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Progress reports on impedance spectroscopy : measurements, modeling, and application

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Stochastic filtering with applications in finance by Bhar, Ramaprasad

Table of Contents: “…Economic convergence in a filtering framework. 3.3. Ex-ante equity risk premium. 3.4. Concluding remarks -- 4. …”
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Design optimization of fluid machinery : applying computational fluid dynamics and numerical optimization by Kim, Kwang-Yong, 1956-, Samad, Abdus, Benini, Ernesto

Table of Contents: “…2.2.5.3 Periodic/Cyclic Boundary Conditions2.2.5.4 Symmetry Boundary Conditions; 2.2.6 Moving Reference Frame (MRF); 2.2.7 Verification and Validation; 2.2.8 Commercial CFD Software; 2.2.9 Open Source Codes; 2.2.9.1 OpenFOAM; References; Chapter 3 Optimization Methodology; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Engineering Optimization Definition; 3.1.2 Design Space; 3.1.3 Design Variables and Objectives; 3.1.4 Optimization Procedure; 3.1.5 Search Algorithm; 3.2 Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO); 3.2.1 Weighted Sum Approach; 3.2.2 Pareto-Optimal Front…”
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Digital information ecosystems : smart press by Augey, Dominique

Table of Contents: “…The problem of revenue sharing between media and social networks; 6.2. The social network eco-system; 6.2.1. …”
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Binary decision diagrams and extensions for system reliability analysis by Xing, Liudong

Table of Contents: “…7.5 Applications to Phased-Mission Systems -- 7.5.1 Mini-Component Concept -- 7.5.2 Extended SEA Method for PMS -- 7.5.3 An Illustrative Example -- 7.6 Summary -- 8 Shared Decision Diagrams -- 8.1 Multi-Rooted Decision Diagrams -- 8.2 Multi-Terminal Decision Diagrams -- 8.3 Performance Study on Multi-State Systems -- 8.3.1 Example Analyses -- 8.3.2 Benchmark Studies -- 8.4 Application to Phased-Mission Systems -- 8.4.1 PMS Analysis Using MDDs -- 8.4.1.1 Step 1-Variable Encoding -- 8.4.1.2 Step 2-Input Variable Ordering -- 8.4.1.3 Step 3-PMS MDD Generation -- 8.4.1.4 Step 4-PMS MDD Evaluation -- 8.4.2 An Illustrative Example -- 8.5 Application to Multi-State k-out-of-n Systems -- 8.5.1 Multi-State k-out-of-n System Analysis Using MDDs -- 8.5.1.1 Step 1- BDDkl Generation -- 8.5.1.2 Step 2- MDDkl Generation -- 8.5.1.3 Step 3- MDDSj Generation -- 8.5.1.4 Step 4-System MDDSj Evaluation -- 8.5.2 An Illustrative Example -- 8.6 Importance Measures -- 8.6.1 Capacity Networks and Reliability Modeling -- 8.6.2 Composite Importance Measures (Type 1) -- 8.6.2.1 General CIMs -- 8.6.2.2 Alternative CIMs -- 8.6.3 Computing CIMs Using MDD -- 8.6.4 An Illustrative Example -- 8.7 Failure Frequency Based Measures -- 8.8 Summary -- Conclusions -- References -- Index -- EULA.…”
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Credit securitizations and derivatives : challenges for the global markets

