This brief provides an overview of the requirements, challenges, design issues and major techniques for seamless and secure communications over heterogeneous wireless networks....

As seismic waves travel through the earth, the visco-elasticity of the earth’s medium will cause energy dissipation and waveform distortion. This phenomenon is referred to as seismic absorption or attenuation. In hydrocarbon reservoir description, seismic absorption can be used as an attribute to interpret for fluid units....

Since 1980s, the number of international students studying in Australian universities has increased rapidly, and their experiences of studying in Australia are seldom smooth transitions....

Alzheimer\"\"s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease with complex and strong genetic inheritance. The central pathological event in AD is believed to be the regulated intramembrane proteolysis of the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP), which generates accumulable amyloid-beta peptide and the APP intracellular domain (AICD)....

Performance appraisal is an important element of Human Resource Management and one which can directly contribute to the achieving of organisational goals. The central conceptual framework for the study embraced performance appraisal within the wider framework of performance management, stakeholder theory and the diversity of national culture....

This book addresses the visualization of spatio-temporal data for the purposes of communication, understanding, discovery, and analysis. A common approach to spatio-temporal visualization seeks to convey changes by showing a sequence of maps over time, which causes the problem of change blindness. The book builds on the work of Dr. Carr and Dr....

In this book, we first introduced the synthesis and characterization of bulky Schiff bases and reductive bulky Schiff bases starting from amantadine/rimantadine and salicylaldehyde/substituted salicylaldehyde. Then using these bulky Schiff bases as ligands, we obtained successfully their complexes with several metals (In, Zn, Co)....

Variational inequalities (VIs) arise from a wide range of application areas, like mechanics, control theory, engineering, and finance. One of the emerging applications of variational inequalities in finance is valuation of American-style options....

Developing clean and sustainable energy has become the consensus of modern society. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), which are characterized by high efficiency, environmental friendness, fuel flexibility, and all solid state structure, have been paid increasing attention in recent years....

Support Vector Machines: Optimization Based Theory, Algorithms, and Extensions presents an accessible treatment of the two main components of support vector machines (SVMs)a??classification problems and regression problems....

Easy-to-follow personal finance guidelines--from #1 Rated Financial Advisor with American Express Financial Advisors Charles Zhang became one of today\'s most nationally known and trusted financial advisers by stressing sanity and sensible investing over dubious, get-rich-quick tricks and schemes....

In the present thriving global economy a need has evolved for complex data analysis to enhance an organizationa??s production systems, decision-making tactics, and performance. In turn, data mining has emerged as one of the most active areas in information technologies....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, held in Canberra, ACT, Australia, in November 1995....

Due to the popularity of knowledge discovery and data mining, in practice as well as among academic and corporate R&D professionals, association rule mining is receiving increasing attention....