E-based systems are ubiquitous in the modern world with applications spanning e-commerce, WLANs, health care and government organisations. The secure transfer of information has therefore become a critical area of research, development, and investment. This book presents the fundamental concepts and tools of e-based security and its range of applications. The core areas of e-based security - authentication of users; system integrity; confidentiality of communication; availability of business service; and non-repudiation of transactions - are covered in detail. Throughout the book the major trends, challenges and applications of e-security are presented, with emphasis on public key infrastructure (PKI) systems, biometric-based security systems, trust management systems, and the e-service paradigm. Intrusion detection technologies, virtual private networks (VPNs), malware, and risk management are also discussed. Technically oriented with many practical examples, this book is suitable for practitioners in network security, as well as graduate students and researchers in telecommunications and computer science.

Presents fundamental concepts and tools of e-based security. The core areas of security are covered in detail and the major trends, challenges and applications discussed. Technically oriented with practical examples, this book is suitable for practitioners in network security, and graduate students and researchers in telecommunications and computer science.

About the Author

Mohammad S. Obaidat received his PhD in Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at Monmouth University, New Jersey, where his research interests include security of network, computer and information systems; security of E-based systems; and wireless networks and communications. An accomplished writer, he has also been editor of numerous scientific journals over the years.

Noureddine A. Boudriga received his PhD in Mathematics from the University Paris XI, France and in Computer Science from the University Tunis II, Tunisia. He is currently based at The University of 7th November at Carthage in Tunisia, where he is a professor of Telecommunications at the School of Communication Engineering, and Director of the Research Laboratory on Networks and Security. His research interests include network security, risk analysis and high-speed communication networks.

Written by a member of the ZigBee Alliance, a consortium of over 200 companies promoting and maintaining this standard globally!

ZigBee is a standard based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal networks. This standard allows for the creation of very lost cost and low power networks - these applications run for years rather than months. These networks are created from sensors and actuators and can wireless control many electrical products such as remote controls, medical, industrial, and security sensors.

Hundreds of companies are creating applications including Mitsubishi, Motorola, Freescale, and Siemens. This book is written for engineers who plan to develop ZigBee applications and networks, to understand how they work, and to evaluate this technology to see if it is appropriate to a particular project. This book does not simply state facts but explains what ZigBee can do through detailed code examples.

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER 1 HELLO ZIGBEE
CHAPTER 2 DECIDING ON ZIGBEE
CHAPTER 3 THE ZIGBEE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 4 ZIGBEE APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 5 ZIGBEE, ZDO AND ZDP
CHAPTER 6 THE ZIGBEE CLUSTER LIBRARY
CHAPTER 7 THE ZIGBEE NETWORKING LAYER
CHAPTER 8 COMMISSIONING ZIGBEE NETWORKS
CHAPTER 9 ZIGBEE GATEWAYS
APPENDIX A ZIGBEE 2007 AND ZIGBEE PRO
APPENDIX B ZIGBEE QUICK REFERENCE
APPENDIX C ZIGBEE CLUSTER LIBRARY QUICK REFERENCE

*Details how to plan and develop applications and networks
*Zigbee sensors have many applications including industrial automation, medical sensing, remote controls, and security
*Hot topic for today's electrical engineer because it is low cost and low power

"If you're just beginning to dive into the world of 3D, this is the book for you."
--Animation Magazine

Alias' Academy Award winning Maya 3D animation and effects software leads the industry in technological innovation. Film and video artists, computer game developers, and design professionals rely on Maya to create brilliant digital imagery, animation, and visual effects. Now you can enter this exciting, imaginative world and learn to build, render, and animate your own digital characters and scenes.

Brought to you by Maya Press, a publishing partnership between Sybex and Alias, Introducing Maya 6: 3D for Beginners is the ideal initiation to 3D and Maya. Written explicitly for the Maya novice, the easy-to-grasp text offers a practical and fun approach to learning Maya’s core features. Clear-cut, engaging lessons let you try out these features using working files provided on the CD. You’ll also find an abundance of instructional and inspirational art on the CD and full-color insert.

