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Book Synopsis1 Introduction.- 1.1 Wireless Technologies.- 1.2 Wireless Architecture.- 1.3 Applications.- 1.4 Issues and Limitations.- 2 Software Architectures.- 2.1 Mobile Computing Models.- 2.2 Environmental Awareness.- 2.3 An Example: Web Browsing.- 3 System-Level Support.- 3.1 Disconnected Operation.- 3.2 Weak Connectivity.- 3.3 Mobility.- 3.4 Failure Recovery.- 4 Information Management.- 4.1 Broadcast.- 4.2 Caching and Broadcast.- 4.3 Querying Location Data.- 4.4 Other Topics.- 5 Location Management.- 5.1 The Location Problem.- 5.2 Two-tier Schemes.- 5.3 Hierarchical Schemes.- 5.4 Evaluating Performance.- 5.5 Concurrency and Recovery.- 6 Case Studies.- 6.1 Rover.- 6.2 Bayou.- 6.3 Coda.- 6.4 WebExpress.- 7 Conclusions.- References.Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 1.1 Wireless Technologies.- 1.2 Wireless Architecture.- 1.3 Applications.- 1.4 Issues and Limitations.- 2 Software Architectures.- 2.1 Mobile Computing Models.- 2.2 Environmental Awareness.- 2.3 An Example: Web Browsing.- 3 System-Level Support.- 3.1 Disconnected Operation.- 3.2 Weak Connectivity.- 3.3 Mobility.- 3.4 Failure Recovery.- 4 Information Management.- 4.1 Broadcast.- 4.2 Caching and Broadcast.- 4.3 Querying Location Data.- 4.4 Other Topics.- 5 Location Management.- 5.1 The Location Problem.- 5.2 Two-tier Schemes.- 5.3 Hierarchical Schemes.- 5.4 Evaluating Performance.- 5.5 Concurrency and Recovery.- 6 Case Studies.- 6.1 Rover.- 6.2 Bayou.- 6.3 Coda.- 6.4 WebExpress.- 7 Conclusions.- References.

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Book SynopsisNot so if the book has been translated into Arabic. Now the reader can discern no meaning in the letters. The text conveys almost no information to the reader, yet the linguistic informa­ tion contained by the book is virtually the same as in the English original. The reader, familiar with books will still recognise two things, however: First, that the book is a book. Second, that the squiggles on the page represent a pattern of abstractions which probably makes sense to someone who understands the mean­ ing of those squiggles. Therefore, the book as such, will still have some meaning for the English reader, even if the content of the text has none. Let us go to a more extreme case. Not a book, but a stone, or a rock with engravings in an ancient language no longer under­ stood by anyone alive. Does such a stone not contain human information even if it is not decipherable? Suppose at some point in the future, basic knowledge about linguistics and clever computer aids allow us to decipher it? Or suppose someone discovers the equivalent of a Rosetta stone which allows us to translate it into a known language, and then into English? Can one really say that the stone contained no information prior to translation? It is possible to argue that the stone, prior to deciphering contained only latent information.Table of ContentsPrologue.- The Author’s Dilemma.- 1 Information: Abstraction or Reality?.- Can Information Exist Outside the Human Brain?.- Can Information be Processed Outside the Human Brain?.- Forms of Human Information and its Communication.- Biological Information Systems.- Inorganic Information Systems.- Non-human Information Processing.- Some Epistemological Considerations.- 2 Information Physics: An Introduction.- The Reality of Information.- The Heart of the Concept.- Information: The Hidden Dimension.- 3 Information and Entropy: The Mathematical Relationship.- Information and Organisation.- The Second Law of Thermodynamics.- The Boltzmann/Schrödinger Equation.- Information as an Inverse Exponential Function of Entropy.- The Constant c.- 4 Measuring the Information Changes of Altered Physical States.- Measuring the Information Content of a Crystal.- Proteins as Information Systems.- The Denaturation of Trypsin.- Concluding Remarks.- 5 Information and Entropy: Further Implications.- Information and Entropy as Viewed by the Communications Engineers.- Positive Entropy.- Negative Entropy.- Information Magnitudes.- The Evolution of the Universe.- 6 Some Further Considerations About the Interrelationship Between Information and Energy.- Pure Energy: Heat, the Antithesis of Information.- The Information Content of Energy.- Motion, Distance and Time.- Information and Potential Energy.- The Interconversion of Energy and Information.- Information Machines.- Structural vs Kinetic Information.- Transformations Between Kinetic and Structural Information.- 7 Information and Work.- The Relationship Between Work and Information.- Energy Transducers.- Work in Biological Systems.- Reassessing the Work Equations.- Measuring the Information Content of Electrical Work.- 8 Summary and Concluding Remarks.- The Basic Propositions.- Historical Perspective.- Why Has Information Been Overlooked?.- The Need for Models and Theories.- The Relevance of Information Physics for a General Theory of Information.- Some Concluding Thoughts.- Appendixes.- A. Speculations on Electromagnetic Radiation and Particles of Information.- B. Further Speculations: Implications for Atomic Structure.- C. A Smaller Universe.- D. Other Universes?.

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Book Synopsis"Number Theory in Science and Communication" is a well-known introduction for non-mathematicians to this fascinating and useful branch of applied mathematics . It stresses intuitive understanding rather than abstract theory and highlights important concepts such as continued fractions, the golden ratio, quadratic residues and Chinese remainders, trapdoor functions, pseudo primes and primitive elements. Their applications to problems in the real world are one of the main themes of the book. This revised fifth edition is augmented by recent advances in coding theory, permutations and derangements and a chapter in quantum cryptography. From reviews of earlier editions – "I continue to find [Schroeder’s] Number Theory a goldmine of valuable information. It is a marvelous book, in touch with the most recent applications of number theory and written with great clarity and humor.’ Philip Morrison (Scientific American) "A light-hearted and readable volume with a wide range of applications to which the author has been a productive contributor – useful mathematics outside the formalities of theorem and proof." Martin GardnerTrade ReviewFrom the reviews of the fifth edition:“Number theory has been a very active field in the last twenty-seven years, and Schroeder’s text has a palimpsest quality, with later mathematical advances layered on earlier ones. … Number Theory in Science and Communication is rewarding to browse, or as a jumping-off point for further research … . It would be a good source of student projects in an undergraduate discrete mathematics or number theory course.” (Ursula Whitcher, The Mathematical Association of America, March, 2011)Table of ContentsA Few Fundamentals.- The Natural Numbers.- Primes.- The Prime Distribution.- Some Simple Applications.- Fractions: Continued, Egyptian and Farey.- Congruences and the Like.- Linear Congruences.- Diophantine Equations.- The Theorems of Fermat Wilson and Euler.- Permutations Cycles and Derangements.- Cryptography and Divisors.- Euler Trap Doors and Public-Key Encryption.- The Divisor Functions.- The Prime Divisor Functions.- Certified Signatures.- Primitive Roots.- Knapsack Encryption.- Residues and Diffraction.- Quadratic Residues.- Chinese and Other Fast Algorithms.- The Chinese Remainder Theorem and Simultaneous Congruences.- Fast Transformation and Kronecker Products.- Quadratic Congruences.- Pseudoprimes, Möbius Transform, and Partitions.- Pseudoprimes Poker and Remote Coin Tossing.- The Möbius Function and the Möbius Transform.- Generating Functions and Partitions.- From Error Correcting Codes to Covering Sets.- Cyclotomy and Polynomials.- Cyclotomic Polynomials.- Linear Systems and Polynomials.- Polynomial Theory.- Galois Fields and More Applications.- Galois Fields.- Spectral Properties of Galois Sequences.- Random Number Generators.- Waveforms and Radiation Patterns.- Number Theory Randomness and “Art”.- Self-Similarity, Fractals and Art.- Self-Similarity, Fractals, Deterministic Chaos and a New State of Matter.

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Book SynopsisIf economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. This title traces our move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention.Trade Review"I personally find this head-smackingly insightful. Of course! Money may make the world go 'round, but it's attention that we increasingly sell, hoard, compete for, and fuss over....The real news is that just about all of us - whether we participate in the market as producers or consumers - live increasingly in the attention economy as well." - Andrew Cassel, Philadelphia Inquirer "Lanham's points are strong and well-researched....If style is going to increasingly operate as the decision-making arbiter, Lanham should be commended on his: clear, jargon-free, and forward-thinking." - Publishers Weekly "It's refreshing to read a deeply literary mind who embraces the information age, and wants to focus on its civilizing possibilities rather than flee from the screens in horror." - Pat Kane, Independent (UK)"

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Book SynopsisThis study looks at the world of political conflict surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's nuclear power plant construction programme in northern Illinois during the 1980s. It examines the theory that planning can best be thought of as a form of persuasive storytelling.

