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Code : Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy. by Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer

Table of Contents: “…Oral Traditions, Indigenous Rights, and Valuable Old Knowledge -- 7 From Keeping "Nature's Secrets" to the Institutionalization of "Open Science" -- 8 Benefit Sharing: Experiments in Governance -- 9 Trust among the Algorithms: Ownership, Identity, and the Collaborative Stewardship of Information -- 10 Cooking-Pot Markets and Balanced Value Flows -- 11 Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm -- 12 Paying for Public Goods -- 13 Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure and the Disappearance of the Public Domain -- 14 A Renaissance of the Commons: How the New Sciences and Internet are Framing a New Global Identity and Order -- 15 Positive Intellectual Rights and Information Exchanges -- 16 Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Media technologies : essays on communication, materiality, and society

Table of Contents: “…Bowker -- "What Do We Want?" "Materiality!" "When Do We Want It?" "Now!" / Jonathan Sterne -- Mediations and Their Others / Lucy Suchman -- The People, Practices, and Promises of Information Networks. …”
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Pattern Recognition in Computational Molecular Biology : Techniques and Approaches by Elloumi, Mourad, Iliopoulos, Costas, Wang, Jason T. L., Zomaya, Albert Y.

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Mechanisms and games for dynamic spectrum allocation

Table of Contents: “…7.3.10 Other equilibrium concepts -- 7.4 Learning equilibria -- 7.4.1 Learning Nash equilibria -- 7.4.2 Learning epsilon-equilibrium -- 7.4.3 Learning coarse correlated equilibrium -- 7.4.4 Learning satisfaction equilibrium -- 7.4.5 Discussion -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- II Cognitive radio and sharing of unlicensed spectrum -- 8 Cooperation in cognitiveradio networks: from accessto monitoring -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Cooperation in cognitive radio: mutual benefits and costs -- 8.2 An overview of coalitional game theory -- 8.3 Cooperative spectrum exploration and exploitation -- 8.3.1 Motivation -- 8.3.2 Basic problem -- 8.3.3 Joint sensing and access as a cooperative game -- 8.3.4 Coalition formation algorithm for joint sensing and access -- 8.3.5 Numerical results -- 8.4 Cooperative primary user activity monitoring -- 8.4.1 Motivation -- 8.4.2 Primary user activity monitoring: basic model -- 8.4.3 Cooperative primary user monitoring -- 8.4.4 Numerical results -- 8.5 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright notice -- References -- 9 Cooperative cognitive radios with diffusion networks -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Preliminaries -- 9.2.1 Basic tools in convex and matrix analysis -- 9.2.2 Graphs -- 9.3 Distributed spectrum sensing -- 9.4 Iterative consensus-based approaches -- 9.4.1 Average consensus algorithms -- 9.4.2 Acceleration techniques for iterative consensus algorithms -- 9.4.3 Empirical evaluation -- 9.5 Consensus techniques based on CoMAC -- 9.6 Adaptive distributed spectrum sensing based on adaptive subgradient techniques -- 9.6.1 Distributed detection with adaptive filters -- 9.6.2 Set-theoretic adaptive filters for distributed detection -- 9.6.3 Empirical evaluation -- 9.7 Channel probing -- 9.7.1 Introduction -- 9.7.2 Admissibility problem -- 9.7.3 Power and admission control algorithms.…”
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Handbook of power systems. II

