Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics A: Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding

Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics A: Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding
Springer | Robotics | March 20 2016 | ISBN-10: 4431545948 | 236 pages | pdf | 7.04 mb

Editors: Kasaki, M., Ishiguro, H., Asada, M., Osaka, M., Fujikado, T. (Eds.)

Addresses interdisciplinary research linking cognitive science, neuroscience, and robotics
Helps readers understand the need for collaboration with other disciplines
Describes how human cognitive functions can be replicated in artificial systems such as robots, and investigates how artificial systems could acquire intelligent behaviors through interaction with others and their environment

Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics is the first introductory book on this new interdisciplinary area. This book consists of two volumes, the first of which, Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding, advances human understanding from a robotics or engineering point of view. The second, Analytic Approaches to Human Understanding, addresses related subjects in cognitive science and neuroscience. These two volumes are intended to complement each other in order to more comprehensively investigate human cognitive functions, to develop human-friendly information and robot technology (IRT) systems, and to understand what kind of beings we humans are.

Volume A describes how human cognitive functions can be replicated in artificial systems such as robots, and investigates how artificial systems could acquire intelligent behaviors through interaction with others and their environment.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

56 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour

Topics

Robotics and Automation

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

Computational Intelligence

Neurosciences

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Security and Resiliency Analytics for Smart Grids: Static and Dynamic Approaches

Security and Resiliency Analytics for Smart Grids: Static and Dynamic Approaches
Springer | Security & Cryptology | July 11, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319328700 | 144 pages | pdf | 2.51 mb

Authors: Al-Shaer, Ehab, Rahman, Mohammad Ashiqur

Maximizes reader insights into theoretical and practical aspects of applying formal methods for the protection of critical infrastructures like smart gridsCovers novel techniques which can automatically, provably, and efficiently analyze the security and resiliency of the smart gridsIncludes various illustrative case studies and extensive evaluation results demonstrating the efficacy of the formal techniques

This book targets the key concern of protecting critical infrastructures such as smart grids. It explains various static and dynamic security analysis techniques that can automatically verify smart grid security and resiliency and identify potential attacks in a proactive manner. This book includes three main sections. The first presents the idea of formally verifying the compliance of smart grid configurations with the security and resiliency guidelines. It provides a formal framework that verifies the compliance of the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) configurations with the security and resiliency requirements, and generates remediation plans for potential security violations. The second section covers the formal verification of the security and resiliency of smart grid control systems by using a formal model to analyze attack evasions on state estimation, a core control module of the supervisory control system in smart grids. The model identifies attack vectors that can compromise state estimation. This section also covers risk mitigation techniques that synthesize proactive security plans that make such attacks infeasible. The last part of the book discusses the dynamic security analysis for smart grids. It shows that AMI behavior can be modeled using event logs collected at smart collectors, which in turn can be verified using the specification invariants generated from the configurations of the AMI devices. Although the focus of this book is smart grid security and resiliency, the included formal analytics are generic enough to be extended to other cyber-physical systems, especially those related to industrial control systems (ICS). Therefore, industry professionals and academic researchers will find this book an exceptional resource to learn theoretical and practical aspects of applying formal methods for the protection of critical infrastructures.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

15 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour

Topics

Systems and Data Security

Computer Communication Networks

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)

Data Encryption

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Medical Imaging in Clinical Applications: Algorithmic and Computer-Based Approaches

Medical Imaging in Clinical Applications: Algorithmic and Computer-Based Approaches
Springer | Engineering | July 5, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319337912 | 531 pages | pdf | 15.81 mb

Editors: Dey, Nilanjan, Bhateja, Vikrant, Hassanien, Aboul Ella (Eds.)

Presents the latest developments in the domain of bio-medical sensing, imaging, instrumentation, and its associated clinical applications
Focuses on key issues in terms of concepts, research, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications for diagnosis and treatment
Present various advancements in terms of novel computational methods, algorithms, measurements and instrumentation techniques

This volume comprises of 21 selected chapters, including two overview chapters devoted to abdominal imaging in clinical applications supported computer aided diagnosis approaches as well as different techniques for solving the pectoral muscle extraction problem in the preprocessing part of the CAD systems for detecting breast cancer in its early stage using digital mammograms. The aim of this book is to stimulate further research in medical imaging applications based algorithmic and computer based approaches and utilize them in real-world clinical applications. The book is divided into four parts, Part-I: Clinical Applications of Medical Imaging, Part-II: Classification and clustering, Part-III: Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) Tools and Case Studies and Part-IV: Bio-inspiring based Computer Aided diagnosis techniques.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

51 b/w illustrations, 118 illustrations in colour

Topics

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

Imaging / Radiology

Signal, Image and Speech Processing

Biomedical Engineering

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Measuring Psychological Constructs: Advances in Model-Based Approaches

Measuring Psychological Constructs: Advances in Model-Based Approaches by Susan E. Embretson
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1433806916 | 312 pages | PDF | 18,8 MB

More than a half-century has passed since Cronbach’s distinction between the correlational and experimental approaches in psychology. Yet measurement today is not much better integrated with psychological theory than it was in the late 1950s, and many argue that the traditional psychometric model itself may have introduced constraints that have limited the integration of measurement and theory. “Measuring Psychological Constructs” seeks to break through these constraints by offering conceptual alternatives to traditional item-response theory’s fixed-content/multiple-choice models. This edited volume’s contributors present groundbreaking explanatory approaches to model-based measurement that provide various psychological constructs with more ‘authentic’ measures such as constructed-response tasks and performance assessment. These new explanatory approaches not only extend rigorous psychometric methods to a variety of major psychological constructs, but also have the potential to change fundamentally the nature of the constructs that are being measured. Grounded in psychometrics and quantitative assessment, and in the history and major theoretical approaches of psychology, “Measuring Psychological Constructs” is aimed at students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners alike, in variety of psychology subdisciplines that include developmental and geriatric, industrial/organizational, clinical and counseling, educational, social and personality, experimental, neuropsychology, health and rehabilitation, and quantitative psychology.

Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering and Adoption

Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering and Adoption (The Tavistock Clinic Series) by Caroline Lindsey and Jenny Kendricks
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1855759357 | 250 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB

Written for a professional readership, Creating New Families will be of interest to those directly involved in the fields of fostering and adoption. It represents best practice from the multidisciplinary Fostering and Adoption Team at the Tavistock Clinic Children and Families Department. Contents include: Theoretical Considerations; Treatment which focuses on the Child; Treatment which focuses on Parents and Families; Consultation; Work in different settings; Last word from a parent.

Contributors: Professor Lionel Hersov, Rita Harris, Sally Hodges, Sara Barratt, Miriam Steele, Hamish Canham, Laverne Antrobus, Juliet Hopkins, Margaret Rustin, Julia Granville, Louise Emanuel, Graham Music.