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Women and the Mafia : Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures
The book introduces us to the professional women of the Argentine "mafia state", Albanian human traffickers, spies for the Russian mob, runners for Brazilian numbers rackets, and the mystique of the American gangster moll.
Wittgenstein, Language and Information : "Back to the Rough Ground!"
This book is an extension of the discussions presented in Blair’s 1990 book "Language and Representation in Information Retrieval", which was selected as the "Best Information Science Book of the Year" by the American Society for Information Science (ASIS). That work stated that the Philosophy of Language had the best theory for understanding meaning in language, and within the Philosophy of Language, the work of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was found to be most perceptive. The success of that book provided an incentive to look more deeply into Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, and how it can help us to understand how to represent the intellectual content of information. This is what the current title does, and by using this theory it creates a firm foundation for future Information Retrieval research.
Wisdom, Knowledge, and Management : A Critique and Analysis of Churchman's Systems Approach
Churchman’s Legacy and Related Works, the editors draw contributions from leading systems thinkers inspired by the works of C West Churchman. The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (C. West Churchman, 1979) is one of Churchman’s most significant works. In this particular writing he displayed two main tendencies, that he was a Skeptic and that he showed Socratic Wisdom. In Wisdom, Knowledge, and Management, the editors seeks to follow up on these two themes and reveal how modern authors interpret Churchman’s ideas, apply them to their own line of thinking and develop their own brand of Systemics.
Wireless Transceiver Systems Design
This book illustrates true cross-disciplinary electronic system-level design with examples in algorithm-architecture co-design, mixed-signal algorithm and architecture co-design, and cross-layer system exploration. It also focuses on three recurring themes, the preference for scalable and reusable architectual concepts, proof-of-concept through actual design and experimental verification, and consequent analysis of design steps and their development into a methodology.Wireless Transceiver Systems Design is a valuable reference for specialists in the field of OFDM transceiver design.
Wireless Systems and Network Architectures in Next Generation Internet ; 2nd International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Villa Vigoni, Italy, July 13-15, 2005, Revised Selected Papers
The Network of Excellence on Next Generation Internet (EuroNGI) is a Euro-pean project funded by the European Union within the IST programme. Thetarget of the EuroNGI Network is to put together European centers of excellencein the field of networking and engineering with the specific purpose of promot-ing the development of effective technological solutions for the support of thefuture-generation Internet. Besides the Research Activities (RAs), the Networkis composed of Integration Activities (IAs), whose purpose is to foster collabo-rations among different research groups, and Spreading of Excellence Activities(SEAs), whose focus is on the technological transfer of the Network research.
Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet ; 4th International Workshop of the EuroNGI/EuroFGI Network of Excellence Barcelona, Spain, January 16-18, 2008 Revised Selected Papers
This book is organized in topical sections on sensor networks, mesh networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and cellular networks.
Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet ; 3rd International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Sitges, Spain, June 6-9, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
This book It covers WLAN characterization, vehicular networks, WLAN and sensor networks protocols, QoS and routing in ad-hoc networks, heterogeneous networks, resource management in cellular networks, TCP in wireless, and mobility agents.
Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet ; 1st International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 7-9, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the first international workshop organized by the European Network of Excellence on Next Generation Internet, EURO-NGI 2004, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in June 2004.The 16 revised full research papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on network and capacity planning, medium access and admission control, QoS in wireless networks, and network inter-connection and resource access. The book provides a most relevant presentation of current issues of the next generation Internet in the area of wireless communication for mobile users.
Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications
Wireless sensor networks are currently being employed in a variety of applications ranging from medical to military, and from home to industry. Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications aims to provide a reference tool for the increasing number of scientists who depend upon reliable sensor networks. The book is divided into five sections: design and modeling, network management, data management, security, and applications.
Wireless Sensor Networks ; 5th European Conference, EWSN 2008, Bologna, Italy, January 30-February 1, 2008. Proceedings
This book is organized in topical sections on localization, detection of space/time correlated events, network coding, ZigBee, topology, software, as well as deployment and application development.
