IC156-HP-WLAN Wireless 802.11B Print Server Jetdirect

Product DescriptionIC156-WLAN-HP allows users to connect any Hewlett Packard printer with EIO port to any WLAN environment, entirely eliminating the need for cables. It supports two operating modes – infrastructure mode (access point mode) and AdHoc mode (Peer-to-Peer), therefore, also allowing direct communication between WLAN devices (laptops, etc.) and the attached printer. The operating mode [...]

Environment and Resettlement Politics in China: The Three Gorges Project

Product DescriptionThe Three Gorges dam, under construction on the Yantgze River in China, is controversial both inside and outside China, particularly because of the large number of people to be resettled (officially 1.2 million) and the environmental impacts. Using material previously unavailable in any Western language, this text analyses the Chinese discussions over policy-making for [...]

Political Ecology and the Role of Water: Environment, Society and Economy in Northern Yemen

Product DescriptionHow can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South? Population growth, poverty and problems associated with common property resource management have been common themes in this debate, yet insufficient attention has been paid to how traditional political relations and local perceptions affect natural resource capture and [...]

The Zen of SOA: An Executive Blueprint to Web-Enable Your Organization With Service-Oriented Architecture

Product DescriptionOrganizations face quite different challenges in laying out a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) blueprint. Internal integration needs may be more straightforward, but business models may focus less on internal integration than external partners or customers. Traditional approaches like EAI, however, are notoriously inflexible and expensive. The author has been [...]

Modern Business Process Automation: YAWL and its Support Environment

Product DescriptionTopics covered include: The fundamentals of business process modeling, including workflow patterns, an in-depth treatment of process flexibility, including approaches to dealing with on-the-fly changes, unexpected exceptions, and constraint-based processes, Technological aspects of a modern BPM environment, including its architecture,  process design environment, process engine, resource handler and other support services, a comparative insight into [...]