Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pixel of interest often provides useful supplementary information. This book presents a wide range of innovative and advanced image processing methods for including spatial information, captured by neighbouring pixels in remotely sensed images, to improve image interpretation or image classification. Presented methods include different types of variogram analysis, various methods for texture quantification, smart kernel operators, pattern recognition techniques, image segmentation methods, sub-pixel methods, wavelets and advanced spectral mixture analysis techniques. Apart from explaining the working methods in detail a wide range of applications is presented covering land cover and land use mapping, environmental applications such as heavy metal pollution, urban mapping and geological applications to detect hydrocarbon seeps.

The book is meant for professionals, PhD students and graduates who use remote sensing image analysis, image interpretation and image classification in their work related to disciplines such as geography, geology, botany, ecology, forestry, cartography, soil science, engineering and urban and regional planning.

250+ detailed illustrations

The bestselling, state-of-the-art guide to cable installation for voice and data revised and updated to reflect the very latest advances and standards

Packed with essential time- and trouble-saving information, and written by a 25-year cabling veteran, LAN Wiring shows installers all the details of proper LAN cabling, while it teaches network and IT managers the basics of connecting LAN hardware. The author includes everything needed to design, install, and maintain today's high-performance structured cabling systems for data networks of all topologies. Inside readers will find quick reference data, diagrams, tables, charts, details, and standards designed to make their job go smoothly and quickly. This resource is certain to help anyone's future-proofed system stand as a model of reliability and ease of maintenance.

Completely revised and updated, this third edition features the very newest cabling standards, fiber optics, Gigabit Ethernet, cable support structures, wireless LANs, plus:

• Updates on the latest TIA/EIA and TSB wiring standards
• Hot topics in connectivity, technologies, topologies, and techniques—Gigabit Ethernet copper and fiber, NIC cards and switches supporting Gigabit, Category 6 and Category 7 wiring, copper cabling, power over Ethernet and other networks, voice over IP (VoIP)
• 10 Gigabit cabling
• Work group wiring
• Fiber optic cabling techniques
• Wireless networking
• WiFi 802.11 a, b, g, and i technologies
• Upgrade paths for future growth
• More help with monitoring, administering, and troubleshooting
• Updates in every chapter
• 25 percent more illustrations
• New guidance and information on training and certification
• New online resources
• Legacy cabling systems

About the Author

James Trulove has accumulated more than twenty-five years of experience in LAN, WLAN, and data communications systems with companies including Intel, Motorola, Lucent, Cisco, and Nortel. Mr. Trulove has an extensive background in designing, installing, and troubleshooting LAN cabling and networks, and currently works for a leading manufacturer of wireless networking test systems and equipment. He is a longtime consultant on wired and wireless networks for home and business, and the author of a number of books and articles on networking technologies.

Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a successful computer executive, Alexandros, a melancholy archaeologist, and Ian, a charismatic hacker. After Ethel (who shares her first name with Alan Turing's mother) abandons Alexandros following a sundrenched idyll on Corfu, Turing appears on Alexandros's computer screen to unfurl a tutorial on the history of ideas. He begins with the philosopher-mathematicians of ancient Greece -- "discourse, dialogue, argument, proof... can only thrive in an egalitarian society" -- and the Arab scholar in ninth-century Baghdad who invented algorithms; he moves on to many other topics, including cryptography and artificial intelligence, even economics and developmental biology. (These lessons are later critiqued amusingly and developed further in postings by a fictional newsgroup in the book's afterword.) As Turing's lectures progress, the lives of Alexandros, Ethel, and Ian converge in dramatic fashion, and the story takes us from Corfu to Hong Kong, from Athens to San Francisco -- and of course to the Internet, the disruptive technological and social force that emerges as the main locale and protagonist of the novel.

Alternately pedagogical and romantic, Turing (A Novel about Computation) should appeal both to students and professionals who want a clear and entertaining account of the development of computation and to the general reader who enjoys novels of ideas.