Table of Contents: “…Market Credit Risk Pricing -- Regulation -- Developments in Structured Finance Markets -- Impairments of Asset-Backed Securities and Outstanding Ratings -- Issuance of Asset-backed Securities and Outstanding Volume -- Global CDO Issuance and Outstanding Volume -- PART II CREDIT PORTFOLIO RISK MEASUREMENT -- Mortgage Credit Risk -- Five C's of Credit and Mortgage Credit Risk -- Determinants of Mortgage Default, Loss Given Default and Exposure at Default -- Determinants of Mortgage Default -- Determinants of Mortgage LGD -- Determinants of Mortgage EAD -- Modeling Methods for Default, LGD and EAD -- Model Risk Management -- Credit Portfolio Correlations and Uncertainty -- Introduction -- Gaussian and Semi-Gaussian Single Risk Factor Model -- Individual and Simultaneous Confidence Bounds and Intervals -- Confidence Intervals for Asset Correlations -- Confidence Intervals for Default and Survival Time Correlations -- Confidence Intervals for Default Correlations -- Confidence Intervals for Survival Time Correlations -- Credit Portfolio Correlations with Dynamic Leverage Ratios -- The Hui et al. (2007) Model -- The Method of Images for Constant Coefficients -- The Method of Images for Time-Varying Coefficients -- Modelling Default Correlations in a Two-Firm Model -- Default Correlations -- A Two-Firm Model with Dynamic Leverage Ratios -- Method of Images for Constant Coefficients -- Method of Images for Time-Varying Coefficients -- Alternative Methodologies for General Values -- Numerical Results -- Accuracy -- The Impact of Correlation between Two Firms -- The Impact of Different Credit Quality Paired Firms -- The Impact of Volatilities -- The Impact of Drift Levels -- The Impact of Initial Value of Leverage Ratio Levels -- Impact of Correlation between Firms and Interest Rates -- The Price of Credit-Linked Notes -- A Hierarchical Model of Tail-Dependent Asset Returns -- The Variance Compound Gamma Model -- Multivariate Process for Logarithmic Asset Returns -- Dependence Structure -- Sampling -- Copula Properties -- An Application Example -- Portfolio Setup -- Test Portfolios -- Parameter Setup -- Simulation Results -- Importance Sampling Algorithm -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: The VCG Probability Distribution Function Appendix B: HAC Representation for the VCG Framework -- Monte Carlo Methods for Portfolio Credit Risk -- Modeling Credit Portfolio Losses -- Risk Measures -- Modeling Dependency -- Estimating Risk Measures via Monte Carlo -- Crude Monte Carlo Estimators -- Importance Sampling -- Specific Models -- The Bernoulli Mixture Model -- Factor Models -- Copula Models -- Intensity Models -- An Example Point Process Model -- Appendix A: A Primer on Rare-event Simulation -- Efficiency -- Importance Sampling -- The Choice of g -- Adaptive Importance Sampling -- Importance Sampling for Stochastic Processes -- Credit Portfolio Risk and Diversification -- Introduction -- Model Setup -- Independent Asset Values -- Correlated Asset Values -- Large Portfolio Limit -- Correlated Diffusion -- Correlated GARCH Process -- Applications of the Structural Recovery Rate -- Conclusions -- PART III CREDIT PORTFOLIO RISK SECURITIZATION AND TRANCHING -- Differences in Tranching Methods: Some Results and Implications -- Defining a Tranche -- The Mathematics of Tranching -- PD-based Tranching -- EL-based Tranching -- The EL of a Tranche Necessarily Increases When Either the Attachment Point or the Detachment Point is Decreased -- Upper Bound on Tranche Expected LGD (LGDt) Assumption Given EL-based Tranches -- Skipping of Some Tranches in the EL-based Approach -- Global Structured Finance Rating -- Asset-Backed Securities -- The ABS Structure for the Experiment -- Cash Flow Modeling -- Modeling and Simulating Defaults -- Expected Loss Rating -- Global Sensitivity Analysis -- Elementary Effects -- Variance-based Method -- Global Sensitivity Analysis Results -- Uncertainty Analysis -- Sensitivity Analysis -- Global Rating -- PART IV CREDIT DERIVATIVES -- Analytic Dynamic Factor Copula Model -- Pricing Equations -- One-factor Copula Model -- Multi-period Factor Copula Models -- Calibration -- Dynamic Modeling of Credit Derivatives -- General Model Choice -- Modeling Option Prices -- Modeling Credit Risk -- Portfolio Credit Derivatives -- Modeling Asset Dynamics -- The Market Model -- The Asset-value Model -- Empirical Analysis -- Elementary Data -- Implied Dividends -- Market Dynamics -- Asset Value Model -- Tranche Pricing -- Out-of-time Application -- Pricing and Calibration in Market Models -- Basic notions -- The model -- Modeling Assumptions -- Absence of Arbitrage -- An affine specification -- Pricing -- Calibration -- Calibration Procedure -- Calibration Results -- Appendix A: Computations -- Counterparty Credit Risk and Clearing of Derivatives -- From the Perspective of an Industrial Corporate with a Focus on Commodity Markets -- Credit exposures in commodity business -- Settlement Exposure -- Performance Exposure -- Example of Fixed Price Deal with Performance Exposure -- Example of a Floating Price Deal with Performance Exposure -- General Remarks on Credit Exposure Concepts -- Ex Ante exposure-reducing techniques -- Payment Terms -- Material Adverse Change Clauses -- Master Agreements -- Netting -- Margining -- Close Out Exposure and Threshold -- Ex Ante risk-reducing techniques -- Credit Enhancements in General -- Parent Company Guarantees -- Letters of Credit -- Credit Insurance -- Clearing via a Central Counterparty -- Ex Post risk-reducing techniques -- Factoring -- Novation -- Risk-reducing Trades -- Hedging with CDS -- Hedging with Contingent-CDS -- Hedging with Puts on Equity -- Ex Post work out considerations -- Practical credit risk management and pricing Peculiarities of commodity markets -- Peculiarities of commodity related credit portfolios -- Credit Risk Capital for a commodity related portfolio measured with an extension of CreditMetrics -- CreditRisk+ study: applied to a commodity related credit portfolio -- CDS Industrial Sector Indices, Credit and Liquidity Risk -- The Data -- Methodology and Results -- Preliminary Analysis -- Common Factor Analysis -- Stability of Relations -- Risk Transfer and Pricing of Illiquid Assets with Loan CDS -- Shipping Market -- Loan Credit Default Swaps -- LCDS Pricing -- Modeling LCDS Under the Intensity-based Model -- Valuation Framework for LCDS -- The Structural Approach -- Credit Risk in Shipping Loans -- Valuation of LCDS on Shipping Loans -- Simulation Model -- Numerical Results -- Appendix A: Monte Carlo Parameterization PART V REGULATION -- Regulatory Capital Requirements for Securitizations -- Regulatory Approaches for Securitizations -- Ratings Based Approach (RBA) -- Supervisory Formula Approach (SFA) -- Standardized Approach (SA) -- Post-crisis Revisions to the Basel Framework -- Regulating OTC Derivatives -- The Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Part of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 -- Which Derivatives Will Be Affected? …”
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Advanced security solutions for multimedia

