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Jim Sterne

Here it is! The bestselling guide to online marketing is now back in a new expanded edition. Popular speaker and author Jim Sterne updates all information, providing marketing and advertising professionals with the ultimate how-to guide to succeed in today's hyper-competitive online world. Taking the same practical and detailed approach that has made his book an industry classic, Sterne shows how to apply classic marketing strategies to the latest technologies and explores the Web's impact on the way we do business. Readers will find expert guidance on how to take advantage of hot new technologies and Web marketing tools that have emerged since the Second Edition was published, including: Interactivity Affiliate marketing Using B2B technology to sell through resellers Wireless marketing eMetrics, or how to measure online marketing strategies Data mining techniques

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Anil Desai

Protect your organization's most valuable asset--its data. Develop and implement a thorough data protection solution for your SQL Server 7 database environment. SQL Server 7 Backup & Recovery is your one-stop resource for planning, developing, implementing, and managing backup and restore procedures. Learn to execute data protection strategies, implement a backup solution, and handle data recovery before potentially disastrous data loss occurs. You'll get details on the latest methods for increasing database uptime and improving performance. The case studies included show you how to apply the techniques described in the book in your own environment. Evaluate business requirements and develop a data protection strategy. Configure Windows NT/2000 for the secure and efficient use of SQL Server 7. Select the best hardware, software, and network technologies for your backup plan. Handle SQL Server 7 backup procedures involving files and filegroups, transaction logs, concurrency, locking, and other database issues. Increase database uptime and optimize performance. Develop and practice restore plans for various scenarios--from minor data loss to complete hardware failures. Increase reliability, availability, and performance through the use of standby servers and clustering. Distribute data throughout your enterprise with SQL Server 7's replication features. Follow case studies to learn about the application of data protection best practices in various environments.

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Yoav Shoham, Kevin Leyton-Brown

Multiagent systems combine multiple autonomous entities, each having diverging interests or different information. This overview of the field offers a computer science perspective, but also draws on ideas from game theory, economics, operations research, logic, philosophy and linguistics. It will serve as a reference for researchers in each of these fields, and be used as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. The authors emphasize foundations to create a broad and rigorous treatment of their subject, with thorough presentations of distributed problem solving, game theory, multiagent communication and learning, social choice, mechanism design, auctions, cooperative game theory, and modal logics of knowledge and belief. For each topic, basic concepts are introduced, examples are given, proofs of key results are offered, and algorithmic considerations are examined. An appendix covers background material in probability theory, classical logic, Markov decision processes and mathematical programming.

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Corey Perlman

In this Web 2.0 era, small business owners are at a severe disadvantage because they have minimal, if any, knowledge, about Internet marketing. They also lack the budget to hire a top-notch web marketer. As a result, the thrust of their Internet marketing program is usually a poorly performing website that attracts few visitors. e Boot Camp is the solution to the entrepreneur's Internet marketing problem. This do-it-yourself book provides the know-how that's needed to win business in cyberspace while eliminating the need for a large marketing budget. In just an hour or two a week, the small business owner will gain control of his or her Internet marketing campaign, using the step-by-step method Perlman presents. Specifically, readers will learn the keys to improving their search-engine ranking (the critical driver of traffic to a Website), how to create and manage blogs and e-newsletters and, finally, the secrets to a successful, sales-driven website.