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by Jean Gallier & Jocelyn Quaintance       by Hong-Xing Li (Beijing Normal                 by Jean-Pierre Fillard               by Geng Sun, Jun Shen
   (University of Pennsylvania, USA)         University at Zhuhai, China)                                                       & Jiayin Lin (University of
                                                                                                                                  Wollongong, Australia)

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  by Dmytro Bosyi, Oleh Sablin &                   by Jean Gallier &                       by Tshilidzi Marwala &              edited by Jeffrey J-P Tsai &
 Yevhen Kosariev (Dnipro National           Jocelyn Quaintance (University          Collins Achepsah Leke (University of       Ka-Lok Ng (Asia University,
   University of Railway Transport,             of Pennsylvania, USA)                    Johannesburg, South Africa)                     Taiwan)
               Ukraine)

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 edited by Leon A Petrosyan (Saint                 by Zhongzhi Shi                            by Bernard Lee                       by Wolfgang Kühn
 Petersburg State University, Russia)       (Chinese Academy of Sciences,                    (HedgeSPA, USA)                     (University of Wuppertal,
      & David Wing Kay Yeung                            China)                                                                          Germany)
  (Hong Kong Shue Yan University,
 Hong Kong & Saint Petersburg State
         University, Russia)

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        by Pentti O Haikonen              by Paul Schulte (Schulte Research,               by Robert Schmied                  edited by Hamid Jahankhani
        (University of Illinois at        Singapore & Singapore University of         (Bundeswehr University Munich,       (Northumbria University London, UK
          Springfield, USA)                  Social Sciences, Singapore) &                     Germany)                               & QAHE, UK)
                                           David Kuo Chuen Lee (Singapore
                                        University of Social Sciences, Singapore)
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                                                Artificial Intelligence / Fuzzy Logic

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE                                                     DEEP LEARNING FOR IMAGE
    A Guide to Intelligent Vehicle                                              RECONSTRUCTION
    by Ming Xie (NTU, Singapore), Hui Chen (Tongji University, China)           by Markus Haltmeier (University of Innsbruck, Austria),
    & Zhencheng Hu (Kumamoto University, Japan)                                 Stephan Antholzer (University of Innsbruck, Austria) &
                                                                                Johannes Schwab (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
    Key Features:
    The book exposes readers to the fundamentals of perception,                 This book compiles the state-of-the-art approaches for solving inverse
    decision and action                                                         problems by deep learning; from basic concepts to deep learning
         ○    The book contains original publications of the authors            and algorithms in image processing. It serves as an introduction to
         ○    It is an original book by experts in the field                    researchers working in image processing, and pattern recognition as
         ○    It is a book accessible to students, and of interest to young     well as students undertaking research in signal processing and AI.
              researchers and experts
                                                                                Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students;
    Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in                 researchers in the field of Image Processing and AI.
    automotive engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science;
                                                                                250pp                            Feb 2021
    researchers and practitioners in automotive industries.
                                                                                978-981-120-367-1                US$98           £85
    300pp                           Nov 2021
    978-981-4271-63-9               US$88        £73
                                                                                DECOMPOSITION-BASED
                                                                                EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION
    ARTIFICIAL BRAINS                                                           IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
    An Evolved Neural Net Module Approach                                       by Juan Li (Beijing Institute of Technology,
    by Hugo de Garis (Xiamen University, China)                                 China), Bin Xin (Beijing Institute of
    Key Features:                                                               Technology, China) & Jie Chen (Beijing
        ○    The first artificial brain textbook in the world                   Institute of Technology, China)
        ○    A step-by-step textbook, explaining how any computer               Key Features:
             research lab can also build artificial brains by following the         ○    Algorithm design
             techniques explained in the text                                       ○    Application of multi-objective
        ○    Written in clear fluid prose by an experienced and                          uncertain optimization approaches
             previously published author
                                                                                Readership: Researchers and professionals in computer science
    Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in the field of             that specialise or deal with multi-objective optimization and uncertain
    artificial brain, artificial intelligence and robotics.                     optimization in decision making, system designing, and scheduling.
