ALBERT

Description / Table of Contents: Theorem Proving --- Unification with Abstraction and Theory Instantiation in Saturation-based Reasoning --- Efficient verification of imperative programs using auto2 --- Frame Inference for Inductive Entailment Proofs in Separation Logic --- Verified Model Checking of Timed Automata --- SAT and SMT I --- Chain Reduction for Binary and Zero-Suppressed Decision Diagrams --- CDCLSym: Introducing E_ective Symmetry Breaking in SAT Solving --- Automatic Generation of Precise and Useful Commutativity Conditions --- Bit-Vector Model Counting using Statistical Estimation --- Deductive Verification --- Hoare Logics for Time Bounds --- A Verified Implementation of the Bounded List Container --- Automating Deductive Verification for Weak-Memory Programs --- Software Verification and Optimisation --- Property Checking Array Programs Using Loop Shrinking --- Invariant Synthesis for Incomplete Verification Engines --- Accelerating Syntax-Guided Invariant Synthesis --- Daisy - Framework for Analysis and Optimization of Numerical Programs --- Model Checking --- Oink: an Implementation and Evaluation of Modern Parity Game Solvers --- More Scalable LTL Model Checking via Discovering Design-Space Dependencies (D^3) --- Generation of Minimum Tree-like Witnesses for Existential CTL --- From Natural Projection to Partial Model Checking and Back --- Machine Learning --- ICE-based Refinement Type Discovery for Higher-Order Functional Programs --- Strategy Representation by Decision Trees in Reactive Synthesis --- Feature-Guided Black-Box Safety Testing of Deep Neural Networks.

Description / Table of Contents: Semantics --- Non-angelic Concurrent Game Semantics --- A Trace Semantics for System F Parametric Polymorphism --- Categorical Combinatorics for Non Deterministic Strategies on Simple Games --- A Syntactic View of Computational Adequacy --- Linearity --- A New Linear Logic for Deadlock-Free Session-Typed Processes --- A Double Category Theoretic Analysis of Graded Linear Exponential Comonads --- Depending on Session-Typed Processes --- FabULous Interoperability for ML and a Linear Language --- Concurrency --- Automata for True Concurrency Properties --- A Theory of Encodings and Expressiveness --- A Framework for Parameterized Monitorability --- Logics for Bisimulation and Divergence --- Lambda-Calculi and Types --- Call-by-need, Neededness and All That --- Fitch-Style Modal Lambda Calculi --- Realizability Interpretation and Normalization of Typed Call-by-Need --- Quotient Inductive-Inductive Types --- Category Theory and Quantum Control --- Guarded Traced Categories --- Proper Semirings and Proper Convex Functors --- From Symmetric Pattern-Matching to Quantum Control --- Quantitative Models --- The Complexity of Graph-Based Reductions for Reachability in Markov Decision Processes --- A Hierarchy of Scheduler Classes for Stochastic Automata --- Symbolically Quantifying Response Time in Stochastic Models using Moments and Semirings --- Comparator Automata in Quantitative Verification --- Logics and Equational Theories --- Modular Tableaux Calculi for Separation Theories --- Differential Calculus with Imprecise Input and its Logical Framework --- The Effects of Adding Reachability Predicates in Propositional Separation Logic --- The Equational Theory of the Natural Join and of Inner Union is Decidable --- Graphs and Automata --- Minimization of Graph Weighted Models over Circular Strings --- Games on Graphs with a Public Signal Monitoring --- WQO Dichotomy for 3-Graphs --- Verifying Higher-Order Functions with Tree Automata

Description / Table of Contents: Concurrent and Distributed Systems --- Computing the concurrency threshold of sound free-choice workflow nets --- Fine-Grained Complexity of Safety Verification --- Parameterized verification of synchronization in constrained reconfigurable broadcast networks --- EMME: a formal tool for the ECMAScript Memory Model Evaluation --- SAT and SMT II --- What a Difference a Variable Makes --- Abstraction Refinement for Emptiness Checking of Alternating Data Automata --- Revisiting Enumerative Instantiation --- An Non-linear Arithmetic Procedure for Control-Command Software Verification --- Security and Reactive Systems --- Approximate Reduction of Finite Automata for High-Speed Network Intrusion Detection --- Validity-Guided Synthesis of Reactive Systems from Assume-Guarantee Contracts --- RVHyper: A Runtime Verification Tool for Temporal Hyperproperties --- The Refinement Calculus of Reactive Systems Toolset --- Static and Dynamic Program Analysis --- TESTOR: A Modular Tool for On-the-Fly Conformance Test Case Generation --- Optimal Dynamic Partial Order Reduction with Observers --- Structurally Defined Conditional Data-flow Static Analysis --- Geometric Nontermination Arguments --- Hybrid and Stochastic Systems --- Efficient dynamic error reduction for hybrid systems reachability analysis --- AMT2.0: Qualitative and Quantitative Trace Analysis with Extended Signal Temporal Logic --- Multi-Cost Bounded Reachability in MDPs --- A Statistical Model Checker for Nondeterminism and Rare Events --- Temporal logic and mu-calculus --- Permutation Games for the Weakly Aconjunctive mu-Calculus --- Symmetry Reduction for the Local Mu-Calculus --- Bayesian Statistical Parameter Synthesis for Linear Temporal Properties of Stochastic Models --- 7th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) --- 2LS: Memory Safety and Non-Termination (Competition contribution) --- Yogar-CBMC: CBMC with Scheduling Constraint Based Abstraction Refinement (Competition Contribution) --- CPA-BAM-Slicing: Block-Abstraction Memorization and Slicing with Region-Based Dependency Analysis (Competition Contribution) --- InterpChecker: Reducing State Space via Interpolations (Competition Contribution) --- Map2Check using LLVM and KLEE (Competition Contribution) --- Symbiotic 5: Boosted Instrumentation (Competition Contribution) --- Ultimate Automizer and the Search for Perfect Interpolants (Competition Contribution) --- Ultimate Taipan with Dynamic Block Encoding (Competition Contribution) --- VeriAbs : Verification by Abstraction and Test Generation (Competition Contribution)

