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Introduction to Identity-Based Encryption (Information Security and Privacy Series)

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If you’re looking to fully understand and effectively implement identity-based encryption (IBE) technology, this authoritative resource is a smart choice. Until now, details on IBE have only been found in cumbersome, hard-to-follow journal articles and conference proceedings. This is the first book to offer you complete, easy-to-understand guidance on the subject. Comparing and contrasting IBE with traditional public-key technologies, the book clearly explains how and why IBE systems are secure. You find a wealth of practical techniques, algorithms and numerous worked examples that enable you to create a secure IBE system. From basic mathematical concepts and properties, properties of elliptic curves, divisors and the Tate pairing, and cryptography and computational complexity, to related cryptographic algorithms, various IBE schemes, hierarchical IBE and master secret planning, and calculating pairings, this comprehensive volume serves as a clear guide to this increasingly important security technology. This hands-on volume includes detailed pseudocode for identity-based encryption algorithms and supporting algorithms that help save you time and simplify your challenging projects in the field.

Continuum Mechanics using Mathematica: Fundamentals, Applications and Scientific Computing

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This book’s methodological approach familiarizes readers with the mathematical tools required to correctly define and solve problems in continuum mechanics. The book covers essential principles and fundamental applications, and provides a solid basis for a deeper study of more challenging and specialized problems related to elasticity, fluid mechanics, plasticity, materials with memory, piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, magneto-fluid mechanics, and state changes. Key topics and features: * Concise presentation strikes a balance between fundamentals and applications * Requisite mathematical background carefully collected in two introductory chapters and two appendices * CD-ROM containing Mathematica-based exercises, examples, and programs related to the text; this user-friendly software is unique in the literature and allows readers to quickly solve complex, time-consuming problems related to the application areas covered * Recent developments highlighted through coverage of more significant applications to areas such as porous media, electromagnetic fields, and phase transitions Continuum Mechanics using Mathematica® is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering. It may serve as a course textbook or self-study reference for anyone seeking a solid foundation in the field.

IT Risk Management Guide - Risk Management Implementation Guide

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Are you exposing your business to IT risk, and leaving profit opportunities on the table? You might be if you are managing your IT risk using more traditional approaches. The IT Risk Management Guide, a new book based on research conducted by The Art of Service and ITIL’s Best Practices, helps companies focus on the most pressing risks and leverage the upside that comes with vigilance. Traditionally, managers have grouped technology risk and funding into silos. The IT Risk Management Guide outlines a new Process driven model for integrated risk management, which identifies core areas you can develop to eliminate the problems that silo strategies create. The authors also offer specific ways to make the most of your new found advantage by offering blueprints and templates, ready to use. And because IT risk is the responsibility of all senior executives and not just CIOs this book describes the tools and practices in language that general managers can understand and use.

Video Compression and Communications

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Since the publication of Wireless Video Communications five years ago, the area of video compression and wireless transceivers has evolved even further. This new edition addresses a range of recent developments in these areas, giving cognizance to the associated transmission aspects and issues of error resilience.

Video Compression and Communications has been updated and condensed yet remains all-encompassing, giving a comprehensive overview of the subject. Covering compression issues, coding delay, implementational complexity and bitrate, the book also looks at the historical perspective to video communication.

• New edition of successful and informative text, Wireless Video Communications
• Substantial new material has been added on areas such as H.264, MPEG4 coding and transceivers
• Clear presentation and broad scope make it essential for anyone interested in wireless communications
• Systematically converts the lessons of Shannon’s information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems.

This book is ideal for postgraduates and researchers in communication systems but will also be a valuable reference to undergraduates, development and systems engineers of video compression applications as well as industrialists, managers and visual communications practitioners.

Oracle Database 11g, A Beginner's Guide

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Get a Solid Foundation in Oracle Database Technology

Master Oracle Database 11g fundamentals quickly and easily. Using self-paced tutorials, this book covers core database essentials, the role of the administrator, high availability, and large database features. Oracle Database 11g: A Beginner’s Guide walks you, step by step, through database setup, administration, programming, backup, and recovery. In-depth introductions to SQL and PL/SQL are included. Designed for easy learning, this exclusive Oracle Press guide offers:

• Core Concepts–Oracle Database 11g topics presented in logically organized chapters
• Critical Skills–Lists of specific skills covered in each chapter
• Projects–Practical exercises that show how to apply the critical skills learned in each chapter
• Progress Checks–Quick self-assessment sections to check your progress
• Notes–Extra information related to the topic being covered
• Mastery Checks–Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge

