Assignment Groom

Will she stop a wedding scandal or create one? It’s a huge society wedding—a whole weekend’s worth—but the groom’s dogged by doubts. The bride’s pushy mother commands her harried assistant, Anne, to keep him in line, unaware that she’s his ex-girlfriend. As for Anne, feelings she believed dead are stirring to life. Does Eric share them? And if he does, how much of a wedding catastrophe are they going to wreak? Romantic Times magazine gave Assignment: Groom! a four-star review. Reviewer Debbie Richardson said, “Jacqueline Diamond delivers a wonderful romance of reconciliation and combines it with a quirky cast of characters.” Don’t miss this hilarious romantic comedy by the USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Wore Gym Shoes and The Would-Be Mommy.

This book provides coverage of survivability and traffic grooming; two key issues in modern optical networks.

This book presents the practical motivation, theoretical description, and extant techniques for traffic grooming in optical networks. The description of the various topics of research will be authored by leading researchers in this area, and will contain comprehensive description of related literature for each area. This book is intended to be a definitive reference and text for traffic grooming both for the practitioner in industry and the student in academia.

Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) tech nology offer the promise to satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the Inter net infrastructure, and provide a scalable solution to support the bandwidth needs of future applications in the local and wide areas. In a waveleng- routed network, an optical channel, referred to as a lightpath, is set up between two network nodes for communication. Using WDM technology, an optical fiber link can support multiple non-overlapping wavelength channels, each of which can be operated at the data rate of 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps today. On the other hand, only a fraction of customers are expected to have a need for such a high bandwidth. Due to the large cost of the optical backbone infrastruc ture and enormous WDM channel capacity, connection requests with diverse low-speed bandwidth requirements need to be efficiently groomed onto hi- capacity wavelength channels. This book investigates the optimized design, provisioning, and performance analysis of traffic-groomable WDM networks, and proposes and evaluates new WDM network architectures. Organization of the Book Significant amount of research effort has been devoted to traffic grooming in SONET/WDM ring networks since the current telecom networks are mainly deployed in the form of ring topologies or interconnected rings. As the long-haul backbone networks are evolving to irregular mesh topologies, traffic grooming in optical WDM mesh networks becomes an extremely important and practical research topic for both industry and academia.

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She just woke up in bed with her worst enemy! What’s her next move? Rival magazine editors Belle and Darryl wage a fierce, funny and public battle of wits. She skewers his arrogance, while he delights in needling her. Then someone spikes the punch at a party and...oops! They’re determined never to mention this again. But the joke has a punchline: there’s a little person due in nine months. When their secret goes viral, their clash goes nuclear! Can enemies become friends as well as co-parents? USA Today Bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond won a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for her heartwarming, hilarious romantic comedies. Welcome to the first book in her Scoundrels in Love trilogy!

The proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications 2015 (FICTA 2015) serves as the knowledge centre not only for scientists and researchers in the field of intelligent computing but also for students of post-graduate level in various engineering disciplines. The book covers a comprehensive overview of the theory, methods, applications and tools of Intelligent Computing. Researchers are now working in interdisciplinary areas and the proceedings of FICTA 2015 plays a major role to accumulate those significant works in one arena. The chapters included in the proceedings inculcates both theoretical as well as practical aspects of different areas like Nature Inspired Algorithms, Fuzzy Systems, Data Mining, Signal Processing, Image processing, Text Processing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Network Security and Cellular Automata.

Is this her chance for revenge or for true love? Laura’s play about magical glass slippers that make people fall for the wrong person has scored a major production—directed by the charming rogue who once broke her heart. In a surprise twist, her play casts a romantic spell over everyone connected with it—including her and Jared. Does he deserve a second chance, or should Laura turn the tables on him? Don’t miss this zany, unpredictable romantic comedy by the USA Today bestselling author of Designer Genes and The Would-Be Mommy..