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• Experiences in knowledge management systems practice. Knowledge management systems: issues, challenges and benefits
• Sharing tacit knowledge: a case study at Volvo
• Knowledge management in virtual organizations: experiences at Sigma
• Managing information overload in the health sector: the WaX ActiveLibrary system
• Knowledge management in the professions: a study of IT support in law firms. Designing enterprise knowledge management systems architectures. A multi-layer architecture for knowledge management systems
• Managing knowledge in decentralized heterogeneous corporations
• Web-based knowledge management support for document collections
• Enterprise information infrastructures for active, context-sensitive knowledge delivery
• Combining data from existing company sources: architecture and experiences. Implementing knowledge management solutions. Knowledge management: the human factor
• Fundamentals of implementing data warehousing in organizations
• Barriers to adoption of organizational memories: lessons from industry
• Understanding knowledge management solutions: the evolution of frameworks in theory and practice.

• Deontic logic - as I see it / G.H. von Wright
• On a fundamental problem of deontic logic / D. Makinson
• Moderately naturalistic deontic logic / J. Hage
• An update semantics for deontic reasoning / L.W.N. van der Torre and Y.-H. Tan
• Moral preference, contrary-to-duty obligation and defeasible oughts / P. Bartha
• Agents with changing and conflicting commitments : a preliminary study / M.A. Brown
• On relations between Åqvist's deontic system G and Van Eck's deontic temporal logic / J. Hansen
• Iterated conditionals and causal imputation / C. Pizzi
• Intermediate concepts as couplings of conceptual structures / L. Lindahl and J. Odelstad
• Doing well enough in an Andersonian-Kangerian framework / P. McNamara
• Norms, priorities, and defeasibility / D. Nute
• Some observations on Carlos Alchourrón's theory of defeasible conditionals / V. Becher ... [et al.]
• Dynamic obligation hierarchies / J. Bell and Z. Huang
• Reasoning about norms provided by conflicting regulations / L. Cholvy and F. Cuppens
• Protocol breaches and violation flaws / C. Krogh and A.J.I. Jones
• Formal definitions of fraud / B. Sadighi Firozabadi, Y.-H. Tan and R.M. Lee
• Normative positions / M. Sergot
• Dealing with label dependent deontic modalities / D.M. Gabbay and G. Governatori
• Deontic logic with relevance / L. Goble
• Contextual deontic logics / J. Krabbendam and J.-J. Meyer.

This book presents research in an interdisciplinary field, resulting from the vigorous and fruitful cross-pollination between traditional deontic logic and computer science. AI researchers have used deontic logic as one of the tools in modelling legal reasoning. Computer scientists have discovered that computer systems (including their interaction with other computer systems and with human agents) can often be productively modelled as norm-governed. So, for example, deontic logic has been applied by computer scientists for specifying bureaucratic systems, access and security policies, and soft design or integrity constraints, and for modelling fault tolerance. In turn, computer scientists and AI researchers have also discovered (and made it clear to the rest of us) that various formal tools (e.g. nonmonotonic, temporal and dynamic logics) developed in computer science and artificial intelligence have interesting applications to traditional issues in deontic logic. This volume presents some of the best work done in this area, with the selection at once reflecting the general interdisciplinary (and international) character that this area of research has taken on, as well as reflecting the more specific recent inter-disciplinary developments between traditional deontic logic and computer science.
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This volume presents details of a large number of databases and expert systems which have recently been developed and implemented. It discusses new requirements, concepts for implementation, the management of meta data, system architectures and the applications of traditional databases.
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• Preface Knowledge Management Systems for Business in the Twenty-First Century Introduction to Leveraging Knowledge in Business A Framework for Knowledge Management Systems in Business The Essentials of Knowledge Management Systems for Business Discovering Knowledge and Its Storage Sharing Knowledge Through Network Computing Implementation of Successful Knowledge Management Systems Typical Knowledge Management Systems Found in Business for a Company's Functional Areas Application of Strategic Planning Knowledge Application of Marketing Knowledge Application of Manufacturing Knowledge Application of Finance Knowledge Application of Human Resource Knowledge Index.
