In today’s world virtually all available information on any technical topic is
just a few clicks away on the web. This is especially true of an emerging area
such as cloud computing. So why write a book, and, who should read this
book and why?
Every few years a new ‘buzzword’ becomes the rage of the...
Recognizing patterns is at the core of man's attempts to understand the universe that we inhabit. Through the development of sensors and instruments, we have extended our ability to gather data far beyond the range and scale of man's natural senses. As a result we are now able to gather data on phenomena occurring in the far reaches...
concerned with the study of the development and use of advanced information
technologies and systems for national, international, and societal security-related
applications. In the past few years,we have witnessed that ISI experienced tremendous
growth and attracted significant interest involving academic researchers in
related fields...
The area of aggregation operations is one of the most promising off-springs of
fuzzy sets theory. Before Zadeh introduced fuzzy set connectives in 1965, there
was a wide gap between logic and decision sciences. On the one hand, multiplevalued
logics proposed many-valued extensions of the conjunctions and
disjunctions for which the...
The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued
the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced
educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly
interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...
The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued
the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced
educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly
interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...
Welcome to the proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Embedded
and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2004) which was held in Aizu-Wakamatsu
City, Japan, 25–27 August 2004.
Embedded and ubiquitous computing are emerging rapidly as exciting new
paradigms and disciplines to provide computing and communication services...
Both the editors of this book were exposed to human-in-the-loop simulations while
pursuing their doctoral degrees in the Center for Human-Machine Systems at
Georgia Tech. In fact, S. Narayanan served as Ling Rothrock’s teaching assistant
for the simulation course taught by Prof. Christine Mitchell. It has been over 15
years...
The ubiquitous nature of the Internet is dramatically revolutionizing the manner in which
organizations and individuals share information. Developed out of necessity during the cold
war, the Internet was created as a means to help governmental institutions and collegiate
institutions send documents and research materials electronically...
One of the most debated consequences regarding the increased availability and use
of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially since the early
1990s, have been their impact on economic growth. Generally speaking, ICT can
serve to reduce transaction costs at all levels of a commercial transaction. With the
emergence...
In recent years, the UNIX operating system has seen a huge boost in its popularity, especially
with the emergence of Linux. For programmers and users of UNIX, this comes as no
surprise: UNIX was designed to provide an environment that’s powerful yet easy to use.
One of the main strengths of UNIX is that it comes with a...
IBWAS 2009, the Iberic Conference on Web Applications Security, was the first
international conference organized by both the OWASP Portuguese and Spanish chapters
in order to join the international Web application security academic and industry
communities to present and discuss the major aspects of Web applications security.
