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IPTV security: protecting high-value digital contents
Ramirez D., Wiley Publishing, 2008. 252 pp. Type: Book
Television and the Internet are perhaps the most significant inventions of all time. They have both been very effective in shrinking the world, and have had a profound effect on society and culture. The merger of television and Internet has...
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Sep 21 2008 |
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Public key superstructure: "It’s PKI Jim, but not as we know it!"
Wilson S. Identity and trust on the Internet (Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Mar 4-6, 2008) 72-88, 2008. Type: Proceedings
Why is it so hard to make global public key infrastructure (PKI) work? Not only does Wilson excellently question the misleading assumptions pertaining to the apparent failure of universal open PKI, but he also lucidly presents a viable evolution...
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Sep 28 2008 |
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The annotated Turing: a guided tour through Alan Turing’s historic paper on computability and the Turing machine
Petzold C., Wiley Publishing, 2008. 384 pp. Type: Book
Computability theory textbooks usually have little historical content, while popular treatments usually have few technical details. This book is the exception that carefully explains one of the fundamental papers of the 20th century, putting it...
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Oct 12 2008 |
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Differential dynamical systems (Monographs on Mathematical Modeling and Computation)
Meiss J., Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, 2007. 434 pp. Type: Book, Reviews: (2 of 2)
For over 100 years, ever since the groundbreaking works by H. Poincaré and A. Lyapunov, dynamical systems have remained a critical tool for investigating the behavior of complex systems. The rich set of techniques introduced by Poincaré ...
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Oct 5 2008 |
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XML data exchange: consistency and query answering
Arenas M., Libkin L. Journal of the ACM 55(2): 1-72, 2008. Type: Article
Extensible Markup Language (XML) data exchange is the process by which XML documents structured in a source document type definition (DTD) are queried under a different target DTD, given a set of transformation rules between the source DTD and...
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Aug 24 2008 |
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Software studies: a lexicon (Leonardo Books)
Fuller M. (ed), Fuller M. (ed), The MIT Press, 2008. 334 pp. Type: Book
This book first brings to mind the question, “What is a lexicon?” As the editor says in his introduction, “a lexicon is a vocabulary of terms used in a particular subject.” This difficult-to-characterize but intriguing...
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Aug 31 2008 |
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Access denied: the practice and policy of global Internet filtering (Information Revolution and Global Politics)
Deibert R., Palfrey J., Rohozinski R., Zittrain J., The MIT Press, 2007. 320 pp. Type: Book
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the current state of Internet censorship around the world. A result of the collaborative research and analysis among the world’s premier educational institutions, such as the University of...
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Sep 7 2008 |
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A condition number analysis of a line-surface intersection algorithm
Srijuntongsiri G., Vavasis S. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 30(2): 1064-1081, 2008. Type: Article
A classic problem in the fields of geometric modeling and computer graphics (GM-CG) is that of finding all intersections between a parametric surface and a line. What makes this paper different from similar contributions is that an emphasis is...
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Sep 14 2008 |
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Two-level clustering of Web sites using self-organizing maps
Petrilis D., Halatsis C. Neural Processing Letters 27(1): 85-95, 2007. Type: Article
Petrilis and Halatsis describe a process of mining Web server-log files, using existing tools such as WumPrep and SOM-PAK, to create two (SOMs). The first SOM is based on patterns of access (context); the second is based on word frequency...
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Aug 3 2008 |
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Ontology matching
Euzenat J., Shvaiko P., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2007. 334 pp. Type: Book
This book begins with a definition of an ontology: “An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary.” An ontology provides a vocabulary...
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