Attempting to extend the boundaries of land reclamation, this publication is a collection of conference papers addressing a range of topics from the practical challenges of cleaning up the most conaminated sites to the creation of new ...

The aspects of land reclamation covered in this book include environmental impact, land value, economic regeneration and waste disposal methods.

Addressing the unique challenges of P2P systems, this book presents practical applications of recent theoretical results in P2P computing. It also stimulates further research on critical issues, including performance and security problems.

This book presents the principles of watermarking system design and discusses technologies in information concealment and recovery.

Gaining access to high-quality data is a vital necessity in knowledge-based decision making.

A multimedia system needs a mechanism to communicate with its environment, the Internet, clients, and applications.

Software Requirements: Encapsulation, Quality, and Reuse describes how to make requirements easy to change by using encapsulation.

Covering research at the frontier of this field, Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery: Novel Applications and New Techniques presents state-of-the-art privacy-preserving data mining techniques for application domains, such as medicine and ...

Using a concrete approach, Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services builds a firm foundation in the concept of the semantic Web, its principal technologies, its rea

Unfortunately, much of what has been written about software engineering comes from an academic perspective which does not always address the everyday concerns that software developers and managers face.