Internet Security: A Jumpstart for Systems Administrators and IT Managers : 9781555582982

Internet Security discusses not only the technology needed to support a solid security strategy, but also those policies and processes that must be incorporated in order for that strategy to work.

New methods of breaking into corporate networks are resulting in major losses. This book provides the latest information on how to guard against attacks and informs the IT manager of the products that can detect and prevent break-ins. Crucial concepts such as authentication and encryption are explained, enabling the reader to understand when and where these technologies will be useful. Due to the authors’ experiences in helping corporations develop secure networks, they are able to include the newest methods for protecting corporate data.

• Shield data from both the internal and external intruder


• Discover products that can detect and prevent these break-ins


• Protect against major losses with the latest incident handling procedures for detecting and recovering data from new viruses


• Get details of a full security business review from performing the security risk analysis to justifying security expenditures based on your company’s business needs.

Internet Routing Architectures (Design & Implementation) : 9781562056520

The industryes leading resource for Internet routing solutions and scenariosExplore the functions, attributes, and applications of BGP-4, the de facto interdomain routing protocol, through practical scenarios and configuration examplesLearn the contemporary Internet structure and understand how to evaluate a service provider in dealing with routing and connectivity issuesMaster the addressing techniques--including Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)--that are demanded today to facilitate the Internet's rapid and continuing growthDevelop optimal routing policies--redundancy, traffic balancing, symmetry, and stability--for your networkLearn how to seamlessly integrate your intradomain and interdomain routing and manage large and growing autonomous systemsInternet Routing Architectures, Second Edition explores the ins and outs of interdomain routing network designs with emphasis on BGP-4 (Border Gateway Protocol Version 4)--the de facto interdomain routing protocol. Using a practical, xample-oriented approach, this comprehensive resource provides you with real solutions for ISP connectivity issues. You will learn how to integrate your network on the global Internet and discover how to build large-scale autonomous systems. You will also learn to control expansion of interior routing protocols using BGP-4, design sound and stable networks, configure the required policies using Cisco IOS Software, and explore routing practices and rules on the Internet. Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition is your complete resource for Internet routing solutions and scenarios. 

About the Author

Danny McPherson is currently Director of Architecture, Office of the CTO, at Amber Networks. Formerly, he held technical leadership positions with four Internet service providers (Qwest, GTE Internetworking, Genuity, and internetMCI), where he was responsible for network and product architecture, routing design, peering, and other business- and policy-related issues. McPherson is an active contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), as well as several other standards bodies. He is an acknowledged expert in Internet architecture and routing protocols.

Sam Halabi is the Vice President of Business Development at Extreme Networks, responsible for defining the company's service provider product and business strategy. Recognized as one of the industry's foremost experts in the Service Provider market, Halabi has more than 15 years of experience in complex routing protocols and the design of large-scale IP networks. He is the author of the best-selling book Internet Routing Architectures, a definitive resource for internetworking design alternatives and solutions.

Halabi has held various marketing positions with leading data communications companies, including Cisco Systems, 3Com and Pluris. While at Cisco Systems, he led the Company's IP Carrier marketing efforts.

An active member in the industry, Halabi serves as a board member of the Optical Internetworking Forum and of the MPLS Forum.

Internet and Intranet Security Management: Risks and Solutions : 9781878289711

In the last 12 years we have observed amazing growth of electronic communication. From typical local networks through country-wide systems and business-based distributed processing, we have witnessed widespread implementation of computer-controlled transmissions encompassing almost every aspect of our business and private lives.

Internet and Intranet Security Management: Risks and Solutions addresses issues of information security from the managerial, global point of view. The global approach allows us to concentrate on issues that could be influenced by activities happening on opposite sides of the earth.

International Project Management : 9780124499850

International Project Management provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. It is the result of 15 years of work on international projects by the authors across various project areas and industries. The authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international projects. They offer lessons learned from failures and problems in international projects, and suggest alternative solutions for project issues. Industry examples include manufacturing, distribution, communications, media, transportation, government, IT, marketing, energy, medical care, tourism, and others in forty countries across five continents.

The purpose of this book is to answer:

* What is an international project and why is it different?
* What are the critical success factors for managing international projects?
* How are vendors and outsourcing managed across national boundaries?
* How do businesses effectively address cross- cultural, social, and political issues?
* How are international communications set up and coordinated?
* What should a manager look for in an international project leader?
* How does a business select the right vendors for an international project?
* How are inadequate or incompatible infrastructure and technology issues overcome?
* How are the legal and bureaucratic limitations on project management dealt with?

About the Author

Bennet Lientz has taught and consulted on project management for the past 28 years to more than 5000 people. He developed the concept of the management critical path, acted as project manager of the Internet, and turned around 10 failing projects. This Second Edition is Lientz seventh book; he has also written more than 25 articles in various areas of project management.

Kathryn P. Rea is president and founder of The Consulting Edge, Inc., which was established in 1984. The firm specializes in E-Business, process improvement, project management, and financial consulting. Rea has managed more than 65 major technology-related projects internationally. She has advised on and carried out projects in government, engergy, banking and finance, distribution, trading, retailing, transportation, mining, manufacturing, and utilities. She is the author of eight books and more than 20 articles in various areas of information systems and analysis.

International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards : 9781844070381

This book is the culmination of the International Sustainable and Ethical Investment Rules Project, a collaboration of researchers from the following five non-governmental organization (NGO) think-tanks:

• African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya;


• Fundacion ECOS, Punta del Este, Uruguay;


• International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Canada;


• Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, Berkeley, California, US;


• Singapore Institute for International Affairs, Singapore.
  

