The second edition of Predicting Outdoor Sound is an up-to-date reference on the propagation of sound close to the ground and its prediction. New content includes comparisons between predictions and data for road traffic, railway and wind turbine noise; descriptions of source characteristics in the HARMONOISE model; propagation over rough seas, parallel low walls, and lattices; outlines of numerical methods; gabion (caged stones) and sonic crystal noise barriers; meteorological effects on noise barrier performance; and the prediction requirements for auralization. The book brings together relevant theories, prediction schemes, and data, thereby providing a basis for determining what model or scheme might be applicable for any situation. It also offers a background on useful analytical approximations and the restrictions, as well as difficulties and limitations associated with engineering prediction schemes. The text should be of considerable interest to researchers in outdoor sound propagation and, more generally, it should provide a comprehensive primer on the topic for lecturers, consultants and students in acoustics and noise control.

Energy demand will increase by 70% by the year of 2030, and with the continual day-by-day depletion of traditional energy sources, there is a vast need to continue the development of dependable renewable energy sources that are locally available and that enhance energy generation efficiency. This important resource, Deregulated Electricity Market: A Smart Grid Perspective, presents the topical issues of the deregulated electricity market, focusing on the integration of renewable sources with engineering approaches. The volume identifies and explores the deregulated electricity market s and looks at different renewable generation techniques and their operation and control issues. It considers the various power quality issues with renewable energy generation interfaced with smart grids and their solution techniques. It also addresses the various integration challenges of the energy storage systems and energy management of electric vehicles in the smart grid environment. Topics include methods for frequency, angle, and voltage monitoring in smart grids; load frequency and voltage control pricing; grid integration of wind energy generation systems; tracking and management techniques; performance analysis; and more. This volume is an important resource for scientists, researchers, students, and academicians across the globe concerned with adopting and implementing novel research on smart power grids and renewable energy systems.

Defines concepts and processes of software and software development, such as agile processes, requirements engineering, and software architecture, design, construction Uncovers and answers various misconceptions about the software development process and presents an up-to-date reflection on the state of practice in the industry Details how non-software engineers can better communicate their needs to software engineers and more effectively participate in design and testing to ultimately lower software development and maintenance costs Helps answer the question: How can I better leverage embedded software in my design? Adds new chapters on software architecture, software engineering and systems, and software engineering and disruptive technologies, as well as information on cybersecurity Features new appendices that describe a sample automation system, covering software requirements, architecture, and design

UAV swarm network has been used in many critical applications, such as disaster recovery, area surveillance, weather monitoring, and military communications. There are many challenging R&D issues in UAV network designs, such as the hardware/software integration for a large-scale UAV network management, long-distance data transmissions among UAVs, swarm shape/formation control, and intelligent UAV mobility/position prediction. This book will be the first one to cover the engineering designs (especially network protocol designs) for dynamic, large-scale UAV network. It has the technical models/algorithms and protocol specifications for practical UAV swarm network deployment. Features: Includes chapters written by professors, researchers, engineers, and experts in UAV networking fields Details network protocol descriptions for practical engineering designs Covers 7-layer protocols (particularly data routing layer) Presents novel AI models/algorithms for intelligent UAV swarming/networking control Highlights practical hardware/software implementations for advanced UAV networks This book is suitable to a variety of audiences: (1) industry UAV R&D engineers, administrators, or technicians, who would like to grasp the latest trends in UAV communications; (2) college graduate students or researchers, who may want to pursue some advanced research on large-scale UAV swarming and networking technologies; (3) government agencies that determine the future society development in this exciting field; and (4) other interested readers with a strong desire to understand the challenges of designing a QoS-oriented UAV network. The book editors are: Dr. Fei Hu, Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; Dr. Xin-Lin Huang, Professor in Information and Communication Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; and Dr. DongXiu Ou, Professor in Transportation Information Institute at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Covers all emergent materials (natural and artificial) that are promising for optical, infrared, and terahertz applications Comparatively analyzes these materials, elucidating their unique advantages, limitations, and application scopes Provides an up-to-date record on achievements and progress in cutting-edge optical, infrared, and terahertz applications Offers a comprehensive overview to connect multidisciplinary fields, such as materials, physics, and optics, to serve as a basis for future progress

