Springer (9-2010) | PDF | 380 pages | 3642032958 | 2.4Mb

Quantum Private Communication /by Guihua Zeng. Quantum Private Communication covers the fundamentals of the areas of secure communication, quantum cryptography, quantum communication, and their physical implementation with applications. The book appears in a timely manner for an emerging field at the crossroad of classic private communication and quantum physics. 
Graduate students and scientists alike in communication engineering, computer science, electronic engineering, physics and mathematics will benefit from the book. 
Professor Guihua Zeng teaches and conducts research at the Department of Electronic Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and spent an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Springer | 2010 | PDF | 204 pages | ISBN: 3642167667 | 3.5Mb

Design Methodologies for Secure Embedded Systems /by Alexander Biedermann, Gregor H Molter. Embedded systems have been almost invisibly pervading our daily lives for several decades. They facilitate smooth operations in avionics, automotive electronics, or telecommunication. 
New problems arise by the increasing employment, interconnection, and communication of embedded systems in heterogeneous environments: How secure are these embedded systems against attacks or breakdowns? Therefore, how can embedded systems be designed to be more secure? How can embedded systems autonomically react to threats? Facing these questions, Sorin A. Huss is significantly involved in the exploration of design methodologies for secure embedded systems. This Festschrift is dedicated to him and his research on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Automatic Digital Document Processing and Management: Problems, Algorithms and Techniques /by Stefano Ferilli. Computer-readable documents have become ubiquitous in everyday life - from legacy documents that have been digitized, to new documents that have been created electronically. As the number of electronic documents continues to grow, so does the importance of digital methods for processing and managing these documents.

This comprehensive text/reference provides a broad review of the issues involved in handling and processing digital documents. Examining the full range of a document's lifetime, the book covers acquisition, representation, security, pre-processing, layout analysis, understanding, analysis of single components, information extraction, filing, indexing and retrieval. A background knowledge of the area is not required, beyond familiarity with basic concepts of computer science and mathematics; deeper technical content is provided in discrete subsections that are not essential for an understanding of other parts of the book.

Addison-W. 2/ed (12-2010) | PDF | 850 pages | 0321601661 | 2.4Mb

The Rails 3 Way, 2nd Edition /by Obie Fernandez. Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value via clean and maintainable code. The Rails™ 3 Way is the only comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails 3. Pioneering Rails expert Obie Fernandez and a team of leading experts illuminate the entire Rails 3 API, along with the idioms, design approaches, and libraries that make developing applications with Rails so powerful. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience and track record, they address the real challenges development teams face, showing how to use Rails 3 to maximize your productivity. 
Using numerous detailed code examples, the author systematically covers Rails 3 key capabilities and subsystems, making this book a reference that you will turn to again and again. He presents advanced Rails programming techniques that have been proven effective in day-to-day usage on dozens of production Rails systems and offers important insights into behavior-driven development and production considerations such as scalability. Dive deep into the Rails 3 codebase and discover why Rails is designed the way it is—and how to make it do what you want it to do. 
This book will help you 
* Learn what’s new in Rails 3 
* Increase your productivity as a web application developer 
* Realize the overall joy in programming with Rails 
* Leverage Rails’ powerful capabilities for building REST-compliant APIs 
* Drive implementation and protect long-term maintainability using RSpec 
* Design and manipulate your domain layer using Active Record 
* Understand and program complex program flows using Action Controller 
* Master sophisticated URL routing concepts 
* Use Ajax techniques via Rails 3 support for unobtrusive JavaScript 
* Learn to extend Rails with popular gems and plugins, and how to write your own 
* Extend Rails with the best third-party plug-ins and write your own 
* Integrate email services into your applications with Action Mailer 
* Improve application responsiveness with background processing 
* Create your own non-Active Record domain classes using Active Model 
* Master Rails’ utility classes and extensions in Active Support