Enter a New Dimension

• Get a solid grasp of the core Maya and 3D
• Learn to navigate the new Maya 6 interface
• Experiment with Maya modeling
• Explore the basics of NURBS, polygons, and subdivision surfaces
• Discover the nuances of shading and texturing
• Try your hand at animation
• Get a feel for Maya lighting, rendering, and dynamics
• Find out how to use Maya and Photoshop in unison

About the Author

Dariush Derakhshani is a senior CGI effects animator with Sight Effects in Venice, CA, working on award-winning national TV commercials. He has won the Bronze Plaque from the Columbus Film Festival and has shared honors from the AICP and London International Advertising Awards. He was a Supervising Technical Director for the South Park TV series, and also teaches Maya and animation at a variety of schools. He is a contributing author to Maya 5 Savvy and Maya: Secrets of the Pros.

Build Dynamic Websites with PHP and MySQL—and Extend Those Sites with Web Services

PHP and MySQL are great tools for building database-driven websites. There's nothing new about that. What is new is the environment in which your site operates—a world rich (and growing richer) in web services that can add value and functionality in many different ways. Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services walks you through every step of a major web project—a content-management system—teaching you both the basic techniques and little-known tricks you need to build successful web sites. And you can use those skills to develop dynamic applications that will meet your special requirements. Here’s some of what you’ll find covered inside:

• Adding, deleting, and displaying data with a custom content-management system
• Building a template system with PHP
• Interacting with web services using PHP and MySQL
• Creating and managing a user system and a shopping cart
• Processing credit card payments using merchant accounts and third-party payment solutions
• Tracking site statistics using PHP and MySQL
• Enhancing your site with third-party scripts

Tons of examples, complete with explanations and supported by online source code, will speed your progress, whether you’re a true beginner or already have PHP experience. This book is platform-agnostic, so it doesn’t matter if you’re deploying your site on Linux or Windows. You also get PHP and MySQL references, so you can quickly resolve questions about syntax and similar issues.

About the Author

Eric Rosebrock, owner of PHP Freaks (http://www.phpfreaks.com), a community of developers helping one another learn and troubleshoot PHP. Eric has developed web pages with HTML, JavaScript, and ASP for 7 years and has been a professional PHP developer for 2 years. He has extensive knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Apache Web Server, and the Linux. Eric was a Windows 2k Sys Admin for the U.S.A.F. for 5 years, and has maintained over 2,000 workstations, 50 Windows 2k and NT servers, and IIS web servers.

The Internet is an amazing communication medium. Its predecessor network, the ARPANET, was developed over three decades ago, yet many of the fundamental algorithms and protocols are still in use today. Granted, we don’t have to run these protocols on a refrigerator-sized computer; our laptop or palmtop PC will do quite well. But think of it - how many other worldwide systems do we have today that have been serving us for several decades, and in much the same form? This is a true credit to the original architects of the Internet, as they clearly took the time to do their homework and designed a very solid system that benefits millions of us everyday.

But all systems require a tuneup or remodeling job over time, and the Internet is no exception. In the last few years we have seen the explosive growth of the World Wide Web, and the transport of multimedia signals, such as voice and video, over the Internet. As a result, new protocols to support real-time traffic have been developed. We have also seen the growth of electronic commerce, which has brought issues of network security to the forefront. And perhaps the biggest issue of all - the overall growth of the Internet - has inspired the development of a new protocol called Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6, that addresses all three of the above challenges: multimedia support, enhanced security, and addressing shortages.

These and many other issues are addressed in this book. My objective has been to provide a comprehensive foundation of information that explains the underlying protocols of the Internet, such as the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), while still looking forward to newer technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol (Vow).

In working towards that objective, I had the support of a great team. My technical editor, Dr. John Thompson, made many constructive comments on the manuscript, and my copy editor, Annette Devlin, made sure that no grammatical rules were violated in the process. My assistant, Donna Mullen, produced all of the figures in the book, researched the appendices, and handled the final layout. My colleagues at John Wiley & Sons, George Telecki and Brendan Codey, provided great logistical support. And I would be remiss not to mention my support from the home front: Holly, Nathan, and Nicholas, with assistance from Boomer and Baron.

Full of practical, proven techniques and step-by-step strategies, this informative resource teaches internet tourism businesses how to attract visitors and convert them into paying customers. With a design that allows each chapter to stand on its own, the book provides easy and immediate implementation for a variety of promotion strategies, including those geared for bed and breakfasts, campgrounds, and theme parks. By learning to utilize industry-specific internet newsgroups and mailing lists, businesses can target their customers, examine advertising techniques of their competitors, and ensure consistent visibility on the Web. Tips on updating, revisiting, and rethinking a business's online presence round out the advice, ensuring that potential and existing clients keep coming back.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally. It is fundamental to the production of goods and services quickly and at low cost at the same time as maintaining levels of quality and customisation. While data exchange and IT applications are vital contributions to successful interoperability, communications and common semantics can be just as important between businesses.

