Introduction to CDMA Wireless Communications : 9780750652520

The book gives an in-depth study of the principles of the spread spectrum techniques and their applications in mobile communications. It starts with solid foundations in the digital communications that are essential to unequivocal understanding of the CDMA technology, and guides the reader through the fundamentals and characteristics of cellular CDMA communications.

Features include:

* A very clear and thorough description of the principles and applications of spread spectrum techniques in multi-user mobile communications.

* Matlab-based worked examples, exercises and practical sessions to clearly explain the theoretical concepts.

* An easy-to-read explanation of the air interface standards used in IS-95 A/B, cdma2000, and 3G WCDMA.

* Clear presentations of the high speed downlink and uplink packet access (HSDPA/HSUPA) techniques used in 3G WCDMA.

The book is a very suitable introduction to the principles of CDMA communications for senior undergraduate and graduate students, as well researchers and engineers in industry who are looking to develop their expertise.

Introduction to C++ Programming and Graphics : 9780387689920

C++ has grown rapidly in response to the practical need for a programming language that is able to efficiently handle composite and diverse data types. Today, C++ dominates the commercial market and is favored among application developers.

Introduction to C++ Programming and Graphics offers a venue for rapidly learning the language by concisely revealing its grammar, syntax and main features, and by explaining the key ideas behind object oriented programming (OOP), with emphasis on scientific computing.

The book reviews elemental concepts of computers and computing, describes the primary features of C++, illustrates the use of pointers and user-defined functions, and analyzes the construction of classes. Distinctive features include:

• An effective selection and presentation of topics and supporting examples

• A tutorial on the usage of MATLAB® functions in C++ code 

• Tables for translating MATLAB® and Fortran 77 into C++ code, illustrating syntactic differences between these languages

• Chapters on graphics and GUI programming based on the VOGLE library and the GLUT, GLUI and GTK+ utility toolboxes 

This invaluable resource provides a basic, concise introduction to C++ for the novice, allowing the reader to easily grasp the necessary concepts, rather than trying to absorb an extensive reference book. Scientists, engineers, professionals and students familiar with the general principles of computer programming and proficient in an easy programming language will find this volume an ideal entry point into C++.

Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services Solutions : 9781591407638

Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services Solutions reminds readers that several attempts have been made to convince the world that DOT.COM was developed to take over businesses, and the traditional way of creating businesses and running organizations would be condemned to the past. One of those attempts led to the Application Service Provision model, from which the current Web Services business model takes its origins. As organizations start to carefully invest again, Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services Solutions shows that the focus is on delivering value and enabling growth. The book concentrates on how to create, execute and evolve a customer-centric strategy of any Internet-based management strategy in order to provide valuable customer experiences. Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services Solutions presents how enabling technologies are as important as ever. It points out that theres a need to move to new levels in thinking and execution, to help organizations maintain cost efficiencies and enable growth in revenues and profitability.

About the Author
Matthew Waritay Guah is researcher within the Operation Research and Information Systems Group at the Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick. He is Program Administrator of the Masters for Information Systems and Management program at the Warwick Business School. He is currently investigating the roles of emerging technologies in the United Kingdom's National Health Service, building on previous IT research. He also has a more general interest in the cognitive, material and social relationships between science, technology and business as well as their implications for present-day understandings of creativity and innovation. He comes into Academia with a wealth of industrial experience spanning over ten years within Nuffield Hospitals, Merrill Lynch (European HQ), CITI Bank, HSBC, British Airways, British Standards Institute, and United Nations. Wendy L. Currie is Professor of Information Systems at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. She has recently won three research grants from the EPSRC, ESRC and EU for studies on e-business models, focusing specifically upon application services provisioning, web services and e-logistics and supply-chain management. She has wide experience within business and IT strategy, with numerous books and articles within the fields of IS strategy, outsourcing, e-business and the global software and computing services industry. Her recent books include, 'The global Information society, 'New strategies in IT outsourcing in the US and Europe', and 'Rethinking MIS'. Her journals include OMEGA, BJM, EJIS, JIT, LRP, and others. She is an associate editor of MIS-Q, and on editorial boards of the JSIS, JIT and JCM. A member of the US-AIS and the UK-AIS, she is a visiting fellow at Oxford University and associate faculty at Henley Management College.

Intelligent Sensor Design Using the Microchip dsPIC (Embedded Technology) : 9780750677554

In this book, readers will find:

In-depth design techniques, real-world examples, detailed figures and usable code

Application chapters thoroughly exploring temperature, pressure and load, and flow sensors

A FREE CD that provides a toolkit of software models in both C and assembly language

Intelligent sensors are revolutionizing the world of system design in everything from sports cars to assembly lines. These new sensors have abilities that leave their predecessors in the dust! They not only measure parameters efficiently and precisely, but they also have the ability to enhance and interpret those measurements, thereby transforming raw data into truly useful information.

