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This edited book brings together related new and emerging works on algorithms, protocols and applications on wireless networks and the wireless Internet in 2003. The chapters are written for this volume by the leading international researchers and professionals in this field. The material represents the state-of-the-art research. Featured are discussions of numerous relevant concepts which examine the various approaches that define emerging mobile and wireless Internet technologies. Included are topics on: dynamic configuration of mobile devices; security and privacy of the PTP; soft handoff support; node centric hybrid routing; resource allocation; mobile multicast; TCP/IP and wireless networks; multipath routing protocols; mobility predication for QoS provisioning; handoff rerouting algorithms; seamless mobility and IP mobility protocols; and compaction algorithms, mobile and wireless Internet. "Protocols, Algorithms and Systems" is written for the communications and computer engineer working in the areas of wireless networks, mobile computing and wireless communications.Experts contributing to this volume are: Nilanjan Banerjee, Yigal Bejerano, Mun Choon Chan, Yu Cheng, Israel Cidon, Sajal K. Das, Spencer Dawkins, Elias C. Efstathiou, Smitha Ganeshan, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Dipak Ghosal, James Kempf, Geoffrey H. Kuenning, Hyong S. Kim, Sridhar Komandur, Thomas La Porta, Xin Liu, Oleksiy Mazhelis, Biswanath Mukherjee, Joseph (Steffi) Naor, Vijoy Pandey, Jogen Pathak, George C. Polyzos, Ramachandran Ramjee, Peter Reiher, Soumya Roy, Luca Salgarelli, Alexandr Seleznyov, Lisa A. Shay, Wee-Seng Soh, Sandra Thuel, Kenneth S. Vastola, Jari Veijalainen, An-I Andy Wang, Thomas Y.C. Woo, Wei Wu and Weihua Zhuang.

"I have been using OmniMark for a decade to solve many different kinds of information management problems. When OmniMark Technologies Corporation added features to their excellent language that allowed server functionality and database access, OmniMark became an even better, more powerful platform for data processing. When they made it free, it made me wonder why anyone is still using Perl. I have used OmniMark as a very stable middle-tier programming language that is lightning fast, scaleable, and really fun to use. The language has a certain elegance that, once you learn how to `think OmniMark', you never want to even consider the alternatives. The native hierarchical architecture of the language, plus its luxuriously rich pattern matching syntax and support for structured information using XML and SGML parcing, make OmniMark a real joy. This book covers the core language, plus practical examples for common Internet programming applications. OmniMark is such a powerful program that I can't think of any Internet programming problem that can't be solved with OmniMark. This book makes that clear in real, understandable terms."-Brian Travis, is the inventor of XML and author of OmniMark At Work Volume 1: Getting Started and XML and SOAP Programming for Biz-Talk Servers "OmniMark has been the secret weapon of markup language programmers since the earliest days of SGML. As new XML support should bring it to a far wider audience." -Charles F. Goldfarb, is the inventor of SGML and author of The XML Handbook.

The rapidly growing field of Electronic Business on the Internet (EBI) includes a number of subfields, such as electronic commerce, electronic multimedia, workflow technologies, and collaboration technologies. The term electronic business implies a synergistic interaction between a number of different fields with the purpose of maximizing not only the short term profit, but the long term profit as well. In order to establish technical prerequisites for efficient electronic business on the Internet, appropriate system support is needed. This work discusses the topic of system support and its main bottlenecks, stressing explanations that link the newly emerging problems with those found in the general computer architecture field. Attention is dedicated to both hardware and software issues and their symbiotic interactions. "Infrastructure for Electronic Business on the Internet" is a useful reference for researchers and practitioners and may also be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.

