Information communications technology systems are facing an increasing number of cyber
security threats, the majority of which are originated by insiders. As insiders reside behind …

The area of Internet traffic measurement has advanced enormously over the last couple of
years. This was mostly due to the increase in network access speeds, due to the …

Long-memory, or more generally fractal, processes are known to play an important role in
many scientific disciplines and applied fields such as physics, geophysics, hydrology …

Networks and network analysis are arguably one of the largest growth areas of the early
twenty-first century in the quantitative sciences. Despite roots in social network analysis …

" The author has substantially extended and updated the material to reflect developments
over the period.… The book is mainly aimed at academics and researchers, but should …

The dynamics of many social, technological and economic phenomena are driven by
individual human actions, turning the quantitative understanding of human behaviour into a …

During the seven years that elapsed between the first and second editions of the present
book, considerable progress was achieved in the area of financial modelling and pricing of …

Multiprocessor system-on-chip (MP-SoC) platforms are emerging as an important trend for
SoC design. Power and wire design constraints are forcing the adoption of new design …

The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has emerged as a revolutionary methodology for
integrating a very high number of intellectual property (IP) blocks in a single die. The …

Packet loss degrades the quality of experience (QoE) of videoconferencing. The standard
approach to recovering lost packets for long-distance communication where retransmission …