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Antivirus Engines

  • 1st Edition
  • October 21, 2024
  • Paul A. Gagniuc
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 2 9 5 2 - 4
Antivirus Engines: From Methods to Innovations, Design, and Applications offers an in-depth exploration of the core techniques employed in modern antivirus software. It provides a thorough technical analysis of detection methods, algorithms, and integration strategies essential for the development and enhancement of antivirus solutions. The examples provided are written in Python, showcasing foundational, native implementations of key concepts, allowing readers to gain practical experience with the underlying mechanisms of antivirus technology.The text covers a wide array of scanning techniques, including heuristic and smart scanners, hexadecimal inspection, and cryptographic hash functions such as MD5 and SHA for file integrity verification. These implementations highlight the crucial role of various scanning engines, from signature-based detection to more advanced models like behavioral analysis and heuristic algorithms. Each chapter provides clear technical examples, demonstrating the integration of modules and methods required for a comprehensive antivirus system, addressing both common and evolving threats.Beyond simple virus detection, the content illustrates how polymorphic malware, ransomware, and state-sponsored attacks are tackled using multi-layered approaches. Through these examples, students, researchers, and security professionals gain practical insight into the operation of antivirus engines, enhancing their ability to design or improve security solutions in a rapidly changing threat environment.

Biostatistics and Computer-based Analysis of Health Data Using SAS

  • 1st Edition
  • June 22, 2017
  • Christophe Lalanne + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 5 4 8 - 1 1 1 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 1 1 7 1 - 3
This volume of the Biostatistics and Health Sciences Set focuses on statistics applied to clinical research.The use of SAS for data management and statistical modeling is illustrated using various examples.  Many aspects of data processing and statistical analysis of cross-sectional and experimental medical data are covered, including regression models commonly found in medical statistics. This practical book is primarily intended for health researchers with a basic knowledge of statistical methodology. Assuming basic concepts, the authors focus on the practice of biostatistical methods essential to clinical research, epidemiology and analysis of biomedical data (including comparison of two groups, analysis of categorical data, ANOVA, linear and logistic regression, and survival analysis).  The use of examples from clinical trials and epidemiological studies provide the basis for a series of practical exercises, which provide instruction and familiarize the reader with essential SAS commands.

Individualized Drug Therapy for Patients

  • 1st Edition
  • November 8, 2016
  • Roger W Jelliffe + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 3 4 8 - 7
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 3 4 9 - 4
Individualized Drug Therapy for Patients: Basic Foundations, Relevant Software and Clinical Applications focuses on quantitative approaches that maximize the precision with which dosage regimens of potentially toxic drugs can hit a desired therapeutic goal. This book highlights the best methods that enable individualized drug therapy and provides specific examples on how to incorporate these approaches using software that has been developed for this purpose. The book discusses where individualized therapy is currently and offers insights to the future. Edited by Roger Jelliffe, MD and Michael Neely, MD, renowned authorities in individualized drug therapy, and with chapters written by international experts, this book provides clinical pharmacologists, pharmacists, and physicians with a valuable and practical resource that takes drug therapy away from a memorized ritual to a thoughtful quantitative process aimed at optimizing therapy for each individual patient.

Parallel Programming with OpenACC

  • 1st Edition
  • October 14, 2016
  • Rob Farber
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 0 3 9 7 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 0 4 5 9 - 4
Parallel Programming with OpenACC is a modern, practical guide to implementing dependable computing systems. The book explains how anyone can use OpenACC to quickly ramp-up application performance using high-level code directives called pragmas. The OpenACC directive-based programming model is designed to provide a simple, yet powerful, approach to accelerators without significant programming effort. Author Rob Farber, working with a team of expert contributors, demonstrates how to turn existing applications into portable GPU accelerated programs that demonstrate immediate speedups. The book also helps users get the most from the latest NVIDIA and AMD GPU plus multicore CPU architectures (and soon for Intel® Xeon Phi™ as well). Downloadable example codes provide hands-on OpenACC experience for common problems in scientific, commercial, big-data, and real-time systems. Topics include writing reusable code, asynchronous capabilities, using libraries, multicore clusters, and much more. Each chapter explains how a specific aspect of OpenACC technology fits, how it works, and the pitfalls to avoid. Throughout, the book demonstrates how the use of simple working examples that can be adapted to solve application needs.