    400pp                           Aug 2021                                    200pp                            Nov 2020
    978-981-4304-27-6               US$95        £79                            978-981-121-898-9                US$88           £75

    GENERALIZATION WITH DEEP LEARNING                                           DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRICAL FOUNDATIONS
    For Improvement on Sensing Capability                                       OF INFORMATION GEOMETRY
    edited by Xiaoli Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore),
                                                                                Geometry of Statistical Manifolds and Divergences
    Zhenghua Chen (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) &
                                                                                by Hiroshi Matsuzoe (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
    Min Wu (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
                                                                                Key Features:
    In this edited volume, we aim to narrow the gap between human and
                                                                                    ○    This book gives differential geometrical foundations of
    machine by showcasing various deep learning applications in the area
                                                                                         information geometry. Another books related to information
    of sensing. The book will cover the fundamentals of deep learning
                                                                                         geometry are mainly oriented to applications
    techniques and their applications in real-world problems including
                                                                                    ○    The contents of this book include basic applications of
    activity sensing, remote sensing and medical sensing. It will demonstrate
                                                                                         information geometry. For readers who are not an expert of
    how different deep learning techniques help to improve the sensing
                                                                                         statistics, these examples will help to understand the key
    capabilities and enable scientists and practitioners to make insightful
                                                                                         essence of information geometry
    observations and generate invaluable discoveries from different types
                                                                                    ○    The contents of this book include recent developments of
    of data.
                                                                                         information geometry. Another books related in this field
    Readership: This volume is aimed at fellow researchers in the field of               were published more than ten years ago
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    deep learning in AI, with the aim of showcasing various applications in
                                                                                Readership: Graduate students, researchers and professionals in
    the area of sensing.
                                                                                Geometry.
    200pp                           Mar 2021
                                                                                350pp                            Dec 2020
    978-981-121-883-5               US$88        £75
                                                                                978-981-4618-76-2                US$130          £108

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WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL                                                           Singapore University of Social Sciences -
                                                                             World Scientific Future Economy Series - Vol 2
INTELLIGENCE?
A Conversation between an AI                                                 THE EMERGING BUSINESS
Engineer and a Humanities Researcher                                         MODELS
by Suman Gupta (The Open University, UK) &                                   by Chong Guan, Zhiying Jiang &
Peter H Tu (General Electric Research, USA)                                  Ding Ding (Singapore University of
Key Features:                                                                Social Sciences, Singapore)
    ○    Engages with the field of                                           Key Features:
         AI research and policy as a
                                                                                 ○    The ability to identify and navigate
         conversation between two distinct
         standpoints: science/technology                                              the technologies and emerging
         and humanities/social studies; instrumental (applied)                        business models disrupting the
         and conceptual (clarificatory); inductive and deductive                      various industries
         reasoning. Genuinely interdisciplinary                                  ○    An opportunity to explore and incorporate key principles
    ○    The focus throughout is on contested concepts and                            of transformative technology into new or existing business
         unresolved questions in the field. The book therefore offers                 models
         a front-line sense of the field                                         ○    Recognition of digital economics in context, and how the
    ○    Attention is given both to the content of the field and to                   digital economy influences societies, environment, poverty,
         the manner in which (preconceptions with which) it is
                                                                                      privacy, strategy, financial operations and city development
         expressed. This is extremely rare in existing publications
         on AI                                                               Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in business
Readership: General informed readers. Readers with knowledge                 management, and entrepreneurs involved in startups.
of AI and its underpinning principles will be interested. In particular,
those with a disciplinary background in computing and technological          300pp                           Jun 2020
development, policy studies, current affairs, philosophy and discourse       978-981-120-392-3               US$118        £105
analysis. Appropriate for undergraduate students and upwards, or those       978-981-120-440-1(pbk)          US$58         £50
whose interest is more conceptual than the general user of technology.
