This volume presents the principles, techniques, and applications of molecular cytogenetics in modern crop improvement. Beginning with genome organization, it covers chromosome visualization, gene mapping, pre-breeding strategies, trisomics, cytogenomics, and polyploidy. Integrating classical cytogenetics with molecular biology, the book offers practical tools for developing resilient, high-yield crops. Authored by an expert team of scientists, Molecular Cytogenetics for Crop Improvement i...

This anthology, Urban Planning and Design for Megacities in the Global South: Smart and Sustainable Development, sheds light on the intricate dynamics of megacity growth in the Global South. It has compiled a rich and diverse array of evidence-based case studies, fostering discussions on emerging issues, strategies, and solutions for the enhanced planning and development of megacities in the Global South. By delving into the underlying factors propelling this rapid urban expansion...

This reference text covers deep learning-based communication frameworks for multiuser detection and sparse channel estimation and engages in a discussion on deep learning-based ultra-dense cell communication and sensor networks and ad-hoc communication. It further presents concepts and theories related to high-speed communication systems, which are important in intelligent wireless communications.Features:• Discusses machine learning-based network management strategy in wir...

Today, Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous as it is applied in practice in everything from Industrial Control Systems (ICS) to e-Health, e-commerce, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), smart cities, smart parking, healthcare, supply chain management and many more. Numerous industries, academics, alliances and standardization organizations make an effort on IoT standardization, innovation and development. But there is still a need for a comprehensive framework with integrated standards under o...

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a computer system in which a mechanism is controlled or monitored by computer-based algorithms and involves transdisciplinary approaches, merging theories of cybernetics, mechatronics, design, and process science. This text mainly concentrates on offering a foundational theoretical underpinning, and a comprehensive and coherent review of intelligent security solutions for cyber-physical systems.Features:Provides an ove...

In the past decades, cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have been widely applied to fields such as smart grids, environment monitoring, aerospace, smart transportation, and industrial automation. Great strides have been made in CPSs to improve the computing mechanism, communication, and quality of service by applying optimization algorithms. Currently, these efforts are integrated with the applications of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). To maintain system reliability and...

Blockchain Technology Solutions for the Security of IoT-Based Healthcare Systems explores the various benefits and challenges associated with the integration of blockchain with IoT healthcare systems, focusing on designing cognitive-embedded data technologies to aid better decision-making, processing and analysis of large amounts of data collected through IoT. This book series targets the adaptation of decision-making approaches under cognitive computing paradigms to demonstrate how the pr...

This book introduces the concept of combining artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) with real human organs to form a cybernetic organism or cyborg. It is a concept of man–machine mixture which helps in restoring or enhancing the ability of a body part by integrating some technology or artificial component with that body part. These smart artificial organs act as a substitute for real organs having various capabilities like scanning the body, detecting and transmitting t...

The goal of this book is to explore various security paradigms such as Machine Learning, Big data, Cyber Physical Systems, and Blockchain to address both intelligence and reconfigurability in various IoT devices. The book further aims to address and analyze the state of the art of blockchain-based intelligent networks in IoT systems and related technologies including healthcare sector. AI can ease, optimize, and automate the blockchain-based decision-making process for better governance an...

The Internet has gone from an Internet of people to an Internet of Things (IoT). This has brought forth strong levels of complexity in handling interoperability that involves the integrating of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) into IoT. This book offers insights into the evolution, usage, challenges, and proposed countermeasures associated with the integration.Focusing on the integration of WSNs into IoT and shedding further light on the subtleties of such integration, this book aim...

Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries. It is geared towards arriving at a better understanding of one of the most crucial political and historical relationships in the continent, a relationship that has a key role to play in world-politics and in the shaping of world-history. Part of this exciting study is the documentation...

The purpose of this edited book is to present and showcase the basic fundamentals, applications, and integration of both IoT and Blockchain. The trend of applying Blockchain to IoT is rapidly growing because it helps to overcome various challenges faced by IoT, from smart manufacturing to unmanned aerial vehicles.Thise book aims to showcase the basics of both IoT and Blockchain as well as the integration and challenges for existing practitioners. Thise book initiates conversations ...