Advances in Software Science and Technology

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2014
  • Teruo Hikita + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 1 5 7 2 - 3
Advances in Software Science and Technology, Volume 4 provides information pertinent to the advancement of the science and technology of computer software. This book discusses the various applications for computer systems. Organized into two parts encompassing 10 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the historical survey of programming languages for vector/parallel computers in Japan and describes compiling methods for supercomputers in Japan. This text then explains the model of a Japanese software factory, which is presented by the logical configuration that has been satisfied by the semantics of software engineering. Other chapters consider fluent joint as an algorithm that operates on relations organized as multidimensional linear hash files. The final chapter deals with the rules for submission of English papers that will be published, which includes papers that are reports of academic research by members of the Society. This book is a valuable resource for scientists, software engineers, and research workers.

Architecting High Performing, Scalable and Available Enterprise Web Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • October 29, 2014
  • Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 2 5 8 - 0
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 5 2 8 - 4
Architecting High Performing, Scalable and Available Enterprise Web Applications provides in-depth insights into techniques for achieving desired scalability, availability and performance quality goals for enterprise web applications. The book provides an integrated 360-degree view of achieving and maintaining these attributes through practical, proven patterns, novel models, best practices, performance strategies, and continuous improvement methodologies and case studies. The author shares his years of experience in application security, enterprise application testing, caching techniques, production operations and maintenance, and efficient project management techniques.

Service Orchestration as Organization

  • 1st Edition
  • August 12, 2014
  • Malinda Kapuruge + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 9 3 8 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 0 9 7 - 6
Service orchestration techniques combine the benefits of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) to compose and coordinate distributed software services. On the other hand, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is gaining popularity as a software delivery model through cloud platforms due to the many benefits to software vendors, as well as their customers. Multi-tenancy, which refers to the sharing of a single application instance across multiple customers or user groups (called tenants), is an essential characteristic of the SaaS model. Written in an easy to follow style with discussions supported by real-world examples, Service Orchestration as Organization introduces a novel approach with associated language, framework, and tool support to show how service orchestration techniques can be used to engineer and deploy SaaS applications.

Relating System Quality and Software Architecture

  • 1st Edition
  • July 25, 2014
  • Ivan Mistrik + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 7 0 0 9 - 4
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 7 1 6 8 - 8
System Quality and Software Architecture collects state-of-the-art knowledge on how to intertwine software quality requirements with software architecture and how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system. Contributions from leading researchers and industry evangelists detail the techniques required to achieve quality management in software architecting, and the best way to apply these techniques effectively in various application domains (especially in cloud, mobile and ultra-large-scale/internet-scale architecture) Taken together, these approaches show how to assess the value of total quality management in a software development process, with an emphasis on architecture. The book explains how to improve system quality with focus on attributes such as usability, maintainability, flexibility, reliability, reusability, agility, interoperability, performance, and more. It discusses the importance of clear requirements, describes patterns and tradeoffs that can influence quality, and metrics for quality assessment and overall system analysis. The last section of the book leverages practical experience and evidence to look ahead at the challenges faced by organizations in capturing and realizing quality requirements, and explores the basis of future work in this area.

Real Time Programming 1985

  • 1st Edition
  • June 28, 2014
  • G.M. Bull + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 8 0 3 - 0
Examines the entire field of real-time programming, with emphasis on the most recent developments in industrial control and the design of process control systems. The topics covered include programming of statistical quality control applications, graphical languages for real-time programming, programming of personal computers and work stations for real-time applications. Contains 17 papers.

Computers and Languages

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 4
  • June 28, 2014
  • A. Nijholt
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 9 4 2 - 6
A global introduction to language technology and the areas of computer science where language technology plays a role. Surveyed in this volume are issues related to the parsing problem in the fields of natural languages, programming languages, and formal languages.Throughout the book attention is paid to the social forces which influenced the development of the various topics. Also illustrated are the development of the theory of language analysis, its role in compiler construction, and its role in computer applications with a natural language interface between men and machine. Parts of the material in this book have been used in courses on computational linguistics, computers and society, and formal approaches to languages.