Information architecture Books

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 2012, held in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2012, co-located with the 23rd Annual Symposium on...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practice: Security, Privacy and Trust in Computing Systems and Ambient Intelligent Ecosystems,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2012, held in Krakow, Poland, in May/June 2012. The 37 revised full papers presented...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications, SETA 2012, held in Waterloo, Canada, in June 2012. The 28 full papers presented together with 2 invited...

Interference Cancellation Using Space-Time Processing and Precoding Design introduces original design methods to achieve interference cancellation, low-complexity decoding and full diversity for a series of multi-user systems. In multi-user environments,...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2010, held in Athens, Greece, in July 2010.The 30 revised full papers presented together with 1...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th Nordic Conference in Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2010, held at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland in October 2010. The 13 full papers and 3...

This volumes discusses various aspects regarding the capacity/achievable data rate of stationary Rayleigh fading channels. First, it analyses bounds on the achievable data rate with zero-mean proper Gaussian input symbols, which are capacity achieving in...

(Preliminary): The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital transmission technique has several advantages in broadcast and mobile communications applications. The main objective of this book is to give a good insight into these efforts,...

Data Mining.- Evolutionary Algorithms.- Genetic Programming for Classification and Algorithm Design.- Automating the Design of Rule Induction Algorithms.- Computational Results on the Automatic Design of Full Rule Induction Algorithms.- Directions for...

Standard Harmony Search Algorithm for Structural Design Optimization.- Optimum Design of Steel Frames via Harmony Search Algorithm.- Adaptive Harmony Search Algorithm for Design Code Optimization of Steel Structures.- Harmony Particle Swarm Algorithm for...

Risk Management.- Information Risk Management and Resilience.- Does the Liberalization of the European Railway Sector Increase Systemic Risk?.- Risk-Based Criticality Analysis.- Modeling and Managing Risk in Billing Infrastructures.- Control Systems...

Session 1 - Session Chair: Nikolaos Preve.- A Closed-Form Expression for Outage Secrecy Capacity in Wireless Information-Theoretic Security.- Enhanced Access Polynomial Based Self-healing Key Distribution.- Security Flaws in an Efficient Pseudo-Random...

This volume contains the invited and contributed papers selected for presen- tion at SOFSEM 2010, the 36th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practiceof Computer Science, held January23-29,2010 in the Hotel Bed? richov,...

Post-Quantum Cryptology.- Secure Parameters for SWIFFT.- FSBday.- Key Agreement Protocols.- Reusing Static Keys in Key Agreement Protocols.- A Study of Two-Party Certificateless Authenticated Key-Agreement Protocols.- Side Channel Attacks.- Fault...

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to...

The 20th InternationalWorkshop on CombinatorialAlgorithms was held during June 28 - July 2, 2009 in the picturesque castle of Hradec nad Moravic´ ?,located in the north-east corner of the Czech Republic. IWOCA - the ...

This book contains the collection of papers presented at the conference of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2 "Information and Organizations." The conference took place during June 21-24,...

Mathematics Basics.- Elements of Lattice Theory.- Basics of Information Retrieval Technology.- Lattice-Based Retrieval Systems.- Boolean Retrieval.- Lattices of Subspaces and Projectors.- Vector Space Retrieval.- Fuzzy Algebra-Based Retrieval.-...

Cryptography, secret writing, is enjoying a scientific renaissance following the seminal discovery in 1977 of public-key cryptography and applications in computers and communications. This book gives a broad overview of...

This is one of the only books to provide a complete and coherent review of the theory of genetic programming (GP). In doing so, it provides a coherent consolidation of recent work on the theoretical foundations of GP. A concise...

This volume contains the papers presented at the 8th International Conf- ence on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Source Separation held in Paraty, Brazil, March 15-18, 2009. This year's event resulted from scienti?c...

Identity-Based Encryption.- Adaptive-ID Secure Revocable Identity-Based Encryption.- An Efficient Encapsulation Scheme from Near Collision Resistant Pseudorandom Generators and Its Application to IBE-to-PKE Transformations.- Universally Anonymous IBE...

