Chapter 7: Relationships, Fetched Properties, and Expressions Chapter 8: Behind Every iCloud Chapter 9: Peer-to-Peer Over Bluetooth Using Multipeer Connectivity Chapter 10: MapKit Chapter 11: Messaging: Mail, Social, and iMessage Chapter 12: Media Library Access and Playback Chapter 13: Lights, Camera and Action Chapter 14: Interface Builder and Storyboards Chapter 15: Unit Testing, Debugging, and Instruments Chapter 16: The Road Goes Ever On
More than Moore Technologies for Next Generation Computer Design
by Rasit O. TopalogluThis book provides a comprehensive overview of key technologies being used to address challenges raised by continued device scaling and the extending gap between memory and central processing unit performance. Authors discuss in detail what are known commonly as "More than Moore" (MtM), technologies, which add value to devices by incorporating functionalities that do not necessarily scale according to "Moore's Law". Coverage focuses on three key technologies needed for efficient power management and cost per performance: novel memories, 3D integration and photonic on-chip interconnect.
Motion Capture in Performance: An Introduction
by Matt DelbridgeMotion Capture in Performance explores the historical origins, properties and implications of Motion Capture. It introduces a new mode of performance for the commercial film, animation, and console gaming industries - 'Performance Capture', a distinct interdisciplinary discourse in the fields of theatre, animation, performance studies and film.
Motion Correction in Thoracic Positron Emission Tomography
by Xiaoyi Jiang Fabian Gigengack Mohammad Dawood Klaus P. SchäfersRespiratory and cardiac motion leads to image degradation in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), which impairs quantification. In this book, the authors present approaches to motion estimation and motion correction in thoracic PET. The approaches for motion estimation are based on dual gating and mass-preserving image registration (VAMPIRE) and mass-preserving optical flow (MPOF). With mass-preservation, image intensity modulations caused by highly non-rigid cardiac motion are accounted for. Within the image registration framework different data terms, different variants of regularization and parametric and non-parametric motion models are examined. Within the optical flow framework, different data terms and further non-quadratic penalization are also discussed. The approaches for motion correction particularly focus on pipelines in dual gated PET. A quantitative evaluation of the proposed approaches is performed on software phantom data with accompanied ground-truth motion information. Further, clinical applicability is shown on patient data. The book concludes with an outlook of recent developments and potential future advances in the field of PET motion correction.
Motion Estimation for Video Coding
by Indrajit Chakrabarti Kota Naga Srinivasarao Batta Sumit Kumar ChatterjeeThe need of video compression in the modern age of visual communication cannot be over-emphasized. This monograph will provide useful information to the postgraduate students and researchers who wish to work in the domain of VLSI design for video processing applications. In this book, one can find an in-depth discussion of several motion estimation algorithms and their VLSI implementation as conceived and developed by the authors. It records an account of research done involving fast three step search, successive elimination, one-bit transformation and its effective combination with diamond search and dynamic pixel truncation techniques. Two appendices provide a number of instances of proof of concept through Matlab and Verilog program segments. In this aspect, the book can be considered as first of its kind. The architectures have been developed with an eye to their applicability in everyday low-power handheld appliances including video camcorders and smartphones.
Movie Analytics
by Dominique Haughton Mark-David Mclaughlin Kevin Mentzer Changan ZhangMovies will never be the same after you learn how to analyze movie data, including key data mining, text mining and social network analytics concepts. These techniques may then be used in endless other contexts. In the movie application, this topic opens a lively discussion on the current developments in big data from a data science perspective. This book is geared to applied researchers and practitioners and is meant to be practical. The reader will take a hands-on approach, running text mining and social network analyses with software packages covered in the book. These include R, SAS, Knime, Pajek and Gephi. The nitty-gritty of how to build datasets needed for the various analyses will be discussed as well. This includes how to extract suitable Twitter data and create a co-starring network from the IMDB database given memory constraints. The authors also guide the reader through an analysis of movie attendance data via a realistic dataset from France.