Pocket-size text offers an introduction to theoretical computer science in the form of a fictional novel. DLC: Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954--Fiction.

About the Author

Christos H. Papadimitriou is C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books on computational theory.

Create a safety net while you work out your major plan

Identify critical IT systems, develop a long-range strategy, and train your people

Some disasters get coverage on CNN — some just create headaches for the affected organization. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you're hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here's how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep them updated.

Discover how to:

• Select your disaster recovery team

• Conduct a Business Impact Analysis

• Determine risks

• Get management support

• Create appropriate plan documents

• Test your plan

About the Author

Peter H. Gregory, CISA, CISSP, is the author of fifteen books on security and technology, including Solaris Security (Prentice Hall), Computer Viruses For Dummies (Wiley), Blocking Spam and Spyware For Dummies (Wiley), and Securing the Vista Environment (O’Reilly).

Peter is a security strategist at a publicly-traded financial management software company located in Redmond, Washington. Prior to taking this position, he held tactical and strategic security positions in large wireless telecommunications organizations. He has also held development and operations positions in casino management systems, banking, government, non-profit organizations, and academia since the late 1970s.

He’s on the board of advisors for the NSA-certified Certificate program in Information Assurance & Cybersecurity at the University of Washington, and he’s a member of the board of directors of the Evergreen State Chapter of InfraGard.

Network Security is a comprehensive resource written for anyone who plans or implements network security measures, including managers and practitioners. It offers a valuable dual perspective on security: how your network looks to hackers who want to get inside, and how you need to approach it on the inside to keep them at bay.

You get all the hands-on technical advice you need to succeed, but also higher-level administrative guidance for developing an effective security policy. There may be no such thing as absolute security, but, as the author clearly demonstrates, there is a huge difference between the protection offered by routine reliance on third-party products and what you can achieve by actively making informed decisions. Youll learn to do just that with this books assessments of the risks, rewards, and trade-offs related implementing security measures.

Features
+ Helps you see through a hackers eyes so you can make your network more secure.
+ Provides technical advice that can be applied in any environment, on any platform, including help with intrusion detection systems, firewalls, encryption, anti-virus software, and digital certificates.
+ Emphasizes a wide range of administrative considerations, including security policies, user management, and control of services and devices.
+ Covers techniques for enhancing the physical security of your systems and network.
+ Explains how hackers use information-gathering to find and exploit security flaws.
+ Examines the most effective ways to prevent hackers from gaining root access to a server.
+ Addresses Denial of Service attacks, malware, and spoofing.
+ Includes appendices covering the TCP/IP protocol stack, well-known ports, and reliable sources for security warnings and updates.

About the Author

Jan L. Harrington, the author of 30 books, including SQL, Clearly Explained (Academic Press), has been writing about databases since 1984. She is a professor and chair of the department of computer science and information systems at Marist College, where she teaches database design and management, object-oriented programming, data communications, and computer architecture.

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!

Get started using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard right away--the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions show you how to use all the new and improved features available in this revolutionary operating system. Follow along and learn to customize your desktop, organize and store files, use email and Web applications, and add hardware and software. You'll also get tips for enjoying photos, music, and movies, setting up a wired or wireless network, and securing your system. Get the book that gets you up-and-running on Mac OS X Leopard in no time.

Use these handy guideposts:

• Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks
• Need-to-know facts in concise narrative
• Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Bonus information related to the topic being covered
• Errors and pitfalls to avoid

About the Author

Guy Hart-Davis is the author of CNET Do-It-Yourself iPod Projects, How to Do Everything with Your iPod and iTunes, Third Edition, and many other computer books.

"This book will provide a valuable resource for the OpenMP community."

- Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Corporation

"This book has an important role to play in the HPC community-both for introducing practicing professionals to OpenMP and for educating students and professionals about parallel programming. I'm happy to see that the authors have put together such a complete OpenMP presentation."