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Book SynopsisThe history and theory of information as a commodity in the contemporary world Trade Review"How to Think About Information is a critically important book. . . . Schiller provides fundamentally important insights into the infrastructural and superstructural demands of commodification."--Global Media and Communication"Dan Schiller's oeuvre is clear and one that scholars must acknowledge if they deem themselves fit to reflect on the character of the information age."--European Journal of Comunication"Dan Schiller is today probably the most lucid and critical scholar writing on the structure and history of communication and information systems--not just in the U.S., by the way--and this book demonstrates that in spades. He unites his usual clarity of vision of the present with his always-insightful examination and interpretation of communication history. This work will be another significant advancement of our knowledge, informing not just academic curiosity but also how we ought to think and rethink public policy that is shaping information and media today."--Richard Maxwell, professor of media studies, Queens College, City University of New York"Read this book and you will never look at media convergence the same way again. By tracking business trends across media and telecom industries, Schiller demonstrates how much has been lost while citizens have been lulled by the discourses of globalization, deregulation, and the technology boom. Schiller's dazzling research and cogent argument make this book unforgettable."--Ellen Seiter, Stephen K. Nenno Professor of Television Studies, University of Southern California"With a formidable command of knowledge in seemingly disparate fields and a truly transnational perspective, Dan Schiller cuts beneath the theoretical debates about information society and sifts through historical records and today's headlines to reveal the overarching logic of informationalized capitalism. The result is a profound, incisive and essential book for anybody interested in the contemporary world and the role of information in it."--Yuezhi Zhao, Canada Research Chair in Political Economy of Global Communication, Simon Fraser University

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative, practical guide for deciphering and following the rules that govern cultures, with a demonstration of how these rules apply to the communication issues that exist between the United States and Mexico.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I. The Global Perspective of Intercultural Communication 1. Why Communicate across Cultures? 2. What Constitutes a Culture? 3. Obstacles of Perception 4. Obstacles in Verbal Processes 5. Obstacles in Nonverbal Processes Part II. Two Worlds: The United States and Mexico 6. The Mexico-United States Cultural Environment 7. Some Mexico-United States Cultural Issues 8. Day-to-Day Cultural Interaction Part III. Conclusion 9. Transcending Culture Appendix: Author's Note Glossary Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book Synopsis1 Integers.- 2 Congruences and Residue Class Rings.- 3 Encryption.- 4 Probability and Perfect Secrecy.- 5 DES.- 6 AES.- 7 Prime Number Generation.- 8 Public-Key Encryption.- 9 Factoring.- 10 Discrete Logarithms.- 11 Cryptographic Hash Functions.- 12 Digital Signatures.- 13 Other Systems.- 14 Identification.- 15 Secret Sharing.- 16 Public-Key Infrastructures.- Solutions of the exercises.- References.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: Zentralblatt Math "[......] Of the three books under review, Buchmann's is by far the most sophisticated, complete and up-to-date. It was written for computer-science majors - German ones at that - and might be rough going for all but the best American undergraduates. It is amazing how much Buchmann is able to do in under 300 pages: self-contained explanations of the relevant mathematics (with proofs); a systematic introduction to symmetric cryptosystems, including a detailed description and discussion of DES; a good treatment of primality testing, integer factorization, and algorithms for discrete logarithms, clearly written sections describing most of the major types of cryptosystems, and explanations of basic concepts of practical cryptography such as hash functions, message authentication codes, signatures, passwords, certification authorities, and certificate chains. This book is an excellent reference, and I believe that it would also be a good textbook for a course for mathematics or computer science majors, provided that the instructor is prepared to supplement it with more leisurely treatments of some of the topics." N. Koblitz (Seattle, WA) - American Math. Society Monthly. J.A. Buchmann Introduction to Cryptography "It gives a clear and systematic introduction into the subject whose popularity is ever increasing, and can be recommended to all who would like to learn about cryptography. The book contains many exercises and examples. It can be used as a textbook and is likely to become popular among students. The necessary definitions and concepts from algebra, number theory and probability theory are formulated, illustrated by examples and applied to cryptography." —ZENTRALBLATT MATH "For those of use who wish to learn more about cryptography and/or to teach it, Johannes Buchmann has written this book. … The book is mathematically complete and a satisfying read. There are plenty of homework exercises … . This is a good book for upperclassmen, graduate students, and faculty. … This book makes a superior reference and a fine textbook." (Robert W. Vallin, MathDL, January, 2001) "Buchmann’s book is a text on cryptography intended to be used at the undergraduate level. … the intended audiences of this book are ‘readers who want to learn about modern cryptographic algorithms and their mathematical foundations … . I enjoy reading this book. … Readers will find a good exposition of the techniques used in developing and analyzing these algorithms. … These make Buchmann’s text an excellent choice for self study or as a text for students … in elementary number theory and algebra." (Andrew C. Lee, SIGACT News, Vol. 34 (4), 2003) From the reviews of the second edition: "This is the english translation of the second edition of the author’s prominent german textbook ‘Einführung in die Kryptographie’. The original text grew out of several courses on cryptography given by the author at the Technical University Darmstadt; it is aimed at readers who want to learn about modern cryptographic techniques and its mathematical foundations … . As compared with the first edition the number of exercises has almost been doubled and some material … has been added." (R. Steinbauer, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 150 (4), 2007)Table of ContentsIntegers.- Congruences and Residue Class Rings.- Encryption.- Probability and Perfect Secrecy.- DES.- AES.- Prime Number Generation.- Public-Key Encryption.- Factoring.- Discrete Logarithms.- Cryptographic Hash Functions.- Digital Signatures.- Other Systems.- Identification.- Public-Key Infrastructures.- Solutions of the Odd Exercises.- Subject Index.- Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by visions of the future that were put together in the 1950s and 1960s.Trade Review'Barbrook has an amusing take on our distorted - if not delusional - relationship with technology, but his underlying point is serious: future visions of technology are used to distract us and also control us, and if we forget these imaginary futures, we are likely to repeat them' -- Guardian Unlimited'A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly documented narrative, Imaginary Futures traces the emergence of the computer era in the context of desperately competing ideologies, economics, and empires. This is a work of passionate and persuasive scholarship by a contemporary social theorist at the top of his game' -- Douglas Rushkoff, author, Coercion, Media Virus, Get Back in the Box.Table of Contents1. The Future Is What It Used To Be 2. The American Century 3. Cold War Computing 4. The Human Machine 5. Cybernetic Supremacy 6. The Global Village 7. The Cold War Left 8. The Chosen Few 9. Free Workers In The Affluent Society 10. The Prophets Of Post-Industrialism 11. The American Road to Cybernetic Communism 12. The Leader Of The Free World 13. The Great Game 14. The American Invasion Of Vietnam 15. Those Who Forget The Future Are Condemned To Repeat It References Index

