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Multimedia data comprising of images, audio and video is becoming increasingly common. The decreasing costs of consumer electronic devices such as digital cameras and digital camcorders, along with the ease of transportation...

In our increasingly mobile world the ability to access information on demand at any time and place can satisfy people's information needs as well as confer on them a competitive advantage. The emergence of battery-operated,...

Current research in Visual Database Systems can be characterized by scalability, multi-modality of interaction, and higher semantic levels of data. Visual interfaces that allow users to interact with large databases must...

New technology is always evolving and companies must have appropriate security for their business to be able to keep up-to-date with the changes. With the rapid growth in internet and www facilities, database security will...

The main problems that prevent fast and high-quality document processing in electronic document management systems are insufficient and unstructured information, information redundancy, and the presence of large amounts of undesirable user information...

This is the Cisco ASA Security Appliance student lab manual designed for use in an instructor-led classroom setting. It is the companion to the book Cisco ASA for Accidental Administrators. Includes 72 hands-on exercises including: password recovery,...

Are you looking to protect your home, belongings, and your family? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this guide is for you. Recent technological advancements have made home security more accessible, more effective, and cheaper...

The Semantic Web, extends the popular, day-to-day Web, enabling computers and people to effectively work together by giving information well-defined meaning. Knitting the Semantic Web explains the interdisciplinary efforts underway to build a more...

Deep dive into the unified, distributed storage system in order to provide excellent performance Key Features Leverage Ceph's advanced features such as erasure coding, tiering, and Bluestore Solve large-scale problems with Ceph as a tool by understanding...

Clustering is an important technique for discovering relatively dense sub-regions or sub-spaces of a multi-dimension data distribution. Clus­ tering has been used in information retrieval for many different purposes, such as...

Flexible Query Answering Systems is an edited collection of contributed chapters. It focuses on developing computer systems capable of transforming a query into an answer with useful information. The emphasis is on problems...

Data compression is now indispensable to products and services of many industries including computers, communications, healthcare, publishing and entertainment. This invaluable resource introduces this area to information...

One of the main uses of computer systems is the management of large amounts of symbolic information representing the state of some application domain, such as information about all the people I communicate with in my...

Information security is receiving a great deal of attention as computers increasingly process more and more sensitive information. A multilevel secure database management system (MLS DBMS) is designed to store, retrieve and...

James A. Storer Computer Science Dept. Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254 Data compression is the process of encoding a body of data to reduce stor­ age requirements. With Lossless compression, data can be decompressed to be...

Part 1 Web-based Support Systems for Specific Domains1. Context-Aware Adaptation in Web-based Groupware Systems2. Framework for Supporting Web-based Collaborative Applications3. Helplets: A Common Sense Based Collaborative Help Collection and Retrieval...

The present volume gathers together the talks presented at the second colloquim on the Future Professional Communication in Astronomy (FPCA II), held at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) on 13-14 April 2010. This meeting provided a forum for editors,...

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- List of Contributors.- Rational Choice Theory: A Forum for Exchange of Ideas between the Hard and Social Sciences in Predictive Behavioral Modeling.- The SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP): Social network and analytic...

This volume presents high quality, state-of-the-art research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. It contains contributions by leading experts in the obsequious scientific and technological...

The systems used to process data streams and provide for the needs of stream-based applications are Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs). This book presents a new paradigm to meet the needs of these applications, including a...

Grid Data Management.- Accessing Data in Grids Using OGSA-DAI.- Service Choreography for Data Integration on the Grid.- Accessing Web Databases Using OGSA-DAI in BDWorld.- Failure Recovery Alternatives in Grid-Based Distributed Query Processing: A Case...

This book outlines the core theory and practice of data mining and knowledge discovery (DM & KD) examining theoretical foundations for various methods, and presenting an array of examples, many drawn from real-life applications. Most theoretical...

This third edition handbook describes in detail the classical methods as well as extensions and novel approaches that were more recently introduced within this field. It consists of five parts: general recommendation techniques, special recommendation...

Libraries are currently confronted by the challenges of managing increasing amounts of electronic information. Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence presents the expert perspectives of eight of America's leading library administrators on ways to...

Get familiar with all the concepts related to Raspberry Pi and MQTT, build innovative IoT projects, and discover how to scale these projects to the next levelKey Features:Learn some of the most popular tools used in IoT - Raspberry Pi, MQTT, ESP8266 and...

Vintage Frame Antique Stationery Paper with an aged design.MEASURES 8.5"x11", Letter Size25 SHEETS per book. Perfect for invitations, arts and crafts.GREAT FOR WRITING letters, notes, poetry, and short stories.

A timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's most active researchers. Divided into several parts organized by theme, the book first covers the underlying methodology regarding active rules,...

Das Buch präsentiert in vergleichender Darstellung die wesentlichen Funktionen von Betriebssystemen: Prozeßverwaltung, Speicherverwaltung, Ein- und Ausgabe, Dateiverwaltung, Datenschutz und Benutzerschnittstellen. Praktische...

Die Absicht, ein Buch iiber Programmieren von Ziffernrechenanlagen zu schreiben, entstand auf Grund einer Vorlesung gleichen Titels, die ich seit nunmehr sieben Jahren an der Technischen Hochschule Wien halte. Ich hatte dabei...

While traditional databases excel at complex queries over historical data, they are inherently pull-based and therefore ill-equipped to push new information to clients. Systems for data stream management and processing, on the other hand, are natively...

Although backup and recovery seems as simple as copying bits from point to point, it is far more challenging to implement properly when considering the details involved. This book captures the decades of backup and storage experience that Gareth...

Discover the simple steps to implementing information security standards using ISO 27001, the most popular information security standard across the world. You'll see how it offers best practices to be followed, including the roles of all the stakeholders...

Learn how to transition from Excel-based business intelligence (BI) analysis to enterprise stacks of open-source BI tools. Select and implement the best free and freemium open-source BI tools for your company's needs and design, implement, and integrate...

Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition opens up the internals of Oracle's Exadata platform so that you can fully benefit from the most performant and scalable database hardware appliance capable of running Oracle Database. This edition is fully-updated to...

Cache And Interconnect Architectures In Multiprocessors Eilat, Israel May 25-261989 Michel Dubois UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Shreekant S. Thakkar SequentComputerSystems The aim of the workshop was to bring together...

As we stand at the precipice of the twenty first century the ability to capture and transmit copious amounts of information is clearly a defining feature of the human race. In order to increase the value of this vast supply of...

Ontologies and Databases brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Ontologies and Databases serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some...

Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-On-Chip: Optimizations and Explorations is designed for different groups in the embedded systems-on-chip arena. First, it is designed for researchers and graduate students who wish to...

Intelligent Image Databases: Towards Advanced Image Retrieval addresses the image feature selection issue in developing content-based image retrieval systems. The book first discusses the four important issues in developing...

Library Technology Reports (vol. 49, no. 3)"E-book Platforms for Libraries" provides an overview of the various types of e-book platforms available to academic, research, public, and K-12 librarise in the United States (an beyond). The focus is on the...

India is showing incredibly strong appearance in Information Technology (IT) sector worldwide, but the benefits of IT revolution have not actually percolated into the everyday life of the common man, particularly in rural areas. National E Governance...

Information retrieval (IR) aims at defining systems able to provide a fast and effective content-based access to a large amount of stored information. The aim of an IR system is to estimate the relevance of documents to users'...