N. Balakrishnan

Vir V. Phoha

S. Sitharama Iyengar

Nandan Parameshwaran

Chuka D. Okoye

This book provides the basics needed to develop sensor network software and supplements it with many case studies covering network applications. It also examines how to develop onboard applications on individual sensors, how to interconnect these sensors, and how to form networks of sensors, although the major aim of this book is to provide foundational principles of developing sensor networking software and critically examine sensor network applications.

Applications and Technology

Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming

:Computer modeling of biological systems, a process of building new sets of conceptualizations, theories, and implementations is cov-ered in depth. The emphasis is on how computer modeling encom-passes three distinct areas of science (computer science, biology, and medicine) for building a framework for investigating the behavior of a complex biological system. Simulation and modeling are dis-cussed because these two factors provide the methodology for the design, development, experimentation, analysis, and evaluation of a experiment under study. Because of their high degree of modular-ity and collective complexity, computer systems such as analog, digital, or hybrid are reviewed. This presentation of computer mod-eling of biological systems delves into the study of data represen-tation (or data structures) and their transformation into an empirical model via a software program.

Computer Modeling of Complex Biological Systems

Richard R. Brooks

Clemson University

The vision of researchers to create smart environments through the deployment of thousands of sensors, each with a short range wireless communications channel and capable of detecting ambient conditions such as temperature, movement, sound, light, or the presence of certain objects is becoming a reality. With the emergence of high-speed networks an

Distributed Sensor Networks

Gregory Vert

Develops a Comprehensive, Global Model for Contextually Based Processing Systems A new perspective on global information systems operation Helping to advance a valuable paradigm shift in the next generation and processing of knowledge, Introduction to Contextual Processing: Theory and Applications provides a comprehensive model for constructing a contextually based processing system. It explores the components of this system, the interactions of the components, key mathematical foundations behind the model, and new concepts necessary for operating the system. After defining the key dimensions of a model for contextual processing, the book discusses how data is used to develop a semantic model for contexts as well as language-driven context-specific processing actions. It then applies rigorous mathematical methods to contexts, examines basic sensor data fusion theory and applies it to the contextual fusion of information, and describes the means to distribute contextual information. The authors also illustrate a new type of data repository model to manage contextual data, before concluding with the requirements of contextual security in a global environment. This seminal work presents an integrated framework for the design and operation of the next generation of IT processing. It guides the way for developing advanced IT systems and offers new models and concepts that can support advanced semantic web and cloud computing capabilities at a global scale.

S. Sitharama Iyengar

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