Information Theory

Hamming distance and rank metric have long been used in coding theory. The sum-rank metric naturally extends these over fields. They have attracted significant attention for their applications in distributed storage systems, multishot network coding,...

Caching refers to the act of replicating information at a faster (or closer) medium with the purpose of improving performance. This deceptively simple idea has given rise to some of the hardest optimization problems in the fields of computer systems,...

Rank-metric codes date back to the 1970s and today play a vital role in many areas of coding theory and cryptography. In this survey the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the known properties of rank-metric codes and their applications. The...

Common information measures the amount of matching variables in two or more information sources. It is ubiquitous in information theory and related areas such as theoretical computer science and discrete probability. However, because there are multiple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629173078Author Fergus MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Golgotha Press, Inc.Publisher Golgotha Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

Due to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA is an attractive medium for archival data storage. Natural DNA more than 700.000 years old has been recovered, and about 5 grams of DNA can in principle hold a Zetabyte of digital information,...

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The issue of biometric security has become a major research area recently. While systems based on iris-recognition, DNA analysis and fingerprinting are being deployed there are instances where these alone cannot provide fool-proof security. Biometric...

Written by the inventors, Raptor Codes provides a complete introduction to the theory, design and practical implementation of a class of codes that that provide a lot of practical value to a large variety of data communication applications. They find...

Data storage has grown such that distributed storage over a number of systems is now commonplace. This has given rise to an increase in the complexity of ensuring data loss does not occur, particularly where failure is due to the failure of individual...

Combinatorial Designs for Authentication and Secrecy Codes is a succinct in-depth review and tutorial of a subject that promises to lead to major advances in computer and communication security. This monograph provides a tutorial on combinatorial...

This book explains how to implement a data lake strategy, covering the technical and business challenges architects commonly face. It also illustrates how and why client requirements should drive architectural decisions.   Drawing upon a specific case...

The advent of Big Data analytics and cloud computing has resulted in an unprecedented increase in the demand for distributed data storage demand. Companies are constantly on the lookout for ways of reducing this cost and improving reliability. Erasure...

This monograph provides a tutorial review of the Lattice-Reduction-Aided and Integer-Forcing approaches to equalization in MIMO communications. The authors highlight the similarities and differences of both approaches while summarizing the various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783662387528Author Carlos R. P. HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 529Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher...

Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and businesses. The growing awareness of such repercussions has led to major public initiatives like the "Data Quality Act" in the USA and the "European...

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and essential data analysis techniques. Clustering can be used as an independent data mining task to discern intrinsic characteristics of data, or as a preprocessing step with the clustering results then used for...

Sequences and the de Bruijn Graph: Properties, Constructions, and Applications explores the foundations of theoretical mathematical concepts and their important applications to computer science, electrical engineering, and bioinformatics. The book...

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the proceedings of the second International Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and its Applications, held at La Mota Castle in Medina del Campo. The event provided a forum for the exchange of results and ideas, which we...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2008, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34...

The Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) conferences have established themselves as a platform for bringing together researchers and practitioners from various backgrounds and all regions of the world to exchange ideas, experiences and...

Digital Libraries are complex and advanced forms of information systems which extend and augment their physical counterparts by amplifying existing resources and services and enabling development of new kinds of human problem solving and expression...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA'98, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 1998. The 81 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2006, held in Singapore in April 2006. The 67 revised full papers and 33 revised short papers presented together with 3...

DEXA 2005, the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, was held at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 22 to 26, 2005. The success of the DEXA series has partly been due to the way in which...

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to the proccedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2004). This conference provided an international forum for technical discussion on conceptual modeling...

DEXA 2004, the 15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, was held August 30 ? September 3, 2004, at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. The quickly growing spectrum of database applications has led to the establisment of...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of nine workshops held as part of the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2006, held in Munich, Germany in March 2006. The 70 revised full papers...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third VLDB 2006 International Workshop on Secure Data Management, SDM 2006, held in Seoul, Korea in September 2006 in conjunction with VLDB 2006. The book presents 13 revised full papers, organized in...

The Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) conf- ence series began in 1998 in Hong Kong, when the world started to experience information and data explosion and to demand for better, intelligent meth- ologies and techniques. It has...

The 9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2004, was held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, during March 14-18, 2004. The EDBT series of conferences is an established and prestigious forum for the exchange of the latest research...

This book is made of the proceedings of EUROCODE 1992 which was held in Udine (Italy) at the CISM, October 27 - 30, 1992. EUROCODE '92 is a continuation as well as an extension of the previous colloquia Trois Journees sur le codage and EUROCODE '90,...

During the 1970's a theory of data ~ases began to evolve pro- viding a foundation for some existing tools and techniques. The significance of this theory is beginning to have an impact particu- larly with respect to the design and implementation of the...

"Information Theory and Statistical Learning" presents theoretical and practical results about information theoretic methods used in the context of statistical learning. The book will present a comprehensive overview of the large range of...

Current research activities are leveraging the Grid to create generic- and domain-specific solutions and services for data management and knowledge discovery. Knowledge and Data Management in Grids is the third volume of the CoreGRID series; it gathers...

Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computing is an edited volume based on a post workshop at the second international conference on Pervasive Computing. The workshop was held April18-23, 2004, in Vienna, Austria. The goal of...

Details how intrusion detection works in network security with comparisons to traditional methods such as firewalls and cryptography Analyzes the challenges in interpreting and correlating Intrusion Detection alertsBook InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750326384Author Sean D DevineFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics PublishingWeight(grams)...

As e-learning increases in popularity and reach, more people are taking online courses and need to understand the relevant security issues. This book discusses typical threats to e-learning projects, introducing how they have been and should be addressed...

Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computing is an edited volume based on a post workshop at the second international conference on Pervasive Computing. The workshop was held April18-23, 2004, in Vienna, Austria. The goal of...