250pp                           Aug 2020                                     HANDBOOK OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS,
978-1-78634-863-0               US$88         £75                            MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS, AND MACHINE
                                                                             LEARNING (In 4 Volumes)
TOWARD SUSTAINABLE AND                                                       edited by Cheng Few Lee (Rutgers University, USA) &
ECONOMIC SMART MOBILITY                                                      John C Lee (Center for PBBEF Research, USA)
Shaping the Future of Smart Cities
                                                                             Key Features:
edited by Max Eiza (University of Central
                                                                                 ○    A likely first attempt to
Lancashire, UK), Yue Cao (Lancaster
                                                                                      combine the applications of
University, UK) & Lexi Xu (China Unicom,
China & Beijing University of Posts and                                               econometrics, mathematics,
Telecommunications, China)                                                            statistics, and machine
                                                                                      learning in finance research
Key Features:
                                                                                      for academics and
    ○    This book is brought to you by
         authors from different backgrounds                                           professionals
         in academia and industry from around the world                          ○    Contributions from well-
    ○    The materials have been carefully selected to reflect                        known authors including
         the latest developments in the field with many novel                         Wayne Ferson, Cheng Few
         contributions from the contributors                                          Lee, Yangru Wu, Ivan Brick, Darius Palia, Horng-Shing Lu,
Readership: Professionals and researchers in the areas of Smart                       Yong Shi, Son-Nan Chen, T Robert Yu, Chunchi Wu and
Mobility (e.g., autonomous valet parking, passenger trajectory data,                  William H Greene
smart traffic control systems), general public interested in technological
advances.                                                                    Readership: Researchers and professionals who are interested in
                                                                             financial econometrics, mathematics, statistics, and technology.
220pp                           Jun 2020
978-1-78634-785-5               US$88         £75                            4600pp                          Jul 2020
                                                                             978-981-120-238-4 (Set)         US$1399       £1230
Singapore University of Social Sciences -
World Scientific Future Economy Series
                                                                             COGNITIVE SATELLITE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE &                                                    SYSTEM
DATA, AND BLOCKCHAIN IN A                                                    by Jianjun Zhang (China Academy of Space
DIGITAL ECONOMY (1st Edition)                                                Technology, China) & Jing Li (Beijing Institute
by Infocomm Media Development Authority                                      of Technology, China)
edited by David Kuo Chuen Lee (Singapore                                     Key Features:                                                                5
University of Social Sciences, Singapore)                                        ○    For the first time, the book applies
Key Features:                                                                         cognitive concept to the design of
    ○    Structured and systematic                                                    satellite systems
         introduction to technologies in artificial intelligence (AI),           ○    This book introduces cognitive
         data and blockchain                                                          radio theory into satellite
    ○    Analysis of technology roadmap and application to the                        communication systems, and realizes the concept of
         Singapore’s digitalisation journey                                           dynamic spectrum access of satellite cognitive wireless
    ○    Insightful analysis of services and digital economy as well                  networks, to overcome current shortage of spectrum
         as technology convergence
                                                                                      resources available in satellite communication systems
Readership: Graduate, postgraduate and executive students,
professionals and policy makers with an interest in technology and its       Readership: This is an advanced text that applies cognitive systems
impact.                                                                      to satellite technologies. It will be useful to scientists and researchers
                                                                             working on spacecraft technology and intelligent decision making.
400pp                           Jul 2020
978-981-121-895-8               US$138        £120                           300pp                           Jun 2020
978-981-121-994-8(pbk)          US$58         £50                            978-981-121-434-9               US$118        £105
Computer Science Catalogue 2021

    Series on Knots and Everything                                              LINEAR ALGEBRA AND
    MATHEMATICS OF HARMONY                                                      OPTIMIZATION WITH
    AS A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY                                                  APPLICATIONS TO
    DIRECTION AND “GOLDEN”                                                      MACHINE LEARNING
    PARADIGM OF MODERN                                                          Volume II: Fundamentals of
    SCIENCE                                                                     Optimization Theory with Applications
    Volume 1: The Golden Section,                                               to Machine Learning
    Fibonacci Numbers, Pascal Triangle,                                         by Jean Gallier & Jocelyn Quaintance
                                                                                (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
    and Platonic Solids
    by Alexey Stakhov (International Club of the                                Key Features:
    Golden Section, Canada & Academy of Trinitarism, Russia)                        ○    Combines the most crucial aspects of linear and nonlinear
                                                                                         optimization under one volume
    Key Features:
                                                                                    ○    The reader friendly writing style which presents difficult
        ○    Development of the original historical and mathematical
                                                                                         concepts in a “down to earth” example driven manner
             view on Euclid’s “Elements”, based on the hypothesis of                ○    Provides the mathematical theory of machine learning
             Proclus (411 – 485)                                                         optimization problems, a topic often overlooked in traditional
        ○    Generalization of Fibonacci numbers and golden section,                     computer science treatments
             following from the diagonal sums of Pascal triangle                    ○    NOT only does this book provide the theory of machine
             (mathematical discovery of the outstanding American                         learning optimization, it also contains PRACTICAL
             mathematician George Polya)                                                 examples of these problems and includes Matlab code
        ○    A new view on the role of the Fibonacci numbers theory in                   for solving hard margin SVM, soft margin SVM, lasso
             modern mathematics                                                          regression, and ridge regression problems
    Readership: High school, college and university students and                Readership: Students going for advanced undergraduate applied math
    teachers, professionals, scientists and investors interested in history     classes; master levels classes in engineering optimization, machine
                                                                                learning, and applied mathematics; and doctoral seminar classes in
    of mathematics, Fibonacci numbers, golden section and their
                                                                                machine learning and engineering optimization.
    generalization.
