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Morgan Kaufmann

  • A Comprehensive Guide to R Programming for Data Analytics

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Parul Acharya
    • publicationLanguages:en
    A Comprehensive Guide to R Programming for Data Analytics provides a comprehensive presentation of univariate and multivariate statistical models within the general linear model and generalized linear model framework to analyze simple and complex data using R software. This book presents popular R packages that are used in data mining (e.g., caret-classification and regression, lubridate-dates and times, string-R for string data) and visualization (e.g., ggplot, ggthemes, ggtext). The R packages used to analyze data using a particular statistical model are explained through real-world and publicly available datasets. R codes are presented in a manner that helps readers understand the program code syntax.Examples of real-world data sets from a variety of academic disciplines are provided so that a wide audience can learn R programming to analyze data in their research. The book provides tips, recommendations, and strategies to troubleshoot common issues in R syntax, as well as definitions of key terms. Checkpoints are included to recap the concepts learned in each chapter. The book helps readers enhance their conceptual understanding and practical application of statistical models to real-world datasets, and enables readers to gain competency in R programming, which is an important skill in today’s data-driven market.
  • Advanced Computational and Mathematical Approaches in Applied Differential Equations

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Snehashish Chakraverty contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Advanced Computational and Mathematical Approaches in Applied Differential Equations explores cutting-edge techniques and methodologies in solving complex differential equations, a cornerstone of mathematical modeling across science and engineering. The book bridges theory and application, offering advanced computational strategies and innovative mathematical insights to address real-world problems. Beginning with an overview that presents a unified framework that defines the types of differential equations covered (e.g. ordinary, partial, fractional, fuzzy), the book then progresses to foundations and methods such as Lie symmetries, homotropy, Adomian, FEM, FDM, spectral, machine learning, fuzzy, and fractional derivatives, addressing both computational and mathematical dimensions.Different... equations are fundamental to modeling complex systems, yet solving them often involves significant challenges due to their complexity and nonlinearity. The book equips readers with advanced tools and methodologies to overcome these challenges, providing innovative solutions that improve accuracy, efficiency, and applicability in real-world scenarios. Ideal for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students, it provides a comprehensive resource for tackling challenging applied differential equations with better precision and efficiency.
  • Quantum Communication and Cryptography

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Walter O. Krawec
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Quantum Communication and Cryptography introduces readers to the theory of quantum cryptography, with a focus will on quantum key distribution (QKD) and more advanced quantum cryptographic protocols beyond QKD. It contains a brief introduction to the field of modern cryptography that is needed to fully appreciate and understand how quantum cryptographic systems are proven secure, and how they can be safely used in combination with current day classical systems. Readers are then introduced to quantum key distribution (QKD) - perhaps the most celebrated, and currently the most practical, of quantum cryptographic techniques.Basic protocols are described, and security proofs are given, providing readers with the knowledge needed to understand how QKD protocols are proven secure using modern, state- of-the-art definitions of security. Following this, more advanced QKD protocols are discussed, along with alternative quantum and classical methods to improve QKD performance. Finally, alternative quantum cryptographic protocols are covered, along with a discussion on some of the practical considerations of quantum secure communication technology. Throughout, protocols are described in a clear and consistent manner that still provides comprehensive, theoretical proofs and methods.
  • Agile Systems Engineering with SysML v2 and AI

    • 2nd book:metaData.edition
    • Bruce Powel Douglass
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Agile Systems Engineering with SysML v2 and AI, Second Edition presents a practical vision of systems engineering in which requirements, structure, behavior, and analysis are captured as precise engineering data—while still addressing the “big system” concerns of safety, security, reliability, privacy, and performance in an agile context. World-renowned author and speaker Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass shows how agile methods, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and artificial intelligence (AI), work together to reduce ambiguity, expose defects earlier, and sustain end-to-end traceability from stakeholder intent to verification evidence.This edition goes beyond concepts by providing usable, repeatable workflows for modern programs—covering incremental, agile, and DevSecOps-oriented lifecycles and the concrete process steps and gates that make them executable in practice. Rather than treating modeling as documentation, the book treats SysML v2 as a semantic backbone for capturing requirements, architecture, interfaces, behaviors, constraints, and verification intent in one coherent source of truth.New to this edition is an introduction to SysML v2 and an entire chapter on AI and modern MBSE, showing where AI assistants provide leverage, how to apply quality-control gates to keep outputs trustworthy, and how to integrate AI into real engineering workflows without surrendering correctness. Each chapter includes AI prompt patterns for MBSE—ready-to-use prompt structures for generating SysML v2 model elements, extracting and normalizing requirements from external sources, reconciling terminology, and reviewing models against project rules and acceptance criteria. Throughout, Douglass equips systems engineers with concrete methods to prevent specification defects, improve system quality, and reduce rework—so teams can move faster and build with greater confidence
  • Designing Technology for an Aging Population

    Towards Universal Design
    • 2nd book:metaData.edition
    • Jeff Johnson contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design, Second Edition explores the unique needs of older adults in today’s digital landscape. The authors examine this demographic’s wide-ranging sensory, cognitive, physical, and emotional characteristics, connecting each to the challenges and opportunities older users face with technology. Backed by hundreds of global research studies, the book provides actionable design guidelines to enhance satisfaction and usability for seniors. Updated to reflect the latest advances in AI, robotics, and speech recognition, it offers fresh examples and case studies to keep designers informed about emerging trends.Beyond demographics and design principles, the book highlights common pitfalls in technology that can reduce accessibility for older adults. It discusses strategies for involving seniors directly in research and design, ensuring their voices shape digital innovation. The authors emphasize that older users remain underserved and often overlooked in technology studies, urging designers to broaden their approach. By addressing these gaps, the book helps professionals create more inclusive interfaces that better serve a rapidly growing segment of the technology-using population.
  • Explainable AI for Transparent and Trustworthy Medical Decision Support