Description / Table of Contents: Once Neglected, Now Emerging and Absolutely Necessary: On the History of Digital Humanities or An Introduction --- Why Oral History? ---  ‘Individuation is There in all the Different Strata:’ an Oral History Conversation between John Burrows, Hugh Craig and Willard McCarty --- ‘It was a Time When the University was Still Taking Account of the Meaning of universitas scientiarum’: an Oral History Conversation between Wilhelm Ott and Julianne Nyhan --- ‘hic Rhodus, hic salta’: An Oral History Interview Between Tito Orlandi and Julianne Nyhan --- ‘They Took a Chance’: An Oral History Conversation between Susan Hockey and Julianne Nyhan ---  ‘And Here We go Back Again to the Influence of Algorithmic Thinking’: An Oral History conversation between Judy Malloy and Julianne Nyhan --- ‘I Would Think of Myself as Sitting Inside the Computer, Moving Things Around in Order to Accomplish the Goal of my Programming’: An Oral History Conversation Between Mary Dee Harris and Julianne Nyhan --- ‘I Was Absolutely Convinced That There Had to be a Better Way’: An Oral History Conversation Between John Nitti and Julianne Nyhan --- ‘It’s a Little Mind-Boggling Actually’: An Oral History Conversation between Helen Agüera and Julianne Nyhan ---  ‘I Heard About the Arrival of the Computer’: An Oral History Conversation Between Hans Rutimann and Julianne Nyhan ---  ‘Langezeit habe ich der Universitaet nachgetrauert’: An Oral History Conversation between Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Julianne Nyhan.-‘It’s Probably the Only Modestly Widely used System with a Command Language in Latin’: An Oral History Conversation Between Manfred Thaller and Julianne Nyhan ---  ‘I was Keen on Getting Computers into Humanists’ Thinking’: An Oral History Conversation Between John Bradley and Julianne Nyhan ---  ‘Moderate Expectations, Tolerable Disappointments’: An Oral History Conversation between Claus Huitfeldt and Julianne Nyhan --- ‘So, Into the Chopper it Went’: An Oral History Conversation between Gabriel Egan and Julianne Nyhan --- Revolutionaries and Underdogs --- By Way of a Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Irrespective of whether we use economic or societal metrics, the Internet is one of the most important technical infrastructures in existence today. It will serve as a catalyst for much of our innovation and prosperity in the future. A competitive Europe will require Internet connectivity and services beyond the capabilities offered by current technologies. Future Internet research is therefore a must. The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) is a successful and unique bi-annual conference that brings together participants of over 150 projects from several distinct but interrelated areas in the EU Framework Programme 7. The 20 full papers included in this volume were selected from 40 submissions, and are preceded by a vision paper describing the FIA Roadmap. The papers have been organized into topical sections on the foundations of Future Internet, the applications of Future Internet, Smart Cities, and Future Internet infrastructures

Description / Table of Contents: Smart algorithms --- Data classification and processing --- Stochastic modelling --- Performance evaluation --- Queuing systems --- Wireless networks and security --- Image processing and computer vision

Description / Table of Contents: Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom (iTEC) --- Development of the Future Classroom Toolkit --- Designing Edukata, a Participatory Design Model for Creating Learning Activities --- The iTEC Technical Artefacts, Architecture and Educational Cloud --- The Composer: Creating, Sharing and Facilitating Learning Designs --- Recommender Systems --- Resources beyond Content for Open Education --- The iTEC Widget Store --- The Impact and Potential of iTEC: Evidence from large-scale Validation in School Classrooms

Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Part I: The Concept of Anti-Fragility: 1 Introduction --- 2 Achieving Anti-Fragility --- 3 The Need to Build Trust --- 4 Principles Ensuring Anti-Fragility --- Part II: Anti-Fragility to Downtime: 5 Anti-Fragile Cloud Solutions --- 6 An Anti-Fragile e-Government System --- 7 Anti-Fragile Cloud-Based Telecom Systems --- Part III: Anti-Fragility to Malware: 8 Robustness to Malware Spreading --- 9 Robustness to Malware Reinfections --- 10 Anti-Fragility to Malware Spreading --- Part IV: Anomaly Detection: 11 The Cortical Learning Algorithm --- 12 Detecting Anomalies with the CLA --- Part V: Future Anti-Fragile Systems: 13 Summary and Future Work --- About the Author --- References --- Index

