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High-Performance Web Databases: Design, Development, and Deployment
by Sanjiv PurbaAs Web-based systems and e-commerce carry businesses into the 21st century, databases are becoming workhorses that shoulder each and every online transaction. For organizations to have effective 24/7 Web operations, they need powerhouse databases that deliver at peak performance-all the time. High Performance Web Databases: Design, Development, and
Business Strategies for the Next-Generation Network (Informa Telecoms And Media Ser.)
by Nigel SeelCarriers and service providers have united around the concept of the Next-Generation Network (NGN). Although leveraging a broad basket of Internet technologies, the NGN is not being planned as the next-generation Internet. In its intention and architecture, it is more accurately described as Broadband-ISDN release 2.0. The NGN transition
The Debugger's Handbook
by J.F. DiMarzioFor today's programmers, it is impossible to foresee every input, every usage scenario, and every combination of applications that can cause errors when run simultaneously. Given all of these unknowns, writing absolutely bug-free code is unachievable. But it is possible, with the right knowledge, to produce nearly bug-free code and The Debugger's H
Security in Wireless Mesh Networks (Wireless Networks And Mobile Communications Ser.)
by Yan Zhang Jun Zheng Honglin HuWireless mesh networks (WMN) encompass a new area of technology set to play an important role in the next generation wireless mobile networks. WMN is characterized by dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, and self-healing to enable flexible integration, quick deployment, easy maintenance, low costs, high scalability, and reliable services.
Handbook of Algorithms for Physical Design Automation
by Sachin S. Sapatnekar Dinesh P. Mehta Charles J. AlpertThe physical design flow of any project depends upon the size of the design, the technology, the number of designers, the clock frequency, and the time to do the design. As technology advances and design-styles change, physical design flows are constantly reinvented as traditional phases are removed and new ones are added to accommodate changes in
Packet Forwarding Technologies
by Weidong WuAs Internet traffic continues to grow exponentially, there is a great need to build Internet protocol (IP) routers with high-speed and high-capacity packet networking capabilities. The first book to explore this subject, Packet Forwarding Technologies explains in depth packet forwarding concepts and implementation technologies. It covers the
Essentials of Marketing: Theory and Practice for a Marketing Career
by David Brown Alex ThompsonThis comprehensive textbook introduces students to all the core principles of marketing practice using an employability-focused approach. Essentials of Marketing is underpinned by six pillars, which flow through each chapter: marketing ethics, sustainability, stakeholder engagement, globalisation, the power of new media, and measuring success. The book demystifies theory by placing it in contexts which are recognisable to a diverse readership, using real-life case studies and examples designed to engage today’s technologically savvy and internationally oriented students. The book includes a comprehensive running case study in which readers are invited to adopt the roles of marketing assistant, marketing manager, and marketing director within regional markets, applying the knowledge that they have learned in each chapter into modern, realistic contexts, which simulate a marketing career. Key features to aid learning and comprehension include case studies, chapter objectives and summaries, key learning points, and key questions. With a uniquely accessible and applied approach, Essentials of Marketing is designed as a core text for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Introduction to marketing, marketing management, and principles of marketing modules. Digital learning resources include a comprehensive instructor’s manual to guide interaction with the applied case study, PowerPoint slides, and a test bank.
Brain and Cognitive Intelligence: Control in Robotics
by Bin WeiThe aim of the book is to introduce the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of brain and cognitive intelligence used in robotics control, particularly on studying how the brain learns and controls complex motor skills and how to replicate these in robots. This will be the first book that systematically and thoroughly deals with the above topics. Advances made in the past decades are described. Interesting topics such as human-robot interactions, neurorobotics, biomechanics in robotic control, robot vision, force control, and control and coordination of humanoid robots are covered.
Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (Smart Engineering Systems)
by Lal Kolhe MohanThis reference text offers the reader a comprehensive insight into recent research breakthroughs in blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and material structure and hybrid technologies in their integrated platform, while also emphasizing their sustainability aspects. The text begins by discussing recent advances in energy materials and energy conversion materials using machine learning, as well as recent advances in optoelectronic materials for solar energy applications. It covers important topics including advancements in electrolyte materials for solid oxide fuel cells, advancements in composite materials for Li-ion batteries, progression of materials for supercapacitor applications, and materials progression for thermochemical storage of low-temperature solar thermal energy systems. This book: Discusses advances in blockchain, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, material structure and hybrid technologies Covers intelligent techniques in materials progression for sensor development and energy material characterization using signal processing Examines the integration of phase change materials in construction for thermal energy regulation in new buildings Explores the current happenings in technology in conjunction with basic laws and mathematical models Connecting advances in engineering materials with the use of smart techniques including artificial intelligence, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) in a single volume, this text will be especially useful for graduate students, academic researchers and professionals in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering and computer science.