Internet-Enabled Handheld Devices, Computing, and Programming: Mobile Commerce and Personal Data Applications

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The computing power and Internet connectivity of handheld devices has increased exponentially, creating a vast realm of potential applications in mobile commerce and personal information management. Internet-Enabled Handheld Devices, Computing, and Programming: Mobile Commerce and Personal Data Applications comprehensively reviews the state of handheld computing technology and application development, with coverage of such cutting-edge topics as Advanced Wireless Markup Language and J2ME programming. Uniquely focused on innovations that can drive mobile commerce and personal information management to new levels of utility and added value, this book provides a much-needed resource for academics and students engaged in mobile-technology research. It will also guide the efforts of developers and managers in industry seeking to maximize the evolving commercial opportunities presented by the current generation of internet-enabled handheld devices.

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional

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Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, youll learn how to discover and represent the details and scope of the problem in question.

Database design is not an exact science, and solid database design principles and examples help demonstrate the consequences of simplifications and pragmatic decisions. The rationale is to try to keep it simple, but allow room for development as situations change or resources permit. The book also features an introduction for implementing the final design in a relational database.

About the Author
Clare Churcher holds a Ph.D. in physics and has designed several databases for a variety of large and small projects. She is currently the head of the applied computing group at Lincoln University where her teaching has included analysis and design, database, and programming. She has supervised over 70 undergraduate projects designing databases for small projects.

Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance

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Learn the code cracker’s malicious mindset, so you can find worn-size holes in the software you are designing, testing, and building. Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance takes a weapon from the black-hat arsenal to give you a powerful new tool to build secure, high-quality software. This practical resource helps you add extra protection without adding expense or time to already tight schedules and budgets. The book shows you how to make fuzzing a standard practice that integrates seamlessly with all development activities.

This comprehensive reference goes through each phase of software development and points out where testing and auditing can tighten security. It surveys all popular commercial fuzzing tools and explains how to select the right one for a software development project. The book also identifies those cases where commercial tools fall short and when there is a need for building your own fuzzing tools.

Understanding IBM SOA Foundation Suite: Learning Visually with Examples

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The IBM SOA Foundation Suite is an integrated, open-standards-based set of software, best practices, and patterns that help you systematically maximize the business value of SOA. Understanding IBM SOA Foundation Suite brings together 26 hands-on tutorials that will help you master IBM SOA Foundation and apply it successfully in your organization. Four of IBM’s SOA practitioners identify core IBM SOA Foundation components and usage scenarios, and walk you step-by-step through implementing them in real-world environments. This book’s self-contained tutorials are presented both in print and through video on the accompanying CD-ROM, showing you the results of every action immediately, whether you’re running the software or not. Using these tutorials, technical professionals can quickly move up the learning curve, discovering how each product works, and how they fit together. You’ll gain the big picture overview you need to make intelligent up-front decisions, and all the hands-on practice you need to prototype working solutions.

Coverage includes

• Designing services with UML, sharing designs via HTML files, and transforming designs to and from Java with IBM Rational Software Architect
• Creating services with IBM Rational Application Developer, and deploying them with IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Implementing effective service governance with IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
• Integrating existing services into new business processes with IBM WebSphere
• Integration Developer and IBM WebSphere Process Server
• Connecting services with IBM WebSphere Message Broker
• Developing, testing, deploying, and managing portlets with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory and IBM WebSphere Portal
• Systematically securing services with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

Retrial Queueing Systems: A Computational Approach

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The application of auto-repeat facilities in telephone systems, as well as the use of random access protocols in computer networks, have led to growing interest in retrial queueing models. Since much of the theory of retrial queues is complex from an analytical viewpoint, with this book the authors give a comprehensive and updated text focusing on approximate techniques and algorithmic methods for solving the analytically intractable models. “Retrial Queueing Systems: A Computational Approach” also: presents motivating examples in telephone and computer networks; establishes a comparative analysis of the retrial queues versus standard queues with waiting lines and queues with losses; integrates a wide range of techniques applied to the main M/G/1 and M/M/c retrial queues, and variants with general retrial times, finite population and the discrete-time case; surveys basic results of the matrix-analytic formalism and emphasizes the related tools employed in retrial queues; discusses a few selected retrial queues with QBD, GI/M/1 and M/G/1 structures; and, features an abundance of numerical examples, and updates the existing literature. The book is intended for an audience ranging from advanced undergraduates to researchers interested not only in queueing theory, but also in applied probability, stochastic models of the operations research, and engineering. The prerequisite is a graduate course in stochastic processes, and a positive attitude to the algorithmic probability.