- Mary E. Zozel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The rapid and widespread acceptance of shared-memory multiprocessor architectures has created a pressing demand for an efficient way to program these systems. At the same time, developers of technical and scientific applications in industry and in government laboratories find they need to parallelize huge volumes of code in a portable fashion. OpenMP, developed jointly by several parallel computing vendors to address these issues, is an industry-wide standard for programming shared-memory and distributed shared-memory multiprocessors. It consists of a set of compiler directives and library routines that extend FORTRAN, C, and C++ codes to express shared-memory parallelism.

Parallel Programming in OpenMP is the first book to teach both the novice and expert parallel programmers how to program using this new standard. The authors, who helped design and implement OpenMP while at SGI, bring a depth and breadth to the book as compiler writers, application developers, and performance engineers.

Features:

• Designed so that expert parallel programmers can skip the opening chapters, which introduce parallel programming to novices, and jump right into the essentials of OpenMP.
  
• Presents all the basic OpenMP constructs in FORTRAN, C, and C++.
  
• Emphasizes practical concepts to address the concerns of real application developers.
  
• Includes high quality example programs that illustrate concepts of parallel programming as well as all the constructs of OpenMP.
  
• Serves as both an effective teaching text and a compact reference.
  
• Includes end-of-chapter programming exercises.

About the Author

Rohit Chandra is currently a Chief Scientist at NARUS, Inc., a provider of internet business infrastructure solutions. He previously was a Principal Engineer in the Compiler Group of Silicon Graphics, where he helped design and implement OpenMP.

Ramesh Menon is a Staff Engineer at NARUS, Inc. Prior to NARUS, Ramesh was a Staff
Engineer at SGI representing SGI in the OpenMP forum. He was the founding Chairman
of the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) and supervised the writing of the
first OpenMP specifications.

 

Leonardo Dagum currently works for Silicon Graphics in the Linux Server Platform Group where he is responsible for the I/O infrastructure in SGI's scalable Linux server systems.
He helped define the OpenMP Fortran API. His research interests include parallel algorithms and performance modeling for parallel systems.

Dave Kohr is currently a member of the Technical Staff at NARUS, Inc. He previously was
a Member of the Technical Staff in the Compiler Group at Silicon Graphics, where he helped
define and implement the OpenMP.

Dror Maydan is currently Director of Software at Tensilica, Inc., the provider of application-specific processor technology. He previously was an Engineering Department Manager in the Compiler Group of Silicon Graphics where he helped design and implement OpenMP.

Jeffrey McDonald currently owns SolidFX, a private software development company. In the capacity of Engineering Department Manager at Silicon Graphics, he proposed the OpenMP API effort and helped develop it into the industry standard it is today.

Inspired by the structure of the human brain, artificial neural networks have been widely applied to fields such as pattern recognition, optimization, coding, control, etc., because of their ability to solve cumbersome or intractable problems by learning directly from data. An artificial neural network usually consists of a large number of simple processing units, i.e., neurons, via mutual interconnection. It learns to solve problems by adequately adjusting the strength of the interconnections according to input data. Moreover, the neural network adapts easily to new environments by learning, and it can deal with information that is noisy, inconsistent, vague, or probabilistic. These features have motivated extensive research and developments in artificial neural networks. This volume is probably the first rather diversely comprehensive treatment devoted to the broad areas of algorithms and architectures for the realization of neural network systems. Techniques and diverse methods in numerous areas of this broad subject are presented. In addition, various major neural network structures for achieving effective systems are presented and illustrated by examples in all cases. Numerous other techniques and subjects related to this broadly significant area are treated.

The simulation of social behavior in a variety of domains is an increasingly important technological tool.

eference survey of social simulation work, Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries comprehensively collects the most exciting developments in the field. Drawing research contributions from a vibrant community of experts on social simulation, this Premier Reference Source provides a set of unique and innovative approaches, ranging from agent-based modeling to empirically based simulations, as well as applications in business, governmental, scientific, and other contexts. This book will be a significant reference tool for researchers, educators, and practitioners in such fields as sociology, geography, economics, environmental science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer engineering, and networks, and a valuable, interdisciplinary addition to academic libraries.

