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International Conference on IoT, Intelligent Computing and Security: Select Proceedings of IICS 2021 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #982)
by Rajeev Agrawal Pabitra Mitra Arindam Pal Madhu Sharma GaurThis book comprises select peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on IoT, Intelligent Computing and Security, IICS 2021. The contents focus on the latest research in artificial intelligence, IoT, intelligent computing, and leading technological convergence security challenges. The book also discusses AI-driven automation of highly connected smart devices across the globe presenting the fast technological shift with the futuristic scenario, bursting perspective of IoT, computational intelligence, and security concerns. This book supports the transfer of vital knowledge to the next generation of researchers, students, and practitioners in academia and industry.
Cybersecurity in Emerging Digital Era: First International Conference, ICCEDE 2020, Greater Noida, India, October 9-10, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1436)
by Rajeev Agrawal Goutam Sanyal Kevin Curran Valentina Emilia Balas Madhu Sharma GaurThis book constitutes selected and revised papers from the First International Conference on Cybersecurity in Emerging Digital Era, ICCEDE 2020, held in Greater Noida, India, in October 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 9 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 193 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cyber security issues and challenges in emerging digital era; security resilience in contemporary applications.
Advances in Smart Communication and Imaging Systems: Select Proceedings of MedCom 2020 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #721)
by Rajeev Agrawal Chandramani Kishore Singh Ayush GoyalThis book presents select and peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Communication and Imaging Systems (MedCom 2020). The contents explore the recent technological advances in the field of next generation communication systems and latest techniques for image processing, analysis and their related applications. The topics include design and development of smart, secure and reliable future communication networks; satellite, radar and microwave techniques for intelligent communication. The book also covers methods and applications of GIS and remote sensing; medical image analysis and its applications in smart health. This book can be useful for students, researchers and professionals working in the field of communication systems and image processing.
Transforming Cybersecurity Solutions using Blockchain (Blockchain Technologies)
by Rashmi Agrawal Neha GuptaThis book is targeted towards cybersecurity professionals (especially those dealing with cloud security) or any stakeholders dealing with cybersecurity who want to understand the next level of security infrastructure using blockchain. The book's security and privacy analysis help with an understanding of the basics of blockchain, and it explores the quantifying impact of the new attack surfaces introduced by blockchain technologies and platforms. In addition, the book contains relevant and current updates on the topic. It follows a practical approach to help understand how blockchain technology is used to transform cybersecurity solutions.
On Architecting Fully Homomorphic Encryption-based Computing Systems (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture)
by Rashmi Agrawal Ajay JoshiThis book provides an introduction to the key concepts of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)-based computing, and discusses the challenges associated with architecting FHE-based computing systems. Readers will see that due to FHE’s ability to compute on encrypted data, it is a promising solution to address privacy concerns arising from cloud-based services commonly used for a variety of applications including healthcare, financial, transportation, and weather forecasting. This book explains the fundamentals of the FHE operations and then presents an architectural analysis of the FHE-based computing. The authors also highlight challenges associated with accelerating FHE on various commodity platforms and argue that the FPGA platform provides a sweet spot in making privacy-preserving computing plausible.
Sustainability Measures for COVID-19 Pandemic
by Rashmi Agrawal Mamta Mittal Lalit Mohan GoyalThis book focuses on sustainability issues post COVID-19 outbreak, discusses ways to restrict global spread of the pandemic, and also how to survive holistically in the environment. It also discusses the economic impacts on the world due to the coronavirus outbreak. There is a strong need for monitoring and analysis of pandemics for sustainability like epidemic risk analysis by using pattern recognition or the mental health challenges during an outbreak. This book presents ways to find solutions and gives insights to explore innovative methods and predictive modeling techniques, such that masses are prevented from pandemics.