Description / Table of Contents: Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable, an ApressOpen title, describes the changing risk environment and why a fresh approach to information security is needed. Because almost every aspect of an enterprise is now dependent on technology, the focus of IT security must shift from locking down assets to enabling the business while managing and surviving risk. This compact book discusses business risk from a broader perspective, including privacy and regulatory considerations. It describes the increasing number of threats and vulnerabilities, but also offers strategies for developing solutions. These include discussions of how enterprises can take advantage of new and emerging technologies—such as social media and the huge proliferation of Internet-enabled devices—while minimizing risk. With ApressOpen, content is freely available through multiple online distribution channels and electronic formats with the goal of disseminating professionally edited and technically reviewed content to the worldwide community. Here are some of the responses from reviewers of this exceptional work: "Managing Risk and Information Security is a perceptive, balanced, and often thought-provoking exploration of evolving information risk and security challenges within a business context.  Harkins clearly connects the needed, but often-overlooked linkage and dialog between the business and technical worlds and offers actionable strategies.   The book contains eye-opening security insights that are easily understood, even by the curious layman." Fred Wettling, Bechtel Fellow, IS&T Ethics & Compliance Officer, Bechtel "As disruptive technology innovations and escalating cyber threats continue to create enormous information security challenges, Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable provides a much-needed perspective. This book compels information security professionals to think differently about concepts of risk management in order to be more effective. The specific and practical guidance offers a fast-track formula for developing information security strategies which are lock-step with business priorities." Laura Robinson, Principal, Robinson Insight Chair, Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) Program Director, Executive Security Action Forum (ESAF) "The mandate of the information security function is being completely rewritten. Unfortunately most heads of security haven’t picked up on the change, impeding their companies’ agility and ability to innovate. This book makes the case for why security needs to change, and shows how to get started. It will be regarded as marking the turning point in information security for years to come." Dr. Jeremy Bergsman, Practice Manager, CEB     "The world we are responsible to protect is changing dramatically and at an accelerating pace. Technology is pervasive in virtually every aspect of our lives. Clouds, virtualization and mobile are redefining computing – and they are just the beginning of what is to come. Your security perimeter is defined by wherever your information and people happen to be. We are attacked by professional adversaries who are better funded than we will ever be. We in the information security profession must change as dramatically as the environment we protect. We need new skills and new strategies to do our jobs effectively. We literally need to change the way we think.   Written by one of the best in the business, Managing Risk and Information Security challenges traditional security theory with clear examples of the need for change. It also provides expert advice on how to dramatically increase the success of your security strategy and methods – from dealing with the misperception of risk to how to become a Z-shaped CISO.   Managing Risk and Information Security is the ultimate treatise on how to deliver effective security to the world we live in for the next 10 years. It is absolute must reading for anyone in our profession – and should be on the desk of every CISO in the world."   Dave Cullinane, CISSP CEO Security Starfish, LLC "In this overview, Malcolm Harkins delivers an insightful survey of the trends, threats, and tactics shaping information risk and security. From regulatory compliance to psychology to the changing threat context, this work provides a compelling introduction to an important topic and trains helpful attention on the effects of changing technology and management practices." Dr. Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Professor, Stanford Law School Co-Director, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University     "Malcolm Harkins gets it. In his new book Malcolm outlines the major forces changing the information security risk landscape from a big picture perspective, and then goes on to offer effective methods of managing that risk from a practitioner's viewpoint. The combination makes this book unique and a must read for anyone interested in IT risk." Dennis Devlin AVP, Information Security and Compliance, The George Washington University    "Managing Risk and Information Security is the first-to-read, must-read book on information security for C-Suite executives.  It is accessible, understandable and actionable. No sky-is-falling scare tactics, no techno-babble – just straight talk about a critically important subject. There is no better primer on the economics, ergonomics and psycho-behaviourals of security than this." Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director & Dean, IT Leadership Academy     "Managing Risk and Information Security is a wake-up call for information security executives and a ray of light for business leaders.  It equips organizations with the knowledge required to transform their security programs from a "culture of no" to one focused on agility, value and competitiveness. Unlike other publications, Malcolm provides clear and immediately applicable solutions to optimally balance the frequently opposing needs of risk reduction and business growth. This book should be required reading for anyone currently serving in, or seeking to achieve, the role of Chief Information Security Officer." Jamil Farshchi, Senior Business Leader of Strategic Planning and Initiatives, VISA     "For too many years, business and security – either real or imagined – were at odds. In Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable, you get what you expect – real life practical ways to break logjams, have security actually enable business, and marries security architecture and business architecture. Why this book?  It's written by a practitioner, and not just any practitioner, one of the leading minds in Security today." John Stewart, Chief Security Officer, Cisco     "This book is an invaluable guide to help security professionals address risk in new ways in this alarmingly fast changing environment. Packed with examples which makes it a pleasure to read, the book captures practical ways a forward thinking CISO can turn information security into a competitive advantage for their business.    This book provides a new framework for managing risk in an entertaining and thought provoking way. This will change the way security professionals work with their business leaders, and help get products to market faster.   The 6 irrefutable laws of information security should be on a stone plaque on the desk of every security professional." Steven Proctor, VP, Audit & Risk Management, Flextronics

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to LOD2, Sören Auer --- Advances in Large-scale RDF Data --- Knowledge Base Creation, Enrichment and Repair --- Interlinking and Knowledge Fusion --- Facilitating the Exploration and Visualization of Linked Data --- Supporting the Linked Data life cycle using an integrated tool stack --- LOD2 for Media and Publishing --- Building Enterprise Ready Applications Using Linked Open Data --- Lifting Open Data Portals to the Data Web --- Linked Open Data for Public Procurement

Description / Table of Contents: A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security is a straight-forward primer for developers. It shows security and TPM concepts, demonstrating their use in real applications that the reader can try out. Simply put, this book is designed to empower and excite the programming community to go out and do cool things with the TPM. The approach is to ramp the reader up quickly and keep their interest.A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security explains security concepts, describes the TPM 2.0 architecture, and provides code and pseudo-code examples in parallel, from very simple concepts and code to highly complex concepts and pseudo-code. The book includes instructions for the available execution environments and real code examples to get readers up and talking to the TPM quickly. The authors then help the users expand on that with pseudo-code descriptions of useful applications using the TPM

Description / Table of Contents: This book constitutes a collaborative and selected documentation of the scientific outcome of the European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" which run from October 2007 to October 2011. Involving experts from around 20 European countries, the goal of Econ@Tel was to develop a strategic research and training network among key people and organizations in order to enhance Europe's competence in the field of telecommunications economics.   Reflecting the organization of the COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel in working groups the following four major research areas are addressed:   - evolution and regulation of communication ecosystems; - social and policy implications of communication technologies; - economics and governance of future networks; - future networks management architectures and mechanisms

