Multicast routing was introduced with the advent of multiparty applications (for example, videoconferencing on the Internet) and collaborative work (for example, distributed simulations). It is related to the concept of group communication, a technique introduced to reduce communication costs.

The various problems of multicast routing on the Internet are examined in detail. They include: group membership management, quality of service, reliability, safety, scalability and transport. Throughout the text, several protocols are introduced in order to analyze, compare and cover the various aspects of multicast routing.

About the Author

Abderrahim Benslimane is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Avignon, France. Currently, he is responsible for the Masters programme in networks, telecoms and multimedia. He is team leader of the computer networks and multimedia applications research group. His research and teaching interests are group communication protocols, quality of service in wired and mobile networks and inter-vehicular communication. He is also author of several refereed publications in these areas, as well as being involved in related scientific projects.

Marc Frappier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

The 37 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data warehousing and data mining, design methodologies and tools, information and database integration, information modelling concepts and ontologies, integrity constraints, logical foundations of conceptual modelling, patterns and conceptual meta-modelling, requirements elicitation, reuse and reengineering, semi-structured data and XML, as well as Web information systems and XML.

Information visualization offers a unique method to reveal hidden patterns and contextual information in a visual presentation and allows users to seek information in an intuitive way. Jin Zhang provides a systematic explanation of the latest advancements in information retrieval visualization from both theoretical and practical perspectives. He reviews the main approaches and techniques available in the field, explains theoretical relationships between information retrieval and information visualization, and presents major information retrieval visualization algorithms and models. He then takes a detailed look at the theory and applications of information retrieval visualization for Internet traffic analysis, and Internet information searching and browsing. The author also addresses challenges such as ambiguity, metaphorical applications, and system evaluation in information retrieval visualization environments. Finally, he compares these information retrieval visualization models from the perspectives of visual spaces, semantic frameworks, projection algorithms, ambiguity, and information retrieval, and discusses important issues of information retrieval visualization and research directions for future exploration.

Readers of this book will gain an in-depth understanding of the current state of information retrieval visualization. They will be introduced to existing problems for researchers and professionals, along with technical and theoretical findings and advances made by leading researchers. The book also provides practical details for the implementation of an information retrieval visualization system.

In this book, a systematic treatment of this practical design problem is provided for signal processing in the physical layer with multiple antennas. The design of robust signal processing algorithms is based on a description of the errors and the uncertainties in the system's model. It applies principles of modern estimation, optimization, and information theory. Tutorial introductions to relevant literature and mathematical foundations give the necessary background and context to the reader.

The book provides detailed derivations and enlightening insights into the related technical problems covering the following topics in detail: An overview of the principles of training-based multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation. Robust minimax estimation of the wireless communication channel. Robust minimax prediction of the wireless communication channel based on the maximum Doppler frequency. Identification of channel and noise correlations (power delay profile, spatial and temporal correlations, spatial correlations of interference). Interpolation of band-limited autocovariance sequences. Robust linear and nonlinear precoding for the multi-user downlink with multiple antennas which is based on incomplete channel state information or channel correlations (performance measures, duality, robust Tomlinson-Harashima precoding, robust vector precoding, nonlinear beamforming).

The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on high performance and network processors, high-level active network applications, low-level active network applications, self-organization of active services, experiences with service engineering for active networks, management in active networks, and selected topics in active networks.

LINQ in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial for professional developers. This book explores what can be done with LINQ, shows how it works in an application, and addresses the emerging best practices. It presents the general purpose query facilities offered by LINQ in the upcoming C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 languages. A running example introduces basic LINQ concepts. You'll then learn to query unstructured data using LINQ to XML and relational data with LINQ to SQL. Finally, you'll see how to extend LINQ for custom applications.

LINQ in Action will guide you along as you explore this new world of lambda expressions, query operators, and expression trees. As well, you'll explore the new features of C# 3.0, VB.NET 9.0. The book is very practical, anchoring each new idea with running code. Whether you want to use LINQ to query objects, XML documents, or relational databases, you will find all the information you need to get started

But LINQ in Action does not stop at the basic code. This book also shows you how LINQ can be used for advanced processing of data, including coverage of LINQ's extensibility, which allows querying more data sources than those supported by default. All code samples are built on a concrete business case. The running example, LinqBooks, is a personal book cataloging system that shows you how to create LINQ applications with Visual Studio 2008.

About the Author

Fabrice Marguerie is a software architect and developer based in Paris, France. Fabrice is a C# MVP has been working with LINQ from the first prototypes. Steve Eichert is a Sr. Software Engineer for Algorithmics, Inc. based in Philadelphia, PA. Jim Wooley has been working with .NET since PDC 2000 and has been actively evangelizing LINQ since its announcement in 2005. He leads the Atlanta VB Study Group and serves as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region.