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Until now, business systems have focused on selected data within a certain context to produce information. A better approach, says Thierauf, is to take information accompanied by experience over time to generate knowledge. He demonstrates that knowledge management systems can be used as a source of power to outmaneuver business competitors. Knowledge discovery tools enable decision makers to extract the patterns, trends, and correlations that underlie the inner (and inter-) workings of a company. His book is the first comprehensive text to define this important new direction in computer technology and will be essential reading for MIS practitioners, systems analysts, and academics researching and teaching the theory and applications of knowledge management systems. Thierauf centers on leveraging a company's knowledge capital. Indeed, knowledge is power-the power to improve customer satisfaction, marketing and production methods, financial operations, and other functions. Thierauf shows how knowledge, when developed and renewed, can be applied to a company's functional areas and provide an important competitive advantage. By utilizing some form of internal and external computer networks and providing some type of knowledge discovery software that encapsulates usable knowledge, Thierauf shows how to create an infrastructure to capture knowledge, store it, improve it, clarify it, and disseminate it throughout the organization, then how to use it regularly. His book demonstrates clearly how knowledge management systems focus on making knowledge available to company employees in the right format, at the right time, and in the right place. The result is inevitably a higher order of intelligence in decision making, more so now than could ever have been possible in even the most recent past.
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• Preface Acknowledgments Contributors
• 1. The Theory and Practice of Cartography: An Introduction
• 2. POMP and Circumstance: Plain Old Map Products in a Cybercartographic World
• 3. Exploring the Concept of Cybercartography Using the Holonic Tenets of Integral Theory
• 4. Cybercartography from a Modeling Perspective
• 5. Cybercartography and Society
• 6. Technology and Culture in Cybercartography
• 7. The Cartographer as a Mediator: Cartographic Representation from Shared Geographic Information
• 8. Cybercartography and the New Economy: Collaborative Research in Action
• 9. Interface Design Challenges in Virtual Space
• 10. Cognitive Theories and Aids to Support Navigation of Multimedia Information Space
• 11. Cybercartography: A Multimodal Approach
• 12. Art, Maps and Cybercartography: Stimulating Reflexivity Among Map-Users
• 13. Mapping Play: What Cybercartographers Can Learn from Popular Culture
• 14. Linking Geographical Facts with Cartographic Artifacts
• 15. Pervasive Public Map Displays
• 16. TeleCatography: A New Means of GeoCommunication
• 17. Sound Maps: Music and Sound in Cybercartography
• 18. Interactive Mapping for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
• 19. Exploring Conceptual Landscapes: The Design and Implementation of the Georgia Basin Digital Library
• 20. The Development of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica
• 21. Cybercartography for Education: The Case of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica
• 22. Applying a Cybercartographic Human Interface (CHI) Model to Create a Cybercartographic Atlas of Canada's Trade with the World
• 23. Remaining Challenges and the Future of Cybercartography Subject Index.
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For generations, the map has been central to how societies function all over the world. Cybercartography is a new paradigm for maps and mapping in the information era. Defined as 'the organization, presentation, analysis and communication of spatially referenced information on a wide variety of topics of interest to society', cybercartography is presented in an interactive, dynamic, multi sensory format with the use of multimedia and multi modal interfaces. "Cybercartography: Theory and Practice" examines the major elements of cybercartography and emphasizes the importance of interaction between theory and practice in developing a paradigm which moves beyond the concept of Geographic Information Systems and Geographical Information Science. It argues for the centrality of the map as part of an integrated information, communication, and analytical package. This volume is a result of a multidisciplinary team effort and has benefited from the input of partners from government, industry and other organizations. The international team reports on major original cybercartographic research and practice from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including the humanities, social sciences including human factors psychology, cybernetics, English literature, cultural mediation, cartography, and geography. This new synthesis has intrinsic value for industries, the general public, and the relationships between mapping and the development of user-centered multimedia interfaces. This book: discusses the centrality of the map and its importance in the information era; provides an interdisciplinary approach with contributions from psychology, music, and language and literature; describes qualitative and quantitative aspects of cybercartography and the importance of societal context in the interaction between theory and practice; and, contains an interactive CD-Rom containing color images, links to websites, plus other important information to capture the dynamic and interactive elements of cybercartography.
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• Plenary of Submitted Papers.- Web GIS.- Elevation modelling.- Vagueness and Interpolation.- Temporal.- Indexing.- Uncertainty.- Generalisation.- Spatial Relationships.- Urban Infrastructure.- Navigation.- Working with Elevation.- Semantics and Ontologies.- Data Quality and Metadata.- Spatial Statistics.