Conceived and directed by Lyuba Zarsky and Sandy Buffett of the Nautilus Institute, the project aimed to articulate a framework for the governance of international investment that promotes economic development, environmental sustainability, human rights and global security. At the centre of such an investment regime is the fundamental principle that private investor rights must be balanced by investor responsibilities and public goods.

Project collaborators worked together in two meetings in 2001. An initial working group meeting, held in Berkeley in April, defined the objectives and sketched broad terms of reference for research papers. The second meeting brought project researchers together with a wider group of policy experts, activists and business representatives for a strategic consultation on ethics, security and international investment. Held at the Rockefeller Brother Fund’s Pocantico Conference Center in New York shortly after the September 11, 2001, bombings of the World Trade Center, the consultation generated ten-year scenarios about the governance of investment that helped to deepen the thinking behind the papers in this volume (the scenarios are available on www.nautilus.org/enviro/).

About the Authors
Monica Araya is the director of the Sustainable Americas Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Global Environment and Trade Study (GETS). She has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Trade in Costa Rica and as a consultant to a variety of international organizations. She is currently a PhD candidate at Yale University, where she is completing a dissertation on corporate environmental disclosure and multinational enterprises.

Sandy Buffett is a consultant on corporate social responsibility and has consulted to the OECD, US EPA, World Resources Institute and UN Environment Program. She was programme manager at the Nautilus Institute where she managed the International Investment Rules Project and the California Global Corporate Accountability Project. She is the editor of Whose Business? An Activist Guide to Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights and the Environment (Nautilus Institute, 2001]) and co-author of Leverage for the Environment: A Guide to the Private Financial Services Industry (World Resources Institute, 1998).

International Economics: Theory and Policy : 9780201770377

The idea of writing this book came out of our experience in teaching international economics to undergraduates and business students since the late 1970s. We perceived two main challenges in teaching. The first was to communicate to students the exciting intellectual advances in this dynamic field. The second was to show how the development of international economic theory has traditionally been shaped by the need to understand the changing world economy and analyze actual problems in international economic policy.

We found that published textbooks did not adequately meet these challenges. Too often, international economics textbooks confront students with a bewildering array of special models and assumptions from which basic lessons are difficult to extract. Because many of these special models are outmoded, students are left puzzled about the real-world relevance of the analysis. As a result, many textbooks often leave a gap between the somewhat antiquated material to be covered in class and the exciting issues that dominate current research and policy debates. That gap has widened dramatically as the importance of international economic problems—and enrollments in international economics courses—have grown.

This book is our attempt to provide an up-to-date and understandable analytical framework for illuminating current events and bringing the excitement of international economics into the classroom. In analyzing both the real and monetary sides of the subject, our approach has been to build up, step by step, a simple, unified framework for communicating the grand traditional insights as well as the newest findings and approaches. To help the student grasp and retain the underlying logic of international economics, we motivate the theoretical development at each stage by pertinent data or policy questions.

About the Author
Paul Krugman earned his Ph.D. in economics from MIT, and has since taught at some of United States' most prestigious universities, including Yale, Stanford, MIT, and currently, Princeton University.

Krugman spent a year in the early 1980s working in the White House for the Council of Economic Advisors. He has written and edited several hundred articles and 18 internationally acclaimed books. Notably, he is recognized as a co-founder of the "new trade theory," which has been an important contribution to the fields of economics and finance.

In recognition of his achievements, Krugman was awarded the John Bates Clark medal in 1991.

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Maurice Obstfeld specialized in mathematics in Cambridge University and went on to MIT, where he attained his Ph.D. in economics. He has since held faculty positions at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania and currently, is the class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Obstfeld has authored numerous articles and highly influential books. In view of his prominence in the fields of economics and finance, he has served as consultant for the World Bank, as participant in the European Commission Study Group on the impact of the Euro on capital markets, and most recently as the honorary advisor for the Institute of Economic and Monetary Studies, Bank of Japan.

International Economics: Theory and Policy (International Edition) : 9780321116390

At the start of the twenty-first century, international aspects of economics remain as important and controversial as ever. In the last decade alone, major currency and Financial crises have rocked industrializing countries from East Asia to Latin America; countries in Europe have given up their national currencies in favor of a common currency, the euro; and growing trade and financial linkages between industrial and developing countries have sparked debate and even open protest inspired by claims that economic "globalization" has worsened worldwide ills ranging from poverty to pollution. Although the United States is more self-sufficient than nations with smaller economies, problems of international economic policy have assumed primacy and now occupy a prominent place on newspapers' front pages.

Recent general developments in the world economy raise concerns that have preoccupied international economists for more than two centuries, such as the nature of the international adjustment mechanism and the merits of free trade compared with protection. As always in international economics, however, the interplay of events and ideas has led to new modes of analysis. Three notable examples of recent progress are the asset market approach to exchange rates; new theories of foreign trade based on increasing returns and market structure rather than comparative advantage; and the intertemporal analysis of international capital flows, which has been central both in refining the concept of "external balance" and in examining the determinants of developing country borrowing and default.

The idea of writing this book came out of our experience in teaching international economics to undergraduates and business students since the late 1970s. We perceived two main challenges in teaching. The first was to communicate to students the exciting intellectual advances in this dynamic field. The second was to show how the development of international economic theory has traditionally been shaped by the need to understand the changing world economy and analyze actual problems in international economic policy.

We found that published textbooks did not adequately meet these challenges. Too often, international economics textbooks confront students with a bewildering array of special models and assumptions from which basic lessons are difficult to extract. Because many of these special models are outmoded, students are left puzzled about the real-world relevance of the analysis. As a result, many textbooks often leave a gap between the somewhat antiquated material to be covered in class and the exciting issues that dominate current research and policy debates. That gap has widened dramatically as the importance of international economic problems—and enrollments in international economics courses—have grown.