Data Management and Internet Computing for Image/Pattern Analysis focuses on the data management issues and Internet computing aspect of image processing and pattern recognition research. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, providing detailed case studies that emphasize how image and pattern (IAP) data are distributed and exchanged on sequential and parallel machines, and how the data communication patterns in low- and higher-level IAP computing differ from general numerical computation, what problems they cause and what opportunities they provide. The studies also describe how the images and matrices should be stored, accessed and distributed on different types of machines connected to the Internet, and how Internet resource sharing and data transmission change traditional IAP computing.Data Management and Internet Computing for Image/Pattern Analysisis divided into three parts: the first part describes several software approaches to IAP computing, citing several representative data communication patterns and related algorithms; the second part introduces hardware and Internet resource sharing in which a wide range of computer architectures are described and memory management issues are discussed; and the third part presents applications ranging from image coding, restoration and progressive transmission. Data Management and Internet Computing for Image/Pattern Analysisis an excellent reference for researchers and may be used as a text for advanced courses in image processing and pattern recognition.

The early 21st century is the age of networked information, where more than ever in the history of technological progress, society's reliance on communication networks for health care, education, scientific data transfer, commerce and many other endeavours dominates everyday life. We are facing quotidianly progressing developments in communication techniques, the rapid implementation of new technologies, a standardization process, emerging markets and carriers in permanent motion. This text comprises the proceedings of the Fifth Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Presenting progress made in optical network architectures, design, operation and management, the conference took place in Vienna, Austria in February 2001. In the tradition of the previous conferences (Athens '00, Paris '99, Rose '98, and Vienna '97), which brought together university researchers, technology leaders and network operators, this book addresses new optical network engineering aspects to be pursued, implemented, and discovered.

This volume aims to provide leading research in the area of empirical Internet forecasting, demand analysis, pricing and planning. Its purpose is to educate the reader about how traditional analytic techniques can be used to access Internet growth and how alternative approaches can better address the pricing, planning and regulatory issues of Internet growth. The research presented focuses on forecasts of Internet access and applications and planning and pricing tools for telecommunication providers. The scope of this volume includes residential demand for Internet access and applications, Internet pricing and regulatory policy, and new analytical forecasting techniques. The book addresses some of the most critical questions facing the industry such as the impact of data communications on traditional voice networks, growth rates for Internet usage and access, pricing and planning for network growth. With the magnitude of changes affecting the telecommunications industry, there is a critical need for research addressing demand analysis and forecasting.

This book covers the entire spectrum of multicasting on the Internet from link- to application-layer issues, including multicasting in broadcast and non-broadcast links, multicast routing, reliable and real-time multicast transport, group membership and total ordering in multicast groups. In-depth consideration is given to describing IP multicast routing protocols, such as, DVMRP, MOSPF, PIM and CBT, quality of service issues in network-layer using RSVP and ST-2, as well as the relationship between ATM and IP multicast. These discussions include coverage of key concepts using illustrative diagrams and various real-world applications. The protocols and the architecture of MBone are described, real-time multicast transport issues are addressed and various reliable multicast transport protocols are compared both conceptually and analytically. Also included is a discussion of video multicast and other research on multicast with an assessment of their potential impact on future internetworks. This text should be a useful reference work for networking professionals and researchers, network software developers, information technology managers and graduate students.

The International Workshop on "The Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications" is the fifth in a series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universitat Berlin. The goal of those workshops is to bring together researchers from both universities in order to present research results to an international community. Not only the enabling technology but also the challenging applications based on Internet technology are covered in the workshop such as: information extraction, content correlation analysis; electronic trading, electronic learning over the Internet; Internet-based robot control, telepresence, supply chain modelling; communication techniques as wireless LANs; multistage interconnection; quality of service; metacomputing and performance prediction; image retrieval; and spatial reasoning.