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The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling is the premier research forum for Geographic Information Science. It is the primary event organized by the International Geographical Union's Study Group on Geographical Information Science. The Symposium is particularly strong in respect to identifying significant new developments in this field. Many influential developments in GIS have been generated from contributions to this symposium. The papers published in this volume are carefully refereed by an international programme committee composed of experts in various areas of GIS who are especially renowned for their scientific innovation.
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• Improving Decision-Making Effectiveness Using Business Intelligence Systems Introduction to Effective Business Intelligence Systems Creativity Underlies Effective Business Intelligence Systems Underlying Structure of Effective Business Intelligence Systems Effective Decision Making in a Business Intelligence System Effective Systems and Software Found in Business Intelligence Systems Data Warehousing and Computer Networking Found in Business Intelligence Systems Building Effective Business Intelligence Systems Development and Implementation of Successful Business Intelligence Systems Effective Business Intelligence Systems Found in a Company's Functional Areas Strategic Intelligence in Corporate Planning Tactical Intelligence in Marketing Operational Intelligence in Manufacturing Financial Intelligence in Accounting Selected Bibliography.
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One step above knowledge management systems are business intelligence systems. Their purpose is to give decision makers a better understanding of their organization's operations, and thus another way to outmaneuver the competition, by helping to find and extract the meaningful relationships, trends, and correlations that underlie the organization's operations and ultimately contribute to its success. Thierauf also shows that by tying critical success factors and key performance indicators into business intelligence systems, an organization's most important financial ratios can also be improved. Comprehensive and readable, Thierauf's book will advance the knowledge and skills of all information systems providers and users. It will also be useful as a text in upper-level courses covering a wide range of topics essential to an understanding of executive business systems generally, and specifically their creation and management. The theme underlying Thierauf's unique text is that a thorough understanding of a company's operations is crucial if the company is to be moved to a higher level of competitive advantage. Although data warehousing, data mining, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and other electronic aids have been in place for at least a decade, it is the remarkable and unique capability of business intelligence systems to utilize them that has in turn revolutionized the ability of decision makers to find, accumulate, organize, and access a wider range of information than was ever before possible. Effective business intelligence systems give decision makers a means to keep their fingers on the pulse of their businesses every step of the way. From this it follows that they are thus able to develop new, more workable means to cope with the competition successfully. Comprehensive and readable, Thierauf's book will advance the knowledge and skills of all information systems providers and users. It will also be useful as a text in upper-level courses covering a wide range of topics essential to an understanding of executive business systems generally, and specifically their creation and management.
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• What is information engineering?
• what is object orientation?
• business information requirements
• detailed object modelling
• business functions and subject areas
• individual object behaviours
• object interactions
• integrate and validate analysis models
• object structure designs
• application system object behaviour
• user interface requirements
• general system designs
• design for system distribution
• redesigning existing systems for the future
• programming languages
• database environments
• client/server and cooperative processing
• object-oriented systems architecture.
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This volume covers re-engineering for object orientation as well as object-oriented programming languages and database management systems. It also provides information on client/server and cooperative processing. Key features of this text include: the integration of information on engineering techniques and practices with object-oriented analysis, design and implementation; designed specifically for developers of information systems applications; coverage of object oriented programming languages and database management systems.
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• Public outsourcing reports
• theoretical foundation of outsourcing decisions
• case descriptions
• senior management's view of IS
• reasons for initiating outsourcing evaluations
• proposed outsourcing evaluation process
• summary of lessons learned and recommendations.
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The outsourcing revolution is underway as increasing numbers of major corporations transfer their information systems (IS) assets, leases and staff to third-party vendors. In-depth interviews with individuals from 13 different companies who have gone through formal IS outsourcing reveal insights about the intentions, motivations and consequences of this rapidly growing area. Includes step-by-step instructions to negotiate a successful vendor contract.
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• 1. Building on a Decade of Research on IT and Organizations / Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama, Lucas D. Introna and Michael D. Myers
• 2. Nations, Identities, and Global Technologies / Mark Poster
• 3. Knowledge and Methods in IS Research: From Beginnings to the Future / Heinz K. Klein
• 4. The Tyranny of Space in Organizational Analysis / Richard J. Boland, Jr.
• 5. Distinctions Among Different Types of Generalizing in Information Systems Research / Richard Baskerville and Allen S. Lee
• 6. Research and Ethical Issues Arising from Ethnographic Interviews of Patients' Reactions to an Intelligent Interactive Telephone Health Behavior Advisor / Bonnie Kaplan, Ramesh Farzanfar and Robert H. Freeman.

