An Overview of Photovoltaic System Technology

Agent Technology: An Overview

An Overview of SAP Technology

This chapter commences with a brief description of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), follows by a description of SAP, the largest enterprise software provider in the world. The timeline of activities since its inception in 1972 are summarized in a table. SAP’s flagship software program, the R/3 system, is portrayed in more detail. The capabilities of the R/3 system, the three-tier client/serv...

An Overview of Repository Technology

A repository is a shared database of information about engineered artifacts. We define a repository manager to be a database application that suPports checkout/checkin, version and configuration management, notification, context management, and workflow control. Since the main value of a repository is in the tools that use it, we discuss technical issues of integrating tools with repositories. ...

An Overview of Candiduria

Candida microorganisms frequently exist as saprophytes on the external genitalia or urethra, however, yeast in measurable quantities are found in <1% of clean voided urine specimens. The overall frequency of Candida infections in hospitals has increased by 200% to 300% in the last decade, such that in a general hospital 5% of urine cultures may yield Candida species, and in tertiary-care center...

Object Technology: An Executive Overview

The topics include: •= Software engineering concerns underlying object technology. •= Key concepts: data abstraction, information hiding, classes, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding. •= Object-oriented languages and environments: a review of the principal offerings. •= Object-oriented analysis and design; UML. •= Object persistence and object-oriented databases. •= Object request broker...