Within the pages of this book, expert designer Creed Huddleston teaches readers to become quickly proficient in the application of the most popular digital signal controller on the market, the Microchip dsPIC, which handily marries beefy DSP processing power to the ubiquitous PIC. Digital signal controllers have proven to be an optimal way of adding intelligence to sensors because they combine the control advantages of a microcontroller with the speed of a digital signal processor. Through concrete examples and in-depth information on real-world sensor systems, Intelligent Sensor Design Using the Mircrochip dsPIC enables designers to easily produce more accurate code, even while slicing time off product design cycles!

Unlike many embedded systems books that confine themselves strictly to discussing software, this book also delves into the supporting electronic hardware, thereby providing a complete understanding of interfacing to three specific types of sensors (temperature, pressure and load, and flow sensors). This practical, easy-to-read resource offers insight into the real problems designers face in the course of their daily work, and guides readers toward solutions that will help them to take advantage of the powerful tool that is the intelligent sensor.

Intelligent Computing Everywhere : 9781846289422

Intelligent Computing Everywhere reflects the current perception in various fields that modern computing applications are becoming increasingly challenged in terms of complexity and intelligence.

It investigates the relevance and relationship artificial intelligence maintains with "modern strands of computing" i.e. pervasive computing and ambient intelligence, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, computing and the mind, non-classical computing and novel computing models, as well as DNA computing and quantum computing.

Each subject is examined from two main viewpoints, the first provides a state of the art introduction to a field such as DNA computing and the second investigates the subject from an artificial intelligence perspective.

 

Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Environments (Innovative Technology Series) : 9781903996294

Mobile agents are program instances (or processes) capable of moving within the network under their own control. They consist of three parts: code, data state, and execution state. Migration of mobile agents takes place between hosts. These hosts execute the agents and provide functionality to them. This functionality includes communication with other agents and users, migration to other hosts, and other services such as persistency (i.e. storing data or agent snapshots), services lookup (i.e. finding agents that offer a service), location of agents (either locally or on a larger scale), integration of legacy systems such as databases, and the like.

Being the technical basis for applications, mobile agents offer a number of advantages. These include the saving of network bandwidth and increase in the overall performance by allowing the application to process data on or near the source of data (e.g. a database), asynchronous processing, i.e. the possibility to fulfil a task without the need to have a permanent connection from the client to a host, achieving true parallel computation by employing a number of agents working on different nodes, the replacement of a fault model where network failures can interrupt every phase of the computation by one where network failures can influence only the migration of an agent (as the rest is then done locally on the same node), and so on. Additionally, mobile agents "inherit" the advantages of mobile code systems, especially the possibility to transport functionality automatically to nodes where it has not been installed before.

For mobile agents, security is a very important aspect since neither the provider of a host or an agent-based service, nor the owner of an agent wants to be harmed by employing this technology. This is a non-trivial requirement in mobile agent systems, because firstly, the executing party has no vital interest in executing a program correctly, and secondly, the employer of a program has to give away the control over its execution.

Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism : 9780596514808

Building libraries is an important task. The activity goes back to the earliest days of computing, when Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill introduced subroutines as instruments for packaging useful software. Sadly, this activity lost its academic glamour and is often relegated to the boiler room of programming. It is essential that we start building libraries based on rigorous scientific foundations.

Let us define a good library. It should not be intrusive. The old code should run as is without any modifications. It should not be exclusive. Other libraries should be able to coexist alongside it. It should be orthogonal. Instead of defining similar facilities in different contexts, it should factor them out into different dimensions. It should be open and not hide useful information from the client for the sake of illusory security. It should be efficient. Using the library should not penalize the application.

Concurrent programming is a very difficult task. At the same time, the evolution of hardware makes it more and more mainstream. Although there have been major advances in our theoretical understanding of concurrency, we need to have practical libraries that encapsulate this knowledge. It is great that the Intel team led by Arch Robison made a major step designing and implementing Threading Building Blocks, which could become a basis for the concurrency dimension of the C++ standard library.

I would also like to congratulate Intel management for not just sponsoring this activity, but also releasing it as open source. I hope that they will keep funding the team so that they can further extend their work.

Integrated Research in GRID Computing: CoreGRID Integration Workshop 2005 (Selected Papers) November 28-30, Pisa, Italy : 9780387476568

Integrated Research in Grid Computing presents a selection of the best papers presented at the CoreGRID Integration Workshop (CGIW2005), which took place on November 28-30, 2005 in Pisa, Italy.

The aim of CoreGRID is to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies in order to overcome the current fragmentation and duplication of effort in this area. To achieve this objective, the workshop brought together a critical mass of well-established researchers (including 145 permanent researchers and 171 PhD students) from a number of institutions which have all constructed an ambitious joint program of activities. Priority in the workshop was given to work conducted in collaboration between partners from different research institutions and to promising research proposals that could foster such collaboration in the future.