This book is our attempt to provide an up-to-date and understandable analytical framework for illuminating current events and bringing the excitement of international economics into the classroom. In analyzing both the real and monetary sides of the subject, our approach has been to build up, step by step, a simple, unified framework for communicating the grand traditional insights as well as the newest findings and approaches. To help the student grasp and retain the underlying logic of international economics, we motivate the theoretical development at each stage by pertinent data or policy questions.

International Assignments: An Integration of Strategy, Research, and Practice : 9780805850499

Although the authors of this book and I approach the strategic challenges of globalization
from different perspectives, we've come to a similar conclusion: that the
"people" imperative is often overlooked when companies decide to enter new
countries or world regions. Stroh, Black, Mendenhall, and Gregersen base their
assertion on extensive research and practice; mine is the product of more than 30
years in corporate leadership roles—the last two decades of which have included
positions with substantial exposure to the global marketplace.

It is stunning to think just how much the world of commerce has changed during
that time. Many of our most cherished business paradigms have been forever
altered by the impact offerees such as improved communications and transportation
technologies and borderless trade policies. When we speak today of the "Big
Three" automakers in the United States, for example, we must remember that one
of those—DaimlerChrysler—is now controlled by German ownership; and we
must recognize that in any given month, a Japanese firm with U.S. manufacturing
facilities is likely to be one of the top three.

As noted by Stroh et al., globalization has become a fact of business life. It is
inevitable in an era when the corporate customers that many companies serve are
positioning themselves to become global players. A company can no longer afford
to focus on a single geographic market—not if it expects to earn business
contracts from corporations and conglomerates that are aggressively developing
their business opportunities on a global stage. Such customers won't wait for their
traditional suppliers to catch up. Instead, they will turn to new suppliers, suppliers
that can in fact help produce and distribute their products and services in the markets
they want to enter.

Intermediate Perl : 9780596102067

Over a decade ago (nearly eternity in Internet Time), Randal Schwartz wrote the first edition of Learning Perl. In the intervening years, Perl itself has grown substantially from a "cool" scripting language used primarily by Unix system administrators to a robust object-oriented programming (OOP) language that runs on practically every computing platform known to mankind.

Throughout its four editions, Learning Perl remained the same size (about 300 pages) and continued to cover much of the same material to remain compact and accessible to the beginning programmer. But there is much more to learn about Perl now than when that first book was written.

Randal called the first edition of this book Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules, and now it's Intermediate Perl, but we like to think of it as just Learning More Perl.^* This is the book that picks up where Learning Perl leaves off. We show you how to use Perl to write larger programs.

^[*] Don't ask why it isn't called that. We must have had 300 emails on the subject. Okay, ask, since we know you're going to anyway. You never really stop learning Perl, so Learning More Perl doesn't really tell you much about the book. Our editor chose the name, which tells you what to expect.

As in Learning Perl, we designed each chapter to be small enough to read in just an hour or so. Each chapter ends with a series of exercises to help you practice what you've just learned, and the answers are in the appendix for your reference. And like Learning Perl, we've developed the material in this book for a teaching environment and used it in that setting, including for our own use at Stonehenge Consulting Services, as we conduct on-site and open-enrollment trainings.

You don't have to be a Unix guru, or even a Unix user, to benefit from this book. Unless otherwise noted, everything in this book applies equally well to Windows ActivePerl from ActiveState and all other modern implementations of Perl. To use this book, you just need to be familiar with the material in Learning Perl and have the ambition to go further.

Interference Analysis and Reduction for Wireless Systems : 9781580533164

The subject of interference in communications systems is as old as communications
itself. Agamemnon, the King of Mycenes, who captured Troy more
than 800 miles away, to get back his niece, the beautiful Eleni, and wanted
to notify his wife Clytaemistra about this happy event, used the most sophisticated
communication techniques of that time to achieve his purpose. From
that time until today, people have been aware of the importance of interference
and the effect it can have on communications. Agamemnon used light
sources at the peaks of mountains—by the motions of these sources, the
information was coded and transmitted from mountain to mountain to
arrive at Mycenes the same day.

If we analyze this communication system of Agamemnon, we find that
he used three of the most important techniques still used today for interference
suppression in communications. The first was the nature and form of the
information signal (certain shape of flame), which corresponds to signal
modulation techniques of today. The motion of the flames corresponds to
modern coding techniques. The use of mountains corresponds to channel
estimation techniques, which are used for the exploitation of favorable channel
propagation characteristics or the avoidance of unfavorable characteristics
through compensation of certain propagation parameters, fading, narrowband,
or wideband characteristics.

Over the more than 3,000 years since Agamemnon, the necessary
coexistence of information and interfering signals has been accommodated
in the design of communication systems. Modern mathematical modeling
and simulation techniques as new tools of study greatly facilitated this effort.

Interfacing with C++: Programming Real-World Applications : 9783540253785

This book is for people who are interested in learning and exploring electronic interfacing as well as C++ programming in a practicable and enjoyable way. Readers will learn to program a PC to do real-world things – not simply number crunching and graphics. They will also master how to write programs that interact with real-world devices through the use of a specially-developed interface circuit board included with the book. The book, interface board and accompanying software incorporate simple and easy-to-understand projects such as digital-to-analog conversion and vice versa, DC and Stepper motor control, temperature and voltage measurement, PC-based timing, or basic data acquisition. The audience of this innovative and rewarding approach to learn interfacing real-world devices to a computer via C++ are undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and science, practicing engineers/scientists, technical workers, and hobbyists. The types of courses the book complements include control engineering, electronics, computing, and mechatronics.

