Systems & Control Engineering Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance

   Edited by Sankar K. Pal, Alfredo Petrosino, Lucia Maddalena

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series

   Information on integrating soft computing techniques into video surveillance is widely scattered among conference papers, journal articles, and books. Bringing this research together in one source, Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance illustrates the application of soft computing...

   Published January 24th 2012 by Chapman & Hall
2. Dynamic Force Spectroscopy and Biomolecular Recognition

   Edited by Anna Rita Bizzarri, Salvatore Cannistraro

   Molecular recognition, also known as biorecognition, is the heart of all biological interactions. Originating from protein stretching experiments, dynamic force spectroscopy (DFS) allows for the extraction of detailed information on the unbinding process of biomolecular complexes. It is becoming...

   Published January 24th 2012 by CRC Press
3. Applications of Combinatorial Matrix Theory to Laplacian Matrices of Graphs

   By Jason J. Molitierno

   Series: Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

   On the surface, matrix theory and graph theory seem like very different branches of mathematics. However, adjacency, Laplacian, and incidence matrices are commonly used to represent graphs, and many properties of matrices can give us useful information about the structure of graphs. Applications...

   Published January 24th 2012 by Chapman & Hall
4. Systems Evaluation

   Methods, Models, and Applications

   By Sifeng Liu, Naiming Xie, Chaoqing Yuan, Zhigeng Fang

   Series: Systems Evaluation, Prediction, and Decision-Making

   A book in the Systems Evaluation, Prediction, and Decision-Making Series, Systems Evaluation: Methods, Models, and Applications covers the evolutionary course of systems evaluation methods, clearly and concisely. Outlining a wide range of methods and models, it begins by examining the method of...

   Published December 19th 2011 by CRC Press
5. Methods for Studying Nucleic Acid/Drug Interactions

   Edited by Meni Wanunu, Yitzhak Tor

   Since most therapeutic efforts have been predominantly focused on pharmaceuticals that target proteins, there is an unmet need to develop drugs that intercept cellular pathways that critically involve nucleic acids. Progress in the discovery of nucleic acid binding drugs naturally relies on the...

   Published December 19th 2011 by CRC Press
6. Manifold Learning Theory and Applications

   Edited by Yunqian Ma, Yun Fu

   Trained to extract actionable information from large volumes of high-dimensional data, engineers and scientists often have trouble isolating meaningful low-dimensional structures hidden in their high-dimensional observations. Manifold learning, a groundbreaking technique designed to tackle these...

   Published December 19th 2011 by CRC Press
7. Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning

   Edited by Balaji Krishnapuram, Shipeng Yu, R. Bharat Rao

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition

   In machine learning applications, practitioners must take into account the cost associated with the algorithm. These costs include: Cost of acquiring training data Cost of data annotation/labeling and cleaning Computational cost for model fitting, validation, and testing Cost of collecting...

   Published December 18th 2011 by CRC Press
8. Statistical Learning and Data Science

   Edited by Mireille Gettler Summa, Leon Bottou, Bernard Goldfarb, Fionn Murtagh, Catherine Pardoux, Myriam Touati

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer Science & Data Analysis

   Data analysis is changing fast. Driven by a vast range of application domains and affordable tools, machine learning has become mainstream. Unsupervised data analysis, including cluster analysis, factor analysis, and low dimensionality mapping methods continually being updated, have reached new...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Chapman & Hall
9. Shipboard Electrical Power Systems

   By Mukund R. Patel

   Shipboard Electrical Power Systems addresses new developments in this growing field. Focused on the trend toward electrification to power commercial shipping, naval, and passenger vessels, this book helps new or experienced engineers master cutting-edge methods for power system design, control,...

   Published December 14th 2011 by CRC Press
10. Spectral Feature Selection for Data Mining

    By Zheng Alan Zhao, Huan Liu

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series

    Spectral Feature Selection for Data Mining introduces a novel feature selection technique that establishes a general platform for studying existing feature selection algorithms and developing new algorithms for emerging problems in real-world applications. This technique represents a unified...

    Published December 13th 2011 by Chapman & Hall