Social media mining has proven useful in multiple research fields as a tool for public opinion extraction and analysis. Such mining can discover knowledge from unstructured data in booming social media sources that provide instant public responses and ...

For courses in computer crime. A complete, easy-to-understand introduction to computer crime Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism is a comprehensive introduction to the acts and theories of cyber crime, cyber terrorism, and information warfare. Assuming no ...

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Today s applications are being built in new ways. The advent of service-oriented architectures, modern networking protocols and industry-standard components at all levels open seemingly endless possibilities for new applications and services. But these ...

A file is considered open when it may be accessed for reading, writing, or possibly both. It is considered closed when it cannot be so accessed. An open routine changes the state of a file from closed to open; a close routine does the opposite.

A physical (input-output) unit is an input-output device and its associated recording medium. Thus, tape drives, disk drives, drums, keyboards, and printers are all examples of physical units. A logical unit is a convenient abstraction of a physical ...

One of the earliest and most fundamental reasons for the initial development and subsequent growth of operating systems concerns the handling of input-output (I/O) operations. The transfer of responsibility for I/O operations from the programmer to the ...

A buffer is an area of storage that temporarily holds data that will be subsequently delivered to a processor or input-output (I/O) peripheral. Buffers exist as an integral part of many peripherals, e.g. bits arriving serially over a telephone line are ...

The DBTG [1] introduced two modes of set implementation--chain and pointer array. To review briefly, a set occurrence is an occurrence of the (unique) set owner along with zero or more occurrences of each of the set members. The mode of a set indicates ...