Business Activity Monitoring

The goal of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is to provide management with immediate awareness of changing business events across the enterprise, so that appropriate and timely decisions can be made. Real-time, event-driven business events across the enterprise, so that appropriate and timely decisions can be made. Real-time, event-driven business activity monitoring solutions provide real-time alerts via graphical dashboards and other notification mechanisms, enabling management to immediately react and intervene when key performance indicators change. BAM solutions also complement BPM solutions by providing real-time process monitoring capabilities that enable BPM systems to dynamically and immediately react to alterations in the business environment.
By using real-time information to remove delays in managing and executing enterprises critical business processes, BAM reduces costs and enables faster execution of business processes.

Nanocomputing

Nanotechnology deals with the techniques of operating and building at the nanometer scale. One nanometer is equal to one millionth of a millimeter. And nanocomputing pertains to computations and computing machinery at the nano-scale level.

In 1959, Richard Feynman first conceived the idea of arranging things molecule-by-molecule and subsequently atom-by-atom, some day.

Phenylene group comprising C6H4 structures have been shown to produce larger conductive molecules, which integrate molecular wires and molecular switches. Recent research by MITRE Corporation, which is one of the United States Department of Defense's organization, came up with a molecular a electronic AND gate, incorporating polyphenylene-based Molecular Rectifying Diodes embedded in tour wires.

Once we have a basic AND gate, OR and NOT gates could be created using similar structures. Digital electronics and computing design principles can help build more complex logic structures utilizing these three basic computing building blocks. Among the things that could be created using these are the CPU, memory (ROM and RAM) and any other device like hard disk, etc. A computer built using nano elements as the building blocks is called a nanocomputer.

Quantum Computers : Generation next

Todays computers process and execute all data with use of only two states 1 or 0. But a system working on principals of Quantum Physics has three quantum states either 1 or 0, or a superposition of 0 and 1. They encode information as quantum bits or qubits. Since quantum processes are governed by Heisenberg's Uncertainity Principle, a qubit can be present at many positions at any given time. This superpositioning ability of qubits will give quantum computers a property of parallelism. As a result, a quantum computer can work on millions of computations at once unlike the desktop PC that works on one.

Anniversary with no sound

Completed one year with blog.
But due to the work pressure failed to notice that...
Hoping to continue blogging in the coming days..

Men and Women - contd

"Love in woman" says Lombroso "is in its fundamental nature no more than a secondary character of motherhood, and all the feelings of affection that bind woman to man arise not from secual impulses, but from the instricts - acquired by adaptation - of subordination and self-surrender.

The woman doesnot grow so far from what she is at birth as the harassed and the experimental male; she clings to heredity as he ventures into variation; she is the organ and seat of racial stability, as he is teh agent and herald of change. The other side of stability is a certain conservation of feeling and an inadequacy of thougt. Woman's interests are familial, and normally her environment is the home; she is as deep as nature and as narrow as four walls. She is less experimental in mind and morals. Woman seems to be less at home with abstract thougts; she has a sharp eye for facts, and a good memory for them, but she is not adept at generalization or original interpretation and she may lose herslef and her purpose in details. In general woman seeks, in her mate, not beuty but ability and strength, as a promise of protection; it is the male who selects for beuty, less because it is a promise of pleasure, than because normally it is the flag of vigor and health.

Men and Women

Only among birds and mammals is the male superior; and here he owes his power to the fact that the female, having taken over most of the burdens of reproduction, is physically handicapped in the eternal war or love.

The separation of the sexes made it possible to unite in the offspring the hereditary qualities and capacities of two distinct lines of ancestry.

Beaumarchais : "Man differs from the animals in that he drinks without being thirsty, and makes love at all seasons"

It becomes bitterly obvious that the female is primary and basic, the male secondary and tributary, in the species; the male is a late specialization and embodiment of functions which were once performed without him.

Woman is cleverer than man in love because, normally her desire is less intense and does not so obscure her judgement; this is the secret of her ancient wisdom. Its not physical delight that woman seeks, so much as an indiscriminate admiration and a lavish attention to her wants; and in many cases the sheer pleasure of being desired contents her.

Designer drugs

Using three dimensional images of protein structure, they can rotate their cyber molecules on a screen and study them from all angles to figure out which drugs might best fit active sites on a protein surface. Chemical engineers can manipulate different combinations of drug and disease protein, analyze the functional outcomes of adding one molecule to another, and build up therapeutic molecules from scratch.

Social Reconstruction

All human activity springs from two sources : impulse and desire. When men find themselves not fully consented, and not able instantly to procure what will cause content, imagination brings before their minds the thoughts of things which they believe would make them happy. A life governed by purposes and desires, to the exclusion of impulse, is a tiring life; it exhausts vitality, and leaves a man, in the end, indifferent to the very purposes which he has been trying to achieve.

the conventional conception of what constitutes success leads most men to live a life in which their most vital impulses are sacrificed, and the joy of life is lost in listless weariness.

Biotechnology

All protein molecules are long folded chains of smaller molecules calles amino acids. One of smaller proteins, insulin, contains more than 50 amino acids. The number, types and arrangement of amino acids in a protein molecule determine its structure, and its structure determine the job it will do in a living organism.