Ultra-Dense Heterogeneous Networks
by Chao Shen Wen Sun Haibin Zhang Nan Zhao Lawrence Wai-Choong WongDriven by the ever-increasing amount of mobile data, cellular networks evolve from small cell network to ultra-dense heterogeneous networks, to provide high system capacity and spectrum efficiency. By bringing base stations (BSs) to the approximate spatial scale and number magnitude, ultra-dense heterogeneous networks would definitely bring unprecedented paradigm changes to the network design. Firstly, along with densification of small cells, inter-cell interference becomes severe and may deteriorate performance of mobile users. Assigning network resources including bandwidth and time slots, while avoiding interference, desires serious consideration. Secondly, the coverage area of BSs becomes small and irregular, resulting in much frequent and complicated handovers when mobile users move around. How to ensure continuous communication and implement effective mobility management, and inter-cell resource allocation and cooperation, remains a challenging issue. Thirdly, such dynamic change in spatial dimension enables us to re-investigate available and ongoing communications and networking techniques, such as massive MIMO, CoMP, millimeter waves (mmWaves), carrier aggregation, full duplex radio, and D2D communications. To address the aforementioned challenging research issues, this book will investigate the service and QoE provisioning in ultra-dense heterogeneous networks. In particular, firstly we introduce ultra-dense heterogeneous networks by careful definition regarding spatial deployment, generic characteristics, and requirements of ultra-dense heterogeneous networks in order to ensure QoE of mobile users. Secondly, we depict the resource management among small cells in close proximity, mobility management for mobile users (address the super-frequent handovers), and interference management (dealing with the interference due to frequency-reuse in the vicinity). Thirdly, we study the enabling factors, and the integration of ultra-dense heterogeneous networks with enabling technologies, such as massive-MIMO, cloud-RAN, mmWaves, D2D, IoT. Finally, we conclude the book and indicate future directions and challenges.
Esports and the Media: Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society (Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture)
by Angel Torres-ToukoumidisThis book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society. A diverse group of authors tackle the impact of esports and the ways in which it has grown within the entertainment industry around the world. Chapters offer a coherent response to the following questions: What role do esports play in the entertainment industry? What communication skills can be learned through esports? What do the media gain from broadcasting esports? What is the relationship between social networks and esports? What are the main marketing strategies used in esports? What effect does communicative globalization have on the development of esports? What is the relationship between merchandising and esports? What do communication experts think about esports? Offering clear insights into this rapidly developing area, this volume will be of great interest to scholars, students, and anyone working in game studies, new media, leisure, sport studies, communication studies, transmedia literacy, and digital culture.
Esports and the Media: Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society (Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture)
by Angel Torres-ToukoumidisThis book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society. A diverse group of authors tackle the impact of esports and the ways in which it has grown within the entertainment industry around the world.Chapters offer a coherent response to the following questions: What role do esports play in the entertainment industry? What communication skills can be learned through esports? What do the media gain from broadcasting esports? What is the relationship between social networks and esports? What are the main marketing strategies used in esports? What effect does communicative globalization have on the development of esports? What is the relationship between merchandising and esports? What do communication experts think about esports? Offering clear insights into this rapidly developing area, this volume will be of great interest to scholars, students, and anyone working in game studies, new media, leisure, sport studies, communication studies, transmedia literacy, and digital culture.The Open Access version of this book has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003273691/esports-media-angel-torres-toukoumidis
Advanced Circuits and Systems for Healthcare and Security Applications
by Brij B. Gupta Balwinder Raj Jeetendra SinghVLSI devices downscaling is a very significant part of the design to improve the performance of VLSI industry outcomes, which results in high speed and low power of operation of integrated devices. The increasing use of VLSI circuits dealing with highly sensitive information, such as healthcare information, means adequate security measures are required to be taken for the secure storage and transmission. Advanced Circuits and Systems for Healthcare and Security Applications provides broader coverage of the basic aspects of advanced circuits and security and introduces the corresponding principles. By the end of this book, you will be familiarized with the theoretical frameworks, technical methodologies, and empirical research findings in the field to protect your computers and information from adversaries. Advanced circuits and the comprehensive material of this book will keep you interested and involved throughout. The book is an integrated source which aims at understanding the basic concepts associated with