Download or read book Neighbor Networks written by Ronald S. Burt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Burt examines the cases of analysts, bankers, and managers, and find that rewards, in fact, do go to people with well-connected colleagues. It shows how individuals make use of their social networks to further their careers.

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Download or read book Behavior Dynamics in Media Sharing Social Networks written by H. Vicky Zhao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In large-scale media-sharing social networks, where millions of users create, share, link and reuse media content, there are clear challenges in protecting content security and intellectual property, and in designing scalable and reliable networks capable of handling high levels of traffic. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how game theory can be used to model user dynamics and optimize design of media-sharing networks. It reviews the fundamental methodologies used to model and analyze human behavior, using examples from real-world multimedia social networks. With a thorough investigation of the impact of human factors on multimedia system design, this accessible book shows how an understanding of human behavior can be used to improve system performance. Bringing together mathematical tools and engineering concepts with ideas from sociology and human behavior analysis, this one-stop guide will enable researchers to explore this emerging field further and ultimately design media-sharing systems with more efficient, secure and personalized services.

Download or read book Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology written by Auke Jan Ijspeert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology, BioADIT 2006. The contributions range from basic research in biology and in information technology, to more application-oriented developments in software and in hardware. The papers are organized in topical sections on robotics, networking, biological systems, self-organization, evolutionary computation, and modeling and imaging.

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Download or read book Handbook of Peer to Peer Networking written by Xuemin Shen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 1421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peer-to-peer networking is a disruptive technology for large scale distributed app- cations that has recently gained wide interest due to the successes of peer-to-peer (P2P) content sharing, media streaming, and telephony applications. There are a large range of other applications under development or being proposed. The - derlying architectures share features such as decentralizaton, sharing of end system resources, autonomy, virtualization, and self-organization. These features constitute the P2P paradigm. This handbook broadly addresses a large cross-section of c- rent research and state-of-the-art reports on the nature of this paradigm from a large number of experts in the ?eld. Several trends in information and network technology such as increased perf- mance and deployment of broadband networking, wireless networking, and mobile devices are synergistic with and reinforcing the capabilities of the P2P paradigm. There is general expectation in the technical community that P2P networking will continue to be an important tool for networked applications and impact the evo- tion of the Internet. A large amount of research activity has resulted in a relatively short time, and a growing community of researchers has developed. The Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking is dedicated to discussions on P2P networks and their applications. This is a comprehensive book on P2P computing.

Download or read book The Semantic Web ISWC 2004 written by Sheila A. McIlraith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-19 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) was held Nov- ber 7–11, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan. If it is true what the proverb says: “Once by accident, twice by habit, three times by tradition,” then this third ISWC did indeed ?rmly establish a tradition. After the overwhelming interest in last year’s conference at Sanibel Island, Florida, this year’s conference showed that the Semantic Web is not just a one-day wonder, but has established itself ?rmly on the research agenda. At a time when special interest meetings with a Sem- tic Web theme are springing up at major conferences in numerous areas (ACL, VLDB, ECAI, AAAI, ECML, WWW, to name but a few), the ISWC series has established itself as the primary venue for Semantic Web research. Response to the call for papers for the conference continued to be strong. We solicited submissions to three tracks of the conference: the research track, the industrial track, and the poster track. The research track, the premier venue for basic research on the Semantic Web, received 205 submissions, of which 48 were accepted for publication. Each submission was evaluated by three p- gram committee members whose reviews were coordinated by members of the senior program committee. Final decisions were made by the program co-chairs in consultation with the conference chair and the senior program committee. The industrial track, soliciting papers describing industrial research on the - mantic Web, received 22 submissions, of which 7 were accepted for publication.

Download or read book Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries written by José Luis Borbinha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2009, held in Corfu, Greece, in September/October 2009. The 28 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 2 panel description, the extended abstracts of 20 revised poster and 16 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 181 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on services, infrastructures, interaction, knowledge organization systems, interfaces, resource discovery, architectures, information retrieval, preservation, and evaluation.

