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The Art of Modelling Computational Systems: Essays Dedicated to Catuscia Palamidessi on the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11760)

​​This Festschrift was published in honor of Catuscia Palamidessi on the occasion of her 60th birthday.It features 6 laudations, which are available in the front matter of the volume, and 25 papers by close collaborators and friends. The papers are organized in topical sections named: concurrency; logic and constraint programming; security and privacy; and models and puzzles.These contributions are a tribute to Catuscia Palamidessi’s intellectual depth, vision, passion for science, and tenacity in solving technical problems. They also reflect the breadth and impact of her work. Her scientific interests include, in chronological order, principles of programming languages, concurrency theory, security, and privacy.

Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Big Data (Springer Series in the Data Sciences)

This book presents a variety of advanced statistical methods at a level suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as for others interested in familiarizing themselves with these important subjects. It proceeds to illustrate these methods in the context of real-life applications in a variety of areas such as genetics, medicine, and environmental problems. The book begins in Part I by outlining various data types and by indicating how these are normally represented graphically and subsequently analyzed. In Part II, the basic tools in probability and statistics are introduced with special reference to symbolic data analysis. The most useful and relevant results pertinent to this book are retained. In Part III, the focus is on the tools of machine learning whereas in Part IV the computational aspects of BIG DATA are presented. This book would serve as a handy desk reference for statistical methods at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as be useful in courses which aim to provide an overview of modern statistics and its applications.

Statistical Methods for Ranking Data (Frontiers in Probability and the Statistical Sciences)

This book introduces advanced undergraduate, graduate students and practitioners to statistical methods for ranking data. An important aspect of nonparametric statistics is oriented towards the use of ranking data. Rank correlation is defined through the notion of distance functions and the notion of compatibility is introduced to deal with incomplete data. Ranking data are also modeled using a variety of modern tools such as CART, MCMC, EM algorithm and factor analysis.This book deals with statistical methods used for analyzing such data and provides a novel and unifying approach for hypotheses testing. The techniques described in the book are illustrated with examples and the statistical software is provided on the authors’ website.

Social Networks and the Life Course: Integrating the Development of Human Lives and Social Relational Networks (Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research #2)

This volume engages the interface between the development of human lives and social relational networks. It focuses on the integration of two subfields of sociology/social science--the life course and social networks. Research practitioners studying social networks typically focus on social structure or social organization, ignoring the complex lives of the people in those networks. At the same time, life course researchers tend to focus on individual lives without necessarily studying the contexts of social relationships in which lives are embedded and “linked” to one another through social networks. These patterns are changing and this book creates an audience of researchers who will better integrate the two subfields. It covers the role of social networks across the life span, from childhood and adolescence, to midlife, through old age.

Progress in Cryptology – LATINCRYPT 2023: 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, LATINCRYPT 2023, Quito, Ecuador, October 3–6, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14168)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Progress in Cryptology, LATINCRYPT 2023, held in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2023. The 19 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Symmetric-Key Cryptography; Multi-Party Computation; Isogeny-Based Cryptography; Discrete Logarithm Problem; Cryptographic Protocols; Real-World Cryptography; and Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python.: Automate common administrative and security tasks with Python

Invent your own Python scripts to automate your infrastructureAbout This BookMake the most of Python libraries and modules to automate your infrastructureLeverage Python programming to automate server configurations and administration tasksEfficiently develop your Python skill setWho This Book Is ForHands-On Enterprise Automation with Python is for system administrators and DevOps engineers who are looking for an alternative to major automation frameworks such as Puppet and Chef. Basic programming knowledge with Python and Linux shell scripting is necessary.What You Will LearnUnderstand common automation modules used in PythonDevelop Python scripts to manage network devicesAutomate common Linux administration tasks with Ansible and FabricManaging Linux processesAdministrate VMware, OpenStack, and AWS instances with PythonSecurity automation and sharing code on GitHubIn DetailHands-On Enterprise Automation with Python starts by covering the set up of a Python environment to perform automation tasks, as well as the modules, libraries, and tools you will be using.We'll explore examples of network automation tasks using simple Python programs and Ansible. Next, we will walk you through automating administration tasks with Python Fabric, where you will learn to perform server configuration and administration, along with system administration tasks such as user management, database management, and process management. As you progress through this book, you'll automate several testing services with Python scripts and perform automation tasks on virtual machines and cloud infrastructure with Python. In the concluding chapters, you will cover Python-based offensive security tools and learn how to automate your security tasks.By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills of automating several system administration tasks with Python.Style and approachThis book will follow a practical approach to help you script and automate tasks using Python.

Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python.: Automate common administrative and security tasks with Python

Invent your own Python scripts to automate your infrastructureAbout This BookMake the most of Python libraries and modules to automate your infrastructureLeverage Python programming to automate server configurations and administration tasksEfficiently develop your Python skill setWho This Book Is ForHands-On Enterprise Automation with Python is for system administrators and DevOps engineers who are looking for an alternative to major automation frameworks such as Puppet and Chef. Basic programming knowledge with Python and Linux shell scripting is necessary.What You Will LearnUnderstand common automation modules used in PythonDevelop Python scripts to manage network devicesAutomate common Linux administration tasks with Ansible and FabricManaging Linux processesAdministrate VMware, OpenStack, and AWS instances with PythonSecurity automation and sharing code on GitHubIn DetailHands-On Enterprise Automation with Python starts by covering the set up of a Python environment to perform automation tasks, as well as the modules, libraries, and tools you will be using.We'll explore examples of network automation tasks using simple Python programs and Ansible. Next, we will walk you through automating administration tasks with Python Fabric, where you will learn to perform server configuration and administration, along with system administration tasks such as user management, database management, and process management. As you progress through this book, you'll automate several testing services with Python scripts and perform automation tasks on virtual machines and cloud infrastructure with Python. In the concluding chapters, you will cover Python-based offensive security tools and learn how to automate your security tasks.By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills of automating several system administration tasks with Python.Style and approachThis book will follow a practical approach to help you script and automate tasks using Python.

Hands-on Enterprise Automation with Python: Automate Common Administrative And Security Tasks With Python

In the coming years Python programming has developed massively in terms of automation. Enterprise automation with Python will teach you how simple Python programming can make your life easier with automating your infrastructure

Machine Learning and Data Analytics for Solving Business Problems: Methods, Applications, and Case Studies (Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning)

This book presents advances in business computing and data analytics by discussing recent and innovative machine learning methods that have been designed to support decision-making processes. These methods form the theoretical foundations of intelligent management systems, which allows for companies to understand the market environment, to improve the analysis of customer needs, to propose creative personalization of contents, and to design more effective business strategies, products, and services. This book gives an overview of recent methods – such as blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing – so readers can rapidly explore them and their applications to solve common business challenges. The book aims to empower readers to leverage and develop creative supervised and unsupervised methods to solve business decision-making problems.

ECML PKDD 2018 Workshops: MIDAS 2018 and PAP 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10-14, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11054)

This book constitutes revised selected papers from two workshops held at the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2018, in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2018, namely: MIDAS 2018 – Third Workshop on Mining Data for Financial Applications andPAP 2018 – Second International Workshop on Personal Analytics and Privacy. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 17 submissions.

Cyber Security Impact on Digitalization and Business Intelligence: Big Cyber Security for Information Management: Opportunities and Challenges (Studies in Big Data #117)

This book takes a unique approach by exploring the connection between cybersecurity, digitalization, and business intelligence. In today's digital landscape, cybersecurity is a crucial aspect of business operations. Meanwhile, organizations continue to leverage digital technologies for their day-to-day operations. They must be aware of the risks associated with cyber-attacks and implement robust cybersecurity measures to protect their assets. It provides practical insights and solutions to help businesses better understand the impact of cybersecurity on their digitalization and business intelligence strategies. It provides practical insights and solutions for implementing cybersecurity measures in organizations and covers a wide range of topics, including threat intelligence, risk management, compliance, cloud security, and IoT security. The book takes a holistic approach and explores the intersection of cybersecurity, digitalization, and business intelligence and examines the possible challenges and opportunities.

Technology Innovation for Business Intelligence and Analytics: Techniques and Practices for Business Intelligence Innovation (Studies in Big Data #147)

This book provides a standpoint on how to effectively use technology innovation for business intelligence and analytics. It presents an approach that combines cutting-edge technological advancements with practical applications in the business world. The book covers a range of innovative technologies and how they can be applied to enhance business intelligence and analytics. It is primarily aimed at professionals in the business field data analysts and students studying subjects. This book is especially beneficial for those who want to grasp and apply the technological trends in making strategic business decisions. Its comprehensive coverage makes it an indispensable resource for anyone, in the intersection of technology and business analytics.

