All Or Nothing

Fadi P. Deek, James A. M. McHugh

The open source movement is a worldwide effort to promote an open style of software development more aligned with the accepted intellectual style of science than the proprietary modes of invention that have been characteristic of modern business. The idea is to keep the scientific advances created by software development openly available for everyone to use, understand, and improve. The very process of open source creation is highly transparent. This book addresses prominent projects in the open source movement, along with its enabling technologies, social characteristics, legal issues, business venues, and public and educational roles.

Vicky Ceelen

There's nothing more adorable than a baby except maybe a kitten. In My Little One photographer Vicky Ceelen captures all the innocence, vulnerability, and sheer cuteness of both babies and kittens, and shows us the surprising kinship between them. In Ceelen's eyes, human and feline babies have a lot in common, from their expressive, wide open eyes, to the big yawn they take before napping, to the paw or arm they extend in exploration of the strange new world around them. A blue eyed kitten opposite an equally blue eyed baby; a baby squealing next to a kitten hissing the unique and often amusing photographic pairings in My Little Onehighlight the bond we share with all living creatures, and the tenderness we feel toward our young. This heart warming book will be a delight to kitten and baby lovers everywhere, and a perfect gift for all who treasure the connection between humans and animals.

Editors Sameer Singh, Maneesha Singh

The field of pattern recognition has emerged as one of the most challenging and important endeavours in the area of information technology research. Research in the area of pattern recognition has benefits for improving many areas of human endeavour, including medicine, the economy, the environment, and security. This book presents some of the latest advances in the area of pattern recognition theory and applications. The first half of the book discusses novel pattern classification and matching schemes, and the second half describes the application of novel tools in biometrics and digital multimedia. The applications included, such as face/iris recognition, handwriting recognition, surveillance, human dynamics, sensor fusion, etc., provide a detailed insight into how to build real pattern recognition systems and how to evaluate them. Given the dynamic nature of technology evolution in this area, this book provides the latest algorithms and concepts that can be used to build...

Patti Anklam

Patti Anklam provides a guide for leaders and participants to work within and lead purposeful social networks "in the world." Awareness of "networks" and "networked organizations" has reached the mainstream of the business publishing world, as evidenced in the increasing number of articles in such publications as the Harvard Business Review and the Sloan Management Review. Many graduate business school programs now teach social network analysis and network theory. Networks exist outside of corporations as well - everyone participates in multiple networks, including the informal family, community, work, and their purely social networks of friends. Formal networks include civic organizations like Rotary International, alumni groups, and business and professional groups. The latter have all evolved distinct governance models, norms for joining and participating, legacy databases, membership rolls, and very public identities. There is yet another class of network that is not yet well...

Jelena Misic, Vojislav Misic

"Wireless Personal Area Networks" provides an in-depth analysis of the recent IEEE 802.15.4 standard for low data rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs), including suggestions to improve performance and comparisons with the related 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) standard. It assesses the suitability of the standard for the development and deployment of wireless sensor networks as well as providing guidance and insight into the relative advantages and disadvantages of various performance solutions. This reference is a valuable tool for developers and researchers getting acquainted with various aspects of IEEE 802.15.4 technology. Graduate students studying courses such as Performance Evaluation, Wireless Sensor Networks and Queuing Theory will also find this book very insightful.