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Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability Lessons across Natur…
Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance approaches that are underpinned by justice and equity principles and that aim to reduce ine…
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OSPF: A Network Routing Protocol
Learn how routers network using the OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) protocol and unpick Dijkstra’s Network Algorithm to see how OSPF performs the calculations to determine the shortest or most appropriate path between two routers. OSPF: A Network Routing Protocol dives deep into the OSPF protocol without sacrificing simplicity in language. All of this is done with running examples and illustr…
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- 978-1-4842-1411-4
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- XIX, 144
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Novel 3D Media Technologies
This book describes recent innovations in 3D media and technologies, with coverage of 3D media capturing, processing, encoding, and adaptation, networking aspects for 3D Media, and quality of user experience (QoE). The contributions are based on the results of the FP7 European Project ROMEO, which focuses on new methods for the compression and delivery of 3D multi-view video and spatial audio, …
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- 978-1-4939-2025-9
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- Number of Pages IX, 249
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Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Network-Induced Phenomena: Recursive Filter…
This monograph introduces methods for handling filtering and control problems in nonlinear stochastic systems arising from network-induced phenomena consequent on limited communication capacity. Such phenomena include communication delay, packet dropout, signal quantization or saturation, randomly occurring nonlinearities and randomly occurring uncertainties. The text is self-contained, begi…
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- 978-3-319-08710-8
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- XV, 223
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Financial Cryptography and Data Security
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2014, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 2015. The 23 revised full papers and 10 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 102 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: sidechan…
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- 978-3-662-47854-7
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- XIV, 574
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Dependability problems of complex information systems
This monograph presents original research results on selected problems of dependability in contemporary Complex Information Systems (CIS). The ten chapters are concentrated around the following three aspects: methods for modelling of the system and its components, tasks? or in more generic and more adequate interpretation, functionalities? accomplished by the system and conditions for their cor…
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- 9783319089645
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- x, 189 pages
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- 004.6
Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations
Includes cases based on the author’s own 10-year experience working in emergency contexts with displaced populations in 11 countries across the world. Focuses on the mental health of displaced populations from a uniquely psychological, sociocultural, and ecological perspective. Provides practical applications for non-specialist professionals working with displaced populations in complex ins…
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IT Security Risk Management in the Context of Cloud Computing: Towards an Und…
This work adds a new perspective to the stream of organizational IT security risk management literature, one that sheds light on the importance of IT security risk perceptions. Based on a large-scale empirical study of Cloud providers located in North America, the study reveals that in many cases, the providers’ decision makers significantly underestimate their services’ IT security risk ex…
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- 978-3-658-11339-1
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- XXII, 167
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- 004 LOS
Anti-Jamming Transmissions in Cognitive Radio Networks
This SpringerBrief examines anti-jamming transmissions in cognitive radio networks (CRNs), including several recent related research topics within this field. The author introduces the transmissions based on uncoordinated spread spectrum to address smart jammers in CRNs. The author applies game theory to investigate the interactions between secondary users and jammers while providing game th…
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- 978-3-319-24292-7
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- VIII, 76
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- 004.6 XIA a
Analysis of Computer Networks
This textbook presents the mathematical theory and techniques necessary for analyzing and modeling high-performance global networks, such as the Internet. The three main building blocks of high-performance networks are links, switching equipment connecting the links together and software employed at the end nodes and intermediate switches. This book provides the basic techniques for modeling an…
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- 978-3-319-15657-6
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- XXV, 589
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- 004.6 GEB a
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