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Software Engineering
SOLID ACOUSTIC WAVES AND VIBRATION
Theory and Applications
by Li-Feng Ge (Anhui University, China)
This interdisciplinary book also provides a physical basis for the study of some frontier subject areas, such as mCUTs for biomedical imaging, mUMRs for biochemical sensing and monitoring including micro-nano plate, micronano beam, nanowire, FBAR, LAW and SAW ultrasonic resonators. This book is also an important reference for modeling and optimal design of these micro-nano devices and systems
Readership: Suitable as a text or as supplementary reading for senior and graduate students in physics, mathematics, and engineering. It is also an important reference book for researchers and engineers working in the academic and engineering fields of acoustics, vibration, transducers, robotic, intelligent machines and biomedical engineering.
380pp 978-981-123-500-9 Aug 2021 US$138 £120
by Lei Cui (Curtin University, Australia) & Jian S Dai (King’s College London, UK)
This book applies the moving-frame method, developed extensively by Elie Cartan, and the adjoint approach, conceived by Ernesto Cesàro, to study the kinematics of two surfaces subject to rolling contact and sliding – rolling contact to demonstrate the applications in robotic in-hand manipulation.
Readership: Undergraduate students, graduate students, engineers, and researchers in the field of biorobotics.
224pp 978-1-78634-842-5 Mar 2020 US$88 £75
Software Engineering
FROM FRACTALS AND CELLULAR AUTOMATA TO BIOLOGY
Information as Order Hidden Within Chance
by Alberto Strumia (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica “Francesco Severi”, Italy)
The didactical level of exposition, together with many astonishing images and animations, accompanied by the related simple computer programming codes (in Python and POV-Ray languages) make this book an extremely and unique useful tool to test the power of algorithmic information in generating ordered structure models (2D and 3D) like regular geometric shapes, complex shapes like fractals and cellular automata, and biological systems as the organs of a living body.
Readership: Mathematicians, Physicists, Biologists, Bioengineers, Computer Programmers, Science philosophers (of all graduate level).
328pp 978-981-121-715-9 Aug 2020 US$138 £120
MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF VIRUS INFECTION
ODE/PDE Analysis in R
by William ESchiesser (Lehigh University, USA)
Two models for the spread and control of a virus are detailed in this book: The Lung/ Respiratory System Model (LSM) and the SVIR (Susceptible-Vaccinated-Infected-Recovered) Model.
The LSM gives the spatiotemporal distribution of four viral-related proteins: virus population density along the lung air passage, host cell primary infection protein (viral genetic material (VGM)) concentration, host cell secondary infection protein (VGM) concentration, and air stream virion population density.
The model is executed for a single inhalation, and a series of inhalation/ exhalation cycles. For the latter, the progression of the viral infection into the lung is a principal result.
The SVIR is first formulated as a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) in time, then extended to a system of PDEs to account for spatial effects (spatiotemporal modeling).
Principal outputs from the ODE/PDE models are the levels of vaccinations and infections. For the latter, the efficacy of the vaccine is a parameter that can be varied in a computer-based analysis of a vaccine therapy.
The coding of the models is in R, a quality, open-source scientific computing system, and can be executed on modest computers. The R routines are available from a download link so that the example models can be executed without having to first study numerical methods and computer coding. The routines can then be applied to variations and extensions of the ODE/PDE models, such as changes in the parameters and the form of the model equations.
Key Features
• A detailed discussion of the mathematical model equations, including all of the equations, initial condition and parameters • Documented, tested R routines that implement the mathematical model
Readership: Medical students and researchers, Biophysicists, Biochemists, Computer scientists, Biomedical engineers, Chemical Engineers, Applied mathematicians, Numerical analysts.
180pp 978-981-123-663-1 Apr 2021 US$78 £70
Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond - Vol 17
THE FATE OF SCHRODINGER’S CAT
Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive
by James D Stein (California State University Long Beach, USA)
This book explores fascinating and controversial questions involving prediction, decisionmaking, and statistical analysis in a number of diverse areas, ranging from whether there is such a thing as a “hot hand” in shooting a basketball, to how we can successfully predict, more than half the time, the decay of the radioactive atom that determines the fate of Schrodinger’s Cat.