The primary goal of this book is to address the issues faced by teachers in the adoption of digital tools into their teaching and their students learning. This book also addresses the issues confronting educators in the integration of digital technologies into their teaching and their students' learning. Such issues include a skepticism of the added value of technology to educational learning outcomes, the perception of the requirement to keep up with the fast pace of technological innovation, a lack of knowledge of affordable educational digital tools and a lack of understanding of pedagogical strategies to embrace digital technologies in their teaching. This book presents theoretical perspectives of learning and teaching today's digital students with technology and proposes a pragmatic and sustainable framework for teachers' professional learning to embed digital technologies into their repertoire of teaching strategies in a systematic, coherent and comfortable manner so that technology integration becomes an almost effortless pedagogy in their day-to-day teaching. Some of the objectives are given below: Shares valuable insights into the influence of technology on teaching and learning in higher education Provides deeper insights on higher education and sustainability interact Studies innovations from various perspectives Investigates how the educators and students apply the unique innovative and emotional dimensions in modern age of learning Provides a timely overview of changes in education reforms and policy research globally Evaluates the problematic relationship between globalization, the state, and education reforms.

This book focusses on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Mining for Modern Engineering and Healthcare Applications and the recent technological advancements in Microwave Engineering, Communication and applicability of newly developed Solid State Technologies in Bio-medical Engineering and Health-Care. The Reader will be able to know the recent advancements in Microwave Engineering including novel techniques in Microwave Antenna Design and various aspects of Microwave Propagation. This book aims to showcase, the various aspects of Communication, Networking, Data Mining, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Bio-Statistics and Machine Learning. In this book, recent trends in Solid State Technologies, VLSI and applicability of modern Electronic Devices in Bio-informatics and Health-Care is focused. Furthermore, this book showcases the modern optimization techniques in Power System Engineering, Machine Design and Power Systems. This Book highlights the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Mining for Modern Engineering and Healthcare Applications and the recent technological advancements in Microwave Engineering, Communication and applicability of newly developed Solid State Technologies in Bio-medical Engineering and Health-Care for day-to-day applications. Societal benefits of Microwave Technologies for smooth and hustle-free life are also areas of major focus. Microwave Engineering includes recent advancements and novel techniques in Microwave Antenna Design and various aspects of Microwave Propagation. Day-to-Day applicability of modern communication and networking technologies are a matter of prime concern. This book aims to showcase, the various aspects of Communication, Networking, Data Mining, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Bio-Statistics and Machine Learning. Role of Solid Sate Engineering in development of modern electronic gadgets are discussed. In this book, recent trends in Solid State Technologies, VLSI and applicability of modern Electronic Devices in Bio-informatics and Biosensing Devices for Smart Health care are also discussed. Features: This book features Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Mining for Modern Engineering and Healthcare Applications and the recent technological advancements in Microwave Engineering, Communication and applicability of newly developed Solid State Technologies in Bio-medical Engineering and Smart Health-Care Technologies Showcases the novel techniques in Internet of Things (IoT) integrated Microwave Antenna Design and various aspects of Microwave Communication Highlights the role of Internet of Things (IoT) various aspects of Communication, Networking, Data Mining, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Bio-Statistics and Machine Learning Reviews the role of Internet of Things (IoT) in Solid State Technologies, VLSI and applicability of modern Electronic Devices in Bio-informatics and Health-Care In this book, role of Internet of Things (IoT) in Power System Engineering, Optics, RF and Microwave Energy Harvesting and Smart Biosensing Technologies are also highlighted

