Internet

By Dennis Schwerdel, Daniel Günther, Robert Henjes (auth.), Arne J. Berre, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Kurt Tutschku, Dieter Fensel (eds.)

This ebook constitutes the court cases of the 3rd destiny web Symposium, FIS, held in Berlin, Germany in September 2010.The goal of this symposium was once to collect scientists and engineers from academia and and from quite a few disciplines to replace and talk about their principles, perspectives, and learn effects in the direction of a consolidated, converged and sustainable destiny web. The sixteen revised complete papers provided have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from a variety of submissions. The papers conceal quite a lot of themes comparable to destiny web architectures and protocols; semantic applied sciences; and web of prone, issues and content material.

By Simon Japs (auth.), Professor Dr. Hans-Jörg Bullinger, Professor Dr. Michael ten Hompel (eds.)

Das „Internet der Dinge" wurde von der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zu einem der Top-Themen angewandter Forschung ausgerufen und beflügelt seitdem die Fantasie von Forschern und Ingenieuren.

Ebenso wie die Datenpakete im net finden zukünftig die Pakete, Paletten und Behälter im logistischen Netzwerk allein ihren Weg von der Produktion bis zum Kunden – und wieder zurück zum Recycling. Getreu dem Motto „Selbst ist das Paket!" sprechen die Dinge der Logistik miteinander, koordinieren sich und fordern die nötigen Ressourcen selbständig an. Die Dinge erhalten eine elektronische Identität und werden auf foundation der RFID-Technologie drahtlos mit ihrer Umwelt vernetzt. Die Abbildung der virtuellen Welt der Daten und der realen Welt der Dinge in Echtzeit, sowie autonome logistische Objekte und sich selbstorganisierende Logistiknetze schaffen die Voraussetzung für die Realisierung der Visionen im „Internet der Dinge".

In diesem Buch zeigen 31 Fachbeiträge namhafter Autoren die zahllosen Facetten des „Internet der Dinge" auf und vermitteln die Faszination der Entwicklung, dass sich Fahrzeuge und Fördertechnik mithilfe von Verfahren der künstlichen Intelligenz und mobilen Softwareagenten so in Bewegung setzen, wie die Pakete es vorgeben - ohne zentralen Rechner, autonom, mobil und selbstgesteuert.

By Yuyang Peng, Ushan He, Jaeho Choi (auth.), Yongheng Wang, Xiaoming Zhang (eds.)

This ebook constitutes the refereed court cases of the overseas Workshop on net of items, IOT 2012, held in Changsha, China, in the course of August 17-19. The ninety five revised complete papers provided have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from a number of submissions. The papers are prepared in topical sections on instant sensor networks; RFID; sensors and equipments; info processing; safety; purposes and others.

By Susan Sweeney

In a newly revised fourth variation, this invaluable resource takes an in-depth look at the hot American dream—running one’s personal e-business from domestic. beginning with a consultant to defining what's such a lot important—time with relatives, a versatile agenda, monetary freedom, and hazard levels—this examine strikes into an research of ways on-line company works, via profiles of a hundred and one confirmed rules bound to gas entrepreneurial considering. This e-business instruction manual additionally comprises valuable details on getting started with on-line and offline advertising and the included password offers entry to the significant other website, which bargains the most recent web enterprise information, extended info, and extra on-line assets.

By Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Manfred Taferner, Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ernst Bonek (auth.)

The publication offers a finished research of the functionality and difficulties of the Transmission keep an eye on Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stack, whilst facts is transmitted over GSM, GPRS and UMTS. It offers an advent into the protocols used for net entry at the present time and in short into the instant software Protocol, WAP. the fundamentals of GSM, GPRS and UMTS are given worthwhile for figuring out the most subject, TCP functionality over GSM, GPRS and UMTS. We then describe at size the issues that TCP has whilst working over a cellular radio hyperlink, and what has been proposed to therapy those difficulties. We derive the optimal TCP packet size for optimum facts throughput on instant networks, analytically and via simulation. effects at the throughput and diverse different parameters of TCP over cellular networks are given. This booklet provides precious recommendation to community operators and alertness programmers tips to maximise facts throughput, and which protocols, transmission modes, and coding schemes to want and which to prevent to accomplish this goal.

By Ivan Cash

Feeling nostalgic for the virtually forgotten written letter, writer and previous advert guy Ivan funds fell upon an easy notion: he invited a person on the planet to ship him an electronic mail, and he'd write it out in a letter and mail it, at no cost. contributors may perhaps even request a doodle or to seal it with a kiss.

What began as a private artwork undertaking exploded right into a world wide occasion. As requests poured in, funds enlisted a global military of volunteers who helped create greater than 10,000 letters despatched all around the globe.

An addictive and crafty window into daily lives, Snail Mail My Email is a set of the main memorable letters and moments from the undertaking, and a reminder of the facility of non-public connection in a electronic global.

By Christine L. Borgman

Awarded 2008 "Best info technology Book" by way of the yank Society for info technological know-how and Technology

Scholars in all fields now have entry to an extraordinary wealth of on-line details, instruments, and providers. the net lies on the center of a knowledge infrastructure for disbursed, data-intensive, and collaborative examine. even though a lot recognition has been paid to the recent applied sciences making this attainable, from digitized books to sensor networks, it's the underlying social and coverage alterations that may have the longest lasting impression at the scholarly firm. In Scholarship within the electronic Age, Christine Borgman explores the technical, social, criminal, and financial elements of the type of infrastructure that we must always be construction for scholarly study within the twenty-first century.

Borgman describes the jobs that details expertise performs at each degree within the existence cycle of a study undertaking and contrasts those new services with the really sturdy process of scholarly conversation, which is still in keeping with publishing in journals, books, and convention court cases. No framework for the upcoming "data deluge" exists reminiscent of that for publishing. reading scholarly practices within the sciences, social sciences, and arts, Borgman compares every one discipline's method of infrastructure concerns. within the approach, she demanding situations the numerous stakeholders within the scholarly infrastructure—scholars, publishers, libraries, investment corporations, and others—to glance past their very own domain names to deal with the interplay of technical, felony, financial, social, political, and disciplinary issues. Scholarship within the electronic Age will galvanize a stimulating dialog between all who rely on a wealthy and powerful scholarly setting.

By Jonathan Grotenstein, Storms Reback

Who have been the send It Holla Ballas?

Arguably the main profitable poker team of all time, they took benefit of the net poker increase to win hundreds of thousands of greenbacks sooner than so much of them have been sufficiently old to set foot inside of a on line casino. Then they did what any red-blooded young children with mountains of money and no obligations might do: They partied like rock stars, reworking themselves from web nerds with 0 lifestyles abilities into legends, no less than of their personal minds.

In Ship It Holla Ballas!, Jonathan Grotenstein and Storms Reback hint the increase and fall of net poker in the course of the eyes of its very unlikely stars: a gaggle of sweet sixteen university dropouts, united via social media, who bluffed their method to the pinnacle of the game.

By Manuel Castells