This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2015, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2015. The 24 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers address the following topics: access control; attacks and mitigati…
Taking a very practical approach, the author describes in detail database conversion techniques, reverse engineering, forward engineering and re-engineering methodologies for information systems, offering a systematic software engineering approach for reusing existing database systems built with “old” technology. He demonstrates how the existing systems can be transformed into the new tech…
Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed. This book is the first volume to bring together a majority of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling. Each chapter treats a particular economic aspect of the sport, from organizational structure to marketing, labor, game theory,…
This book is one of the first comprehensive works to fill the knowledge gap resulting from the limited number of empirical studies on interfirm networks. The in-depth empirical research presented here is based on a massive transaction relationship database of approximately 400,000 Japanese firms. This volume, unlike others, focuses on the role of interfirm networks in three different fields: (1…
People regularly multitask, though we have been warned about the mental costs of "task-switching" in psychology and the popular press. Meanwhile, economists have remained silent on the possible economic ramifications – both good and bad – of producers and/or consumers doing more than one thing at once. This first-of-its-kind volume explores the frequency, patterns, and economic implications…
This book provides a meaningful resource for applied mathematics through Fourier analysis. It develops a unified theory of discrete and continuous (univariate) Fourier analysis, the fast Fourier transform, and a powerful elementary theory of generalized functions and shows how these mathematical ideas can be used to study sampling theory, PDEs, probability, diffraction, musical tones, and wavel…
Orang-orang membentuk masyarakat. Mereka terhubung satu sama lain melalui ikatan keluarga dan jaringan dengan dimensi sosial, ekonomi, dan agama. Manusia hidup bersama dalam rumah tangga dan membentuk komunitas. Beberapa orang memiliki rumah, tanah, dan properti lainnya, yang sering kali terkait dengan profesi mereka. Dan semua ini terus berubah. Orang dilahirkan, menikah, memiliki anak, dan me…
Tai-Chee Wong dan Sun Sheng Han dan para penulis pilihan dalam antologi yang inovatif ini telah memberikan kontribusi besar dalam memahami status saat ini dan kemungkinan masa depan urbanisasi, perencanaan kota, tata kelola pemerintahan daerah dan keuangan kota di Cina. Selain banyak informasi terkini, antologi ini juga memberikan kontribusi teoritis dan metodologis yang penting. Bahkan para pe…
Dilihat dari judulnya "Perubahan Populasi di Amerika Serikat; Tantangan dan Peluang Sosial Ekonomi di Abad Kedua Puluh Satu", nampaknya ini adalah sebuah karya atau penelitian yang berfokus pada perubahan populasi di Amerika Serikat serta tantangan dan peluang sosial dan ekonomi di abad kedua puluh satu. Berikut ini adalah rincian elemen-elemen kunci dalam judul tersebut: (1). Perubahan Populas…
How can the drag coefficient of a car be reduced? What factors govern the variation in the shape of the Earth's magnetosphere? What is the basis of weather prediction? These are examples of problems that can only be tackled with a sound knowledge of the principles and methods of fluid dynamics. This important discipline has applications which range from the study of the large-scale properties o…