Computers - Computer Science

Sensor motes are small devices with sensing, computing and wireless communication capabilities. Such devices form a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) which can be used for many applications like gathering of environmental data and even monitoring enemy activity on a battlefield. In order to achieve...

Could dynamic Malware analysis be more dynamic by assigning net-work calls an injected result, defined by the analysis process? Yes, but only if the network access was completely virtualised. This book explains how this virtualisation could be achieved. It starts with an instruction of...

Many of today's languages used in software engineering have bad built-in support for software composition. It is important for software engineering to provide languages and tools to define, reuse and compose software components. Still, many languages available today for programming, modeling, markup, scripting and...

In recent years, information technology has entered the automobile domain. There is an emerging trend among automobile manufacturers to perform wireless diagnostics and firmware updates. This wireless vehicle-to-infrastructure environment, where the automobile manu-facturer establishes a wireless connection to a vehicle, introduces a number of...

Multi-threaded programs are becoming more common in order to exploit the additional processing power provided by modern computer systems. Unfortunately, parallel programming is difficult to get right. Program execution becomes non-deterministic and new types of faults arise. A substantial source of errors are data...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a growing concept for distributed software systems that opens new avenues for complex business processes spanning enterprise borders that require integration. This is accomplished by the utilization of the numerous technologies that comprise SOA. Although many standards for such an...

Nowadays, the Internet has opened up new opportunities to share innovations and to collaboratively innovate and modify products and especially software as shown in the open source software movement. Industry and designers have already started to react on this development by supporting end-user involvement...

Building compiler back ends from declarative specifications that map tree structured intermediate representations onto target machine code is the topic of this book. Although many tools and approaches have been devised to tackle the problem of automated code generation, there is still room for...

In this book you will find three algorithms for separating the audio waveform of instruments in musical performances. Each of these algorithms uses stereo cues and makes some assumptions about the structure of music in order to exploit the resulting redundancy of the tones...

This book investigates the problem of facial image analysis. Human faces contain a lot of information that is useful for many applications. For instance, the face and iris are important biometric features for security applications. Facial activity analysis such as face expression recognition is...

The ongoing technological development in the fields of sensors, actuators as well as embedded systems leads to more and more complex and larger building automation systems. These systems allow ever-better observations of activities in buildings with a rapid growing number of possible applications. This...

Being aware of others' activities plays a vital role in the success of online collaboration. As a result, many groupware systems nowadays provide information about collaboration activities in various forms. However, all of them tend to overburden the user with large amounts of unnecessary...

This book focuses on evaluating pervasive games. Therefore analyzing the effectiveness and appropriateness of traditional human computer interaction methods to evaluate design, interactions, and user experience in the context of pervasive games are the topic of this book. Specifically here, the focus will be...

Relational.OWL is a technique to automatically convert a relational database into a Semantic Web representation, enabling Semantic Web applications to access data actually stored in relational databases using their own built-in functionality. Since this representation does not result in objects containing real semantics, we...

The effective management of transportation resources can reduce the expenses of an organization significantly. For these reasons the study of routing problems has been an important area of operations research for the last fifty years, and its significance is still growing with the increasing...

Models that can represent the range of objects from sub-atomic particles to planets have a major obstacle preventing them from practical use. If they can act with such diversity they may also require a very complex set of functions to describe their behavior. In...

The power consumption of large scale clusters is now a critical design constraint in high-performance clusters. This increased power consumption and system densities have multiple side effects including increased operational costs, higher average operating temperatures which decreased reliability of microelectronics and, this additional heat...

Research and development on optical networks generally and on Passive Optical Networks (PON) particularly have matured considerably. The exponential increase in the demand for bandwidth has exposed many challenges in the "last mile" that remains the bottleneck in broadband access networks. Currently, Ethernet PON...

The main idea of this Bachelor thesis is to synchronize mobile devices using a service-oriented architecture. For this purpose a generic client framework has been designed and implemented for the .Net Compact Framework and targeting Windows Mobile 2005. It allows to display client-side cached...

At first sight, browsing the World Wide Web is a fairly intuitive and simple activity, but it turns out that users often experience difficulties in finding the information and services that they are looking for - or in returning to items that they have...

Mobile computing devices like PDAs, cell phones or laptops have become an indispensable part of everyday's life. As these systems are battery-powered and the user expects long operating times, energy-aware operation is crucial. Hardware components for mobile devices offer low-power operating modes that achieve...

Heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs) provide flexible and diversified wireless network access (e.g., cellular, IEEE 802.11) by integrating cellular networks, wireless LANs, and ad hoc networks with the Internet. It has been emerging as a promising solution to offer a variety of exciting applications, anytime...

Engineering secure systems is an error-prone process, where any decision margin potentially favors critical implementation faults. To this end, formal security models serve as an abstract basis for verifying security properties. Unfortunately, the potential for human error in engineering and analyzing such models is...

This Special Issue highlights the valuable contributions to wireless and mobile communication technologies, mobile edge computing, and blockchain using modern artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. The applications of machine learning in wireless and mobile communication networks have been receiving increasing attention, especially in...