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Security, Privacy and Reliability in Computer Communications and Networks. by Sha, Kewei

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- RIVER PUBLISHERS SERIES IN INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN EDUCATION -- CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE -- Title Page -- Security, Privacy and Reliability in Computer Communications and Networks -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Algorithms -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I -- Privacy -- Chapter 1 -- Distributed Beamforming Relay Selection to Increase Base Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Anonymity Definition, Metrics, and Contemporary Measures -- 1.2.1 Anonymity Definition and Assessment -- 1.2.2 Antitraffic Analysis Measures -- 1.3 System Assumptions and Attack Model -- 1.3.1 Network Model -- 1.3.2 Adversary Model -- 1.3.3 Evidence Theory and Belief Metric -- 1.4 Distributed Beamforming to Increase the BS Anonymity -- 1.4.1 Overview of the DiBAN Protocol -- 1.4.2 DiBAN Illustrative Example -- 1.4.3 DiBAN Energy Analysis -- 1.5 Distributed Beamforming Relay Selection Approach -- 1.6 Validation Experiments -- 1.6.1 Simulation Environment -- 1.6.2 Simulation Results -- 1.7 Conclusions and FutureWork -- Appendix I: Numerical Evidence Theory Belief Calculation Example -- References -- Chapter 2 -- A Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Information Sharing Scheme for VANET Secure Communication -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Related Works -- 2.3 System Model and Preliminaries -- 2.3.1 Network Model -- 2.3.2 Attack Model -- 2.3.3 Security Requirements -- 2.4 The Proposed PETS Scheme -- 2.4.1 Scheme Overview -- 2.4.2 System Initiation -- 2.4.3 Vehicle-RSU Key Agreement -- 2.4.4 Traffic Information Collection and Aggregation -- 2.4.5 Traffic Jam Message Propagation -- 2.5 Security Analysis -- 2.6 Performance Evaluation -- 2.6.1 Traffic Information Sending/Collection Overhead.…”
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Advanced wireless communications & Internet : future evolving technologies by Glisic, Savo G.

