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This book gathers a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at International Conference on Cyber Intelligence and Information Retrieval (CIIR 2023), held at Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India during 14 – 15 December 2023. The book covers research papers in the field of privacy and security in the cloud, data loss prevention and recovery, high performance networks, network security and cryptography, image and signal processing, artificial immune systems, information and network security, data science techniques and applications, data warehousing and data mining, data mining in dynamic environment, higher order neural computing, rough set and fuzzy set theory, and nature inspired computing techniques.

‘Industry 5.0'was first described in 2020 by the European Commission to describe the next wave of technologies, including Virtual Simulation and Automated Robots, to impact businesses and individuals. It recognizes how these technologies can no more be counted as purely ‘future tech', but as realities that will begin to impact society as a whole. This open access book describes this new world as'Society 5.0'and explores the real impact of AI-enabled business on society. Beginning with a brief history of AI, the current terms, and its conceptual components, visualisation, data, and algorithms, this book then presents a collection of studies from leading scholars in the field of AI and Digital Business. The first section focuses on the immediate challenges and strategic changes that will be required for businesses to successfully adapt to this new reality. The second focuses on the opportunities of AI to businesses and society. And the final section includes chapters on the future and the possibilities and challenges that lie beyond Industry 5.0. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of innovation strategy and digital business, as well as all those engaged in research around cutting-edge technologies and their impact on society.

Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts. A whirlpool emerges from water molecules. A living cell from organic molecules. You emerge from the cells of your body. Not since chaos has a concept from physics spread like wildfire to other disciplines. Emergence can be found from chemistry to economics; from psychology to ecology. At its heart is the alluring idea that there's more to the world than physics, that there is a holistic component to nature, an edge of mystery. “Physics Fixes All the Facts” starts by taking you on a tour through a fascinating world of complexity, exploring phenomena from the inside of an atomic nucleus to bacterial behaviour to the ability of your thoughts to affect the world. These examples are used along with a thorough exploration of the philosophical literature to untangle the notoriously poorly defined concept of emergence. This reveals something surprising: the term emergence is redundant. In its weak form it is so weak that it applies to everything. In its strong form it is so restrictive that it is like the belief that there are pixies in your garden, impossible to exclude but not worth spending your time on. Emergence either applies to all systems or to none. Rather than telling us something about the nature of the world, it is an illusion, an artefact of our cognitive limitations. The past decade has seen a dozen or so monographs and collections about emergence, almost all resolutely supportive of the concept. This book aims to redress the balance. But it is more than just a campaign against the idea of emergence. Graham presents a framework called Austere Physicalism and argues that it is the only coherent way to view the world. He uses this framework to reinterpret so-called emergent phenomena and investigates its wider implications for science. In this radically materialist view, we are nothing but physical systems among others. “Physics Fixes All the Facts” ends by exploring what this means for our sense of free will and consciousness. The book will appeal to academics in fields which use the concepts of complexity or emergence. Scientists and philosophers alike will find unexpected and exciting ideas in these pages. But the target audience is much broader including students who want to add context to their studies and the intellectually curious with some scientific background.

The new generation of devices and wearables requires state of the art technology to provide seamless solutions for the users. This tutorial-style book on circuits and systems introduces the latest devices and wearables using smart materials for compact and lightweight design. It provides an overview on the fundamental theory of shape memory alloy materials, designing shape memory alloy actuation for different applications, as well as highlighting current devices and wearables using shape memory alloy.Shape memory alloy is a type of smart material that has huge potential to replace conventional actuators due to its high force to weight ratio. The book also includes other examples of medical devices that have been developed. It is targeted for researchers, technical staff, engineers, and students focusing on devices and wearables.

Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical and Modern Healthcare Informatics provides a deeper understanding of the current trends in AI and machine learning within healthcare diagnosis, its practical approach in healthcare, and gives insight into different wearable sensors and its device module to help doctors and their patients in enhanced healthcare system. The primary goal of this book is to detect difficulties and their solutions to medical practitioners for the early detection and prediction of any disease. The 56 chapters in the volume provide beginners and experts in the medical science field with general pictures and detailed descriptions of imaging and signal processing principles and clinical applications. With forefront applications and up-to-date analytical methods, this book captures the interests of colleagues in the medical imaging research field and is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals who wish to understand the principles and applications of signal and image processing and its related technologies in healthcare. - Discusses fundamental and advanced approaches as well as optimization techniques used in AI for healthcare systems - Includes chapters on various established imaging methods as well as emerging methods for skin cancer, brain tumor, epileptic seizures, and kidney diseases - Adopts a bottom-up approach and proposes recent trends in simple manner with the help of real-world examples - Synthesizes the existing international evidence and expert opinions on implementing decommissioning in healthcare - Promotes research in the field of health and hospital management in order to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems

In most of the industries, industrial effluent treatment plants are playing vital roles to ensure the efficient management of industrial effluent for supporting sustainable development of our society. Due to the technological development, new concepts about future wastewater management are being incorporated by process industries in the whole world, including recyclable resources and energy/nutrient recovery from industrial effluent, etc. However, conventional treatment methods including biotechnological methods used in treatment plants are facing a lot of difficulties due to the strict discharging norms and coming out of new-fangled pollutants. Recently, a novel concept microbial niche nexus sustaining biological wastewater treatment was introduced, which can accomplish the significant removal of toxic emerging pollutants by different microbial communities, with the concern of other components like integrated and healthy ecosystem. The book focuses on research related to future potential and progress of microbial niche-based environmental biotechnology such as microbial enrichment, microbial function, system design, new technological developments and its applications. Besides, the book reviews important interconnections between water, energy, and the environment as security in water and energy, and the environment is associated with human beings, natural resources, economic, and environmental sustainability. In addition, the book describes innovative green technologies with the aim of enhancing the present state-of-the-art technologies in the various fields like water, energy, the environment, and the related potential fields of industrial wastewater treatment.

This book presents selected extended papers from the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (INCOM 2024), describing recent advances in thermo-fluids engineering research. Various topics covered in this book are design and analysis of thermal systems, dynamics and control of thermal systems and processes, fluid mechanics, fluid–structure interaction, heat transfer, internal combustion engines and gas turbines, multiphase flow, and heat transfer. The book is a valuable reference for researchers and professionals working in the fields of mechanical, aerospace, chemical, and power engineering and also for a number of interdisciplinary areas like materials processing, electronic, and energy storage systems where thermal management is a key design issue.

This book provides fundamental principles, design procedures, and design tools for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with three sections focusing on vehicle design, autopilot design, and ground system design. The design of manned aircraft and the design of UAVs have some similarities and some differences. They include the design process, constraints (e.g., g-load, pressurization), and UAV main components (autopilot, ground station, communications system, sensors, and payload). A UAV designer must be aware of the latest UAV developments; current technologies; know lessons learned from past failures; and they should appreciate the breadth of UAV design options. The contribution of unmanned aircraft continues to expand every day and over 67 countries are developing and employing UAVs for both military and civil/scientific purposes. A UAV system is much more than a reusable air vehicle or vehicles. UAVs are air vehicles, they fly like airplanes and operate in an airplane environment. They are designed like air vehicles; they have to meet critical air vehicle requirements. A designer needs to know how to integrate complex, multi-disciplinary systems, and to understand the environment, the requirements and the design challenges and this book is an excellent overview of the fundamentals from an engineering perspective. This book is meant to meet the needs of newcomers into the world of UAVs. The materials are intended to provide enough information in each area and illustrate how they all play together to support the design of a complete UAV. Therefore, this book can be used both as a reference for engineers entering the field or as a supplementary text for a UAV design course to provide system-level context for each specialized topic. The second edition is extensively revised. Some of the new terminologies, concepts, and specific unmanned aircraft systems are introduced. The revisions make the book clearer and easier to understand, and will add number of new subjects in areas that have become more prominent in the unmanned aviation world.

