Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption
This book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts ...
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Presenting Futures
The ideas and imagery about the future that characterize nanotechnology today are shaped by multiple values and agendas which ...
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies : 8th International Symposium, PETS 2008 Leuven, Belgium, July 23-25, 2008 Proceedings
Constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, ...
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Privacy and Data Protection in Software Services
The aim of the book is to create a bridge between two ‘lands’ that are usually kept separate: technical tools and legal ...
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Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD : First ACM SIGKDD International Workshop, PinKDD 2007, San Jose, CA, USA, August 12, 2007, Revised Selected Papers
Vast amounts of data are collected by service providers and system administ- tors, and are available in public information ...
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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 9th International Conference, PROFES 2008 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy, June 23-25, 2008 Proceedings
The papers address different development modes, roles in the value chain, stakeholders’ viewpoints, collaborative development, ...
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Profiling the European Citizen : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
In the eyes of many, one of the most challenging problems of the information society is that we are faced with an ever expanding ...
Continue readingProgress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy
The chapters address whether we have entered a "new normal" of low growth, negative real rates, and deflationary pressures, ...
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Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes : Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2008, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 17-18, 2008. Revised Selected Papers
This book is organized in topical sections on provenance: models and querying; provenance: visualization, failures, identity; ...
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Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2008 : 11th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Barcelona, Spain, March 9-12, 2008. Proceedings
This book is organized in topical sections on algebraic and number theoretical cryptoanalysis, theory of public key encryption, ...
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Public Key Infrastructure : 5th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice, EuroPKI 2008 Trondheim, Norway, June 16-17, 2008 Proceedings
This book focus on all research and practice aspects of PKI and show ways how to construct effective, practical, secure and ...
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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...
Continue readingPynchon and Philosophy : Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, ...
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RFID Security and Privacy : Concepts, Protocols, and Architectures
The book analyses in detail the problems currently being faced by researchers working in the field of RFID technology and ...
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Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection : 11th International Symposium, RAID 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 15-17, 2008. Proceedings
This book is organized in topical sections on rootkit prevention, malware detection and prevention, high performance intrusion ...
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Reflections on the Teaching of Programming : Methods and Implementations
The book addressed span a wide range of problems and solutions associated with the teaching of programming such as introductory ...
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...
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Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society
It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining ...
Continue readingRepairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power
In this book, Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims explore the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly ...
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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (vol. # 3652)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital ...
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