Download or read book Advances in Information Retrieval written by Craig Macdonald and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research covers evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.

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Download or read book Networked Digital Technologies Part II written by Rachid Benlamri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume-set (CCIS 293 and CCIS 294) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, NDT 2012, held in Dubai, UAE, in April 2012. The 96 papers presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 228 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collaborative systems for e-sciences; context-aware processing and ubiquitous systems; data and network mining; grid and cloud computing; information and data management; intelligent agent-based systems; internet modeling and design; mobile, ad hoc and sensor network management; peer-to-peer social networks; quality of service for networked systems; semantic Web and ontologies; security and access control; signal processing and computer vision for networked systems; social networks; Web services.

Download or read book Bio Inspired Computing and Networking written by Yang Xiao and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking new methods to satisfy increasing communication demands, researchers continue to find inspiration from the complex systems found in nature. From ant-inspired allocation to a swarm algorithm derived from honeybees, Bio-Inspired Computing and Networking explains how the study of biological systems can significantly improve computing, networki

Download or read book Knowledge based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems written by Ignac Lovrek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volume set LNAI 5177, LNAI 5178, and LNAI 5179, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2008, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in September 2008. The 316 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers present a wealth of original research results from the field of intelligent information processing in the broadest sense; topics covered in the first volume are artificial neural networks and connectionists systems; fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems; evolutionary computation; machine learning and classical AI; agent systems; knowledge based and expert systems; intelligent vision and image processing; knowledge management, ontologies, and data mining; Web intelligence, text and multimedia mining and retrieval; and intelligent robotics and control.

Download or read book Advances in Web and Network Technologies and Information Management written by Kevin C. Chang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed combined proceedings of four international workshops held in conjunction with the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China in June 2007: DBMAN 2007, WebETrends 2007, PAIS 2007, and ASWAN 2007.

Download or read book Service Oriented Computing written by Chi-Hung Chi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Joint International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC-ServiceWave 2009, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in November 2009. The 54 contributions to this volume, consisting of 37 full papers, 8 short papers and 9 demonstration papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 228 submissions. The papers are arranged in topical sections on composition, discovery, design principles, customization and adaptation, negotiation, agreements and compliance, selection, platforms and infrastructures, security, modeling and design, validation and verification, reputation and ranking, and service management. This volume launches the new subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, entitled LNCS Services Science.

Download or read book Semantics of a Networked World Semantics for Grid Databases written by Mokrane Bouzeghoub and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosion in data exchange fostered by the success of the Web has restated semantics as a kernel issue in the development of services providing data and - formationtousersandapplicationsworldwide. Thisnewlydesignatedconference serieson"SemanticsfortheNetworkedWorld"uni?esintoasingleframework the previous series on "Database Semantics" and "Visual Database Systems" that the IFIP WG 2.6 has been o?ering since 1985. Whereas the intent of the conferenceseriesistoexploreinterestingresearchissuesrelatedtosemantics, the themeforthe2004editionis"SemanticsforGridDatabases". Gridcomputing, a new?eld concentrating on "?exible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources (also referred to as virtual organizations)", has gathered momentum in the context of providing shared infrastructures for large-scale scienti?c computations and data analysis. Similarly, P2P computing has attracted substantial attention. Currently, attention is devoted to the provision of middleware services to makecomputationalresourcesinteroperableatthetechnicallevelandtoincrease the e?ciency of use of physical resources. However, as Grid and P2P computing infrastructures are being increasingly adopted, they are likely to have typical problems of information overload that manifest themselves in any large-scale infrastructure for information and application sharing (e.g., the WWW). The need for resource discovery, application and service interoperability, integration and composition manifest themselves in these infrastructures. The ability to interoperate at the semantic level will largely determine the continued success and utilization of these infrastructures