The list of topics in this volume includes:

- Knowledge and Data Management

- Programming Models

- System Architecture

- Grid Information, Resource and Workflow Monitoring Services

- Resource Management and Scheduling

- Systems, Tools and Environments

- Trust and Security Issues on the Grid.

Inside Your Calculator: From Simple Programs to Significant Insights : 9780470114018

Many of us want to understand how the technological instruments that so pervade modern society operate.  This book answers questions about one of those devices: the scientific calculator.  Calculator keys seem to work like magic.  They tell us, for example, that the cosine of 56° is 0.559192903. This book explores the simple internal calculator processes (called algorithms or programs) that produce this and similar results.  Although the text focuses on the calculator keys that compute powers, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry functions, insights are also provided into simple programming, conversion between decimal and binary numeration, and perhaps most important, the structure of our numeration systems.  Many people think that the processes that drive calculators demand advanced mathematical concepts such as Taylor series.  However, high school algebra and a minimum understanding of programming (provided by this text) supply enough background to understand these algorithms.

Inside the Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story : 9780321115645

Tech journalist Pamela Pfiffner explores the rich history behind the modernpublishing revolution, as seen through the lens of one of its most importantplayers. In the past 20 years, Adobe Systems has become synonymous withgreat design tools, and the company's impact on how we work in publishing,graphic arts, and on the Web is unmatched. Join Pfiffner on a colorfuljourney from the roots of the desktop publishing revolution through the riseof the Web and interactive design. Along the way, you'll witness the birthand evolution of PostScript, the explosion of the Photoshop market, therealization of the paperless office, and other events that have shaped theway we communicate.

Inside the Publishing Revolution is not one of those dull historicaltomes you know and loathe from high school. Pfiffner packs its pages withlively, insightful interviews with world-class designers and illustrators,as well as personal insights and recollections from John Warnock, ChuckGeschke, Jonathan Seybold, and other publishing luminaries. Richlyillustrated and beautifully designed, the book features galleries ofhistorically significant work by leading artists and rare photographs fromthe Adobe archives. For added perspective, Pfiffner walks you through anillustrated timeline of the publishing revolution. As with history, thefinal chapter of the Adobe story remains to be written, so the book endswith an eye toward the future: an exclusive overview of the company'svision of publishing in the next decade.

About the Author

Pamela Pfiffner's 14-year career in publishing encompasses print, Web, and television. She has been editor in chief of such magazines as MacUser and Publish, working to extend the publications' brands to the Internet. She joined the launch team of the 24-hour cable television station ZDTV (now TechTV) in 1997 as executive producer of its dynamic media Web site. In 1999 she launched creativepro.com as an independent portal for creative professionals.

Inside SQLite : 9780596550066

SQLite is a small, zero-configuration, custom-tailored, embeddable, threadsafe, easily maintainable, transactionoriented, SQL-based, relational database management system. There is no separate install or setup procedure to initialize SQLite before using it. There is no configuration file.

SQLite is open source, and is available in the public domain (for more information on open source, visit http:// opensource.org). You can download SQLite source code from its homepage http://www.sqlite.org, compile it using your favorite C compiler, and start using the compiled library. SQLite runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and a few other operating systems. It has been widely used in low-to-medium tier database applications.

This Short Cut discusses design principles, engineering trade-offs, implementation issues, and operations of SQLite. It presents a comprehensive description of all important components of the SQLite engine.

Information Theory and Statistics: A Tutorial : 9781933019055

Information Theory and Statistics: A Tutorial is concerned with applications of information theory concepts in statistics, in the finite alphabet setting. The topics covered include large deviations, hypothesis testing, maximum likelihood estimation in exponential families, analysis of contingency tables, and iterative algorithms with an "information geometry" background. Also, an introduction is provided to the theory of universal coding, and to statistical inference via the minimum description length principle motivated by that theory. The tutorial does not assume the reader has an in-depth knowledge of Information Theory or statistics. As such, Information Theory and Statistics: A Tutorial, is an excellent introductory text to this highly-important topic in mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering. It provides both students and researchers with an invaluable resource to quickly get up to speed in the field.

Information Systems Reengineering and Integration : 9781846283826

The strategic importance of information systems is now widely accepted, and over the last three decades these systems have received considerable investment. Systems have evolved from file systems, through database systems, to the emergence of Management Information Systems (MIS) and more recently Executive Information Systems (EIS). With the advent of each new form of the technology there has been a need to redesign and re-implement existing systems. Hence the dramatic increase in the amount of resources put into the area of reengineering.

Reengineering involves the re-design of an existing Information System, whilst utilising as much of the existing system as possible. This text takes a practical approach to re-engineering existing systems and looks at data integration, and focuses on proven methods and tools for:

• the conversion of hierarchical or network database systems into relational database technology, or from relational to object-oriented and XML databases


• the integration of database systems and expert systems to produce MIS and EIS systems

Taking a very practical approach, the book describes in detail database conversion techniques, reverse engineering and forward engineering, and re-engineering methodology for information systems, offering a systematic software engineering approach for reusing existing database systems built with "old" technology, Many examples, illustrations and case studies are used, making the methodology easy to follow, and a CD is included containing solutions to problems.