The recent COVID-19 global pandemic exemplifies the need for efficient, reliable, and real-time tools and technology for forecasting and predicting healthcare disasters as well as for helping to restrict subsequent spread and fatality of deadly diseases. This new book discusses many of the innovative and state-of-the-art tools and technology that can help meet the challenges of predicting such disasters. The chapters offer a plethora of useful information for designing healthcare disaster management systems that can be dynamically configurable with implementation of today’s modern technology, such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, IoT, data analytics, and machine learning. These can increase effectiveness in remote sensing technologies, data analytics, data storage, communication networks, geographic information system (GIS), and global positioning System (GPS), to name a few. The book discusses mathematical models using graph-based approaches for analyzing dynamic, heterogeneous, and unstructured data for applications in epidemiology. The authors also address the use of mobile applications for communication efforts and remote monitoring for gauging health and the effectiveness of preventive healthcare measures. The chapters discuss influencing factors that directly or indirectly target public health infrastructure that can lead to or exacerbate global health crises, such as extreme climate changes, refugee health crises, terrorism and cyberterrorism, and technology-related incidents. The book further looks at efficient methods to analyze disasters and how to deliver healthcare in areas of conflict and crisis. This important volume, Global Healthcare Disasters: Predicting the Unpredictable with Emerging Technologies, provides a bounty of useful information for health professionals, academicians, researchers, governmental agencies, and policymakers across the world to predict, mitigate, and manage global health disaster with emerging technologies.

Semantic web technologies (SWTs) offer the richest machine-interpretable (rather than just machine-processable) and explicit semantics that are being extensively used in various domains and industries. This book provides a roadmap for semantic web technologies (SWTs) and highlights their role in a wide range of domains including cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, sensor network, and so forth. It also explores the prospects of these technologies including different data interchange formats, query languages, ontologies, Linked Data, and notations. The role of SWTs in 'epidemic Covid-19', 'e-learning platforms and systems', 'block chain', 'open online courses', and 'visual analytics in healthcare' is described as well. This book: Explores all the critical aspects of semantic web technologies (SWTs) Discusses the impact of SWTs on cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, and sensor network Offers a comprehensive examination of the emerging research in the areas of SWTs and their related domains Provides a template to develop a wide range of smart and intelligent applications Includes latest applications and examples with real data This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in computer science, informatics, web technology, cloud computing, and Internet of Things.

This comprehensive reference text discusses nature inspired algorithms and their applications. It presents the methodology to write new algorithms with the help of MATLAB programs and instructions for better understanding of concepts. It covers well-known algorithms including evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithm, particle Swarm optimization and differential evolution, and recent approached including gray wolf optimization. A separate chapter discusses test case generation using techniques such as particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, and differential evolution algorithm. The book- Discusses in detail various nature inspired algorithms and their applications Provides MATLAB programs for the corresponding algorithm Presents methodology to write new algorithms Examines well-known algorithms like the genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization and differential evolution, and recent approaches like gray wolf optimization. Provides conceptual linking of algorithms with theoretical concepts The text will be useful for graduate students in the field of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science and engineering. Discussing nature inspired algorithms and their applications in a single volume, this text will be useful as a reference text for graduate students in the field of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science and engineering. It discusses important algorithms including deterministic algorithms, randomized algorithms, evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimization, big bang big crunch (BB-BC) algorithm, genetic algorithm and grey wolf optimization algorithm. "

At present, both Industry 4.0 and industrial engineering management developments are reshaping the industrial sector worldwide. Industry 4.0 and sustainability are considered as the crucial emerging trends in industrial production systems. The resulting transformations are changing production modes from traditional to digital, intelligent, and decentralized. It is expected that Industry 4.0 will help drive sustainability in industries thanks to the implementation of advanced technology and a move towards social sustainability. This book reflects on the consequences of the transition to Industry 4.0 for climate change. The book presents a systemic overview of the current negative impacts of digitization on the environment and showcases a new outline of the energy domain and expected changes in environmental pollution levels under Industry 4.0. It also analyzes the ecological consequences of the growth and development of Industry 4.0 and considers Industry 4.0 as an alternative to fighting climate change, in the sense of shifting the global community's attention from environmental protection to consolidation of the digital economy. This book will be of interest to academicians and practitioners in the fields of climate change and development of Industry 4.0, and it will contribute to national economic policies for fighting climate change and corporate strategies of sustainable development under Industry 4.0.