The contemporary exploitation of natural raw materials requires the execution of many interrelated exploration, access, preparatory, and exploitation excavations. Presently, at each stage of mining, modern computer-aided design programs are used to quickly estimate the deposit exploitation factor as well as the safety of...

The Special Issue titled "Featured Papers in Mathematics and Finance" in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) presents a curated collection of high-quality research articles that advance the theoretical and applied aspects of financial mathematics. It includes pioneering works that explore diverse...

The aim of this reprint is to highlight the significance of difference equations and their applications in applied mathematics. Difference equations provide a robust and widely recognized framework for modeling complex dynamical systems. In recent years, non-integer order derivative operators have gained attention, particularly...

With the dawn of the twenty-first century comes the awareness that current rapid political-economic-social and technological transformations will affect our of living, by producing new forms of information, communications, common way market, work-style and leisure. In this context, human behaviour will certainly change its...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2009, held in West Lafayette, IN, USA, in June 2009. The 17 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper and 5 demo descriptions were carefully reviewed and...

Practice management software is a computer program that integrates and organizes the administrative and clinical areas of practice. It is expected that by using this software, practices will become better managed and as a result, more profitable. However, a number of unfortunate shortcomings of...

Most of the ways for Optical Flow estimation in computer vision depend on static algorithms or dynamic algorithms which need some kind of training. The subject of this work is to use a model of biological neural networks called Pulse Coupled Neural Networks, which...

An important issue in the development of mobile embedded systems is the optimization of energy consumption. The increasing complexity of these systems leads to an increased power consumption. Unfortunately, the battery capacity grows at a smaller rate than the power requirements from the applications,...

Diploma Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1.3 (A), European Business School - International University Schlo Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel (Information Systems), language: English, abstract: The pressure on today's companies to outperform their competitors has been amplified...

We live in a rapidly changing world, called VUCA, with its unique challenges and opportunities for growth and innovation. To be able to adjust changes and navigate complexities, leaders need to be prepared for the crises and opportunities that await them. That is why...

The book explores the potential of learning outside the traditional classroom when students gain real-world experiences in a variety of contexts and public spaces such as built, natural and virtual landscapes, museums, heritage sites, science centres and community venues. The authors of the book...

The monograph Social Clustering: Paradigm of Trust combines smart education strategies, social clustering and innovative educational practices. Networking and intersectoral empowerment help leaders operate the multifunctional, multicriterion, multisector approach and develop trust-based family, community, and regional and national prosperity. Aspiration for common objective; consensus...

The customer was conceptualized as an individual who was surrounded by products and messages and could make a choice between these products and messages, but now the customer can shape the products and messages that are directed to him with engagement by producing content....

The author of the book discusses the essence and social consequences of the postmodern era in the field of psychology of work and technology. He describes the relationship between the human being and the goals achieved through the use of technical tools, which is...

This book examines how cloud-based services challenge the current application of antitrust and privacy laws in the EU and the US. It discusses how platform interoperability can be a driver of incremental innovation and the consequences of not promoting radical innovation. It focusses on...

Defining a strategy and following a development plan is decisive for establishing the Higher Education Institution of the Future. The governance has to employ entrepreneurial thinking and derive a strategy based on the analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats and implementation of Academic Scorecard.Author:...

Technology.TheworkshopwasheldonJuly14,2007, inconjunctionwithICALP 2007. After a careful review by the Program Committee of 25 submissions, 11 regular papers were accepted to ALGOSENSORS 2007. Apart from the regular talks, two keynote speeches were given at the workshopAuthor: Miroslaw KutylowskiISBN-10: 3540778705ISBN-13: 9783540778707Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2008Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2007, held in Gold Coast, Australia, in December 2007. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. Research in Alife covers the main...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference 2007, held in Newport Beach, CA, USA, in November 2007. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections...

Providing all the latest on a topic of extreme commercial relevance, this book contains the refereed proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, held in Medford, MA, USA in July 2007. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of the three International Workshops on Grid Middleware, CoreGrid 2006, the UNICORE Summit 2006, and the Workshop on Petascale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, held in Dresden, Germany, in August/September 2006, in conjunction with Euro-Par 2006, the...

Author: Paul Franchi-ZannettacciISBN-10: 354016443XISBN-13: 9783540164432Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1986Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d

Author: E. AstesianoISBN-10: 3540108289ISBN-13: 9783540108283Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1981Pages: 365Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.78d

With the increasing resilience of operating systems towards automated attacks, the application layer has come into the focus of criminals. Specially prepared websites in the World Wide Web compromise visitors by exploiting vulnerabilities in web browsers, emails with attached files exploit common email applications,...

Es wird eine Methode zur Bestimmung von quantitativ klassifizierenden kulturellen Variablen der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion (MMI) präsentiert und in einem Werkzeug für die interkulturelle Interaktionsanalyse umgesetzt. Rüdiger Heimgärtner zeigt, dass MMI anhand der kulturell geprägten Interaktionsmuster des Benutzers automatisch an dessen kulturellen Hintergrund angepasst werden kann....

This book focuses on recent technical advancements and state-of-the art technologies for analyzing characteristic features and probabilistic modelling of complex social networks and decentralized online network architectures. Such research results in applications related to surveillance and privacy, fraud analysis, cyber forensics, propaganda campaigns, as...