Composed of more than 40 papers of international authorship, Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications ranges from academic research through case studies to industrial experience of interoperability. Many of the papers have examples and illustrations calculated to deepen understanding and generate new ideas.

The INTEROP-ESA’05 conference from which this book is drawn was sponsored by the European Union and the Swiss federal government under the IST research program and was further supported by International Society for Information Processing and the Association for Computing Machinery.

A concise reference to the state of the art in software interoperability, Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications will be of great value to engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and other process industries and to software engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in the academic environment.

About the Author

Prof. Konstantas is the originator of the Object-oriented Interoperability concept, which placed the basis for the definition of interoperability issues between heterogenous Object Oriented systems and applications. He defined and implemented an inter-language interoperability support framework and proposed different services for object oriented interoperability support. He also worked in the design of applications with object oriented and agent systems, ranging from multimedia to medical applications, where the problems and issues related to interoperability were identified and different solutionswere opted. Today Prof. Konstantas works in the implementation of mobile health systems and services and is interested in the interoperability problems between divers information systems and services.

Prof. Bourrières, works in the models and methods for the use of production systems in modern manufacturing industries. In this context he is interested in the issues and problems related to the software and application life cycle management,where interoperability with new and emerging systems is of major importance. One of the objectives is the creation of unified model where the different issues coming from all levels of an industial system (machine level, management of the production site, multi-site management etc) and aggregation of the related information can be represented. The target being to allow the exchange of information and smooth operation at all levels of the IS.

Prof. Léonard is working in the development of Information Systems and the problems arrising from the interoperability of diverse (legacy) Information Systems. inthis direction he has developed M7, an evolutionary approach for Information System design, offering an environment of specification in a common formalism and capitalizes the various specifications in order to make them reusable. He also works in the Specification and implementation of highly configurable coordination information systems with responsibility overlaping protocols on Workflow Information systems.

Nacer Boudjlida  is a full professor  at the University Henri   Poincaré Nancy 1 (F) and a researcher at LORIA (Lorraine  Laboratory of Research  in Computer   Science and Applications). As a  professor, his lectures include   the various   facets  of   databases (DBMS, database design, distribution, architecture, administration and  so on).  As a  researcher, his domain  of interest includes process modelling and support,  distributed and cooperative computing, semantic-based mediated architectures.  He  authored two books on databases and numerous papers on  software systems integration and  interoperability, on software  process modelling and support, etc.

Presents a novel management framework, referred to as the Measurement-Estimation-SchedulingActuation (or MESA) model. This is not a book about network management...but rather a book about management in networking. DLC: Computer network protocols.

This book presents a novel management framework, which I refer to as the Measurement-Estimation-Scheduling-Actuation (or MESA) model. This is derived from the control and queueing theory; and applies it to various aspects of computer communications, from modulation and coding theory to routing protocols and topology reconstruction.

Why a new approach to the subject? After all, the Internet and its underlying technologies and protocols are doing quite nicely, thank you. Likewise there is no shortage of well-written, current books on networking and communications. The short answer is that this is the book that I wish were available when I first started working for IBM on network management architecture in 1984. I believe it clearly details the tasks executed in computer networks, the large majority of which are in some sense management tasks. It derives from first principles a model of management in general and of management in computer networks in particular that is comprehensive, that is not tied to any particular protocol architecture, and that helps identify the basic elements of management that recur at different layers of the protocol stack.

Data Mining and Applications in Genomics contains the data mining algorithms and their applications in genomics, with frontier case studies based on the recent and current works at the University of Hong Kong and the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford. It provides a systematic introduction to the use of data mining algorithms as an investigative tool for applications in genomics. Data Mining and Applications in Genomics offers state of the art of tremendous advances in data mining algorithms and applications in genomics and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working on data mining algorithms and applications in genomics.

If superheroes stepped off the comic book page or silver screen and into reality, could they actually work their wonders in a world constrained by the laws of physics? How strong would Superman have to be to “leap tall buildings in a single bound”? Could Storm of the X-Men possibly control the weather? And how many cheeseburgers would the Flash need to eat to be able to run at supersonic speeds?

