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The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge

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In 2003, the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) was formed as an independent non-profit association for business analysts. It has, since then, steadily grown to encompass more than 29,000 members (2018). Today, the IIBA is the leading association for all who work, at different levels and capacities, as business analysts. One of the main contributions of the IIBA is BABOK (Business Analysis Book of Knowledge). BABOK is now the recognized standard of business analysis practice, encompassing all areas of knowledge including tools, skills, competencies and aspects for good business analysis. AsBABOKis the standard, this book is aligned with BABOK (version 3) and can be used as an introduction to business analysis. The purpose of the BABOK Guide [3] is to be the standard for the practice of business analysis. The BABOK Guide defines the business analysis profession, captures, describes and lists knowledge areas, associated tasks, skills and a repository of tools and tech

Domain-Specific Crawler Design

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Domain-specific crawler creates a domain-specific Web-page repository by collecting domain-specific resources from the Internet. Domain-specific Web search engine basically searches domain-specific Web-pages from the domain-specific Web-page repository. In domain-specific Web search crawler, the crawler crawls down the Web-pages, which are relevant to our domain. In World Wide Web (WWW) majority of the Web-pages have no such tags, which tell the crawler to find any specific domain. To find the domain we need to visit all the Web-pages and calculate the relevance value. For a particular domain-specific Web-page, relevance value calculated based on that domain Ontology. There are various types of Web-page crawling mechanism already introduced by the Web researchers and they are focused crawler, hierarchical crawler [11], parallel crawler [12–18], etc., all are described in Chapter “Introduction”. Initially, we have provided a mechanism for crawling only single domain-specific Web-pa