                                                                                896pp                           May 2020
    248pp                           May 2020
                                                                                978-981-121-656-5               US$198       £175
    978-981-120-710-5               US$88        £75

                                                                                AN INSIDE LOOK INTO CHINA’S AI
    TRANSHUMANISM                                                               DEVELOPMENT
    A Realistic Future?
    by Jean-Pierre Fillard
                                                                                CHINA AI REPORT 2020
                                                                                Brought to you by SCMP Research
    Key Features:
                                                                                As an English-language media group with one of
        ○    This book is the culmination of the
                                                                                the largest on-the-ground technology reporting
             author’s arguments from previous
                                                                                teams in China, the South China Morning Post
             titles, Is Man to Survive Science?,
                                                                                has unmatched access and insights into the
             Brain vs Computer, and Longevity                                   country’s leading and upcoming AI players.
             in the 2.0 World
        ○    It explores the futuristic topic of a                              Our report leverages on this first-hand access and
             successful co-existence of man                                     insights to provide readers with useful intelligence and data presented
             and machine, not as separate entitles, but integrated              in effective graphs and tables. Not only does it facilitate your research
        ○    It will be a welcome addition to the handful of titles on the      and better understanding of our findings, our in-depth case studies and
             subject of transhumanism                                           analysis are also comprehensive for teaching references.
                                                                                With the US and China accounting for 70 per cent of global AI
    Readership: This book is intended for the general public as an
                                                                                Investment, it is crucial to take a deep dive into China AI’s development
    introduction to a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence.
                                                                                and deployment across industries, to have a better grasp of market
    204pp                           May 2020                                    development.
    978-981-121-138-6               US$78        £70
                                                                                60pp                            Feb 2020
    978-981-121-210-9(pbk)          US$38        £35
                                                                                978-0-00-098913-0(ebook)        US$800       £0

    Series in Machine Perception and                                            Intelligent Information Systems - Vol 5
    Artificial Intelligence - Vol 87
                                                                                ADAPTIVE MICRO LEARNING
    FUZZY SYSTEMS TO                                                            Using Fragmented Time to Learn
6   QUANTUM MECHANICS                                                           by Geng Sun, Jun Shen & Jiayin Lin
    by Hong-Xing Li (Beijing Normal University                                  (University of Wollongong, Australia)
    at Zhuhai, China)
                                                                                This compendium introduces an artificial
    This unique compendium represents important                                 intelligence-supported solution to realize
    action of fuzzy systems to quantum mechanics.                               adaptive micro learning over open education
    From fuzzy sets to fuzzy systems, it also gives                             resource (OER). The advantages of cloud
    clear descriptions on the development on fuzzy                              computing and big data are leveraged to
    logic, where the most important result is the probability presentation of   promote the categorization and customization
    fuzzy systems.                                                              of OERs micro learning context. For a micro-learning service, OERs
                                                                                are tailored into fragmented pieces to be consumed within shorter time
    Readership: Professionals, academics, researchers, and graduate             frames.
    students in fuzzy logic, quantum mechanics and quantum information,
                                                                                Readership: Researchers, academics, professionals and graduate
    and probability theory.
                                                                                students in AI, Information Technology and Software Engineering.