This book is used for a text book of undergraduate and first year graduate students, and also for a reference book of computer professionals.

An Instructor's Guide is available on web site: www.springer.com for lecturers, and a help desk for using the CDROM is available on web site: www.udw.com.hk/helpdesk.

About the Author

Professor Fong teaches a course for which the book is required reading, which attracts between 80 and 90 students.

Information Retrieval for Music and Motion : 9783540740476

A general scenario that has attracted a lot of attention for multimedia information retrieval is based on the query-by-example paradigm: retrieve all documents from a database containing parts or aspects similar to a given data fragment. However, multimedia objects, even though they are similar from a structural or semantic viewpoint, often reveal significant spatial or temporal differences. This makes content-based multimedia retrieval a challenging research field with many unsolved problems.

Meinard Müller details concepts and algorithms for robust and efficient information retrieval by means of two different types of multimedia data: waveform-based music data and human motion data. In Part I, he discusses in depth several approaches in music information retrieval, in particular general strategies as well as efficient algorithms for music synchronization, audio matching, and audio structure analysis. He also shows how the analysis results can be used in an advanced audio player to facilitate additional retrieval and browsing functionality. In Part II, he introduces a general and unified framework for motion analysis, retrieval, and classification, highlighting the design of suitable features, the notion of similarity used to compare data streams, and data organization. The detailed chapters at the beginning of each part give consideration to the interdisciplinary character of this field, covering information science, digital signal processing, audio engineering, musicology, and computer graphics.

This first monograph specializing in music and motion retrieval appeals to a wide audience, from students at the graduate level and lecturers to scientists working in the above mentioned fields in academia or industry. Lecturers and students will benefit from the didactic style, and each unit is suitable for stand-alone use in specialized graduate courses. Researchers will be interested in the detailed description of original research results and their application in real-world browsing and retrieval scenarios.

About the Author

Meinard Müller is a Member of the Multimedia Signal Processing Group, Bonn University, working as a Researcher and Assistant Lecturer. His research interests include digital signal processing, multimedia information retrieval, computational group theory, and combinatorics. His special research topics include audio signal processing, computational musicology, analysis of 3D motion capture data, and content-based retrieval in multimedia documents.

Infection and Local Treatment in Orthopedic Surgery : 9783540479987

Bone infections involve enormous social, economic and human impact. Despite improvements in surgical techniques, asepsis and prevention, the increasing use of surgery in orthopaedics and trauma means that the absolute number of bone infections is progressively increasing in western countries.

The work of orthopaedic surgeons is increasingly assisted by industrial innovation designed to meet new requirements and achieve what clinical and scientific evidence indicates in terms of prevention and treatment of bone and joint infections.

In particular, new technologies in recent years, such as those allowing local treatment with antibiotic-loaded cements and preformed spacers, havemade it possible to improve substantially the effectiveness of infection treatment in orthopaedics. This book collects the scientific contributions of eminent European and International scientists, which were presented during the International Congress organized by Tecres Spa (Verona, Italy) and held in Verona at the “Palazzo della Gran Guardia” (7–9 September 2006).

Specialists of surgery and medicine (orthopaedic, trauma and infection surgeons, microbiologists and pharmacologists) from all over the world met to exchange the latest information. This is a collection of their personal clinical experience in the treatment of orthopaedic implant infections.

With the hope that this book may represent a useful tool for updating those who dedicate themselves to the difficult art of treating osteo-articular infections, we wish a good reading!

Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence : 9780131852150

As communications, computing, and data storage converge, data is becoming utterly ubiquitous...and that changes everything. In this book, two leading data management visionaries reveal how data transforms the way you do business, the technologies you use, the investments you make, the life you live, and the world you live in.

Chris Stakutis and John Webster draw on interviews with nearly 50 leading experts: technologists, sociologists, entrepreneurs, consultants, researchers, media leaders, and futurists alike. You'll discover how today's "primordial soup" of wired and wireless gadgetry is quickly coalescing into something immensely more powerful, driving applications you thought were pure science fiction. You'll also gain deep insight into the profound implications of ubiquitous data capture: implications that touch everything from your bedroom to the battlefield:

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  The emerging "Connectivity Divide." Which side of the chasm are you on?