Table of Contents: “…Glisic -- 11.1 Introduction 585 -- 11.2 Background and Related Work 586 -- 11.3 Cooperative Communications 593 -- 11.4 Relay-Assisted Communications 616 -- 11.5 Two-Way Relay-Assisted Communications 646 -- 11.6 Relay-Assisted Communications With Reuse of Resources 651 -- Appendices 668 -- 12 Biologically Inspired Paradigms inWireless Networks 683 -- 12.1 Biologically Inspired Model for Securing Hybrid Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 683 -- 12.2 Biologically Inspired Routing in Ad Hoc Networks 687 -- 12.3 Analytical Modeling of AntNet as Adaptive Mobile Agent Based Routing 691 -- 12.4 Biologically Inspired Algorithm for Optimum Multicasting 697 -- 12.5 Biologically Inspired (BI) Distributed Topology Control 703 -- 12.6 Optimization of Mobile Agent Routing in Sensor Networks 708 -- 12.7 Epidemic Routing 710 -- 12.8 Nano-Networks 715 -- 12.9 Genetic Algorithm Based Dynamic Topology Reconfiguration in Cellular Multihop Wireless Networks 718 -- References 739 -- 13 Positioning in Wireless Networks 743 -- 13.1 Mobile Station Location in Cellular Networks 743.…”
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SCADA Security : Machine Learning Concepts for Intrusion Detection and Prevention. by Almalawi, Abdulmohsen

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 4 Efficient k-Nearest Neighbour Approach Based on Various-Widths Clustering -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 RELATED WORK -- 4.3 THE kNNVWC APPROACH -- 4.3.1 FWC Algorithm and Its Limitations -- 4.3.2 Various-Widths Clustering -- 4.3.3 The k-NN Search -- 4.4 EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION -- 4.4.1 Data Sets -- 4.4.2 Performance Metrics -- 4.4.3 Impact of Cluster Size -- 4.4.4 Baseline Methods -- 4.4.5 Distance Metric -- 4.4.6 Complexity Metrics -- 4.5 CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 5 SCADA Data-Driven Anomaly Detection -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 SDAD APPROACH -- 5.2.1 Observation State of SCADA Points…”
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The Johns Hopkins guide to digital media

Table of Contents: “…Berry -- Cognitive implications of new media / Anne Mangen and Jean-Luc Velay -- Collaborative narrative / Scott Rettberg -- Collective intelligence / John Duda -- Combinatory and automatic text generation / Philippe Bootz and Christopher Funkhouser -- Computational linguistics / Inderjeet Mani -- Conceptual writing / Darren Wershler -- Copyright / Benjamin J. …”

Machine Learning with Apache Spark Quick Start Guide : Uncover Patterns, Derive Actionable Insights, and Learn from Big Data Using MLlib. by Quddus, Jillur

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Big data : concepts, technology and architecture by Balusamy, Balamurugan, R, Nandhini Abirami, Kadry, Seifedine, 1977-, Gandomi, Amir Hossein