Billions of dollars (and euros, yen, and other currencies) have been spent by wireless services providers to acquire the radio frequency spectrum needed to offer so-called "Third Generation" (3G) mobile services. These services include high-speed data, mobile Internet access and entertainment such as games, music and video programs. Indeed, as voice communications is substituted by data communications, software - rather than terminals or networks - has become the driver of the wireless industry. Meanwhile, services are becoming increasingly specialized. Why has the road to multimedia cellular been so difficult? The devil is in the details. The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) has been exploring these fundamental questions in its Mobile Internet Project, vis-a-vis ongoing research, a conference, and workshops, including experts from wireless service providers, equipment manufacturers, application software developers, investors and government officials. "Competition for the Mobile Internet" is the culmination of these efforts. It explores the "twin drivers" of mobility and the Internet.Focusing on the industry transformation, this book stresses three central perspectives: public policy debate, industry and market developments, as well as industry perspectives. It explores these perspectives through the collaboration of academic research, policy studies, and industry perspectives.

This text discusses how to find the location of mobile devices in the wireless internet, specifically those that involve the determination of the geographic location of mobile devices. It looks at 2G systems of GSM, GPRS and 3G systems of UMTS and cdma2000, and other link technologies. An extensive description on how numerical location of the mobile can be tracked real-time is also included. "Geographic Location in the Internet" covers Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) - related geographic location tracking as it relates to multimedia applications. The application-layer protocols for communicating the location information from the mobile device to the applications, such as multimedia applications, are also covered. Mobile Location Protocol (MLP) of the Location Information Forum (LIF) allows access of the geographic location information to the applications using web protocol of HTTP. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) forum also defines a technical specification for location-based services, which is discussed in detail.An analysis of the location update mechanisms covers various technical issues in location database design, and protocols are compared using simulations and providing provocative conclusions. Geographic search engines utilizing location data that enable users to make location related queries on the web are also covered. The book provides coverage of the technical aspects of privacy such as linkability, credentials, pseudonyms, anonymity and identity management. Different scenarios are defined for the targets, owners, location servers and location data sources and the privacy implications are emphasized.

The rapid growth in Internet, World Wide Web and Intranet systems has led to a demand for increased sophistication in established information services, engineering techniques and methods to improve the development of information systems in a World Wide Web environment. This text addresses key state-of-the-art developments in Internet-based IS engineering. It contains selected papers presented and discussed at the International Conference on Engineering Information Systems in the Internet Context, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Kanazawa, Japan in September 2002.

The Internet has had a profound effect on computing and society. Research efforts have tended to focus mostly on technical aspects of Internet development. This title focuses on both the technical aspects of Internet applications as well as economic and social aspects. It describes up-to-date research in several areas of Internet applications including: mobility; multimedia; quality of service; voice over IP; wireless access; and Internet societal impact.

The Complete Handbook of the Internet covers all of the recent developments and relevant areas in the Internet Technology. This two volume handbook is divided into ten different sections. These are: Volume 1: + Distributed Systems: Distributed Elements, Operating Systems, Processes and Scheduling, Distributed Processing, Distributed File System and Agents. + Data Communications: Real-Time Data and Compression, Error Coding, RS-232 and Modems. + Networks: Networking Types, Ethernet, Network Design, Switches and vLANs, Token Ring, FDDI, ATM, HDLC, ISDN, X.25 and Wireless Networks. + Network Protocols: IP, TCP/UDP, SPX/IPX, NetBEUI and NetBIOS, PPP/SLIP and VPN's, TCP/IP Commands and Socket Programming. + Network Configuration and Security: Routers, Routing Protocols, Security, ACLs and Encryption. + Session Protocols: Electronic Mail, WWW and HTTP, SNMP, Wins, Bootp, DNS, DHCP, FTP, HTTP and Telnet. Volume 2: + Network Operating Systems: Windows, NetWare and UNIX. + Software Development: WWW, HTML, PHP, ASP, Java, XML, DHTML, CSS and WAP. + Multimedia: Databases, Data Storage and Design Tips.+ Appendices: Modem Codes, HTML Reference, ASCII Reference, Ethernet Monitoring System, Java Reference, RFC's, Assigned Number values, Abbreviations, Glossary. The Complete Handbook of the Internet is a complete and essential reference for academics and professionals whom are developing and working with the Internet.

