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50/- ` Cover Story Cover Story Building Electronic Libraries: BOOKFACE - A Facebook of Books 12 Issues and Challenges 7 ISSN 0970-647X | Volume No. 36 | Issue No. 12 | March 2013 12 | March 36 | Issue No. No. | Volume 0970-647X ISSN Technical Trend A Concept & Approach for Open Frequent Flyer Program (OFFP) 15 Article Practical Aspects of Implementing Newton-Raphson on Computers 17 Cover Story Security Corner Emergence of e-libraries Among Information Security » South-Asian Countries: Critical Software Agreements in India – Issues and Concerns 10 Points to Ponder 28 www.csi-india.org www.csi-india.org CSI Communications | March 2013 | 1 CSI Communications - Call for Articles for forthcoming issues The cover themes for forthcoming issues of CSI Communications are: • April 2013 - Big Data • May 2013 - Cryptography • June 2013 - Social Networking • July 2013 - e-Business/ e-Commerce • August 2013 - Software Project Management • September 2013 - High Performance Computing (Future topics will be announced on an ongoing basis) The Editorial Board of CSI Communications is looking for high quality technical articles for diff erent columns pertaining to the above themes or emerging and current interests. The articles should cover all aspects of computing, information and communication technologies that should be of interest to readers at large and member fraternity of CSI and around. The articles may be long (2500-3000 words) or short (1000-1500 words) authored in as the original text (plagiarism is strictly prohibited). The articles shall be peer reviewed by experts decided by the Editorial Board and the selected ones shall be published. Both theoretical and practice based articles are welcome. The articles and contributions may be submitted in the following categories: Cover Story, Research Front, Technical Trends, and Article. CIOs/Senior IT/IS personnel/consultants of the companies managing technologies/projects related to the cover themes are welcome to contribute under the CIO (Managing Technology) section. Similarly, HR Senior Managers/Personnel/Consultants are invited to contribute under HR section. Also, Letters to the Editors, questions to be answered in Ask an Expert, your experience to share some Programming Tips under the Practitioner Workbench: Programming.Tips() are welcome. How to submit the contributions: The articles may be sent to the CSI Editorial Board via email [email protected]. Article Submission guidelines: • All manuscripts should be written at the level of the general audience of varied level of members. • Equations and mathematical expressions within articles are not recommended, however, if absolutely necessary, should be minimum. • List of references is preferred. List not more than 10 references at the end of your manuscript. Please don’t include any embedded reference numbers within the text of your article. If you would to like to refer, you may state names in the text and provide full reference at the end. The reference must state the names of the authors, title, publisher’s name, complete publication reference with month and year. Web URLs should be there for website references with accessed date. • Figures and Images used should be limited to maximum of three (only high resolution images need to be sent, and the image needs to be sent separately also). • Only MS-Word and PDF submissions are allowed. • Include a brief biography of four to six lines for each author with author picture (high resolution) • Editors will edit the contents as felt necessary • Authors of selected articles will be notifi ed by the editorial board and copyright transfer form needs to be fi lled up by the authors. • Only original contributions are requested and no plagiarism is allowed. Please note that months for various cover themes are tentative and may change depending on prevailing circumstances. (Issued on behalf of the Editors of CSI Communications) Plagiarism Alert for Prospective Authors The Editorial Team of CSI Communications is appalled by the commit such unprofessional act, seem large number of cases of plagiarism in articles submitted to it, to be unaware that it is an extremely for consideration of publication. A number of rejections had simple matter for the editors (or to be done in recent months wherein cases of verbatim copy anyone) to verify plagiarism. In most of published material with author list alone changed, has