Brenda Huettner is a writer, speaker, and consultant with 18 years of experience in the technical publications field. She has written manuals, help systems, procedures, and proposals for a wide variety of corporate clients, and has published several magazine articles. A regular presenter at conferences across the country, Huettner speaks on career issues, documentation, and management.

Thomas W. Shinder, MD is an MCSE and has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his work with ISA Server and is recognized in the firewall community as one of the foremost experts on ISA Server. His first two books on ISA Server have sold more than 50,000 units worldwide. Tom has consulted with major companies and organizations such as Microsoft Corp., Xerox, Lucent Technologies, FINA Oil, Hewlett-Packard, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Tom is the primary contributor on ISAserver.org (isaserver.org), where he answers hundreds of questions per week on the discussion boards and is the leading content contributor.

• Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle's basic interface and learn to start a course.
• Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades.
• Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool.
• Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle's built-in survey functions for assessing your class.
• Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you're on your own, there's a lot of power behind the curtain.

The IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL) places the “best practices” in IT operations at your command. ITIL helps you make better technology choices, manages IT more effectively, and drives greater business value from all your IT investments. The core of ITIL is configuration management: the discipline of identifying, tracking, and controlling your IT environment’s diverse components to gain accurate and timely information for better decision-making.

Now, there’s a practical, start-to-finish guide to ITIL configuration management for every IT leader, manager, and practitioner. ITIL-certified architect and solutions provider Larry Klosterboer helps you establish a clear roadmap for success, customize standard processes to your unique needs, and avoid the pitfalls that stand in your way.

You’ll learn how to plan your implementation, deploy tools and processes, administer ongoing configuration management tasks, refine ITIL information, and leverage it for competitive advantage. Throughout, Klosterboer demystifies ITIL’s jargon, illuminates each technique with real-world advice and examples, and helps you focus on the specific techniques that offer maximum business value in your environment.

Coverage includes

• Assessing your current configuration management maturity and setting goals for improvement
• Gathering and managing requirements to align ITIL with organizational needs
• Describing the schema of your configuration management database (CMDB)
• Identifying, capturing, and organizing configuration data
• Choosing the best tools for your requirements
• Integrating data and processes to create a unified logical CMDB and configuration management service
• Implementing pilot projects to demonstrate the value of configuration management and to test your planning

• Moving from a pilot to wide-scale enterprise deployment
• Defining roles for deployment and ongoing staffing
• Leveraging configuration management information: Reporting and beyond
• Measuring and improving CMDB data accuracy

Larry Klosterboer is a certified IT architect specializing in systems management. He works for IBM’s global service delivery team out of Austin, Texas. Larry has more than 18 years of experience in service delivery, spanning technologies from mainframe to networking to desktop computing. His areas of focus have included network design, UNIX® systems administration, asset management, and most recently, implementing IT service management.

jQuery in Action, like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make you a more efficient and effective web developer. In a short 300 pages, this book introduces you to the jQuery programming model and guides you through the major features and techniques you'll need to be productive immediately. The book anchors each new concept in the tasks you'll tackle in day-to-day web development and offers unique lab pages where you immediately put your jQuery knowledge to work.

There are dozens of JavaScript libraries available now, with major companies like Google, Yahoo and AOL open-sourcing their in-house tools. This book shows you how jQuery stacks up against other libraries and helps you navigate interaction with other tools and frameworks.

jQuery in Action offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript. This book covers all major features and capabilities in a manner focused on getting the reader up and running with jQuery from the very first sections. Web Developers reading this book will gain a deep understanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives, as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.

About the Author

Bear Bibeault has been working in the area of web applications since the mid-90s, getting started with beta versions of JSP and Servlets. He is a senior moderator at the popular JavaRanch site, and has contributed articles to that site's JavaRanch Journal. He also co-authored two other Manning books: Ajax in Practice and Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Bear works and resides in Austin, TX. Yehuda Katz contributes actively to jQuery, heading up the plugin development team. He also runs Visual jQuery, a dynamic, brosable version of the jQuery API, used heavily by new users of the library and core developers alike. Born in Minnesota and raised in New York, he now lives in sunny Santa Barbara, CA, where he works for Procore Technologies.

Using IBM® Rational® RequisitePro®, you can systematically improve the way you create and maintain requirements–and use those requirements to build more effective, higher-quality software. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive, hands-on guide to optimally using RequisitePro in real-world development environments.

Utilizing a start-to-finish sample project, requirements expert Peter Zielczynski introduces an organized, best-practice approach to managing requirements and shows how to implement every step with RequisitePro. You’ll walk through planning, eliciting, and clarifying stakeholder requirements; building use cases and other key project documents; managing changing requirements; transforming requirements into designs; and much more. Every stage of the process is illuminated with examples, realistic artifacts, and practical solutions.

This book is an invaluable resource for everyone who creates requirements, and everyone who relies on them: business analysts, systems analysts, project managers, architects, designers, developers, and testers alike.