In 1775, Paul Revere, the folk hero of the American Revolution, galloped wildly on horseback through small towns to warn American colonists that the British were coming. In the Internet age, how do we warn vast numbers of computers about impending cyber attacks? Rapid and widespread dissemination of security updates throughout the Internet would be invaluable for many purposes, including sending early-warning signals, distributing new virus signatures, updating certificate revocation lists, dispatching event information for intrusion detection systems and so forth. However, notifying a large number of machines securely, quickly, and with high assurance is very challenging. Such a system must compete with the propagation of threats, handle complexities in large-scale environments, address interruption attacks toward dissemination, and also secure itself. This work describes an alternative system, "Revere", that addresses these problems. Revere builds large-scale, self-organizing and resilient overlay networks on top of the Internet to push security updates from dissemination centers to individual nodes.It also sets up repository servers for individual nodes to pull missed security updates. This book further discusses how to protect this push-and-pull dissemination procedure and how to secure Revere overlay networks, considering possible attacks and countermeasures. The book presents experimental measurements of a prototype implementation of Revere gathered using a large-scale oriented approach. These measurements suggest that Revere can deliver security updates at the required scale, speed and resiliency for a reasonable cost. The text is designed to meet the needs of researchers and practitioners in industry and graduate students in computer science. It should also be helpful to those trying to design peer systems at large scale when security is a concern, since many of the issues faced by these designs are also faced by Revere. The Revere solutions may not always be appropriate for other peer systems with very different goals, but the analysis of the problems and possible solutions discussed here should be helpful in designing a customized approach for such systems.

Cooperative computing is an important computing paradigm to enable different parties to work together towards a pre-defined non-trivial goal. It encompasses important technological areas like computer supported cooperative work, workflow, computer assisted design and concurrent programming. As technologies continue to advance and evolve, there is an increasing need to research and develop new classes of middlewares and applications to leverage on the combined benefits of Internet and web to provide users and programmers with highly interactive and robust cooperative computing environment. This book is a compilation of the papers that were presented at the International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2002). The contributed papers address a broad spectrum on cooperative internet computing, ranging from the more fundamental modeling and specification issues of cooperative systems, to the more application-oriented issues on the popular XML-related system design and implementation.To help structure the book, we have organized these papers into four broad areas of interests: + Distributed Objects and Videos, + Web and E-commerce, + XML and Query Processing, + Modeling and Specification. Cooperative Internet Computing is designed to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a reference text for graduate level students in Computer Science.

IP technology has progressed from being a scientific topic to being one of the most popular technologies in networking. Concurrently, a number of new innovations and technological advances have been developed and brought to the marketplace. These new ideas, concepts and products are likely to have a tremendous influence on businesses and on our everyday lives. This book addresses many of these newer technological developments and provides insights for engineers and scientists developing new technological components, devices and products. The book covers many of the newer internet technologies being developed and explores how they are being implemented in the real world. The author examines numerous implementation details related to IP equipment and software. The material is organized by application so that readers can better understand the uses of IP technology. Included are details of implementation issues and state-of-the-art equipment and software.The book includes actual implementation strategies for routers, through descriptions of Cisco 12410 GSR and Juniper M160, and IP software stack details are also included for several popular operating systems such as Windows, BSD, VxWorks and Linux.

Under Quality of Service (QoS) routing, paths for flows are selected based upon the knowledge of resource availability at network nodes and the QoS requirements of flows. QoS routing schemes differ in the way they gather information about the network state and select paths based on this information. This text broadly categorizes these schemes in to best-path routing and proportional routing. The best-path routing schemes gather global network state information and always select the best path for an incoming flow based on this global view. On the other hand, proportional routing schemes proportion incoming flows among a set of candidate paths. We have shown that it is possible to compute near-optimal proportions using only locally collected information. Furthermore, a few good candidate paths can be selected using infrequently exchanged global information and thus with minimal communication overhead. This text describes these schemes in detail demonstrating that proportional routing schemes can achieve higher throughput with lower overhead than best-path routing schemes.It first addresses the issue of finding near-optimal proportions for a given set of candidate paths based on locally collected flow statistics. This book will also look into the selection of a few good candidate paths based on infrequently exchanged global information. The final phase of this book will describe extensions to proportional routing approach to provide hierarchical routing across multiple areas in a large network.

