Typical Group Key Management Schemes -- Tree Based Key Management Schemes -- Dynamic Conferencing Schemes -- Secure Group Communications with Hierarchical Access Control -- SGC Challenges and SGC for Wireless Networks -- Concluding Remarks.This book provides a concise survey of principles and state-of-the-art techniques for secure group communications (SGC) over data networks. It offers an over…
Language Issues -- ULF-Ware – An Open Framework for Integrated Tools for ITU-T Languages -- An Access Control Language for Dynamic Systems – Model-Driven Development and Verification -- Non-deterministic Constructs in OCL – What Does any() Mean -- Engineering Issues -- Integrating RT-CORBA in SDL -- Component Development: MDA Based Transformation from eODL to CIDL -- Service Discovery and…
Basic Distributed Computing Technologies -- Fundamentals -- Basic Communication Services -- High Assurance Communication -- Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Model -- Styles of Client/Server Computing -- CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture -- System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication -- Web Technologies -- The World Wide Web -- Major Web Technologies -- Web…
References -- 1. An Epistemic Governance of European Education -- Introduction -- Globalisation and Regimes of Knowledge -- Policy Networks and Travelling Politics of PISA -- Transnationalisation of Knowledge and Evidence-Based Research Policy -- The Mode 2 of Knowledge Production: a European Research Agenda -- The European University and the Knowledge Triangle -- The Foundations of the Europea…
Examining cases in educational technology from computer assisted instruction to MOOCs, this volume shows how social interests frame reform programs and realign organizational and pedagogical strategies around them to produce a particular environment for change in higher education. Technology is a contingent product rather than a driver of such changes, suggesting that the politics of reform in …
Preliminaries -- Manufacturing Models -- Service Models -- Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing -- Project Planning and Scheduling -- Machine Scheduling and Job Shop Scheduling -- Scheduling of Flexible Assembly Systems -- Economic Lot Scheduling -- Planning and Scheduling in Supply Chains -- Planning and Scheduling in Services -- Interval Scheduling, Reservations, and Timetabling -- Schedu…
Introduction: Strange Matters -- Chapter 1. Expansive Learning -- Chapter 2. Researching Organizational Learning: Expansive Perspectives -- Chapter 3. Expansive Learning in Action -- Chapter 4. Towards an Expansive Learning Index -- Chapter 5. Ethics and Expansive Learning -- Conclusion.This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by resea…
PART I: FRAMING SOFT GOVERNANCE, EDUCATION AND CONVERGENCE -- Chapter 1. Education in Transition: An Empirical Puzzle -- Chapter 2. Measuring Convergence in Education Policy -- Chapter 3. Soft Governance and Voluntary Policy Convergence: A Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 4. Education Policy-Making in Switzerland: Origins and Trends -- PART II: SWITZERLAND: AN EXTREME CASE -- Chapter 5. Swiss R…
Prologue: Stage Fright -- Chapter 1. Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2. The Allure -- Chapter 3. The Lament -- Chapter 4. Embodied Experience -- Chapter 5. Creative Processes -- Chapter 6. Script Reading -- Chapter 7. Creative Enactments of Teacher Leadership -- Chapter 8. From Stories to Scripts -- Chapter 9. As the Curtain Closes -- Epilogue: After the Cast Party.This book addresses the lived ch…
Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethical dilemmas, social values and public policy: The Context of Governance and Citizenship -- Part I: Ethics, Social Values and Public Policy -- Chapter 2 The case of Ah Bun: Euthanasia and other alternatives -- Chapter 3 The justification of the abortion law in Hong Kong: A comparative study -- Chapter 4 Compensated dating: An ethical analysis -- Chapter 5 Private sph…