In this book, the authors write about creativity in teaching and how to enhance creativity in learners. They highlight the new reality of teaching and learning in the digital era, specifically the impact of artificial intelligence, data economy, and artificial minds on modern teaching practices, curriculum design, and the role of teachers in classrooms. Creativity in Teaching and Teaching for Creativity: Modern Practices in the Digital Era approaches human intelligence as a universal gift. It emphasizes that the creativity of human beings is not only a natural quality, but one that can be enhanced as a result of learning. The book suggests new teaching models and approaches and discusses how the role of teachers in the classroom has fundamentally changed, emphasizing the emotional connection between students and teachers. The book will find interest among higher education policymakers who believe in the transformation of the education industry, research scholars who are pursuing their Ph.D. in the fields of education technology and education and learning, as well as those working in the area of education technology and artificial intelligence.

This book presents novel hybrid encryption algorithms that possess many different characteristics. In particular, "Hybrid Encryption Algorithms over Wireless Communication Channels", examines encrypted image and video data for the purpose of secure wireless communications. A study of two different families of encryption schemes are introduced: namely, permutation-based and diffusion-based schemes. The objective of the book is to help the reader selecting the best suited scheme for the transmission of encrypted images and videos over wireless communications channels, with the aid of encryption and decryption quality metrics. This is achieved by applying number-theory based encryption algorithms, such as chaotic theory with different modes of operations, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and the RC6 in a pre-processing step in order to achieve the required permutation and diffusion. The Rubik's cube is used afterwards in order to maximize the number of permutations. Transmission of images and videos is vital in today's communications systems. Hence, an effective encryption and modulation schemes are a must. The author adopts Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), as the multicarrier transmission choice for wideband communications. For completeness, the author addresses the sensitivity of the encrypted data to the wireless channel impairments, and the effect of channel equalization on the received images and videos quality. Complete simulation experiments with MATLAB (R) codes are included. The book will help the reader obtain the required understanding for selecting the suitable encryption method that best fulfills the application requirements.

Provides an introductory level discussion that covers the functions and architectures of the switch/router Focuses on the fundamental concepts that underline the design of switch/routers in general Explains how a routing protocol uses a routing metric to select the best path to a network destination when multiple paths exist Discusses in greater detail the various design methods, and the well-known architectures associated with switch/routers Provides example architectures that illustrate how real-world switch/routers are designed

Discusses the design goals and key features switch/router manufacturers consider when designing their products Explains the design and architectural considerations, as well as the typical processes and steps used to build practical switch/routers Describes the components of a switch/router that are used in configuring, managing, and monitoring it Discusses the advantages of using Ethernet in today's networks and why Ethernet continues to play a bigger role in Local Area Network (LAN), Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), and Wide Area Network (WAN) design Describes typical networking applications of switch/routers, particularly, in enterprise and Internet service provider (ISP) networks

Provides an introductory level discussion that covers the functions and architectures of the switch/router Focuses on the fundamental concepts that underline the design of switch/routers in general Explains how a routing protocol uses a routing metric to select the best path to a network destination when multiple paths exist Discusses in greater detail the various design methods, and the well-known architectures associated with switch/routers Provides example architectures that illustrate how real-world switch/routers are designed

Discusses the design goals and key features switch/router manufacturers consider when designing their products Explains the design and architectural considerations, as well as the typical processes and steps used to build practical switch/routers Describes the components of a switch/router that are used in configuring, managing, and monitoring it Discusses the advantages of using Ethernet in today's networks and why Ethernet continues to play a bigger role in Local Area Network (LAN), Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), and Wide Area Network (WAN) design Describes typical networking applications of switch/routers, particularly, in enterprise and Internet service provider (ISP) networks

