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Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering. by Cui, Lirong

Table of Contents: “…4.3.1 Run and Phrase -- 4.3.2 Multi-State Compression Algorithm -- 4.4 Proposed Multi-State Inference Algorithm -- 4.4.1 Rules for Calculating Intermediate Variables -- 4.4.2 Proposed Multi-State Inference Algorithm -- 4.5 Case Study -- 4.5.1 Case Background -- 4.5.2 Calculation and Analysis -- 4.6 Summary -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- Chapter 5 Reliability Analysis of Demand-Based Warm Standby System with Multi-State Common Bus -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Model Description for a DBWSS with Multi-State Common Bus Performance Sharing…”
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PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. by Wichert, Andreas

Table of Contents: “…Computation; 2.1 Entscheidungsproblem; 2.1.1 Cantor's diagonal argument; 2.1.2 Reductio ad absurdum; 2.2 Complexity Theory; 2.2.1 Decision problems; 2.2.2 P and NP; 2.3 Church-Turing Thesis; 2.3.1 Church-Turing-Deutsch principle; 2.4 Computers; 2.4.1 Analog computers; 2.4.2 Digital computers; 2.4.3 Von Neumann architecture; 3. …”
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Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger : Building Decentralized Applications with Hyperledger Fabric and Composer. by Baset, Salman

Table of Contents: “…Decentralization with systemic governanceEnterprise support; Use case-driven pluggability choices; Shared ledger technology; Consensus; Crypto algorithms and encryption technology; Use case-driven pluggable choices; Enterprise integration and designing for extensibility; Other considerations; Consensus, ACID property, and CAP; CAP; ACID; Attestation -- SSCs are signed and encrypted; Use of HSMs; Summary; Chapter 2: Exploring Hyperledger Fabric; Building on the foundations of open computing; Fundamentals of the Hyperledger project; The Linux Foundation ; Hyperledger.…”
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Cognitive Electronic Warfare : An Artificial Intelligence Approach. by Haigh, Karen

Table of Contents: “…-- 1.5 Reader's Guide -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Objective Function -- 2.1 Observables That Describe the Environment -- 2.1.1 Clustering Environments -- 2.2 Control Parameters to Change Behavior -- 2.3 Metrics to Evaluate Performance -- 2.4 Creating a Utility Function -- 2.5 Utility Function Design Considerations -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 ML Primer -- 3.1 Common ML Algorithms -- 3.1.1 SVMs -- 3.1.2 ANNs -- 3.2 Ensemble Methods -- 3.3 Hybrid ML -- 3.4 Open-Set Classification -- 3.5 Generalization and Meta-learning -- 3.6 Algorithmic Trade-Offs -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Electronic Support -- 4.1 Emitter Classification and Characterization -- 4.1.1 Feature Engineering and Behavior Characterization -- 4.1.2 Waveform Classification -- 4.1.3 SEI -- 4.2 Performance Estimation -- 4.3 Multi-Intelligence Data Fusion -- 4.3.1 Data Fusion Approaches -- 4.3.2 Example: 5G Multi-INT Data Fusion for Localization -- 4.3.3 Distributed-Data Fusion -- 4.4 Anomaly Detection -- 4.5 Causal Relationships -- 4.6 Intent Recognition -- 4.6.1 Automatic Target Recognition and Tracking -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5 EP and EA -- 5.1 Optimization -- 5.1.1 Multi-Objective Optimization -- 5.1.2 Searching Through the Performance Landscape -- 5.1.3 Optimization Metalearning -- 5.2 Scheduling -- 5.3 Anytime Algorithms -- 5.4 Distributed Optimization -- 5.5 Conclusion.…”
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension : diagnosis and evidence-based treatment

Table of Contents: “…Combination therapy in pulmonary arterial hypertension / Anne Keogh and Marius Hoeper -- Interventional and surgical modalities of treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension / Julio Sandoval and Ramona Doyle -- End points and clinical trial design in pulmonary arterial hypertension : clinical and regulatory perspectives / Andrew J. …”
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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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A Case for the Existence of God. by Overman, Dean L.

Table of Contents: “…A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD; ABRIDGED CONTENTS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 01: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 02: THE QUESTION OF GOD'S EXISTENCE; Chapter 03: MANY GENERATIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS HAVE MADE THE MISTAKE OF ASSUMING HUME AND KANT'S OBJECTIONS DISPOSED OF THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT; Chapter 04: A UNIVERSE WITH AN INFINITE PAST WOULD STILL REQUIRE A NECESSARY BEING TO SUSTAIN ITS EXISTENCE; Chapter 05: BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE (OR MULTIVERSE) HAD A BEGINNING, IT IS CONTINGENT AND HAS A CAUSE FOR ITS COMING INTO EXISTENCE.…”
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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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Applied mechatronics and android robotics : selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Applied Mechatronics and Android Robotics (ICAMAR 2013), July 13-14,...

