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This book will help readers gain a solid understanding of
non-functional requirements inherent in systems design endeavors.
It contains essential information for those who design, use and
maintain complex engineered systems, including experienced
designers, teachers of design, system stakeholders and practicing
engineers. Coverage approaches non-functional requirements in a
novel way by presenting a framework of four systems concerns into
which the 27 major non-functional requirements fall: sustainment,
design, adaptation and viability. Within this model, the text
proceeds to define each non-functional requirement, to specify how
each is treated as an element of the system design process and to
develop an associated metric for their evaluation. Systems are
designed to meet specific functional needs. Because non-functional
requirements are not directly related to tasks that satisfy these
proposed needs, designers and stakeholders often fail to recognize
the importance of such attributes as availability, survivability,
and robustness. This book gives readers the tools and knowledge
they need to both recognize the importance of these non-functional
requirements and incorporate them in the design process.
This book is the study of all codes of life with the standard
methods of science. The genetic code and the codes of culture have
been known for a long time and represent the historical foundation
of this book. What is really new in this field is the study of all
codes that came after the genetic code and before the codes of
culture. The existence of these organic codes, however, is not only
a major experimental fact. It is one of those facts that have
extraordinary theoretical implications. The first is that most
events of macroevolution were associated with the origin of new
organic codes, and this gives us a completely new reconstruction of
the history of life. The second implication is that codes involve
meaning and we need therefore to introduce in biology not only the
concept of information but also the concept of biological meaning.
The third theoretical implication comes from the fact that the
organic codes have been highly conserved in evolution, which means
that they are the greatest invariants of life. The study of the
organic codes, in short, is bringing to light new mechanisms that
have operated in the history of life and new fundamental concepts
in biology.
The authors give a detailed summary about the fundamentals and the
historical background of digital communication. This includes an
overview of the encoding principles and algorithms of textual
information, audio information, as well as images, graphics, and
video in the Internet. Furthermore the fundamentals of computer
networking, digital security and cryptography are covered. Thus,
the book provides a well-founded access to communication technology
of computer networks, the internet and the WWW. Numerous pictures
and images, a subject-index and a detailed list of historical
personalities including a glossary for each chapter increase the
practical benefit of this book that is well suited as well as for
undergraduate students as for working practitioners.
This book covers novel research on construction and analysis of
optimal cryptographic functions such as almost perfect nonlinear
(APN), almost bent (AB), planar and bent functions. These functions
have optimal resistance to linear and/or differential attacks,
which are the two most powerful attacks on symmetric cryptosystems.
Besides cryptographic applications, these functions are significant
in many branches of mathematics and information theory including
coding theory, combinatorics, commutative algebra, finite geometry,
sequence design and quantum information theory. The author analyzes
equivalence relations for these functions and develops several new
methods for construction of their infinite families. In addition,
the book offers solutions to two longstanding open problems,
including the problem on characterization of APN and AB functions
via Boolean, and the problem on the relation between two classes of
bent functions.
This thesis focuses on the dynamics of autonomous Boolean networks,
on the basis of Boolean logic functions in continuous time without
external clocking. These networks are realized with integrated
circuits on an electronic chip as a field programmable gate array
(FPGA) with roughly 100,000 logic gates, offering an extremely
flexible model system. It allows fast and cheap design cycles and
large networks with arbitrary topologies and coupling delays.
The author presents pioneering results on theoretical
modeling, experimental realization, and selected
applications. In this regard, three classes of novel dynamic
behavior are investigated: (i) Chaotic Boolean networks are
proposed as high-speed physical random number generators with high
bit rates. (ii) Networks of periodic Boolean oscillators are home
to long-living transient chimera states, i.e., novel patterns of
coexisting domains of spatially coherent (synchronized) and
incoherent (desynchronized) dynamics. (iii) Excitable networks
exhibit cluster synchronization and can be used as fast artificial
Boolean neurons whose spiking patterns can be controlled. This work
presents the first experimental platform for large
complex networks, which will facilitate exciting future
developments.
This is the first book to present a systematic review of
applications of the Haar wavelet method for solving Calculus and
Structural Mechanics problems. Haar wavelet-based solutions for a
wide range of problems, such as various differential and integral
equations, fractional equations, optimal control theory, buckling,
bending and vibrations of elastic beams are considered. Numerical
examples demonstrating the efficiency and accuracy of the Haar
method are provided for all solutions.
This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the
fourth edition of the « Complex Systems Design & Management »
(CSD&M 2013) international conference which took place in Paris
(France) from December 4-6, 2013. These proceedings cover the most
recent trends in the emerging field of complex systems sciences
& practices from an industrial and academic perspective,
including the main industrial domains (transport, defense &
security, electronics, energy & environment, e-services),
scientific & technical topics (systems fundamentals, systems
architecture & engineering, systems metrics & quality,
systemic tools) and system types (transportation systems, embedded
systems, software & information systems, systems of systems,
artificial ecosystems). The CSD&M 2013 conference is organized
under the guidance of the CESAMES non-profit organization.
