Complete Guide to CISMВ® Certification describes the tasks performed by information security managers and offers the necessary knowledge to manage, design, and oversee an information security program. The author explains each task and related knowledge statement, as well as applicable information security management principles, practices,...

In order for a business to thrive in today’s dynamic world, its computing infrastructure must enable the secure flow of information—not only within the business but also with suppliers and customers. However, many of today’s computing infrastructures suffer from “information chaos” and are unable to support this...

his book is a new type of intermediate macroeconomics textbook- Until now, the choice was between books that use calculus to present formal theory dryly and with few, if any, applications to the real world and books that include applications but present theory using only graphs and algebra. This book uses calcu- lus, algebra, and graphs to...

The problem of selection of alternatives or the problem of decision making in the modern world has become the most important class of problems constantly faced by business people, researchers, doctors and engineers. The fields that are almost entirely focused on conflicts, where applied mathematics is successfully used, are law, military...

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While raising capital has never been easy, it has become a lot more difficult over the past few years. The dot-com debacle has made investors skittish, especially when it comes to financing early-stage start-ups. As a result, more and more entrepreneurs are being forced to compete harder and harder for a spot around the money well. At the end...

This work examines the challenges of distributed map merging and localization in multi-robot systems, which enables robots to acquire the knowledge of their surroundings needed to carry out coordinated tasks. After identifying the main issues associated with this problem, each chapter introduces a different distributed strategy for solving...