Readership: General Public, undergraduate math teachers and students in mathematics, computer programming, quantum mechanics, sports or the advertising business.
EXPLORATIONS IN NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Python Edition
by James V Lambers (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA), Amber Sumner Mooney (William Carey University, USA) & Vivian A Montiforte (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
This text is suitable for a year-long sequence in numerical analysis, and can also be used for a one-semester course in numerical linear algebra.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in mathematics for courses of numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, numerical methods for differential equations, etc. Also good for researchers in science and engineering fields who require a working knowledge of numerical methods.
692pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-934-3(pbk) US$68 £60 978-981-122-793-6 US$148 £130
Domain-Specific Bodies of Knowledge in Project Management
MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS
edited by Srinath Perera (Western Sydney University, Australia), Robert Eadie (Ulster University, UK)
This book aims to initiate the development of the specialist ‘Body of Knowledge in IT Project Management’, also learning from relevant experiences from other sectors such as construction, aerospace and health among others, where project management is well established and successfully practised.
Readership: Undergraduates, research institutes, IT project management practitioners and professional bodies in project management.
480pp 978-981-124-057-7 Oct 2022 US$148 £130
HANDBOOK OF SOFTWARE AGING AND REJUVENATION
Fundamentals, Methods, Applications, and Future Directions
edited by Tadashi Dohi (Hiroshima University, Japan), KishorTrivedi (Duke University, USA) & AlbertoAvritzer (eSulabSolutions, Inc., USA)
Key Features
• This is the first comprehensive handbook on software aging and rejuvenation that covers basic concepts, data driven approaches, models and applications • It will be useful for engineers, teachers and researchers that are working on new approaches to increase the dependability of their mission-critical systems
Readership: This book will be useful for engineers, teachers, and researchers that are working on new approaches to increase the dependability of their mission-critical systems.
424pp 978-981-121-456-1 May 2020 US$178 £155
REQUIREMENTS MODELING AND CODING
An Object-Oriented Approach
by Liping Liu (The University of Akron, USA)
This book serves as a text for a capstone course on Systems Analysis and Design in Information Systems programs. It conceptualizes business objects and functions, develops business models and software architectures, and enriches the models and the architectures by storyboarding use cases along with user interface designs.
Instructor’s resources are provided for free to instructors who adopt the book as textbook. Please send your request to sales@wspc.com.
Readership: This book should be a primary text for Systems Analysis and Design courses, C# Programming courses, and Software Engineering courses at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It may also serve as reading for professional systems analysts and developers who have trained in structured development and wish to learn object-oriented techniques.
472pp Dec 2020 978-1-78634-887-6(pbk) US$78 £70 978-1-78634-882-1 US$138 £120
BUILDING SECURE AND HIGHPERFORMANCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
by Issa Traore (University of Victoria, Canada) & Ahmed Awad E Ahmed (University of Victoria, Canada)
Key Features
• Collects a large body of scarce knowledge and experiences on
“software performance modeling” • Contains state-of-the-art pointers to the literature on the subject • Treating software security from a quality assurance perspective and integrating security concerns in the entire software lifecycle
Readership: Researchers, academics, postgraduate students in software engineering and networking.
200pp 978-981-283-599-4 Nov 2022 US$106 £88
REMOTE LABORATORIES
Empowering STEM Education with Technology
by Javier García-Zubía (University of Deusto, Spain)
In a remote laboratory, the user performs a real experiment without being in front of the equipment, performing remote experiments mediated by the Internet. Remote Laboratories: Empowering STEM Education with Technology is the first book to cover this radical redistribution of experimentation capacity as a whole.
Key Features
* Real access to remote experiments and test the technology • Detailed description of remote laboratories and how to use them in the classroom • Complete view of the remote experimentation
Readership: Researchers, teachers or students in faculties of engineering, who wish to learn more about remote laboratories and how to conduct and design remote experiments.
