This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Design of Cyber-Secure Critical Infrastructure, DCS-CI 2026, held in Buford, GA, USA, during September 2-3, 2026.The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. Also, it contains 3 papers from DCS-Water 2025.DCS-CI (Design of Cyber-Secure Critical Infrastructure) is a joint academic-industrial forum that brings together researchers fro...

Multicore microprocessors are now at the heart of nearly all desktop and laptop computers. While these chips offer exciting opportunities for the creation of newer and faster applications, they also challenge students and educators. How can the new generation of computer scientists growing up with multicore chips learn to program applications that exploit this latent processing power? This unique book is an attempt to introduce concurrent programming to first-year computer science students...

Being a CEO is high up on the list of most people’s career goals. Successful CEOs have a winning attitude, powerful habits and know how to ask the right questions to deliver the best results. But what does it really take to make it as a CEO? This book, penned by corporate leader and management guru Shiv Shivakumar, offers deep insights into the importance of prioritization, reflection, time management, relationships and the evolving landscape of leadership.Through compelling stories and th...

Big Data: Principles and Paradigms captures the state-of-the-art research on the architectural aspects, technologies, and applications of Big Data. The book identifies potential future directions and technologies that facilitate insight into numerous scientific, business, and consumer applications. To help realize Big Data's full potential, the book addresses numerous challenges, offering the conceptual and technological solutions for tackling them. These challenges include life-cycle data...

This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”. The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line with its scientific goals. It will serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate and post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers, and research strategists working in this field.The explosive growth of t...

This open access book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Third Conference on Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, SVCC 2022, held as virtual event, in August 17–19, 2022.The 8 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The contributions are divided into the following thematic blocks: Malware Analysis; Blockchain and Smart Contracts; Remote Device Assessment.This is an open access book.

This book provides stepwise discussion, exhaustive literature review, detailed analysis and discussion, rigorous experimentation results (using several analytics tools), and an application-oriented approach that can be demonstrated with respect to data analytics using artificial intelligence to make systems stronger (i.e., impossible to breach). We can see many serious cyber breaches on Government databases or public profiles at online social networking in the recent decade. Today artifici...

This book reports on the latest advances in mobile technologies for collecting, storing and processing mobile big data in connection with wireless communications. It presents novel approaches and applications in which mobile big data is being applied from an engineering standpoint and addresses future theoretical and practical challenges related to the big data field from a mobility perspective.Further, it provides an overview of new methodologies designed to take mobile big data t...

Advances in Computers, an ongoing series since 1960, presents detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects in greater depth and breadth than journal articles usually allow. As a result, many articles have become standard references and continue to be of significant, lasting value in this rapidly expanding field. - Presents detailed coverage of recen...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the ARES 2026 EU Projects Symposium Workshops, held under the umbrella of the 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2026, held in Linköping, Sweden, during August 2026.The 38 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions.They contain papers of the following workshops:Sixth International Workshop on Advances on Security and Privacy Technolog...

This book provides techniques for the deployment of semantic technologies in data analysis along with the latest applications across the field such as Internet of Things (IoT). The authors focus on the use of the IoT and big data in business intelligence, data management, Hadoop, machine learning, cloud, smart cities, etc. They discuss how the generation of big data by IoT has ruptured the existing data processing capacity of IoT and recommends the adoption of data analytics to strengthen ...

This book discusses various aspects of the multi-cloud paradigm. The initial portion of the book focuses on the motivations for the industry to embrace a multi-cloud option and the distinct business, technology, and user cases of multi-cloud implementations. The middle part of the book explains the challenges of setting up and sustaining multi-cloud environments. The latter portion focuses on the next-generation technologies and tools along with multi-cloud platforms, processes, patterns, ...