Face front, True Believer, and wonder no more! Because in The Physics of Superheroes acclaimed university professor James Kakalios shows that comic book heroes and villains get their physics right more often than you think.

In this scintillating scientific survey of super powers you’ll learn what the physics of forces and motion can reveal about Superman’s strength and the true cause of the destruction of his home planet Krypton, what villains Magneto and Electro can teach us about the nature of electricity—and finally get the definitive answer about whether it was the Green Goblin or Spider-Man’s webbing that killed the Wall Crawler’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy in that fateful plunge from the George Washington Bridge!

Along the way, The Physics of Superheroes explores everything from energy, to thermodynamics, to quantum mechanics, to solid state physics, and Kakalios relates the physics in comic books to such real-world applications as automobile airbags, microwave ovens, and transistors. You’ll also see how comic books have often been ahead of science in explaining recent topics in quantum mechanics (with Kitty Pryde of the X-Men) and string theory (with the Crisis on Infinite Earths).

This is the book you need to read if you ever wondered how the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four can see when she turns transparent, if the Atom could travel on an electron through a phone line, or if electromagnetic theory can explain how Professor X reads minds. Fun, provocative, and packed with more superheroes and superpowers than an Avengers-Justice League crossover, The Physics of Superheroes will make both comic-book fans and physicists exclaim, “Excelsior!”

Quotes:

“The Physics of Superheroes is clear, rapid, funny, and endlessly informative— as if Stan Lee and George Gamow had teamed up to battle the nefarious forces of ignorance.”
—Gerard Jones, author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book

“Author James Kakalios is a scientific genius who could put Lex Luthor and Dr. Doom to shame. Superman should have him on retainer. I do—because The Physics Of Superheroes is this comic-book writer's newest favorite indispensable resource.”
—Mark Waid, writer of Spider-Man, Superman, and the Fantastic Four

About the Author

James Kakalios is a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught since 1988, and where his class “Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books” is a popular freshman seminar. He received his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Chicago, and has been reading comic books for much longer.

Here’s the book you need to prepare for Exam 70-227, Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Enterprise Edition:

• In-depth coverage of every exam objective—all the information you need to know
• Practical information on installing and administering ISA Server
• Hundreds of challenging review questions, in the book and on the CD
• Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engine and electronic flashcards

Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including:

• Installing ISA Server
• Configuring and troubleshooting ISA Server services
• Configuring, managing, and troubleshooting policies and rules
• Deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting the client computer
• Monitoring, managing, and analyzing ISA Server use

About the Author

Chris Golubski (MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCSD, A+, Network+) is a senior technical training consultant for Productivity Point and a contributing editor to MCP Magazine. Sean McCormick (MCSE, MCT, MCP+I, A+, Network+) is a production lead and technical writer and editor for Brainbuzz.com, a leading certification-focused Web site.

The Maximum Security series, which debuted in 1997, has thus far enjoyed relative success. I use the term “relative success,” because security title sales have historically trickled, rather than gushed. For altering this and fostering a new market, Sams editors deserve kudos. Their insights have proven providential: Today, Maximum Security titles sell in five countries, five languages, and on four continents. Furthermore, the Maximum Security series inspired many fine similarly oriented books from seasoned security professionals here and abroad.

The Maximum Security series’ success is no mystery. Security has never before been so sensitive an issue, nor an issue so vital to business. Many firms have now evolved well beyond mere Web presences, and today incorporate sophisticated e-commerce functionality into their systems. These developments increased demand for books that help administrators shield their enterprises from crackers, and earlier Maximum Security titles did—in varying degrees—satisfy that need.

Gives readers a comprehensive survey of the best tools for building and maintaining Web sites. Author takes the reader through the process of thinking through and then building an open source Web site. Softcover.

This book gives readers a comprehensive survey of the best tools for building and maintaining Web sites. In a methodical and clear manner, using templates from actual Web sites, the author takes the reader through the process of thinking through and then building an open source Web site. After reading this book, readers will be able to buy this book, and riding on the experience of the author quickly build an effective and scalable Web site.

About the Author

Thomas Schenk is currently a Professional Services Engineer for VA Linux, Inc. A former senior systems administrator at Deja, he has extensive experience managing large server networks. Currently he works with customers of VA Linux to plan and implement a variety of commercial websites.

Other books published by this author:

* Red Hat System Administrator Unleashed, Sams' ISBN 0-672-31755-9
* Caldera OpenLinux System Administrator Unleashed, Sams' ISBN 0-672-31769-9