Crisan M. (ed.) Convergence and Hybrid Information Technologies

Vukovar, Croatia: InTech, 2010. — 436 p. — ISBN 978-953-307-068-1.Technology is a product of science and reflects our ability to interact with the environment. As science developed in time and became too vast for any one person to master, different technologies emerged, consequently, in their attempt to reach excellence. Although originally meant to work together, for a long time technological sectors developed independently pursuing their own goals. In the recent times, since the value of information became predominant in all spheres of human activity inevitably the scope of one technology overlapped with another one. This was the impetus for convergence of various technologies towards a higher level of interdisciplinary interaction.
Starting a journey on this new path of converging information technologies is the aim of the present book. Extended on 27 chapters, the book provides to the reader some of the leading edge research results regarding algorithms and information models, software frameworks, multimedia, information security, communication networks, and applications. The first two chapters are dedicated to algorithms for multiclass classification and optimization problems. The next two chapters present dynamic models with applications in linguistics and semantics, and traffic assignment. They are followed by a group of four chapters concerning software frameworks for information extraction, semantic integrity checking, building automation systems, and educational virtual environment. Multicriteria decision making and a cost-based decision making application are the subjects of the other two chapters that follow. A next series of five chapters provides solutions to multimedia problems such as the quality of multimedia streaming services, secure and mobile multimedia convergence, resource scheduling, animation based edutainment platform, and an application related to auto-exposure in image processing. Information security and cryptography is another main topic of this book that is extended on seven chapters. In three chapters, the reader may learn about security architecture for sensitive information systems, security protocol for ubiquitous sensor networks, and program obfuscation. The other four chapters provide cryptographic solutions for generation of an irreducible polynomial, and pairing-based applications. Another group of three chapters deals with wireless networking applications. This is followed by a new approach to the design of weighting functions for linear frequency-modulated signals. The last chapter completes the book by an interdisciplinary applied study on chronic stress factors.
Information technologies are only at the dawn of a massive transformation and adaptation to the complex demands of the new upcoming information society. It is not possible in one book to achieve a thorough view of the field. Nonetheless, we have the hope that at least the book can offer the first step into the convergence domain of information technologies, and the reader will find it instructive and stimulating.A New Divide and Conquer Based Classification for OCR
Parameters Determination for Optimum Design by Evolutionary Algorithm
Convergence towards a Dynamic Theory of Linguistics and Semantics
Multiple User-Class Dynamic Stochastic Assignment for a Route Guidance Strategy
A Framework for Extracting Information from Semi-Structured Web Data Sources
A Framework for Localizing Integrity Constraints Checking in Distributed Database
An Agent-Based Software Framework for Robotics and Automation Systems
Use of e-Science Environment on CFD Education
The Analytic Hierarchy and the Network Process in Multicriteria Decision Making: Performance Evaluation and Selecting Key Performance Indicators Based on ANP Model
A Cost-Based Interior Design Decision Support System for Large-Scale Housing Projects
Multimedia Streaming Service Adaptation in IMS Networks
Secure and Mobile Multimedia Convergence
Resource Scheduling Scheme for Multimedia Service Provisioning in Ubiquitous Environment
Promoting Socio-Cultural Values Through Storytelling Using Animation and Game-Based Edutainment Software
A New Auto Exposure System to Detect High Dynamic Range Conditions Using CMOS Technology
Security Architecture for Sensitive Information Systems
A Study on Sensor Node Capture Defence Protocol for Ubiquitous Sensor Network
Theory and Practice of Program Obfuscation
Systematic Generation of An Irreducible Polynomial of An Arbitrary Degree m over F_p Such That p m
Efficient Pairings on Twisted Elliptic Curve
An Improvement of Twisted Ate Pairing with Barreto-Naehrig Curve by using Frobenius Mapping
An Improvement of Cyclic Vector Multiplication Algorithm Analysis
A Wireless Sensor Network for Field Hockey Performance Analysis
Application of Game Theory to Wireless Networks
Comparison of DP Effects in MANET AAPs with Link Error
Design of Optimum Weighting Functions for LFM Signals
Stress and EEG