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Book SynopsisA major work of feminist critical theory challenging the masculinist politics of digital media forms, practices and study.Trade Review'Furious rips beyond the vanity of know-it-all analysis to offer long-awaited new ways of thinking, feeling, and writing. Cunningly crafted by an authorial trio, it bewitches with performative feminist energies. I dare you to read it' -- Sally-Jane Norman, Founding Director of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex'A rare gem of a book, Furious makes a sharp, critical feminist intervention in digital media research demonstrating the power of thinking together, going against the conventions of academic writing, and creating good trouble' -- Susanna Paasonen, co-author of 'NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media''This wide-ranging and imaginative book makes a compelling case for a feminist techno-politics which challenges to the core the masculinist grip of computational culture and science. It's also a book which pays fine attention to the process of writing' -- Angela McRobbie, author of 'Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries''A passionate guidebook to feminist theorising that refuses data as self-evident patterns and theory as beautiful abstractions, while insisting on the generative power of writing, fabulation, and future making' -- Lucy Suchman, author of 'Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial''Combining clarity with rational ire, Furious insists on the power of insurgent, intersectional feminist epistemologies to disrupt, inspire, and transform. This collective feminist tour de force writes us a new course, away from the technophilic belief that technology will fix what ails the contemporary world and toward a critical and temperate utopianism' -- Carol Stabile, author of 'The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist'Table of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Preface 1. Feminist Futures: A Conditional Paeon for the Anything-Digital 2. Scale, Subject and Stories: Unreal Objects 3. Bland Ambition? Automation's Missing Visions 4. Driving at the Anthropocene, or, Let's Get Out of Here: How? 5. Technological Feminism and Digital Futures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a writer today? Is writing code for an app equivalent to writing a novel? Should we change how we teach writing? Computing as Writing ponders both the implications and contradictions of the common metaphor that equates computing and writing, from "notebook" computers to "writing" code.Trade Review"Daniel Punday traces the idea—an idea that he shows to be pervasive—that to control computers we typically engage in a sort of writing. This insight informs our understanding of computation in culture and also enriches our notion of writing generally. It should, additionally, help non-programmer humanists see that, since they have learned to write, they can learn to do that specific type of writing that is known as programming."—Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"In a world in which the distinction between writing and computing is increasingly blurred, Punday's volume raises some intriguing questions and offers some new ways to look at writing and computing."—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsPreface1. My Documents: Remembering the Memex2. Writing, Work, and Profession3. Programmer as Writer4. E-books, Libraries, and Feelies5. Invention, Patents, and the Technological System6. Audience Today: Between Literature and PerformanceConclusion: Invention, Creativity, and the Teaching of WritingAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisUnderstand modern data fabric and data mesh concepts using AI-based self-service data discovery and delivery capabilities, a range of intelligent data integration styles, and automated unified data governance-all designed to deliver data as a product within hybrid cloud landscapes.This book teaches you how to successfully deploy state-of-the-art data mesh solutions and gain a comprehensive overview on how a data fabric architecture uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for automated metadata management and self-service data discovery and consumption. You will learn how data fabric and data mesh relate to other concepts such as data DataOps, MLOps, AIDevOps, and more. Many examples are included to demonstrate how to modernize the consumption of data to enable a shopping-for-data (data as a product) experience.By the end of this book, you will understand the data fabric concept and architecture as it relates to themes such as automated unified dTable of ContentsPart I – Data Fabric FoundationChapter 1: Evolution of Data ArchitectureChapter 2: Terminology – Data Fabric and Data MeshChapter 3: Data Fabric and Data Mesh Use Case ScenariosChapter 4: Data Fabric and Data Mesh Business BenefitsPart II – Key Data Fabric Capabilities and ConceptsChapter 5: Key Data Fabric and Data Mesh CapabilitiesChapter 6: Relevant AI and ML ConceptsChapter 7: AI/ML for a Data Fabric and Data MeshChapter 8: AI for Entity ResolutionChapter 9: Data Fabric and Data Mesh for the AI LifecyclePart III – Deploying Data Fabric Solutions in ContextChapter 10: Data Fabric Architecture PatternsChapter 11: Role of Data Fabric within an Enterprise Architecture\Chapter 12: Data Fabric and Data Mesh in Hybrid Cloud LandscapeChapter 13: Intelligent Cataloging and Metadata ManagementChapter 14: Automated Data Fabric and Data Mesh AspectsChapter 15: Data Governance in the Context of Data Fabric and Data MeshPart IV – Current Offerings and Future AspectsChapter 16: Sample Vendor OfferingsChapter 17: Data Fabric and Data Mesh Research AreasChapter 18: In Summary and OnwardsAbbreviations.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the enduring role and intrinsic value of libraries and archives as public institutions in the digital age.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Foreword Tami Oliphant, University of Alberta and Ali Shiri, University of Alberta Acknowledgments Introduction Patricia Demers, University of Alberta and Toni Samek, University of Alberta I. Enduring Values Libraries: Why Bother? Alice Crawford, University of St. Andrews Academic Library Spaces, Digital Culture, and Communities Guylaine Beaudry, Concordia University The Public Library’s Enduring Importance Marc Kosciejew, Western University II. Public Literacy and Private Oases Loss of the Social, Return of the Private: Acknowledging Public Failure in the Age of Boudoir Surplus Mario Hibert, University of Sarajevo Re-establishing Values, Constructing New Missions: The Value of the Modern Library in the Development of Information and Digital Literacy in Public Life Konstantina Martzoukou, Robert Gordon University III. Transformations and Resistance Libraries’ Shifting Roles and Responsibilities in the Networked Age Michael Carroll, American University Washington College of Law The Interface of the Digital Library: The Perseus Digital Library as a Case Study Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Sarah Vela, Lisa M. Cerrato, Mihaela Ilovan, Stan Ruecker, Perseus Digital Library, and the INKE Research Group Wanderbibliotheken: Travelling Books and DIY Libraries Carolyn Guertin, Western University IV. Disciplinary and Institutional Partnerships Is Professionalism Still an Acceptable Goal for Archivists in the Global Digital Society? Richard Cox, Comcast Digital Research with All Our Senses: How the Archivist, the Historian, and the Librarian Can Work Together on the New Frontier Nigel Raab, Loyola Marymount　University The Critical, Diverse (and Sometimes Neglected) Roles of Libraries and Archives in a Museum Setting Brendan Edwards, Royal Ontario Museum V. Curation and Commons Beyond Place: Data Curation Possibilities for Post-custodial Archives and Libraries Seamus Ross, University of Toronto "The X-Files": The Truth is in the Archives, but Access is Restricted Frank J. Tough, University of Alberta Works Cited Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe modern means of communication have turned the world into an information fishbowl and, in terms of foreign policy and national security in post-Cold War power politics, helped transform international power politics.

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Book SynopsisInformation theory deals with mathematical laws that govern the flow, representation and transmission of information. The most significant achievement of the field is the invention of digital communication which forms the basis of our daily-life digital products such as smart phones, laptops and any IoT devices. Recently it has also found important roles in a spotlight field that has been revolutionized during the past decades: data science.This book aims at demonstrating modern roles of information theory in a widening array of data science applications. The first and second parts of the book covers the core concepts of information theory: basic concepts on several key notions; and celebrated source and channel coding theorems which concern the fundamental limits of communication. The last part focuses on applications that arise in data science, including social networks, ranking, and machine learning.The book is written as a text for senior undergraduate and graduate students working on Information Theory and Communications, and it should also prove to be a valuable reference for professionals and engineers from these fields.Table of Contents 1 Source Coding 1.1 Overview of the book 1.2 Entropy and Python exercise 1.3 Mutual information, Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence and Python exercise Problem Set 1 1.4 Source coding theorem for i.i.d. sources (1/3) 1.5 Source coding theorem for i.i.d. sources (2/3) 1.6 Source coding theorem for i.i.d. sources (3/3)Problem Set 2 1.7 Source code design 1.8 Source coding theorem for general sources 1.9 Huffman code and Python implementation Problem Set 3 2 Channel Coding 2.1 Statement of channel coding theorem 2.2 Achievability proof for the binary erasure channel 2.3 Achievability proof for the binary symmetric channelProblem Set 4 2.4 Achievability proof for discrete memoryless channels 2.5 Converse proof for discrete memoryless channels 2.6 Source-channel separation theorem and feedback Problem Set 5 2.7 Polar code: Polarization 2.8 Polar code: Implementation of polarization 2.9 Polar code: Proof of polarization and Python simulation Problem Set 6 3 Data Science Applications 3.1 Social networks: Fundamental limits 3.2 Social networks: Achievability proof 3.3 Social networks: Converse proof 3.4 Social networks: Algorithm and Python implementationProblem Set 7 3.5 DNA sequencing: Fundamental limits 3.6 DNA sequencing: Achievability proof 3.7 DNA sequencing: Converse proof 3.8 DNA sequencing: Algorithm and Python implementationProblem Set 8 3.9 Top-K ranking: Fundamental limits 3.10 Top-K ranking: Algorithm 3.11 Top-K ranking: Python implementation Problem Set 9 3.12 Supervised learning: Connection with information theory 3.13 Supervised learning: Logistic regression and cross entropy 3.14 Supervised learning: TensorFlow implementation Problem Set 10 3.15 Unsupervised learning: Generative modeling 3.16 Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and KL divergence 3.17 GANs: TensorFlow implementation Problem Set 11 3.18 Fair machine learning and mutual information (1/2) 3.19 Fair machine learning and mutual information (2/2) 3.20 Fair machine learning: TensorFlow implementation Problem Set 12 Appendices A – Python Basics B – TensorFlow and Keras Basics C – Note on Research