Description / Table of Contents: Irrespective of whether we use economic or societal metrics, the Internet is one of the most important technical infrastructures in existence today. It will be a catalyst for much of our innovation and prosperity in the future. A competitive Europe will require Internet connectivity and services beyond the capabilities offered by current technologies. Future Internet research is therefore a must.  This book is published in full compliance with the Open Access publishing initiative; it is based on the research carried out within the Future Internet Assembly (FIA). It contains a sample of representative results from the recent FIA meetings spanning a broad range of topics, all being of crucial importance for the future Internet.  The book includes 32 contributions and has been structured into the following sections, each of which is preceded by a short introduction: Foundations: architectural issues; socio-economic issues; security and trust; and experiments and experimental design. Future Internet Areas: networks, services, and content; and applications

Description / Table of Contents: Software Driven Networks, Virtualisation, Programmability and Autonomic Management --- Towards a Socially-Aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic Combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet (SmartenIT) --- The NEBULA Future Internet Architecture --- Open the Way to Future Networks – A Viewpoint Framework from ITU-T --- Towards a Minimal Core for Information-Centric Networking --- Managing QoS for Future Internet Applications over Virtual Sensor Networks --- High Availability in the Future Internet --- Integrating OpenFlow in IMS Networks and Enabling for Future Internet Research and Experimentation --- Computing and Networking Clouds Contrail: Distributed Application Deployment under SLA in Federated Heterogeneous Clouds --- Cloud–Based Evaluation Framework for Big Data --- Optimizing Service Ecosystems in the Cloud --- Resource Optimisation in IoT Cloud Systems by Using Matchmaking and Self-management Principles --- Towards a Secure Network Virtualization Architecture for the Future Internet --- Seeding the Cloud: An Innovative Approach to Grow Trust in Cloud Based Infrastructures --- Internet of Things --- IoT6 – Moving to an IPv6-Based Future IoT --- SmartSantander: Internet of Things Research and Innovation through Citizen Participation --- A Cognitive Management Framework for Empowering the Internet of Things --- Building Modular Middlewares for the Internet of Things with OSGi --- Towards an Architecture for Future Internet Applications --- ComVantage: Mobile Enterprise Collaboration Reference Framework and Enablers for Future Internet Information Interoperability --- Test-Enabled Architecture for IoT Service Creation and Provisioning --- Enabling Technologies and Economic Incentives Sustainable Wireless Broadband Access to the Future Internet --- The EARTH Project --- An Internet-Based Architecture Supporting Ubiquitous Application User Interfaces --- Cooperative Strategies for Power Saving in Multi-standard Wireless Devices --- Counting the Cost of FIRE: Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Experimentation Facilities --- User Involvement in Future Internet Projects --- Design and Implementation of Cooperative Network Connectivity Proxy Using Universal Plug and Play --- Book Sponsoring Projects Overview 3DLife - Bringing the Media Internet to Life --- CONCORD Project Management of the Future Internet --- FLAMINGO NoE Project Management of the Future Internet --- The GEYSERS Concept and Major Outcomes --- iCore: A Cognitive Management Framework for the Internet of Things --- IoT6 Project in a Nutshell --- Mobile Cloud Networking: Mobile Network, Compute, and Storage as One Service On-Demand --- The SmartenIT STREP Project: Socially-Aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic Combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet --- The SmartSantander Project --- UniverSelf, Realizing Autonomics for Future Networks

Description / Table of Contents: The InfoSec Handbook offers the reader an organized layout of information that is easily read and understood. Allowing beginners to enter the field and understand the key concepts and ideas, while still keeping the experienced readers updated on topics and concepts. It is intended mainly for beginners to the field of information security, written in a way that makes it easy for them to understand the detailed content of the book. The book offers a practical and simple view of the security practices while still offering somewhat technical and detailed information relating to security. It helps the reader build a strong foundation of information, allowing them to move forward from the book with a larger knowledge base. Security is a constantly growing concern that everyone must deal with. Whether it’s an average computer user or a highly skilled computer user, they are always confronted with different security risks. These risks range in danger and should always be dealt with accordingly. Unfortunately, not everyone is aware of the dangers or how to prevent them and this is where most of the issues arise in information technology (IT). When computer users do not take security into account many issues can arise from that like system compromises or loss of data and information. This is an obvious issue that is present with all computer users. This book is intended to educate the average and experienced user of what kinds of different security practices and standards exist. It will also cover how to manage security software and updates in order to be as protected as possible from all of the threats that they face

Description / Table of Contents: Seit Jahren wird unser Alltag geprägt von zunehmender Automation und Vernetzung, die Digitalisierung genannt wird. Sensoren erfassen immer mehr unterschiedliche Daten und werden von intelligenten Algorithmen zunehmend präzisier analysiert. Dies führt nicht nur zu einem anderen Verhältnis im Umgang und bei der Nutzung von Daten durch Menschen und Maschinen, sondern wird auch dramatisch Aufgaben und Prozesse verändern. Die damit verbundenen Arbeitsanforderungen werden zum massiven Wandel von Berufsbildern führen, in dem einfache Tätigkeiten automatisiert und komplexe Tätigkeiten vereinfacht werden. Nicht nur das Arbeiten sondern auch das Lernen, Lehren und Forschen verändert sich durch die Digitalisierung. Die technischen Möglichkeiten wandeln die Lebenswelten mit ihren urbanen Versorgungs- und Infrastrukturen und eröffnen den Wirtschaftsräumen neue Geschäftsmodelle. Diese parallel einsetzenden Entwicklungen führen zu radikalen Umbrüchen, die in den kommenden Jahren sämtliche Aspekte der Gesellschaft verändern werden

