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Trust, privacy, and legal protection in the use of software with surreptitiously installed operations: an empirical evaluation: Information Systems Frontiers
Trust is of paramount importance in the acceptance of new technology. Sometimes, however, vendors inhibit the acceptance of their products through the use of poorly thought spyware-like methodologies.... more
Hardware/Software Protection (K.5.1) | Jul 4 08
Cooperative communications: Foundations and Trends in Networking
This very interesting and comprehensive paper provides a detailed review of the progress made over the decades in cooperative communication technologies in wired and wireless networks.
From the beginning... more
Network Communications (C.2.1...) | Jul 4 08
Distributed real time database systems: background and literature review: Distributed and Parallel Databases
Distributed real-time database systems (DRTDBS) are used for applying database systems technology to real-time systems.
Shanker, Misra, and Sarje describe DRTDBS basic concepts and definitions... more
Distributed Databases (H.2.4...) | Jul 3 08
Techno-economic analysis and empirical study of network broadband investment: the case of backbone upgrading: Information Systems Frontiers
Broadband penetration has been called one of the important measures of a country’s competitiveness. The increasing amount of voice and video applications constantly drives demand. To meet demand... more
Economics (K.6.0...) | Jul 3 08
Secure multi-hop network programming with multiple one-way key chains: WiSec ’08
The open Internet raises new challenges for trust and security, as vast sensor networks become pervasive. The authors showcase their approach for using multiple one-way... more
Network Protocols (C.2.2) | Jul 3 08
A secure privacy-preserving roaming protocol based on hierarchical identity-based encryption for mobile networks: WiSec ’08
The current challenge in wireless networking is providing users with flexibility and convenience, together with security and privacy, while they roam across several wireless networks. In this... more
Network Protocols (C.2.2) | Jul 2 08
Strategy-based instruction: lessons learned in teaching the effective and efficient use of computer applications: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
The strength of strategy-based instruction resides in its instructional practices and learning environments, especially when applied to teaching the use of computer applications. In addition, as practice... more
Curriculum (K.3.2...) | Jul 2 08
Variational capacitance modeling using orthogonal polynomial method: GLSVLSI ’08
Cui et al. propose a novel statistical capacitance-extraction method, StatCap, for three-dimensional (3D) interconnects considering process variations. The new method is based... more
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) (J.6...) | Jul 2 08
Two-level clustering of Web sites using self-organizing maps: Neural Processing Letters
Petrilis and Halatsis describe a process of mining Web server-log files, using existing tools such as WumPrep and SOM-PAK, to create two (SOMs). The first SOM is based on patterns of... more
Data Mining (H.2.8...) | Jul 2 08
How to build serious games: Communications of the ACM
Computer-aided education (CAE) has taken many forms at many different educational levels. This paper discusses the development of a video game created to teach immunology to high school and college... more
Computer Uses In Education (K.3.1) | Jul 1 08
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Fiber optic essentials
Fiber optics has come a long way over the past decades: from being purely an interesting field of science, to becoming an important multiapplications field, to settling down as an indispensable and promising technology with various uses. To be clear, fiber-optics... more
Fiber Optics (B.4.3...) | Jul 4 08
Computational methods for multiphase flows in porous media
Part of a series, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), this book addresses the needs of computational scientists and engineers in their specific disciplines. The book concentrates on petroleum reservoir simulation... more
Partial Differential Equations (G.1.8) | Jul 4 08
The definitive guide to Django: Web development done right
One would expect Web-development software to eventually converge, so that we’d have a few convenient, useful, usable Web frameworks to choose from, with supporting software toolkits. Perhaps, eventually, this will happen, but for... more
Integrated Environments (D.2.6...) | Jul 4 08
Semantics with applications: an appetizer
Programming languages come and go. One possibility for teaching students the main concepts of programming languages is to present the formal semantics of simple programming languages. Formal semantics... more
Semantics Of Programming Lang. (F.3.2) | Jul 3 08
Test and analysis of Web services
The information technology (IT) industry has given the thumbs-up to service-oriented architecture (SOA). Big players, such as IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, are investing heavily in SOA development tools. What is still missing is a thorough methodology for... more
Testing And Debugging (D.2.5) | Jul 3 08
Neural preprocessing and control of reactive walking machines: towards versatile artificial perception-action systems
Reactive behaviors are commonly observed in animals: so-called negative tropism (obstacle avoidance) and positive tropism (prey capture). These are emulated in abstract form in the walking... more
Robotics (I.2.9) | Jul 3 08
New heritage: new media and cultural heritage
Cultural heritage (CH) and archaeological sites, monuments, and artifacts all over the world are facing rapid decline, and are now at high risk and under threat due to urbanization, conflicts, wars, and tourism. Cultural heritage management... more
Architecture (J.5...) | Jul 3 08
Podcast solutions: the complete guide to audio and video podcasting (2nd ed.)
Podcasting technology has well-publicized applications in broadcasting. It also has excellent potential for use in education, by providing, for example, a means to periodically deliver teaching materials to... more
Sound And Music Computing (H.5.5) | Jul 2 08
Practical reporting with Ruby and Rails
Ruby is an open-source programming language that combines the features of both functional and imperative techniques. This book offers details on how to create reports with Ruby, including tools and techniques to manage data. While many tools... more
Integrated Environments (D.2.6...) | Jul 2 08
Practical Rails projects
In the introduction, Alameda states that prior Rails experience is required to make the best use of his book; I agree. On the other hand, if you are interested in learning whether the hype surrounding Rails is justified, then this book is also... more
Web-Based Services (H.3.5...) | Jul 2 08
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