Data Analytics, Computational Statistics, and Operations Research for Engineers: Methodologies and Applications
暫譯: 工程師的數據分析、計算統計與運籌學：方法論與應用

隨著資料分析（Data Analytics）和計算統計（Computational Statistics）領域的快速發展，跟上當前的趨勢、方法論和應用變得至關重要。本書探討了資料探勘（data mining）在機器學習（machine learning）中的計算統計角色。它提供了可用於各個領域的應用，並檢視了轉換函數（transformation functions）在優化問題陳述中的作用。

《工程師的資料分析、計算統計與運籌學：方法論與應用》介紹了計算密集型方法、推論技術（inference techniques）和生存分析模型（survival analysis models）的應用。它討論了資料探勘如何提取資訊，以及機器學習如何根據新資訊改善計算模型。

對這本參考書感興趣的讀者包括在資料探勘、計算統計、運籌學和機器學習領域工作的學生、專業人士和研究人員。

Debabrata Samanta is presently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India. He obtained his Bachelors in Physics (Honors), from Calcutta University; Kolkata, India. He obtained his MCA, from the Academy of Technology, under WBUT, West Bengal. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engg. from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in the area of SAR Image Processing. He is keenly interested in Interdisciplinary Research & Development and has experience spanning fields of SAR Image Analysis, Video surveillance, Heuristic algorithm for Image Classification, Deep Learning Framework for Detection and Classification, Blockchain, Statistical Modelling, Wireless Adhoc Network, Natural Language Processing, V2I Communication. He has successfully completed six Consultancy Projects. He has received funding under International Travel Support Scheme in 2019 for attending conference in Thailand. He has received Travel Grant for speaker in Conference, Seminar etc for two years from July, 2019. He is the owner of 19 Patents (2 Design Indian Patent and 2 Australian patent Granted, 15 Indian Patent published) and 2 copyright. He has authored and coauthored over 158 research papers in international journal (SCI/SCIE/ESCI/Scopus) and conferences including IEEE, Springer and Elsevier Conference proceeding. He has received Scholastic Award at 2nd International conference on Computer Science and IT application, CSIT-2011, Delhi, India. He is a co-author of 11 books and the co-editor of 7 books, available for sale on Amazon and Flipkart. He has presented various papers at International conferences and received Best Paper awards. He has author and co-authored of 20 Book Chapters. He also serves as acquisition editor for Springer, Wiley, CRC, Scrivener Publishing LLC, Beverly, USA. and Elsevier. He is a Professional IEEE Member, an Associate Life Member of Computer Society Of India (CSI) and a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). He is a Convener, Keynote speaker, Session chair, Co-chair, Publicity chair, Publication chair, Advisory Board, Technical Program Committee members in many prestigious International and National conferences. He was invited speaker at several Institutions.

SK Hafizul Islam received the M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India, in 2006, and the M.Tech. degree in Computer Application and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2009 and 2013, respectively, from the Indian Institute of Technology [IIT (ISM)] Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, under the INSPIRE Fellowship Ph.D. Program (funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India). He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani (IIIT Kalyani), West Bengal, India. Before joining the IIIT Kalyani, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), Rajasthan, India. He has more than eight years of teaching and ten years of research experiences. He has authored or co-authored hundred research papers in journals and conference proceedings of international reputes. His research interests include cryptography, information security, WSNs, IoT, and cloud computing. Dr. Islam is an Associate Editor for Wiley's International Journal of Communication Systems and Security and Privacy and IEEE's IEEE Access. He was a reviewer in many reputed international journals and conferences. He was the recipient of the University Gold Medal, the S. D. Singha Memorial Endowment Gold Medal, and the Sabitri Parya Memorial Endowment Gold Medal from Vidyasagar University, in 2006. He was also the recipient of the University Gold Medal from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad in 2009 and the OPERA award from BITS Pilani in 2015. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Naveen Chilamkurti is currently a Reader/Associate Professor and Cybersecurity discipline head, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from La Trobe University. He is also the Inaugural Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies launched in July 2011. He has published about 300 Journal and conference papers. He has edited and authored six books with various publishers. His current research areas include Cybersecurity, IoT, Anomaly detection in IoT, Internet of Medical Things, Wireless Security, Federated Learning in IoT, wireless multimedia, wireless sensor networks, and so on. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is also an Associate Editor for IEEE, Wiley IJCS, SCN, Inderscience JETWI, and IJIPT.

Mohammad Hammoudeh received his MSc in Advanced Distributed Systems in 2006 (University of Leicester, UK), and his PhD in Wireless Sensor Networks in 2008 (University of Wolverhampton, UK). He was appointed as inaugural head of the CfACS Internet of Things Lab in 2016. He was awarded a Readership in Future Networks and Security in 2019. He is an active disseminator of research to the academic community, industry, policy makers and wider technology beneficiaries, he over 75 refereed conference publications, 50 peer reviewed journal publications, and is a successful editor of 3 books and many journal special issues. He continues to be an active researcher in the areas of cybersecurity, the Internet of Things (IoT), and simulation and modelling of complex highly decentralised systems. Mohammad is engaged with several national and international advisory and grant awarding bodies in the areas of cybersecurity, IoT and blockchain. He has been awarded above £1.5M as Principal/Co-Investigator for 13 research projects. He is a co-founder of the CupCarbon IoT and smart cities simulator.