India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
by Ravi AgrawalIndia is connecting at a dizzying pace. In 2000, roughly 20 million Indians had access to the internet. In 2017, 465 million were online, with three new people logging on for the first time every second. By 2020, the country's online community is projected to exceed 700 million; more than a billion Indians are expected to be online by 2025. While users in Western countries progressed steadily over the years from dial-up connections on PCs, to broadband access, wireless, and now 4G data on phones, in India most have leapfrogged straight into the digital world with smartphones and affordable data plans. What effect is all this having on the ancient and traditionally rural culture dominated by family and local customs? Ravi Agrawal explores that very question, seeking out the nexuses of change and those swept up in them. Smartphones now influence arranged marriages, create an extension of one's social identity that moves beyond caste, bring within reach educational opportunities undreamed of a generation ago, bridge linguistic gaps, provide outlets and opportunities for start-ups, and are helping to move the entire Indian economy from cash- to credit-based. The effects are everywhere, and they are transformative. While they offer immediate access to so much for so many, smartphones are creating no utopia in a culture still struggling with poverty, illiteracy, corruption, gender inequality, and income disparity. Internet access has provided greater opportunities to women and altered how India's outcasts interact with the world; it has also made pornography readily available and provided an echo chamber for rumor and prejudice. Under a government determined to control content, it has created tensions. And in a climate of hypernationalism, it has fomented violence and even terrorism. The influence of smartphones on the world's largest democracy is pervasive and irreversible, disruptive and creative, unsettling and compelling. Agrawal's fascinating book gives us the people and places reflecting what the internet hath wrought. India Connected reveals both its staggering dimensions and implications, illuminating how it is affecting the progress of progress itself.
Speech and Language Processing for Human-Machine Communications: Proceedings of CSI 2015 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #664)
by S. S. Agrawal Amita Devi Ritika Wason Poonam BansalThis volume comprises the select proceedings of the annual convention of the Computer Society of India. Divided into 10 topical volumes, the proceedings present papers on state-of-the-art research, surveys, and succinct reviews. The volumes cover diverse topics ranging from communications networks to big data analytics, and from system architecture to cyber security. This volume focuses on Speech and Language Processing for Human-Machine Communications. The contents of this book will be useful to researchers and students alike.
Machine Intelligence and Smart Systems: Proceedings of MISS 2021 (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)
by Shikha Agrawal Kamlesh Kumar Gupta Jonathan H. Chan Jitendra Agrawal Manish GuptaThis book is a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Smart Systems (MISS 2021), organized during September 24–25, 2021, in Gwalior, India. The book presents new advances and research results in the fields of machine intelligence, artificial intelligence and smart systems. It includes main paradigms of machine intelligence algorithms, namely (1) neural networks, (2) evolutionary computation, (3) swarm intelligence, (4) fuzzy systems and (5) immunological computation. Scientists, engineers, academicians, technology developers, researchers, students and government officials will find this book useful in handling their complicated real-world issues by using machine intelligence methodologies.
Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2022: 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Taipei, Taiwan, December 5–9, 2022, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13791)
by Shweta Agrawal Dongdai LinThe four-volume proceedings LNCS 13791, 13792, 13793, and 13794 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2022, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 5-9, 2022. The total of 98 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Award papers; functional and witness encryption; symmetric key cryptanalysis; multiparty computation; real world protocols; and blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Part II: Isogeny based cryptography; homomorphic encryption; NIZK and SNARKs; non interactive zero knowledge; and symmetric cryptography. Part III: Practical cryptography; advanced encryption; zero knowledge; quantum algorithms; lattice cryptoanalysis. Part IV: Signatures; commitments; theory; cryptoanalysis; and quantum cryptography.
Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2022: 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Taipei, Taiwan, December 5–9, 2022, Proceedings, Part IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13794)
by Shweta Agrawal Dongdai LinThe four-volume proceedings LNCS 13791, 13792, 13793, and 13794 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2022, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 5-9, 2022. The total of 98 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Award papers; functional and witness encryption; symmetric key cryptanalysis; multiparty computation; real world protocols; and blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Part II: Isogeny based cryptography; homomorphic encryption; NIZK and SNARKs; non interactive zero knowledge; and symmetric cryptography. Part III: Practical cryptography; advanced encryption; zero knowledge; quantum algorithms; lattice cryptoanalysis. Part IV: Signatures; commitments; theory; cryptoanalysis; and quantum cryptography.
Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2022: 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Taipei, Taiwan, December 5–9, 2022, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13793)
by Shweta Agrawal Dongdai LinThe four-volume proceedings LNCS 13791, 13792, 13793, and 13794 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2022, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 5-9, 2022. The total of 98 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Award papers; functional and witness encryption; symmetric key cryptanalysis; multiparty computation; real world protocols; and blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Part II: Isogeny based cryptography; homomorphic encryption; NIZK and SNARKs; non interactive zero knowledge; and symmetric cryptography. Part III: Practical cryptography; advanced encryption; zero knowledge; quantum algorithms; lattice cryptoanalysis. Part IV: Signatures; commitments; theory; cryptoanalysis; and quantum cryptography.
Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2022: 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Taipei, Taiwan, December 5–9, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13792)
by Shweta Agrawal Dongdai LinThe four-volume proceedings LNCS 13791, 13792, 13793, and 13794 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2022, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 5-9, 2022. The total of 98 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Award papers; functional and witness encryption; symmetric key cryptanalysis; multiparty computation; real world protocols; and blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Part II: Isogeny based cryptography; homomorphic encryption; NIZK and SNARKs; non interactive zero knowledge; and symmetric cryptography. Part III: Practical cryptography; advanced encryption; zero knowledge; quantum algorithms; lattice cryptoanalysis. Part IV: Signatures; commitments; theory; cryptoanalysis; and quantum cryptography.
Hyperparameter Optimization in Machine Learning: Make Your Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models More Efficient
by Tanay AgrawalDive into hyperparameter tuning of machine learning models and focus on what hyperparameters are and how they work. This book discusses different techniques of hyperparameters tuning, from the basics to advanced methods. This is a step-by-step guide to hyperparameter optimization, starting with what hyperparameters are and how they affect different aspects of machine learning models. It then goes through some basic (brute force) algorithms of hyperparameter optimization. Further, the author addresses the problem of time and memory constraints, using distributed optimization methods. Next you’ll discuss Bayesian optimization for hyperparameter search, which learns from its previous history. The book discusses different frameworks, such as Hyperopt and Optuna, which implements sequential model-based global optimization (SMBO) algorithms. During these discussions, you’ll focus on different aspects such as creation of search spaces and distributed optimization of these libraries. Hyperparameter Optimization in Machine Learning creates an understanding of how these algorithms work and how you can use them in real-life data science problems. The final chapter summaries the role of hyperparameter optimization in automated machine learning and ends with a tutorial to create your own AutoML script. Hyperparameter optimization is tedious task, so sit back and let these algorithms do your work. What You Will LearnDiscover how changes in hyperparameters affect the model’s performance.Apply different hyperparameter tuning algorithms to data science problemsWork with Bayesian optimization methods to create efficient machine learning and deep learning modelsDistribute hyperparameter optimization using a cluster of machinesApproach automated machine learning using hyperparameter optimizationWho This Book Is For Professionals and students working with machine learning.
Foundations of Microprogramming: Architecture, Software, and Applications
by Ashok K. Agrawala Tomlinson G. RauscherFoundations of Microprogramming: Architecture, Software, and Applications discusses the foundations and trends in microprogramming, focusing on the architectural, software, and application aspects of microprogramming. The book reviews microprocessors, microprogramming concepts, and characteristics, as well as the architectural features in microprogrammed computers. The text explains support software and the different hierarchies or levels of languages. These include assembler languages which are mnemonic or symbolic representation of machine commands; the procedure oriented machine-dependent; and the procedure oriented machine independent. A simulator is used to interpret programs written in machine or micro-language before the instructions in the program can be run. A simulator and translator (which change some steps from one program written in another language to another program) should interface with the design language of the computer for these components to operate even when a new machine is developed. The book cites four existing computers which have "simple" diagonal microinstructions such as the Hewlett-Packard HP21MX and the Microdata 3200. Horizontal types of microinstructions allow parallel execution of many micro-operations, such as the Cal Data family of computers, the Varian 73, and the NANODATA QM-1. Microprogramming is applied in emulation, program enhancement, operating systems, signal processing, and graphics. The text can benefit programmers, computer engineers, computer technicians, and computer instructors dealing with many aspects of computers such as programming, hardware interface, networking, engineering or design.
Artificial Intelligence: 18th International Conference, AIMSA 2018, Varna, Bulgaria, September 12–14, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11089)
by Gennady Agre Josef Van Genabith Thierry DeclerckThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2018, held in Varna, Bulgaria, in September 2018.The 22 revised full papers and 7 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics in AI: from machine learning to natural language systems, from information extraction to text mining, from knowledge representation to soft computing; from theoretical issues to real-world applications.