    508pp                           Mar 2020
                                                                                152pp                           Mar 2020
    978-981-121-118-8               US$158       £140
                                                                                978-981-120-745-7               US$78        £70
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COMPUTING AND                                                             Advanced Series in Electrical and Computer
                                                                          Engineering - Vol 21
OPTIMIZATION FOR DC
POWER SYSTEMS OF                                                          APPLICATION OF OMICS,
ELECTRIC TRANSPORT                                                        AI AND BLOCKCHAIN IN
by Dmytro Bosyi, Oleh Sablin &                                            BIOINFORMATICS RESEARCH
Yevhen Kosariev (Dnipro National University                               edited by Jeffrey J-P Tsai & Ka-Lok Ng
of Railway Transport, Ukraine)                                            (Asia University, Taiwan)

Key Features:                                                             Key Features:
    ○    This book introduces AI into the                                     ○    Utilize omics-based data in
         electric transport power supply                                           biomedical research: metabolomics
         systems                                                                   data, transcriptomic data, proteomic data
                                                                              ○    Develop modern computational methods, including: big
Readership: Senior students and postgraduate students of higher                    data analytics, Blockchain technology, hybrid approach
educational institutions, scientific employees of research institutes,             for cluster analysis, feature extraction using tensor
specialists of design organizations.                                               decomposition, Boolean network model
220pp                          Mar 2020                                       ○    Unique treatment of clinical bioinformatics issues: patient
978-1-78634-771-8              US$98        £85                                    subpopulation classification, drug discovery from natural
                                                                                   products in Indonesia and Vietnam, cell free tumor DNA

LINEAR ALGEBRA AND                                                        Readership: This book provides expert coverage on unique and
                                                                          latest advances in bioinformatic research and will be useful for
OPTIMIZATION WITH                                                         advanced undergraduate and graduate students, computer scientists,
APPLICATIONS TO MACHINE                                                   computational biologists, bioinformatics and biomedical professionals.
LEARNING
                                                                          208pp                           Oct 2019
Volume I: Linear Algebra for Computer
                                                                          978-981-120-357-2               US$88         £75
Vision, Robotics, and Machine Learning
by Jean Gallier & Jocelyn Quaintance
(University of Pennsylvania, USA)                                         GAME THEORETIC ANALYSIS
                                                                          edited by Leon A Petrosyan (Saint
Key Features:
                                                                          Petersburg State University, Russia) &
    ○    This book fills a gap in the market
                                                                          David Wing Kay Yeung (Hong Kong
         in that it is a mathematically rigorous book which provides
                                                                          Shue Yan University, Hong Kong &
         topical applications for the fields of machine learning,
                                                                          Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
         computer vision, and robotics
    ○    This book covers, in more depth than usual, duality              Key Features:
         (Chapter 9), vector and matrix norms (Chapter 7), and the            ○    This handbook includes selected
         spectral theorems (Chapter 15)                                            articles from the 13th European
    ○    This book will contain classroom tested exercises Professor               (formerly Spain – Italy –
         Gallier has successfully used throughout his many years                   Netherlands) Meeting on Game
         of teaching CIS 515: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and                   Theory (SING13), held in Paris (France) at the Paris-
         Optimization. These multi-faceted exercises contain both                  Dauphine University on 5 – 7 July 2017
         mathematical proofs and computer programming                         ○    This handbook is a comprehensive collection of applications
                                                                                   on both Non-cooperative and Cooperative Games; ranging
Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students interested in
                                                                                   from Supply Chain operations interacting with Marketing, to
mathematical fundamentals of linear algebra in computer vision, machine
                                                                                   Northeast Atlantic Mackerel Finshery policy in a Pre- and
learning, robotics, applied mathematics, and electrical engineering.
                                                                                   Post Brexit context
824pp                          Feb 2020                                   Readership: This book can serve as a reference for students and
978-981-120-639-9              US$198       £175                          professionals looking to understand game theory. It will also provide
978-981-120-771-6(pbk)         US$98        £85                           useful guidance to researchers and policy-makers as it is a collection
                                                                          of the most up-to-date contributions from prominent authors in the field.
HANDBOOK OF MACHINE                                                       620pp                           Oct 2019
LEARNING                                                                  978-981-120-200-1               US$178        £155
Volume 2: Optimization and Decision
Making                                                                    Series on Intelligence Science - Vol 4
by Tshilidzi Marwala & Collins Achepsah Leke
(University of Johannesburg, South Africa)                                ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL
                                                                          INTELLIGENCE (2nd Edition)
Key Features:                                                             by Zhongzhi Shi (Chinese Academy of                                          7
    ○    It is a good starting point for                                  Sciences, China)
         machine learning enthusiasts as it
         provides concise introductions to                                This comprehensive compendium, consisting
         optimization algorithms                                          of 15 chapters, captures the updated
    ○    It provides information on potentially new concepts such as      achievements of AI. It is completely revised
         flexibly bounded rationality for future research                 to reflect the current researches in the field,
    ○    It provides an in-depth overview of economic modelling           through numerous techniques and strategies
         and decision making and how AI can be used to define,            to address the impending challenges facing computer scientists today.
         disprove or validate some of the concepts
                                                                          Readership: Researchers, academics, professionals and senior and
Readership: This book is a useful reference for students and              graduate students in artificial intelligence, machine learning, electrical
practitioners in artificial intelligence.                                 and electronic engineering.