  
  


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  Inescapable data's technical components: Async communications,

  
  


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  Global calendars, momentary enterprises: Transforming your life and business

  
  


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  Uncontrolled information availability: Its risks to your security and well-being

  
  


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  The future of technical infrastructure, grids, smart storage, and beyond

  
  


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  Radical, new modes of information delivery: Nonnumeric, nontextual, unobtrusive

  
  


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  Future tech: From holographic displays to fertility "wall clocks"

  
  


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  Your DNA on a chip: The heart of your personal health and wellness program

  
  

About the Author

Chris Stakutis, IBM's CTO for emerging storage software, is a prominent data storage industry inventor, technologist, and visionary with more than twenty years of experience and multiple patents in data storage management. Stakutis created SANergy and served as CTO of IBM's Tivoli SANergy Group. He has held key roles at Mercury Computer Systems, Precision Robots, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and many other technology organizations.

John Webster, Senior Analyst and Founder, Data Mobility Group, has published hundreds of papers and articles on information and storage management. He is a featured speaker at leading storage industry events.

Indian Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated Dictionary : 9780387706375

In 2004, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg published C.P.Khares "Encyclopedia of Indian Medicinal Plants" which contained 400 monographs comprising classical as well as contemporary research findings.

"Indian Medicinal Plants. An Illustrated Dictionary" is the second major one-volume reference work by C.P.Khare which has been dedicated to the distinguished scientist, Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, who did pioneering work by reviving the glory of medicinal and aromatic plants in Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Scientific monographs of "The Wealth of India" series (17 volumes) have been capsulised in the dictionary and corroborated with the judicious findings of German Commission E, European Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP) and WHO. Therapeutic leads, active indications and contraindications are salient features of the core text. These are based on herbal pharmacopoeias, compendiums and latest editions of standard reference works like "PDR for Herbal Medicines," "(Laurance) Review of Natural Products", "Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database". Leads for further research have been provided at a number of places.

The Dictionary is the first updated source of Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha synonyms of their botanical counterparts, after a gap of more than 30 years. The synonyms which appeared in "The Wealth of India" series (1948-1976) and in Chopras "Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants" (1956) have been updated till January, 2007.

More than 2000 medicinal plants of "The Ayurvedic Formulary of India" and "The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India" and more than 100 species of non-Indian origin, incorporated in "National Formulary of Unani Medicine" have been covered in the Dictionary. Divergent sources of Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha herbs have been identified and a number of controversies have been sorted out.

Pharmacognosy experts have selected important herbs, which were specially collected from leading pharamaceutical companies and pharmacopoeial laboratories and included in the dictionary as four colour photographs under the "Crude Herb Identification Guide" section. This is a unique feature and makes it an exclusive treat.

The Dictionary has been presented in a user-friendly format, as a compact, handy, easy to use and moderately priced one-volume reference work. It unfolds hidden virtues and potentials of Indian herbs for busy professionals, researchers, practitioners of herbal as well as modern medicine, and library frequenters. It will prove a ready information source for students of botany, economic botany, pharmacy, agricultural and medical sciences, who aspire to have an edge over others and are keen to keep themselves abreast of the times.

In The Name Of Terrorism: Presidents On Political Violence In The Post-world War II Era : 9780791466179

No book like this could have been written without the generous assistance of the staffs of Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and the George Bush Presidential Library. Going far beyond providing normal access to internal documents, the staffs of these libraries helped me puzzle through various issues that crossed the administrations covered in this book.

My ability to complete the manuscript was possible due to the professional  leave, the travel support to the various libraries, and the graduate research supportthat I received from Ahmed Abdelal, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University. I am particularly grateful to Mary Ann Romski and Carolyn Codamo, who assumed the Georgia State Department of Communication chair duties in my absence. The patient administrative hand of Dean Lauren Adamson allowed me complete final revisions. Many colleagues have contributed thoughtful comments in an effort to improve this book. My initial interest in terrorism was spawned when I was conducting research for Dr. Chuck Kaufman at the University of Maryland.

More recently, Mary Stuckey offered not only expert editorial commentary, but  knowledge of resources from allied professional disciplines that spoke to themesof the manuscript. Other important commentaries were provided by Marilyn Young, Celeste Condit, Karlyn Campbell, James Darsey, Thomas Goodnight, David Cheshier, Robert Newman, Cori Dauber, and Gordon Mitchell. I am also grateful for the comments from the anonymous reviewers of SUNY Press who provided detailed commentary throughout the manuscript, the watchful eyes of my copyeditor, Wyatt Benner, production editor Diane Ganeles, production assistant Ryan Hacker, and the assistance of Michael Rinella, who shepherded me through the first part of the publication process at SUNY Press.

Image Analysis: 15th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2007, Aalborg, Denmark, June 10-24, 2007, Proceedings : 9783540730392

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2007, held in Aalborg, Denmark in June 2007.

The 66 revised full papers and 33 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 228 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer vision, 2D and 3D reconstruction, classification and segmentation, medical and biological applications, appearance and shape modeling, face detection, tracking and recognition, motion analysis, feature extraction and object recognition.

I Married an eBay Maniac : 9780789735621

Has your spouse been spending more and more time on the computer? Do they hide the screen when you walk in the room? Have new items been appearing in your house while your older possessions seem to disappear? Perhaps the explanation is in "it" - eBay mania! 