Artificial Intelligence: 16th International Conference, AIMSA 2014, Varna, Bulgaria, September 11-13, 2014, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #8722)
by Gennady Agre Pascal Hitzler Adila A. Krisnadhi Sergei O. KuznetsovThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2014, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2014. The 14 revised full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The range of topics is almost equally broad, from traditional areas such as computer vision and natural language processing to emerging areas such as mining the behavior of Web-based communities.
Human-Computer Interaction: 4th Iberoamerican Workshop, Hci-collab 2018, Popayán, Colombia, April 23-27, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Communications In Computer And Information Science #847)
by Vanessa Agredo-Delgado Pablo H. RuizThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-Collab 2018, held in Popayán, Colombia, in April 2018. The 18 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers are dealing with topics such as emotional interfaces, HCI and videogames, computational thinking, collaborative systems, software engineering and ICT in education.
Human-Computer Interaction: 8th Iberoamerican Workshop, HCI-COLLAB 2022, Havana, Cuba, October 13–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1707)
by Vanessa Agredo-Delgado Pablo H. Ruiz Omar Correa-MadrigalThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-COLLAB 2022, which took place in Havana, Cuba, in October 2022. The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as emotional interfaces, usability, video games, computational thinking, collaborative systems, IoT, software engineering, ICT in education, augmented and mixed virtual reality for education, gamification, emotional interfaces, adaptive instructional systems, accessibility, use of video games in education, artificial intelligence in HCI and infotainment, among others.
Advances in Computing: 16th Colombian Congress, CCC 2022, Armenia, Colombia, October 17–21, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1775)
by Vanessa Agredo-Delgado Pablo H. Ruiz Alexandra Ruiz Gaona María Lili Villegas Ramírez William Joseph Giraldo OrozcoThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Colombian Congress on Computing, CCC 2022, held in Armenia, Colombia, during October 17–21, 2022The 12 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They topics of this volume include software engineering and IT architecture, human-computer interaction, cybersecurity and information security, image processing and computer vision, multimedia, artificial intelligence and robotics, education and ICT, data, information and knowledge, distributed systems and large-scale computing, and formal methods in computer systems, among others.
Human-Computer Interaction: 6th Iberomarican Workshop, HCI-Collab 2020, Arequipa, Peru, September 16–18, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1334)
by Vanessa Agredo-Delgado Pablo H. Ruiz Klinge Orlando Villalba-CondoriThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-Collab 2020, held in Arequipa, Peru, in September 2020.*The 28 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as emotional interfaces, usability, video games, computational thinking, collaborative systems, IoT, software engineering, ICT in education, augmented and mixed virtual reality for education, gamification, emotional Interfaces, adaptive instruction systems, accessibility, use of video games in education, artificial Intelligence in HCI, among others. *The workshop was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Categorical Data Analysis (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics #482)
by Alan AgrestiPraise for the Second Edition "A must-have book for anyone expecting to do research and/or applications in categorical data analysis." —Statistics in Medicine "It is a total delight reading this book." —Pharmaceutical Research "If you do any analysis of categorical data, this is an essential desktop reference." —Technometrics The use of statistical methods for analyzing categorical data has increased dramatically, particularly in the biomedical, social sciences, and financial industries. Responding to new developments, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of the most important methods for categorical data analysis. Categorical Data Analysis, Third Edition summarizes the latest methods for univariate and correlated multivariate categorical responses. Readers will find a unified generalized linear models approach that connects logistic regression and Poisson and negative binomial loglinear models for discrete data with normal regression for continuous data. This edition also features: An emphasis on logistic and probit regression methods for binary, ordinal, and nominal responses for independent observations and for clustered data with marginal models and random effects models Two new chapters on alternative methods for binary response data, including smoothing and regularization methods, classification methods such as linear discriminant analysis and classification trees, and cluster analysis New sections introducing the Bayesian approach for methods in that chapter More than 100 analyses of data sets and over 600 exercises Notes at the end of each chapter that provide references to recent research and topics not covered in the text, linked to a bibliography of more than 1,200 sources A supplementary website showing how to use R and SAS; for all examples in the text, with information also about SPSS and Stata and with exercise solutions Categorical Data Analysis, Third Edition is an invaluable tool for statisticians and methodologists, such as biostatisticians and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, medicine and public health, marketing, education, finance, biological and agricultural sciences, and industrial quality control.