A number of relatively new technologies, such as Enterprise Resource Planning systems, the Internet and intranets, have entered the organizational landscape. These technologies have not only enabled a wide range of social and organizational transformations, but have also challenged much of the received wisdom that operates in academic and industrial discourses. This book attempts to capture some of these strands by discussing the social and organizational issues surrounding the implementation and use of these new technologies in organizational processes. Some of the contributions are critical and reflexive by nature, while others offer rich insights through the analysis of cases. The book represents a wide scope of traditions of thought, as well as research approaches, in addressing these emerging issues. A number of practical and theoretical topics are discussed in detail, including: Implementation of ERP; Electronic commerce; Intranet implementation; The management of standards; Issues of organizational analysis; Understanding BPR tools; Collaborative technologies; Knowledge work environments. This book contains the selected proceedings of the International Working Conference on New Information Technologies in Organizational Processes: Field Studies and Theoretical Reflections on the Future of Work, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, in August 1999. This valuable new title will be essential reading for researchers working in information systems and management, technology, social and organization studies.
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• Preface
• Prologue
• 1. On the nature of reality and the nature of business - introduction to the metaworld
• 2. The object at the root of it all
• 3. The nature of attributes
• 4. Domains and their expression.
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Agility and innovation are necessary to achieve global excellence and customer value in twenty-first century business; yet most approaches to business process engineering sacrifice these in favor of operational efficiency and economics. Moreover, the IT systems used to automate and encapsulate business processes are unresponsive to the dynamic business environment. Mitra and Gupta provide insight to close this gap - showing how innovation can be systematized with normalized patterns of information, how business processes and information systems may be tightly aligned, and how these processes and systems can be designed to automatically adapt to change by reconfiguring shared patterns of knowledge. A modular approach to building business systems that parallels that of object oriented software is presented. Practical templates required for accelerating integration, analysis and design are provided. This book will appeal to consultants, analysts, and managers in IT as well as researchers and graduate students in business, management and IT.
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• Preface. About The Author. Acknowledgments. 1 Introduction. 1.1 The Cast of Characters. 1.2 Alice s Online Bank. 1.3 About This Book. 1.4 The People Problem. 1.5 Principles and Practice. 1.6 Problems. I Crypto. 2 Crypto Basics. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 How to Speak Crypto. 2.3 Classic Crypto. 2.4 Modern Crypto History. 2.5 A Taxonomy of Cryptography. 2.6 A Taxonomy of Cryptanalysis. 2.7 Summary. 2.8 Problems. 3 Symmetric Key Crypto. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Stream Ciphers. 3.3 Block Ciphers. 3.4 Integrity. 3.5 Summary. 3.6 Problems. 4 Public Key Crypto. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Knapsack. 4.3 RSA. 4.4 Diffie-Hellman. 4.5 Elliptic Curve Cryptography. 4.6 Public Key Notation. 4.7 Uses for Public Key Crypto. 4.8 Public Key Infrastructure. 4.9 Summary. 4.10 Problems. 5 Hash Functions++. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 What is a Cryptographic Hash Function? 5.3 The Birthday Problem. 5.4 A Birthday Attack. 5.5 Non-Cryptographic Hashes. 5.6 Tiger Hash. 5.7 HMAC. 5.8 Uses for Hash Functions. 5.9 Miscellaneous Crypto-Related Topics. 5.10 Summary. 5.11 Problems. 6 Advanced Cryptanalysis. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Enigma. 6.3 RC4 as Used in WEP. 6.4 Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis. 6.5 Lattice Reduction and the Knapsack. 6.6 RSA Timing Attack. 6.7 Summary. 6.8 Problems. II Access Control. 7 Authentication. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Authentication Methods. 7.3 Passwords. 7.4 Biometrics. 7.5 Something You Have. 7.6 Two-Factor Authentication. 7.7 Single Sign-On and Web Cookies. 7.8 Summary. 7.9 Problems. 8 Authorization. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 A Brief History of Authorization. 8.3 Access Control Matrix. 8.4 Multilevel Security Models. 8.5 Compartments. 8.6 Covert Channel. 8.8 CAPTCHA. 8.9 Firewalls. 8.10 Intrusion Detection Systems. 8.11 Summary. 8.12 Problems. III Protocols. 9 Simple Authentication Protocols. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Simple Security Protocols. 9.3 Authentication Protocols. 