 

I Married an eBay Maniac offers a glimpse into the world of eBay. Get up to speed on the basics of buying and selling on eBay, and find how to bring every family member to eBay so that you no longer have to eat dinner with your spouse clicking away on the keyboard. Turn their obsession into a family affair. This book describes how to play off one another's strengths and weaknesses, how to divide tasks to maximize efficiency, fun, and profits, and how to arrange a household to separate eBay from the non-eBay life. You'll be able to keep frustration levels down and income levels high! With tips, tricks, and insight from an experienced eBayer, this book shows how much family fun and income can be had when the Maniac is no longer alone.

About the Author

Jayne Perry went from eBay Novice to pro when she helped propel her husband's eBay mania into a full-time home business. They soon reached an upper-tier PowerSeller rating, the frequent-flier tier of eBay sellers. They hired two part-time employees. They maximized their income. All with the help of her insight. Her husband, Greg Perry, has since become an eBay Education Specialist trained by eBay and they both write and teach others how to excel at eBay now that both of them enjoy eBay together. With her help, they've learned ways to minimize the time they spend on eBay so the rest of their priorities remain top priorities.

IP Network-based Multi-agent Systems for Industrial Automation: Information Management, Condition Monitoring and Control of Power Systems : 9781846286469

A mobile agent is a software program with the capability to suspend its execution and resume it on another computer. Agents are a relatively recent development in computer science, which have become a popular and useful methodology for the modelling and implementation of distributed systems, particularly those consisting of a number of largely autonomous components. The extensive use of multi-agent systems in various areas including information management, industrial control and manufacturing systems, suggests that the multi-agent systems methodology may also be appropriate for the design of power system automation systems.

 IP Network-based Multi-agent Systems for Industrial Automation: Information Management, Condition Monitoring and Control of Power Systems is the first book to present an introduction to the use of the Internet protocol suite and multi-agent systems for the information management, online monitoring and control of distributed power system substations. It proposes an open architecture for information management and control, based on the concepts of multi-agent systems and mobile agents. In this book, mobile agents are applied to the retrieval and analysis of substation data, and to remote operator intervention. This book also describes a prototype implementation of the architecture, in the form of a substation information management system, which has been demonstrated and evaluated using a substation simulator. The architecture is also evaluated theoretically with respect to its performance, modifiability, functionality and reliability.

As mobile agent technologies are in the early stages the real applications of these technologies are rare; IP Network-based Multi-agent Systems for Industrial Automation: Information Management, Condition Monitoring and Control of Power Systems will be an excellent reference for postgraduates, researchers and academics in engineering and computer science, as well as engineers in system automation and managers in distributed industrial systems.

About the Author

Dr. David Buse obtained a first-class BSc degree in Computer Science from Department of Computer Science in 2000 and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, the University of Liverpool in 2005. He is a Member of IEEE. He has authored and co-authored a number of research papers which were published in academic and engineering journals and he has refereed conference proceedings. His research interests include mobile agents, multi-agent Systems, and their industrial applications.

Professor Henry Wu is the Chair of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, The University of Liverpool, U.K. He is also the Director of the National Instruments e-Automation Laboratory, The University of Liverpool, in which research on network-based industrial automation is focused. He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 1978 and obtained an M.Sc.(Eng) degree in Electrical Engineering from HUST in 1981. Professor Wu is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of IEE and Senior Member of IEEE. He has served as a committee member of IEE professional groups and on the committees of several international conferences. He has given invited lectures at a number of international conferences and institutions. 

Ip Multicasting: Concepts and Applications : 9780079137913

This book is an introduction to IP multicast concepts and features and is intended for users with varying degrees of experience with the IP multicast technologies, decisionmakers wrestling with the problems of corporate communication, system administrators and operators managing their own workstations, and programmers. Finally, this book is intended for communications specialists, field system engineers, and the general audience who wants or needs to know about IP multicasting.

This book can be used by those who design or develop applications that run on the network or work in technical support. It can be used to gain a basic understanding of IP multicasting and as a source for information about IP multicasting. Information about ISPs, suppliers and vendors, current and future IP multicasting applications, implementations, and supporting software is here.

For an engineer interested in evaluating or implementing IP multicast for an organization, product or service, this book will facilitate understanding of how to deploy IP multicast over these network infrastructures.

IP Location : 9780072263770

In today's vast world of global commerce with users that are more nomadic than ever, the need for reliable, secure, and efficient access technologies is rapidly increasing. IP Location provides you with a guided tour of location determination, tackling this new technology head on and addressing all aspects of location management, delivery, and conveyance within IP networks. Covering important real-world applications such as emergency (911) services, asset tracking, call routing, navigation, and staff location in hot desk environments, this book gives you all the information you need to fully support this cutting-edge technology.

