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Iu. S. Kharin, Yurij Kharin

This monograph is devoted to problems of robust (stable) statistical pattern recognition. Experimental data to be classified usually deviate from assumed hypothetical probability models of the data. In such cases traditional decision rules constructed by means of the classical pattern recognition theory based on a fixed hypothetical model of the data often become non-stable, and the classification risk increases non-controllably. The book concentrates on three main problems: robustness evaluation for classical decision rules in the presence of distortion; estimation of critical levels of distortions for given values of the robustness factor; and the construction of robust decision rules with stable classification risk regarding certain types of distortions. Theoretical results are illustrated by computer modelling and by application to medical diagnostics. Audience: This volume is primarily intended for mathematicians, statisticians, and engineers in applied mathematics, computer...

Bill Roscoe, M. H. Goldsmith, P. Y. A. Ryan, Gavin Lowe, S. A. Schneider, G. Lowe, A.W. Roscoe

Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines

- Prepares readers for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam, ISACA's new certification that launches in June 2003; - CISM is business-oriented and intended for the individual who must manage, design, oversee, and assess an enterprise's information security; - Essential reading for those who are cramming for this new test and need an authoritative study guide; - Many out-of-work IT professionals are seeking security management certification as a vehicle to re-employment; - CD-ROM includes a Boson-powered test engine with all the questions and answers from the book.

Ashley Friedlein

Web Project Management presents a solid Web project management method for building commercial Web sites. Developed by pres.co, a leading interactive agency, this refined eight-stage approach lets you closely manage your project's contributors, quality, costs, and schedules. Importantly, the book also details how to define, measure and understand the success of your project on an ongoing basis. This book is an indispensable resource, whether you are a project manager, online manager, Web director, consultant or producer. * Includes insider tips from the perspective of the world's leading Web developers. * Focuses on project management as it relates to e-commerce. * Teaches you to organize and put together a team, develop goals, manage schedules and budgets, overcome pitfalls, maintain, evaluate and evolve a commercial Web presence. * Includes an introduction to the key principles of Web project management and a case study of the Channel 5 Web site-a popular project...

Radford M. Neal

Artificial "neural networks" are widely used as flexible models for classification and regression applications, but questions remain about how the power of these models can be safely exploited when training data is limited. This book demonstrates how Bayesian methods allow complex neural network models to be used without fear of the "overfitting" that can occur with traditional training methods. Insight into the nature of these complex Bayesian models is provided by a theoretical investigation of the priors over functions that underlie them. A practical implementation of Bayesian neural network learning using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods is also described, and software for it is freely available over the Internet. Presupposing only basic knowledge ofprobability and statistics, this book should be of interest to researchers in statistics, engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Klaus Obermayer, Terrence J. Sejnowski

This book provides an overview of self-organizing map formation, including recent developments. Self-organizing maps form a branch of unsupervised learning, which is the study of what can be determined about the statistical properties of input data without explicit feedback from a teacher. The articles are drawn from the journal Neural Computation. The book consists of five sections. The first section looks at attempts to model the organization of cortical maps and at the theory and applications of the related artificial neural network algorithms. The second section analyzes topographic maps and their formation via objective functions. The third section discusses cortical maps of stimulus features. The fourth section discusses self-organizing maps for unsupervised data analysis. The fifth section discusses extensions of self-organizing maps, including two surprising applications of mapping algorithms to standard computer science problems: combinatorial optimization and...

Simone Fischer-Hubner

Taking into account technical aspects from IT security, this book presents in detail a formal task-based privacy model which can be used to technically enforce legal privacy requirements. Softcover.

Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

In October 2000, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology selected the block cipher Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). AES is expected to gradually replace the present Data Encryption Standard (DES) as the most widely applied data encryption technology.|This book by the designers of the block cipher presents Rijndael from scratch. The underlying mathematics and the wide trail strategy as the basic design idea are explained in detail and the basics of differential and linear cryptanalysis are reworked. Subsequent chapters review all known attacks against the Rijndael structure and deal with implementation and optimization issues. Finally, other ciphers related to Rijndael are presented.|This volume is THE authoritative guide to the Rijndael algorithm and AES. Professionals, researchers, and students active or interested in data encryption will find it a valuable source of information and reference.

Isabelle Attali, Thomas Jensen

Dragan Z. Milosevic, Russ J. Martinelli, James M. Waddell

Business leaders are constantly in the heat of competitive battles. To win, they must develop their products, services, and infrastructure in a fast, repeatable, and integrated fashion. This breakthrough book describes how many of today's business leaders use the program management discipline to gain competitive advantage over their rivals by: Making program management part of their business model; Managing increased product and process complexity; Aligning execution activities to business strategy; Mitigating business risk to maximize ROI; Accelerating time-to-money performance. The authors present a holistic view of program management that describes program management as a critical business function; provide a how-to approach to successfully define, plan, execute, and control programs; explain the primary roles and competencies of the program manager; and present the organizational factors involved in transitioning to a program management...