Advances in Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #492)

This book provides a platform for addressing human factors challenges in software and systems engineering, both pushing the boundaries of current research and responding to new challenges, fostering new research ideas in the process. This book is intended for researchers, professional software and systems engineers, and human factors and human systems integration experts to help them address societal challenges for next-generation systems with applications for meeting them. Topics include evolutionary and complex systems, human systems integration, smart grids and infrastructure, workforce training requirements, systems engineering education, and defense and aerospace. Based on the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering, held on July 27-31, 2016, in Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA. This book represents an inspiring guide for all researchers and professionals in the field of Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering.

Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures: 11th International Conference, FOSSACS 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #4962)

CONCUR 2003 - Concurrency Theory: 14th International Conference, Marseille, France, September 3-5, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2761)

Broadening the Scope of Research on Mathematical Problem Solving: A Focus On Technology, Creativity And Affect (Research In Mathematics Education Ser.)

The innovative volume seeks to broaden the scope of research on mathematical problem solving in different educational environments. It brings together contributions not only from leading researchers, but also highlights collaborations with younger researchers to broadly explore mathematical problem-solving across many fields: mathematics education, psychology of education, technology education, mathematics popularization, and more. The volume’s three major themes—technology, creativity, and affect—represent key issues that are crucially embedded in the activity of problem solving in mathematics teaching and learning, both within the school setting and beyond the school. Through the book’s new pedagogical perspectives on these themes, it advances the field of research towards a more comprehensive approach on mathematical problem solving. Broadening the Scope of Research on Mathematical Problem Solving will prove to be a valuable resource for researchers and teachers interested in mathematical problem solving, as well as researchers and teachers interested in technology, creativity, and affect.

Optimization of Type-2 Fuzzy Controllers Using the Bee Colony Algorithm (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

This book focuses on the fields of fuzzy logic, bio-inspired algorithm; especially bee colony optimization algorithm and also considering the fuzzy control area. The main idea is that this areas together can to solve various control problems and to find better results. In this book we test the proposed method using two benchmark problems; the problem for filling a water tank and the problem for controlling the trajectory in an autonomous mobile robot. When Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System is implemented to model the behavior of systems, the results show a better stabilization, because the analysis of uncertainty is better. For this reason we consider in this book the proposed method using fuzzy systems, fuzzy controllers, and bee colony optimization algorithm improve the behavior of the complex control problems.

Drools Developers Cookbook

Part of Packt's cookbook series, this book is packed with easy to follow recipes containing step-by-step instructions. The book is designed in such a way that you can read it chapter by chapter, or refer to the tasks in no particular order. This book is for Drools developers who want to improve their current working methods and discover new features to apply to their projects. Readers are expected to be familiar with the basics of the Drools platform as well as Java.

Artificial Intelligence. IJCAI 2019 International Workshops: Macao, China, August 10–12, 2019, Revised Selected Best Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12158)

This book presents selected papers of 12 Workshops held in conjunction with the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2019, in Macao, China, in August 2019.The workshops included in this volume are: AI4KM 2019: 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management and Innovation.FinNLP 2019: First International Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing.OR 2019: 32nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning.SURL 2019: Second International Workshop on Scaling-Up Reinforcement Learning.First International Workshop on Bringing Semantic Knowledge into Vision and Text Understanding.EASyHAT 2019: First International Workshop on Evaluation of Adaptive Systems for Human-Autonomy Teaming.ACAN 2019: 12th International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations.First International Workshop on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition.HAI 2019: Second International Workshop on Humanizing AI.International Workshop on Language Sense on Computer.AISafety 2019: International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety.DeLBP 2019: 4th International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming.

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: 5th International Workshop, EMAS 2017, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 8-9, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10738)

This book constitutes the revised and selected papers from the 5th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in May 2018, in conjunction with AAMAS 2018. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The book contains also the best paper of the workshop that has been published previously in another LNCS volume. The EMAS workshop focusses on the cross-fertilisation of ideas and experiences in the various fields with the aim to enhance knowledge and expertise in MAS engineering , to improve the state-of-the-art, to define new directions for MAS engineering, to investigate how established methodologies for engineering and large-scale and open MAS can be adapted.

