Wireless and Mobile Network Security

Security basics, Security in On-the-shelf and emerging technologies

This book provides a cutting-edge examination of research and/or security solutions in wireless and mobile networks. It begins by covering the security basic concepts and fundamentals constituting a base of knowledge necessary for the comprehension of security issues, challenges and solutions. This discussion will be of invaluable use to those unfamiliar with the security field. Next it presents t...

Distance and E-learning in Transition

Learning innovation, technology and social challenges

The rushed development of information and communication technologies and their impact on the world of learning in the last decade have profoundly changed the paradigms, scenarios and values at all levels of education.
The professionalization of tools and practices, in addition to the consolidation of academic and practical knowledge, has been a major continuing issue throughout these years. The a...

Optoelectronic Sensors

Optoelectronic sensors are of great importance in optoelectronic transmission systems. With this in mind, this book aims to provide accessible yet authoritative coverage of semiconductor-based photodetectors for various optical wavelengths.
Optoelectronic Sensors starts by explaining the main characteristics of all photodetectors, before moving on to cover the classical PIN photodiode, the avalan...

Decision-making Process

Concepts and Methods

This book gives an overview of the main results and methods in the formal study of the human decision process in the wider sense, trying to break down the barriers between the various disciplines, including psychology, economics and computer science, which have contributed to this topic in the past. It provides the reader with a state-of-the-art roadmap to the field of decision analysis.
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Micromechanics of Granular Materials

This title’s main focus is devoted to static or dynamic loadings applied to dense materials, although rapid flows and widely dispersed media are also mentioned briefly.
Three essential areas are covered:
Local variable analysis:
Contact forces, displacements and rotations, orientation of contacting particles and fabric tensors are all examples of local variables. Their statistical distributions...

Intelligent Machining

Machining, as a reliable manufacturing process, still offers unmatched capabilities in producing high quality three-dimensional parts from metals, polymers, ceramics, wood and composites. Advances in computational modeling and optimization methods have enabled researchers to develop cost-effective and high-throughput modern machining processes.
This book aims to provide recent advances in intel...

Business Intelligence

Evaluation and Impact on Performance

Effective Strategic Intelligence (SI) is vital for organizations in an international context of instability, complexity and intense competition.
Following a long process of qualitative, quantitative and empirical research next to SI experts and large companies, this book proposes a way to improve SI and its impact on the performance of an organization.
From an exploration, description and evalua...

LEDs for Lighting Applications

LEDs have now left the realm of signage and have moved definitively, and with unquestionable advantages, into the field of lighting. The departure was prompted in the late 1980s with the invention of the blue LED, a wavelength that had been hitherto missing and which opened the way to white light. Since then, LED performances, including their energy efficiency, have not ceased to increase and now ...

Photonic Waveguides

Theory and Applications

This book presents the principles of non-linear integrated optics. The first objective is to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of integrated optics so that they may be able to develop the theoretical and experimental tools to study and control the linear and non-linear optical properties of waveguides.
The potential use of these structures can then be determined in order to realize...

Sustainable IT Architecture

the progressive way of overhauling information systems with SOA

This book analyzes Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), which is the basis of sustainable and more agile IT systems that are able to adapt themselves to new trends and manage processes involving a third party.
This form of architecture uses only the best parts of approaches such as the object approach, urbanization, BPM, etc. It is based on the Business Rules Management System, Master Data Manage...