Examines the use of parallel computing in the context of an enterprise-scale data warehouse. The text evaluates the three major parallel hardware architectures: symmetric multiprocessors, distributed memory machines, and distributed shared memory systems. Also looks at software architecture for parallel database systems, data partitioning and utilities, data mining on parallel systems, benchmarking and implementation, and on-line analytical processing. Includes four case studies of hardware/software combinations currently being used in the industry. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Parallel Systems in the Data Warehouse (Data Warehousing Institute Series from Prentice Hall)

Science & Math

Morse,Stephen

Isaac, David

Mathematics

PRENTICE/HALL

This textbook brings together three important aspects of property investment - strategies for investment, markets and appraisal - and explains many difficult concepts in a readable and understandable way. The authors outline the developments in investment and finance theory that have had such an impact on the property investment sector. Concepts are explained with great clarity and worked examples are used to elucidate key principles where possible. This book is ideal for modules taught on third year undergraduate and postgraduate level in Property Investment, Property Funding, Property Management Estate Management, Land Management, Planning and Development Studies, Land Economics, Real Estate (value and management) and is also of interest to students of Architecture, Construction and Surveying.

Property Investment (Building and Surveying Series, 15)

Business & Money

O’Leary, John

Real Estate

Red Globe Press

This concise textbook is a user-friendly introduction to property valuation for students and practitioners who are new to the subject. The text covers the following key areas of study: valuation and markets, methods of valuation, the investment method in detail, taxation and statutory valuations, and the development appraisal and finance. It is packed with worked examples and photos, and covers the five main methods of valuation, their application in a variety of markets and their relation to the wider economic context. It aims to build knowledge and develop a subject vocabulary. This text is aimed primarily at undergraduates or students on postgraduate conversion courses in estate management, property, surveying, planning, design and construction disciplines. Professional advisors such as bankers, financial advisors, accountants, investors, analysts and lawyers should also find this text useful as an aid to their dealings in the property sector.

Property Valuation Principles

Thoroughly revised with a new critical edge, this is the perfect guide for students and practitioners. The authors use a wealth of real-world applications and worked examples to cover traditional and new approaches, and include new material on sustainability, a new chapter on residential leasehold property and more on risk techniques.

Property Valuation Techniques

Steley, Terry

Economics

Palgrave HE UK

This book provides an overview to the context of property development so that students and professionals can examine the stages of development in the process. The stages are developed from initial consideration to site finding, general appraisal, valuation, funding, construction and marketing. In providing the context for development the author is able to focus on two key areas of the process: appraisal and finance.

Property Development: Appraisal and Finance

Property Investment

Urban Economics: A Global Perspective is essential reading for students of development economics, environmental studies, geography, real estate development and investment, and urban planning.Urban economics has developed from its origins in neo-classical economics to become a separate discipline, incorporating elements from demography, sociology, geography, real estate, planning and environmental science. In today's global society, the only way to study urban economics effectively is within a global context. This book sets out to place the issues of urban economics within a world focus.

Urban Economics: A Global Perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

Balchin, Paul N.

Chen, Jean Jinghan

Social Sciences

C D J Waters

Property Finance provides an overview of the field, linking the areas of property and construction with an understanding of financial structures and concepts. The aim is to present an insight and a strategy for understanding and learning about these concepts and structures, and to introduce the reader to the institutions in the market which provide finance for real estate investment and development.

Property Finance (Building and Surveying Series)

Palgrave

This book covers all the major aspects of the methods of valuing various types of investment property including the problems of inflation and growth, the equated rent principle and the special problems of short leaseholds, reversionary investments and taxation implications.

The Valuation of Property Investments

Enever, Nigel

Estates Gazette Ltd

The third edition of this popular textbook offers a comprehensive and student-friendly exploration of the application of property valuation and appraisal techniques. Thoroughly revised and re-structured, it covers topics including risk, residential lease extensions, enfranchisement and cash flows. The text explain the theory concisely but at the same time seeks to show the application of different techniques in the contexts which are often encountered in practice. Detailed yet accessible, Property Valuation Techniques is ideal reading both for second and third year undergraduates; for postgraduates, both those new to the subject and those looking to extend their knowledge; and for practitioners who are not valuers but require some familiarity with the vocabulary, principles and application of the valuation toolkit or who are looking to refresh and develop their understanding of property valuation.

Property Valuation Techniques (Building and Surveying Series, 13)

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