Coverage includes

• Overcoming the three leading causes of project failure: lack of user input, incomplete requirements and specifications, and poorly managed change
• Understanding each type of software requirement–how they interrelate, and what makes a good requirement
• Establishing a Requirements Management Plan that describes how requirements are created and handled throughout the project lifecycle
• Developing a Vision document that can drive your project from beginning to end
• Creating high-quality use cases
• Using requirements as the basis for system design
• Leveraging RequisitePro features for improved project management
• Integrating requirements management with the IBM Rational Unified Process®

About the Author

Peter Zielczynski has 25 years of experience in information technology. He holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Technical University of Warsaw. He has published more than ten articles in technical journals and has made several presentations at international conferences, including the Rational Users Conference. Peter worked at Cyfronet developing expert systems, and then as a consultant for such clients as IBM, Merrill Lynch, Ernst & Young, and AIG. He was cofounder and CEO of a consulting company, International Object Technology, which was eventually acquired by a publicly traded company, The A Consulting Team (currently Helios & Matheson North America). Peter specializes in Requirements Management, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, and Project Management and has been using Rational tools since 1994.

An essential resource on the future of IP networks

Everyone agrees that Internet Protocol (IP) has played and will play a major role in the evolution of networks and services. The exact nature and scope of that role, however, remains a point of discussion. Assembling the foremost experts in their respective fields, editors Salah Aidarous and Thomas Plevyak present the community with an invaluable resource for research and development in Managing IP Networks: Challenges and Opportunities.

Issues related to end-to-end network and service management, for example, will dramatically impact the future of IP networks, yet there remains a scholarly deficit between the significance of these topics and their presence in the current literature. Aidarous and Plevyak make up this difference, addressing these and other critical challenges affecting the growth of IP networks, with contributions from:

• Paul Levine
• Joberto Martins
• Burkhard Stiller
• Mostafa Hashem Sherif
• Andrea Fumagalli
• Javier Aracil
• Luca Valcarenghi

Network operations engineers, computer scientists, and management software vendors, as well as professionals in the continuing education and research and development communities, will find Managing IP Networks to be an invaluable addition to their professional libraries.

About the Author

The late Dr. SALAH AIDAROUS worked in the Network Management Division of NEC America on the planning and development of integrated network management systems. Prior to his association with NEC, he was with Nortel Technology (formerly BNR), working on a broad range of assignments in telecommunications networks and services planning and development.

THOMAS PLEVYAK is Editor in Chief of IEEE Communications magazine and a past president and director of publications of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). An IEEE Fellow, he is currently employed at Verizon Communications in Arlington, Virginia, in the field of operations and network management standards.

The book presents the following four revised and extended chapters first given as lectures at the Generic Programming Summer School held at the University of Oxford, UK in August 2002:

- Generic Haskell: Practice and Theory

- Generic Haskell: Applications

- Generic Properties of Datatypes

- Basic Category Theory for Models of Syntax

"For ideas fundamental to the emergence of object-oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67."

This Festschrift opens with a short biography and a bibliography recollecting Ole-Johan Dahl's life and work, as well as a paper he wrote entitled: "The Birth of Object-Orientation: the Simula Languages." The main part of the book consists of 14 scientific articles written by leading scientists who worked with Ole-Johan Dahl as students or colleagues. In accordance with the scope of Ole-Johan Dahl's work and the book's title, the articles are centered around object-orientation and formal methods.

No Nonsense Guides are here. With a plainspoken approach, these books are inexpensive starters that are light on idle chat and heavy on practical advice. They're lean and mean and stripped down to fighting weight, so you'll get from point A to point Z with instruction that's short and sweet, clear and concise. So, crack the cover and unleash enough useful information and helpful pointers to transform you into a first-rate Photoshop Elements 2 user.

What you'll do inside:

• Revive old photos
• Create digital paintings
• Organize your images
• Optimize graphics for the Web
• Share files with friends
• Make slide shows
• Save files for premium performance
• Add 3-D type
• Transform photos into works of art
• Combine images
• Create illusions
• Improve digital photos

Kate Bodenmiller still owns a Mac Se II, which she keeps in a box in her basement. With the help of more current apple technology, she makes a living as a freelance graphic designer in the book publishing and consumer product fields.

Greg Simsic is an artist living and working in New York City. He has penned 5 books on Photoshop and Illustrator including Photoshop Type Magic and www.photoshop.imageready-his latest. All of these books emphasize simple, clear direction-some say an antidote to his otherwise altogether aimless sojourns. He has worked in the graphics and design field for ten years.

Structured by presenting both systems in parallel, Mathematicas users can learn Maple quickly by finding the Maple equivalent to Mathematica functions, and vice versa.

This student reference handbook consists of core material for incorporating Maple and Mathematica as a working tool into different undergraduate mathematical courses (algebra, geometry, calculus, complex functions, special functions, integral transforms, mathematical equations).