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Book SynopsisNew Research in Information Behaviour, co-edited by Professor Amanda Spink and Dr. Jannica Heinstrom provides an understanding of the new directions, leading edge theories and models in information behaviour. Information behaviour is conceptualized as complex human information related processes that are embedded within an individual's everyday social and life processes. The book presents chapters by a range of scholars who show new research directions that often challenge the established views and paradigms of information behaviour studies. Beginning with an evolutionary framework, the book builds our understanding of information behaviours over various epochs of human existence from the Palaeolithic Era and within pre-literate societies, to contemporary behaviours by 21st century humans. Drawing upon social and psychological science theories the book presents a more integrated and holistic approach understanding of information behaviours. This book is directly relevant to information scientists, information professionals and librarians, social and evolutionary psychologists, social scientists and people interested in understanding more about their own information behaviours.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1 Introduction: New Directions in Information Behaviour. Chapter 2 The Emergence of Conceptual Modelling in Information Behaviour Research. Chapter 3 Meta-Synthesis with Information Behaviour Research. Chapter 4 Weaving the Threads of Experience into Human Information Interaction (HII): Probing User Experience (UX) for New Directions in Information Behaviour. Chapter 5 Into the Land of Adolescent Metacognitive Knowledge During the Information Search Process: A Metacognitive Ethnography. Chapter 6 Individual Differences in Information-Related Behaviour: What Do We Know About Information Styles?. Chapter 7 The Theory of Information Worlds and Information Behaviour. Chapter 8 Towards Agency–Structure Integration: A Person-in-Environment (PIE) Framework for Modelling Individual-Level Information Behaviours and Outcomes. Chapter 9 Understanding Casual-Leisure Information Behaviour. Chapter 10 Information Behaviour Development in Early Childhood. Chapter 11 Impacts of Information: An Analysis of Spiritual Messages. Chapter 12 Conclusions and Further Research. About the Authors. Subject Index. New Directions in Information Behaviour. Library and Information Science. Library and Information Science. Copyright page. Editorial Advisory Board.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and innovative Research Handbook tackles the pressing issues confronting us at the dawn of the global network society, including freedom of speech, government transparency and the digital divide. Representing a milestone in information policy research, this new volume edited by Alistair Duff brings together leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines to discuss important topics such as genetic information, news and privacy, and provides case studies on cyber harms, freedom of information and national digitization policy. Engaging with controversial problems of public policy including freedom of expression, copyright and information inequality, the Research Handbook on Information Policy offers a well-rounded exploration of the history and future of this vital field. Systematically addressing both general theory and specific issues, as well as providing international perspectives, this Research Handbook will be of particular interest to academics and students in the disciplines of information science, journalism and media studies, politics, sociology, philosophy and law.Trade Review‘This useful collection of twenty-eight chapters presents an insightful view of the history of the information policy concept, and theory and developments in the field. The authors are drawn from a variety of disciplines, from philosophy to journalism, via communication studies and information science. They also represent a wider range of countries than is typical of this kind of compilation, coming from Spain, Canada, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Israel, although the majority are from the United Kingdom and the USA. Consequently, the range of cultural, political, scientific, and economic factors that provide the context for policy are more diverse than one would find in a text devoted to any single country. The editor has done an excellent job in pulling these authors together and producing a text that will benefit researchers and students of information policy. . . I reiterate that the text is an excellent compilation of contributions to the field and will no doubt become a standard reference on the subject.’ -- Professor Tom Wilson, Information Research‘In 1976, I wrote a doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, The Information Economy. In 1980, I hosted a documentary called The Information Society. It was an introduction to a general TV audience of what I felt were—and would be—the key issues facing an information-based society.Alistair Duff’s compendium of thought leaders underscores the fact that each era brings with it the rich opportunities of positive evolution, and the pressures and problems of a society and economy undergoing extremely rapid change. As with the industrial revolution, technology, social values, markets, laws and equity are out of sync. Some coherent guidance will emerge from competitive market dynamics and governance. Some will fall through the cracks and remain a challenge. This book is a worthy effort to bring all that together.’ -- Marc Uri Porat, Tech Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, US'This collection makes a huge contribution to our understanding of why information society and information policy research are crucial - retrospectively and prospectively. Theorised from multiple standpoints, this collection of leading scholars tells us how power is articulated through information, enabling surveillance, perpetuating inequalities, and creating conditions for either sustaining or curtailing freedom of expression, privacy and access to information. Required reading for everyone interested in the potentials of democratic discourse.' -- Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xv Youichi Ito 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Information Policy 1 Alistair S. Duff PART I GENERAL THEORY THE NATURE OF INFORMATION POLICY 2 Intervention and aesthetics: the nature of information policy 25 Ian Cornelius 3 Ecstasy and entropy: information policy in a punctuated case 40 Sandra Braman 4 Prophetic v. priestly: alternative modes of information policy 56 Steve Fuller THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION POLICY 5 Information policy before information policies? Conceptual and historical considerations 69 László Z. Karvalics 6 Aspects of the history of state information policies in Britain before the digital age 80 Alistair Black 7 International information policy: UNESCO in historical perspective 96 Julia Pohle THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION POLICY 8 The future of information policy: preparing for transformational change 114 Richard D. Taylor 9 The ecology of games reshaping information policy: internet access in Belarus to cyber harms in the United Kingdom 130 William H. Dutton and Aljona Zorina 10 The intertwined futures of information policy and information literacy 146 Paul T. Jaeger and Natalie Greene Taylor PART II SPECIFIC ISSUES PRIVACY 11 Fifty-plus years of information privacy policy-making: the more things change, the more they remain the same 159 Priscilla M. Regan 12 An equity view of public reason: privacy and surveillance policy as social justice 174 Michael A. Katell 13 Privacy’s progress: privacy as a progressive ideal for information policy 189 Alistair S. Duff FREEDOM OF INFORMATION 14 Freedom of information: a constitutive public good in democratic societies 205 Ivan Szekely 15 Freedom of information: a state of the art 220 Ben Worthy 16 Public or private? Freedom of information and the Scottish struggle for scrutiny of public bodies 237 Ben McConville FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 17 Freedom of expression in a datafied world 250 Arne Hintz 18 Agility in an age of information ubiquity: freedom of expression and information policy 263 Emily J.M. Knox 19 Gatecrashers? Freedom of expression in an age-gated internet 276 Victoria Nash INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 20 Rights and wrongs: old and new perspectives on copyright 291 John Feather 21 Intellectual property and the reliability of content: the case for moral rights 306 Margaret Ann Wilkinson 22 The ratcheting racket: the global political economy of copyright policy-making 323 Blayne Haggart INFORMATION INEQUALITY 23 Information inequality: realization of capabilities as an information policy goal 341 Amit M. Schejter 24 Planning and evaluating policy to address information inequalities: an Information Worlds Matrix approach 357 Kim M. Thompson 25 How (not) to deepen information inequality via information policy: a contribution of the contextual approach 368 Petr Lupač PART III SPECIAL INFORMATION 26 Genetic information: fundamental issues 385 Ruth Chadwick 27 Ethical challenges for the production and dissemination of official statistics in the big data environment 398 Catherine Heeney 28 Informing the public sphere: Walter Lippmann on democracy and news, with a coda on Jurgen Habermas 413 Sue Curry Jansen Index

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Book SynopsisThe regulation and flow of information continues to have a critical impact upon how people live their lives and the way society functions. In recent times, disinformation and privacy violation have become the ‘information pollution’ of the 21st century.This book explores ways and means of protecting the ‘information environment’ by drawing upon four theories of contemporary environmentalism: welfare economics, the commons, ecology, and public choice theory. Welfare economics highlights the need to focus on costs (as well as benefits) when evaluating regulatory structures. The commons encourages queries about the validity of propertisation. Ecology speaks to the importance of diversity and resilience. And public choice theory hazards against the regulatory effect of concentrated interests. The lessons from each inspire the proposed information environmental governance framework.By neatly capturing the metaphorical relationship between the physical environment and the information environment, Robert Cunningham explores progressive regulatory pathways for the digital age. This book will be a thought-provoking read for scholars and students with an interest in intellectual property or the regulation of information.Trade Review‘This thoughtful and deeply analytical text examines in detail what the author, Robert Cunningham, describes as ‘the nexus between the physical environment and the information environment’ and explores the ways in which ‘environmental analytical frameworks’ might also apply to the information environment. . . IP theorists in particular, as well as environmental lawyers and academics will appreciate the insights revealed and the often new and original avenues of thought which Cunningham opens up to scrutiny as a result of his careful research. Certainly this book deserves a place in the well read practitioner’s professional library.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine‘Professor Cunningham’s first title is an articulate analogy between the physical and informational environments, which provides a thorough application of ecological and environmentalist discourse to the information environment.’ -- Catherine Pocock, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual PropertyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Information Environmentalism 2. Information Paradox and Public Goods 3. Externalities and Monopolies 4. Information Commons 5. Tragedy of (Ignoring) the Information Semicommons 6. The Social Ecology of Information Environmental Governance 7. Should the Information Commons have Standing? 8. Rational Truths, Reasonable Arguments and Rhetorical Imagination 9. Public Choice Theory and Social Production 10. Constitutional Economics and the Separation of (Economic) Power 11. Control, Alt, Delete: Towards an Information Environmental Governance Framework Index