This book provides a comprehensive overview of blockchain for 6G-enabled network-based applications. Following the key services of blockchain technology, this book will be instrumental to ideate and understand the necessities, challenges, and various case studies of different 6G-based applications. The emphasis is on understanding the contributions of blockchain technology in 6G-enabled applications, and its aim is to give insights into evolution, research directions, challenges, and the ways to empower 6G applications through blockchain. The book consistently emphasizes the missing connection between blockchain and 6G-enabled network applications. The entire ecosystem between these two futuristic technologies is explained in a comprehensive manner. The book constitutes a one-stop guide to students, researchers, and industry professionals. The book progresses from a general introduction toward more technical aspects while remaining easy to understand throughout. Comprehensive elaboration of material is supplemented with examples and diagrams, followed by easily understandable approaches with regard to technical information given thereon. Blockchain and its applications in 6G-enabled applications can drive many powerful solutions to real-world technical, scientific, and social problems. This book presents the most recent and exciting advances in blockchain for 6G-enabled network applications. Overall, this book is a complete outlet and is designed exclusively for professionals, scientists, technologists, developers, designers, and researchers in network technologies around blockchain integration with IoT, blockchain technology, information technology, and 6G-enabled industrial applications. Secondary readers include professionals involved in policy making and administration, security of public data and law, network policy developers, blockchain technology experts, regulators, and decision makers in government administrations.

This book provides an essential overview of IoT, energy-efficient topology control protocols, motivation, and challenges for topology control for Wireless Sensor Networks, and the scope of the research in the domain of IoT. Further, it discusses the different design issues of topology control and energy models for IoT applications, different types of simulators with their advantages and disadvantages. It also discusses extensive simulation results and comparative analysis for various algorithms. The key point of this book is to present a solution to minimize energy and extend the lifetime of IoT networks using optimization methods to improve the performance. Features: Describes various facets necessary for energy optimization in IoT domain. Covers all aspects to achieve energy optimization using latest technologies and algorithms, in wireless sensor networks. Presents various IoT and Topology Control Methods and protocols, various network models, and model simulation using MATLAB (R). Reviews methods and results of optimization with Simulation Hardware architecture leading to prolonged life of IoT networks. First time introduces bio-inspired algorithms in the IoT domain for performance optimization This book aims at Graduate Students, Researchers in Information Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering.

A pandemic does not only bring health concerns for society but also significantly affects individuals and government and business operations. Recently, COVID-19 has substantially hampered conventional businesses and organizations worldwide. Digital technology can help achieve business continuity and overcome challenges caused by pandemic situations. Digital innovation is the application of digital technology to existing business problems. Ideas such as digital transformation and digitization are closely related to digital innovation. In this pandemic period, many businesses recognize that they need to transform, innovate, and adopt new technologies to stay competitive. However, digital transformation is an inherently complex process, and the time pressure to adopt quickly may result in further complexities for organizations in fostering digital technologies. Digital Innovations for Pandemics: Concepts, Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities presents the potential of digital responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores new digital concepts for learning and teaching, provides an overview of organizational responses to the crisis through digital technologies, and examines digital solutions developed to manage the crisis. Examining how information systems researchers can contribute to these global efforts, this book seeks to showcase how consumers, citizens, entrepreneurs, organizations, institutions, and governments are leveraging new and emerging digital innovations to disrupt and transform value creation in the pandemic era. It captures the breadth of digital innovations carried out to handle the pandemic and looks at the use of digital technologies to strengthen various processes. The book features the following: Solutions on how digital technologies enable responses to a global crisis An analysis of information systems used during the management of the COVID-19 pandemic New concepts for digital business and innovative content models for different sectors This book is written for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars in the field of digital business, education, and healthcare. It includes theoretical chapters and case studies from leading scholars and practitioners on the technology-adoption practices of non-government organizations (NGOs), government, and business.

This new volume, Real-Life Applications of the Internet of Things: Challenges, Applications, and Advances, provides an overview of the Internet of Things along with its architectures, its vital technologies their uses in our daily life and other domains, and associated challenges. The book also covers some advanced topics where IoT is combined with other emerging technologies, such as blockchain and cloud, which will bring a revolution in the era of IoT. Topics in the volume cover the many powerful features and applications of IoT, such as for weather forecasting, in agriculture, in medical science, in surveillance systems, and much more. The first section of the book covers many of the issues and challenging arising from the Internet of Things. The section explores security challenges, such as attack detection and prevention systems as well as energy efficiency and resource management in IoT. Part II introduces various application areas of IoT, including the uses of smart technology in agricultural management, in healthcare diagnosis and monitoring, and in the financial industry. The third section of the book discusses the integration of IoT with blockchain, cloud, and big data and features some advanced topics. The variety of topics includes surveillance network technology, the shift from television to video streaming apps and the technology involved, using IoT-fog computing for smart healthcare, detection of anomalies in climate conditions, and even detection of illegal wood logging activity. The informative chapters in this volume will shed light on the varied challenges, issues, and advances in IoT technology and culture for scientists and researchers, faculty and students, and industry professionals.