C++ is considered by many to be among the most widely used and powerful
object-oriented programming language in industry today. This book is for people
who are interested in learning and exploring C++ programming in a fresh and
enjoyable environment where programs are developed to interface with real world
devices. Other people may leave learning C++ for a later time, instead choosing to
interact with various hardware devices by simply running the fully developed
programs supplied with this book.

Many readers may already have acquired some knowledge of C++ programming
but know little about how to interface a computer to physical devices and want to
know more. You might be an engineer, scientist, programmer, technical personnel,
hobbyist, student in a technically related field or someone who is simply interested
in programming and interfacing a computer to perform real activities.

Interfacing PIC Microcontrollers: Embedded Design by Interactive Simulation : 9780750680288

Explore in detail microcontroller interfacing techniques using the popular PIC 16F877
Work through step-by-step examples interactively using circuit simulation software, supplied as assembly source code
Gain the knowledge of a wide range of peripheral devices such as keyboards, displays, sensors and drives and serial communication with other processors, memory and more
Use interactive simulation software to design and test circuits

Interfacing PIC Microcontrollers provides a thorough introduction to interfacing techniques for students, hobbyists and engineers looking to take their knowledge of PIC application development to the next level. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further applications, based on the examples given, and numerous line drawings illustrate application of the hardware.

Step-by-step examples in assembly language are used to illustrate a comprehensive set of interfaces, and these can be run interactively on circuit simulation software, used to aid understanding without the need to build real hardware.

A companion website includes all examples in the text which can be downloaded together with a free version of Proteuss ISIS Lite: www.picmicros.org.uk

*Comprehensive coverage of a topic not widely explored in the wealth of PIC books on the market, concentrating on the popular PIC16F877 device
*Circuit simulation software allows step-by-step examples, supplied as assembly source code, to be run interactively aiding student, technician and hobbyist learning.
*A companion website includes all examples in the text which can be downloaded together with a free version of Proteuss ISIS Lite: www.picmicros.org.uk

Interface Oriented Design : 9780976694052

Interface-Oriented Design explores how you can develop software with interfaces that interact with each other. We’ll look at techniques for breaking down solutions into these interacting interfaces and then for determining appropriate implementations for these interfaces to create well-structured programs. We have plenty of examples that will show
you ways to create effective designs composed of interfaces to objects, components, and services. And we’ll even have some fun along the way.

You’ve probably learned about (and experienced) software development using object-oriented design. Interface-oriented design concentrates on the interfaces of modules, which may or may not be implemented with object-oriented languages. Designs that emphasize interfaces are loosely coupled—and that’s a good thing. If you have only an interface to which to code, you cannot write code dependent on an implementation, which helps keep us honest.

Distributed computing, such as service-oriented architectures, places a particular emphasis on interfaces. The interfaces may be procedure oriented (such as Remote Procedure Calls) or document oriented (such as web services). We’ll explore the transparency and loose coupling traits that are key to distributed interfaces to help you build better distributed systems.

Inheritance is often a tricky technique to get correct—it is often one of the most abused features in object-oriented languages. We’ll look at designs that employ inheritance versus ones that emphasize interfaces to demonstrate the trade-offs between the two.

This ongoing emphasis on interfaces may seem a bit extreme. But by looking at one extreme, you’ll start to see a different viewpoint that can give you fresh insights into your current approach to software development.

This book is aimed at developers who have some experience with programming and who have been exposed to object-oriented design. Even if you are heavy into object orientation, you might find the interfaceoriented approach helps you gain some insight into different ways of approaching a design. Understanding interfaces will help you transition to designing Service-Oriented Architectures

Interest Rate Modelling (Finance and Capital Markets) : 9781403934703

Growth in the derivatives markets has brought with it an ever-increasing volume and range of interest rate dependent derivative products. To allow profitable, efficient trading in these products, accurate and mathematically sound valuation techniques are required to make pricing, hedging and risk management of the resulting positions possible.

The value of vanilla European contingent claims such as caps, floors and swaptions depends only on the level of the yield curve. These types of instruments are priced correctly using the simple model developed by Black [5]. This model makes several simplifying assumptions which allow closed-form valuation formulae to be derived. This class of vanilla contingent claims has become known as ‘first-generation' products.

These instruments expose investors to the level of the underlying yield curve at one point in time. They reflect the investors' view of the future changes in the level of the yield curve, not their view of changes in the slope of the curve. ‘Second-' and ‘third-generation' derivatives, such as path-dependent and barrier options, provide exposure to the relative levels and correlated movements of various portions of the yield curve. Rather than hedging these exotic options with the basic underlying instrument, i.e. the bond, the ‘first generation' instruments are used. Therefore, the Black model prices of these ‘first generation' instruments are taken as given. This does not necessarily imply a belief in the intrinsic correctness of the Black model. Distributional assumptions which are not included in the Black model, such as mean reversion and skewness, are incorporated by adjusting the implied volatility input.

The more sophisticated models developed allow the pricing of instruments dependent on the changing level and slope of the yield curve. A crucial factor is that these models must price the exotic derivatives in a manner that is consistent with the pricing of vanilla instruments. When assessing the correctness of any more sophisticated model, its ability to reproduce the Black prices of vanilla instruments is vital. It is not a model's a priori assumptions, but rather the correctness of its hedging performance that plays a pivotal role in its market acceptance.

The calibration of the model is an integral part of its specification, so the usefulness of a model cannot be assessed without considering the reliability and robustness of parameter estimation.

About the Author

Simona Svoboda is a Quant on the interest rates structuring desk, Rand Merchant Bank, South Africa.