This book focuses on the analysis and design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded modulations, which are becoming part of several current and future communication systems, such as high-throughput terrestrial and satellite wireless networks. In this...

Thequestion"Streamciphers:deadoralive?"wasposedbyAdiShamir.Intended to provokedebate,the questioncouldnot havebeen better, ormorestarkly,put. However,itwasnotShamir'sintentiontosuggestthatstreamciphersthemselves were obsolete;...

The National Security Agency funded a conference on Coding theory, Cryp­ tography, and Number Theory (nick-named Cryptoday) at the United States Naval Academy, on October 25-27, 1998. We were very fortunate to have been able to...

State-transition systems model machines, programs, and speci?cations [20, 23,284,329],butalsothegrowthanddeclineofantpopulations,?nancial markets, diseases and crystals [22, 35, 178, 209, 279]. In the last decade, ...

This book is a comprehensive presentation of entity-relationship (ER) modeling with regard to an integrated development and modeling of database applications. It comprehensively surveys the achievements of research in this...

An introductory review of uncertainty formalisms by the volume editors begins the volume. The first main part of the book introduces some of the general problems dealt with in research. The second part is devoted to case...

The Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS) is held annually, alternating between France and Germany. The current volume cons- tutes the proceedings of the 16th STACS conference, organized jointly by the...

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised and refereed post-workshop documentation of two international workshops held in conjunction with the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI'96, in...

Eurocrypt is a conference devoted to all aspects of cryptologic research, both theoretical and practical, sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Eurocrypt 90 took place in Åarhus, Denmark,...

This volume is a collection of refereed papers presented during AUSCRYPT '90 held in Sydney, Australia, January 8-11, 1990. This was the first conference of a series sponsored by the International Association for Cryptological...

The ISSAC'88 is the thirteenth conference in a sequence of international events started in 1966 thanks to the then established ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation (SIGSAM). For the first time the...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications, SETA 2006. The book presents 32 revised full papers together with 4 invited lectures. The papers are...

Spatial knowledge representation and reasoning with spatial knowledge are relevant issues for many application areas such as robotics, geographical information systems, and computer vision. Exceeding purely quantitative...

From the reviews: "This book nicely complements the existing literature on information and coding theory by concentrating on arbitrary nonstationary and/or nonergodic sources and channels with arbitrarily large alphabets. Even...

The AAECC Symposia Series was started in 1983 by Alain Poli (Toulouse), who, together with R. Desq, D. Lazard, and P. Camion, organized the ?rst conference. Originally the acronym AAECC meant "Applied Algebra and ...

ThisvolumecontainstheresearchpaperspresentedatKI2005,the28thGerman Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence, held September 11-14, 2005 in Koblenz, Germany. KI 2005 was part of the International Conference Summer Koblenz 2005,...

A new starting-point and a new method are requisite, to insure a complete [classi?cation of the Steiner triple systems of order 15]. This method was furnished, and its tedious and di?cult execution und- taken, by Mr. Cole. F. N...

This text offers an introduction to error-correcting linear codes for researchers and graduate students in mathematics, computer science and engineering. The book differs from other standard texts in its emphasis on the...

The book deals with the management of information systems security and privacy, based on a model that covers technological, organizational and legal views. This is the basis for a focused and methodologically structured...

This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conf- ence on Sequences and Their Applications (SETA 2004), held in Seoul, Korea during October 24-28, 2004. The previous two conferences, SETA 1998 and...

How can one exchange information e?ectively when the medium of com- nication introduces errors? This question has been investigated extensively starting with the seminal works of Shannon (1948) and Hamming (1950), and has led...

A special mention for 2004 is in order for the new Doctoral Symposium Workshop where three young postdoc researchers organized an original setup and formula to bring PhD students together and allow them to submit their research...

The evolution of the Internet has led us to the new era of the information infrastructure. As the information systems operating on the Internet are getting larger and more complicated, it is clear that the traditional ...