The Avalon Collection

The Avalon Collection

Author: Rachel Roberts

Publisher: CDS Books

Published: 2005-10-17

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9781593153205

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Collects three novels starring Emily, Adriane, and Kara as three friends who each have different tasks to perform in order to help the protetct the fairy realms from evil and war.


The Archived Web

The Archived Web

Author: Niels Brügger

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0262549719

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An original methodological framework for approaching the archived web, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right. As life continues to move online, the web becomes increasingly important as a source for understanding the past. But historians have yet to formulate a methodology for approaching the archived web as a source of study. How should the history of the present be written? In this book, Niels Brügger offers an original methodological framework for approaching the web of the past, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right. While many studies of the web focus solely on its use and users, Brügger approaches the archived web as a semiotic, textual system in order to offer the first book-length treatment of its scholarly use. While the various forms of the archived web can challenge researchers' interactions with it, they also present a range of possibilities for interpretation. The Archived Web identifies characteristics of the online web that are significant now for scholars, investigates how the online web became the archived web, and explores how the particular digitality of the archived web can affect a historian's research process. Brügger offers suggestions for how to translate traditional historiographic methods for the study of the archived web, focusing on provenance, creating an overview of the archived material, evaluating versions, and citing the material. The Archived Web lays the foundations for doing web history in the digital age, offering important and timely guidance for today's media scholars and tomorrow's historians.


Dark Web

Dark Web

Author: Hsinchun Chen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-12-16

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 146141556X

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The University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab (AI Lab) Dark Web project is a long-term scientific research program that aims to study and understand the international terrorism (Jihadist) phenomena via a computational, data-centric approach. We aim to collect "ALL" web content generated by international terrorist groups, including web sites, forums, chat rooms, blogs, social networking sites, videos, virtual world, etc. We have developed various multilingual data mining, text mining, and web mining techniques to perform link analysis, content analysis, web metrics (technical sophistication) analysis, sentiment analysis, authorship analysis, and video analysis in our research. The approaches and methods developed in this project contribute to advancing the field of Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). Such advances will help related stakeholders to perform terrorism research and facilitate international security and peace. This monograph aims to provide an overview of the Dark Web landscape, suggest a systematic, computational approach to understanding the problems, and illustrate with selected techniques, methods, and case studies developed by the University of Arizona AI Lab Dark Web team members. This work aims to provide an interdisciplinary and understandable monograph about Dark Web research along three dimensions: methodological issues in Dark Web research; database and computational techniques to support information collection and data mining; and legal, social, privacy, and data confidentiality challenges and approaches. It will bring useful knowledge to scientists, security professionals, counterterrorism experts, and policy makers. The monograph can also serve as a reference material or textbook in graduate level courses related to information security, information policy, information assurance, information systems, terrorism, and public policy.


The Web as History

The Web as History

Author: Niels Brügger

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2017-03-06

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 191130755X

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The World Wide Web has now been in use for more than 20 years. From early browsers to today’s principal source of information, entertainment and much else, the Web is an integral part of our daily lives, to the extent that some people believe ‘if it’s not online, it doesn’t exist.’ While this statement is not entirely true, it is becoming increasingly accurate, and reflects the Web’s role as an indispensable treasure trove. It is curious, therefore, that historians and social scientists have thus far made little use of the Web to investigate historical patterns of culture and society, despite making good use of letters, novels, newspapers, radio and television programmes, and other pre-digital artefacts.This volume argues that now is the time to ask what we have learnt from the Web so far. The 12 chapters explore this topic from a number of interdisciplinary angles – through histories of national web spaces and case studies of different government and media domains – as well as an introduction that provides an overview of this exciting new area of research.


Intelligence and Security Informatics

Intelligence and Security Informatics

Author: Hsinchun Chen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-03-10

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 3540333622

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, WISI 2006, held in Singapore in conjunction with the 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. The 32 papers presented together with the abstract of the keynote talk were carefully reviewed. The papers are organized in sections on Web and text mining for terrorism informatics, cybercrime analysis, network security, and crime data mining.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC / Lightroom 6 Book

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC / Lightroom 6 Book

Author: Martin Evening

Publisher: Adobe Press

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 1648

ISBN-13: 013392923X

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, offering powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. In this completely updated bestseller, author Martin Evening describes features in Lightroom CC (2015 Release)/ Lightroom 6 in detail from a photographer's perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows firsthand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product's development and providing valued feedback to Adobe. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing and image management. In this book he'll teach you how to: • Work efficiently with images shot in raw or JPEG formats • Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow • Create and manage a personal image and video library • Quickly apply tonal adjustments to multiple images • Integrate Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop • Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal portfolios • Make the most of new features in Lightroom CC / Lightroom 6 such as face recognition, multi-image processing for HDR and panoramas, GPU support for the Develop module, and Slideshow and Web improvements Photographers will find Lightroom CC / Lightroom 6 and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC / Lightroom 6 Book indispensable tools in their digital darkrooms. “With Martin’s expert guidance, you’ll soon find that you have precisely the tools you need to turn your concentration back where it belongs–on making better pictures!” –George Jardine, digital photography consultant “As a photographer himself, Martin Evening knows what tools photographers need to realize their creative vision. In this book, he shows not only how Adobe Photoshop Lightroom works but also why it will become an essential part of any photographer’s workflow.” –Greg Gorman, photographer


Intelligence and Security Informatics

Intelligence and Security Informatics

Author: Paul Kantor

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-04-25

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 3540320636

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Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) can be broadly defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national and international security-related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy-based approach. In the past few years, ISI research has experienced tremendous growth and attracted substantial interest from academic researchers in related fields as well as practitioners from both government agencies and industry. The first two meetings (ISI 2003 and ISI 2004) in the ISI symposium and conference series were held in Tucson, Arizona, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. They provided a stimulating intellectual forum for discussion among previously disparate communities: academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, and social studies; local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts; and information technology industry consultants and practitioners. Building on the momentum of these ISI meetings and with sponsorship by the IEEE, we held the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005) in May 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to the established and emerging ISI research topics covered at past ISI meetings, ISI 2005 included a new track on Terrorism Informatics, which is a new stream of terrorism research leveraging the latest advances in social science methodologies, and information technologies and tools. ISI 2005 was jointly hosted by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; the University of Arizona (UA); and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH).


Cataloging the Web

Cataloging the Web

Author: Wayne Jones

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780810841437

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These papers, presented at ALCTS' July 2000 Preconference on Metadata for Web Resources by a virtual who's who of the digital world, provide a timely overview of the challenges and difficulties of bringing order to a most unruly medium. Topics range from carefully considered viewpoints to possible standards to actual how-to's.


Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence

Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence

Author: Bob Orchard

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-05-07

Total Pages: 1293

ISBN-13: 3540220070

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2004, held in Ottawa, Canada, in May 2004. The 129 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural networks, bioinformatics, data mining, general applications, autonomous agents, intelligent systems, knowledge processing and NLP, intelligent user interfaces, evolutionary computing, fuzzy logic, human-roboter interaction, computer vision and image processing, machine learning and case-based reasoning, heuristic search, security, Internet applications, planning and scheduling, constraint satisfaction, e-learning, expert systems, applications to design, machine learning, and image processing.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

Author: David Huss

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2008-11-11

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1136099891

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First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.