DNA is built up by repeating subunits of three linked molecules:base, sugar and phosphate. These units named necleotides are fundamental components of DNA. Because there are four different bases, there are four different kinds of nucleotides.

A protein molecule is made by a gene in two stages. First an RNA copy of gene is made. Transcribed from a template of DNA, the RNA copy has a nucleotide sequence complementing that of gene. Then the RNA move to another part of the cell, where its nucleotide sequence is translated into a sequence of aminoacids to build a protein.

Fact & Fiction - Bertrand Russel

"World on worlds are rolling over,
From creation to decay
Like bubbles on a river
Sparkling, bursting, borne away."
- Shelley.

"I love waves and winds and storms,
Everything almost
Which is Nature's and maybe
Untainted by man's misery."
- Shelley.


"Though life may be bad and the world full of unmerited suffering, yet there is in man a capacity of greatness and occasional splendour which makes ultimate and complete despair impossible."
"Only kind of freedom which is undesirable is that which diminishes the freedom of others"
"Holders of power, always and everywhere are indifferent to the good or evil of those who have no power, except in so far as they are restrained by fear."
"Where any large group is basically out of sympathy with the rest of the citizens of the state, democracy is apt to become unworkable, except by a use of force which will produce great discontent in the subordinate group, and a harsh temper in the dominant group"
"Any set of men, entrusted with power over others, will abuse their power unless they have reason to fear that they may lose it."

Beyond Robotics

Beyond Robotics, there is another field, artificial life, or Alife, in which biology is modeled. Tom Bay, biologist at University of Delaware, developed a computer program called Tierra. This system sinulated a simple computer so that Ray could have complete control over how it worked. Multiple computer programs competed for resources of processing unit in the simulated computer. Ray placed a single program in a 60,000 word memory and let it run. Like DNA in biological systems, the code was interpreted to produce the process of creature itself, and it was copied to make a child program. There were "Cosmic Rays" that would occasionally randaomnly flip a bit in memory and were copying errors where as a word was being written to memory a random bit within it might flip. Thus mutations appeared. Before long "parasites" less than half the size of original seed program evolved. They were not able to copy themselves, but they could trick a larger program into copying them rather than itself. Soon hyperparasites and social programs that needed each other to reproduce evolved.

Cybernetics

Besides the electrical engineering theory fo the transmission of messages, there is a larger field which includes not only the study of language but the study of messages as a means of controlling machinery and society, the development of computing machines and other such automata, certain reflections upon psychology and nervous system, and a tentative new theory of scientific method. This larger theory of messages is a probabilistic theory, an intrinsic part of movement that owes it origin to Willard Gibbs - Cybernitics


Its the purpose of Cybernitics to develop a language and techniques that will enable us to attack the problem of control and communication in general, but also to find the proper repertory fo ideas and techniques to classify their particular manifestations under certain concepts. In control and communication we are always fighting nature's tendency to degrade the organized and to destroy the meaningful the tendency, as Gibbs has shown us, for entropy to increas. To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Thus communication and control belong to the essence of man's inner life, even as they belong to his life in society.

Existentialism

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism. It is also what is called subjectivity. The Kantian ethics says, "Never treat any person as means, but as an end.". The only way to determine the value of this affection is, precisely, to perfomr an act which confirms and defines it.

"Man's destiny is within himself".
"I think; therefore I exist".
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained.".

Man makes himself. In choosing his ethics, he makes himself, and force of circumstances is such that he cannot abstain from choosing one. Freedom as the definition of man does not depend on others, but as soon as there is involvement, I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. There are no accidents in a life; a community event which suddenly burst forth and involves me in it does not come from outside.

"In war there are no innocent victims"

Influence of science

The happy unity of instinct is gone from us, and we flounder in a sea of reasoning and doubt; in the midst of unprecedented knowledge and power we are uncertain of our purposes, our values and our goals. The balance of mind which once came of a warm religious faith is gone; science has taken from us the supernatural basis of our morality, and all the world seems consumed in a disorderly individualism that reflects the chaotic fragmentation of our character.

Java Server Faces

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Introduction

Craig MacLanahan, employed in Sun and the main contributor behind Struts, is the lead architect of JSF. JSF is a specification to which big companies like Borland, WebLogic, Oracle, Sun etc. can offer Visual Studio-like tools to enhance productivity.

JSF vs STRUTS

Struts is a framework based on MVC and it provides a readymade structure, the main advantage being, DECLARATIVE MANAGEMENT in two important files, namely, web.xml and struts-config.xml. Secondly, it provides the concept of form-beans and centralized flow through the Controller servlet and respective action classes. It separates the view (JSP) and the model (business logic). JSF is User-interface technology, for web-based application like ASP.Net's WebForms. However, it soon grew out of this constraint and overlapped with much functionality and architecture of Struts.

JSF, being a component-level technology, tries to mimic a desktop application. We can imagine that the form, with all its controls and data, is saved and sent back to the browser in ASP.Net and JSF.

While Struts is strongly tied to standard browsers, JSF caters to all kinds of emerging browsers like WAP-browsers and wireless devices, just like ASP.Net.

Awake from hibernate

Happy New Year

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