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Risk and Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures: A Guideline for Analysis (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)

Springer, 2012

Today’s society is completely dependent on critical networks such as water supply, sewage, electricity, ICT and transportation. Risk and vulnerability analyses are needed to grasp the impact of threats and hazards. However, these become quite complex as there are strong interdependencies both within and between infrastructure...

Synthetic Metal Containing Polymers

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

The development of the field of synthetic metal-containing polymers - where metal atoms form an integral part of the main chain or side group structure of a polymer - aims to create new materials which combine the processability of organic polymers with the physical or chemical characteristics associated with the metallic element or complex. This...

High-Speed Networking: A Systematic Approach to High-Bandwidth Low-Latency Communication

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

"Building networks with high performance demanded by today's applications requires a complete understanding of the basic principles and latest techniques. This book is the definitive guide to both."-Lyman Chapin

High-speed networking is the essential enabler of modern sophisticated distributed computing applications. This...

Risk, Complexity and ICT

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007

This book explores the challenges regarding risks and risk management related to the growing complexity of ICT solutions.

The main argument of the book is that the complexity of ICT solutions has continued to grow throughout the history of ICT, and that it has now reached a level that goes beyond our current understanding of...

The Encyclopedia of World Religions (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology)

Facts on File, 2007

Gratifi ed by the response to the initial publication of The Encyclopedia of World Religions, the editors have prepared a revised and much enhanced edition of this work. The new edition contains 100 new articles on as many fresh topics, from ACTS OF THE APOSTLES to VIETNAMESE RELIGIONS. Numerous suggestions for further reading have been added...

Algorithms in Modern Mathematics and Computer Science: Proceedings, Urgench

Springer, 1981

Some TIME ago a group of mathematicians and computer scientists (including the editors of this volume) thought of making a scientific pilgrimage to the birthplace of al-Khw&rizmf, the outstanding ninth-century mathematician who gave his name to the word "algorithm". As his name indicates, al-Khwarizmi came from the Khorezm...

The Mathematical Foundation of Informatics

World Scientific Publishing, 2002

The first international conference organized in Vietnam, which concerns theoretical computer science, was the ICOMIDC Symposium on Mathematics of Computation, held in Ho Chi Minh City in 1988. For the last years great developments have been made in this areas. Therefore, it had become necessary to organize in Vietnam another international...

Automated Planning: Theory & Practice (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2004

"In recent years, comprehensive texts have been written for several of the other major areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, natural-language processing, and constraint-satisfaction processing, but until now, the field of planning has been devoid of such a resource, despite the considerable number of advances in and the...

Magento Mobile How-To

Packt Publishing, 2012

Create and configure your own Magento Mobile application and publish it for the Android and iOS platforms

Overview

Style and theme your Magento Mobile Application interface

Configure Product categories and add static content for mobile

Prepare and publish your Magento mobile...

Ambient Intelligence: A Novel Paradigm

Springer, 2004

If the space around us could adapt to our needs and intentions, then our lives
would be much simpler. We would have to spend less time on our daily chores,
we would be more productive and, hopefully, we would live in a less worrisome
and, most likely, more secure world.

Ideally, it would be great if we could live our lives...

World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

"Richard Hunter has seen the future, and its really scary. If you ever plan to do anything wrong, you need to read this book. If you suspect that someone will ever try to do anything wrong to you, you also need to read it. I believe that covers pretty much all of us." —Thomas H. Davenport, Director, Accenture Institute for...

Mobile and Wireless Communications

Open University Press, 2006

One of the very first books published on the social impact of the mobile phone was Timo Kopomaa’s The City in Your Pocket: Birth of the Mobile Information Society. The book, published in 2000, was based on research that Kopomaa had undertaken for Nokia and Sonera as part of his doctoral studies in the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at...

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