cases, a deft Googling will reveal the been noted. This alert is being published in view of the highly sources instantaneously. Plagiarism concerning situation. is easy to do and also easy to detect. Plagiarism in the present context is - use in part or whole Prospective authors are requested of other published articles with or without citing. Even with to take extreme care in avoiding intentional citation, pasting huge chunks of text authored by others and non-intentional forms of plagiarism, is not admissible (the only exception being demarcated thereby saving time for them as well as for the editors. CSI quotes when situation warrants). Plagiarism is against Communications is committed to upholding ethical practices professional ethics and the editorial team has no option in publishing and hence would continue to take serious view but to recommend black listing for lifetime of the authors, of plagiarism. committing plagiarism. It is very surprising that those, who CSI-C Editorial Team CSI Communications Contents Volume No. 36 • Issue No. 12 • March 2013 Editorial Board Cover Story Deep Web Building Electronic Libraries: Manish Kumar, Dr. M Hanumanthappa, 23 and Dr. T V Suresh Kumar Chief Editor Issues and Challenges Dr. R M Sonar 7 Rachna Patnaik Practitioner Workbench Editors Emergence of e-libraries Among Programming.Tips() » Dr. Debasish Jana 10 South-Asian Countries: 26 Fun with ‘C’ programs – Dr. Achuthsankar Nair Critical Issues and Concerns comprehending the Dr. Sudhanshu Joshi and Dr. Manu Sharma localization support Resident Editor Wallace Jacob Mrs. Jayshree Dhere BOOKFACE - A Facebook of Books Binimol MC and Remya Krishnan 12 Security Corner Information Security » Technical Trend 28 Software Agreements in India – A Concept & Approach for Open Points to Ponder Published by Frequent Flyer Program (OFFP) Adv. Prashant Mali Executive Secretary 15 Rudranil Dasgupta and Diptiman Dasgupta Mr. Suchit Gogwekar IT Act 2000 » For Computer Society of India 30 Prof. IT Law in Conversation with Articles Mr. IT Executive – Similarities Design, Print and Practical Aspects of Implementing between technology and law; need Dispatch by Newton-Raphson on Computers for collaboration Issue No. 12 CyberMedia Services Limited 17 Dr. Pramod Koparkar Mr. Subramaniam Vutha Five Key Considerations for an Information Security Defender 21 Avinash Kadam PLUS Please note: CSI Communications is published by Computer Brain Teaser Society of India, a non-profi t organization. Dr. Debasish Jana 31 Views and opinions expressed in the CSI Communications are those of individual authors, Ask an Expert contributors and advertisers and they may 32 diff er from policies and offi cial statements of Dr. Debasish Jana CSI. These should not be construed as legal or professional advice. The CSI, the publisher, the Happenings@ICT: ICT News Briefs in February 2013 editors and the contributors are not responsible H R Mohan 33 for any decisions taken by readers on the basis of these views and opinions. CSI Report Although every care is being taken to ensure Mr. Ravi Eppaturi 34 genuineness of the writings in this publication, CSI Communications does not attest to the CSI Report originality of the respective authors’ content. Dr. Dharm Singh, Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra and Ms. Ridhima Khemasra 36 © 2012 CSI. All rights reserved. Instructors are permitted to photocopy isolated CSI Report articles for non-commercial classroom use 37 without fee. For any other copying, reprint or Dr. M Sundaresan republication, permission must be obtained in writing from the Society. Copying for other CSI Report than personal use or internal reference, or of Mohan Datar 38 articles or columns not owned by the Society without explicit permission of the Society or the CSI News 41 copyright owner is strictly prohibited. Published by Suchit Gogwekar for Computer Society of India at Unit No. 3, 4th Floor, Samruddhi Venture Park, MIDC, Andheri (E), Mumbai-400 093. Tel. : 022-2926 1700 • Fax : 022-2830 2133 • Email : [email protected] Printed at GP Off set Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai 400 059. CSI Communications | March 2013 | 3 Know Your CSI Executive Committee (2012-13/14) » President Vice-President Hon. Secretary Mr. Satish Babu Prof. S V Raghavan Mr. S Ramanathan [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Hon. Treasurer Immd. 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