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Book SynopsisAs economic activity has become more information-intensive and ideas about the information society have been canvassed widely, information technology has overshadowed thinking about the role of communication and information. In the advanced economies investment in information-handling equipment has grown rapidly in importance and almost throughout the world telecommunications facilities are advocated as the leading edge of development.This wide-ranging collection charts the responses of the economics discipline to these changes, initially slowly but with gathering pace, as communication and information have moved from the sidelines to centre stage.This book will be an indispensible reference source by all those in the economics community, those interested in information science, library studies and communication.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Overview Part II: Information, Organization and Efficiency Part III: Macrorealities Part IV: Management and Technology Part V: International Aspects Part VI: Information Policy Part VII: Selected Classics Part VIII: New Directions Part IX: Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisModern cryptosystems, used in numerous applications that require secrecy or privacy - electronic mail, financial transactions, medical-record keeping, government affairs, social media etc. - are based on sophisticated mathematics and algorithms that in implementation involve much computer arithmetic. And for speed it is necessary that the arithmetic be realized at the hardware (chip) level. This book is an introduction to the implementation of cryptosystems at that level.The aforementioned arithmetic is mostly the arithmetic of finite fields, and the book is essentially one on the arithmetic of prime fields and binary fields in the context of cryptography. The book has three main parts. The first part is on generic algorithms and hardware architectures for the basic arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The second part is on the arithmetic of prime fields. And the third part is on the arithmetic of binary fields. The mathematical fundamentals necessary for the latter two parts are included, as are descriptions of various types of cryptosystems, to provide appropriate context.This book is intended for advanced-level students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Practitioners too will find it useful, as will those with a general interest in "hard" applications of mathematics.Table of Contents1 Basic Computer Arithmetic.- 2 Mathematical Fundamentals I: Number Theory.- 3 Modular-Arithmetic Cryptosystems.- 4 Modular Reduction.- 5 Modular Addition and Multiplication.- 6 Modular Exponentiation, Inversion, and Division.- 7 Mathematical Fundamentals II: Abstract Algebra.- 8 Elliptic-Curve Basics.- 9 Elliptic-Curve Cryptosystems.- 10 Polynomial-basis arithmetic.- 11 Normal-basis arithmetic.- A Mathematical Proofs.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, HCI-CPT 2022, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2022, which was held virtually in June/July 2022. The total of 1271 papers and 275 posters included in the HCII 2022 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 5487 submissions. The HCI-CPT 2022 proceedings focuses on to user privacy and data protection, trustworthiness and User Experience in cybersecurity, multi-faceted authentication methods and tools, HCI in cyber defense and protection, studies on usable security in Intelligent Environments, as well as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cybersecurityTable of ContentsUser Privacy and Data Protection.- Trustworthiness and User Experience in Cybersecurity.- Multi-faceted Authentication Methods and Tools.- HCI in Cyber Defense and Protection.- Studies on Usable Security in Intelligent Environments.- The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Cybersecurity.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2022, held in Halifax, NS, Canada, in June 2022. The 39 full papers presented together with 7 short papers were selected from 113 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on knowledge-based system; machine learning; medical image processing; predictive modeling; natural language processing.Table of ContentsKnowledge-Based Systems Explainable Decision Support Using Task Network Models in Notation.- Computerizing Lipid Management Clinical Guidelines as Interactive Task Networks.- Towards an AI planning-based pipeline for the management of multimorbid patients.- A Knowledge Graph Completion Method Applied to Literature-Based Discovery for Predicting Missing Links Targeting Cancer Drug Repurposing.- Ontological Representation of Causal Relations for a Deep Understanding of Associations between Variables in Epidemiology.- Explainable Clinical Decision Support: Towards Patient-Facing Explanations for Education and Long-term Behavior Change.- Machine Learning Assessing Knee Biomechanical Osteoarthritis Severity and Biomechanical Changes After Total Knee Arthroplasty Using Self-Organizing Maps.- NeuralSympCheck: A Symptom Checking and Disease Diagnostic Neural Model with Extracting Surrogate Decision Trees from Black-box Models to Explain the Temporal Importance of Clinical Features in Predicting Kidney Graft Survival.- Recurrence and Self-Attention vs the Transformer for Time-Series Classification: A Comparative Study.- Integrating Graph Convolutional Neural Networks and Long Short-Term Memory for Efficient Diagnosis of Autism.- Hierarchical Deep Multi-task learning for Classification of Patient Diagnoses.- TTS-GAN: A Transformer-based Time-Series Generative Adversarial Network.- Predicting Next Kidney Offer for Transplant Candidate Declining Current One.- Wrist Ultrasound Segmentation by Deep Learning.- Early Detection and Classification of Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony using Machine Learning.- On graph construction for classification of clinical trials protocols using Graph Neural Networks.- Medical Image Processing Malignant Mesothelioma Subtyping of Tissue Images via Sampling Driven Multiple Instance Prediction.- Calibrating Histopathology Image Classifiers using Label Smoothing.- InvUNET: Involuted UNET for Breast Tumor Segmentation from Ultrasound.- MRI reconstruction with LassoNet and compressed sensing.- Predictive Modeling A 3-window-based framework for the discovery of predictive functional dependencies from clinical data.- When can I expect the mHealth user to return? Prediction meets time series with gaps.- A novel survival analysis approach to predict the need for intubation in intensive care units.- Awareness of being tested and its effect on reading behaviour.- Natural Language Processing Generating extremely short summaries from the scientific literature to support decisions in primary healthcare: a human evaluation study.- A Russian Medical Language Understanding Benchmark.- Biomedical Semantic Textual Similarity: Evaluation of Sentence Representations Enhanced With Principal Component Reduction and Word Frequency Weighting.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic, CoNGA 2022, which was held in Singapore, during March 1–3, 2022. The 8 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. They deal with emerging technologies for computer arithmetic focusing on the demands of both AI and high-performance computing. Table of ContentsOn the Implementation of Edge Detection Algorithms with SORN Arithmetic.- A Posit8 Decompression Operator for Deep Neural Network Inference.- Qtorch+: Next Generation Arithmetic for Pytorch Machine Learning.- ACTION: Automated Hardware-Software Codesign Framework for Low-precision Numerical Format SelecTION in TinyML.- MultiPosits: Universal Coding of Rn.- Comparing Different Decodings for Posit Arithmetic.- Universal⋆: Reliable, Reproducible, and Energy-Efficient Numerics.- Small reals representations for Deep Learning at the edge: a comparison.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2023, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 23–26, 2023.The 12 Papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The aim of the workshop was understanding of graphs that arise from the Web and various user activities on the Web, and stimulate the development of high-performance algorithms and applications that exploit these graphs.Table of ContentsCorrecting for Granularity Bias in Modularity-Based Community Detection Methods.- The emergence of a giant component in one-dimensional inhomogeneous networks with long-range effects.- Unsupervised Framework for Evaluating Structural Node Embeddings of Graphs.- Modularity Based Community Detection in Hypergraphs.- Establishing Herd Immunity is Hard Even in Simple Geometric Networks.- Multilayer hypergraph clustering using the aggregate similarity matrix.- The Myth of the Robust-Yet-Fragile Nature of Scale-Free Networks: An Empirical Analysis.- A Random Graph Model for Clustering Graphs.- Topological Analysis of Temporal Hypergraphs.- PageRank Nibble on the sparse directed stochastic block model.- A simple model of influence.- The Iterated Local Transitivity Model for Tournaments.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2023, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, during July 2–8, 2023. The 28 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Mathematical programming and applications; discrete and combinatorial optimization; stochastic optimization; scheduling; game theory; and optimal control and mathematical economics. The book also contains one invited talk in full paper length. Table of Contents​Invited papers.- General equilibrium models in production networks with substitution of inputs.- Mathematical programming and applications.- On decentralized nonsmooth optimization.- Byzantine-robust loopless stochastic variance-reduced gradient.- Semi-supervised k-means clustering via DC programming approach.- On the uniqueness of identification the thermal conductivity and heat capacit of substance.- On the uniqueness of identification the thermal conductivity and heat capacity of substance.- Discrete and combinatorial optimization.- Constant-factor approximation algorithms for some maximin multiclustering problems.- Aggregation tree construction using hierarchical structures.- Enumeration and unimodular equivalence of empty delta-modular simplices.- PTAS for p-means q-medoids r-given clustering problem.- Nested (2,3)-instances of the Cutting Stock Problem.- Stochastic optimization.- On the resource allocation problem to increase reliability of transport systems.- Distributionally robust optimization by probability criterion for estimating a bounded signal.- Scheduling.- Approximation algorithms for two-machine proportionate routing open shop on a tree.- MIP heuristics for a resource constrained project scheduling problem with workload stability constraints.- Hybrid evolutionary algorithm with optimized operators for total weighted tardiness problem.- Game theory.- Equilibrium arrivals to preemptive queueing system with fixed reward for completing request.- On optimal positional strategies in fractional optimal control problems.- On a single-type differential game of retention in a ring.- Harmonic numbers in Gambler’s Ruin Problem.- Exploitation and recovery periods in dynamic resource management problem.- Trade-off mechanism to sustain cooperation in pollution reduction.- Communication restriction-based characteristic function in differential games on networks.- Optimal control and mathematical economics.- Guaranteed expectation of the flock position with random distribution of items.- Method for solving a differential inclusion with a subdifferentiable support function of the right-hand side.- Approximate solution of small-time control synthesis problem based on linearization.- A Priori Estimates of the Objective Function in the Speed-in-Action Problem for a Linear Two-Dimensional Discrete-Time System.- An approach to solving input reconstruction problems in stochastic differential equations: dynamic algorithms and tuning their parameters.- Mathematical modeling of the household behavior on the labor market.- Visual positioning of a moving object using multi-objective control algorithm.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2023, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in July 2023.The 32 full papers in this book were reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. 5 demonstration papers are also included in this volume. The papers deal with the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, and technologies in a number of key applications areas, including: advanced models and learning, agent-based programming, decision-making, education and social interactions, formal and theoretic models, health and safety, mobility and the city, swarms and task allocation.Table of Contents​PAAMS 2023 - MAIN TRACK.- Brain waves classification using a single-channel dry EEG headset: an application for controlling an intelligent wheelchair.- AJAN: An Engineering Framework for Semantic Web-Enabled Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.- Adaptive consumption by continuous negotiation.- When Extrinsic Payoffs meet Intrinsic Expectations.- Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Structured Symbolic Music Generation.- A multi-level density-based crowd simulation architecture.- Resolving the Dilemma of Responsibility in Multi-Agent Flow Networks.- Lessons Learned on the Design of a Predictive Agent for LoRaWAN Network Planning.- A solution concept with an exploration bias for repeated stochastic coalitional games.- Governing online forum interactions with multi-agent system: A Reddit use case with the JaCaMo platform.- Fuzzy Hyperplane based Twin-KSVC and Its Applications to Stock Price Movement Direction Prediction Based on News Articles.- Enhancing Safety Checking Coverage with Multi-swarm Particle Swarm Optimization.- A Decentralized Resource Allocation Protocol in Social Networks.- Multi-agent learning of causal networks in the Internet of Things.- Investigation of Integrating Solution Techniques for Lifelong MAPD Problem Considering Endpoints.- Towards Norm Entrepreneurship in Agent Societies.- Velluscinum: A Middleware for Using Digital Assets in Multi-Agent Systems.- Parking Problem with Multiple Gates.- UAV Swarm Control and Coordination Using Jason BDI Agents on top of ROS.- Traffic Assignment Optimization using Flow-based Multi-Maps.- A Monitoring Agent for Advancing Elderly Care through Mobile Health Technology.- Extrinsic Emotion Regulation by Intelligent Agents: A computational model based on Arousal-Valence dimensions.- Optimization of Complex Systems in Photonics by Multi-Agent Robotic Control.- GTG-CoL: A new Decentralized Federated Learning based on Consenssus for dynamic networks.- A novel framework for multi-agent knowledge-based federated learning systems.- Exploring Planner-Guided Swarms Running on Real Robots.- Integrating Policy Summaries with Reward Decomposition for Explaining Reinforcement Learning Agents.- A Multi-Agent Based Dynamic Network Slice Tarification Framework.- An IDE to Support the Development of Embedded Multi-Agent Systems. Bioinspired Artificial Cockroach Colony Strategy combined with 2-type Fuzzy Logic for the Priority-Based Sanitization of Railway Stations.- Embedding Autonomous Agents into Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks.- Safe Autonomous Decision-Making with vGOAL.- PAAMS 2023 - DEMONSTRATIONS.- Towards Exception Handling in the SARL Agent Platform.- Multi-Agent Path Finding for Indoor Quadcopters.- Energy community integration of a smart home based on an open source multiagent system.- Cognitive Assistant for Enhanced eHealth Monitoring.- Extended Green Cloud - Modeling Cloud Infrastructure with Green Energy Sources.