About the Author

Bruce Edmonds is Director of the Centre for Policy Modelling at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and a Senior Research Fellow there. He gained his first degree in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in philosophy on Measures of complexity. His field is the intersection of sociology and computer science: both applying social mechanisms to the organisation of distributed computer science and the use of computational techniques to model aspects of society.

Cesareo Hernandez Iglesias is Professor of Business and Economics (B&E) and head of the Business and Economics Department at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He graduated from the University of Barcelona in Industrial Engineering (1970) and Economics (1974). He obtained his Ph.D. in 1975 on applications of Control Theory to Econometrics. He initially worked in time series analysis in econometric modelling as a postgraduate at the L.S.E. and Imperial College in London from 1971-74. His current research interests within the INSISOC Group (Engineering Social Systems Group) include economic methodology and social simulation.

Klaus G. Troitzsch has been a full professor of computer applications in the social sciences at the University of Koblenz-Landau since 1986. He took his PhD in political science from the University of Hamburg. From 1974 to 1978 he was a member of the Liberal Party Group in the Parliament of Hamburg. In 1979 he returned to academia as a senior researcher in an election research project. His main interests in teaching and research are social science methodology and, particularly, the simulation of social processes. He was among the founders of the Research Committee on Modelling and Simulation of the German Sociological Association (1988), of the SimSoc Consortium, which publishes the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS, now in its tenth year), and of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). Most of his research projects were devoted to developing simulation tools for micro, multilevel, and agent-based simulation or to implement simulation courses for social scientists, part of which have been offered in annual summer and spring courses for nearly ten years. He is author, co-author, and co-editor of a number of books and articles on simulation, and he organized several national and international conferences in social simulation.

Computational Studies of Human Motion: Part 1, Tracking and Motion Synthesis reviews methods for kinematic tracking of the human body in video. The review confines itself to the earlier stages of motion, focusing on tracking and motion synthesis. There is an extensive discussion of open issues. The authors identify some puzzling phenomena associated with the choice of human motion representation --- joint angles vs. joint positions. The review concludes with a quick guide to resources and an extensive bibliography of over 400 references. Computational Studies of Human Motion: Part 1, Tracking and Motion Synthesis is an invaluable reference for those engaged in computational geometry, computer graphics, image processing, imaging in general, and robotic.

We review methods for kinematic tracking of the human body in video. The review is part of a projected book that is intended to cross-fertilize ideas about motion representation between the animation and computer vision communities. The review confines itself to the earlier stages of motion, focusing on tracking and motion synthesis; future material will cover activity representation and motion generation.

In general, we take the position that tracking does not necessarily involve (as is usually thought) complex multimodal inference problems. Instead, there are two key problems, both easy to state.

This fifth edition has been fully updated to cover the many advances made in CAGD and curve and surface theory since 1997, when the fourth edition appeared. Material has been restructured into theory and applications chapters. The theory material has been streamlined using the blossoming approach; the applications material includes least squares techniques in addition to the traditional interpolation methods. In all other respects, it is, thankfully, the same. This means you get the informal, friendly style and unique approach that has made Curves and Surfaces for CAGD: A Practical Guide a true classic.

The book's unified treatment of all significant methods of curve and surface design is heavily focused on the movement from theory to application. The author provides complete C implementations of many of the theories he discusses, ranging from the traditional to the leading-edge. You'll gain a deep, practical understanding of their advantages, disadvantages, and interrelationships, and in the process you'll see why this book has emerged as a proven resource for thousands of other professionals and academics.