Mobility in Process Calculi and Natural Computing (Natural Computing Series)

The design of formal calculi in which fundamental concepts underlying interactive systems can be described and studied has been a central theme of theoretical computer science in recent decades, while membrane computing, a rule-based formalism inspired by biological cells, is a more recent field that belongs to the general area of natural computing. This is the first book to establish a link between these two research directions while treating mobility as the central topic. In the first chapter the authors offer a formal description of mobility in process calculi, noting the entities that move: links (π-calculus), ambients (ambient calculi) and branes (brane calculi). In the second chapter they study mobility in the framework of natural computing. The authors define several systems of mobile membranes in which the movement inside a spatial structure is provided by rules inspired by endocytosis and exocytosis. They study their computational power in comparison with the classical notion of Turing computability and their efficiency in algorithmically solving hard problems in polynomial time. The final chapter deals with encodings, establishing links between process calculi and membrane computing so that researchers can share techniques between these fields.The book is suitable for computer scientists working in concurrency and in biologically inspired formalisms, and also for mathematically inclined scientists interested in formalizing moving agents and biological phenomena. The text is supported with examples and exercises, so it can also be used for courses on these topics.

Eine Simulationsumgebung für Planung und Betrieb von Produktionssystemen (iwb Forschungsberichte #71)

Principles and Structures of FPGAs

This comprehensive textbook on the field programmable gate array (FPGA) covers its history, fundamental knowledge, architectures, device technologies, computer-aided design technologies, design tools, examples of application, and future trends. Programmable logic devices represented by FPGAs have been rapidly developed in recent years and have become key electronic devices used in most IT products. This book provides both complete introductions suitable for students and beginners, and high-level techniques useful for engineers and researchers in this field. Differently developed from usual integrated circuits, the FPGA has unique structures, design methodologies, and application techniques. Allowing programming by users, the device can dramatically reduce the rising cost of development in advanced semiconductor chips. The FPGA is now driving the most advanced semiconductor processes and is an all-in-one platform combining memory, CPUs, and various peripheral interfaces. This book introduces the FPGA from various aspects for readers of different levels. Novice learners can acquire a fundamental knowledge of the FPGA, including its history, from Chapter 1; the first half of Chapter 2; and Chapter 4. Professionals who are already familiar with the device will gain a deeper understanding of the structures and design methodologies from Chapters 3 and 5. Chapters 6–8 also provide advanced techniques and cutting-edge applications and trends useful for professionals. Although the first parts are mainly suitable for students, the advanced sections of the book will be valuable for professionals in acquiring an in-depth understanding of the FPGA to maximize the performance of the device.

Data-Centric Security in Software Defined Networks (Studies in Big Data #149)

The book focuses on applying the data-centric security (DCS) concept and leveraging the unique capabilities of software-defined networks (SDN) to improve the security and resilience of corporate and government information systems used to process critical information and implement business processes requiring special protection. As organisations increasingly rely on information technology, cyber threats to data and infrastructure can significantly affect their operations and adversely impact critical business processes. Appropriate authentication, authorisation, monitoring, and response measures must be implemented within the perimeter of the system to protect against adversaries. However, sophisticated attackers can compromise the perimeter defences and even remain in the system for a prolonged time without the owner being aware of these facts. Therefore, new security paradigms such as Zero Trust and DCS aimto provide defence under the assumption that the boundary protections will be breached. Based on experience and lessons learned from research on the application of DCS to defence systems, the authors present an approach to integrating the DCS concept with SDN. They introduce a risk-aware approach to routing in SDN, enabling defence-in-depth and enhanced security for data in transit. The book describes possible paths for an organisation to transition towards DCS, indicating some open and challenging issues requiring further investigation. To allow interested readers to conduct detailed studies and evaluate the exemplary implementation of DCS over SDN, the text includes a short tutorial on using the emulation environment and links to the websites from which the software can be downloaded.

Technology and Agribusiness: How the Technology is Impacting the Agribusiness

The world population is growing, and it is expected that in 2050 there will be 9.7 billion inhabitants on the Earth. According to FAO (United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization) we need to increase the productivity of agriculture by between 50% and 70% to be able to feed the world population in 2050. Other researchers think that reducing the wastage of food may be enough to handle the 2050 population.Several factors must be considered to ensure that humanity is able to feed the world’s population in 2050 and beyond.• Less arable land: As cities are growing, the space available for agriculture is shrinking.• Climate change: Dramatic impacts on agribusiness.• Role of agribusiness on GHG emissions.• Planetary boundaries and the role of agribusiness.• Availability of freshwater.• Soil degradation.The seasonal school presents and discusses the major problems that agribusiness is facing and the different technologies that can be applied to solve and improve such issues. Specific case studies are presented along with the technological solutions that have been applied to solve or minimize the impact.Agribusiness covers different topics such as arable farming, dairy farming, fruits, vegetables, meat, etc. Each of these domains has different needs that can be addressed through smart agriculture technologies such as circuits and systems. Also, these domains affect the sustainability of the planet as they impact at least 4 out of the 9 planetary boundaries.