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Book SynopsisThis volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2023, which was held in Guangzhou, China, during August 16–18, 2023. The 114 full papers and 30 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 395 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: knowledge science with learning and AI; knowledge engineering research and applications; knowledge management systems; and emerging technologies for knowledge science, engineering and management. Table of ContentsKnowledge Engineering Research and Applications.- Knowing before Seeing: Incorporating Post-Retrieval Information into Pre-Retrieval Query Intention Classification.- LSRN: Live-Streaming Identification Based on Reasoning Network with Core Traffic Set.- Implicit Offensive Speech Detection Based on Multi-feature Fusion.- SIE-YOLOv5: Improved YOLOv5 for Small Object Detection in Drone-Captured-Scenarios.- Learning-based Dichotomy Graph Sketch for Summarizing Graph Streams with High Accuracy.- SNAFA-Net: Squared Normalization Attention and Feature Alignment for Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification.- A comparative study of chatbot response generation: traditional approaches versus large language models.- Investigating the Impact of Product Contours on User Perception of Product Attributes.- Conf-UNet: A model for speculation on unknown Oracle Bone Characters.- An Efficient One-Shot Network and Robust Data Associations in Multi-Pedestrian Tracking.- Sampling Spatial-Temporal Attention Network for Traffic Forecasting.- ST-MAN: Spatio-Temporal Multimodal Attention Network for Traffic Prediction.- Sparse-view CT Reconstruction via Implicit Neural Intensity Functions.- Tennis action recognition based on multi-branch mixed attention.- Cascade Sampling via Dual Uncertainty for Active Entity Alignment.- Template Shift and Background Suppression for Visual Object Tracking.- Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images Based on A Multi-Granularity Adaptive Classification Mechanism.- Enhanced Entity Interaction Modeling for Multi-modal Entity Alignment.- Monte Carlo Medical Volume Rendering Denoising via Auxiliary Feature Guided Self-Attention and Convolution Integrated.- View Distribution Alignment with Progressive Adversarial Learning for UAV Visual Geo-Localization.- HBay: Predicting Human Mobility via Hyperspherical Bayesian Learning.- Spatial-Temporal Diffusion Probabilistic Learning for Crime Prediction.- DBA: An Efficient Approach to Boost Transfer-based Adversarial Attack Performance through Information Deletion.- A Graph Partitioning Algorithm Based on Graph Structure and Label Propagation for Citation Network Prediction.- Hybrid Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Fund Performance Prediction.- WGCN: A Novel Wavelet Graph Neural Network for Metro Ridership Prediction.- GMiRec: A Multi-image Visual Recommendation Model based on a Gated Neural Network.- Semi-supervised entity alignment via noisy student-based self training.- Modeling Chinese Ancient Book Catalog.- JOINT EXTRACTION OF NESTED ENTITIES AND RELATIONS BASED ON MULTI-TASK LEARNING.- A Grasping System with Structured Light 3D Machine Vision Guided Strategy Optimization.- A Cognitive Knowledge Enriched Joint Framework for Social Emotion and Cause Mining.- TKSP: Long-term Stance Prediction for Social Media Users by Fusing Time Series Features and Event Dynamic Evolution Knowledge.- A Cross-Document Coreference Resolution Approach to Low-Resource Languages.- Network Flow Based IoT Anomaly Detection Using Graph Neural Network.- Disentangled Multi-factor Graph Neural Network for Non-coding RNA-drug Resistance Association Prediction.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, held in Okinawa, Japan, during April 11-12, 2023. The 17 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers focus on the latest research that leverages the understanding of key principles, processes, and mechanisms in biological systems for development of novel information and communications technologies (bio-inspired ICT). BICT 2023 will also highlight innovative research and technologies being developed for biomedicine that are inspired by ICT (ICT-inspired biomedicine).Table of ContentsElectromagnetic-induced Calcium signal with network coding for molecular communications.- Smart Farm Teaching Aids based on STEM concepts.- Reinforcement Learning for Multifocal Tumour Targeting.- Automatic Soil Testing Device for Agriculture.- A Novel Visualization Method of Vessel Network for tumour Targeting: A Vessel Matrix Approach.- Heterogeneous Group of Fish Response to Escape Reaction.- Modeling and Simulation of a Bio-inspired Nanorobotic Drug Delivery System.- Cooperative Relaying in Multi-Hop Mobile Molecular Communication via Diffusion.- Covid-19 Versus Monkeypox-2022: The Silent Struggle of Global Pandemics.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Arbitrium and the Probabilistic Behavior of Bacteriophages.- Instant Messaging Application for 5G Core Network.- Genetic Algorithm-based Fair Order Assignment Optimization of Food Delivery Platform.- Preliminary Considerations on Non-Invasive Home-Based Bone Fracture Healing Monitoring.- Features of Audio Frequency Content of Respiration to Distinguish Inhalation from Exhalation.- Management of the medical file in case of emergency.- A Novel Durable Fat Tissue Phantom for Microwave Based Medical Monitoring Applications.- ISI Mitigation with Molecular Degradation in Molecular Communication.- Signal Transmission Through Human Body Via Human Oxygen Saturation Detection.- Simple ISI-Avoiding and Rate-Increasing Modulation for Diffusion-base Molecular Communications.- Range Expansion in Neuro-spike Synaptic Communication: Error Performance Analysis.- [Extended Abstract] Collective Bio-nanomachine Rotation via Chemical and Physical Interactions: A Three- dimensional Model.- Wearable Vibration Device to Assist with Ambulation for the Visually Impaired.- Development of Capacitive Sensors to Detect and Quantify Fluids in the Adult Diaper.- Energy Cyber Attacks to Smart Healthcare Devices: A Testbed.- [Extended Abstract] Wet-laboratory Experiments and Computer Simulation of Interacting Cell Spheroids.- Ensembles of Heuristics and Computational Optimisation In Highly Flexible Manufacturing System.- A Intelligent Nanorobots Fish Swarm Strategy for Tumor Targetting.- [Extended abstract] Design and Implementation of A General-purpose Multicellular Molecular Communication Simulator.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2023, held in Zadar, Croatia, during September 26–29, 2023.The 13 full papers and 17 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Applications and digital library systems; data citation and citation analysis; discovering science, monitoring and publishing science; knowledge creation; Human-Computer Interaction; digital humanities; and digital cultural heritage. Table of ContentsApplications and Digital Library Systems.- Human-in-the-loop Latent Space Learning for Bibrecord-based Literature Management.- Holistic Graph-based Document Representation and Management for Open Science.- A Multilingual Dashboard To Analyse Intercultural Knowledge Circulation.- Applications and Digital Library Systems.- Known by the Company it Keeps: Proximity-Based Indexing for Physical Content in Archival Repositories.- Aspect-Driven Structuring of Historical Dutch Newspaper Archives.