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Handbook of Power Systems II13; -- Preface of Volume II13; -- Contents of Volume II13; -- Contents13; of Volume I -- Contributors13; -- Part I Transmission and Distribution Modeling -- Recent Developments in Optimal Power Flow Modeling Techniques -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Physical Network Representation -- 3 Operational Constraints -- 4 Tap-Changing and Regulating Transformers -- 5 FACTS Devices -- 6 OPF Objective Functions and Formulations -- 7 OPF Solution Techniques -- 8 Numerical Examples -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Algorithms for Finding Optimal Flows in Dynamic Networks -- 1 Optimal Dynamic Network Flow Models and Power Industry -- 2 Minimum Cost Dynamic Single: Commodity Flow Problems and Algorithms for Their Solving -- 3 Minimum Cost Dynamic Multicommodity Flow Problems and Algorithms for Their Solving -- References -- Signal Processing for Improving Power Quality -- 1 Wavelet-based Algorithm for Harmonics Analysis -- 2 Wavelet-based Algorithm for Nonstationary Power System Waveform Analysis -- 3 Wavelet-GA-ANN Based Hybrid Model for Accurate Prediction of Short-term Load Forecast -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Transmission Valuation Analysis based on Real Options with Price Spikes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Behavior of Commodity Prices -- 3 Valuation of Obligations and Options -- 4 Valuation in the Presence of Spikes -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Forecasting in Energy -- Short-term Forecasting in Power Systems: A Guided Tour -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Electricity Load Forecasting -- 3 Wind Power Forecasting -- 4 Forecasting Electricity Prices -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- State-of-the-Art of Electricity Price Forecasting in a Grid Environment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 State-of-the-Art Techniques of Electricity Price Forecasting -- 3 Input8211;Output Specifications of Electricity Price Forecasting Techniques -- 4 Comparing Existing Statistical Techniques for Electricity Price Forecasting -- 5 Implementations of Electricity Price Forecasting in a Grid Environment -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Modelling the Structure of Long-Term Electricity Forward Prices at Nord Pool -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Long-term Forward Price Process -- 3 Model Estimation -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Hybrid Bottom-Up/Top-Down Modeling of Prices in Deregulated Wholesale Power Markets -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Top-Down Models for Electricity Price Forecasting -- 3 Hybrid Bottom-Up/Top-Down Modeling -- 4 A Hybrid Model for the New Zealand Electricity Market -- 5 A Hybrid Model for the Australian Electricity Market -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Part III Energy Auctions and Markets -- Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Competitive Wholesale Electricity Markets -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Agent-based Modeling and Simulation -- 3 Behavioral Modeling -- 4 Market Modeling -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Futures Market Trading for Electricity Producers and Retailers -- 1 Introduction: Futures Market Trading -- 2 Producer Trading -- 3 Retailer Trading -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- A Decision Support System for Generation Planning and Operation in Electricity Markets -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Long-term Stochastic Market Planning Model -- 3 Medium-term Stochastic Hydrothermal Coordination Model -- 4 Medium-term Stochastic Simulation Model -- T$29828.…”
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New autonomous systems by Cardon, Alain, 1946-, Itmi, Mhamed

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Introduction -- List of Algorithms -- 1 Systems and their Design -- 1.1. Modeling systems -- 1.2. …”
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All Source Positioning, Navigation and Timing by Li, Rongsheng, Ph. D.

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There's Something about Gödel : The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem. by Berto, Francesco

Table of Contents: “…. -- 6 ... and the unsatisfied logicists, Frege and Russell -- 7 Bits of set theory -- 8 The Abstraction Principle -- 9 Bytes of set theory -- 10 Properties, relations, functions, that is, sets again -- 11 Calculating, computing, enumerating, that is, the notion of algorithm…”
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Randomness through computation : some answers, more questions

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Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics. by Gollapudi, Sunila

Table of Contents: “…Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) -- Big Data analytics -- platform requirements -- Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) -- Core components -- Greenplum Database -- Hadoop (HD) -- Chorus -- Command Center -- Modules -- Database modules -- HD modules -- Data Integration Accelerator (DIA) modules -- Core architecture concepts -- Data warehousing -- Column-oriented databases -- Parallel versus distributed computing/processing -- Shared nothing, massive parallel processing (MPP) systems, and elastic scalability -- Shared disk data architecture -- Shared memory data architecture -- Shared nothing data architecture -- Data loading patterns -- Greenplum UAP components -- Greenplum Database -- The Greenplum Database physical architecture -- The Greenplum high-availability architecture -- High-speed data loading using external tables.…”
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High Performance Computing Systems and Applications & OSCAR Symposium. by International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (17th : 2003 : Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Table of Contents: “…""Table of Contents / Table des matières""; ""Preface""; ""Préface""; ""Symposium Organizers / Comité organisateur""; ""Program Committee / Comité scientifique""; ""Part I: Applications / Partie I: applications""; ""Concurrent Computation and Time Complexity Bounds for Algebraic Fractals""; ""Fast Algorithm to Estimate Dense Disparity Fields""; ""Evolutionary Grids of Interacting Stellar Binaries Containing Neutron Star Accretors""; ""HYDRA-MPI: An Adaptive Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh Code for Conducting Cosmological Simulations on MPP Architectures""…”
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The Rise of Technosocialism : How Inequality, AI and Climate Will Usher in a New World. by King, Brett

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Features and processing in agreement by Mancini, Simona, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…1st/2nd vs. 3rd person: Person underspecification and context-dependencePronoun representation and interpretive anchors; The featural makeup of pronouns; Summary; Chapter Five; When disagreement is grammatical: Unagreement; Unagreement processing and the role of interpretive anchors; Unagreeing, null and overt subjects; Summary; Chapter Six; From feature bundles to feature an; Representations, algorithms and neuroanatomical bases of agreement; Relation to existing sentence comprehension models; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index…”
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Regression Analysis : Theory, Methods, and Applications by Sen, Ashish

