Telecommunication Systems and Technologies theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Telecommunication systems are emerging as the most important infrastructure asset to enable business, economic opportunities, information distribution, culture dissemination and cross-fertilization, and social relationships. As any crucial infrastructure, its design, exploitation, maintenance, and evolution require multi-faceted know-how and multi-disciplinary vision skills. The theme is structured in four main topics: Fundamentals of Communication and Telecommunication Networks; Telecommunication Technologies; Management of Telecommunication Systems/Services; Cross-Layer Organizational Aspects of Telecommunications, which are then expanded into multiple subtopics, each as a chapter. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs
The proliferation of powerful but cheap devices, together with the availability of a plethora of wireless technologies, has pushed for the spread of the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT), which is typically much more heterogeneous, dynamic, and general-purpose if compared with the traditional IoT. The WIoT is characterized by the dynamic interaction of traditional infrastructure-side devices, e.g., sensors and actuators, provided by municipalities in Smart City infrastructures, and other portable and more opportunistic ones, such as mobile smartphones, opportunistically integrated to dynamically extend and enhance the WIoT environment. A key enabler of this vision is the advancement of software and middleware technologies in various mobile-related sectors, ranging from the effective synergic management of wireless communications to mobility/adaptivity support in operating systems and differentiated integration and management of devices with heterogeneous capabilities in middleware, from horizontal support to crowdsourcing in different application domains to dynamic offloading to cloud resources, only to mention a few. The book presents state-of-the-art contributions in the articulated WIoT area by providing novel insights about the development and adoption of middleware solutions to enable the WIoT vision in a wide spectrum of heterogeneous scenarios, ranging from industrial environments to educational devices. The presented solutions provide readers with differentiated point of views, by demonstrating how the WIoT vision can be applied to several aspects of our daily life in a pervasive manner.
This book contains the extended versions of 33 papers selected among those originally presented at the Sixth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA). The congress of the AI*IA is the most relevant Italian event in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and has been receiving much attention from many researchers and practitioners of different countries. The sixth congress was held in Bologna, 14-17 September 1999, and was organized in twelve scientific sessions and one demo session. The papers here collected report on significant work carried out in different areas of artificial intelligence, in Italy and other countries. Areas such as automated reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, and machine learning continue to be thoroughly investigated. The collection also shows a growing interest in the field of multi-agent systems, perception and robotics, and temporal reasoning. Many people contributed in different ways to the success of the congress and to this volume. First of all, the members of the program committee who efficiently handled the reviewing of the 64 papers submitted to the congress, and later on the reviewing of the 41 papers submitted for publication in this volume. They provided three reviews for each manuscript, by relying on the support of valuable additional reviewers. The members of the organizing committee, namely Rosangela Barruffi, Paolo Bellavista, Anna Ciampolini, Marco Cremonini, Enrico Denti, Marco Gavanelli, Mauro Gaspari, Michela Milano, Rebecca Montanari, Andrea Omicini, Fabrizio Riguzzi, Cesare Stefanelli, and Paolo Torroni, worked hardy supporting at solving problems during and after the congress.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2006, held in Bologna, Italy, June 2006. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. Among the topics addressed are component connectors, negotiation in service-oriented computing, process algebraic specification, workflow patterns, reactive XML, ubiquitous coordination, type systems, ad-hoc network coordination, choreography, communication coordination, and distributed embedded systems.
La tranquillità di un piccolo centro rurale viene scossa da una efferata e sanguinosa rapina in villa. Stesa a terra non rimane la vittima prescelta, bensì uno dei predoni, sospettato di appartenere a una delle tante bande che scorrazzano nel Bel Paese nella quasi assoluta impunità. Gerry Donati, un investigatore privato, viene incaricato di recuperare il cospicuo bottino che i compari del morto sono riusciti a portar via. Con l’ausilio di un singolare collaboratore, indaga mettendo a nudo vizi e debolezze di una società perbenista e tranquilla solo in apparenza, scoprendo scomode e insospettabili verità. La vicenda si svolge nella cornice della ricca provincia veneta, nella quale i radicati costumi locali si intrecciano con le problematiche ormai globali dei nostri tempi.
Gianluca e Jaqueline sono due anime in cerca di significato. Lui trentacinquenne milanese insoddisfatto della sua vita frivola, lei giovane madre parigina, combattiva e dedita al lavoro. Incontratisi per caso durante una convention vengono catturati da una inaspettata attrazione reciproca. Un amore complicato è una storia d'amore itinerante, intensa e struggente, che catturerà il cuore del lettore fino all'ultima pagina, portandolo a riflettere sull'importanza delle scelte, sulla crescita personale e sulla forza dell'amore nel superare le sfide che la vita ci pone davanti.
The best of Italian cooking as it has been passed down to us, with a breath of innovation. 280 recipes to get to know a culinary tradition that is certainly old but still up-to-date, both varied and simple, rich but at the same time easy to prepare. All recipes are illustrated and were selected and adapted to today's demands and tastes by professional Italian cooks. A whole chapter is dedicated to one-course dishes to offer a modem choice to people who look for original solutions within tradition.
Web che funziona. Guida ai fondamenti del marketing digitale", di Paolo Maffei a cura di Roberto Lo Jacono. Internet ha da tempo introdotto nuove regole nel mondo della comunicazione, del marketing e, più in generale, del "fare impresa". Le aziende, di fronte alle possibilità comunicative offerte dai nuovi media, si trovano spesso in difficoltà non solo nel capire come utilizzarle, come valutare gli investimenti, nel comprendere i principi del monitoraggio, i key performance indicators e nel definire le eventuali azioni correttive. Per evitare spese inutili, rischi eccessivi o approcci riduttivi, occorre cogliere gli elementi alla base di queste nuove regole in modo da poter effettuare scelte più autonome e consapevoli. Questo libro vi fornisce gli elementi necessari per comprendere le dinamiche alla base del marketing digitale, che sia esso rivolto alle aziende o che sia utile alla promozione di noi stessi;-)
Questo è un diario del viaggiatore 2.0: quello dei computer portatili, dei blog, del WiFi, delle reflex digitali, ma soprattutto del COUCHSURFING, un modo tutto nuovo, interessante ed economico di viaggiare. Un anno in Estonia, cinque mesi a Tenerife, passando per viaggi in Lettonia, Lituania, Polonia, Repubblica Ceca, Russia, Svezia, Marocco e Sahara Occidentale. Ma tutto ebbe inizio da un anno di Erasmus. Che ti cambia la vita.
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