320pp                          Nov 2019                                   596pp                           Aug 2019
978-981-120-566-8              US$128       £115                          978-981-120-087-8               US$178        £155
Computer Science Catalogue 2021

    INVESTMENT ANALYTICS IN                                                    Singapore University of Social Sciences -
                                                                               World Scientific Future Economy Series - Vol 1
    THE DAWN OF ARTIFICIAL
    INTELLIGENCE                                                               AI & QUANTUM COMPUTING
    by Bernard Lee (HedgeSPA, USA)                                             FOR FINANCE & INSURANCE
                                                                               Fortunes and Challenges for China and
    Key Features:
                                                                               America
        ○    This book is designed as practical
                                                                               by Paul Schulte (Schulte Research, Singapore
             teaching materials to go with a
                                                                               & Singapore University of Social Sciences,
             master’s level or professional
                                                                               Singapore) & David Kuo Chuen Lee
             education course, with one on-line
                                                                               (Singapore University of Social Sciences,
             version is already accessible
                                                                               Singapore)
        ○    Rigorous use cases that were
             accepted as stand-alone papers at some of the best                Key Features:
             recognized academic conferences such as the Joint                     ○    No competing title that provides an in-depth and critical
             Statistical Meetings                                                       exposition of the emergence technology environment and
        ○    Step-by-step algorithms with the clarity required for                      its challenges and opportunities
             customary compliance clearance                                        ○    Provides an exposition and framework for anyone who is
        ○    Quick and logical navigation to relevant topics for those in               interested in the technology environment
             different asset management functions without assuming                 ○    Presents concepts of deep emerging technologies and
             logical chapter-by-chapter progress                                        new disruptive business models, accessible to the general
        ○    Supplementary teaching aids will be made available to                      public
             instructors
                                                                               Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students, professionals
    Readership: Professionals looking for a step-by-step “cookbook” on         working in financial institutions and those interested in financial
    algorithms to build and deploy their own investment analytics processes;   technology worldwide.
    C-level executives at leading investment firms to technologists doing
    hands-on deployments.                                                      692pp                           Jun 2019
                                                                               978-981-120-389-3               US$98         £85
    264pp                           Sep 2019
                                                                               978-981-120-918-5(pbk)          US$46         £40
    978-981-4725-35-4               US$98          £81
    978-981-4730-45-7(pbk)          US$48          £40
                                                                               BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING
    HANDBOOK OF DIGITAL                                                        MODELS AND ALGORITHMS
    ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS                                                         edited by Tao Song (China University of
                                                                               Petroleum, China), Pan Zheng (University
    Digital Twins, Simulation and AI
                                                                               of Canterbury, New Zealand), Mou Ling
    by Wolfgang Kühn (University of Wuppertal,
                                                                               Dennis Wong (Heriot-Watt University
    Germany)
                                                                               Malaysia, Malaysia) & Xun Wang (China
    Digitalization is changing nearly everything.                              University of Petroleum, China)
    This compendium highlights a comprehensive
                                                                               Bio-inspired computing (BIC) focuses on
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                                                                               the designs and developments of computer
    about digitalization in industrial environments,
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    CONSCIOUSNESS AND
    ROBOT SENTIENCE                                                            FUZZY LOGIC-BASED
    (2nd Edition)                                                              MATERIAL SELECTION
    by Pentti O Haikonen (University of Illinois
    at Springfield, USA)
                                                                               AND SYNTHESIS
                                                                               by Mustafa B Babanli (Azerbaijan State Oil
    Key Features:                                                              and Industry University, Azerbaijan)
8       ○    The proof of a theory calls for
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    for the benefit of students, researchers, philosophers and engineers
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edited by Marina Litvak (Shamoon College                                     BUILDING SECURE AND HIGH-
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ENSEMBLE LEARNING                                                            CYBERSECURITY AND LEGAL-REGULATORY
Pattern Classification Using Ensemble                                        ASPECTS
Methods                                                                      edited by Gabi Siboni (Tel Aviv University, Israel) &
2nd Edition                                                                  Limor Ezioni (Academic Center for Science and Law, Israel)
by Lior Rokach (Ben-Gurion University of                                     Key Features:
the Negev, Israel)                                                               ○    The book is a comprehensive work assessing the legal
                                                                                      regulatory aspects of cybersecurity. The content goes
This updated compendium provides a
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methodical introduction with a coherent and
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Principles and Practices of Herbal                                           and legal studies. Courses include cybersecurity; cybersecurity and law;
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Insurance Herbal Prescription Big Data
                                                                             and technology; law, science and technology; innovation, technology
by Sun-Chong Wang
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(National Central University, Taiwan)
                                                                             350pp                           Feb 2021
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                                                                             Current Practice and Future Trends
         the experience of a single expert as in most other books.