Moving to Office 365
by Matt KatzerThis book takes a concentrated look at the very latest best practices for Office 365 migration, with a focus on the needs of senior managers, IT managers, and others involved in key decisions when moving their business to the cloud. Based on popular chapters in his first book, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud (Apress Open, co-authored with Don Crawford), author Matt Katzer revises and expands on his original material to bring you the very latest guidance on planning methods, management best practices, personnel decisions and migration and maintenance costs, along with brand new material on some of the most important and cutting-edge considerations when moving your business to the cloud: securing company data, and driving social collaboration in the workplace. Cloud technology provides a tremendous opportunity for an organization to reduce IT costs, and to improve productivity with increased mobile access, simpler administration, better security, and enterprise social collaboration. Those businesses that embrace the advantages of the cloud will receive huge rewards in better security, productivity and lower total cost of ownership over those businesses that choose to ignore it. The challenge for those charged with implementing Microsoft Office 365 is to maximize these advantages with minimal disruption to their organization. Moving to Office 365 provides practical help in moving your business to the cloud and covers the security, planning, migration and the follow-on management of the Office 365 cloud services, with an emphasis on securing your corporate information in the cloud. What you'll learn Overview of the Office 365 cloud security model and best practices to apply when securing your business in the cloud Overview of Microsoft Office 365's operation and usage for any size enterprise Proven methods for planning and minimizing disruption Step-by-step migration plan How to improve business collaboration and productivity by building a social enterprise Office 365 site management advice for IT administrators and business owners Who this book is for Business owners, and CIO/CTOs and IT managers who have responsibility for the IT needs of their business. These people need refined reference information on cloud security, basic set-up and configuration of their Office 365 deployment, and best-practice-driven instruction on managing and troubleshooting their Office 365 systems. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Why Office 365 Chapter 2: Understanding the End User Experience Chapter 3: Office 365: The Apps Chapter 4: Security Best Practices Chapter 5: Deployment Step by Step Chapter 6: Workstation Setup Configuration for Office 365 Chapter 7: Managing Your Office 365 Deployment
Multi-Agent Systems
by Nils BullingThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2014, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in December 2014. The 21 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: agent-based models, trust and reputation; coordination, coalitions and teamwork; logic and formal approaches; theories in practice and real-world problems; decision making, conflicts and agreements.
Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XV
by Francisco Grimaldo Emma NorlingThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2014, held in Paris, France, in May 2014. The workshop was held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014. The 17 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation methodologies, simulation of social behaviour, data and multi-agent-based simulation and applications.
Multi-Net Optimization of VLSI Interconnect
by Konstantin Moiseev Avinoam Kolodny Shmuel WimerThis book covers layout design and layout migration methodologies for optimizing multi-net wire structures in advanced VLSI interconnects. Scaling-dependent models for interconnect power, interconnect delay and crosstalk noise are covered in depth, and several design optimization problems are addressed, such as minimization of interconnect power under delay constraints, or design for minimal delay in wire bundles within a given routing area. A handy reference or a guide for design methodologies and layout automation techniques, this book provides a foundation for physical design challenges of interconnect in advanced integrated circuits.
Multi-Step Multi-Input One-Way Quantum Information Processing with Spatial and Temporal Modes of Light
by Ryuji UkaiIn this thesis, the author develops for the first time an implementation methodology for arbitrary Gaussian operations using temporal-mode cluster states. The author also presents three experiments involving continuous-variable one-way quantum computations, where their non-classical nature is shown by observing entanglement at the outputs. The experimental basic structure of one-way quantum computation over two-mode input state is demonstrated by the controlled-Z gate and the optimum nonlocal gate experiments. Furthermore, the author proves that the operation can be controlled by the gain-tunable entangling gate experiment.
Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence
by Xianghan Zheng Antonis BikakisThis book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2015, held in Fuzhou, China, in November 2015. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers feature a wide range of topics covering knowledge representation, reasoning, and management; multi-agent systems; data mining and machine learning; computer vision; robotics; AI in bioinformatics; AI in security and networks; and other AI applications.
Multi-objective Swarm Intelligence
by Satchidananda Dehuri Alok Kumar Jagadev Mrutyunjaya PandaThe aim of this book is to understand the state-of-the-art theoretical and practical advances of swarm intelligence. It comprises seven contemporary relevant chapters. In chapter 1, a review of Bacteria Foraging Optimization (BFO) techniques for both single and multiple criterions problem is presented. A survey on swarm intelligence for multiple and many objectives optimization is presented in chapter 2 along with a topical study on EEG signal analysis. Without compromising the extensive simulation study, a comparative study of variants of MOPSO is provided in chapter 3. Intractable problems like subset and job scheduling problems are discussed in chapters 4 and 7 by different hybrid swarm intelligence techniques. An attempt to study image enhancement by ant colony optimization is made in chapter 5. Finally, chapter 7 covers the aspect of uncertainty in data by hybrid PSO.
Multiagent System Technologies
by Jörg P. Müller Wolf Ketter Gal Kaminka Gerd Wagner Nils BullingThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2015, held in Cottbus, Germany, in September 2015. The 11 full papers papers presented together with 2 short papers, 1 invited paper and 4 extended abstracts of doctoral papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on MAS engineering, modeling, and simulation; smart things working together; and innovative and emerging applications of MAS.
Multilevel Security for Relational Databases
by Osama S. Faragallah El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie Fathi E. El-Samie Ahmed I. Sallam Hala S. El-SayedSince databases are the primary repositories of information for today's organizations and governments, database security has become critically important. Most database security models focus on protecting against external unauthorized users. Because multilevel secure databases provide internal security according to user access type, they are a viable option for the security needs of modern database systems. Covering key concepts in database security, this book illustrates the implementation of multilevel security for relational database models. It considers concurrency control in multilevel database security and presents encryption algorithms. It also includes simulation programs and Visual studio and Microsoft SQL Server code for the simulations covered in the text.
Multimedia Communications, Services and Security
by Andrzej Dziech Mikołaj Leszczuk Remigiusz BaranThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2015, held in Krakow, Poland, in November 2015. The 16 full papers included in the volume were selected from 39 submissions. The papers cover ongoing research activities in the following topics: multimedia services; intelligent monitoring; audio-visual systems; biometric applications; experiments and deployments.
Multimedia Data Mining and Analytics
by Aaron K. Baughman Jiang Gao Jia-Yu Pan Valery A. PetrushinThis book provides fresh insights into the cutting edge of multimedia data mining, reflecting how the research focus has shifted towards networked social communities, mobile devices and sensors. The work describes how the history of multimedia data processing can be viewed as a sequence of disruptive innovations. Across the chapters, the discussion covers the practical frameworks, libraries, and open source software that enable the development of ground-breaking research into practical applications. Features: reviews how innovations in mobile, social, cognitive, cloud and organic based computing impacts upon the development of multimedia data mining; provides practical details on implementing the technology for solving real-world problems; includes chapters devoted to privacy issues in multimedia social environments and large-scale biometric data processing; covers content and concept based multimedia search and advanced algorithms for multimedia data representation, processing and visualization.
Multimedia Technology IV: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Technology, Sydney, Australia, 28-30 March 2015
by Aly A. Farag Jian Yang Feng JiaoMultimedia Technology IV is a collection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Technology (ICMT 2015, Sydney, Australia, 28-29 March 2015). The book discusses a wide range of topics, including: Image and signal processing Video and audio processing Multimedia data communication and transmission, and Multimedia tools. Presenting recent advances and new techniques and applications in image and signal processing, video and audio processing, multimedia data communication and transmission, and multimedia tools, Multimedia Technology IV will be of interest to academics and professionals involved in the field of multimedia technology.