Description / Table of Contents: Seit Jahren wird unser Alltag geprägt von zunehmender Automation und Vernetzung, die Digitalisierung genannt wird. Sensoren erfassen immer mehr unterschiedliche Daten und werden von intelligenten Algorithmen zunehmend präzisier analysiert. Dies führt nicht nur zu einem anderen Verhältnis im Umgang und bei der Nutzung von Daten durch Menschen und Maschinen, sondern wird auch dramatisch Aufgaben und Prozesse verändern. Die damit verbundenen Arbeitsanforderungen werden zum massiven Wandel von Berufsbildern führen, in dem einfache Tätigkeiten automatisiert und komplexe Tätigkeiten vereinfacht werden. Nicht nur das Arbeiten sondern auch das Lernen, Lehren und Forschen verändert sich durch die Digitalisierung. Die technischen Möglichkeiten wandeln die Lebenswelten mit ihren urbanen Versorgungs- und Infrastrukturen und eröffnen den Wirtschaftsräumen neue Geschäftsmodelle. Diese parallel einsetzenden Entwicklungen führen zu radikalen Umbrüchen, die in den kommenden Jahren sämtliche Aspekte der Gesellschaft verändern werden

Description / Table of Contents: Modelle --- Modellierungssprachen --- Vorgehensweise von der Modellbildung zur Digitalisierung --- Vorbereitung der Prozessimplementierung --- Umsetzung --- Praxisbeispiel

Description / Table of Contents: This book constitutes a collaborative and selected documentation of the scientific outcome of the European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" which run from October 2007 to October 2011. Involving experts from around 20 European countries, the goal of Econ@Tel was to develop a strategic research and training network among key people and organizations in order to enhance Europe's competence in the field of telecommunications economics.   Reflecting the organization of the COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel in working groups the following four major research areas are addressed:   - evolution and regulation of communication ecosystems; - social and policy implications of communication technologies; - economics and governance of future networks; - future networks management architectures and mechanisms

Description / Table of Contents: Irrespective of whether we use economic or societal metrics, the Internet is one of the most important technical infrastructures in existence today. It will serve as a catalyst for much of our innovation and prosperity in the future. A competitive Europe will require Internet connectivity and services beyond the capabilities offered by current technologies. Future Internet research is therefore a must. The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) is a successful and unique bi-annual conference that brings together participants of over 150 projects from several distinct but interrelated areas in the EU Framework Programme 7. The 20 full papers included in this volume were selected from 40 submissions, and are preceded by a vision paper describing the FIA Roadmap. The papers have been organized into topical sections on the foundations of Future Internet, the applications of Future Internet, Smart Cities, and Future Internet infrastructures

Description / Table of Contents: Irrespective of whether we use economic or societal metrics, the Internet is one of the most important technical infrastructures in existence today. It will be a catalyst for much of our innovation and prosperity in the future. A competitive Europe will require Internet connectivity and services beyond the capabilities offered by current technologies. Future Internet research is therefore a must.  This book is published in full compliance with the Open Access publishing initiative; it is based on the research carried out within the Future Internet Assembly (FIA). It contains a sample of representative results from the recent FIA meetings spanning a broad range of topics, all being of crucial importance for the future Internet.  The book includes 32 contributions and has been structured into the following sections, each of which is preceded by a short introduction: Foundations: architectural issues; socio-economic issues; security and trust; and experiments and experimental design. Future Internet Areas: networks, services, and content; and applications

Description / Table of Contents: Software Driven Networks, Virtualisation, Programmability and Autonomic Management --- Towards a Socially-Aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic Combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet (SmartenIT) --- The NEBULA Future Internet Architecture --- Open the Way to Future Networks – A Viewpoint Framework from ITU-T --- Towards a Minimal Core for Information-Centric Networking --- Managing QoS for Future Internet Applications over Virtual Sensor Networks --- High Availability in the Future Internet --- Integrating OpenFlow in IMS Networks and Enabling for Future Internet Research and Experimentation --- Computing and Networking Clouds Contrail: Distributed Application Deployment under SLA in Federated Heterogeneous Clouds --- Cloud–Based Evaluation Framework for Big Data --- Optimizing Service Ecosystems in the Cloud --- Resource Optimisation in IoT Cloud Systems by Using Matchmaking and Self-management Principles --- Towards a Secure Network Virtualization Architecture for the Future Internet --- Seeding the Cloud: An Innovative Approach to Grow Trust in Cloud Based Infrastructures --- Internet of Things --- IoT6 – Moving to an IPv6-Based Future IoT --- SmartSantander: Internet of Things Research and Innovation through Citizen Participation --- A Cognitive Management Framework for Empowering the Internet of Things --- Building Modular Middlewares for the Internet of Things with OSGi --- Towards an Architecture for Future Internet Applications --- ComVantage: Mobile Enterprise Collaboration Reference Framework and Enablers for Future Internet Information Interoperability --- Test-Enabled Architecture for IoT Service Creation and Provisioning --- Enabling Technologies and Economic Incentives Sustainable Wireless Broadband Access to the Future Internet --- The EARTH Project --- An Internet-Based Architecture Supporting Ubiquitous Application User Interfaces --- Cooperative Strategies for Power Saving in Multi-standard Wireless Devices --- Counting the Cost of FIRE: Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Experimentation Facilities --- User Involvement in Future Internet Projects --- Design and Implementation of Cooperative Network Connectivity Proxy Using Universal Plug and Play --- Book Sponsoring Projects Overview 3DLife - Bringing the Media Internet to Life --- CONCORD Project Management of the Future Internet --- FLAMINGO NoE Project Management of the Future Internet --- The GEYSERS Concept and Major Outcomes --- iCore: A Cognitive Management Framework for the Internet of Things --- IoT6 Project in a Nutshell --- Mobile Cloud Networking: Mobile Network, Compute, and Storage as One Service On-Demand --- The SmartenIT STREP Project: Socially-Aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic Combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet --- The SmartSantander Project --- UniverSelf, Realizing Autonomics for Future Networks