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Abhishek Kumar contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Explainable AI for Transparent and Trustworthy Medical Decision Support equips readers with a comprehensive and timely resource that presents the principles, methodologies, and real-world applications of explainable AI (XAI) within the medical context. Covering a wide range of use cases—from radiology and pathology to genomics and clinical decision support systems—the book provides in-depth discussions on how XAI techniques can enhance interpretability, improve clinician trust, meet regulatory requirements, and ultimately lead to better patient outcomes. The book demystifies the workings of machine learning models and highlights techniques that make them interpretable.It is designed to empower not only AI researchers and developers but also healthcare administrators and policymakers with the knowledge needed to evaluate, adopt, and trust AI solutions in critical medical applications. The book's authors bring together theory, implementation strategies, ethical implications, and case studies under one cover, offering a multidisciplinary perspective that aligns computer science with medical practice and healthcare policy.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Systems

    A Comprehensive Guide
    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Rajiv Pandey contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Systems: A Comprehensive Guide provides engineers and system designers who are exploring the application of AI/ML methods for safety-critical systems with a dedicated resource on the challenges and mitigation strategies involved in their design. The book's authors present ML techniques in safety-critical systems across multiple domains, including pattern recognition, image processing, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), encryption, hardware accelerators, and many others. These applications help readers understand the many challenges that need to be addressed in order to increase the deployment of ML models in critical systems. In addition, the book shows how to improve public trust in ML systems by providing explainable model outputs rather than treating the system as a black box for which the outputs are difficult to explain. Finally, the authors demonstrate how to meet legal certification and regulatory requirements for the appropriate ML models. In essence, the goal of this book is to help ensure that AI-based critical systems better utilize resources, avoid failures, and increase system safety and public safety.
  • Advances in Multimodal Large Language Models for Healthcare

    Methods and Applications
    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Hari Mohan Pandey contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Advances in Multimodal Large Language Models for Healthcare: Methods and Applications provides valuable insights on Large Language Models in healthcare applications for researchers, academics, and practitioners. The book explains key concepts, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and the evolution of neural networks and transformer models. It then covers generative AI and LLMs for a wide spectrum of healthcare applications, including mental health, clinical decision support, interactive system design, and sensitive analysis. Readers will find this to be a valuable deep dive into the emergent intersection of LLMs and health care, with guidance into applications, technical and programming methods, and more.Although LLMs have shown some promising results in the healthcare sector, numerous challenges need to be addressed before they can be used in patient care. The two key issues with the adoption of LLMs regarding healthcare settings are reliability, transparency, interpretation of results and bias (data and algorithm) management. Unless properly and adequately validated, there may be incorrect medical information provided by the LLM-based systems, which can lead to misdiagnosis or hazardous treatment errors. At this point, LLMs have not only been used for decision making or documentation, they have also proven to be useful in patient engagement through QA systems, medical chatbots, and virtual healthcare.
  • Hardware Security

    A Hands-on Learning Approach
    • 2nd book:metaData.edition
    • Swarup Bhunia contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Hardware Security: A Hands On Learning Approach, Second Edition provides a broad, comprehensive, and practical overview of hardware security that encompasses all levels of the electronic hardware infrastructure. The book covers basic concepts like advanced attack techniques and countermeasures that are illustrated through theory, case studies, and well designed, hands on laboratory exercises for each key concept. The book is ideal as a textbook for upper level undergraduate students studying computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering, but is also a handy reference for graduate students, researchers and industry professionals.For academic courses, the book contains a robust suite of teaching ancillaries. Users of the book can access schematic, layout and design files for a printed circuit board for hardware hacking (i.e., the HaHa board), a suite of videos that demonstrate different hardware vulnerabilities, hardware attacks and countermeasures, and a detailed description and user manual for companion materials.
  • Complexity in Mathematical Biology for Sustainable Development

    Modeling Climate, Disease, and Ecosystems through Difference, Differential, and Fractional Theory
    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Fatma Bozkurt
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Complexity in Mathematical Biology for Sustainable Development: Modeling Climate, Disease, and Ecosystems through Difference, Differential, and Fractional Theory introduces new mathematical methods to derive complex modeling solutions for a wide range of engineering and scientific research applications. The book strikes a balance between high-level mathematical theory and technical derivations, offering step-by-step explanations, real-world case studies, and clear introductions to advanced mathematical models. Solutions include modeling and quantifying complexity, with emphasis placed on the growing need for interdisciplinary collaboration, the integration of real-time data into models, and the development of adaptive frameworks challenges such as pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate uncertainty.The book is designed to meet the needs of a diverse primary audience, from graduate students to professionals in fields such as computer science, public health, environmental policy, applied mathematics, and biotechnology. By providing both theoretical foundations and practical applications, the book equips readers with the skills and knowledge to tackle pressing global challenges through mathematical models, making it a valuable resource for both academic and professional development.