• Learn how location information is produced, transported, and consumed on the Internet


• Understand the semantics and constructs of the HELD and FLAP protocols


• Discover the three roles of the presence model--presentity, presence service, and watcher


• Explore how the Access Location Entity (ALE) helps determine location within particular types of networks


• Examine in detail the Location Information Server (LIS) including its different types and interfaces


• Determine IP location for devices connected to all types of networks including WiFi and WiMAX


• Get details on location determination and acquisition techniques for residential broadband networks such as DSL and cable


• Find out about privacy controls and considerations for Internet location

About the Authors

Martin Dawson (BEng-elec, MEngSc) is the chief product architect of the Andrew Geometrix Mobile Location Center development team based in Wollongong, Australia. Martin Dawson's engineering career has spanned 29 years, from work in real-time embedded microprocessor control systems (the early days of local area network deployments) to paying his dues in a university network admin role. The past 19 years have been spent in networking and telecommunications. This includes a period of time with British Telecom Research Laboratories in the UK developing Service Creation Environments for Intelligent Networks (IN), and with Telstra, where he also developed IN services. Prior to joining Andrew Corporation, he worked for Nortel for 11 years developing a wide range of solutions with a focus on wireless IN services and the development of cellular location systems for emergency and commercial services.

He is currently active in forums for cellular and IP location technologies, and acts as consultant to industry, government, regulatory authorities, and emergency agencies. He is a member of the North American National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and has contributed to the working group focused on the development of solutions for VoIP emergency services.

James Winterbottom has over 20 years of experience in the Telecom industry and is currently a Senior Product Architect with Andrew Corporation's Geometrix Mobile Location Center. In recent years, James has worked in the cellular location industry, but throughout his career he has developed an expertise in CDMA provisioning and management systems, as well as intelligent network services. Currently, James is active in standards forums for IP location technologies, and acts as a consultant to industry, government, and regulatory authorities. He is a member of the North American National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and is active in NENA working groups concerned with determining and using location to support VoIP emergency services. He is also an active participant in the IETF, developing solutions to address the problems of determining, acquiring, and conveying location in IP networks. James is the official liaison from the ESIF Next Generation Emergency Services (NGES) working group to the IETF Geopriv and ECRIT working groups.

Martin Thomson is an engineer with Andrew Corporation. He has spent five years developing cellular wireless products for Nortel and Andrew Corporation, in particular the Mobile Location Center (MLC). Since 2004, Martin has been working in research for IP location and has produced a number of specifications, including several IETF Internet drafts. Martin has also been involved in the development of prototype systems for location in IP networks.

IP in Wireless Networks : 9780130666482

The complete network professional's guide to delivering wireless IP.

• Wireless IP: the professional's guide to understanding data in wireless networks


• Covers IP in 802.11, Bluetooth(tm), GSM/GPRS, W-CDMA, cdma2000, i-mode, and more


• Includes expert insights into architecture, mobility models, and applications


• Previews emerging applications such as Multimedia Messaging (MMS) and VoIP-over-wireless

IP in Wireless Networks is the first comprehensive guide that shows how IP is enabled in 2G, 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. A world-class team of wireless engineers presents a systematic, expert guidance for every leading wireless technology, including 802.11, Bluetooth(tm), GSM/GPRS, CDMA and i-mode. This book's in-depth coverage encompasses architecture, deployment strategies, operation, mobility models, applications, and much more.

• The evolution of wireless networks from circuit-switched to packet-switched


• Key technical challenges to wireless IP—and proven solutions


• Current and emerging wireless IP applications, including Multimedia messaging, VoIP-over-wireless, and location services


• The standards bodies relevant to the wireless architectures that are defining the specifications for the emerging wireless Internet


• Beyond 3G: a 3GPP/3GPP2 perspective

If you're responsible for planning, developing, deploying, or managing wireless IP networks, you'll find IP in Wireless Networks an indispensable resource.

IP-Based Next-Generation Wireless Networks: Systems, Architectures, and Protocols : 9780471235262

As wireless IP (Internet Protocol) networking technologies have become increasingly critical for the telecommunications industry, many standards organizations have sought to define a global infrastructure for wireless IP networks. This book is a practical source of up-to-date information on the growing body of specifications associated with wireless IP network architectures, systems, and protocols, with a focus on the network layer and above.

In a clear, understandable manner, the authors, both leading experts in the field, provide a detailed description and comparison of next-generation wireless networks, specifically IP-based wireless networks, and discuss critical issues that may arise in their design.

Starting with a historical look at wireless networks, the authors review the evolution of public mobile services into the current wave of mobile data services. They discuss the motivations for IP-based wireless networks and provide an overview of related architecture and standards activities, particularly as defined by 3GPP and 3GPP2, the two most influential organizations in the field.

In addition to network architecture, the book covers protocols in four major areas:

• Signaling


• Mobility


• Quality of Service (QoS)


• Security

Comprehensive and authoritative, IP-Based Next-Generation Wireless Networks: Systems, Architectures, and Protocols is an invaluable reference for anyone seeking the clarity and perspective often difficult to obtain from standards specs.

