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For cloud users and providers alike, security is an everyday concern, yet there are very few books covering cloud security as a main subject. This book will help address this information gap from an Information Technology solution and usage-centric view of cloud infrastructure security. The book highlights the...

"The first edition of the book was one of the first books in the excellent Wiley U.K. series on...

Contextual computing has been around for several years with a variety of names such as pervasive computation and omnipresent computing. Recently there has been a drive toward making personal digital assistants (PDAs) more aware of their environment. For example, a cell phone may sense that it is in a conference room and reason that it should...

An introduction to the theory and techniques for achieving high quality network communication with the best possible bandwidth economy, this book focuses on network information flow with fidelity. Covering both lossless and lossy source reconstruction, it is illustrated throughout with real-world applications, including sensor networks and...

A quick look at your local bookstore’s Internet section will tell you that there are quite a few commercial packages out there for building web sites. What those books often fail to mention is that many of the world’s most popular web sites were built using freely available tools, and run on free operating systems (OS). They...