Broadband Satellite Communications for Internet Access is a systems engineering methodology for satellite communication networks. It discusses the implementation of Internet applications that involve network design issues usually addressed in standard organizations. Various protocols for IP- and ATM-based networks are examined and a comparative performance evaluation of different alternatives is described. This methodology can be applied to similar evaluations over any other transport medium.

How do digital experiences shape intimacy? What role do sensory stimuli play in creating connections across virtual spaces? ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), a growing cultural and media phenomenon, invites us to reconsider the ways intimacy, care and relaxation are nurtured through immersive soundscapes and visuals.This book situates ASMR within the landscape of contemporary affective culture, exploring how sounds, visuals and tactile elements build intimate and soothing connections in digital environments. Through a detailed analysis of ASMR videos, it reveals how posthuman perspectives and post-cinematic aesthetics blur the boundaries between human and non-human, reshaping our experience of media and creating new spaces for connection, care and emotional resonance. Ultimately, it uncovers how ASMR opens the door to new forms of transgressive intimacy, challenging traditional notions of closeness in today's world.

For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings—the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many contemporary dilemmas surrounding AI technology. With a new introduction by Brian Christian, author of the bestselling Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem.In 1950, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener ended this classic book on the place of machines in society with a warning: “We shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions.... The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door.”Wiener, the founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—was widely mislabeled as an advocate for the automation of human life. As The Human Use for Human Beings reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting, and is more relevant in today’s world of AI than anyone could have anticipated.In his new introduction, Brian Christian aptly calls Wiener the “progenitor of contemporary AI-safety discourse.” Wiener hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery to achieve more creative pursuits, yet he anticipated the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His pioneering views on the human-machine relationship as a “communicative process” are only more crucial now, as we carry in our pockets AI devices that we can literally speak to. His prescient warnings illuminate our contemporary relationships with language, art, and even social media.The Human Use of Human Beings examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as Wiener anticipates the enormous impact—in effect, a third industrial revolution—that the computer has had on our lives.

This work describes a framework for developing IP Service Platforms and emerging managed IP networks with a reference architecture from the AT&T Labs GeoPlex project. The main goal is to present basic principles that both the telecommunications industry and the Internet community can see as providing benefits for service-related network issues. Topics covered include Application Program Interfaces (APIs), reference architecture, and a model implementation. Part I begins with fundamentals of transport, and quickly transitions to modern transport and technology. Part II elucidates requirements and unifying design principles for the Internet. These fundamental principles establish the basis for consistent behaviour in view of the explosive growth underway in large-scale heterogeneous networks. Part III demonstrates and explains the resulting architecture and implementation. It should be useful for students, researchers, network professionals, software developers, system architects and technically-oriented managers involved in the definition and deployment of modern Internet platforms or services.

Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade - and of the next century. Dertouzos examines the impact that the following new technologies and challenges will have on our lives as the Information Revolution progresses:all the music, film and text ever produced will be available on-demand in our own homesyour "bodynet" will let you make phone calls, check email and pay bills as you walk down the streetadvances in telecommunication will radically alter the role of face-to-face contact in our livesglobal disparities in infrastructure will widen the gap between rich and poorsurgical mini-robots and online care will change the practice of medicine as we know it. Detailed, accessible and visionary, What Will Be  is essential for Information Age revolutionaries and technological neophytes alike.