About the Author
JYH-CHENG CHEN, PhD, is an associate professor at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Prior to that, he was a research scientist at Telcordia Technologies, Inc. in Morristown, New Jersey. He has drafted numerous documents for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and holds six U.S. patents with 12 more pending.

TAO ZHANG, PhD, is Director of Mobile and Wireless Networking Research at Telcordia Technologies, Inc., with patents pending in several critical areas of wireless IP networking.

IP Addressing Fundamentals : 9781587050671

The reader-friendly explanation of how the IP address space works and how it is used

* A reader-friendly introduction to the complex and confusing topic of IP addressing
* Thorough and understandable explanations of the binary mathematics behind IP addressing
* Complete coverage of the IPv4 address space without distractions of routing or transport protocols
* Detailed explanations of subnetting and supernetting, Variable Length Subnet Masks (VLSMs), CIDR, NAT, portable address spaces, and IPv6
* Strategies for managing an address space for enterprise WANs, data centers, and ISPs
* Numerous examples and an easy-to-read style of writing that imparts a profound understanding of IP addressing

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the native protocol suite of the Internet and has become predominant in virtually all networks and internetworks. Managing an IP address space requires a solid command of binary mathematics, particularly as it is applied within the IP addressing architecture. The mathematics of the IP address space, however, are not intuitive and can be very difficult to grasp. Consequently, learning about IP addressing can be a lot like trying to piece together a jigsaw puzzle-but without knowing what the puzzle is supposed to look like.

IP Addressing Fundamentals explains simply and clearly how the IP address space works and how it is used. This is a reader-friendly book that details the fundamentals of the IP address space from the ground up. IP Addressing Fundamentals unravels the mysteries of subnetting, supernetting, and CIDR; thoroughly explains the binary mathematics of IPv4's addressing space; and demonstrates how an IP address becomes an active component in both networks and internetworks. Author Mark Sportack prepares you for real-world success by walking you through some of the issues and traps that lie in wait for anyone who needs to plan or manage the use of an IP address space. Most importantly, this book doesn't presume you already know what the entire IP addressing puzzle looks like.

IP Addressing Fundamentals imparts a profound command of IP addressing through a clear and concise writing style. Basics are reinforced with detailed information and numerous examples of how the concepts work. This book builds upon concepts presented in earlier chapters and concludes with fairly advanced topics that will become increasingly useful to midlevel network engineers.

After reading IP Addressing Fundamentals, you'll finally understand IP addressing and appreciate both its mechanics and relevance, and you'll know how to efficiently apply your new knowledge.

About the Author

By day, Mark A. Sportack is the director of network engineering for ClearBlue Technologies. His professional responsibilities include setting technical direction for data networks within the company's Internet data centers, network planning and design, capacity management, and network security. By night, Mark is an adjunct professor with Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and Technology, where he teaches graduate courses on data networking. During the course of the last 20 years, Mark has worked in virtually every aspect of Information Technology, from administering networks and servers to managing technology and technical personnel. Mark has also written a variety of books, including IP Routing Fundamentals published by Cisco Press, Networking Essentials Unleashed, and many others.

IP Addressing and Subnetting, Including IPv6 : 9781928994015

This book covers every aspect of the current version, as well as what will be a widespread migration starting in late 1999. These include: increasing the IP address size from 32 bits to 128 bits; supporting more levels of addressing hierarchy and an increased number of addressable nodes; supporting simpler auto-configuration of addresses; improving the scalability of multicast routing by adding a "scope" field to multicast addresses; and using a new "anycast address" to send a packet to any one of a group of nodes. As in other Syngress books, this one makes a complex subject accessible by including appendices, summaries, extensive art, and detailed indexes. (Coq)

Investment Performance Measurement (Frank J. Fabozzi Series) : 9780471268499

Investment is an initial forfeit of something we value in exchange for
the anticipated benefit of getting back more than we put in. The difference
between what we put in and what we got back is the return; we
invest in order to yield this return. For financial assets return includes
both the gain we receive when we finally either sell them to someone
else, or they mature, as well as the income earned between the purchase
and sale. Return is compensation for giving up the use of the capital in
the interim. For most investments at the outset we cannot be sure of the
value of the income and gains we will receive. The spectrum of instruments
we could invest in provides a varying degree of return uncertainty.
We can predict the return we will earn on a one-month T-bill
with complete accuracy where we couldn’t hazard a guess as to the
return of an investment in an emerging markets stock fund. Financial
theory and experience suggest that the highest return given a particular
level of risk taken is likely to be achieved via the diversification of our
assets across multiple security holdings. So we usually invest via a portfolio
of securities, or a set of portfolios each managed to a particular
objective. The higher the degree of return uncertainty, or risk, in a given
investment, the more return we demand.