These ten papers represent a range of applications for the practical use of parallel computing. They address large scale high performance applicati...

Relational database applications cover such a great variety of subjects and cases that professionals from the software industries or researchers on...

The Principle Based Enterprise Architecture (PBEA) Method is a proven approach for implementing an enterprise-wide architecture practice in large- ...

It is a federal crime to wiretap or to use a machine to capture the communications of others without court approval, unless one of the parties has ...

This book is a study of select issues and laws relating to privacy in the 21st century. Topics examined include an overview of federal law governin...

Book & CD. The purpose of the book is to use Delphi as a vehicle to introduce some fundamental algorithms and to illustrate several mathematica...

Progress in Computer Research, Volume 1

Progress in Computer Research, Volume 2

An expert system, also known as a knowledge based system, is a computer program that contains some of the subject-specific knowledge of one or more...

The year 1998 witnessed the birth of a new disorder... Internet Addiction Disorder. As the number of linkage points, host computers, connected netw...

Cloud computing can and does mean different things to different people. The common characteristics most interpretations share are on-demand scalabi...

The field of parallel computing dates back to the mid-fifties, where research labs started the development of so-called supercomputers with the aim...

As data holdings get bigger and questions get harder, data scientists and analysts must focus on the systems, the tools and techniques, and the dis...

This book offers various schemes related to watermarking techniques for quantum images in spatial and frequency domains. The book includes 7 chapte...

Mission critical real-time systems often function in environments that cannot be modelled with static approaches. Because of their (externally-driv...

This book has a collection of chapters written by eminent researchers in diverse areas of ad hoc networks, spanning mobile and vehicular ad hoc net...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is "the study and design of intelligent agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment...

With the advent of various emerging network services in recent years, the current best-effort based internet infrastructure has increasingly strugg...

The last decade has witnessed various technological advances in life sciences, especially high throughput technologies. These technologies provide ...

This book covers theoretical aspects of design of reconfigurable multipipeline computing structures of various types and of their practical impleme...

This is examination of some of the federal criminal laws implicated by Internet gambling and of a few of the constitutional questions associated wi...

A relational database is a management system that is based on the relational model. Relational databases are databases in which data is stored in t...

This book aims to represent the research results in the field of Informational Technology. This book presents new approaches and innovative solutio...

Next generation wireless and mobile communication systems are rapidly evolving to satisfy the demands of various network users. Due to the great su...

This book deals with the application of new techniques based on multivariable control theory and optimisation theory to the study of robust stabili...

Access to affordable broadband is seen as vital to economic growth and improved quality of life, yet its deployment in rural areas can be costly. T...

In recent years more attention has been devoted to the computer aided scheduling problems in industries process. Computer programs are now availabl...

Stergios Papadimitriou and Lefteris Moussiades begin Chapter One by comparing and contrasting some aspects of ScalaLab and GroovyLab, the MATLAB-li...

Scientific Computing & Applications

Imagine spending a day with top analytical leaders and asking any question you want. In this book, Wayne Eckerson illustrates analytical best pract...

Issues around security and privacy have received greater attention as the world becomes more digitized and interconnected. There are a myriad of te...

Today, the Internet is at a crossroads. Protecting security of consumers, businesses and the Internet infrastructure has never been more difficult....

Sedentary behaviours include activities at the lowest spectrum of energy expenditure such as lying down, sitting, watching television, using the co...

The Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning or semantics of information and services on the web is defin...

This is a comprehensive textbook for teaching and learning SOA concepts. Assuming no prior knowledge of programming languages on the part of the re...

Shape Preserving Representations in Computer-Aided Geometric Design

The field of signal processing has seen exponential growth during the past decade, as remarkable innovations both in research and application have ...

But there could come a time when the cloud of information could spread out over the whole cosmos at a greater speed than light can, and even radiat...

Over 50 years ago, Pepsi sponsored the UNICEF pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair's. They worked with the Walt Disney Company to develop an ...

A completely revised and updated version of Hay’s earlier 5-star rated A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization, this new edition,...

This book explores the use of Social Security Numbers (SSN) and Identity Theft. The SSN was created in 1936 for the purpose of tracking workers' ea...

The exposed subject matter describes human civilization as an artificial accomplishment, purposely induced by man and altering the wild earth surro...

Soft computing refers to a collection of computational techniques in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and some engineeri...

This book discusses developments, methods and applications of soft computing. Chapter One depicts the increasing efficiency of the soft computing a...