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Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century
The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Chapter 5: Customers, Products, Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Close Customer Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Customer Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Dependence on the Customer and Risk...
College Sports Inc.
How Commercialism Influences Intercollegiate Athletics
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
For several decades in America, athletic programs in colleges and universities received financial support and resources primarily from their respective schools and such sources as alumni and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). More recently, however, college coaches assigned to...
Digital Television
A Practical Guide for Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Digital Television closely examines all present-day TV transmission methods. These include MPEG, DVB, ATSC and ISDB-T. DVD is also discussed. The text covers these subjects in a practical-minded manner. Although mathematical formulations are used, they are in most cases only utilized to supplement...
Modern Cryptography Primer
Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Cryptography has experienced rapid development, with major advances recently in both secret and public key ciphers, cryptographic hash functions, cryptographic algorithms and multiparty protocols, including their software engineering correctness verification, and various methods of cryptanalysis....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
David Middleton was a towering figure of 20th Century engineering and science and one of the founders of statistical communication theory. During the second World War, the young David Middleton, working with Van Fleck, devised the notion of the matched filter, which is the most basic method used for...
Bluetooth Security Attacks
Comparative Analysis, Attacks, and Countermeasures
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Bluetooth technology has enjoyed tremendous success, and it's now employed in billions of devices for short-range wireless data and real-time audio or video transfer. In this book the authors provide an overview of Bluetooth security. They examine network vulnerabilities and provide a literature-review...
Optimal Time-Domain Noise Reduction Filters
A Theoretical Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Additive noise is ubiquitous in acoustics environments and can affect the intelligibility and quality of speech signals. Therefore, a so-called noise reduction algorithm is required to mitigate the effect of the noise that is picked up by the microphones. This work proposes a general framework in...
by Muhammad Ismail, Weihua Zhuang
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This brief focuses on radio resource allocation in a heterogeneous wireless medium. It presents radio resource allocation algorithms with decentralized implementation, which support both single-network and multi-homing services. The brief provides a set of cooperative networking algorithms, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Complex systems in nature and society make use of information for the development of their internal organization and the control of their functional mechanisms. Alongside technical aspects of storing, transmitting and processing information, the various semantic aspects of information, such as meaning,...
Neuroscience Databases
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Neuroscience Databases: A Practical Guide is the first book providing a comprehensive overview of these increasingly important databases. This volume makes the results of the Human Genome Project and other recent large-scale initiatives in the neurosciences available to a wider community. It extends...
Electronic Government
15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2016, Guimarães, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2016, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in September 2016, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2016.
The 24 revised full papers...
Data Science Analytics and Applications
First International Conference, DaSAA 2017, Chennai, India, January 4-6, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Science Analytics and Applications, DaSAA 2017, held in Chennai, India, in January 2017.
The 16 revised full papers and 4 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77...
Scalable Information Systems
5th International Conference, INFOSCALE 2014, Seoul, South Korea, September 25-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, INFOSCALE 2014, held in September 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as scalable data analysis and big data applications.
Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
12th Annual Conference, TAMC 2015, Singapore, May 18-20, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2014, held in Singapore, in May 2015. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers treat all topics relating...