the security of the advanced circuits and the cyber world as a first step towards achieving high-end protection from adversaries and hackers. The content includes theoretical frameworks and recent empirical findings in the field to understand the associated principles, key challenges and recent real-time applications of the advanced circuits and cybersecurity. It illustrates the notions, models, and terminologies that are widely used in the area of circuits and security, identifies the existing security issues in the field, and evaluates the underlying factors that influence the security of the systems. It emphasizes the idea of understanding the motivation of the attackers to establish adequate security measures and to mitigate security attacks in a better way. This book also outlines the exciting areas of future research where the already-existing methodologies can be implemented. Moreover, this book is suitable for students, researchers, and professionals in the who are looking forward to carry out research in the field of advanced circuits and systems for healthcare and security applications; faculty members across universities; and software developers.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Internet of Things in Sustainable Development
by Sam Goundar Archana Purwar Ajmer SinghThis book focuses on different algorithms and models related to AI, big data and IoT used for various domains. It enables the reader to have a broader and deeper understanding of several perspectives regarding the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable development using artificial intelligence, big data and IoT. Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) in Sustainable Development focuses on IT-based advancements in multidisciplinary fields such as healthcare, finance, bioinformatics, industrial automation, and environmental science. The authors discuss the key issues of security, management, and the realization of possible solutions to hurdles in sustainable development. The reader will master basic concepts and deep insights of various algorithms and models for various applications such as healthcare, finance, education, smart cities, smart cars, among others. Finally, the book will also examine the applications and implementation of big data IoT, AI strategies to facilitate the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations by 2030. This book is intended to help researchers, academics, and policymakers to analyze the challenges and future aspects for maintaining sustainable development through IoT, big data, and AI.
Botnets: Architectures, Countermeasures, and Challenges (Series in Security, Privacy and Trust)
by Peng Zhou Weizhi Meng Georgios Kambourakis Marios AnagnostopoulosThis book provides solid, state-of-the-art contributions from both scientists and practitioners working on botnet detection and analysis, including botnet economics. It presents original theoretical and empirical chapters dealing with both offensive and defensive aspects in this field. Chapters address fundamental theory, current trends and techniques for evading detection, as well as practical experiences concerning detection and defensive strategies for the botnet ecosystem, and include surveys, simulations, practical results, and case studies.
DeepFakes: Creation, Detection, and Impact
by Loveleen GaurDeepfakes is a synthetic media that leverage powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to generate fake visual and audio content that are extremely realistic, thus making it very hard for a human to distinguish from the original ones. Apart from technological introduction to the Deepfakes concept, the book details algorithms to detect Deepfakes, techniques for identifying manipulated content and identifying face swap, generative adversarial neural networks, media forensic techniques, deep learning architectures, forensic analysis of DeepFakes and so forth. Provides a technical introduction to DeepFakes, its benefits, and the potential harms Presents practical approaches of creation and detection of DeepFakes using Deep Learning (DL) Techniques Draws attention towards various challenging issues and societal impact of DeepFakes with their existing solutions Includes research analysis in the domain of DL fakes for assisting the creation and detection of DeepFakes applications Discusses future research directions with emergence of DeepFakes technology This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers and professionals in data science, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning.
Simulation Modelling: Concepts, Tools and Practical Business Applications
by Andrew GreasleyWhile simulation has a vast area of application, this textbook focuses on the use of simulation to analyse business processes. It provides an up-to-date coverage of all stages of the discrete-event simulation (DES) process, covering important areas such as conceptual modelling, modelling input data, verification and validation and simulation output analysis. The book is comprehensive yet uncomplicated, covering the theoretical aspects of the subject and the practical elements of a typical simulation project, demonstrated by cases, examples and exercises. It also shows how simulation relates to new developments in machine learning, big data analytics and conceptual modelling techniques. Guidance is provided on how to build DES models using the Arena, Simio and Simul8 simulation software, and tutorials for using the software are incorporated throughout. Simulation Modelling offers a uniquely practical and end-to-end overview of the subject, which makes it perfect required or recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying business simulation and simulation modelling as part of operations research, business analytics, supply chain management and computer science courses.