9.4 Authentication and TCP. 9.5 Zero Knowledge Proofs. 9.6 The Best Authentication Protocol? 9.7 Summary. 9.8 Problems. 10 Real-World Security Protocols. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 SSH. 10.3 SSL. 10.4 IPSec. 10.5 Kerberos. 10.6 WEP. 10.7 GSM. 10.8 Summary. 10.9 Problems. IV Software. 11 Software Flaws and Malware. 11.1 Introduction. 11.2 Software Flaws. 11.3 Malware. 11.4 Botnets. 11.5 Miscellaneous Software-Based Attacks. 11.6 Summary. 11.7 Problems. 12 Insecurity in Software. 12.1 Introduction. 12.2 Software Reverse Engineering. 12.3 Digital Rights Management. 12.4 Software Development. 12.5 Summary. 12.6 Problems. 13 Operating Systems and Security. 13.1 Introduction. 13.2 OS Security Functions. 13.3 Trusted Operating System. 13.4 Next Generation Secure Computing Base. 13.5 Summary. 13.6 Problems. Appendix. A
• -1. Network Security Basics. A
• -2. Math Essentials. Annotated Bibliography. Index.
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Now updated your expert guide to twenty-first century information security Information security is a rapidly evolving field. As businesses and consumers become increasingly dependent on complex multinational information systems, it is more imperative than ever to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data. Featuring a wide array of new information on the most current security issues, this fully updated and revised edition of Information Security: Principles and Practice provides the skills and knowledge readers need to tackle any information security challenge. Taking a practical approach to information security by focusing on real-world examples, this book is organized around four major themes: Cryptography: classic cryptosystems, symmetric key cryptography, public key cryptography, hash functions, random numbers, information hiding, and cryptanalysisAccess control: authentication and authorization, password-based security, ACLs and capabilities, multilevel security and compartments, covert channels and inference control, security models such as BLP and Biba's model, firewalls, and intrusion detection systemsProtocols: simple authentication protocols, session keys, perfect forward secrecy, timestamps, SSH, SSL, IPSec, Kerberos, WEP, and GSMSoftware: flaws and malware, buffer overflows, viruses and worms, malware detection, software reverse engineering, digital rights management, secure software development, and operating systems security This Second Edition features new discussions of relevant security topics such as the SSH and WEP protocols, practical RSA timing attacks, botnets, and security certification. New background material has been added, including a section on the Enigma cipher and coverage of the classic "orange book" view of security. Also featured are a greatly expanded and upgraded set of homework problems and many new figures, tables, and graphs to illustrate and clarify complex topics and problems. A comprehensive solutions manual is available to assist in course development. Minimizing theory while providing clear, accessible content, Information Security remains the premier text for students and instructors in information technology, computer science, and engineering, as well as for professionals working in these fields.
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• Foreword.- Data Integration and Query Reformulation in Service-Based Grids.- Towards a Common Deployment Model for Grid Systems.- Towards Automatic Creation of Web Services for Grid Component Composition.- Adaptable Parallel Components for Grid Programming.- Skeleton Parallel Programming and Parallel Objects.- Towards the Automatic Mapping of ASSIST Applications for the Grid.- An Abstract Schema Modeling Adaptivity Management.- A Feedback-Based Approach.- Fault-Injection and Dependability Benchmarking.- User Managemetn for Virtual Organizations.- On the Integration of Passive and Active Netowork Monitoring in Grid Systems.- New Grid Monitoring Infrastructures.- Towards Semantics-Based Resource Discovery for the Grid.- Scheduling Workflows with Budget Constraints.- Integration of ISS into the VIOLA Meta-Scheduling Environment.- Multi-Criteria Grid Resource Management Using Performance Prediction.- A Proposal for a Generic Grid Scheduling Architecture.- GRID Superscalar Enabled P-GRADE Portal.- Redesigning the SEGL PSE: A Case Study of Using Mediator Components.- Synthetic Grid Workloads with Ibis, KOALA, and GrenchMark.- Author Index.
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The aim of CoreGRID is to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies in order to overcome the current fragmentation and duplication of effort in this area. To achieve this objective, the workshop brought together a critical mass of well-established researchers from a number of institutions which have all constructed an ambitious joint program of activities. Priority in the workshop was given to work conducted in collaboration between partners from different research institutions and to promising research proposals that could foster such collaboration in the future.
