Information security is important in every aspect of daily life. This book examines four areas where risks are present: artificial intelligence (AI...

Software engineering is one of the most knowledge intensive jobs. Thus, having a good knowledge management (KM) strategy in these organisations is ...

Software engineering has established techniques, methods and technology over two decades. However, due to the lack of understanding of software sec...

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The issues covered in this book cannot be called hot issues but instead must be called 'boiling' issues. Who, except the senders of this dangerous ...

Language-specific as well as culture-specific factors are observed to play a decisive role in User Specifications for spoken Human--Computer Intera...

There is no comprehensive federal privacy statute that protects personal information. Instead, a patchwork of federal laws and regulations govern t...

The term 'spyware' is not well defined. Generally it is used to refer to any software that is downloaded onto a person's computer without their kno...

Written for readers who have little or no previous experience with databases, SQL, or Microsoft SQL Server database software, this book provides a ...

This book reviews the application of different statistical and Soft-Computing (SC) techniques in insurance-related problems. The book has been divi...

Matrices with structure are encountered in a wide variety of problems in pure and applied mathematics, and in engineering. Matrix patterns and stru...

The concept of sub-independence is defined in terms of the convolution of the distributions of random variables, providing a stronger sense of diss...

Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems involving quantum mechanical physics, weather forecasting, climate ...

This book presents topical research in the study of support vector machines. Topics discussed include the support vector machine in medical imaging...

Support Vector Machines: Evolution and Applications reviews the basics of Support Vector Machines (SVM), their evolution and applications in divers...

Chapter One reviews basis elementary of residence security, classical residence security and health care surveillance system versus computer vision...

Past research has shown that swarm intelligence techniques and fuzzy logic are two useful tools for solving practical engineering problems. This bo...

This book discusses the synchronisation in complex networks. At first, the basic concepts of complex networks, including the description of the net...

From the turn of the new millennium, the decentralisation movement has gained more and more attention. Popular examples, which are given not only f...

The explosive growth of the Internet and the web have created an ever-growing demand for web-based information systems, and ever-growing challenges...

Since 2002, the overall minutes of use and costs for the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) program have grown significantly due to the advent ...

The development of the Internet has revolutionised communications. It has never been easier to speak to wide audiences or to communicate with peopl...

Creating a successful mobile-web presence is achievable with the tools found in this guide--without needing to learn a programming language or beco...

The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to desig...

Apply this definitive guide to data catalogs and select the feature set needed to empower your data citizens in their quest for faster time to insi...

Heuristic local search algorithms are used to find "good" solutions to the NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems that cannot be solved using ...

Creating a precise diagram of business terms within your projects is a simple yet powerful communication tool for project managers, data governance...

Volume 2 of SNES Omnibus is a fun and informative look at ALL the original Super Nintendo games released in the US starting with the letters N-Z. M...

In November and December of 2013, cyber-criminals breached the data security of Target, one of the largest U.S. retail chains, stealing the persona...

Community Informatics is an emergent discipline with a dual focus: the conduct of research about the relationship between the design of information...

The application of big data analytics in all fields of research is a critical driver for the competitiveness of all countries in the modern world. ...

As leaders of the decentralisation movement, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are hot topics in networking community....

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The books in this series present leading-edge research in the field of computer research, technology and applications. Each contribution has been c...

The internet countries its wild and unpredictable growth and spread each year. Some good, some bad and a lot of uncertain. Porno has continued its ...

Quantum information processing is an exciting new emergent and interdisciplinary field. It combines questions of national security (When will today...

This book presents the journey of Turbo-Codes from their first invention and initial design as error correcting codes to their application as video...

For years, business users have leveraged spreadsheets for storing and communicating data. Although spreadsheets may be easy to create and update, m...

In our distant past, we attempted to create wealth by turning everyday substances into gold. This was early alchemy, and ultimately it did not work...

While broadband is available to a majority of Americans, barriers have kept some from subscribing and enjoying its benefits. In 2010, FCC published...

Cyber-attacks could have a potentially devastating impact on the nation's computer systems and networks, disrupting the operations of government an...

Here you will learn how to develop an attractive, easily readable, conceptual, business-oriented entity/relationship model, using a variation on th...

With our appetites for data on the rise, it has become more important than ever to use UML (Unified Modelling Language) to capture and precisely re...

This book provides you with a collection of best practices, guidelines, and tips for using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for business analysi...

From the past decade vehicular ad hoc networks got tremendous attention from the industry, academia and research community. According to US Nationa...