Artificial Intelligence Applications for Brain-Computer Interfaces focuses on the advancements, challenges, and prospects of future technologies involving noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). It includes the processing and analysis of multimodal signals, integrated computation-acquisition devices, and implantable neuro techniques. This book not only provides cross-disciplinary research in BCI but also presents divergent applications on telerehabilitation, emotion recognition, neuro-rehabilitation, cognitive workload assessments, and ambient assisted living solutions. In 15 chapters, this book describes how BCIs connect the brain with external devices like computers and electronic gadgets. It analyzes the neural signals from the brain to obtain insights from the brain patterns using multiple noninvasive wearable sensors. It gives insight into how sensor outcomes are processed through machine-intelligent models to draw inferences. Each chapter starts with the importance, problem statement, and motivation. A description of the proposed methodology is provided, and related works are also presented. Each chapter can be read independently, and therefore, the book is a valuable resource for researchers, health professionals, postgraduate students, postdoc researchers, and academicians in the fields of BCI, prosthesis, computer vision, and mental state estimation, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field. - Focuses on the advancements, challenges, and prospects for future technologies over noninvasive brain computer interfaces (BCIs), including the processing and analysis of multimodal signals, integrated calculation-acquisition devices, and implantable technologies. - Presents theories, algorithms, realizations, applications, approaches, and challenges that will have their impact and contribution in the design and development of modern and effective BCIs. - Assists in understanding the predominance of BCI technology in various applications.

This book compiles exceptional papers presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the China Electrotechnical Society (CES), held in Xi'an, China, from September 20 to 22, 2024. It encompasses a wide range of topics, including electrical technology, power systems, electromagnetic emission technology, and electrical equipment. The book highlights innovative solutions that integrate concepts from various disciplines, making it a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, practitioners, research students, and interested readers.

'It provides a comprehensive exploration of semiconductor fundamentals and their practical applications. In-depth analysis of PN junctions and diodes, highlighting their fundamental role in semiconductor physics. This book is designed to provide a well-rounded understanding of semiconductor devices, catering to both theoretical knowledge and practical applications in electronic circuits and systems. It serves as a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals in electrical engineering, electronics, and related fields.'

This textbook comprehensively covers fundamental and advanced aspects of biochemical engineering along with MATLAB codes. It comprehensively covers important topics including enzyme catalyzed reaction kinetics, catalytic antibodies and non-protein biomolecules as catalysts, process flow diagram (PFD), piping & instrumentation diagram (P&ID), wastewater treatment processes, design of fermenters and mass and energy balance. Pedagogical features including solved problems and unsolved exercises are interspersed throughout the text for better understanding.This book: Provides solid foundation and understanding of the fundamental principles of mathematics, science, and engineering Explores tools for solving theoretical and open-ended biochemical engineering problems Covers principles of downstream process and biochemical engineering principles with illustration and problems Discusses application of computer and programming in biochemical engineering Covers case studies for bioprocess plant design. The textbook is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of chemical engineering, biotechnology, and food process engineering for courses on biochemical engineering/bioprocess engineering/downstream processing.

In this changing world of food processing and handling, efficiency and safety are paramount. Artificial Intelligence in the Food Industry: Enhancing Quality and Safety offers a groundbreaking exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can address these critical needs. This book explores the transformative potential of AI, machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) algorithms in revolutionizing the food industry. By overcoming the limitations of human involvement, AI ensures a more reliable demand-supply chain and enhances food safety.As the global population grows and food consumption reaches unprecedented levels, the demand for innovative solutions is urgent. This book demonstrates how intelligent systems can accurately assess food quality, implement control mechanisms, categorize foods, and conduct predictive analyses. Such advancements are reshaping sectors, including dairy, bakery, beverages, and fruits and vegetables, making this an indispensable guide for food production and safety professionals.It explores several cutting-edge topics such as the role of ML and computer vision in the agri-food industry, the potential of 3D printing, and the integration of AI with sensory technologies like electronic noses, electronic tongues, and near-infrared spectroscopy. These insights highlight how AI can significantly enhance food quality and productivity, benefiting both consumers and industry players.Artificial Intelligence in the Food Industry not only showcases current advancements but also emphasizes the need for ongoing research and innovation. By inviting readers to explore AI's transformative potential in food production and service, this book ensures a safer, more efficient, and sustainable future for the food industry.A vital resource for researchers, scientists, and professionals in the food industry, this book presents comprehensive information on ML techniques to improve food quality, AI applications in pesticide management, food inspection, grading using image processing, and the use of robots for food safety and warehouse management.