Categorical Data Analysis (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
by Alan AgrestiPraise for the Second Edition "A must-have book for anyone expecting to do research and/or applications in categorical data analysis." —Statistics in Medicine "It is a total delight reading this book." —Pharmaceutical Research "If you do any analysis of categorical data, this is an essential desktop reference." —Technometrics The use of statistical methods for analyzing categorical data has increased dramatically, particularly in the biomedical, social sciences, and financial industries. Responding to new developments, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of the most important methods for categorical data analysis. Categorical Data Analysis, Third Edition summarizes the latest methods for univariate and correlated multivariate categorical responses. Readers will find a unified generalized linear models approach that connects logistic regression and Poisson and negative binomial loglinear models for discrete data with normal regression for continuous data. This edition also features: An emphasis on logistic and probit regression methods for binary, ordinal, and nominal responses for independent observations and for clustered data with marginal models and random effects models Two new chapters on alternative methods for binary response data, including smoothing and regularization methods, classification methods such as linear discriminant analysis and classification trees, and cluster analysis New sections introducing the Bayesian approach for methods in that chapter More than 100 analyses of data sets and over 600 exercises Notes at the end of each chapter that provide references to recent research and topics not covered in the text, linked to a bibliography of more than 1,200 sources A supplementary website showing how to use R and SAS; for all examples in the text, with information also about SPSS and Stata and with exercise solutions Categorical Data Analysis, Third Edition is an invaluable tool for statisticians and methodologists, such as biostatisticians and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, medicine and public health, marketing, education, finance, biological and agricultural sciences, and industrial quality control.
Knowledge Preservation Through Community of Practice: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence (SpringerBriefs in Information Systems)
by Rocco AgrifoglioThis book links knowledge management literature and information systems research to explore the process of knowledge preservation within a community of practice. It contributes to existing literature in different ways. First, it provides a conceptualization of the “community knowledge preservation” process. In contrast to previous knowledge management research, knowledge preservation is thus viewed as a process in its own right rather than an integral part of knowledge creation and sharing. Furthermore, the book also investigates how communities of practice preserve knowledge, by identifying the main mechanisms and tools enabling members to select, store and actualize the explicit and tacit forms of collective knowledge. More in general, the book presents guidance on how to use communities of practice to ensure the preservation of knowledge in development processes, for individuals and organizations alike.
Digital Business Transformation: Organizing, Managing and Controlling in the Information Age (Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation #38)
by Rocco Agrifoglio Rita Lamboglia Daniela Mancini Francesca RicciardiThe recent surge of interest in “digital transformation” is changing the business landscape and posing several challenges, both organizational and sectoral. This transformation involves the application of digital technology in all aspects of business, and enables organizations to create new products and services, and to find more efficient ways of doing business.Moreover, the digital transformation is happening within and across organizations of all types and in every industry, producing a disruptive innovation that can break down the barriers between people and organizations, and help create more adaptive processes. In the information age, it is imperative for organizations to develop IT-related capabilities that allow them to leverage the potential of digital technologies. Due to the pervasive effects of this transformation on processes, firms and industries, both scholars and practitioners are interested in better understanding the key mechanisms behind the emergence and evolution of the digital business transformation.This book presents a collection of research papers focusing on the relationships between technologies (e.g., digital platforms, AI, blockchain, etc.), processes (e.g., decision-making, co-creation, financial, compliance, etc.), and organizations (e.g., smart organizations, digital ecosystems, Industry 4.0, collaborative networked organizations, etc.), which have been categorized into three major areas: organizing, managing and controlling. It also provides critical insights into how the digital transformation is enhancing organizational processes and firms’ performance through an exploration and exploitation of internal resources, and through the establishment of external connections and linkages. The plurality of views offered makes this book particularly relevant for users, companies, scientists, and governments. The content of the book is based on a selection of the best papers (original double-blind peer-reviewed contributions) presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the AIS, which was held in Naples, Italy in September 2019.