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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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Parallel computing : technology trends

Table of Contents: “…Feedback-Driven Performance and Precision Tuning for Automatic Fixed Point Exploitation -- Parallel Programming -- A GPU-CUDA Framework for Solving a Two-Dimensional Inverse Anomalous Diffusion Problem -- Parallelization Strategies for GPU-Based Ant Colony Optimization Applied to TSP -- DBCSR: A Blocked Sparse Tensor Algebra Library -- Acceleration of Hydro Poro-Elastic Damage Simulation in a Shared-Memory Environment -- BERTHA and PyBERTHA: State of the Art for Full Four-Component Dirac-Kohn-Sham Calculations -- Prediction-Based Partitions Evaluation Algorithm for Resource Allocation…”
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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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R High Performance Programming. by Lim, Aloysius

Table of Contents: “…Data parallelism versus task parallelismImplementing data parallel algorithms; Implementing task parallel algorithms; Running the same task on workers in a cluster; Running different tasks on workers in a cluster; Executing tasks in parallel on a cluster of computers; Shared memory versus distributed memory parallelism; Optimizing parallel performance; Summary; Chapter 9: Offloading Data Processing to Database Systems; Extracting data into R versus processing data in a database; Preprocessing data in a relational database using SQL; Converting R expressions into SQL; Using dplyr…”
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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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Smart buildings, smart communities and demand response

Table of Contents: “…Demand Response in Smart Zero Energy Buildings and Grids / Nikos Kampelis -- DR in Smart and Near-zero Energy Buildings: The Leaf Community / Nikos Kampelis, Konstantinos Gobakis, Vagias Vagias, Denia Kolokotsa, Laura Standardi, Daniela Isidori, Cristina Cristalli, Fabio Maria Montagnino, Filippo Paredes, Pietro Muratore, Luca Venezia, Marina Kyprianou Dracou, Alaric Montenon, Andri Pyrgou, Theoni Karlessi, Mattheos Santamouris -- Performance of Industrial and Residential Near-zero Energy Buildings / Nikos Kampelis, Konstantinos Gobakis, Vagias Vagias, Denia Kolokotsa, Laura Standardi, Daniela Isidori, Cristina Cristalli, Fabio Maria Montagnino, Filippo Paredes, Pietro Muratore, Luca Venezia, Marina Kyprianou Dracou, Alaric Montenon, Andri Pyrgou, Theoni Karlessi, Mattheos Santamouris -- HVAC Optimization Genetic Algorithm for Industrial Near-Zero Energy Building Demand Response / Nikos Kampelis, Nikolaos Sifakis, Denia Kolokotsa, Konstantinos Gobakis, Konstantinos Kalaitzakis, Daniela Isidori, Cristina Cristalli -- Smart Grid/Community Load Shifting GA Optimization Based on Day-ahead ANN Power Predictions / Nikos Kampelis, Elisavet Tsekeri, Denia Kolokotsa, Konstantinos Kalaitzakis, Daniela Isidori, Cristina Cristalli -- Conclusions and Recommendations.…”
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Social sensing : building reliable systems on unreliable data by Wang, Dong, Abdelzaher, Tarek, Kaplan, Lance

Table of Contents: “…Kaplan; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1: A new information age; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Challenges; 1.3 State of the Art; 1.3.1 Efforts on Discount Fusion; 1.3.2 Efforts on Trust and Reputation Systems; 1.3.3 Efforts on Fact-Finding; 1.4 Organization; Chapter 2: Social Sensing Trends and Applications; 2.1 Information Sharing: The Paradigm Shift; 2.2 An Application Taxonomy; 2.3 Early Research; 2.4 The Present Time.…”
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Communicating process architectures 2002. by World Occam And Transputer User Group. Technical Meeting (25th: 2002: University Of Reading, U. K.)

Table of Contents: “…Acceptances, Behaviours and Infinite Activity in CSPP; HCSP: Imperative State and True Concurrency; Consolidating the Agreement Problem Protocol Verification Environment; On the Complexity of Buffer Allocation in Message Passing Systems; Java PastSet -- A Structured Distributed Shared Memory System; Synchronous Active Objects Introduce CSP's Primitives in Java; Configurable Collective Communication in LAM-MPI; Cache-Affinity Scheduling for Fine Grain Multithreading.…”
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