Introduction to Engineering and Scientific Computing with Python
by David E. Clough Steven C. ChapraAs more and more engineering departments and companies choose to use Python, this book provides an essential introduction to this open-source, free-to-use language. Expressly designed to support first-year engineering students, this book covers engineering and scientific calculations, Python basics, and structured programming. Based on extensive teaching experience, the text uses practical problem solving as a vehicle to teach Python as a programming language. By learning computing fundamentals in an engaging and hands-on manner, it enables the reader to apply engineering and scientific methods with Python, focusing this general language to the needs of engineers and the problems they are required to solve on a daily basis. Rather than inundating students with complex terminology, this book is designed with a leveling approach in mind, enabling students at all levels to gain experience and understanding of Python. It covers such topics as structured programming, graphics, matrix operations, algebraic equations, differential equations, and applied statistics. A comprehensive chapter on working with data brings this book to a close. This book is an essential guide to Python, which will be relevant to all engineers, particularly undergraduate students in their first year. It will also be of interest to professionals and graduate students looking to hone their programming skills, and apply Python to engineering and scientific contexts.
The Corners are Glowing: Selected Writings from the Ottawa International Animation Festival
by Chris Robinson & Tom McSorleyThe Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) began in 1976 and stands today as one of the oldest and largest animation events in the world. One of the unique features of the OIAF is the inclusion of commissioned writings that provide attendees with a more in-depth background into the festival’s special screenings. These writings have not only contextualized the festival presentations but have also contributed significantly to animation education and scholarship. The Corners are Glowing is a selection of the best writings (many unseen for decades) culled from past OIAF catalogues. These wide-ranging texts cover the spectrum of animation from the familiar (Daffy Duck, Pee Wee Herman, Bob Clampett, Joanna Quinn, Hiyao Miyazaki, Frank Tashlin) to the more esoteric (Robert Breer, Emily Pelstring, Taku Furukawa, Michael Sporn, and even the use of furniture in animation!). The Corners are Glowing is a valuable time capsule that celebrates animation’s past and present, and the styles of writing are as diverse, enlightening, and fun as the animation subjects being written about.
Mind the Tech Gap: Addressing the Conflicts between IT and Security Teams
by Nikki RobinsonIT and cybersecurity teams have had a long-standing battle between functionality and security. But why? To understand where the problem lies, this book will explore the different job functions, goals, relationships, and other factors that may impact how IT and cybersecurity teams interact. With different levels of budget, competing goals, and a history of lack of communication, there is a lot of work to do to bring these teams together. Empathy and emotional intelligence are common phenomena discussed in leadership books, so why not at the practitioner level? Technical teams are constantly juggling projects, engineering tasks, risk management activities, security configurations, remediating audit findings, and the list goes on. Understanding how psychology and human factors engineering practices can improve both IT and cybersecurity teams can positively impact those relationships, as well as strengthen both functionality and security. There is no reason to have these teams at odds or competing for their own team’s mission; align the missions, and align the teams. The goal is to identify the problems in your own team or organization and apply the principles within to improve how teams communicate, collaborate, and compromise. Each organization will have its own unique challenges but following the question guide will help to identify other technical gaps horizontally or vertically.
Cloud IoT: Concepts, Paradigms, and Applications
by Vicente González-Prida Díaz Jitendra Kumar Verma Deepak Kumar Saxena Vira ShendrykThe Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most disruptive technologies, enabling ubiquitous and pervasive computing scenarios. IoT is based on intelligent self-configuring nodes (also known as things) interconnected in a dynamic and global collaborative network infrastructure. In contrast, Cloud computing has virtually unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power, speed, and is a more mature technology. Due to intrinsic nature of Cloud computing and IoT, they both complement each other. Recently, we are witnessing an increasing trend in exploiting use of both Cloud and IoT together. Salient Features: • Presents latest developments in Cloud computing • Presents latest developments in Internet of Things • Establishes links between interdisciplinary areas where IoT and Cloud both can play a role for improvement of process • Intends to provide an insight into non-IT related models for improvement of lives • Bridges the gap between obsolete literature and current literature This book is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates and graduates working with IoT and cloud computing. Researchers, academicians, policy makers, government officials, NGOs, and industry research professionals would also find the book useful.