Features:

*Provides authoritative and accessible information for those working with or developing computer-aided geometric design applications

*Covers all significant CAGD curve and surface design techniques-from the traditional to the experimental

*Includes a new chapter on recursive subdivision and triangular meshes

*Presents topical programming exercises useful to professionals and students alike

*Offers complete C implementations of many of the book's examples via a companion website

About the Author

Professor Gerald Farin currently teaches in the computer science and engineering department at Arizona State University. He received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 1979. His extensive CAGD experience includes working as a research mathematician in a computer-aided development for Daimler-Benz, serving on the executive committee of the ASU PRISM project, and speaking at a multitude of symposia and conferences. Farin has authored and edited several books and papers, and he is editor-in-chief of Computer Aided Geometric Design.

Information operations involve the use of military information and how it is gathered, manipulated, and fused. It includes such critical functions asintelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, command and control, communications, and precision navigation. Separating myth from reality, this authoritative resource provides military professionals with a current and comprehensive understanding of information warfare operations planning,including offensive, defensive, and influence operations. The book identifies the features of information operations that differ from traditional military operations and reveals why this discipline is more important now than ever before. Professionals discover new planning tools that have been brought together under a single platform to become the next Information Operations Planning Tool for the U.S. Department of Defense. Additionally, the book defines identifies new threats and opportunities, and explains why the U.S. is not yet winning the war for the minds.

About the Author

Patrick D. Allen is senior lead systems engineer at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems and an adjunct professor at Old Dominion University. Dr. Allen holds an M.S. in operations research from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S.S. from Army War College, and a Ph.D. in operations research and mineral economics from the Colorado School of Mines.

A hands-on resource combining Visual Basic programming with COM+ programming. In addition to learning Visual Basic, readers learn how to administer COM+ components and provide security. They also learn how COM+ can be used to solve problems of Enterprise Application Integration.

(InformIT) A guide to learning program Visual Basic and COM+ programming languages by example. Follows a logical, linear teaching progression that is sure to take the confusion out of the learning process. The end result of the lessons in the text is a full, working program that the reader creates and understands as the text progresses. Softcover.

About the Author

Peishu Li is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer who has more than 10 years' experience in developing enterprise and Internet solutions using Microsoft tools and technologies. Peishu's areas of expertise include COM, DCOM, MTS, COM+, MSMQ, IBM MQSeries, SQL Server, Visual Studio tools, ASP, EAI, XML, and UML.

Peishu is currently working at edeagroup.com as a technical development manager. A Dallas-based e-business solution leader, edeagroup.com assists its clients in building e-business relationships by providing innovative consulting solutions for e-business strategies, creative services, and Internet-enabled information technology.

'This is a short book, but an elegant one. It would serve as an excellent course text for a course on the practical aspects of mathematical finance.' International Statistical Institute

'This book is thought-provoking and rewarding. Even for the less experienced programmer, the presentation is readily accessible, and the coded examples can be directly used to solve real-life problems.' Journal of the American Statistics Association

'This book, although it is quite short, does cover a significant amount of material and does deal with some fairly advanced topics that are important to practitioners. The real strength of the book is its clarity and conciseness.' SIAM Review

Newly updated second edition and now in paperback! This is the first book on implementing financial models using object-oriented C++. Assuming only a basic knowledge of C++ and mathematical finance, the reader learns how to produce well-designed, structured, reusable code via carefully-chosen examples. This new edition includes several new chapters covering topics of increasing robustness in the presence of exceptions, designing a generic factory, interfacing C++ with EXCEL, and improving code design using the idea of decoupling. Complete ANSI/ISO compatible C++ source code is hosted on an accompanying website for the reader to study in detail, and reuse as they see fit. Whether you are a student of financial mathematics, a working quantitative analyst or financial mathematician, you need this book. Offering practical steps for implementing pricing models for complex financial products, it will transform your understanding of how to use C++.

Using carefully-chosen examples, this book explains how to create well-designed, structured, reusable code, particularly for financial applications. New chapters explain interfacing C++ with EXCEL, designing a generic factory, and improving code design with decoupling. Complete ANSI/ISO compatible C++ source code is hosted on an accompanying web site.

About the Author

Mark S. Joshi is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Actuarial Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Step-by-step techniques, illustrated with highly visual examples throughout the book, show you how to build up your ActionScripting skills quickly and effectively. A support website provides all the content you need to try out the techniques shown in the book for yourself.