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• Application of geographic information systems and remote sensing in river studies: general introduction / R.S.E.W. Leuven, I. Poudevigne & R.M. Teeuw
• Biodiversity in changing landscapes: from species or patch assemblages to system organisation / D. Alard & I. Poudevigne
• Blanket bog degradation in river catchments in the west of Ireland / G.W Geerling ... [et al.]
• Use of aerial photography and digital photogrammetry in the assessment of river channel destabilization
• N.J. Mount ... [et al.]
• The use of SPOT imagery as a tool for ecological analysis of river floodplains: a case study in the Seine Valley / A. Bourcier, I. Poudevigne & R.M. Teeuw
• Use of geographic information systems and remote sensing for river management: Thames Region, UK Environment Agency / K. Farthing & R.M. Teeuw
• Application of remote sensing and GIS-based modelling in the analysis of floodplain sedimentation / H. Middelkoop
• A comparison of interpolation procedures for deriving river long profiles from digital contour data / P.M. Zukowskyj & R.M. Teeuw
• GIS as a tool for incorporating the spatial variability of pollutants in ecological risk assessments of Dutch river floodplains / L. Kooistra ... [et al.]
• Assessing the impacts of drought on macrophyte communities occupying the headwaters of chalk streams in the Thames Basin / C.G. Westwood & R.M. Teeuw
• LARCH: an ecological application of GIS in river studies / R. Jochem, B.J.H. Koolstra & J.P. Chardon --

• Patterns of landscape dynamics and their consequences on ecological communities: an application of geographic information systems and remote sensing in the Seine Valley / I. Poudevigne ... [et al.]
• Cumulative impact assessment of ecological rehabilitation and infrastructure facilities in floodplains along the middle reach of the River Waal / R.S.E.W. Leuven ... [et al.]
• Remote sensing and geographic information systems as emerging tools for riverine habitat and landscape evaluation: from concepts to models / R.S.E.W Leuven, I. Poudevigne & R.M. Teeuw.

• Foreword
• J.Schwarz da Silva. Preface
• L.M.Correia et al. Contributors. List of Acronyms. List of Figures. List of Tables. 1. Introduction
• L.M.Correia et al. 2. A System Overview
• M.Johnsson. 3. Socio-economic
• J.Salo and L.M.Correia. 4. Network Design
• S.Perez Sanchez and R.Bless. 5. Naming and Addressing
• H.Karl, T.Biermann and H.Woesner. 6. Security Aspects and Principles
• C.G. Schultz. 7. Interdomain Concepts and Quality of Service
• P.A.Aranda Gutierrez and J.Carapinha. 8. Managing Networks
• D.Gillblad and A.Gonzalez Prieto. 9. How Connectivity is Established and Managed
• H.Woesner and T.Biermann. 10. How to Manage and Search/Retrieve Information Objects
• S.Nechifor. 11. Use Case-From Business Scenario to Network Architecture
• M.Johnsson and A.M.Biraghi. 12. Prototype Implementations
• D.Martin and M.Zitterbart. 13. Conclusions
• H.Abramowicz and K.Wuenstel. Appendix Project Description and Reports. Glossary. Index.
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Architecture and Design for the Future Internet addresses the Networks of the Future and the Future Internet, focusing on networks aspects, offering both technical and non-technical perspectives. It presents the main findings of 4WARD (Architecture and Design for the Future Internet), a European Integrated Project within Framework Programme 7, which addressed this area from an innovative approach. Today's network architectures are stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application level, while the need for structural change is increasingly evident. The absence of adequate facilities to design, optimise and interoperate new networks currently forces a convergence to an architecture that is suboptimal for many applications and that cannot support innovations within itself, the Internet. 4WARD overcomes this impasse through a set of radical architectural approaches, built on a strong mobile and wireless background. The main topics addressed by the book are: the improved ability to design inter-operable and complementary families of network architectures; the enabled co-existence of multiple networks on common platforms through carrier-grade virtualisation for networking resources; the enhanced utility of networks by making them self-managing; the increased robustness and efficiency of networks by leveraging diversity; and the improved application support by a new information-centric paradigm in place of the old host-centric approach. These solutions embrace the full range of technologies, from fibre backbones to wireless and sensor networks.
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