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Healthcare and well-being have captured the attention of established software companies, start-ups, and investors. Software is starting to play a central role for addressing the problems of the aging society and the escalating cost of healthcare services. Enablers of...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-14
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This book focuses on partitional clustering algorithms, which are commonly used in engineering and computer scientific applications. The goal of this volume is to summarize the state-of-the-art in partitional clustering. The book includes such topics as center-based...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-07
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This book, written by leading experts from academia and industry, offers a condensed overview on hot topics among the Cognitive Radios and Networks scientific and industrial communities (including those considered within the framework of the European COST Action IC0902)...
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Springer
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2014-11-01
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Nowadays, the Internet has become an irreplaceable tool, feeding us information about new innovations and the evolution of the markets relating to all human activities. What the Internet lacks, though, is a guiding narrative thread, which is crucial to understand the...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2014-10-13
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This book presents an overview of the field of multimodal location estimation. The authors' aim is to describe the research results in this field in a unified way. The book describes fundamental methods of acoustic, visual, textual, social graph, and metadata processing...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-10-06
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What does online community look like in the age of social networking? How do participatory culture platforms reflect both their designers’ intentions and the desires of their users? In this incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how culture is created...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-10-01
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LTE (Long Term Evolution) is commonly marketed as 4G.LTE andLTE Advanced have been recognized by ITU-R and ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union – Telecommunications) as the principal solution for the future mobile communication networks standards. They are thus...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2014-09-25
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This book introduces the security mechanisms deployed in Ethernet, Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Internet Protocol (IP) and MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks. These mechanisms are grouped throughout the book according to the following four functions: data...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2014-09-25
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This brief presents a comprehensive review of the network architecture and communication technologies of the smart grid communication network (SGCN). It then studies the strengths, weaknesses and applications of two promising wireless mesh routing protocols that could...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-09-19
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Even as newer cellular technologies and standards emerge, many of the fundamental principles and the components of the cellular network remain the same. Presenting a simple yet comprehensive view of cellular communications technologies, Cellular Communications provides...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Press
Parution :
2014-09-12
Collection :
IEEE Series on Digital & Mobile Communication
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Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) play a key role to develop Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aiming to achieve road safety and to guaranty needs of drivers and passengers, in addition to improve the transportation productivity. One of the most important...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2014-09-10
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This brief focuses on medium access control (MAC) in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), and presents VeMAC, a novel MAC scheme based on distributed time division multiple access (TDMA) for VANETs. The performance of VeMAC is evaluated via mathematical analysis and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-02
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In this title, the authors leap into a novel paradigm of scalability and cost-effectiveness, on the basis of resource reuse.In a world with much abundance of wirelessly accessible devices, WSN deployments should capitalize on the resources already available in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2014-08-08
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Cyberdefense has become, over the past five years, a major issue on the international scene. China, by the place it occupies, is the subject of attention: it is observed, criticized, and designated by many states as a major player in the global cyber-insecurity. The...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2014-08-08
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This book brings together the work of British, American and Australian scholars and practitioners in a substantially new edition of this popular collection. It examines the practices of reportage in an era of social networking and online news, an age of altered audience...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-15
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The main objective of the book is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of quality monitoring for customer experience management, addressing topics which are currently important, such as service-aware future Internet...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2014-07-09
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This brief presents the novel PHY layer technique, attachment transmission, which provides an extra control panel with minimum overhead. In addition to describing the basic mechanisms of this technique, this brief also illustrates the challenges, the theoretical model,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-08
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This Springer Brief presents the architectures of small-cell networks and recent advances in interference management. The key challenges and values of small cells are first introduced, followed by the reviews of various small-cell architectures and interference...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-08
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This volume contains fifty-six revised and extended research articles, written by prominent researchers participating in the congress. Topics covered include electrical engineering, chemical engineering, circuits, computer science, communications systems, engineering...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-02
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This volume presents a parametric, packet-based, comprehensive model to measure and predict the audiovisual quality of Internet Protocol Television services as it is likely to be perceived by the user. The comprehensive model is divided into three sub-models referred to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-06-20
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