Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio, video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users without depending on a central server. Although originally popularized by unlicensed online music services such as Napster, P2P networking has recently emerged as a viable multimillion dollar business model for the distribution of information, telecommunications, and social networking. Written at an accessib...

Alpha entanglements, supernatural secrets, and heroines who bite back.Sink your teeth into three full-length werewolf urban fantasy novels packed with slow-burn romance, hidden magic, and fated mates gone rogue:Matebranded: Infiltrating a rotten pack is easy for petite enforcer Elspeth—until she forms a fated mate bond with the alpha werewolf she’s meant to take down.Full Moon Saloon: Fox shifter Kira is clawing her way up the ladd...

Alpha entanglements, supernatural secrets, and heroines who bite back.Sink your teeth into three full-length werewolf urban fantasy novels packed with slow-burn romance, hidden magic, and fated mates gone rogue:Matebranded: Infiltrating a rotten pack is easy for petite enforcer Elspeth—until she forms a fated mate bond with the alpha werewolf she’s meant to take down.Full Moon Saloon: Fox shifter Kira is clawing her way up the ladd...

Blame it on Hawaii’s rainbows, sparkling beaches, fruity cocktails, and sensuous breezes. For Heather Diamond, there for a summer course on China, a sea change began when romance bloomed with Fred, an ethnomusicologist from Hong Kong. Returning to her teaching job in Texas, Heather wonders if the whirlwind affair was a moment of madness. She is, after all, forty-five years old, married, a mother and grandmother.Rabbit in the Moon follows Heather and Fred’s relationship as well as H...

Presents the state of the technology and points to future directions for semantic computingSemantic computing, a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field, seeks to structure, design, and manipulate computer content to better satisfy the needs and intentions of users and create a more meaningful user experience. This remarkable contributed work examines the art, engineering, technology, and applications of the field. Moreover, it brings together researchers from suc...