This book takes a novel approach to the presentation and understanding of a controversial topic in
modern-day society: hacking. The term hacker was originally used to denote positively-motivated individuals
wanting to stretch the capabilities of computers and networks. In contrast, the term cracker was
a later version of the term,...
Since the first part of the twentieth century, cybernetics and systems research have been developed as
scientific disciplines. Investigations, launched in the area of cybernetics, previously dealt with control
and information processing. In a more narrow sense, they consisted in the consideration of analogies
of the control and the...
Immersive learning has grown in popularity with the development of open-source immersive 3D learning spaces. Those in e-learning have been working to find ways to capitalize on immersive learning through simulations, digital kiosks, live virtual events, live interactivity, instructor-facilitated learning, AI-driven robots, and...
A phrase often used when writing about the human ability to become immersed in fantasy is “the willing suspension of disbelief” which Samuel Taylor Coleridge first coined in the early 19th Century as an argument for the fantastical in prosody and poetry. What is a computer game? At base, it is nothing more than a cheap plastic...
Streaming media is one of the most exciting and active research topics with continuing significant progress in the multimedia area, where streaming media has been experiencing dramatic growth and stepped into mainstream media communications.
Streaming Media Architectures, Techniques, and Applications: Recent Advances spans a...
The Handbook of Research on Green ICT: Technology, Business and Social Perspectives is the outcome
of various debates, discussions, investigations and actions into a vital topic of today – Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) -based business activities and the environment. This handbook draws
on thoughts, insights,...
Healthcare professionals and patients hold fundamentally different views with respect to the content of quality in healthcare as related to the reliability of systems and services.
E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards addresses the reason, principles and functionality of health and health care...
The data collected by organizations is growing in volume and complexity. As such, businesses are
abandoning traditional methods and relying more heavily on enterprise information systems to aid in
the analysis and utilization of time-sensitive data and organizational knowledge. Enterprise information
systems have gained in popularity...
In the field of IT, the markets, business activities, needs and requirements of internal and external service
providers and customers are changing in ever-shortening cycles. This forces companies to increase their
organizational flexibility not only as far as their structure is concerned but also with regard to established
business...
Do you want to know in a nutshell what it takes to market yourself in a competitive job market and get more of what you want? '#JOBSEARCHtweet' gives you 140 digestible sound bites for doing just that. In just 100 pages you will gain compelling insights on how to build a strong resume and cover letter, engage employers with a...
Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to illuminate Hollywood's fascinating...
The need to analyze a linear network is a recurring requirement in
computer-aided network analysis. Not only a majority of the network
problems to be solved is posed as linear problems; nonlinear resistive and
dynamic networks are usually solved by the analysis of a sequence of
“linearized” networks. The analysis of...