Debabrata Samanta 目前擔任印度班加羅爾基督大學（CHRIST，預定大學）計算機科學系的助理教授。他在印度加爾各答大學獲得物理學（榮譽）學士學位；在西孟加拉邦的技術學院獲得碩士學位（MCA）。他在印度杜爾卡普爾國立技術學院獲得計算機科學與工程博士學位，研究領域為合成孔徑雷達（SAR）影像處理。他對跨學科研究與開發充滿熱情，擁有合成孔徑雷達影像分析、視頻監控、影像分類的啟發式演算法、檢測與分類的深度學習框架、區塊鏈、統計建模、無線臨時網路、自然語言處理、車輛與基礎設施（V2I）通信等領域的經驗。他成功完成了六個顧問項目。2019年，他獲得國際旅行支持計劃的資助，以參加在泰國舉行的會議。他在2019年7月起獲得為會議、研討會等演講者的旅行補助，持續兩年。他擁有19項專利（2項設計印度專利和2項澳大利亞專利已授予，15項印度專利已發表）和2項著作權。他在國際期刊（SCI/SCIE/ESCI/Scopus）和會議上發表了超過158篇研究論文，包括IEEE、Springer和Elsevier的會議論文集。他在2011年於德里舉行的第二屆國際計算機科學與IT應用會議（CSIT-2011）中獲得學術獎。他是11本書的共同作者，並擔任7本書的共同編輯，這些書籍在亞馬遜和Flipkart上有售。他在國際會議上發表了多篇論文並獲得最佳論文獎。他是20本書章的作者和共同作者。他還擔任Springer、Wiley、CRC、Scrivener Publishing LLC（美國貝佛利）和Elsevier的採購編輯。他是IEEE專業會員、印度計算機學會（CSI）副終身會員和印度技術教育學會（ISTE）終身會員。他在許多著名的國際和國內會議中擔任召集人、主題演講者、會議主席、共同主席、宣傳主席、出版主席、顧問委員會成員和技術程序委員會成員。他曾受邀在多個機構演講。

SK Hafizul Islam 於2006年在印度米德納普爾的維迪亞薩加大學獲得應用數學碩士學位，並於2009年和2013年分別在印度恰爾肯德邦的印度理工學院（IIT (ISM)）丹巴德獲得計算機應用碩士學位和計算機科學與工程博士學位，該博士學位是根據印度政府科學與技術部資助的INSPIRE獎學金計劃獲得的。他目前是印度西孟加拉邦印度信息技術學院卡利亞尼（IIIT Kalyani）計算機科學與工程系的助理教授。在加入IIIT Kalyani之前，他曾在印度拉賈斯坦邦的比爾拉科技與科學學院（BITS Pilani）計算機科學與信息系統系擔任助理教授。他擁有超過八年的教學經驗和十年的研究經驗。他在國際知名期刊和會議論文集中發表或共同發表了百篇研究論文。他的研究興趣包括密碼學、信息安全、無線傳感器網路（WSNs）、物聯網（IoT）和雲計算。Dr. Islam是Wiley的《國際通信系統期刊》和《安全與隱私》的副編輯，以及IEEE的《IEEE Access》的副編輯。他曾擔任多個知名國際期刊和會議的審稿人。他於2006年獲得維迪亞薩加大學的金獎勳章、S. D. Singha紀念金獎勳章和Sabitri Parya紀念金獎勳章。2009年，他還獲得IIT(ISM)丹巴德的金獎勳章，並於2015年獲得BITS Pilani的OPERA獎。他是IEEE的高級會員，也是ACM的會員。

Naveen Chilamkurti 目前是澳大利亞墨爾本拉籌伯大學計算機科學與計算機工程系的讀者/副教授及網絡安全學科負責人。他在拉籌伯大學獲得博士學位。他也是於2011年7月啟動的《國際無線網路與寬頻技術期刊》的首任主編。他已發表約300篇期刊和會議論文，並與多家出版社編輯和撰寫了六本書。他目前的研究領域包括網絡安全、物聯網、物聯網中的異常檢測、醫療物聯網、無線安全、物聯網中的聯邦學習、無線多媒體、無線傳感器網路等。他目前在幾個國際期刊的編輯委員會中任職。他是IEEE的高級會員，並擔任IEEE、Wiley IJCS、SCN、Inderscience JETWI和IJIPT的副編輯。

Mohammad Hammoudeh 於2006年在英國萊斯特大學獲得先進分散式系統碩士學位，並於2008年在英國伍爾弗漢普頓大學獲得無線傳感器網路博士學位。他於2016年被任命為CfACS物聯網實驗室的首任負責人。2019年，他獲得未來網路與安全的讀者職位。他積極向學術界、產業、政策制定者和更廣泛的技術受益者傳播研究成果，擁有超過75篇經過審核的會議出版物、50篇同行評審的期刊出版物，並成功編輯了3本書和多個期刊特刊。他在網絡安全、物聯網（IoT）以及複雜高度去中心化系統的模擬與建模等領域持續進行活躍的研究。Mohammad參與了多個國家和國際的諮詢及資助機構，專注於網絡安全、物聯網和區塊鏈。他作為主要/共同研究者獲得了超過150萬英鎊的資助，用於13個研究項目。他是CupCarbon物聯網和智慧城市模擬器的共同創始人。