This book presents selected fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant
control strategies for non-linear systems in a unified framework.
In particular, starting from advanced state estimation strategies
up to modern soft computing, the discrete-time description of the
system is employed Part I of the book presents original research
results regarding state estimation and neural networks for robust
fault diagnosis. Part II is devoted to the presentation of
integrated fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant systems. It starts
with a general fault-tolerant control framework, which is then
extended by introducing robustness with respect to various
uncertainties. Finally, it is shown how to implement the proposed
framework for fuzzy systems described by the well-known
Takagi–Sugeno models. This research monograph is intended for
researchers, engineers, and advanced postgraduate students in
control and electrical engineering, computer science, as well as
mechanical and chemical engineering.
This book is the first publication to give a comprehensive,
structured treatment to the important topic of situational
awareness in cyber defense. It presents the subject in a logical,
consistent, continuous discourse, covering key topics such as
formation of cyber situational awareness, visualization and human
factors, automated learning and inference, use of ontologies and
metrics, predicting and assessing impact of cyber attacks, and
achieving resilience of cyber and physical mission. Chapters
include case studies, recent research results and practical
insights described specifically for this book. Situational
awareness is exceptionally prominent in the field of cyber defense.
It involves science, technology and practice of perception,
comprehension and projection of events and entities in cyber space.
Chapters discuss the difficulties of achieving cyber situational
awareness – along with approaches to overcoming the difficulties
- in the relatively young field of cyber defense where key
phenomena are so unlike the more conventional physical world. Cyber
Defense and Situational Awareness is designed as a reference for
practitioners of cyber security and developers of technology
solutions for cyber defenders. Advanced-level students and
researchers focused on security of computer networks will also find
this book a valuable resource.
The analysis of recurrences in dynamical systems by using
recurrence plots and their quantification is still an emerging
field. Over the past decades recurrence plots have proven to be
valuable data visualization and analysis tools in the theoretical
study of complex, time-varying dynamical systems as well as in
various applications in biology, neuroscience, kinesiology,
psychology, physiology, engineering, physics, geosciences,
linguistics, finance, economics, and other disciplines. This
multi-authored book intends to comprehensively introduce and
showcase recent advances as well as established best practices
concerning both theoretical and practical aspects of recurrence
plot based analysis. Edited and authored by leading researcher in
the field, the various chapters address an interdisciplinary
readership, ranging from theoretical physicists to
application-oriented scientists in all data-providing disciplines.
Written by an interdisciplinary team of global experts covering
diverse research methods - including research design, research
tools, and statistical techniques - this volume focuses on advanced
research methods for anyone working in the social and behavioral
sciences. The information needed to perform research in the
laboratory, the field, or online is mapped out to provide specific
applications and tools in applying each method. The issues
surrounding reliability, validity, and obtaining consent are
explained alongside detailed descriptions of the impact of
pre-knowledge on participant behavior, the ways that researchers
unintentionally influence participants, and tips on administering
suspicion probes and debriefings. The book then lays out
bio-physiological measures, eye-tracking methods and technologies,
the construction of questionnaires, and reaction-time methodologies
without assuming too much prior knowledge. The basics of Bayesian
analysis, item response analysis, social network analysis, and
meta-analysis are also summarised as the editors combine innovative
methods and statistics to showcase how to perform quality research.
Doubt over the trustworthiness of published empirical results is
not unwarranted and is often a result of statistical
mis-specification: invalid probabilistic assumptions imposed on
data. Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook offers a
comprehensive course in empirical research methods, teaching the
probabilistic and statistical foundations that enable the
specification and validation of statistical models, providing the
basis for an informed implementation of statistical procedure to
secure the trustworthiness of evidence. Each chapter has been
thoroughly updated, accounting for developments in the field and
the author's own research. The comprehensive scope of the textbook
has been expanded by the addition of a new chapter on the Linear
Regression and related statistical models. This new edition is now
more accessible to students of disciplines beyond economics and
includes more pedagogical features, with an increased number of
examples as well as review questions and exercises at the end of
each chapter.
Named for their probably mythical leader, Ned Ludd, the Luddites
were a group of social agitators in nineteenth-century Britain who
tried to prevent the mechanization of cloth factories, which they
blamed for increased unemployment, poverty, and hunger in
industrial centers. Though famous for their often violent protests,
the Luddites also engaged in literary resistance in the form of
poems, proclamations, petitions, songs, and letters. In Writings of
the Luddites, Kevin Binfield collects complete texts written by
Luddites or Luddite sympathizers between 1811 and 1816, adds
detailed notes, and organizes the documents by the three primary
regions of origin: the Midlands, Northwestern England, and
Yorkshire. Binfield's extensive introduction provides a historical
overview of the Luddites and their activities, explores their
rhetorical strategies, and illuminates their literary context.
Written for the most part from a collective point of view, the
texts themselves range from judicious to bloodthirsty in tone and
reveal a fascination both with legal forms of address and with the
more personal forms of Romantic literature, as well as with the
recent political revolutions in France and America.
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