Author: Khalid SaeedKhalid Saeed;Jerzy Pejas;Romuald Mosd
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: intelligence, applications, artificial, systems, computer, security, biometrics
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-11-03
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0387362320
ISBN-13: 9780387362328

Authors:Jerzy Pejas, Jerzy Pejas, Khalid Saeed,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: protection, processing, information, advances
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2007-10-25
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0387731369
ISBN-13: 9780387731360

This book contains a selection of the best papers given at the Advanced Computer Systems Conference in October 2006 in Poland. The book is partitioned into four topical areas: The Artificial Intelligence section includes papers on Humatronics, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Cell, Genetic and Probabilistic Algorithms, Incomplete Data and Similarity Relations, and Fast Neural Networks. The Computer Security and Safety section covers a wide range of issues, from Error Detection in Block Ciphers to Visual Cryptography Methods. The Image Analysis, Graphics and Biometrics section deals with the ex

Authors:Jerzy Soldek, Khalid Saeed, Jerzy Pejas,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computer, engineering, science, series, springer, systems, advanced, international
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 079237651X
ISBN-13: 9780792376514

Advanced Computer Systems is a collection of forty selected papers presented to the Eighth International Conference on Computer Systems, October 2001 in Mielno, Poland. These papers provide a comprehensive summary of practice and research progress in information technologies: * Recognition, Security and Safety concentrates on the widely-known problems of information systems security. These chapters show the new cryptographic data protection algorithms, methods for recognition of individual biometric characteristics, which can be easily used in authorizing secure procedures for th

Authors:Abdullah Saeed, Hassan Saeed,
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: islam, apostasy, religion, freedom
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0754630838
ISBN-13: 9780754630838

Debate on freedom of religion as a human right takes place not only in the Western world but also in Muslim communities throughout the world. For Muslims concerned for this freedom, one of the major difficulties is the "punishment for apostasy" - death for those who desert Islam. This book argues that the law of apostasy and its punishment by death in Islamic law is untenable in the modern period. Apostasy conflicts with a variety of foundation texts of Islam and with the current ethos of human rights, in particular the freedom to choose one’s religion. Demonstrating the early developmen

Authors:Romuald J. Misiunas, Rein Taagepera,
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: dependence, years, states, baltic
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 1983-04
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520046250
ISBN-13: 9780520046252

In this updated edition of their renowned The Baltic States, Romuald Misiunas and Rein Taagepera bring the story of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia up to the 1990s. The authors describe and analyze how the Baltic nations survived fifty years of social disruption, language discrimination, and Russian colonialism. The nations’ histories are fully integrated and compared, and some notable differences between them are pointed out.With two new chapters, a revised preface, and an appendix on the end of Soviet domination, this expanded study covers a tumultuous period of political, economic, cul

Author: Saeed V. Vaseghi
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: noise, reduction, processing, signal, digital, advanced
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2009-03-11
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0470754060
ISBN-13: 9780470754061

Digital signal processing plays a central role in the development of modern communication and information processing systems. The theory and application of signal processing is concerned with the identification, modelling and utilisation of patterns and structures in a signal process. The observation signals are often distorted, incomplete and noisy and therefore noise reduction, the removal of channel distortion, and replacement of lost samples are important parts of a signal processing system. The fourth edition of Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction updates and

Author: John I. Saeed
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: linguistics, introducing, semantics
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-12-22
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1405156392
ISBN-13: 9781405156394

The third edition of this popular textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to semantics for students new to the field. Explores the basic concepts and methods of the field and discusses some of the most important contemporary lines of research Contains new solutions to chapter exercises in order to familiarize the student with the practice of semantic description Completely revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developments Includes new sections on classifiers and noun classes, as well as conceptual integration Book DescriptionThis book provides an engaging introdu