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FIT academic authors receive PROSE award Honourable Mention

The recently released book Mobile Intelligence has received an Honorable Mention by the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards). Two of the co-authors included IT researcher Dr Agustinus Borgy Waluyo and Professor Bala Srinivasan from the Clayton School of Information Technology.

The PROSE Awards were founded in 1976 and sponsored by Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The AAP is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry. It has more than 300 members which include most of the major commercial publishers in the United States, as well as smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses and scholarly societies.

The PROSE Awards are judged by a distinguished panel of peer publishers, librarians, academics and medical professionals, annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories.

The 2010 PROSE Awards received 491 entries, which is more than ever before in its 35-year history from more than 60 professional and scholarly publishers.

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Mobile Intelligence book cover (click to enlarge)Mobile Intelligence covers state-of-the-art computational intelligence approaches to mobile paradigm. The combination of these two disciplines creates powerful and indispensable methods of analyzing a variety of problems in mobile computing research such as network routing, mobility, query processing, energy efficiency, location analysis and tracking, security/privacy, wireless channel utilization and small screen size.

The research outcomes and knowledge presented in this book provide substantial means to bring the true potential of mobile computing. This has long been awaited by many academic and industry practitioners including researchers, engineers and developers.

The contents of this book are classified into seven research domain namely: Mobile Data and Intelligence, Location-Based Mobile Information Services, Mobile Mining, Mobile Context-aware and Applications, Mobile Intelligence Security, Mobile Multimedia, and Intelligent Network.

Readers of this book will not only learn different areas of mobile computing and its issues but also various intelligent approaches for addressing these issues as well.