My Library


   
Limit search to available items
32000 results found. Sorted by relevance | date | title .
E-Book
Title Complexities. 1, Various Approaches in the Field of Techno-Scientific Knowledge / edited by Jean-Pierre Briffaut.

Description 1 online resource (188 pages)
Series Systems and industrial engineering series. Systems of systems complexity set ; v. 5
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: Sharing Complexity: An Acclaim for Complex Thinking -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Complexity of Cybersecurity -- 1.1. Formal approach to the complexity of cybersecurity -- 1.1.1. Cybersecurity and theoretical computing -- 1.1.2. Malware and computer virology -- 1.1.3 Cyber-risk -- 1.1.4. Cognitive attacks and immersive fictitious data architectures -- 1.2. Cybersecurity in real life: Advanced persistent threats, computer networks, defense teams and complex log data -- 1.2.1. What is an APT? -- 1.2.2. What is the network that companies need to protect? Who protects it? Why are "Situational Crime Prevention" (SCP) systems complex systems? -- 1.2.3. What kind of anomalies need to be raised in order to detect a multi-stage APT attack? -- 1.3. User and entity behavior analysis as a way of reducing complexity -- 1.3.1. Presentation of the method -- 1.3.2. Data used and details of the method -- 1.3.3. Visual results and interpretation -- 1.4. Conclusion and future work -- 1.5. References -- Chapter 2. Complexity and Biology: When Historical Perspectives Intersect with Epistemological Analyses -- 2.1. Complexity throughout the history of thoughs on living -- 2.1.1. The roots of thinking on complexity -- 2.1.2. From machinules to cells: An ordered complexity? -- 2.1.3. The organism: An autonomous complexity -- 2.1.4. The emergence of complexity between comparative anatomy and embryology -- 2.2. The living: Between potentialities and actualizations -- 2.2.1. Teratology to better understand the links between actualization and potentiality in the living -- 2.2.2. Time, a key concept for understanding the interactions between the possible and the actualized -- 2.3. Reductionist biotechnologies? -- 2.3.1. From physics to biotechnology.
2.3.2. When the living extend beyond the experimental framework -- 2.4. References -- Chapter 3. Two Complexities: Information and Structure Content -- 3.1. The simple, the random and the structured: A triangle of concepts key to a complete understanding -- 3.2. Calculation, the key to the solution -- 3.3. Thought experiment -- 3.4. Mathematical definition -- 3.5. Random complexity and structural complexity -- 3.6. Recent progress -- 3.7. Less undecidability -- 3.8. Experimentation -- 3.9. Appendices -- 3.9.1. Complexification -- 3.9.2. Random and structural complexity -- 3.9.3. Incalculable but approximate -- 3.9.4. The law of slow growth -- 3.9.5. Experimental evaluation of K(s) and P(s) -- 3.10. References -- Chapter 4. Leveraging Complexity in Oncology -- A Data Narrative -- 4.1. Large collaborative research initiatives -- the Human Genome Project -- 4.2. Human cell atlas -- unraveling complexity -- 4.3. From bench to bedside -- 4.4. The battle with cancer -- 4.5. Health economics -- cost is another matter -- 4.6. From molecules to medicine -- 4.7. Artificial intelligence -- 4.8. The fourth paradigm -- 4.9. Modeling the complexity of cancer -- 4.10. References -- Chapter 5. Complexity or Complexities of Information: The Dimensions of Complexity -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. A brief historical overview -- 5.3. The phenomenology of complexity in systems engineering -- 5.3.1. Measuring the complexity of an assembly through the integration process and tests -- 5.4. The four dimensions of complexity -- 5.5. The term "simplexity": A remark on Richard Feynman's Nobel lecture -- 5.6. Computational volume: Remarks on the first quantification of complexity -- 5.6.1. Quantifying interactions and functional dependencies -- 5.7. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.
Note Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Subject Technological complexity.
Local Subj. Wiley ebook collection
Alt Author Briffaut, Jean-Pierre.
Alt Title Various Approaches in the Field of Techno-Scientific Knowledge
Standard # 9781394255504 (electronic bk.)
1394255500 (electronic bk.)
1394255489
9781394255481
10.1002/9781394255504 doi

Christopher Newport University | Paul and Rosemary Trible Library | Newport News, Virginia 23606  

Innovative Interfaces, Inc.