Encyclopedia of biometrics
This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive reference to topics in biometrics including concepts, modalities, algorithms, devices, systems, security, performance testing, applications and standardization. With an AZ format and over 1400 entries, it provides easy access to relevan…
This guide to Excel focuses on three areas--least squares, Fourier transformation, and digital simulation. It illustrates the techniques with detailed examples, many drawn from the scientific literature. It also includes and describes a number of sample macros and functions to f…
This SpringerBrief examines the technology of email privacy encryption from its origins to its theoretical and practical details. It explains the challenges in standardization, usability, and trust that interfere with the user experience for software protection. Chapters address…
"Active rules provide a new and important method for developing database applications, and the subject is seeing an increasing amount of attention from commercial database companies. This book provides a timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's …
Handbook on data centers
This handbook offers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research achievements in the field of data centers. Contributions from international, leading researchers and scholars offer topics in cloud computing, virtualization in data centers, energy efficient data cente…
Molecular biology is undergoing exponential growth in both the volume and complexity of biological data—and knowledge discovery offers the capacity to automate complex search and data analysis tasks. This book presents an overview of the most recent developments on techniques an…
Visual cryptography is a secret sharing technique which allows the encryption of an image without requiring any complex computation or knowledge of cryptography. This unique text/reference describes the fundamental concepts, theories and practice of visual cryptography. The desi…
A comprehensive guide for scientific researchers providing everything they need to know about data management and how to organize, document, use and reuse their data.--
Textbook on methodology for the systems design of management information systems and information systems - stresses the need for top management involvement in decision making relating to the computerization of business enterprises, and includes a glossary of terms. Bibliography …
The current work consists of nine contributions describing recent progress in the interdisciplinary of Nanoscience, which involves physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and medicine and one essay outlining some important historical and socioeconomic factors pertaining to rece…
"With the increasing number of images available electronically, automatic retrieval systems are becoming essential. This book introduces an absolute prerequisite for any such system: a metric, called the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD), for comparing images in terms of their appear…
The increasing size of high performance computing systems and the associated increase in the volume of generated data, has resulted in an I/O bottleneck for these applications. This bottleneck is further exacerbated by the imbalance in the growth of processing capability compare…