As long as humans write software, the key to successful software security is making the software development program process more efficient and effective. Although the approach of this textbook includes people, process, and technology approaches to software security, Practical Core Software Security: A Reference Framework stresses the people element of software security, which is still the most important part to manage as software is developed, controlled, and exploited by humans. The text outlines a step-by-step process for software security that is relevant to today's technical, operational, business, and development environments. It focuses on what humans can do to control and manage a secure software development process using best practices and metrics. Although security issues will always exist, students learn how to maximize an organization's ability to minimize vulnerabilities in software products before they are released or deployed by building security into the development process. The authors have worked with Fortune 500 companies and have often seen examples of the breakdown of security development lifecycle (SDL) practices. The text takes an experience-based approach to apply components of the best available SDL models in dealing with the problems described above. Software security best practices, an SDL model, and framework are presented in this book. Starting with an overview of the SDL, the text outlines a model for mapping SDL best practices to the software development life cycle (SDLC). It explains how to use this model to build and manage a mature SDL program. Exercises and an in-depth case study aid students in mastering the SDL model. Professionals skilled in secure software development and related tasks are in tremendous demand today. The industry continues to experience exponential demand that should continue to grow for the foreseeable future. This book can benefit professionals as much as students. As they integrate the book's ideas into their software security practices, their value increases to their organizations, management teams, community, and industry.

This book provides a collection of papers from the Ninth Workshop on Computing: Theory and Practice, WCTP 2019 devoted to theoretical and practical approaches to computation, which was organized by four top universities in Japan and the Philippines: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka University, the University of the Philippines Diliman, and De La Salle University. The proceedings provide a broad overview of recent research trends in computer science research in Asia, particularly in these two countries. The papers included in the proceedings focus on both theoretical and practical aspects of computations, such as programming language theory, modeling of software systems, applications of machine learning, empathic computing, and various applications of information technology.

An Image Processing Tour of College Mathematics aims to provide meaningful context for reviewing key topics of the college mathematics curriculum, to help students gain confidence in using concepts and techniques of applied mathematics, to increase student awareness of recent developments in mathematical sciences, and to help students prepare for graduate studies. The topics covered include a library of elementary functions, basic concepts of descriptive statistics, probability distributions of functions of random variables, definitions and concepts behind first- and second-order derivatives, most concepts and techniques of traditional linear algebra courses, an introduction to Fourier analysis, and a variety of discrete wavelet transforms - all of that in the context of digital image processing. Features Pre-calculus material and basic concepts of descriptive statistics are reviewed in the context of image processing in the spatial domain. Key concepts of linear algebra are reviewed both in the context of fundamental operations with digital images and in the more advanced context of discrete wavelet transforms. Some of the key concepts of probability theory are reviewed in the context of image equalization and histogram matching. The convolution operation is introduced painlessly and naturally in the context of naive filtering for denoising and is subsequently used for edge detection and image restoration. An accessible elementary introduction to Fourier analysis is provided in the context of image restoration. Discrete wavelet transforms are introduced in the context of image compression, and the readers become more aware of some of the recent developments in applied mathematics. This text helps students of mathematics ease their way into mastering the basics of scientific computer programming.

An ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, or Architecture, etc. Of use to the Construction-related legal profession, Property Managers and Letting Agents. Builders (and homeowners, interested in identifying faults in their property), should also benefit from this book. Covers a wide range of new and old building terms, techniques, technologies, and materials, but much more extensively than the average dictionary. The alphabetical format makes it easy to check up on terms and subject-areas quickly -- and the detailed coverage (including helpful drawings/illustrated figures) provides clear guidance to the reader.