Part I describes the foundations of Maple and Mathematica (with equivalent problems and solutions). Part II describes Mathematics with Maple and Mathematica by using equivalent problems.

Describing mature and consolidated approaches to developing complex applications, this edited volume is divided into three parts and covers the challenges web application developers face; design issues for web applications; and how to measure and evaluate web applications in a consistent way.

With contributions from leading researchers in the field this book will appeal to researchers and students as well as to software engineers, software architects and business analysts.

This book explains and explores the principal techniques of Data Mining: for classification, generation of association rules and clustering. It is written for readers without a strong background in mathematics or statistics and focuses on detailed examples and explanations of the algorithms given. This should prove of value to readers of all kinds, from those whose only use of data mining techniques will be via commercial packages right through to academic researchers.

This book aims to help the general reader develop the necessary understanding to use commercial data mining packages discriminatingly, as well as enabling the advanced reader to understand or contribute to future technical advances in the field. Each chapter has practical exercises to enable readers to check their progress. A full glossary of technical terms used is included.

Topics in this series include:

• The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science
• Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources 
• Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks
• Ad-Hoc Networking
• Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility
• The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond
• History of Computing and Education
• Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing
• Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice
• Applications in Artificial Intelligence
• Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of Software

For a complete list of the more than 300 titles in the IFIP Series, visit springer.com.

For more information about IFIP, please visit ifip.org.

The book brings the reader to the front line of current research in the field by showing both recent achievements and directions of future investigations (in particular, multiple open problems). It also provides examples of potential applications in emergent fields like security protocols, quantum computing, networks and argumentation theory, besides discussing more classical applications like software specification, knowledge representation, computational linguistics and modular automated reasoning.

This monograph will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in mathematical logic, theory of computation and philosophical logic with no previous knowledge of the subject of combining and decomposing logics, but with a working knowledge of first-order logic. The book will also be relevant for people involved in research projects where logic is used as a tool and the need for working with several logics at the same time is mandatory (for instance, temporal, epistemic and probabilistic logics).

• Covers the full process of Flash animation, through preproduction, production, and post production
• Covers many practical techniques, including creating character libraries, using plugins, and camera mechanics with After Effects.
• Written by the Emmy award winning ANIMAX studios team

Fully revised for the latest exam release, this authoritative volume offers thorough coverage of all the material on the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. Written by a renowned security expert and CISSP, this guide features complete details on all 10 exam domains developed by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC²). Inside, you'll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice questions, and in-depth explanations. CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fourth Edition will not only help you pass the test, but also be your essential on-the-job reference.

Covers all 10 subject areas on the exam:

• Access control
• Application security
• Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
• Cryptography
• Information security and risk management
• Legal, regulations, compliance, and investigations
• Operations security
• Physical (environmental) security
• Security architecture and design
• Telecommunications and network security

The CD-ROM features:

• Simulated exam with practice questions and answers
• Video training from the author
• Complete electronic book

Shon Harris, CISSP, MCSE, is the president of Logical Security, an IT security consulting and training company. She is a former engineer in the Air Force's Information Warfare unit, an instructor, and the bestselling author of the previous three editions of this book. Shon has taught computer and information security to a wide range of clients, including RSA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the National Security Agency (NSA), and many more.

The ecosystem of products that rotate around Flex 2 and Flex 3 is really broad. Flex Builder, Flex SDK, and Charting Components are all essential parts of the technology that fit the different requirements of web development.

This enormous set of possibilities can easily lead to overload for developers like you. Theres just too much to learn and too many potential places to go when you hit a brick wall. Wouldnt it be nice to have a library of solutions to solve these problems quickly and easily?

This book provides just that, with more than 100 solutions to common problems in one handy volume.

Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3 Developers faces problems and provides solutions that can be applied to any project, from the most simple to the most complex. The solutions range from customizing Flex components with ActionScript 3.0, using the data models and the ActionScript classes as Value objects, validating and formatting data, using RPC classes to access remote data, to optimizing data-exchange performance using AMF3.

Solutions are also provided for enhancing the security of Flex applications; and techniques are offered for optimizing the actual work environment by increasing the performance of Flex Builder, adding video content, and creating an AIR project to bring your web application onto the desktop.

If you want to learn about and start to develop RIAs in a short time, being immediately productive and mastering the Flex development techniques, Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers is the book you need.

• Effectively plan, wireframe, specify, develop, and release large-scale Flex applications, and discover what other development tools you'll want to start using immediately
• Make your Flex applications look less like Flex with advanced styling and skinning techniques
• Harness advanced Flex form features, including coding validators and building your custom form components
• Implement a robust advertising system for a Flex application using OpenAds
• Build powerful, custom multimedia players in Flex, including video players with the native VideoDisplay class and from scratch, and music players with advanced sound visualization

The New Global Hub of IT Outsourcing

Welcome to the new technology outsourcing services industry reality: China!

