The principles underlying modern approaches to securing information and systems that process information are well documented and well understood by practitioners. Modern techniques and technologies for implementing these principles are also well documented, and it is hard to find an area of information security that has not been the subject of a book or at least an article. However, most of the…
This is my second book on the subject of road lighting. The first, also titled “Road Lighting”, appeared in 1980 in the series “Philips Technical Library” published by Kluwer, with co-author Prof. J.B. de Boer. Since that time, the technology of road lighting has progressed to keep up with the changes in lamp and lighting technology, in traffic and automobile technology, and especially …
Mobile communications offer wireless connectivity that enables mobility and com- puting in diverse communication environments. The large demands from social markets are driving the growing development of mobile communications more rapidly than ever before. Consequently, a large set of new advanced techniques has emerged, brought about by a larger bandwidth, more powerful processing capabil- ity…
This book focuses on the management of information security in next generation networks from the viewpoint of a telecommunications service provider, commercial enterprise or any other type of networked organization as a governance issue that needs to follow the “Plan, Do, Check and Act” approach promulgated by W. Edwards Deming and captured in ISO Standard 27001 as it applies to the manag…
Traditional security mechanisms restrict access to authorized users only, in order to protect resources from malicious users. However, in many con- texts, we must protect ourselves from those who offer resources, so that the problem is in fact reversed. This improper usage cannot be addressed by traditional security mechanisms, and the issues relate more to trustworthiness than security. Trus…
It is difficult to overstate the importance of computer net- works and cybersecurity in today’s world. They have become such an integral part of our existence that only a moment’s reflection is required to delineate the many ways in which they impact essentially every aspect of our lives. For example, from a personal point of view one need only consider the impact that such things as wirele…
The book is intended for both an academic and a professional audience. As a textbook, it is intended as a one- or two-semester undergraduate course for computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering majors. This edition is designed to support the rec- ommendations of the ACM/IEEE Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013). The CS2013 curriculum recommendation includes, for the…
The topic of variable selection in high-dimensional spaces (often with hundreds or thousands of dimensions) has attracted considerable attention in data mining re- search in previous years, and it is common in many real problems. In a nutshell, feature selection is a process that chooses an optimal subset of features according to a certain criterion. The selection of the criterion must be done…
In November 2008, a new type of computer worm started to spread quickly. It used three different types of attack on Windows⃝R hosts: exploiting vulnerabilities, guessing passwords, and infecting removable devices [20]. In three months it took over about 9 million Microsoft⃝R Windows systems around the world and formed a massive bot net [5]. The estimated economic loss brought by this worm w…
Algorithm is used to define the notion of decidability. It is a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations. This is essential for computers to process information. Computer programs contain algorithms that detail specific instructions a computer should perform to carry out a specified task. The traditional computer program performs specific instructions sequentially, and use…
We wrote a second edition of this book for two reasons. First, the Statistics Toolbox for MATLAB® has been significantly expanded since the first edition, so the text needed to be updated to reflect these changes. Second, we wanted to incorporate some of the suggested improvements that were made by several of the reviewers of the first edition. In our view, one of the most important issues t…
One glorious afternoon in March, 2006, as a friend and I hurried past Austin’s Downtown Hilton Hotel to catch the next session of the SXSW Interactive Festival, a young stranger arrested our progress. With no introduction or preliminaries, he announced that he was available to speak at An Event Apart, a conference for web designers that Eric Meyer and I had launched three months previously…
The Internet, as well as other telecommunication networks and information systems, have become an integrated part of our daily lives, and our dependency upon their underlying infrastructure is ever-increas- ing. Unfortunately, as our dependency has grown, so have hostile attacks on the cyber infrastructure by network predators. The lack of security as a core el- ement in the initial design of…
By now pretty much everybody in the web world has heard of responsive web design (often referred to as RWD), but a surprising number don’t have a good understanding of what it is . In this chapter, you’ll learn the basics of what it means for a website to be responsive . After that, we’ll go through a little of the history of web design, so you can understand where the idea of responsi…
No one expected it. In a world darkened by economic dis- tress, political cynicism, cultural emptiness and personal hopelessness, it just happened. Suddenly dictatorships could be overthrown with the bare hands of the people, even if their hands had been bloodied by the sacrifice of the fallen. Financial magicians went from being the objects of public envy to the targets of universal contempt. …
Paul Virilio’s major contribution to contemporary European thought has been to demonstrate that questions of visual culture are not only academic and cultural, aesthetic, historical, critical, philosophical and anthropological questions but also extremely important political questions. For Virilio, visual culture does not simply provide ways to understand the visual or examine images; it offe…
Over the past few decades, social networks have attracted massive interest from scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, biology, physics, business, politics, and computer science. From these diverse fields, researchers have found that many sys- tems can be represented as networks, and that there is much to be learned by studying those networks. With the rapid growth of the Internet and the …
This book is an outgrowth of data mining courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG); the RPI course has been offered every Fall since 1998, whereas the UFMG course has been offered since 2002. Although there are several good books on data mining and related topics, we felt that many of them are either too high-level or too advanced. Our goa…
The book is organized in a modular fashion. After reading Part One, the other parts can be read in a number of possible sequences. Figure 0.1a shows the bottom-up approach provided by reading the book from front to back. With this approach, each part builds on the material in the previous part, so that it is always clear how a given layer of functionality is supported from below. There is more …