This book explores the extension of fiber optic communications technology to space optical communications. It presents the specific demands for space communications and examines propagation in a vacuum and also over the turbulence of air‑free space.Space Photonic Communications begins with historical aspects of optical communications in both terrestrial and inter‑satellite constellations. It presents the advances in optical communications and integrated photonics that have enabled the technological developments for space photonic communications, especially coherent optical communications to transport Tbps information. The author discusses how the transmission of massive amounts of data over very long distances requires Tera‑bps communications in real time for both military and civil applications. The author also explores laser communications with the physics of laser propagation over ultra‑long distances without optical amplifications at intermediate locations. He also examines modulation and receiving techniques for space photonic communications.Intended for communications engineers and professionals, especially those in laser communication technologies, this book could also be used in courses on advanced optical communications, photonic communications, and communication techniques and technologies.

Marieb Human Anatomy & Physiology motivates and supports you at every level for success in A&P and beyond. Each chapter provides guidance in mastering A&P terminology, applying knowledge in clinical scenarios, and practicing the critical thinking and problem-solving skills required for entry to nursing, allied health and exercise science programs. The 12th Edition builds on the strengths from previous editions and offers innovative ways to help you visualize connections between concepts with new and updated Focus Figures, updated clinical features and new content reflecting current research.

This book aims to serve as an academic manual designed to aid in understanding and applying key concepts in process control using MATLAB and its associated tools. Each chapter features a brief theoretical introduction to help students contextualize the step-by-step solved problems, which are coded in MATLAB. In some instances, the book also covers the use of Simulink and other MATLAB applications, such as System Identification, Control System Designer, and Response Optimizer. The manual seeks to strengthen knowledge in control theory through problem-based learning, which is essential in this field. The text progresses from basic concepts in classical control, such as linearization, Laplace transform, transfer function, and frequency response, to more advanced control theories like state-space representation and discrete control. Throughout, basic examples are solved to significantly enhance the understanding of concepts and their application to real-world systems.

How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.Since 2005, Karl Friston's proposal that the principle of free energy minimization underpins the purposive behavior of living agents has evolved through thousands of publications. This principle's central move is to formalize the drive for self-preservation in terms of a single probabilistic imperative: to survive, a living system must consistently exhibit the same “most likely” pattern of activity over time. Despite the simplicity of this central claim, the free energy principle's complexity and rate of development have previously made it difficult to identify and evaluate. In A Drive to Survive, Kathryn Nave offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of Friston's proposal.Nave shows that the free energy principle's capacity to account for the biological origins of purposiveness is undermined by its applicability to any stable inanimate system. As this triviality has become apparent, so advocates have begun to reframe the free energy principle as a means to eliminate, rather than explain, the notion of distinctively biological purposiveness. This, Nave proposes, gets things the wrong way around. The triviality of free energy minimization does not prove that there is no difference in kind between living agents and ordinary machines, but rather it reflects that the framework cannot capture the intrinsic instability and unpredictability that distinguish the former.

How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer.How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Island Tinkerers, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including engineers, technologists, technocrats, computer users, and engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, helped transform the country with their hands-on engagement with computers. Rather than engaging in wholesale imitation of US sources, she explains, these technologists tinkered with imported computing technology and experimented with manufacturing their own versions, resulting in their own brand of successful innovation.Defying the stereotype of “the West innovates, and the East imitates,” Tinn tells the story of Taiwanese technologists'efforts over the past six decades. Beginning in the 1960s, they grappled with the “black-boxed” computers that were newly available through international technical-aid programs. Shortly after, multinational corporations that outsourced transistor and integrated circuit assembly overseas began employing Taiwanese engineers and factory workers. Island tinkerers developed strategies to adapt, modify, assemble, and work with computers in an inventive manner. It was through this creative and ingenious tinkering with computers that they were able to gain a better understanding of the technology, opening the door to future manufacturing endeavors that now include Acer, Foxconn, Asus, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

Auch Maschinen haben ihre Regeln Auch wenn der Name sehr geordnet klingt, ist Regelungstechnik bisweilen komplex. Damit Sie dennoch damit zurechtkommen, erklärt Erwin Hasenjäger Schritt für Schritt und mit zahlreichen Beispielen, was Sie über dieses Thema unbedingt wissen sollten. Sie erfahren, welche Reglertypen es gibt, weshalb Simulationen so wichtig sind, was es mit Schwingungen sowie Dynamik auf sich hat und vieles mehr. Natürlich kommen dabei auch die mathematischen Grundlagen und die passende Software nicht zu kurz. So ist Regelungstechnik für Dummies der perfekte Einstieg in dieses anspruchsvolle Thema. Sie erfahren Wie Sie digitale und andere Besonderheiten berücksichtigen Wie Sie die richtigen Reglereinstellungen wählen Was SISO und MIMO bedeuten Wie Sie Prozesse geschickt optimieren können