The factors that point to a country's potential and success as an outsourcing destination inevitably lead to the one country that is rapidly becoming the new hub for IT outsourcing—China.

Most business executives and international business leaders do not realize the benefits that outsourcing to China has.These include:

• The largest pool of annual computer sciences and software graduate talent

• More than a decade of sustained economic growth and a stable outlook

• World-class infrastructure and networks

• Expanding English and foreign-language capability

• Government commitment to the high-tech industry

• Stringent enforcement of IPR protection and data security

• Steady expansion of companies into China as their core business strategic market

How will your business leverage this new technological landscape? Source Code China considers this paradigm shift and examines how China became the new global and strategic technology outsourcing leader.

Challenging the conventional outsourcing destinations and wisdom, author Cyrill Eltschinger, an industry pioneer and outsourcing expert with more than a decade of experience working in China, reveals how your company can gain a competitive edge from China's technology leadership. He shares strategies for success, important lessons learned, and practical advice for today's multinational executive in search for excellence.

Win the global outsourcing race—learn why China is the clear choice for your business' leading source of offshoring technology talent. Source Code China provides you with the competitive edge to prepare your business for the new reality of the global technology landscape.

About the Author

Cyrill Eltschinger is CEO of I.T. UNITED, a strategic outsourcing firm that specializes in tailor-made technology solutions and staff augmentation IT services. The company today is one of the most trusted China-based outsourcing services providers, delivering cost-effective IT solutions to clients inside and outside China. He currently serves as Chairman of SwissCham China (Swiss Chinese Chamber of Commerce), is an industry subject expert for the Gerson Lehrman Group Technology Council, and is an advisor to several China government agencies. He is an avid aviator and was the first foreigner to be awarded a private pilot's license in China since 1949.

This volume presents basic models of RSM and the Semantic Link Network (SLN), the relationship between the two, and an approach to integrating the two models and exploring their semantic-rich interconnection. Also detailed is a comprehensive theory of query operations on RSM and extensive coverage of the distributed RSM in parallel with the distributed relational database systems.

This text is sure to be considered a substantial contribution to the field of Knowledge Grid by researchers in the areas of web, semantic web, and decentralized data engineering, as well as the emerging semantic and knowledge grid arena.

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on "web standards"--semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.

Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever since.

Karl's other obsessions include photography, karate, English grammar, and fatherhood. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Sara, and his two children, Benjamin and Lucia.

Jonathan Chaffer is the Chief Technology Officer of Structure Interactive, an interactive agency located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he oversees web development projects using a wide range of technologies, and continues to collaborate on day-to-day programming tasks as well.

In the open-source community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and developer API reference.

Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

• Fundamental language elements (e.g., block structure, datatypes, declarations)
• Statements for program control, cursor management, and exception handling
• Records, procedures, functions, triggers, and packages
• Calling PL/SQL functions in SQL
• Compilation options, object-oriented features, collections, and Java integration

An updated introduction to the workings of the computer explores the basics of microchips, hardware, software, and computer memory, providing an entertaining and informative tour of every part of the computer, from hard drive and processor to mouse, monitor, and keyboard. Also takes you through the workings of digital cameras, ebooks, Bluetooth, and much more. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Ron White is a senior editor at PC Computing where he writes the CD-Ron and Net Kahuna columns. Founder of one of the earliest PC user groups, he has been writing about computers for 15 years, and is the author of two other books, How Software Works and How Anyone Can Fix and Rev Up PCs. The second edition of How Computers Work won an award for best non-fiction computer book from the Computer Press Association. Timothy Downs is a long-time artist with Ziff Davis Publications. He currently illustrates for PCComputing and has been illustratior for the popular How It Works stories there. He is the original artist for the first edition of How Computers Work. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures, a professional book, discusses privacy as multi-dimensional, and then pulls forward the economics of privacy in the first few chapters. This book also includes identity-based signatures, spyware, and the placement of biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The final chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status. In conclusion, four startling previews of the future are written as scenarios.

Topics and Features: Introduces assembly language so that readers can benefit from learning its utility with both CISC and RISC processors [ NEW ].- Employs the freely available NASM assembler, which works with both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems [ NEW ].- Contains a revised chapter on "Basic Computer Organization" [ NEW].- Uses numerous examples, hands-on exercises, programming code analyses and challenges, and chapter summaries.- Incorporates full new chapters on recursion, protected-mode interrupt processing, and floating-point instructions [ NEW ].

Assembly language programming is part of several undergraduate curricula in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. In addition, this newly revised text/reference can be used as an ideal companion resource in a computer organization course or as a resource for professional courses.

