Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> System Administration - Storage & Retrieval

This is the proceedings of the First European Conference on Computer Network Defence which took place in December 2005 at the University of Glamorgan in the UK. Contributions are drawn from participants in a number of national and international organisations. A few of the topics covered are Computer Network Operations; Computer Network Attacks; Network Application Security; Web Security; Vulnerability Management and Tracking; Wireless and Mobile Security and more.

The convergence of IT, telecommunications, and media is changing the way information is collected, stored and accessed. This revolution is having effects on the development and organisation of information and artefact repositories such as libraries and museums. This book presents key aspects in the rapidly moving field of digital convergence in the areas of technology and information sciences. Its chapters are written by international experts who are leaders in their fields.

Details recent research in areas such as ontology design for information integration, metadata generation and management, and representation and management of distributed ontologies.

Provides decision support on the use of novel technologies, information about potential problems, and guidelines for the successful application of existing technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2005, held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in March 2005.

The 34 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers and 17 selected poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 papers submitted. The papers are organized in topical sections on peer-to-peer, information retrieval models, text summarization, information retrieval methods, text classification and fusion, user studies and evaluation, multimedia retrieval, and Web information...

Just like the industrial society of the last century depended on natural resources, today s society depends on information and its exchange.

Semantic Web technologies address the problem of information complexity by providing advanced support for representing and processing distributed information, while peer-to-peer technologies address issues of system complexity by allowing flexible and decentralized information storage and processing. Systems that are based on Semantic Web and peer-to-peer technologies promise to combine the advantages of the two mechanisms. A...