Interdomain Multicast Solutions Guide : 9781587050831

Demand is growing for Internet Protocol (IP) multicast services to extend applications across Internet service provider (ISP) network boundaries to a wider audience. To meet this need, sophisticated protocols such as Protocol Independent Multicast sparse mode (PIM-SM), Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP), and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) are available in Cisco Internet Operating System (Cisco IOS(r)) software that provide solutions for successfully implementing native interdomain multicast service.

Interdomain Multicast Solutions Guide is a complete, concise, solutions-based book that shows how to deploy IP multicast services. The book begins with a technology description that defines IP multicast and summarizes various methods of deploying multicast services. From there, readers are presented two distinct interdomain multicast solutions using MSDP and Source Specific Multicast (SSM), respectively. These two solutions feature complete design and implementation scenarios that reflect real-world applications. The appendix includes a command summary that describes all the IOS commands discussed in the book.

Cisco IOS software is a feature-rich network operating system that runs on almost every platform and device that Cisco(r) offers. Cisco customers who use IOS documentation have requested more robust and more complete configuration examples to help in their day-to-day implementation of IOS. The Cisco Systems(r) IOS Documentation department has met that customer demand by creating a new documentation type called an integrated solutions document (ISD). ISDs provide concise design and application information, explaining how to integrate specific feature functionality within an existing network environment. By combining solutions-based ISDs with Cisco IOS configuration and command reference material, Interdomain Multicast Solutions Guide provides you with a complete interdomain multicast deployment guide.

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  Learn from Cisco-tested and industry-proven solutions with configuration examples

  
  


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  Explore concise design and application information that details how to integrate specific IOS feature functionality within an existing network environment

  
  


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  Incorporate the solutions in a variety of service provider and enterprise networking environments

  
  


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  Refer to command reference and configuration material essential to implementing interdomain multicast

  
  


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  Assess the three stages of implementing multicast: establishing intradomain multicast, establishing interdomain multicast, and connecting customers to an ISP infrastructure

  
  


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  Understand how SSM is in use in networks today and look ahead to how Internet Group Management Protocol version 3 (IGMPv3) will be utilized in the future

  
  

Interdomain Multicast Routing: Practical Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems Solutions : 9780201746129

Increasing numbers of ISPs have begun implementing multicast infrastructure. Soon the Internet will provide multicast connectivity between any two points on the Internet the way it provides for unicast traffic today. Long-evolving protocols are reaching maturity, and enterprise networks and ISPs around the world are ramping up their multicast infrastructure. Now, more than ever, network engineers must be ready to deal with new applications that capitalize on the simultaneous, efficient delivery of data and imagery to multiple recipients.

Interdomain Multicast Routing is the key to unlocking the complexities of this growing technology. Starting with a summary of the technology and its relevant protocols, this book shows readers the big picture before revealing a detailed analysis of important protocols and the way they work with one another. Throughout, the authors focus on both Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks technology--the two leading vendors of routers and routing technology. Real-life examples are used to clearly illustrate key concepts. Specific topics covered in Interdomain Multicast Routing include:

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  Background and in-depth analyses of multicast routing using PIM-SM and MSDP

  
  


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  Comparison of Any-Source and Source-Specific multicast delivery models

  
  


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  Explanation of how MBGP and M-ISIS can be used side by side to build a dedicated multicast environment

  
  


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  A detailed breakdown of the differences between IGMP versions 1, 2, and 3

  
  


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  A step-by-step guide to understanding the MSDP RPF-peer selection rules

  
  


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  Lists of packet formats for IGMP, PIM, and MSDP

  
  


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  A complete glossary that clarifies important terms and acronyms and provides their definitions

  
  

Practical and thorough in coverage, Interdomain Multicast Routing is an important addition to any network engineer's bookshelf.

Intercultural Management: MBA Masterclass (MBA Masterclass Series) : 9780749435820

Intercultural management is an emerging but increasingly crucial area of study. Essentially, intercultural management concerns itself with work forces that function in different cultural contexts. These differences can be either ‘external’, where an organization operates across national and ethnic cultures, or ‘internal’, where an organization operates across company differences, branches or regions.

In this thorough and accessible guide, Nina Jacob details the fundamental concepts and ideas using the latest research and international case studies. Designed to meet the needs of busy MBA students and practising managers, this book is both academically rigorous and firmly grounded in management practice.

The book covers all the need-to-know topics, including:

• organizational structure;


• communications;


• core values;


• strategy;


• knowledge management;


• conflict resolution;


• expatriate management.

Full of questions and discussion topics and the most up-to-date case studies, Intercultural Management is a practical and authoritative guide for students and practising managers. International case studies included are: Credit Suisse, Nestlé, BMW, IBM and the International Red Cross.

About the Author

Nina Jacob is currently Professor, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India. She has recently been Visiting Professor at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain and the KS Graduate Business School, St Gallen, Switzerland. She is also the author of numerous articles on intercultural management. The daughter of a retired career diplomat, she has lived and studied in Japan (The International School of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo) and Canada (Carleton University, Ottawa), and has traveled to all continents on the globe.

Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition) : 9780201634488

Radia Perlman's Interconnections is recognized as a leading text on networking theory and practice. It provides authoritative and comprehensive information on general networking concepts, routing algorithms and protocols, addressing, and the mechanics of bridges, routers, switches, and hubs. This Second Edition is expanded and updated to cover the newest developments in the field, including advances in switching and bridge technology, VLANs, Fast Ethernet, DHCP, ATM, and IPv6. Additional new topics include IPX, AppleTalk, and DECnet. You will gain a deeper understanding of the range of solutions possible and find valuable information on protocols for which documentation is not readily available elsewhere.