This second edition presents new developments and discoveries that have been made in the field. Parsing techniques have grown considerably in importance, both in computational linguistics where such parsers are the only option, and computer science, where advanced compilers often use general CF parsers. Parsing techniques provide a solid basis for compiler construction and contribute to all existing software: enabling Web browsers to analyze HTML pages and PostScript printers to analyze PostScript. Some of the more advanced techniques are used in code generation in compilers and in data compression.

In linguistics, the importance of formal grammars was recognized early on, but only recently have the corresponding parsing techniques been applied. Also their importance as general pattern recognizers is slowly being acknowledged. This text Parsing Techniques explores new developments, such as generalized deterministic parsing, linear-time substring parsing, parallel parsing, parsing as intersection, non-canonical methods, and non-Chomsky systems.

To provide readers with low-threshold access to the full field of parsing techniques, this new edition uses a two-tiered structure. The basic ideas behind the dozen or so existing parsing techniques are explained in an intuitive and narrative style, and problems are presented at the conclusion of each chapter, allowing the reader to step outside the bounds of the covered material and explore parsing techniques at various levels. The reader is also provided with an extensive annotated bibliography as well as hints and partial solutions to a number of problems. In the bibliography, hundreds of realizations and improvements of parsing techniques are explained in a much terser, yet still informal, style, improving its readability and usability.

The reader should have an understanding of algorithmic thinking, especially recursion; however, knowledge of any particular programming language is not required.

• Types and Operations -- Python's major built-in object types in depth: numbers, lists, dictionaries, and more
• Statements and Syntax -- the code you type to create and process objects in Python, along with Python's general syntax model
• Functions -- Python's basic procedural tool for structuring and reusing code
• Modules -- packages of statements, functions, and other tools organized into larger components
• Classes and OOP -- Python's optional object-oriented programming tool for structuring code for customization and reuse
• Exceptions and Tools -- exception handling model and statements, plus a look at development tools for writing larger programs

The 97 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 6 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 379 submissions. The papers address all current issues in theoretical computer science including algorithms, automata, complexity, cryptography, database logics, program semantics, and programming theory.

This book addresses the topic of querying information privately in a systematic and comprehensive way, developing practical solutions in the context of database systems. Based on thorough theoretical analyses, the author develops concepts for solutions of real-world settings, in particular for scalable database systems.

Recognized as the leading medical histology text in the world, Basic Histology: Text & Atlas offers the most comprehensive approach to the relationship between tissue structure and function and the physiologic response in the human body. Completely updated and redesigned in true-to-life color, it continues to pave the way as the most authoritative text of its kind.

*Showcases over 600 high quality photomicrographs, electron micrographs, and illustrations, 500 of which are in full color
*Emphasizes cell biology as the most fundamental approach to understanding structure and function of tissues and organs
*Clear and comprehensive explanations of microscopic anatomy
*Full-color photomicrographs prepared from new tissue samples feature distinctive labeling that clearly pinpoints the elements of interest and enhances the didactic nature of the book
*Bonus CD-ROM image library includes all of the photomicrographs and illustrations in the book
*Medical applications relate histology to pathobiology, diagnosis, and clinical aspects of disease
*Key concepts highlighted in each chapter

Image Library CD-ROM
*Includes over 600 photomicrographs and illustrations from Basic Histology: Text & Atlas, 10th Edition
*Organized by chapter
*Fully searchable
*“Zoom in” and “zoom out” functionality facilitates exploration of the relationship between structure and function of cells and tissues and physiologic response
*Advanced image management system enables compilation of image catalogs and importation of images into PowerPoint presentations --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Luiz Carlos Junqueira, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Medical School
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

José Carneiro, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

This book constitutes a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the state of the art of formal concept analysis and its applications. The first part of the book is devoted to foundational and methodological topics. The contributions in the second part demonstrate how formal concept analysis is successfully used outside of mathematics, in linguistics, text retrieval, association rule mining, data analysis, and economics. The third part presents applications in software engineering.

Reconstruction Era Reference Library: Primary Sources includes rich source material, including the Civil Rights Act, Freedman's Bureau Law, diaries of former slaves, the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and more.

Fundamental Algorithms begins with mathematical preliminaries. The first section offers a good grounding in a variety of useful mathematical tools: proof techniques, combinatorics, and elementary number theory. Knuth then details the MIX processor, a virtual machine architecture that serves as the programming target for subsequent discussions. This wonderful section comprehensively covers the principles of simple machine architecture, beginning with a register-level discussion of the instruction set. A later discussion of a simulator for this machine includes an excellent description of the principles underlying the implementation of subroutines and co-routines. Implementing such a simulator is an excellent introduction to computer design.

In the second section, Knuth covers data structures--stacks, queues, lists, arrays, and trees--and presents implementations (in MIX assembly) along with techniques for manipulating these structures. Knuth follows many of the algorithms with careful time and space analysis. In the section on tree structures, the discussion includes a series of interesting problems concerning the combinatorics of trees (counting distinct trees of a particular form, for example) and some particularly interesting applications. Also featured is a discussion of Huffmann encoding and, in the section on lists, an excellent introduction to garbage collection algorithms and the difficult challenges associated with such a task. The book closes with a discussion of dynamic allocation algorithms.