Ideal for those studying multimedia and information technology and anyone who wants to produce highly effective online interactive content. This guide gives you all you need to ensure you have a firm foundation of knowledge on how to use ActionScript creatively so you can produce professional results.

* Benefit from explanations and examples of why and how ActionScript can simplify Flash production and expand your design possibility

* Learn all the basics of strong scripting skills to enable professional results

* Written from a creative viewpoint, finally a book that talks your language!

Text covers ActionScript from a designer's viewpoint, showing non-programmers how to make the most of this invaluable scripting tool. Provides step-by-step techniques, illustrated with highly visual examples throughout the text. Softcover.

About the Author

Managing Director of Sprite Interactive Ltd, UK a new media agency, and previously Creative Director with Disney and Buena Vista International.

This book marks the culmination of the second stage of a two-stage project initiated in 2002. In that year, we co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication about multilingualism on the Internet (published in 2003). Our call for papers, distributed online, yielded far more proposals than we had expected, and many of high caliber. Because of this evident interest in online multilingualism, and knowing that we could include only a limited number of articles in the special journal issue, we conceived the idea of an extended volume.

This book reproduces the eight articles originally published online, some in slightly abridged or modified form. These studies were authored by David Palfreyman and Muhamed Al Khalil, Yukiko Nishimura, Hsi-Yao Su, Dimitris Koutsougiannis and Bessie Mitsikopoulou, Salvador Climent and colleagues, Mercedes Durham, Sandi de Oliveira, and Siriporn Panyametheekul and Susan Herring.

Most of the other chapters were commissioned by us in response to proposals submitted by authors, with a few exceptions. Two pioneering attempts to investigate aspects of multilingualism online that had previously been published elsewhere are reprinted here, with minor modifications—these are the chapters by Mark Warschauer and colleagues about online communication in Egypt and by Ann-Sofie Axelsson and her collaborators on attempts to switch languages in a graphical chat environment. We invited several other scholars to submit articles based on their expertise in relevant areas. RuthWodak agreed to prepare a chapter about her work on multilingualism in Europe and in the European Union; she was joined by Scott Wright, whose doctoral dissertation at Lancaster University proved relevant. Jannis Androutsopoulos contributed a study of language choice and code switching

Many aspects of usability testing have been thoroughly studied and documented. This isnt true, however, of the details of interacting with the test participants who provide the critical usability data. This omission has meant that there have been no training materials and no principles from which new moderators can learn how to interact.

Moderating Usability Tests is the place for new and experienced moderators to learn about the rules and practices for interacting that have never been described in one place before. Authors Dumas and Loring draw on their combined 40 years of usability testing experience to develop and present the most effective principles and practices - both practical and ethical --for moderating successful usability tests.

To help usability professionals, students, and novices understand these principles, the authors provide videos from their lab that demonstrate good and poor interaction as well as commentary from a panel of testing experts on why certain techniques succeed or fail. The videos are accessible from the publishers companion web site.

Presents the ten golden rules that maximize every sessions value
Offers targeted advice on how to maintain objectivity
Discusses the ethical considerations that apply in all usability testing
Explains how to reduce the stress that participants often feel
Considers the special requirements of remote usability testing
Demonstrates good and bad moderating techniques with laboratory videos accessible from the publishers companion web site

About the Author

Joe Dumas is a recognized expert in usability evaluation. He has 25 years experience as a usability professional. He as moderated or observed others moderate thousands of usability testing sessions and taught numerous students and usability professionals how to moderate. He is the author of A practical guide to usability testing (with Ginny Redish), Designing user interfaces for software, and numerous articles, both for researchers and practitioners. He is currently a Usability Consultant for Oracle Corporation. He was a Senior Human Factors Specialist at Bentley Colleges Design and Usability Center and taught graduate courses in the colleges Human Factors in Information Design Masters Degree program. He has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.