Written by the inventor of many of the algorithms that make switching and routing robust and efficient, Interconnections, Second Edition offers an expert's insight into how and why networks operate as they do. Perlman describes all of the major networking algorithms and protocols in use today in clear and concise terms, while exploring the engineering trade-offs that the different approaches represent.

The book contains extensive coverage of such topics as:

• The spanning tree algorithm


• The differences between bridges, routers, and switches


• Virtual LANs (VLANs) and Fast Ethernet


• Addressing and packet formats for IP, IPv6, IPX, CLNP, AppleTalk, and DECnet


• Autoconfiguration of addresses; strategies in various protocol suites


• Routing protocols, including RIP, IS-IS, OSPF, PNNI, NLSP, and BGP


• Layer 3 multicast protocols, including IGMP, DVMRP, MOSPF, CBT, PIM, BGMP, Simple Multicast, and Express


• Sabotage-proof routing


• Protocol design folklore

About the Author

Radia Perlman's work has had a profound impact on the field of networking. She was recently featured in the 25th anniversary edition of Data Communications magazine as one of the 25 people whose work has most influenced the industry. She is the creator of the spanning tree algorithm upon which bridges (switches) are based, and the algorithms that allow robust and efficient link state routing, upon which all modern link state routing protocols (such as IS-IS, OSPF, and PNNI) are based. Radia designed IS-IS, Simple Multicast, and sabotage-proof routing. She is also co-author of Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World. Both of her books were listed in the top 10 most useful networking reference books in the March, 1988 issue of Network Magazine. She is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. She holds about 50 patents and a Ph.D. from M.I.T.

Interconnection Networks (Computer Architecture and Design) : 9781558608528

Interconnection networks are becoming increasingly pervasive in many different applications,
with the operational costs and characteristics of these networks depending considerably
on the application. For some applications, interconnection networks have been
studied in depth for decades. This is the case for telephone networks, computer networks
(telecommunications), and backplane buses. The design and operation of these networks
are covered in many excellent books. However, in the last 15 years we have seen a rapid
evolution of the interconnection network technology that is currently being infused into
a new generation of multiprocessor systems. The technology is mature enough to find its
way into commercial products, while constantly presenting new avenues for growth and
application. This is the case for the interconnection networks used in multicomputers and
distributed shared-memory multiprocessors. At the current time, the basic design issues
governing this new generation of multiprocessor network technology are diffused over a
large number of technical papers. This book is an attempt to present a coherent description
of this technology in a form that emphasizes the engineering aspects of their construction
and use.

The lack of standards and the need for very high performance and reliability have
been primarily responsible for pushing the development of interconnection networks for
multicomputers. This technology was transferred to distributed shared-memory multiprocessors.
More recently, this network technology began to be transferred to local area networks
(LANs). Also, it has been proposed as a replacement for backplane buses, creating
the concept of a system area network (SAN). Hence, the advances in interconnection networks
for multicomputers are becoming the basis for the development of interconnection
networks for other architectures and environments. Therefore, there is a need for formally
stating the basic concepts, the alternative design choices, and the design tradeoffs for
most of those networks. In this book, we address this challenge and present in a structured
way the basic underlying concepts of most interconnection networks, and representative
solutions that have currently been implemented or proposed in the literature.

Interactive Video: Algorithms and Technologies (Signals and Communication Technology) : 9783540332145

My purpose in writing Interactive Video: Algorithms and Technologies is to respond to an increased demand for a complete scientific guide that covers concepts, benefits, algorithms and interfaces of the emerging interactive digital video technology. This technology promises an end of the days of dull videos, linear playback, manual video search, and non-consent video-content. Many futurists and I share the view that interactive video is becoming the future standard of the most attractive video formats which will offer users nonconventional interactive features, powerful knowledge-acquisition and teaching tools, efficient storage, as well as non-linear ways of navigation and searching.

In recent years, video content has skyrocketed as a result of decreasing cost of video acquisition and storage devices, increasing network bandwidth capacities, and improving compression techniques. The rapid expansion of Internet connectivity and increasing interest in video-on-demand, e-learning and other online multimedia rich applications, makes video as accessible as any static data type like text and graphic. The “open video” market that enables consumers to buy and rent digital videos over Internet, is taking another important boost as video distribution is becoming available for people on “the move”. Now they can select, download and view various video types on their consumer electronics devices like mobileTV and video-playing iPods.

In light of these advances, video-content providers look at their daily demand for increased video storage as a valuable business assets and concern themeselves with how to easily manage, quickly access, efficiently present, browse and distribute videos. I believe this book will provide solutions to most of these problems by presenting a framework of automatic methodologies for transforming conventional videos to interactive video formats. As opposed to manually decomposing, generating summaries, and locating highlights or events in a long surveillance video, this book will show which algorithms could be implemented to automatically perform such tasks without tedious, painful or expensive human interventions.

Interactive TV: A Shared Experience: 5th European Conference, EuroITV 2007, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 24-25, 2007 : 9783540725589

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Interactive Television, EuroITV 2007, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in May 2007.

The 24 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The volume combines papers from academia and industry covering a wide range of areas such as media studies, audiovisual design, multimedia, human-computer interaction, and management. The papers are organized in topical sections on social TV systems, user studies, the future of TV, social TV evaluation, personalisation, and mobile TV.

The fifth edition of the European Conference on Interactive Television (EuroITV) was organized by CWI (Centrum Voor Wiskunde en Informatica), Amsterdam. Previously, EuroITV was organized by Athens University of Economics and Business (2006), Aalborg University (2005), and Brighton University (2004 and 2003). EuroITV07 was held in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and co-sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from different regions and diverse disciplines. This volume includes contributions from Europe, America, Asia, and Oceania, with researchers representing disciplines such as media studies, audiovisual design, multimedia, human – computer interaction, and management. This way, the conference tries to develop a common framework for this multi-disciplinary (usability, multimedia, narrative) and new field, interactive television. Because of the multi-disciplinary nature of the field, the conference was held in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group onMultimedia (ACM SIGMM), ACM Special Interest Group on Computer – Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI), and ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web (ACM SIGWEB).

