Cooperative network supercomputing is becoming increasingly popular for harnessing the power of the global Internet computing platform. A typical Internet supercomputer consists of a master computer or server and a large number of computers called workers, performing computation on behalf of the master. Despite the simplicity and benefits of...
The international workshop iNetSec 2011 – Open Problems in Network Security—
is dedicated to open problem and research directions on all aspects related to
network security. It is the main workshop of working group WG 11.4 of the
IFIP. This year, iNetSec was co-located with IFIP SEC 2011 in Lucerne on June
9 and...
The International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society represents a community
of colleagues across the world. The 7th meeting of the society was held in
Brussels, Belgium under the leadership of meeting chairman Dr. Marc Levivier
and scientific program chairman, Dr. Jean Regis. Professor Jacques Brotchi
served as the Honorary...
This complete technical guide to home network media, protocols, and implementation is the first systematic technical guide to all leading transmission media and communication protocols for in-home networking.
Using detailed simulation techniques provided as MATLAB files and SIMULINK models (downloadable from the companion website),...
A large international conference on Advances in Communication Technologies and
Engineering Science was held in Hong Kong, March 19–21, 2008, under the International
MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2008). The
IMECS 2008 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG).
IAENG is...
Donald Lobo, Michal Mach, and I started CiviCRM almost six years ago. Back then, open source software had gained traction in the operating system arena, but the idea of an open source application designed from the ground up to meet the needs of non-profits and other civic sector organizations was pretty radical. We were convinced that there...
Are You Ready for the Network Equivalent of Guerrilla Warfare?
Instant Messaging (IM) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications are taking over the workplace as P2P transfers now account for 70% of all Internet traffic and more than 50% of corporate workstations are running an IM application. IT professionals face the challenge of...
Middleware is a critical foundation needed to leverage the development of a wide range of mobile and ubiquitous applications. Intrinsic challenges when building such middleware require the combination of expertise from areas like distributed systems, networking, software engineering, and application development.
This book is a peer-reviewed collection of papers, modified and extended for the purpose of this publication, but originally presented at the International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2008 and 2009 (ENASE 2008 / 2009). The book’s content is placed within the entire framework of software...
The Workshop on Medical Computer Vision (MICCAI-MCV 2010) was held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer – Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2010) on September 20, 2010 in Beijing, China. The one-day workshop focused on recognition techniques and applications in medical imaging. The...
This new edition of the A+ Complete Lab Manual has been thoroughly updated to cover the latest CompTIA objectives. It’s also been revised for easier navigation and a tighter fit with David Groth’s best-selling A+ Complete Study Guide. Use these resources together to gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence you...
The Web was originally created to enable the sharing of information among scientists. Sir Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea of creating a ?Web of information? when he suggested a solution to integrate three technologies: HTML (HyperText Markup Language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), andWeb browsers [131]. HTML was proposed as a...
