Product Description: With the rapid growth of networking and high-computing power, the demand for large-scale and complex software systems has increased dramatically. Many of the software systems support or supplant human control of safety-critical systems such as flight control systems, space shuttle control systems, aircraft avionics control systems, robotics, patient monitoring systems, nuclear power plant control systems, and so on...read more

Product Description: This important book introduces the concept of intrusion detection, discusses various approaches for intrusion detection systems (Ids), and presents the architecture and implementation of Ids. It emphasizes on the prediction and learning algorithms for intrusion detection and highlights techniques for intrusion detection of wired computer networks and wireless sensor networks...read more

Product Description: Many networked computer systems are far too vulnerable to cyber attacks that can inhibit their functioning, corrupt important data, or expose private information. Not surprisingly, the field of cyber-based systems is a fertile ground where many tasks can be formulated as learning problems and approached in terms of machine learning algorithms...read more

'This book provides analysis, characterization and refinement of software engineering data in terms of machine learning methods. It depicts applications of several machine learning approaches in software systems development and deployment, and the use ofmachine learning methods to establish predictive models for software quality while offering readers suggestions by proposing future work in this emerging research field'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: A mobile agent system could be attacked by malicious agents, platforms and third parties. Mobile agents simply offer greater opportunities for abuse and misuse, which broadens the scale of threats significantly. In addition, since mobile agents have some unique characteristics such as their mobility, security problems have become more complicated in these systems...read more

Product Description: A continuation of the author’s previous book “An Introduction to the Theory of Piezoelectricity” (Springer, New York, 2005) on the three-dimensional theory of piezoelectricity, this volume covers lower dimensional theories for various piezoelectric structures and device applications...read more

Product Description: Machine learning deals with the issue of how to build computer programs that improve their performance at some tasks through experience. Machine learning algorithms have proven to be of great practical value in a variety of application domains...read more

Product Description: Parallel processing is a very important technique for improving the performance of various software development and maintenance activities. The purpose of this book is to introduce important techniques for parallel executation of high-level specifications of software systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Distributed Real Time Systems (DRTSs) are used in a diverse range of applications, including command and control systems, flight control systems, space shuttle landing control systems, patient monitoring systems, robotics, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The interplay of artificial intelligence and software engineering has been an interesting and an active area in research institutions and industry. This book covers the state of art in the use of knowledge-based approach for software specification, design, implementation, testing and debugging...read more