- PreprintResolver: Improving Citation Quality by Resolving Published Versions of ArXiv Preprints using Literature Databases.- Data Citation and Citation Analysis.- How to Cite a Web Ranking and Make it FAIR.- Tracing Data Footprints: Formal and Informal Data Citations in the Scientific Literature.- Non-citable but not uncited: a large-scale citation analysis of editorials.- BIP! NDR (NoDoiRefs): A Dataset of Citations From Papers Without DOIs in Computer Science Conferences and Workshops.- Investigating the Relation between Authors’ Academic Age and their Citations.- Discovering science.- On Retraction Cascade? Citation Intention Analysis as a Quality Control Mechanism in Digital Libraries.- Using Semi-Automatic Annotation Platform to create Corpus for Argumentative Zoning.- CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering.- A Robust Approach for Hybrid Personalized Recommender Systems.- Readability Measures as Predictors of Understandability and Engagement in Searching to Learn.- Classification of Visualization Types and Perspectives in Patents.- Monitoring and Publishing science.- It’s Not Just GitHub: Identifying Data and Software Sources Included in Publications.- A Graph Neural Network Approach for Evaluating Correctness of Groups of Duplicates.- Synthesizing Web Archive Collections Into Big Data: Lessons From Mining Data From Web Archives.- A Comparison of Automated Journal Recommender Systems.- Making PDFs Accessible for Visually Impaired Users (and Findable for Everybody Else).- Knowledge creation.- Multi-view Graph-based Text Representations for Imbalanced Classification.- Large Synthetic Data from the arχiv for OCR Post Correction of Historic Scientific Articles.- Human-Computer Interaction.- From textual to visual image searching: User experience of advanced image search tool.- Ranking for Learning: Studying Users’ Perceptions of Relevance, Understandability, and Engagement.- Digital Humanities.- Image Modification Modeled as a Storytelling Process.- From ISAD(G) to Linked Data Archival Descriptions.- Detection of Redacted Text in Legal Documents.- The First Tile for the Digital Onomastic Repertoire of the French Medieval Romance: Problems and Perspectives.- Digital Cultural Heritage.- Digital Cultural Heritage.- Persistent identifier usage by cultural heritage institutions: a study on the Europeana.eu dataset.- Real Experienced Needs for Accessible and Inclusive Cultural Heritage – First Results in MuseIT.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th Ecuadorian Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, TICEC 2023, held in Cuenca, Ecuador, during October 18–20, 2023.The 31 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers cover a great variety of topics, such as internet of things, cyber-physical systems, human-machine interface, artificial Intelligence, e-Learning, smart healthcare, smart healthcare and others. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: data science and machine learning; ICTs and their applications; and software development.Table of Contents​Data Science and Machine Learning: Uncovering the Effects of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Cryptocurrencies: A Data-driven Analysis with Clustering and Biplot Techniques.- Human Trafficking in Social Networks: A Review of Machine Learning Techniques.- Exploring the Performance of Deep Learning in High-Energy Physics.- Human actions recognition system based on Neural Networks.- Big Data Architecture for Air Pollution Spatial Visualization: Quito, Ecuador.- The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises. Data mining from International News Agencies.- Applied Metaheuristics in International Trading: A Systematic Review.- Finding an Integrated Ultraviolet Radiation Index Using Fuzzy Logic Techniques.- Forecasting the Consumer Price Index of Ecuador using Classical and Advanced Time Series Models.- Forecasting PM2.5 concentrations in ambient air using a transformer based neural network.- Machine Learning Applied to the Analysis of Glacier Masses.- Profit vs Accuracy: Balancing the Impact on Users Introduced by Profit-Aware Recommender Systems.- Augmenting Data with DCGANs to Improve Skin Lesions Classification.- Unraveling the power of 4D residual blocks and transfer learning in violence detection.- ICTs and their Applications: Brainwaves communication system for people with reduced mobility and verbal impairment.- Advanced metrics to evaluate autistic children's attention and emotions from facial characteristics using a human-robot-game interface.- Performance analysis of You Only Look Once, RetinaNet, and Single Shot Detector applied to vehicle detection and counting.- Tumor kidney segmentation from CT images using residual U-net architecture.- Classification of Alzheimer disease’s Severity Using Support Vector Machine and Deep Feature Extraction of Convolutional Neural Networks: a Contrasting of Methodologies.- Creation of an alert device for early detection of epilepsy using an EEG signal power threshold.- Optimal location of the electric vehicle charging stands using multi-objective evolutionary algorithms: Cuenca city as a case study.- Detecting Parkinson’s Disease with Convolutional Neural Networks: Voice Analysis and Deep Learning.- Hyperparameter Tuning in a Dual Channel U-Net for Medical Image Segmentation.- Vitreous Hemorrhage Segmentation in Fundus Images by using an Efficient-UNet Network.- A non-invasive portable solution to estimate hemoglobin levels in the blood.- Mask R-CNN and YOLOv8 comparison to perform tomato maturity recognition task.- Software Development.- Development of a distributed hydrological model of continuous generation, in a GIS environment.- A Domain-Specific Language and Model-Based Engine for Implementing IoT Dash- board Web Applications.- Feasibility of using serious MIDI-AM videogames as resources in early childhood education.- Search and Visualization of Researcher Networks: Co-authorship in Ecuador.- Visualization Models Applied to Atmospheric Pollutants and Meteorological Variables: A Systematic Literature Review.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2023, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, during November 6-10, 2023. The 18 regular papers presented in this book, together with 1 invited paper and 1 tool paper, were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The SEFM conference series aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools.Table of ContentsRefinements for Open Automata.- The Cubicle Fuzzy Loop : A Fuzzing-Based Extension for the Cubicle Model Checker.- Guiding Symbolic Execution with A-star.- Robustness Testing of Software Verifiers.- Decoupled Fitness Criteria for Reactive Systems.- Capturing Smart Contract Design with DCR Graphs.- An Active Learning Approach to Synthesizing Program Contracts.- Ranged Program Analysis via Instrumentation.- Attack time analysis in dynamic attack trees via integer linear programming.- SSCalc A Calculus for Solidity Smart Contracts.- ATM: a Logic for Quantitative Security Properties on Attack Trees.- Refactoring of Multi-Instance BPMN Processes with Time and Resources.- Verified Scalable Parallel Computing with Why3.- Exact and Efficient Bayesian Inference for Privacy Risk Quantification.- A Formalization of Heisenbugs and Their Causes.- Verifying Read-Copy Update under RC11.- QNNRepair: Quantized Neural Network Repair.- Timeout Prediction for Software Analyses.- PART Tool Papers.- PMC-VIS: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Probabilistic Model Checking.