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy.The debate about plant cognition is marked by deep disagreements. Some theorists are confident that the empirical evidence supports the ascription of cognitive capacities to plants. Others hold that such claims are overblown, and defend more traditional, non-cognitive accounts of plant behavior. Still others seek to formulate intermediate positions. This volume brings together leading researchers from across this theoretical spectrum to tackle the foundational questions that are at issue in the debate about plant cognition. The contributions focus on the philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries and controversies in the empirical sciences, such as: Can plants be said to have genuine cognitive abilities? Can they be characterized as representing or perceiving their environment, as pursuing goals, or even as having some form of conscious experience? Which data could provide evidence for such characterizations? And what are possible implications of these issues for general questions about the nature of cognition, representation, perception, and consciousness?Philosophy of Plant Cognition will be of interest to scholars and students working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, cognitive science, and plant biology.

Intelligent and sustainable manufacturing is a broad category of manufacturing that employs computer-integrated manufacturing, high levels of adaptability and rapid design changes, digital information technology, and more flexible technical workforce training. Other goals sometimes include fast changes in production levels based on demand, optimization of the production system, efficient production, and recyclability. This handbook provides compiled knowledge of intelligent and sustainable manufacturing within the context of Industry 4.0. along with tools, principles, and strategies.Handbook of Intelligent and Sustainable Manufacturing: Tools, Principles, and Strategies offers recent developments, future outlooks, and advanced and analytical modeling techniques of intelligent and sustainable manufacturing with examples backed up by experimental and numerical data. It bridges the gap between R&D in intelligent and sustainable manufacturing–related fields and presents case studies and solutions alongside social and green environmental impact. The handbook includes a wide range of advanced tools and applications with modeling results and explains how different internet technologies integrate the manufacturing approach with people, products, and complex systems. By encompassing advanced technologies such as digital twins, big data informatics, artificial intelligence, nature-inspired algorithms, IoT, Industry 4.0, simulation approaches, analytical strategies, quality tools, roots and pillars, diagnostic tools, and methodical strategies, this handbook provides the most up-to-date and advanced information source available.This handbook will help industries and organizations to implement intelligent manufacturing and move towards the sustainability of manufacturing practices. It will also serve as a reference for senior graduate-level courses in mechanical, production, industrial, and aerospace engineering and a value-added asset to libraries of all technical institutions.

Comprehensive reference on the latest trends, solutions, challenges, and future directions of 5G communications and beyond Current and Future Cellular Systems: Technologies, Applications, and Challenges covers the state of the art in architectures and solutions for 5G wireless communication and beyond. This book is unique because instead of focusing on singular topics, it considers various technologies being used in conjunction with 5G and beyond 5G technologies. All new and emerging technologies are covered, along with their problems and how quality of service (QoS) can be improved with respect to future requirements. This book highlights the latest trends in resource allocation techniques due to different device (or user) characteristics, provides a special focus on wide bandwidth millimeter wave communications including circuitry, antennas, and propagation, and discusses the involvement of decision-making processes assisted by artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) in applications such as resource allocation, power allocation, QoS improvement, and autonomous vehicles. Readers will also learn to develop mathematical modeling, perform simulation setup, and configure parameters related to simulations. Current and Future Cellular Systems includes information on: The Internet of Vehicles (IoV), covering requirements, challenges, and limitations of Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) with Resource Allocation (RA) techniquesIntelligent reflecting surfaces, unmanned aerial vehicles, power optimized frameworks, challenges in a sub-6 GHz band, and communication in a THz bandThe role of IoT in healthcare, agriculture, smart home applications, networking requirements, and the metaverseQuantum computing, cloud computing, spectrum sharing methods, and performance analysis of WiFi 6/7 for indoor and outdoor environments Providing expansive yet accessible coverage of the subject by exploring both basic and advanced topics, Current and Future Cellular Systems serves as an excellent introduction to the fundamentals of 5G and its applications for graduate students, researchers, and industry professionals in the field of wireless communication technologies.