Inter-Organizational Information Systems in the Internet Age : 9781591403180

Since the U.S. Department of Defense initiated the development of networked computers in 1969, Internet technologies have rapidly advanced and revolutionized the way we communicate and conduct business. The second wave of the technological revolution came with intranet technology in the mid-1990s. With the intranet, organizations have strengthened the powers and speed of data gathering and sharing, communication, collaboration, and decision making within a firewall-protected organizational boundary. The third wave of this technological evolution, extranets, began in the second half of the 1990s. Many believe that it is the key technology enabler that is triggering a revolution in the structure and operations of many organizations in the new Internet-driven global economy. In addition to maturing Internet technologies, several technology drivers, as well as business drivers, further pushed the emergence of new types of organizations—virtual corporations, virtual organizations, extended enterprises, and trans-enterprise systems.

Since we began to study information systems, academics and practitioners have expanded the focus of information technology’s role in managing organizations, from individuals to groups to functional departments to organizations to inter- organizations. In the 1980s, technology’s impact on organizations has been an ongoing research theme. For example, Rockart and Short (1989, p. 7) argued that a firm’s ability to continuously improve the effectiveness of managing interdependence is the critical element in responding to new and pressing competitive forces. The concept of inter-organizational systems (IOSs) emerged as a tool for achieving competitive advantages. Many well-known examples of information systems that provide competitive advantages that are discussed in the literature (Porter & Millar, 1985) are those of inter-organizational information systems (IOISs).

IntelliJ IDEA in Action : 9781932394443

This book will help developers dig a little deeper into IDEA and embrace its streamlining features which allow for more time to be spent on project design rather than code management. Without some educational investment, however, IDEA can be just another editor. That then, is the purpose of this book. To not only get you up and running quickly, but to teach you how to use IDEA's powerful software development tools to their fullest advantage. Important product features, including the debugger, source code control, and the many code generation tools, are carefully explained and accompanied by tips and tricks that will leave even experienced IDEA users with "Eureka!" moments of informed programming. Coders just graduating from NOTEPAD and Java IDE veterans alike will profit from the powerful and timesaving expertise provided in this essential programmer's resource.

IDEA is a next-generation IDE for Java, an Integrated Development Environment. As the term IDE implies, IDEA integrates or combines all of the tools needed to develop Java software into a single application and interface. In other words, IDEA is a tool that helps develop Java applications more quickly, easily, and intelligently. IDEA can help with every phase of a project, from design and development to testing and deployment. This book is based on the IntelliJ IDEA Java development environment software from JetBrains, version 5.0.

Because you’ve decided to open this book, you probably already know that IntelliJ IDEA is a next-generation integrated development environment (IDE) for Java. As the term IDE implies, IDEA combines all the tools you need to develop Java software into a single application and interface. In other words, IDEA is a tool that helps you develop Java applications more quickly, easily, and intelligently. IDEA can help you with every phase of your project, from design and development to testing and deployment—provided you know how to make the most of it. This book will give you all the information you need to become an IDEA expert.

IntelliJ IDEA in Action is an independent and authorized book. This means the publisher, Manning, is independent of the vendor, JetBrains. It’s authorized because from day one we have had the full cooperation, approval, and contributions of Eugene Belyaev and his team at JetBrains. We’ve had the best of both worlds in creating this book—complete editorial freedom to tell you everything you need to know about IDEA, and also the expert advice and assistance of the JetBrains team.

About the Author
Duane K. Fields is a Web applications developer and Internet technologist with an extensive background in Web programming for companies that include IBM and Netscape Communications. He is the coauthor of Web Development with JavaServer Pages. He lives in Bastrop, Texas. Stephen Saunders is an enterprise Java software engineer with a decade of experience in the knowledge management, financial services, and master data management industries. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Eugene Belayev is the cofounder, president, and chief technology officer of JetBrains, the software company responsible for complex developer tools including Java IDE and IntelliJ IDEA.

Intelligent Virtual World: Technologies and Applications in Distributed Virtual Environment : 9789812386182

In the last few years we have observed an explosive growth of multimedia computing, communication and applications. Thls revolution is transforming the way people live, work, and interact with each other, and is impacting the way business, government services, education, entertainment, and health care are operating. Yet, several issues related to modeling, specification, analysis and design of distributed multimedia systems and intelligent multimedia applications are still challenging to both researchers and practitioners.

This book collects high quality papers from the researchers around the world, with an emphasis on the most recent research interests among the literature of distributed and virtual computing. The book summarizes recent research topics, with a direction to the four major areas: intelligent content-based information retrieval and virtual world, Quality-of-Services of multimedia data, intelligent techniques for distance education, and intelligent agents for E-Commerce. Arhcles of these four areas are organized in part I to part IV, respectively. The last part of h s book includes a chapter, whch points out the future directions of intelligent multimedia computing and networlang. A technical summary of issues in each of the four major areas is gven in the following.

Among the new challenges of multimedia computing, intelligent mechanisms for content-based information retrieval seem to be the most difficult issue. Unlike traditional database systems, whch allow query specification based on keywords and numerical comparisons, image database system requires a sophisticated retrieval mechanism. Current approaches of image retrieval rely on color, texture, shape, and object spatial relations. However, the most difficult issue of image content-based retrieval is the investigation of friendly visual specification techniques. How to visually describe the need of a user is a very difficult problem. On the other hand, content-based retrieval of video records not only involves the objects in a video, the timing of object movement is also considered. Scene identification and object tracing are basic techniques, which only solve part of the problem. Yet, tools for semantic analysis of video contents are still underdevelopment. Content-based video retrieval may rely on speech detection and recognition, which are also used in the automatic retrieval of audio information.

