The Lawyer's Guide to Family Business Succession Planning
by Gregory Monday
Web and Communication Technologies and Internetrelated Social Issues Hsi 2005 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #3597)
by Shinji Shimojo
The Internet has now become an integral part of everyday life for hundreds of millions of people around the world. The uses of the Internet have augmented commerce, communication, education, governance, entertainment, health care, etc. E-mail has become an indispensable part of life; the Web has become an indispensable source of information on just about everything; people now use governmentWebsitestoreceiveinstructionsandinformation,and?lepaperwork with the government; many major online busines...
Innovation and Liability in Biotechnology
by Stuart J. Smyth, A. Bryan Endres, Thomas P Redick, and Drew L. Kershen
`If only one thing could be said about this book is that it comes at the perfect time and fills a great void on the subject it addresses. Genetically Modified Organisms are innovative - so have to be the answers to the legal questions raised by their development: What should be the definition of damage? Who should be held liable? Where should claims be brought? The Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety have been discussing these issues for many years and are now ready to give some answe...
Innovative Governance Models for Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies create challenges for traditional regulatory approaches. The contributors to this book - leading scholars in law, innovation, and technology - address the need for new governance methods and models. The unique characteristics of emerging technologies - their diverse applications, the myriad concerns raised by new technologies, the need for public engagement, and the issue of effective coordination between governance players - create the need for new governance approaches....
The First International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) was held in Albany from September 30 to October 2, 2009. The field of digital for- sics is growing rapidly with implications for several fields including law enforcement, network security, disaster recovery and accounting. This is a multidisciplinary area that requires expertise in several areas including, law, computer science, finance, networking, data mining, and criminal justice. This conference brought together...
Law and the Management of Disasters (Law, Science and Society)
Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. When dealing with disasters, law has traditionally focused on contingency planning and recovery. More recently, however, ‘resilience’ has emerged as a key concept in effective disaster management policies and strategies, aiming at minimising the impact of events, so that the normal functioning of soci...
Applications and Techniques in Information Security (Communications in Computer and Information Science, #651)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2019, held in Tamil Nadul, India, in November 2019.The 22 full papers and 2 short papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: information security; network security; intrusion detection system; authentication and key management system; security centr...
An FBI futurist and senior advisor to Interpol analyzes the digital underground to reveal the alarming ways criminals, corporations and countries are using emerging technologies to target individuals and wage war.
Technical, Social, and Legal Issues in Virtual Communities: Emerging Environments examines a variety of issues related to virtual communities and social networking, addressing issues related to team identification, leader-member issues, social networking for education, participation in social networks, and other issues directly related to this eclectic field of study. This publication provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, human, and cognitive...
Software Similarity and Classification (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Silvio Cesare and Yang Xiang
Software similarity and classification is an emerging topic with wide applications. It is applicable to the areas of malware detection, software theft detection, plagiarism detection, and software clone detection. Extracting program features, processing those features into suitable representations, and constructing distance metrics to define similarity and dissimilarity are the key methods to identify software variants, clones, derivatives, and classes of software. Software Similarity and Classi...
Big Digital Forensic Data (SpringerBriefs on Cyber Security Systems and Networks)
by Darren Quick and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
This book provides an in-depth understanding of big data challenges to digital forensic investigations, also known as big digital forensic data. It also develops the basis of using data mining in big forensic data analysis, including data reduction, knowledge management, intelligence, and data mining principles to achieve faster analysis in digital forensic investigations. By collecting and assembling a corpus of test data from a range of devices in the real world, it outlines a process of big d...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Security and Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2017, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2017. The 34 full and 14 short papers presented together with 9 papers from the SocialSec Track in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers cover topics such as blockchain, asymmetric encryption, symmetric encryption, lattice-based cryptography, searchable encryption, signatu...
Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems (Law, Science and Society)
by Tiina Paloniitty
This book addresses the role of law in the adaptive management of socio-ecological systems. Recent years have witnessed a rise in discussion over the relation between adaptivity and law, as if after decades of insouciance, legal scholars have finally started to understand the impacts of the scientific paradigm called ‘adaptive management’ on the legal sphere. Even though the complicated relations between law and the adaptive management of socio-ecological systems have become more debated, a tho...
This book contains a selection of thoroughly refereed and revised papers from the Second International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2010, held October 4-6, 2010 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The field of digital forensics is becoming increasingly important for law enforcement, network security, and information assurance. It is a multidisciplinary area that encompasses a number of fields, including law, computer science, finance, networking, data mining, and...
Murderers, Psychopaths, and Paedophiles - Their mention strikes dread and disgust into the heart of a nation, and the crimes committed by such individuals are of a nature more horrendous than any other. Their hideous acts of violence and abuse are unimaginably cruel, and the more disturbed and desperate we become for the killers to be brought to justice.Yet the extremely calculated nature of the crimes and their perpetrators means that evidence is often so thin on the ground that many cases end...
Information Systems Security (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #10717) (Security and Cryptology, #10717)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2017, held in Mumbai, India, in December 2017. The 17 revised full papers and 7 short papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers address the following topics: privacy/cryptography, systems security, security analysis, identity management and access control, security attacks and detection, network se...
Graphical Models for Security (Security and Cryptology, #11086)
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 5th International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, GraMSec 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018. The 7 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk. The contributions deal with the latest research and developments on graphical models for security.
Perspectives on Digital Humanism
This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated lecture series. Digital Humanism deals with the complex relationships between people and machines in di...
Cyberspace Safety and Security (Security and Cryptology, #11161)
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2018, held in Amalfi, Italy, in October 2018. The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers focus on cybersecurity; cryptography, data security, and biometric techniques; and social security, ontologies, and smart applications.
Harmonization of Food Standards Based on Risk Analysis
Harmonization of Food Standards Based on Risk Analysis presents a quantitative approach to establishing acceptable daily intake (ADI) levels of residues, contaminants and pathogenic microorganisms to protect consumer health and safety and address the issue of food waste that contributes to the growing issue of food insecurity. While an increasing number of food standards exist for maximum levels of presence through risk analysis procedures, differences in regulated acceptance standards still per...
There is a growing awareness that an understanding of international plant health agreements and protocol is essential in the increasingly free-trade environment of today, and that administrative methods of plant pest control are important in crop production. However, there has been no recent book, which introduces students and practitioners to the subject of plant health and quarantine. This book fills this gap.