Description / Table of Contents: Making Flow-Based Security Detection Parallel --- A Blockchain-Based Architecture for Collaborative DDoS Mitigation with Smart Contracts --- Achieving Reproducible Network Environments with INSALATA --- Towards a Software-Defined Security Framework for Supporting Distributed Cloud --- Optimal Service Function Chain Composition in Network Functions Virtualization --- An Optimized Resilient Advance Bandwidth Scheduling for Media Delivery Services --- The Evaluation of the V2VUNet Concept to Improve Inter-vehicle Communications --- Towards Internet Scale Quality-of-Experience Measurement with Twitter --- Hunting SIP Authentication Attacks Efficiently --- MoDeNA: Enhancing User Security for Devices in Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks --- Flow-Based Detection of IPv6-specific Network Layer Attacks --- Towards a Hybrid Cloud Platform Using Apache Mesos --- Visual Analytics for Network Security and Critical Infrastructures --- Preserving Relations in Parallel Flow Data Processing --- SmartDEMAP: A Smart Contract Deployment and Management Platform --- Optimizing the Integration of Agent-Based Cloud Orchestrators and Higher-Level Workloads --- Situational Awareness: Detecting Critical Dependencies and Devices in a Network --- A Framework for SFC Integrity in NFV Environments --- Multi-domain DDoS Mitigation based on Blockchains

Description / Table of Contents: Shifting Identities in Computing: From a Useful Tool to a New Method and Theory of Science --- On the Big Impact of “Big Computer Science” --- On Informatics, Diamonds and T --- Leadership and Balance in Research --- Rational ethics --- Ethics for the digital age: where are the moral specs? --- Digital Sovereignty and IT-Security for a Prosperous Society --- Women in Computing and the contingency of informatics cultures --- Ada - poet of computing

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: The Big Data Opportunity --- The Big Data Value Opportunity --- Introduction to the BIG Project --- Part II: The Big Data Value Chain: Enabling and Value Creating Technologies --- The Big Data Value Chain: Definitions, Concepts, and Theoretical Approaches --- Big Data Acquisition --- Big Data Analysis --- Big Data Curation --- Big Data Storage --- Big Data Usage --- Part III: Usage and Exploitation of Big Data --- Big Data Driven Innovation in Industrial Sectors --- Big Data in the Health Sector --- Big Data in the Public Sector --- Big Data in the Finance and Insurance Sectors --- Big Data in the Energy and Transport Sectors --- Big Data in the Media and Entertainment Sectors --- Part IV: A Roadmap for Big Data Research --- Cross-Sectorial Requirements Analysis for Big Data Research --- New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy: Roadmaps and Action Plans for Technology, Businesses, Policy, and Society.                        

Description / Table of Contents: HHVSF: A Framework to Accelerate Drug-based High-throughput Virtual Screening on High-Performance Computers --- HBasechainDB --- A Scalable Blockchain Framework on Hadoop Ecosystem --- DETOUR: A Large-Scale Non-Blocking Optical Data Center Fabric --- Querying Large Scientific Data Sets with Adaptable IO System ADIOS --- On the Performance of Spark on HPC Systems: Towards a Complete Picture --- Experiences of Converging Big Data Analytics Frameworks with High Performance Computing Systems --- MACC : An OpenACC Transpiler for Automatic Multi-GPU Use --- Acceleration of Wind Simulation using Locally Mesh-Refined Lattice Boltzmann Method on GPU-Rich supercomputers --- Architecture of an FPGA-Based Heterogeneous System for Code-Search Problems --- TINS: A Task-Based Dynamic Helper Core Strategy for In Situ Analytics --- Machine Learning Predictions for Underestimation of Job Runtime on HPC System --- A Power Management Framework with Simple DSL for Automatic Power-Performance Optimization on Power-Constrained HPC Systems --- Scalable Data Management of the Uintah Simulation Framework for Next-Generation Engineering Problems with Radiation --- High performance LOBPCG method for solving multiple eigenvalues of Hubbard model: Efficiency of communication avoiding Neumann expansion preconditioner --- Application of a preconditioned Chebyshev basis communication-avoiding conjugate gradient method to a multiphase thermal-hydraulic CFD code --- Optimization of Hierarchical matrix computation on GPU

Description / Table of Contents: Semantics --- Non-angelic Concurrent Game Semantics --- A Trace Semantics for System F Parametric Polymorphism --- Categorical Combinatorics for Non Deterministic Strategies on Simple Games --- A Syntactic View of Computational Adequacy --- Linearity --- A New Linear Logic for Deadlock-Free Session-Typed Processes --- A Double Category Theoretic Analysis of Graded Linear Exponential Comonads --- Depending on Session-Typed Processes --- FabULous Interoperability for ML and a Linear Language --- Concurrency --- Automata for True Concurrency Properties --- A Theory of Encodings and Expressiveness --- A Framework for Parameterized Monitorability --- Logics for Bisimulation and Divergence --- Lambda-Calculi and Types --- Call-by-need, Neededness and All That --- Fitch-Style Modal Lambda Calculi --- Realizability Interpretation and Normalization of Typed Call-by-Need --- Quotient Inductive-Inductive Types --- Category Theory and Quantum Control --- Guarded Traced Categories --- Proper Semirings and Proper Convex Functors --- From Symmetric Pattern-Matching to Quantum Control --- Quantitative Models --- The Complexity of Graph-Based Reductions for Reachability in Markov Decision Processes --- A Hierarchy of Scheduler Classes for Stochastic Automata --- Symbolically Quantifying Response Time in Stochastic Models using Moments and Semirings --- Comparator Automata in Quantitative Verification --- Logics and Equational Theories --- Modular Tableaux Calculi for Separation Theories --- Differential Calculus with Imprecise Input and its Logical Framework --- The Effects of Adding Reachability Predicates in Propositional Separation Logic --- The Equational Theory of the Natural Join and of Inner Union is Decidable --- Graphs and Automata --- Minimization of Graph Weighted Models over Circular Strings --- Games on Graphs with a Public Signal Monitoring --- WQO Dichotomy for 3-Graphs --- Verifying Higher-Order Functions with Tree Automata

