This open access book offers an analysis of why preparations for digital disruption should become a stated goal of security policy and policies that aim to safeguard the continuity of critical infrastructure. The increasing use of digital technology implies new and significant vulnerabilities for our society. However, it is striking that almost all cyber-security measures taken by governments, …
Modern workplaces are following a strong trend of increasing flexible working practices and approaches, offering more flexibility in working times, working places, work organization, and work relations as the result of new information and communication technologies. This book brings together a group of internationally recognized experts in the field of flexible work to examine the psychological…
This book delves deep into the hidden population of former gang members who share their positive and negative experiences of being gang members. Their stories of violence, hopelessness, despair, and loneliness also offer a seed of hope – they contain the building blocks for prevention. By understanding why they each turned to gangs, how they turned to gangs, and what went wrong for some along…
This book aims to present a viable alternative to the Hopfield Neural Network (HNN) model for analog computation. It is well known the standard HNN suffers from problems of convergence to local minima, and requirement of a large number of neurons and synaptic weights. Therefore, improved solutions are needed. The non-linear synapse neural network (NoSyNN) is one such possibility and is discusse…
During the last one and a half decades, wireless sensor networks have witnessed significant growth and tremendous development in both academia and industry. “The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks: Volume 1: Fundamentals” focuses on the fundamentals concepts in the design, analysis, and implementation of wireless sensor networks. It covers the various layers of the lifecycle of this type …
This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains accepted papers presented at IBICA2013, the 4th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-inspired Computing and Applications. The aim of IBICA 2013 was to provide a platform for world research leaders and practitioners, to discuss the full spectrum of current theoretical developments, emerging technologies, and innovati…
This volume collects a selection of contributions which has been presented at the 23rd Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, the yearly meeting of the Italian Society for Neural Networks (SIREN). The conference was held in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy during May 23-24, 2013. The annual meeting of SIREN is sponsored by International Neural Network Society (INNS), European Neural Network Societ…
Process Control for Sheet-Metal Stamping presents a comprehensive and structured approach to the design and implementation of controllers for the sheet metal stamping process. The use of process control for sheet-metal stamping greatly reduces defects in deep-drawn parts and can also yield large material savings from reduced scrap. Sheet-metal forming is a complex process and most often charact…
This book covers theory, methodology and applications of computer networks, network protocols and wireless networks, data communication technologies, and network security. The book is based on the proceedings from the Fifth International Conference on Networks & Communications (NetCom). The proceedings will feature peer-reviewed papers that illustrate research results, projects, surveys and ind…
Attendance system is an activity carried out in every institution such as offices and education. With this attendance system, it can improve discipline for everyone and for the agency itself. In this attendance system, the problem that often occurs is the problem of collecting attendance data, where the employee attendance system is still using fingerprints or signature forms. This study uses a…
The system for determining the best path is included in the concept of Smart Transportation where the city that applies the concept is called a Smart City. This study uses the You Only Look Once version 8 (YOLOv8) algorithm to calculate the number of vehicles based on CCTV footage, One Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network optimized with Bayesian Optimization (1DCNN-BO) to predict road densi…
This book dives into radio resource allocation optimizations, a research area for wireless communications, in a pragmatic way and not only includes wireless channel conditions but also incorporates the channel in a simple and practical fashion via well-understood equations. Most importantly, the book presents a practical perspective by modeling channel conditions using terrain-aware propagation…
This study aims to determine the effect of motivational variables on continuing education and remuneration on the performance of civil servants in the city of Palembang. The research method used in this study is quantitative using the SPSS application. The sample in this study were 94 Palembang civil servants. The data collection technique used is the questionnaire method. The results showed th…
This book offers a timely reflection on how the proliferation of advanced wireless communications technologies, particularly cognitive radio (CR) can be enabled by thoroughly-considered policy and appropriate regulation. It looks at the prospects of CR from the divergent standpoints of technological development and economic market reality. The book provides a broad survey of various techno-econ…
With the development of information technology regarding supply chain management to control data directly related to information technology, inventory control cannot be successful solely relying on information. A support system is needed to estimate the addition of the number of stock items, so that the stock items can be more aligned with the sales of goods. Supply chain management includes co…
Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and can be identified based on the patterns of electrical activity in the heart using an Electrocardiogram (ECG). The importance of early detection and classification of heart disease has led to the use of innovative methods, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The PTB-XL ECG data has been processed and prepared to train and…
Twitter is currently one of the social media that is widely used by the public. By utilizing Twitter, people can now easily express opinions on various matters, including the Quick Respond Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS). Based on this, an analysis of public sentiment towards QRIS was carried out on social media Twitter using the Naïve Bayes Classifier algorithm. With the aim of finding out wh…
While not born in the Covid period, this book emerges within it … . It contains a number of richly described and helpfully theorized accounts of what online education involves, the challenges that will be faced, and of how it can be made to work well for both learners and teachers. As such, I hope that it will now be noticed and read by many more people because of their newfound ‘online’ …
This book covers the theory, design and applications of computer networks, distributed computing and information systems. Networks of today are going through a rapid evolution, and there are many emerging areas of information networking and their applications. Heterogeneous networking supported by recent technological advances in low-power wireless communications along with silicon integrati…
This book focuses on the architecture and circuit design for cognitive radio receiver front-ends. The authors first provide a holistic explanation of RF circuits for cognitive radio systems. This is followed by an in-depth exploration of existing techniques that can be utilized by circuit designers. Coverage also includes novel circuit techniques and architectures that can be invaluable for des…
This book introduces resource aware image decomposition, registration, fusion, object detection and tracking algorithms along with their applications in security, monitoring and integration in 3rd Generation Surveillance Systems. All algorithms are evaluated through experimental and simulation results and a parallel and pipelined efficient architecture for implementing the algorithms is described.