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Ransomware Revolution: The Rise of a Prodigious Cyber Threat (Advances in Information Security, 85)

Springer, 2021

This book explores the genesis of ransomware and how the parallel emergence of encryption technologies has elevated ransomware to become the most prodigious cyber threat that enterprises are confronting. It also investigates the driving forces behind what has been dubbed the ‘ransomware revolution’ after a series of major...

Guide to Ambient Intelligence in the IoT Environment: Principles, Technologies and Applications (Computer Communications and Networks)

Springer, 2019

Ambient intelligence (AmI) is an element of pervasive computing that brings smartness to living and business environments to make them more sensitive, adaptive, autonomous and personalized to human needs. It refers to intelligent interfaces that recognise human presence and preferences, and adjust smart environments to suit their...

A Primer on Quantum Computing (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Springer, 2019

This book is about quantum computing and quantum algorithms. The book starts with a chapter introducing the basic rules of quantum mechanics and how they can be used to build quantum circuits and perform computations.

Further, Grover's algorithm is presented for unstructured search discussing its consequences and...

Jet in Supersonic Crossflow

Springer, 2019

Based on research into jets in supersonic crossflow carried out by the authors’ team over the past 15 years, this book summarizes and presents many cutting-edge findings and analyses on this subject. It tackles the complicated mixing process of gas jets and atomization process of liquid jets in supersonic crossflow, and studies their...

Cognitive Reasoning for Compliant Robot Manipulation (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

Springer, 2018

In order to achieve human-like performance, this book covers the four steps of reasoning a robot must provide in the concept of intelligent physical compliance: to represent, plan, execute, and interpret compliant manipulation tasks. A classification of manipulation tasks is conducted to identify the central research questions of the...

Advanced CAD Modeling: Explicit, Parametric, Free-Form CAD and Re-engineering (Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering)

Springer, 2018

The book discusses the theoretical fundamentals of CAD graphics to enhance readers’ understanding of surface modeling and free-form design by demonstrating how to use mathematical equations to define curves and surfaces in CAD modelers. Additionally, it explains and describes the main approaches to creating CAD models out of 3D...

Radio Navigation Systems for Airports and Airways (Springer Aerospace Technology)

Springer, 2019

This book highlights the design principles of ground based radio-navigation systems used in solving navigation tasks in the airfield and on air routes. Mathematical correlations are illustrated that describe its operation, peculiarities of disposition, main technical characteristics, generalized structural diagrams as well as the...

Applications and Challenges of Geospatial Technology: Potential and Future Trends

Springer, 2018

This book advances the scientific understanding and application of space-based technologies to address a variety of areas related to sustainable development; including environmental systems analysis, environmental management, clean processes, green chemistry, and green engineering. Geo-spatial techniques have gained considerable interest in...

Structural Changes and their Econometric Modeling (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2018

This book focuses on structural changes and economic modeling. It presents papers describing how to model structural changes, as well as those introducing improvements to the existing before-structural-changes models, making it easier to later on combine these models with techniques describing structural changes. The book also...

Principles of Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem: Insight Paradigm (Intelligent Systems Reference Library)

Springer, 2019

This book discusses the evolution of future-generation technologies through the Internet of things, bringing together all the related technologies on a single platform to offer valuable insights for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics and industry practitioners.

The book uses data, network...

Principles of Distributed Database Systems

Springer, 2011

This third edition of a classic textbook can be used to teach at the senior undergraduate and graduate levels. The material concentrates on fundamental theories as well as techniques and algorithms. The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and, more recently, the emergence of cloud computing and streaming data applications, has forced...

Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships: Decision, Management and Development

Springer, 2013

Economic development and social welfare depend on the existence of effective and efficient infrastructure systems, particularly in health, energy, transportation and water, many of which are developed and managed through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). However, empirical evidence suggests some pitfalls in the use of these PPP...

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