Edutech Enabled Teaching: Challenges and Opportunities
by Manpreet Singh Manna Balamurugan Balusamy Kiran Sood Naveen Chilamkurti Ignisha Rajathi GeorgeThe primary goal of this book is to address the issues faced by teachers in the adoption of digital tools into their teaching and their students learning. This book also addresses the issues confronting educators in the integration of digital technologies into their teaching and their students’ learning. Such issues include a skepticism of the added value of technology to educational learning outcomes, the perception of the requirement to keep up with the fast pace of technological innovation, a lack of knowledge of affordable educational digital tools and a lack of understanding of pedagogical strategies to embrace digital technologies in their teaching. This book presents theoretical perspectives of learning and teaching today’s digital students with technology and proposes a pragmatic and sustainable framework for teachers’ professional learning to embed digital technologies into their repertoire of teaching strategies in a systematic, coherent and comfortable manner so that technology integration becomes an almost effortless pedagogy in their day-to-day teaching. Some of the objectives are given below: Shares valuable insights into the influence of technology on teaching and learning in higher education Provide deeper insights on higher education and sustainability interact Studies innovations from various perspectives Investigate how the educators and students apply the unique innovative and emotional dimensions in modern age of learning Provides a timely overview of changes in education reforms and policy research globally Evaluates the problematic relationship between globalization, the state, and education reforms.
Zero Trust Journey Across the Digital Estate
by Abbas Kudrati Binil A. Pillai"Zero Trust is the strategy that organizations need to implement to stay ahead of cyber threats, period. The industry has 30 plus years of categorical failure that show us that our past approaches, while earnest in their efforts have not stopped attackers. Zero Trust strategically focuses on and systematically removes the power and initiatives hackers and adversaries need to win as they circumvent security controls. This book will help you and your organization have a better understanding of what Zero Trust really is, it's history, and to gain prescriptive knowledge that will help you and your business finally begin beating the adversaries in the chess match that is cyber security strategy." Dr. Chase Cunningham (aka Dr. Zero Trust), Cyberware Expert Today’s organizations require a new security approach that effectively adapts to the challenges of the modern environment, embraces the mobile workforce, and protects people, devices, apps, and data wherever they are located. Zero Trust is increasingly becoming the critical security approach of choice for many enterprises and governments; however, security leaders often struggle with the significant shifts in strategy and architecture required to holistically implement Zero Trust. This book seeks to provide an end-to-end view of the Zero Trust approach across organizations’ digital estates that includes strategy, business imperatives, architecture, solutions, human elements, and implementation approaches that could enhance these organizations' success in learning, adapting, and implementing Zero Trust. The book concludes with a discussion of the future of Zero Trust in areas such as artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, operational technology (OT), and governance, risk, and compliance. The book is ideal for business decision makers, cybersecurity leaders, security technical professionals, and organizational change agents who want to modernize their digital estate with the Zero Trust approach.
Let's Get IoT-fied!: 30 IoT Projects for All Levels
by Shriram K. Vasudevan Anudeep Juluru T.S. MurugeshInternet of Things (IoT) stands acclaimed as a widespread area of research and has definitely enticed the interests of almost the entire globe. IoT appears to be the present as well as the future technology. This book attempts to inspire readers to explore and become accustomed to IoT. Presented in a lucid and eloquent way, this book adopts a clear and crisp approach to impart the basics as expeditiously as possible. It kicks off with the very fundamentals and then seamlessly advances in such a way that the step-by-step unique approach, connection layout, and the verified codes provided for every project can enhance the intuitive learning process and will get you onboard to the world of product building. We can assure that you will be definitely raring to start developing your own IoT solutions and to get yourself completely lost in the charm of IoT. Let’s start connecting the unconnected! It’s time to get IoT-fied.
Cyber Security Threats and Challenges Facing Human Life
by Hari Vasudevan Antonis Michalas Monika Mangla Ramchandra Sharad Mangrulkar Narendra M Shekokar Surya S Durbha Tatwadarshi P NagarhalliCyber Security Threats and Challenges Facing Human Life provides a comprehensive view of the issues, threats, and challenges that are faced in the cyber security domain. This book offers detailed analysis of effective countermeasures and mitigations. The financial sector, healthcare, digital manufacturing, and social media are some of the important areas in which cyber-attacks are frequent and cause great harm. Hence, special emphasis is given to the study and analysis of cyber security challenges and countermeasures in those four important areas. KEY FEATURES • Discusses the prominence of cyber security in human life • Discusses the significance of cyber security in the post-COVID-19 world • Emphasizes the issues, challenges, and applications of cyber security mitigation methods in business and different sectors • Provides comphrension of the impact of cyber security threats and challenges in digital manufacturing and the internet of things environment • Offers understanding of the impact of big data breaches and future trends in data security This book is primarily aimed at undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, academicians, and professionals who are interested in exploring their research and knowledge in cyber security domain.