This is not a programming guide. Yes, there is code, but this digital shortcut is not about coding. Rather, this is really a short about design, about philosophy, and about appreciating beauty. This short looks at the way in which the grace of Ruby informs the design of Rails.

This is a surprisingly underappreciated concept. Of course, many people have already written about what they find beautiful in Railsaspects of style we will explore furtherbut what the newcomer to Rails might miss is that Rails's design directly reflects Ruby's underlying beauty. Although the name Ruby on Rails suggests that the Rails model could be developed on top of other languages (Perl on Rails? Visual Basic on Rails? Cobol on Rails?), such development is impossible without losing some things in the process. Sure, any Rails port or clone can share certain outward similarities (in the way a cheap lemon and a well-designed automobile both have steering wheels and engines and doors and seats), but Rails's success is as much a measure of Ruby's expressive power as it is of Rails's conventions. Sadly, however, this point is usually lost on people coming to Rails from other more limited languages (PHP, Perl, C++, Java, and so on); but then again, it is never really a connection that is stressed.

This digital shortcut is not a guide for learning Rails; you can already find many excellent books on that topic. However, all of them are designed to quickly drive their readers toward proficiency in Rails. They just do not have the luxury of exploring the Ruby foundation of Rails in any depth. Instead, they usually have to treat distinctive Ruby featuresthings such as symbols, blocks, and metaprogrammingin passing (if at all), like quaint towns and scenic overlooks glimpsed briefly from a car hurtling forward on an interstate highway. The problem here is that the beauty of Ruby gets short shrift. Therefore, many people who have come to coding in Ruby from Rails do not really get Ruby as much as they would like. That is where this digital shortcut comes in.

We're taking the scenic route instead. I do not cover a hitlist of topics either quickly or in depth. I do not teach you Ruby or Rails in 10 days or your money back. I assume you already know how Rails works. By extension, I also assume you have some experience with Ruby but do not understand it entirely; that is, your Ruby coding resembles more Ruby-inflected PHP or Ruby-tinged Java, and you want to become more articulate in the Ruby language. This is not an in-depth guide to the Ruby language, however. Instead, I share with you a few examples of code from within the Rails source code (and perhaps a few other places) that I think are beautiful, some of which also conveniently cause confusion and bewilderment to newcomers. The main goal is aesthetic appreciation and philosophical alignment, nothing more. However, I hope this approach affects you in subtler waysimproving your understanding of why Ruby works and how you can become a better programmer in it.

The 27 revised full papers presented together with the abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 118 submissions. The papers deal with a broad variety of current issues in the specification, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems.

The 21 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Besides technical topics in distributed and open systems, issues from law, social sciences, business, and philosophy are addressed in order to develop a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the issues and challenges in the area of trust management in dynamic open systems.

The 22 revised full papers and 4 tool presentation papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of another invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on objects and aspects, smart cards, components, security and web services, modeling and requirements, testing, and model checking and analysis.

• design and analysis of symmetric key cryptosystems,
• primitives for symmetric key cryptography, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, and MACs,
• efficient implementation of cryptographic systems in public and symmetric key cryptography,
• cryptographic solutions for Web services security,
• cryptography and security of trusted and distributed systems.

This book assesses this research frontier from a computer science perspective, investigating the various scientific and technological issues, open problems, and roadmap. The editors manage a research project called GeoPKDD, Geographic Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery and Delivery, funded by the EU Commission and involving 40 researchers from 7 countries, and this book tightly integrates and relates their findings in 13 chapters covering all related subjects, including the concepts of movement data and knowledge discovery from movement data; privacy-aware geographic knowledge discovery; wireless network and next-generation mobile technologies; trajectory data models, systems and warehouses; privacy and security aspects of technologies and related regulations; querying, mining and reasoning on spatiotemporal data; and visual analytics methods for movement data.

This book will benefit researchers and practitioners in the related areas of computer science, geography, social science, statistics, law, telecommunications and transportation engineering.

How to:

· Define and document comprehensive non-functional requirements for any software system

· Define scope and logistics for non-functional test activities

· Execute non-functional tests and report results clearly and effectively

· Patterns for defensive software designs in common software scenarios that promote operability and availability

· Implement the right level of reporting, monitoring, and trending for highly available production software systems

Patterns for:

· Software designs that support simpler and more efficient operation in a production environment

· Software design that support high-performance and scalability

Strategies and Techniques for:

· Techniques for managing and troubleshooting during a production crisis

· Strategies for resisting project pressure to compromise on quality or completeness of non-functional activities in the software cycle

Inside, the authors walk you step by step from the creation of the site's virtually static front page, through user registration and authentication, and into a highly dynamic site, complete with user profiles, image upload, email, blogs, full-text and geographical search, and a friendship request system. In the process, you learn how Rails helps you control code complexity with the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, abstraction layers, automated testing, and code refactoring, allowing you to scale up to a large project even with a small number of developers.