Table of Contents: “…Random Variables -- B.1.2 Correlated Random Variables -- B.1.3 Sample Statistics -- B.1.4 Linear Combinations of Random Variables -- B.2 Random Vectors -- B.3 The Multivariate Normal Distribution -- B.4 The Chi-Square Distributions -- B.5 The F and t Distributions -- B.6 Jacobian of Transformations -- B.7 Multiple Correlation -- Problems -- C Nonlinear Least Squares -- C.1 Gauss-Newton Type Algorithms -- C.1.1 The Gauss-Newton Procedure -- C.1.2 Step Halving -- C.1.3 Starting Values and Derivatives -- C.1.4 Marquardt Procedure -- C.2 Some Other Algorithms -- C.2.1 Steepest Descent Method -- C.2.2 Quasi-Newton Algorithms -- C.2.3 The Simplex Method -- C.2.4 Weighting -- C.3 Pitfalls -- C.4 Bias, Confidence Regions and Measures of Fit -- C.5 Examples -- Problems -- Tables -- References -- Author Index.…”
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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python : Master Reinforcement and Deep Reinforcement Learning Using OpenAI Gym and TensorFlow. by Ravichandiran, Sudharsan

Table of Contents: “…Solving the taxi problem using Q learningSARSA; Solving the taxi problem using SARSA; The difference between Q learning and SARSA; Summary; Questions; Further reading; Chapter 6: Multi-Armed Bandit Problem; The MAB problem; The epsilon-greedy policy; The softmax exploration algorithm; The upper confidence bound algorithm; The Thompson sampling algorithm; Applications of MAB; Identifying the right advertisement banner using MAB; Contextual bandits; Summary; Questions; Further reading; Chapter 7: Deep Learning Fundamentals; Artificial neurons; ANNs; Input layer; Hidden layer; Output layer.…”
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Cryptography 101 : From Theory to Practice. by Oppliger, Rolf

Table of Contents: “…12.2.3 Asymmetric Encryption-Based Key Distribution Protocol -- 12.3 KEY AGREEMENT -- 12.4 QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY -- 12.4.1 Basic Principles -- 12.4.2 Quantum Key Exchange Protocol -- 12.4.3 Historical and Recent Developments -- 12.5 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 13 Asymmetric Encryption -- 13.1 INTRODUCTION -- 13.2 PROBABILISTIC ENCRYPTION -- 13.2.1 Algorithms -- 13.2.2 Assessment -- 13.3 ASYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION SYSTEMS -- 13.3.1 RSA -- 13.3.2 Rabin -- 13.3.3 Elgamal -- 13.3.4 Cramer-Shoup -- 13.4 IDENTITY-BASED ENCRYPTION -- 13.5 FULLY HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION -- 13.6 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 14 Digital Signatures -- 14.1 INTRODUCTION -- 14.2 DIGITAL SIGNATURE SYSTEMS -- 14.2.1 RSA -- 14.2.2 PSS and PSS-R -- 14.2.3 Rabin -- 14.2.4 Elgamal -- 14.2.5 Schnorr -- 14.2.6 DSA -- 14.2.7 ECDSA -- 14.2.8 Cramer-Shoup -- 14.3 IDENTITY-BASED SIGNATURES -- 14.4 ONE-TIME SIGNATURES -- 14.5 VARIANTS -- 14.5.1 Blind Signatures -- 14.5.2 Undeniable Signatures -- 14.5.3 Fail-Stop Signatures -- 14.5.4 Group Signatures -- 14.6 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 15 Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge -- 15.1 INTRODUCTION -- 15.2 ZERO-KNOWLEDGE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS -- 15.2.1 Fiat-Shamir -- 15.2.2 Guillou-Quisquater -- 15.2.3 Schnorr -- 15.3 NONINTERACTIVE ZERO-KNOWLEDGE -- 15.4 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Part IV CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 16 Key Management -- 16.1 INTRODUCTION -- 16.1.1 Key Generation -- 16.1.2 Key Distribution -- 16.1.3 Key Storage -- 16.1.4 Key Destruction -- 16.2 SECRET SHARING -- 16.2.1 Shamir's System -- 16.2.2 Blakley's System -- 16.2.3 Verifiable Secret Sharing -- 16.2.4 Visual Cryptography -- 16.3 KEY RECOVERY -- 16.4 CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT -- 16.4.1 Introduction -- 16.4.2 X.509 Certificates -- 16.4.3 OpenPGP Certificates -- 16.4.4 State of the Art -- 16.5 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 17 Summary.…”
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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning : a beginner's guide to building automated machine learning systems using AutoML and Python. by Das, Sibanjan