Wireless Sensor Networks ; 4th European Conference, EWSN 2007, Delft, The Netherlands, January 29-31, 2007, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2007, held in Delft, The Netherlands in January 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on networking, tracking, algorithms, applications and support, medium access control, os and tools, as well as localization.
Wireless Sensor Networks ; 3rd European Workshop, EWSN 2006, Zurich, Switzerland, February 13-15, 2006, Proceedings
This volume contains the proceedings of EWSN 2006, the third in a series of - ropean workshops on wireless sensor networks. Its objective was to present, discuss, and explore the latest technical developments in the field of wireless sensor networks, as well as potential future directions. Wireless sensor networks provide a bridge between traditional information systems and the physical world, with collections of wirelessly networked s- sor nodes being deployed in our physical environment to cooperatively monitor real-world phenomena, but also to control aspects of the physical world. In c- trast to traditional computing systems which are mostly decoupled from the real world
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks II ; Proceedings of the 2008 IFIP Conference on Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSAN 08), Ottawa, Ontario, Canmada, July 14-15, 2008
The scope of the book includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction.
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks ; IFIP WG 6.8 First International Conference on Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, WSAN'07, Albacete, Spain, September 24-26, 2007
This book presents the proceedings of the first IFIP WG 6.8 conference on Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks held in Albacete, Spain. The papers selected to be included in this volume illustrate the state-of-the-art and current trends in the area of wireless sensor and actor networks.
Wireless security architecture : Designing and maintaining secure wireless for enterprise
Offers readers an essential guide to planning, designing, and preserving secure wireless infrastructures. It is a blueprint to a resilient and compliant architecture that responds to regulatory requirements, reduces organizational risk, and conforms to industry best practices. This book emphasizes WiFi security, as well as guidance on private cellular and Internet of Things security. It also includes: Concrete strategies suitable for organizations of all sizes, from large government agencies to small public and private companies / Effective technical resources and real-world sample architectures / Explorations of the relationships between security, wireless, and network elements / Practical planning templates, guides, and real-world case studies demonstrating application of the included concepts
Wireless Optical Communication Systems
This volume is organized for professional and academic readers engaged in modem design for wireless optical intensity channels. Significant background material is presented on both the properties as well as on fundamental communications principles. Wireless Optical Communication Systems can be used by physicists and experimentalists as an introduction to signalling design as well as communication systems designers.
Wireless Networks : Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design
This unique monograph is concerned with the issue of cross-layer design in wireless networks, and more particularly with the impact of node-level multiuser detection on such design. It provides an introduction to this vibrant and active research area insufficiently covered in existing literature, presenting some of the principal methods developed and results obtained to date. Accompanied by numerous illustrations, the text is an excellent reference for engineers, researchers and students working in communication networks.
Wireless Network Security
This timely volume, Wireless Network Security, provides broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management, attacks and countermeasures, secure routing, secure medium access control, intrusion detection, epidemics, security performance analysis, security issues in applications, and much more. The contributions identify various vulnerabilities in the physical layer, MAC layer, IP layer, transport layer, and application layer, and focus on ways for strengthening security mechanisms and services throughout the layers.
Wireless Mesh Networks : Architectures and Protocols
Wireless Mesh Networks provides a unified view of the state-of-the-art achievements in the area of protocols and architectures for wireless mesh networking (WMN) technology. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book covers aspects of analysis, design, deployment, and optimization of protocols and architectures for WMNs. In particular, the topics include challenges and issues in designing architectures and protocols for WMNs, medium access control and routing protocols for WMNs, resource allocation and scheduling in WMNs, cost optimization in WMN nodes using energy harvesting technologies, cross-layer design for WMNs, and security in WMNs.
Wireless Internet ; 12th EAI International Conference, WiCON 2019, TaiChung, Taiwan, November 26–27, 2019, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wireless Internet, WiCON 2019, held in TaiChung, Taiwan, in November 2019. The 39 full papers were selected from 79 submissions and are grouped into the following topics: Ad hoc and sensor network, artificial intelligence, security and blockchain, internet of things, wireless internet, services and applications.