Description / Table of Contents: The InfoSec Handbook offers the reader an organized layout of information that is easily read and understood. Allowing beginners to enter the field and understand the key concepts and ideas, while still keeping the experienced readers updated on topics and concepts. It is intended mainly for beginners to the field of information security, written in a way that makes it easy for them to understand the detailed content of the book. The book offers a practical and simple view of the security practices while still offering somewhat technical and detailed information relating to security. It helps the reader build a strong foundation of information, allowing them to move forward from the book with a larger knowledge base. Security is a constantly growing concern that everyone must deal with. Whether it’s an average computer user or a highly skilled computer user, they are always confronted with different security risks. These risks range in danger and should always be dealt with accordingly. Unfortunately, not everyone is aware of the dangers or how to prevent them and this is where most of the issues arise in information technology (IT). When computer users do not take security into account many issues can arise from that like system compromises or loss of data and information. This is an obvious issue that is present with all computer users. This book is intended to educate the average and experienced user of what kinds of different security practices and standards exist. It will also cover how to manage security software and updates in order to be as protected as possible from all of the threats that they face

Description / Table of Contents: Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed is an in-depth introduction to Intel’s platform embedded solution: the security and management engine. The engine is shipped inside most Intel platforms for servers, personal computers, tablets, and smartphones. The engine realizes advanced security and management functionalities and protects applications’ secrets and users’ privacy in a secure, light-weight, and inexpensive way. Besides native built-in features, it allows third-party software vendors to develop applications that take advantage of the security infrastructures offered by the engine. Intel’s security and management engine is technologically unique and significant, but is largely unknown to many members of the tech communities who could potentially benefit from it. Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed reveals technical details of the engine. The engine provides a new way for the computer security industry to resolve critical problems resulting from booming mobile technologies, such as increasing threats against confidentiality and privacy. This book describes how this advanced level of protection is made possible by the engine, how it can improve users’ security experience, and how third-party vendors can make use of it. It's written for computer security professionals and researchers; embedded system engineers; and software engineers and vendors who are interested in developing new security applications on top of Intel’s security and management engine. It’s also written for advanced users who are interested in understanding how the security features of Intel’s platforms work

Description / Table of Contents: A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security is a straight-forward primer for developers. It shows security and TPM concepts, demonstrating their use in real applications that the reader can try out. Simply put, this book is designed to empower and excite the programming community to go out and do cool things with the TPM. The approach is to ramp the reader up quickly and keep their interest.A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security explains security concepts, describes the TPM 2.0 architecture, and provides code and pseudo-code examples in parallel, from very simple concepts and code to highly complex concepts and pseudo-code. The book includes instructions for the available execution environments and real code examples to get readers up and talking to the TPM quickly. The authors then help the users expand on that with pseudo-code descriptions of useful applications using the TPM

Description / Table of Contents: Pro Git (Second Edition) is your fully-updated guide to Git and its usage in the modern world. Git has come a long way since it was first developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It has taken the open source world by storm since its inception in 2005, and this book teaches you how to use it like a pro. Effective and well-implemented version control is a necessity for successful web projects, whether large or small. With this book you’ll learn how to master the world of distributed version workflow, use the distributed features of Git to the full, and extend Git to meet your every need. Written by Git pros Scott Chacon and Ben Straub, Pro Git (Second Edition) builds on the hugely successful first edition, and is now fully updated for Git version 2.0, as well as including an indispensable chapter on GitHub. It’s the best book for all your Git needs

Description / Table of Contents: It's our thesis that privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution and that innovators who are emphasizing privacy as an integral part of the product life cycle are on the right track. --The authors of The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value is the first book of its kind, offering industry-proven solutions that go beyond mere theory and adding lucid perspectives on the challenges and opportunities raised with the emerging "personal" information economy. The authors, a uniquely skilled team of longtime industry experts, detail how you can build privacy into products, processes, applications, and systems. The book offers insight on translating the guiding light of OECD Privacy Guidelines, the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs), Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP) and Privacy by Design (PbD) into concrete concepts that organizations, software/hardware engineers, and system administrators/owners can understand and apply throughout the product or process life cycle—regardless of development methodology—from inception to retirement, including data deletion and destruction. In addition to providing practical methods to applying privacy engineering methodologies, the authors detail how to prepare and organize an enterprise or organization to support and manage products, process, systems, and applications that require personal information. The authors also address how to think about and assign value to the personal information assets being protected. Finally, the team of experts offers thoughts about the information revolution that has only just begun, and how we can live in a world of sensors and trillions of data points without losing our ethics or value(s)...and even have a little fun. The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto is designed to serve multiple stakeholders: Anyone who is involved in designing, developing, deploying and reviewing products, processes, applications, and systems that process personal information, including software/hardware engineers, technical program and product managers, support and sales engineers, system integrators, IT professionals, lawyers, and information privacy and security professionals. This book is a must-read for all practitioners in the personal information economy. Privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution; innovators who emphasize privacy as an integral part of the product life cycle are on the right track. Foreword by Dr. Eric Bonabeau, PhD, Chairman, Icosystem, Inc. & Dean of Computational Sciences, Minerva Schools at KGI

Description / Table of Contents: GUI Design for Android Apps is the perfect—and concise—introduction for mobile app developers and designers. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, code samples, and case studies, the book shows the must-know principles for user-interface design for Android apps running on the Intel platform, including smartphones, tablets and embedded devices. This book is jointly developed for individual learning by Intel Software College and China Shanghai JiaoTong University, and is excerpted from Android Application Development for the Intel® Platform