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Book SynopsisThe two open access volumes LNCS 14574 and 14575 constitute the proceedings of the27th International Conference onFoundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, FOSSACS 2024, which took place in Luxembourg in April 2024. The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Infinite games; categorical semantics; automata and synthesis;Part II: Types and programming languages; logic and proofs; infinite-state systems.

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Book Synopsis.- FCM..- Logical Foundations of Conceptual Modelling for Relational and SQL Databases - an introduction..- Disentangling the schema turn: Restoring the information base to conceptual modelling..- Representing Autopoiesis and Scanning the Environment in Fractal Enterprise Model..- Towards a fundamental theory of modeling discrete systems..- Towards Specifying ”Model”..- CMLS..- A conceptual model for discovering implicit temporal knowledge in clinical data..- LLM4Modeling..- Vibe Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities..- Model Deepening with Large Language Models: Insights from Exploratory Studies with ChatGPT..- From ConOps to an Operational Domain Model: Harnessing LLMs for Conceptual Model Design..- Towards diagram-based data model generation with LLMs..- OntoCom..- Unpacking Trust: An Ontological Framework for Information Trustworthiness in Decision-Making..- QUAMES..- Towards Model-Driven Testing for Assuring the Quality of Large Language Models..- Prompt-Guided Evaluation of GPT-4o, Gemini and DeepSeek on UML-to-Java Code Generation.

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Book SynopsisThis is a graduate textbook of advanced tutorials on the theory of cryptography and computational complexity. In particular, the chapters explain aspects of garbled circuits, public-key cryptography, pseudorandom functions, one-way functions, homomorphic encryption, the simulation proof technique, and the complexity of differential privacy. Most chapters progress methodically through motivations, foundations, definitions, major results, issues surrounding feasibility, surveys of recent developments, and suggestions for further study.This book honors Professor Oded Goldreich, a pioneering scientist, educator, and mentor. Oded was instrumental in laying down the foundations of cryptography, and he inspired the contributing authors, Benny Applebaum, Boaz Barak, Andrej Bogdanov, Iftach Haitner, Shai Halevi, Yehuda Lindell, Alon Rosen, and Salil Vadhan, themselves leading researchers on the theory of cryptography and computational complexity. The book is appropriate for graduate tutorials and seminars, and for self-study by experienced researchers, assuming prior knowledge of the theory of cryptography.Table of ContentsGarbled Circuits as Randomized Encodings of Functions: A Primer.- The Complexity of Public-Key Cryptography.- Pseudorandom Functions: Three Decades Later.- The Many Entropies in One-Way Functions.- Homomorphic Encryption.- How to Simulate It: A Tutorial on the Simulation Proof Technique.- The Complexity of Differential Privacy.

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Book SynopsisThis book, written by experts from universities and major research laboratories, addresses the hot topic of network coding, a powerful scheme for information transmission in networks that yields near-optimal throughput. It introduces readers to this striking new approach to network coding, in which the network is not simply viewed as a mechanism for delivering packets, but rather an algebraic structure named the subspace, which these packets span. This leads to a new kind of coding theory, employing what are called subspace codes. The book presents selected, highly relevant advanced research output on: Subspace Codes and Rank Metric Codes; Finite Geometries and Subspace Designs; Application of Network Coding; Codes for Distributed Storage Systems. The outcomes reflect research conducted within the framework of the European COST Action IC1104: Random Network Coding and Designs over GF(q). Taken together, they offer communications engineers, R&D engineers, researchers and graduate students in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering a comprehensive reference guide to the construction of optimal network codes, as well as efficient encoding and decoding schemes for a given network code.Table of ContentsSubspace Codes and Rank Metric Codes.- Finite Geometries and Subspace Designs.- Application of Network Coding.- Codes For Distributed Storage Systems.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch behandelt die Kernfragen und grundlegenden Verfahren der Kryptographie. Diese werden aus Sicht der modernen Kryptographie studiert, die durch eine präzise mathematische und informatische Herangehensweise geprägt ist. Die Inhalte dieser Einführung sind dabei aus der Praxis motiviert und es werden wichtige, in der Praxis eingesetzte kryptographische Verfahren, vorgestellt und diskutiert.Table of ContentsSymmetrische Verschlüsselung - Blockkryptosysteme, AES - Verschlüssungsmodi, CTR, CBC - Asymmetrische Verschlüsselung, RSA, ElGamal - Hybride Verschlüsselung - Kryptographische Hashfunktionen, die SHA-Familie, Merkle-Damgård-Konstruktion - Nachrichtenauthentifizierung, CBC-MAC, HMAC - Digitale Signaturen, FDH-RSA, Random-Oracle-Modell, PKCS#1, DSA - Ansätze der Kryptanalyse - Informationstheoretische bzw. beweisbare Sicherheit der betrachteten Verfahren - Public-Key-Infrastrukturen und Web of Trust

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Book SynopsisAt its core, information security deals with the secure and accurate transfer of information. While information security has long been important, it was, perhaps, brought more clearly into mainstream focus with the so-called “Y2K” issue. Te Y2K scare was the fear that c- puter networks and the systems that are controlled or operated by sofware would fail with the turn of the millennium, since their clocks could lose synchronization by not recognizing a number (instruction) with three zeros. A positive outcome of this scare was the creation of several Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) around the world that now work - operatively to exchange expertise and information, and to coordinate in case major problems should arise in the modern IT environment. Te terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 raised security concerns to a new level. Te - ternational community responded on at least two fronts; one front being the transfer of reliable information via secure networks and the other being the collection of information about - tential terrorists. As a sign of this new emphasis on security, since 2001, all major academic publishers have started technical journals focused on security, and every major communi- tions conference (for example, Globecom and ICC) has organized workshops and sessions on security issues. In addition, the IEEE has created a technical committee on Communication and Information Security. Te ?rst editor was intimately involved with security for the Athens Olympic Games of 2004.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: “... Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei dem Wechselspiel zwischen Kommunikation und dem Bereich der Informationssicherheit. ... herausgegriffene Themen illustrieren die Relevanz des Buchs. … Verschiedene HIPs werden vorgestellt und verglichen Weitere Beitrage befassen sich mit Phishing Attacken bzw mit Authentifikationen mittels biometrischer Methoden. ... Die Beitrage sind theoretisch fundiert und oft praxisbezogen. … Das Buch eignet sich deshalb gut als Einstiegslektüre für Studierende oder für Informatiker, die sich nur am Rande für die Sicherheitsthematik interessieren. Für Experten ist das Buch eine wertvolle, vielseitige Inspirationsquelle.“ (in: Bulletin electrosuisse, 2/July/2010, Issue 7, S. 121)Table of ContentsPart A Fundamentals and Cryptography A Framework for System Security .- Public-Key Cryptography.- Elliptic Curve Cryptography.- Cryptographic Hash Functions.- Block Cipher Cryptanalysis.- Chaos-Based Information Security.- Bio-Cryptography.- Quantum Cryptography.- Part B Intrusion Detection and Access Control Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems.- Intrusion Detection Systems.- Intranet Security via Firewalls.- Distributed Port Scan Detection.- Host-Based Anomaly Intrusion Detection.- Security in Relational Databases.- Anti-Bot Strategies Based on Human Interactive Proofs.- Access and Usage Control in GRID Systems.- Secure Human Identification.- Part C Networking Peer-to-Peer Botnets.- Security of Service Networks.- SCADA Security.- Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Routing.- Security Approach for Ad–Hoc Networks.- Phishing: Attacks and Countermeasures´.- Part D Optical Networking Chaos-Based Secure Optical Communications.- Chaos Applications in Optical Communications.- Part E Wireless Networking Security in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Secure routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Security Via Surveillance and Monitoring.- Security and QoS in Wireless Networks.- Part F Software Low-Level Software Security by Example.- Software Reverse Engineering.- Trusted Computing.- Security via Trusted Communications.- Viruses and Malware.- Designing a Secure Programming Language.- Part G Forensics and Legal Issues Fundamentals of Digital Forensic Evidence.- Multimedia Forensics for Detecting Forgeries.- Technological and Legal Aspects of CIS Subject Index

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Book SynopsisUwe K. Schneider untersucht den rechtlichen Rahmen einrichtungsübergreifender elektronischer Patientenakten, über die alle bereits erhobenen Gesundheitsdaten jederzeit am Ort der Behandlung verfügbar gemacht werden können. Er veranschaulicht diese Rahmenbedingungen anhand von Regelungsinstrumenten wie der Gewährung finanzieller Anreize für die Nutzung solcher Akten oder gar der Verpflichtung hierzu. Dabei bewegt der Autor sich im Spannungsfeld von Daten- und Gesundheitsschutz. Denn diese Akten bieten einerseits die Chance, Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit der Versorgung zu verbessern. Auf der anderen Seite existieren Risiken, wenn hierfür Patientendaten auf externen Servern vorgehalten und über elektronische Netze ausgetauscht werden. Es droht eine Verflüchtigung von Daten, Verantwortung und Vertrauen im Netz.Table of ContentsMedizinische, technische und wirtschaftliche Grundlagen.- Verfassungsrechtliche Rahmenbedingungen.- Europarechtliche Rahmenbedingungen.

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