This essential introduction to Rails provides

• A tutorial approach that allows you to experience Rails as it is actually used
• A solid foundation for creating any login-based website in Rails
• Coverage of newer and more advanced Rails features, such as form generators, REST, and Ajax (including RJS)
• A thorough and integrated introduction to automated testing

The book's companion website provides the application source code, a blog with follow-up articles, narrated screencasts, and a working version of the RailSpace social network.

Michael Hartl is a programmer and entrepreneur. Before discovering Rails, he used Zope/Python in a startup he cofounded to produce fantasy sports websites, including BracketManager, at the time the number one independent NCAA Basketball Tournament website. Previously, he was a physics instructor at the California Institute of Technology, where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also served as Caltech's editor for The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition (Addison-Wesley). He is a graduate of Harvard College and has a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech.

Aurelius Prochazka is a pioneer of interactive, user-driven websites and has founded several companies, including Creative Internet Design, Inc., and ArsDigita Corporation. After working extensively with many operating systems and web frameworks, he happily calls Macintosh OS X and Ruby on Rails his preferred programming environments. Aurelius is the principal developer of Caltech's main website, as well as its admissions and alumni sites. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has a Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics from Caltech.

The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 95 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Public Key Crypto Applications, Biometrics/Information Hiding, Secure Hardware, Secure Systems, Wireless and Mobile Security, Application Security/Secure Systems, Access Control/DB Security, Smart Cards/Secure Systems and Anonymity and P2P Security.

Constructing Correct Software will provide invaluable reading for students and practitioners of Computer Science and Software Engineering to whom correctness of software is of prime importance.

Part 1, Research Methods and Techniques, examines the proper use of various strategies for collecting and analysing data, and the uses for which those strategies are most appropriate. Part 2, Practical Foundations, provides a discussion of several important global issues that need to be considered from the very beginning of research planning. Finally, Knowledge Creation offers insight on using a set of disparate studies to provide useful decision support.

Topics and features:

Offers information across a range of techniques, methods, and qualitative and quantitative issues, providing a toolkit for the reader that is applicable across the diversity of software development contexts

Presents reference material with concrete software engineering examples

Provides guidance on how to design, conduct, analyse, interpret and report empirical studies, taking into account the common difficulties and challenges encountered in the field

Arms researchers with the information necessary to avoid fundamental risks

Tackles appropriate techniques for addressing disparate studies ensuring the relevance of empirical software engineering, and showing its practical impact

Describes methods that are less often used in the field, providing less conventional but still rigorous and useful ways of collecting data

Supplies detailed information on topics (such as surveys) that often contain methodological errors

This broad-ranging, practical guide will prove an invaluable and useful reference for practising software engineers and researchers. In addition, it will be suitable for graduate students studying empirical methods in software development.

Dr. Forrest Shull is a senior scientist at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland, and the director of its Measurement and Knowledge Management Division. In addition, he serves as associate editor in chief of IEEE Software magazine, specializing in empirical studies.

Dr. Janice Singer heads the Human Computer Interaction program at the National Research Council, Canada. She has been conducting empirical research in software engineering for the past 12 years.

Dr. Dag Sjøberg is currently research director of the software engineering group of the Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, which is ranked No. 3 in the world (out of 1400 institutions) in an evaluation in 2007 in the area of software and systems engineering.

• PSpice AND SPICE 3 models
• Selected examples from the book
• Getting started with Converter Design and Analysis
• Solving Convergence Problems
• CD with OrCAD/PSpice Examples

With this book/CD package, designing today's smaller, cooler-running switchmode power supplies (SMPS) is faster and simpler. Expert Steven M. Sandler provides full explanations of modeling fundamentals and SPICE 3 simulation methods. He walks readers through every aspect of powerful circuit simulation techniques, including filters and magnetics. There's no better source for learning how to:

• Model power factor correctors
• Simulate magnetic components, including EMI filters, buck topology converters, magnetic cores, magnetic circuits, flyback converters, and more
• Design synchronous rectifiers
• Solve convergence problems
• Improve simulation performance
• And much more!

Steven M. Sandler is a consultant to AEi Systems, LLC, a power electronics firm he founded in 1995, and author of SMPS Simulation with SPICE 3, published by McGraw-Hill. He developed and taught courses at Motorola University and has written many articles on power circuit modeling for PCIM, PEIN, and Intusoft Online. He holds a BSEE from Pacific Western University.

The 28 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on user studies, question answering, information models, classification, summarization, image retrieval, evaluation issues, cross-language IR, and web-based and XML IR.