The rise of social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook over the past decade has been nothing short of phenomenal. Once regarded as nothing more than a passing "fad", these websites have grown to astronomical proportions; each website currently boasts 60+ million unique visitors each month. Certain businesses are beginning to notice the potential for reaching out to their target aud…
Why would anyone who does not work in the banking industry want to read a book about banking? The subject should be a bore. Savings accounts are not fashionable. Mortgages do not entertain. Most of us – well, apart from banking professionals and a few banking professors like myself – have better things to do than think about payment cards or credit transfers. All we want from banks is secur…
Remember that phrase from your own childhood? It’s still a valid question, but now, it comes with a twist: “Do you know where your kids are — and who they’re chatting with online?” Social networking sites have morphed into a mainstream medium for teens and adults. These sites encourage and enable people to exchange information about themselves, share pictures and videos, and use …
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014), approximately one in six children in the USA has a developmental disability with 1 in 68 diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. The societal costs for caring for children with autism are estimated at over $61 billion per year in the USA (Buescher et al. 2014), suggesting a need for high-quality research on assessment and …
I ended up working on European and international energy law issues more or less by coincidence. Having embarked on a career in general EU law, I worked on the first merchant infrastructure case under the (then) new EU regulatory frameworks for electricity and gas. Thinking that this was an interesting project, I decided to write an article explaining the regulatory considerations to be taken in…
The universalist view of acquisition, which espouses the idea that children’s acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles, has been the dominant position for decades. However, a growing body of literature during the last two decades on children’s early use of words in various languages has brought into focus the relationship between developmental patterns and language-specifi…
Are you involved in implementing wireless mesh networks? As mesh networks move towards large-scale deployment, this highly practical book provides the information and insights you need. The technology is described, potential pitfalls in implementation are identified, clear hints and tips for success are provided, and real-world implementation examples are evaluated. Moreover, an introduction t…
Humans have been forming social networks since pre- historic times. The first networks were based around the family, clan, or tribe to ensure the survival of the group. In the Book of Numbers in the Old Testament, God instructs Moses how to organize the Hebrews and thus structure the nomads’ social interactions. Plato and Aristotle described the social structure of ancient Greece, and Alexand…
Models of networked diffusion that are motivated by analogy with the spread of infectious have been applied to a wide range of social and economic adoption processes, including those related to new products, ideas, norms and behaviors.
Social networking forms an important part of online activities of Web users. Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut have millions of users using them everyday. However, these sites present two problems. Firstly, these sites form information silos. Information on one site is not usable in the others. Secondly such sites do not allow users much control over how their personal information i…
We present an end-to-end system that extracts a user’s social network and its members’ contact information given the user’s email inbox. The system identifies unique people in email, finds their Web presence, and automatically fills the fields of a contact address book using conditional random fields—a type of probabilistic model well-suited for such information extraction tasks. B…
A digital computer is a useful tool for solving a great variety of problems. A solution to a problem is called an algorithm; it describes the sequence of steps to be performed for the problem to be solved. A simple example of a problem and an algorithm for it would be: Problem: Sort a list of names in ascending lexicographic order. Algorithm: Call the given list list1; create an empty list, li…
The purpose of the networking guidelines are as follows: to assist students in understanding the benefits of networking to help students place in context their current stage of networking development in their school. to assist students in planning the next stage of network development in their school. to provide standard networking ‘models’ and best practice to studen…
I have known and used this book for years and I always found it very valu- able as a textbook for teaching computer networks as well as a reference book for networking professionals. This Fifth Edition maintains the core value of former editions and brings the clarity of explanation of network protocols in the introduction of the most up-to-date techniques, technolo- gies and requirements of ne…
We think one important reason for this success has been that our book continues to offer a fresh and timely approach to computer networking instruction. We’ve made changes in this fifth edition, but we’ve also kept unchanged what we believe (and the instructors and students who have used our book have confirmed) to be the most important aspects of this book: its top-down approach, its focus…