This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In today's interconnected world, navigating the digital landscape can be both exhilarating and daunting. "Digital Savvy: Staying Safe and Smart Online" equips you with the knowledge and skills to embrace the opportunities while mitigating the risks. From understanding data privacy and safeguarding your digital identity to recognizing misinformation and promoting responsible online behavior, this comprehensive guide empowers you to thriv...

This volume comprises research papers presented at the International Conference on Informatics and Communication Technologies for Societal Development (ICICTS 2014) held at Karunya University, India. The content focuses on the recent advancements in image or signal processing, computer vision, communication technologies, soft computing, advanced computing, data mining and knowledge discovery. The primary objective of this volume is to facilitate advancement and application of the knowledge...

This book is a compendium of the proceedings of the International Conference on Big-Data and Cloud Computing. It includes recent advances in the areas of big data analytics, cloud computing, the Internet of nano things, cloud security, data analytics in the cloud, smart cities and grids, etc. Primarily focusing on the application of knowledge that promotes ideas for solving the problems of the society through cutting-edge technologies, it provides novel ideas that further world-class resea...

The focus of this book is on women-led initiatives and innovative solutions for women in entrepreneurship. It sheds light on the unique challenges faced by diverse groups of women from various fields and how their collective contributions drive sustainable development globally, specifically in African countries.Diversity in Women's Entrepreneurship: Global Sustainability in African Countries examines the professionalism and expertise of women in innovation and entrepreneur...

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) may very well turn out to be the world's most successful hack. In 1988, Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the original IRC program at the University of Oulu, Finland. As he says in his foreword, "IRC started as one summer trainee's programming exercise. A hack grew into a software development project that hundreds of people participated in, and then became a worldwide environment where tens of thousands of people now spend time with each other. I have found many of my friend...

The objective of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012) is to facilitate an exchange of information on best practices for the latest research advances in the area of communications, networks and intelligence applications. These mainly involve computer science and engineering, informatics, communications and control, electrical engineering, information computing, and business intelligence and management.Proceedings of the 2nd Intern...

This SpringerBrief focuses on spectrum trading designs in multi-hop cognitive radio networks. It starts with the motivation for spectrum trading and the review of existing spectrum trading designs. Then, it presents a novel CRN architecture for spectrum trading considering spectrum trading’s economic features and wireless nature. Under this network architecture, it extends current single-hop per-user based spectrum trading design into a multi-hop transmission opportunity based one, and fur...

This book includes the original, peer reviewed research papers from the conference, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2013), which took place on December 12-14, 2013 at Cheng Shiu University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Topics covered include: laser technology, wireless and mobile networking, lean and agile manufacturing, speech processing, microwave dielectrics, intelligent circuits and systems, 3D graphics, communications ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2017, held in Hiroshima, Japan, in August/September 2017.The 11 regular papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: post-quantum cryptography; system security; public key cryptosystems; cryptanalysis; and cryptographic protocols.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2017, held in Sliema, Malta, in April 2017.The 30 revised full papers and 5 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 132 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: Privacy and Identity Management; Privacy and Data Processing; Cryptographic Primitives and API's; Vulnerabilities and Exp...

This book investigates the problem of reducing operating cost for a video streaming content delivery network (CDN), including both the CDN’s energy and traffic costs. It first introduces the key issues and design choices of representative real-world CDNs, and discusses the energy saving techniques for data centers and CDNs. Then, based on a measurement study on a large video streaming CDN, it reveals an inherent conflict between improving a video streaming CDN’s energy efficiency for energ...

This book describes Smart Cities and the information technologies that will provide better living conditions in the cities of tomorrow. It brings together research findings from 27 countries across the globe, from academia, industry and government. It addresses a number of crucial topics in state of the arts of technologies and solutions related to smart cities, including big data and cloud computing, collaborative platforms, communication infrastructures, smart health, sustainable develop...