Elements of Classical Information Theory -- Elements of Quantum Information Theory -- Classical, Quantum and Information-Driven Interactions -- The “Active” Role of Information in Biological Systems -- The ‘Passive’ Role of Information in Physics -- Information and the Brain.Infromation and Its Role in Nature presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of informatio…
Logics for Epistemic Programs -- A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation -- Comparing Semantics of Logics for Multi-Agent Systems -- A Characterization of Von Neumann Games in Terms of Memory -- An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Perspective on Learning in Mult-Agent Systems -- Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles -- Nonmonotonic Inferences and …
Spatial Data Infrastructures and related concepts -- A metadata infrastructure for the management of nested collections -- Interoperability between metadata standards -- The use of disambiguated thesauri to improve information retrieval -- Integrating the concepts within the components of a Spatial Data Infrastructure -- Conclusions and future work.Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs a…
Working Late -- Keeping Secrets -- Data Encryption Standard -- Key Length -- Discovery -- RSA Crypto Challenges -- Congress Takes Note -- Supercomputer -- Organizing DESCHALL -- Needle in a Haystack -- Spreading the Word -- The Race Is On -- Clients -- Architecture -- Progress -- Trouble -- Milestones -- Gateways -- Network -- Download -- Short Circuit -- DESCHALL Community -- Proposal -- In th…
International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBase 2003) -- Incrementally Maintaining Materializations of Ontologies Stored in Logic Databases -- Ontology Translation on the Semantic Web -- Compound Term Composition Algebra: The Semantics -- Dynamic Pattern Mining: An Incremental Data Clustering Approach -- International …
Introduction: Cross Atlantic Perspectives in Methods and Models Analysing Transport and Telecommunications -- Traffic Forecasting and Transport Network Analysis -- Urban Travel Forecasting in the USA and UK -- Towards Developing a Travel Time Forecasting Model for Location-Based Services: A Review -- Transportation Networks, Case-Based Reasoning and Traffic Collision Analysis: A Methodology for…
Channel Coding -- Error-Control Codes -- Check Digits for Error Detection -- Source Codes -- Statistical Methods -- Dictionary Methods -- Image Compression -- Secure Codes -- Basic Concepts -- Monoalphabetic Substitution Ciphers -- Transposition Ciphers -- Polyalphabetic Substitution Ciphers -- Stream Ciphers -- Block Ciphers -- Public-Key Cryptography -- Data Hiding -- Data Hiding in Images --…
Visual Data Formats -- Cryptography Primer -- Application Scenarios for the Encryption of Visual Data -- Image and Video Encryption -- Conclusions.Image and Video Encryption provides a unified overview of techniques for encryption of images and video data. This ranges from commercial applications like DVD or DVB to more research oriented topics and recently published material. This volume intro…
Channel Codes -- Direct-Sequence Systems -- Frequency-Hopping Systems -- Code Synchronization -- Fading of Wireless Communications -- Code-Division Multiple Access -- Detection of Spread-Spectrum Signals.Originally adopted in military networks as a means of ensuring secure communication when confronted with the threats of jamming and interception, spread-spectrum systems are now the core of com…
to XML for Bioinformatics -- Fundamentals of XML and BSML -- DTDs for Bioinformatics -- XML Schemas for Bioinformatics -- Parsing NCBI XML in Perl -- The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) -- Parsing DAS Data with SAX -- Parsing DAS Data with JDOM -- Web Services for Bioinformatics.XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is rapidly becoming a critical tool in bioinformatics and biological data exc…