E-business covers a broad spectrum of businesses based on the Internet, including e-commerce, e-healthcare, e-government and e tailing. While substantial attention is given to the planning and development of e-business applications, the efficiency and effectiveness of e-business systems will largely depend on management solutions. These management solutions demand a good grasp of both the technical and business perspectives of an e-business service. Addressing the problem of managing e-business as a set of networked services, this text links enterprise management with network and systems management. It provides an overview of the emerging techniques for IT service management from a business perspective with case studies from telecommunication and healthcare sectors. It integrates the business perspective with relevant technical standards, such as SNMP, WBEM and DMI. This book presents some concepts and methodologies that enable the development of effective and efficient management systems for networked services.The book is intended to familiarize practicing managers, engineers and graduate level students with networked service management concepts, architectures and methodologies with reference to evolving standards. It should be useful in a number of disciplines, such as business management, information systems, computers and networking and telecommunications.

This volume aims to present recent advances in database technology from the viewpoint of the novel database paradigms proposed in the last decade. It focuses on the theory of the extended relational model, and an example of an extended relational database programming language, Algres, is described. A free copy of Algres complements this work, and is available on the Internet. The work should be of interest to graduate studen ts following advanced database courses, advanced data-oriented applications developers, and researchers in the field of database programming languages and software engineering who need a flexible prototyping platform for the development of software tools.

The advent of the World Wide Web has changed the perspectives of groupware systems. The interest and deployment of Internet and intranet groupware solutions is growing rapidly, not just in academic circles but also in the commercial arena. The first generation of Web-based groupware tools has already started to emerge, and leading groupware vendors are urgently adapting their products for compatibility and integration with Web technologies. The focus of Groupware and the World Wide Web is to explore the potential for Web-based groupware. This book includes an analysis of the key characteristics of the Web, presenting reasons for its success, and describes developments of a diverse range of Web-based groupware systems. An emphasis on the technical obstacles and challenges is implemented by more analytical discussions and perspectives, including that of Information Technology managers looking to deploy groupware solutions within their organizations. Written by experts from different backgrounds - academic and commercial, technical and organizational - this book provides a unique overview of and insight into current issues and future possibilities concerning extension of the World Wide Web for group working.

This volume describes the developments in the newspaper industry in ten years to 1999, the impact of the Internet, and on newspaper publishing and places them in a historic context.

The emergence of network facilities and the increased availability of personal computer systems over the last decade has seen a growing interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume contains the proceedings of the sixth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), a multi-disciplinary area which embraces both the development of new technologies and an understanding of the relationship between technology and society. These proceedings present a collection of papers that encompass activities in the field, treating such subjects as virtual environments, uses of the Internet, studies of cooperative work and emerging models, studies of groupware systems in use in real-world settings, and theories and techniques to support the development of cooperative applications. The articles feature emerging technologies alongside new methods and approaches to the expansion of this important class of applications. This work reflects the current research and practice within CSCW.It will appeal to both researchers and practitioners whose work involves computer and information science, human-computer interaction, information systems, hypermedia, organisational/social informatics and social studies of science and technology.

This text describes practically useful models driven by readily available driving variables and with a general structure that applies to most types of pollutants in aquatic systems. The major reason for development of this model is the Chernobyl accident. Large quantities of radiocesium were released in April/May 1986 as a pulse. To follow the pulse of radiocesium through ecosystem pathways has meant that important fluxes and mechanisms, such as ecosystem structures, have been revealed. It is important to stress that many of these new structures and equations are valid not just for radiocesium, but for most types of contaminants, metals, nutrients and organics. This means that the models, methods (of building and testing models) and equations described in this book for lakes and coastal areas should be of interest also to other ecosystem modellers.

This volume contains selected papers on the latest research in the implementation of computers in education. The topics covered range from web-based applications to interactive systems for learning. The book should be of interest to teachers, lecturers, researchers, advanced students, and application designers on computers in education as well as managers of educational institutions.