Intelligent Techniques for Planning : 9781591404507

The Intelligent Techniques for Planning presents a number of modern approaches to the area of automated planning. These approaches combine methods from classical planning such as the construction of graphs and the use of domain-independent heuristics with techniques from other areas of artificial intelligence. The book presents, in detail, a number of state-of-the-art planning systems that utilize constraint satisfaction techniques in order to deal with time and resources, machine learning in order to utilize experience drawn from past runs, methods from knowledge systems for more expressive representation of knowledge and ideas from other areas such as Intelligent Agents. Apart from the thorough analysis and implementation details, each chapter of the book also provides extensive background information about its subject and presents and comments similar approaches done in the past.

Automated Planning is the area of Artificial Intelligence that deals with problems
in which we are interested in finding a sequence of steps (actions) to apply to the world
in order to achieve a set of predefined objectives (goals) starting from a given initial
state. In the past, planning has been successfully applied in numerous areas including
robotics, space exploration, transportation logistics, marketing and finance, assembling
parts, crisis management, etc.

The history of Automated Planning goes back to the early 1960s with the General
Problem Solver (GPS) being the first automated planner reported in literature. Since
then, it has been an active research field with a large number of institutes and researchers
working on the area. Traditionally, planning has been seen as an extension of
problem solving and it has been attacked using adaptations of the classical search
algorithms. The methods utilized by systems in the “classical” planning era (until mid-
1990s), include state-space or plan-space search, hierarchical decomposition, heuristic
and various other techniques developed ad-hoc.

The classical approaches in Automated Planning presented over the past years
were assessed on toy-problems, such as the ones used in the International Planning
Competitions, that simulate real world situations but with too many assumptions and
simplifications. In order to deal with real world problems, a planner must be able to
reason about time and resources, support more expressive knowledge representations,
plan in dynamic environments, evolve using past experience, co-operate with other
planners, etc. Although the above issues are crucial for the future of Automated Planning,
they have been recently introduced to the planning community as active research
directions. However, most of them are also the subject of researchers in other AI areas,
such as Constraint Programming, Knowledge Systems, Machine Learning, Intelligent
Agents and others, and therefore the ideal way is to utilize the effort already put into
them.

Intelligent Paradigms for Healthcare Enterprises: Systems Thinking : 9783540229032

This compendium brings together leading researchers in the fields of Intelligent Systems and healthcare aiming at medical engineers, healthcare managers and computer scientists worldwide. This book is an overview of intelligent paradigms and strategic investments that might payoff for the healthcare enterprise. Specifically, the reader will get ideas for efficiency enhancements for improving effectiveness and quality of care and for increasing patient safety. "Advanced Intelligent Paradigms in Healthcare" straddles technologic topics from DNA processing and automating medical second opinions in the lab, to telemedicine and chat spaces for rural patient outreach, among many others. In terms of management concerns, this book also explores systems approaches such as automated clinical guidelines, institutional workflow management, and best practices and lessons learned with actual applications.

The practice of medicine is information intensive, yet systemic thinking is confined to how the body works rather than how the healthcare system works. So it is refreshing to have the perspectives this book assembles in one place. That is, information systems in medical practices historically have tended to focus on automating individual functions (e.g., billing, procedure or room scheduling, and record keeping). Like other large industries that learned to contain runaway costs, healthcare is now automating more and more of these functions across larger expanses of the enterprise. As this happens, the debate is shifting beyond specific functions and basic transaction processing to ways to interoperate in order to improve performance and reduce errors. As with other more automated sectors, the focus is now turning to how to better engineer the knowledge and information management cycles that exist throughout the healthcare field, and ways to adapt and develop the healthcare enterprise itself. This is where stepping back and taking a systems view becomes important.

What makes the systems approach so challenging is that one must simultaneously shift the institutional focus to patient-centric; use that focus and improve interactions with patient communities; and also seek to improve the internal workflow and knowledge management for doctors, nurses, and other employees. These three perspectives (institution, consumers, and providers) are exactly what this book helps the reader to focus on.

Intelligent Paradigms for Assistive and Preventive Healthcare (Studies in Computational Intelligence) : 9783540317623

This book presents some of the recent advances in assistive and preventive healthcare in intelligent environment. As the world is becoming increasingly aware of the needs of people with disabilities, researchers are finding new technologies and applications to assist disabled people in performing the everyday activities which able-bodied people often take for granted.

Ubiquitous healthcare is introduced in terms of technology and service, considering the current technology as well as the future technology and services. In the first section, we introduce the key techniques of ubiquitous healthcare for next-generation medical treatment services. In the second section, we introduce the wireless sensor network (WSN) and ANTS (an Evolvable Network of Tiny Sensors). In the last section, we discuss real-time health-monitoring network for the disabled and elderly people using an inexpensive and effective Web server and health-monitoring sensors in a wrist phone.

The development of high speed Internet technology and by the use of a wireless network enable medical multimedia systems to support numerous data types (video, audio and biological data). This in turn, made it possible to effectively provide medical treatments to the patients remotely and to help prevent disease. Ubiquitous healthcare system can be regarded as the combination of the Internet and biological measuring devices to manage patients’ disease without the limitation of time and space and without resorting to specific types of measuring device. In short, it is an upgraded version of the biological measuring devices with data transmission capability. There is a tendency for the measuring devices to be smaller, able to be attached using wireless, digitized and using less power.