Jul 31 2016 Added eBooks

The Everything Machine discusses where the robotics industry is and where it is going. With a brief introduction of how robots work this book is a great way to get a feel for where robotics is headed...

A Guide to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (2.0) presents a comprehensive discussion of the tasks, knowledge, skill, and ability (KSA) requirements of the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 2.0. It discusses in detail the relationship between the NICE framework and the NISTs cybersecurity framework (CSF), showing how the NICE model specifies what the particular specialty areas of the workforce should be doing in order to ensure that the CSFs identification, protection, defense, response, or recovery functions are being carried out properly. The authors construct a detailed picture of the proper organization and conduct of a strategic infrastructure security operation, describing how th...

The 10th International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control took place in Seattle, USA, Aug 18-20, 2010. It was hosted by Professor C. M. Mastrangelo, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. The workshop was jointly organized by Professors H. J. Lenz, C. M. Mastrangelo, W. Schmid and P.T. Wilrich. The twenty-seven papers in this volume were carefully selected by the scientific program committee, reviewed by its members, revised by the authors and, finally, adapted for this volume by the editors.The book is divided into two parts: Part I "On-line Control" covers fields like control charting, monitoring and surveillance as well as acceptance sampling. Part II "Off-line Control&q...

A Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) consists of a set ofvariables, a domain of values for each variable and a set ofconstraints. The objective is to assign a value for each variablesuch that all constraints are satisfied. CSPs continue to receiveincreased attention because of both their high complexity and theiromnipresence in academic, industrial and even reallife problems.This is why they are the subject of intense research in bothartificial intelligence and operations research. This bookintroduces the classic CSP and details severalextensions/improvements of both formalisms and techniques in orderto tackle a large variety of problems. Consistency, flexible,dynamic, distributed and learning aspects are discussed andillustrated using simple exam...

The theme of this volume is to discuss the Ecological Networks in an Agricultural World. The volume covers important topics such Networking Agroecology, Construction and Validation of Food-webs using Logic-based Machine Learning and Text-mining and Eco-evolutionary dynamics in agricultural networks. * Updates and informs the reader on the latest research findings* Written by leading experts in the field* Highlights areas for future investigation...