New E-Resources at Northwestern

Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration

This encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive compilation of information on the design and implementation of e-collaboration technologies, their behavioral impact on individuals and groups, and theoretical considerations on links between the use of e-collaboration technology and behavioral patterns. It delivers indispensable content to libraries and researchers looking to develop programs of investigation into the use of e-collaboration. – Publisher’s blurb.

Securing the Information Infrastructure

Provides a framework for building trust in computer technology by exploring an array of safeguards that can be used to uphold the integrity and reliability of computing systems. – Publisher’s blurb.

Object-oriented Design Knowledge

Object-Oriented Design Knowledge: Principles, Heuristics and Best Practices provides a unified and global vision about the lesser-defined areas of micro-architectural design knowledge, exposing the main techniques, experiences, and methods in order to help researchers apply these concepts. Understanding the experiences presented in this book will help readers correctly apply design knowledge. – Publisher’s blurb.

Multimedia Transcoding in Mobile and Wireless Networks

Provides readers with relevant theoretical frameworks and latest technical and institutional solutions for transcoding multimedia in mobile and wireless networks. Addresses the transcoding of all multimedia elements including video, audio and text, while addressing both practical and theoretical problems in the field. – Publisher’s blurb.

Mobile Multimedia Communications

Mobile Multimedia Communications captures defining research on all aspects and implications of the accelerated progress of mobile multimedia technologies. Topics include fundamental network infrastructures, modern communication features such as wireless and mobile multimedia protocols, personal communication systems, mobility and resource management, and security and privacy issues. – Publisher’s blurb.

Mathematical Methods for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Mathematical Methods for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining focuses on the mathematical models and methods that support most data mining applications and solution techniques, covering such topics as association rules; Bayesian methods; data visualization; kernel methods; neural networks; text, speech, and image recognition. – Publisher’s blurb.

Enhancing Learning Through Human Computer Interaction

Enhancing Learning Through Human Computer Interaction is a manual for the novice-Human Computer Interaction (HCI) designer. Compares and contrasts online business training programs with e-Learning in the higher education sector and provides a range of positive outcomes for linking information management techniques, which exploit the educational benefits of Web-mediated learning in computer supported collaborative learning. – Publisher’s blurb.

Northwestern Unversity Library now has access to four new computer science ebooks.

Design Patterns Formalization Techniques

Focuses on formalizing the solution element of patterns, providing tangible benefits to pattern users, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners and students working in the field of design patterns and software reuse; it explains details on several specification languages, allowing readers to choose the most suitable formal technique to solve their specific inquiries. – Publisher’s blurb.

Designing for Networked Communications

Explains how to plan, use, and understand the products and dynamic social processes and tasks some of the most vital innovations in the knowledge society depend upon – social as well as technological. Focuses on design, implementation and integration of computer mediated communication. – Publisher’s blurb.

Networked Communities : Strategies for Digital Collaboration

Networked Communities: Strategies for Digital Collaboration focuses on communities that have—or want to have—digital broadband capability and are eager to make maximum use of that capability for their citizens. – Publisher’s blurb.

Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining

The Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of concepts, issues, trends, and challenges in this rapidly expanding field of data warehousing and mining (DWM). This encyclopedia consists of more than 350 contributors from 32 countries, 1,800 terms and definitions, and more than 4,400 references. – Publisher’s blurb.

Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management

Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications provides a single record of current research and practical applications in industrial database modeling. This book discusses the major aspects of databases for industry: data modeling, database models, and database applications in information systems. – Publisher’s blurb.

Cryptography and Security Services : Mechanisms and Applications

Addresses cryptography from the perspective of security services and mechanisms available to implement them. Discusses issues such as e-mail security, public-key architecture, virtual private networks, Web services security, wireless security, and confidentiality and integrity. Provides a working knowledge of fundamental encryption algorithms and systems supported in information technology and secure communication networks. – Publisher’s blurb.