Table of Contents: “…<i>3</i>Big Data Analytics. 31</p> <p>1.7.4 Visualizing Big Data. 32</p> <p>1.8 Big Data Technology. 32</p> <p>1.8.1 Challenges faced by Big Data technology. 34</p> <p>1.8.1 Heterogeneity and incompleteness. 34</p> <p>1.8.2 Volume and velocity of the Data. 35</p> <p>1.8.3 Data Storage. 35</p> <p>1.8.4 Data Privacy. 36</p> <p>1.9 Big Data Applications. 36</p> <p>1.10 Big Data Use Cases. 37</p> <p>1.9. 1 Healthcare. 37</p> <p>1.9.2 Telecom.. 38</p> <p>1.9.3 Financial Services. 39</p> <p>Chapter 1 refresher: 40</p> <p>Conceptual short Questions with answers. 43</p> <p>Frequently asked Interview questions. 45</p> <p>Chapter Objective. 46</p> <p>Big Data Storage Concepts. 46</p> <p>2.1 Cluster computing. 47</p> <p>2.1.1 Types of cluster. 49</p> <p>2.1.1.1 High availability cluster. 50</p> <p>2.1.1.2 Load balancing cluster. 50</p> <p>2.1.2 Cluster structure. 51</p> <p>2.3 Distribution Models. 53</p> <p>2.3.1 Sharding. 54</p> <p>2.3.2 Data Replication. 56</p> <p>2.3.2.1 Master-Slave model 57</p> <p>2.3.2.2 Peer-to-Peer model 58</p> <p>2.3.3 Sharding and Replication. 59</p> <p>2.4 Distributed file system.. 60</p> <p>2.5 Relational and Non Relational Databases. 61</p> <p>CoursesOffered. 62</p> <p>Figure 2.12 Data divided across multiple related tables. 62</p> <p>2.4.2 RDBMS Databases. 63</p> <p>2.4.3 NoSQL Databases. 63</p> <p>2.4.4 NewSQL Databases. 64</p> <p>2.5 Scaling Up and Scaling Out Storage. 65</p> <p>Chapter 2 refresher. 67</p> <p>Conceptual short questions with answers. 69</p> <p>Chapter Objective. 72</p> <p>3.1 Introduction to NoSQL. 72</p> <p>3.2 Why NoSQL. 72</p> <p>3.3 CAP theorem.. 73</p> <p>3.4 ACID.. 75</p> <p>3.5 BASE. 76</p> <p>3.6 Schemaless Database. 77</p> <p>3.7 NoSQL (Not Only SQL) 77</p> <p>3.7.1 NoSQL Vs RDBMS. 78</p> <p>3.7.2Features of NoSQL database. 79</p> <p>3.7.3Types of NoSQL Technologies. 80</p> <p>3.7.3.1 Key-Value store database. 81</p> <p>3.7.3.2 Column-store database. 82</p> <p>3.7.3.3 Document Oriented Database. 84</p> <p>3.7.3.4 Graph-oriented Database. 86</p> <p>3.7.4 NoSQL Operations. 93</p> <p>3.9 Migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL. 98</p> <p>Chapter 3 refresher. 99</p> <p>Conceptual short questions with answers. 102</p> <p>Chapter Objective. 104</p> <p>4.1 Data Processing. 104</p> <p>4.2 Shared Everything Architecture. 106</p> <p>4.2.1 Symmetric multiprocessing architecture. 107</p> <p>4.2.2 Distributed Shared memory. 108</p> <p>4.3 Shared nothing architecture. 109</p> <p>4.4 Batch Processing. 110</p> <p>4.5 Real-Time Data Processing. 111</p> <p>4.6 Parallel Computing. 112</p> <p>4.7 Distributed Computing. 113</p> <p>4.8 Big Data Virtualization. 113</p> <p>4.8.1 Attributes of Virtualization. 114</p> <p>4.8.1.1 Encapsulation. 115</p> <p>4.8.1.2 Partitioning. 115</p> <p>4.8.1.3 Isolation. 115</p> <p>4.8.2Big Data Server Virtualization. 116</p> <p>4.9 Introduction. 116</p> <p>4.10 Cloud computing types. 118</p> <p>4.11Cloud Services. 120</p> <p>4.12 Cloud Storage. 121</p> <p>4.12.1 Architecture of GFS. 121</p> <p>4.12.1.1 Master. 123</p> <p>4.12.1.2 Client. 123</p> <p>4.13 Cloud Architecture. 127</p> <p>Cloud Challenges. 129</p> <p>Chapter 4 Refresher. 130</p> <p>Conceptual short questions with answers. 133</p> <p>Chapter Objective. 139</p> <p>5.1 Apache Hadoop. 139</p> <p>5.1.1 Architecture of Apache Hadoop. 140</p> <p>5.1.2Hadoop Ecosystem Components Overview.. 140</p> <p>5.2 Hadoop Storage. 142</p> <p>5.2.1HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). 142</p> <p>5.2.2Why HDFS?. …”
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Language, vision, and music : selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, Ireland, 1999

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Politics of disinformation : the influence of fake news on the public sphere

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Big data analytics : turning big data into big money by Ohlhorst, Frank, 1964-

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AI and the future of banking by Boobier, Tony, 1956-

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Applied mechanics and manufacturing technology : selected, peer reviewed papers of the 2011 International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Manufacturing Technology (AMMT 2011),...

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Technologies for sustainable development : proceedings of the 7th Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE 2019), November 21-22, 2019, Ahmedabad, India

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Thermal Management of Electronics : an Experimental Approach Using Phase-Change-Based Materials in Composite Heat Sinks. by Baby, Rajesh

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