                                                                             edited by Sam Goundar
         At the end of the book, the reader will be able to compose          (The University of the South Pacific, Fiji)                                   9
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pharmacists and nurses in alternative medicine. The book is also             business, and organizational domains.
beneficial for a general audience who is interested in evidence-based
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     ENGINEERS
     An Application-Oriented Mathematical                                         SECURECSOCIAL: SECURE
     Introduction                                                                 CLOUD-BASED SOCIAL
     by Robert Schmied (Bundeswehr University                                     NETWORK
     Munich, Germany)                                                             by Pradeep K Atrey (University at Albany, USA)
                                                                                  & Kasun Senevirathna (University of
     Cryptology for Engineers is a study of digital
                                                                                  Winnipeg, Canada)
     security in communications systems. The book
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     a clear sense of the mathematical background on the one hand and                      perspective of external adversaries and other OSN users.
     engineers’ requirements on the other. Numerous examples computable                    This book is unique as it considers the Social Networking
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                                                                                           network security to users’ data
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     cryptology, mathematics and engineering.
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     384pp                           Apr 2020                                              data
     978-981-120-804-1               US$98         £85
                                                                                  Readership: This books is intended for social network users and
                                                                                  researchers focusing on security and privacy issues in online social
     CYBER SECURITY                                                               networks.
     PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE                                                         160pp                           Aug 2019
     edited by Hamid Jahankhani (Northumbria                                      978-981-120-591-0               US$68          £60
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              in defending cyber space
         ○    State of the art research
              dissemination                                                       HANDS-ON COMPUTER VISION
                                                                                  by Marc Pomplun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
         ○    Facets/ issues of the cyber security
              from the practitioner’s angle in the era of Autonomy,               This book provides its readers the fundamental concepts in computer
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                                                                                  problems. No prior knowledge of computer vision is required, but readers
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                                                                                  are expected to have experience in computer programming. Commented
     the body of knowledge that has been developed against cybersecurity
                                                                                  sample code in the C language and a variety of programming exercises in
     attacks. It is primarily aimed at experts and governments, corporations,
                                                                                  this book will assist the readers in developing an in-depth understanding
     security firms, and individuals planning for cyber security of the future.
                                                                                  of computer vision algorithms and their implementations.
     596pp                           Mar 2020
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   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
   OF NEURAL SYSTEMS (IJNS)                                                INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
   https://www.worldscientific.com/ijns                                    OF COMPUTATIONAL
                                                                           INTELLIGENCE AND
   2019 IMPACT FACTOR: 5.604                                               APPLICATIONS (IJCIA)
   Editor-in-Chief: Hojjat Adeli                                           https://www.worldscientific.com/ijcia
   (The Ohio State University, USA)
                                                                           Editor-in-Chief
   About IJNS: Aims & Scope
                                                                           Brijesh Verma (Central Queensland
   The International Journal of Neural                                     University, Australia)
   Systems is a bimonthly peer-reviewed
                                                                           A refereed journal dedicated to the theory and applications of com-
   journal which covers information processing in natural and artificial
                                                                           putational intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems,
   neural systems. The journal presents a fresh, undogmatic attitude
                                                                           evolutionary computation and hybrid systems). The main goal
   towards this multi-disciplinary field, aiming to be a forum for novel
                                                                           of this journal is to provide the scientific community and industry
   ideas and improved understanding of collective and cooperative          with a vehicle whereby ideas using two or more conventional and
   phenomena in systems with computational capabilities.                   computational intelligence based techniques could be discussed.
   Abstracting/Indexing: Academic OneFile | Academic Search                The IJCIA welcomes original works in areas such as neural
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