Table of Contents: “…; Why use AutoML and how does it help?; When do you automate ML?; What will you learn?; Core components of AutoML systems; Automated feature preprocessing; Automated algorithm selection; Hyperparameter optimization; Building prototype subsystems for each component; Putting it all together as an end-to-end AutoML system; Overview of AutoML libraries; Featuretools; Auto-sklearn; MLBox; TPOT; Summary.…”
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Hack proofing your network

Table of Contents: “…</br><br> Looking to the Source Code</br><br> Exploring Diff Tools</br><br> Using File-Comparison Tools</br><br> Working with Hex Editors</br><br> Utilizing File System Monitoring Tools</br><br> Finding Other Tools</br><br> Troubleshooting</br><br> Problems with Checksums and Hashes</br><br> Problems with Compression and Encryption</br><br> Summary</br><br> Solutions Fast Track</br><br> Frequently Asked Questions</br><br>Chapter 6 Cryptography</br><br> Introduction</br><br> Understanding Cryptography Concepts</br><br> History</br><br> Encryption Key Types</br><br> Learning about Standard Cryptographic Algorithms</br><br> Understanding Symmetric Algorithms</br><br> Understanding Asymmetric Algorithms</br><br> Understanding Brute Force</br><br> Brute Force Basics</br><br> Using Brute Force to Obtain Passwords</br><br> Knowing When Real Algorithms Are Being Used Improperly</br><br> Bad Key Exchanges</br><br> Hashing Pieces Separately</br><br> Using a Short Password to Generate a Long Key</br><br> Improperly Stored Private or Secret Keys</br><br> Understanding Amateur Cryptography Attempts</br><br> Classifying the Ciphertext</br><br> Monoalphabetic Ciphers</br><br> Other Ways to Hide Information</br><br> Summary</br><br> Solutions Fast Track</br><br> Frequently Asked Questions</br><br>Chapter 7 Unexpected Input</br><br> Introduction</br><br> Understanding Why Unexpected Data Is Dangerous</br><br> Finding Situations Involving Unexpected Data</br><br> Local Applications and Utilities</br><br> HTTP/HTML</br><br> Unexpected Data in SQL Queries</br><br> Application Authentication</br><br> Disguising the Obvious</br><br> Using Techniques to Find and Eliminate Vulnerabilities</br><br> Black-Box Testing</br><br> Use the Source</br><br> Untaint Data by Filtering It</br><br> Escaping Characters Is Not Always Enough</br><br> Perl</br><br> Cold Fusion/Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML)</br><br> ASP</br><br> PHP</br><br> Protecting Your SQL Queries</br><br> Silently Removing versus Alerting on Bad Data</br><br> Invalid Input Function</br><br> Token Substitution</br><br> Utilizing the Available Safety Features in Your Programming Language</br><br> Perl</br><br> PHP</br><br> ColdFusion/ColdFusion Markup Language</br><br> ASP</br><br> MySQL</br><br> Using Tools to Handle Unexpected Data</br><br> Web Sleuth</br><br> CGIAudit</br><br> RATS</br><br> Flawfinder</br><br> Retina</br><br> Hailstorm</br><br> Pudding</br><br> Summary</br><br> Solutions Fast Track</br><br> Frequently Asked Questions</br><br>Chapter 8 Buffer Overflow</br><br> Introduction</br><br> Understanding the Stack</br><br> The Stack Dump</br><br> Oddities and the Stack</br><br> Understanding the Stack Frame</br><br> Introduction to the Stack Frame</br><br> Passing Arguments to a Function: A Sample Program</br><br> Stack Frames and Calling Syntaxes</br><br> Learning about Buffer Overflows</br><br> A Simple Uncontrolled Overflow: A Sample Program</br><br> Creating Your First Overflow</br><br> Creating a Program with an Exploitable Overflow</br><br> Performing the Exploit</br><br> Learning Advanced Overflow Techniques </br><br> Stack Based Function Pointer Overwrite</br><br> Heap Overflows</br><br> Advanced Payload Design</br><br> Using What You Already Have</br><br> Summary</br><br> Solutions Fast Track</br><br> Frequently Asked Questions</br><br>Chapter 9 Format Strings</br><br> Introduction</br><br> Understanding Format String Vulnerabilities</br><br> Why and Where Do Format String Vulnerabilities Exist?…”
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Artificial intelligence in society.

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Swift 2 design patterns : build robust and scalable iOS and Mac OS X game applications by Lange, Julien

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