Description / Table of Contents: Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable, an ApressOpen title, describes the changing risk environment and why a fresh approach to information security is needed. Because almost every aspect of an enterprise is now dependent on technology, the focus of IT security must shift from locking down assets to enabling the business while managing and surviving risk. This compact book discusses business risk from a broader perspective, including privacy and regulatory considerations. It describes the increasing number of threats and vulnerabilities, but also offers strategies for developing solutions. These include discussions of how enterprises can take advantage of new and emerging technologies—such as social media and the huge proliferation of Internet-enabled devices—while minimizing risk. With ApressOpen, content is freely available through multiple online distribution channels and electronic formats with the goal of disseminating professionally edited and technically reviewed content to the worldwide community. Here are some of the responses from reviewers of this exceptional work: "Managing Risk and Information Security is a perceptive, balanced, and often thought-provoking exploration of evolving information risk and security challenges within a business context.  Harkins clearly connects the needed, but often-overlooked linkage and dialog between the business and technical worlds and offers actionable strategies.   The book contains eye-opening security insights that are easily understood, even by the curious layman." Fred Wettling, Bechtel Fellow, IS&T Ethics & Compliance Officer, Bechtel "As disruptive technology innovations and escalating cyber threats continue to create enormous information security challenges, Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable provides a much-needed perspective. This book compels information security professionals to think differently about concepts of risk management in order to be more effective. The specific and practical guidance offers a fast-track formula for developing information security strategies which are lock-step with business priorities." Laura Robinson, Principal, Robinson Insight Chair, Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) Program Director, Executive Security Action Forum (ESAF) "The mandate of the information security function is being completely rewritten. Unfortunately most heads of security haven’t picked up on the change, impeding their companies’ agility and ability to innovate. This book makes the case for why security needs to change, and shows how to get started. It will be regarded as marking the turning point in information security for years to come." Dr. Jeremy Bergsman, Practice Manager, CEB     "The world we are responsible to protect is changing dramatically and at an accelerating pace. Technology is pervasive in virtually every aspect of our lives. Clouds, virtualization and mobile are redefining computing – and they are just the beginning of what is to come. Your security perimeter is defined by wherever your information and people happen to be. We are attacked by professional adversaries who are better funded than we will ever be. We in the information security profession must change as dramatically as the environment we protect. We need new skills and new strategies to do our jobs effectively. We literally need to change the way we think.   Written by one of the best in the business, Managing Risk and Information Security challenges traditional security theory with clear examples of the need for change. It also provides expert advice on how to dramatically increase the success of your security strategy and methods – from dealing with the misperception of risk to how to become a Z-shaped CISO.   Managing Risk and Information Security is the ultimate treatise on how to deliver effective security to the world we live in for the next 10 years. It is absolute must reading for anyone in our profession – and should be on the desk of every CISO in the world."   Dave Cullinane, CISSP CEO Security Starfish, LLC "In this overview, Malcolm Harkins delivers an insightful survey of the trends, threats, and tactics shaping information risk and security. From regulatory compliance to psychology to the changing threat context, this work provides a compelling introduction to an important topic and trains helpful attention on the effects of changing technology and management practices." Dr. Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Professor, Stanford Law School Co-Director, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University     "Malcolm Harkins gets it. In his new book Malcolm outlines the major forces changing the information security risk landscape from a big picture perspective, and then goes on to offer effective methods of managing that risk from a practitioner's viewpoint. The combination makes this book unique and a must read for anyone interested in IT risk." Dennis Devlin AVP, Information Security and Compliance, The George Washington University    "Managing Risk and Information Security is the first-to-read, must-read book on information security for C-Suite executives.  It is accessible, understandable and actionable. No sky-is-falling scare tactics, no techno-babble – just straight talk about a critically important subject. There is no better primer on the economics, ergonomics and psycho-behaviourals of security than this." Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director & Dean, IT Leadership Academy     "Managing Risk and Information Security is a wake-up call for information security executives and a ray of light for business leaders.  It equips organizations with the knowledge required to transform their security programs from a "culture of no" to one focused on agility, value and competitiveness. Unlike other publications, Malcolm provides clear and immediately applicable solutions to optimally balance the frequently opposing needs of risk reduction and business growth. This book should be required reading for anyone currently serving in, or seeking to achieve, the role of Chief Information Security Officer." Jamil Farshchi, Senior Business Leader of Strategic Planning and Initiatives, VISA     "For too many years, business and security – either real or imagined – were at odds. In Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable, you get what you expect – real life practical ways to break logjams, have security actually enable business, and marries security architecture and business architecture. Why this book?  It's written by a practitioner, and not just any practitioner, one of the leading minds in Security today." John Stewart, Chief Security Officer, Cisco     "This book is an invaluable guide to help security professionals address risk in new ways in this alarmingly fast changing environment. Packed with examples which makes it a pleasure to read, the book captures practical ways a forward thinking CISO can turn information security into a competitive advantage for their business.    This book provides a new framework for managing risk in an entertaining and thought provoking way. This will change the way security professionals work with their business leaders, and help get products to market faster.   The 6 irrefutable laws of information security should be on a stone plaque on the desk of every security professional." Steven Proctor, VP, Audit & Risk Management, Flextronics

Description / Table of Contents: Energy Efficient Servers: Blueprints for Data Center Optimization introduces engineers and IT professionals to the power management technologies and techniques used in energy efficient servers. The book includes a deep examination of different features used in processors, memory, interconnects, I/O devices, and other platform components. It outlines the power and performance impact of these features and the role firmware and software play in initialization and control. Using examples from cloud, HPC, and enterprise environments, the book demonstrates how various power management technologies are utilized across a range of server utilization. It teaches the reader how to monitor, analyze, and optimize their environment to best suit their needs. It shares optimization techniques used by data center administrators and system optimization experts at the world’s most advanced data centers