商品描述
This book focuses on the mathematical theories and algorithms for information processing and network inference in complex engineered networks such as the Internet and online social networks. These large-scale networks provide an important and diverse medium for spreading and disseminating various types of information. The spreading processes are those in which the actions (e.g. computer virus threat, rumour spreading, viral marketing) by certain nodes increase the susceptibility of other nodes to do likewise; this results in cascading phenomena from a small set of initial nodes to a much larger set.
The book presents mathematical tools based on statistical inference, maximum likelihood estimation and graph theory to help readers understand these complex network dynamics and their problems. It not only introduces and explains how to design data analytics and reliable network forensics to tackle cyber security problems such as the discovery of cyber threat source, but also presents insights into forward-engineering new applications such as viral marketing and the design of future complex networks. As such it is a valuable resource for graduate students and advanced researchers in the field of information processing and network inference
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書專注於數學理論和演算法，用於處理複雜的工程網絡，如互聯網和在線社交網絡中的信息處理和網絡推斷。這些大規模網絡提供了一個重要且多樣的傳播和傳遞各種信息的媒介。傳播過程是指某些節點的行動（例如電腦病毒威脅、謠言傳播、病毒行銷）增加了其他節點的易感性，從而導致從一小部分初始節點到更大範圍的級聯現象。
本書介紹了基於統計推斷、最大概然估計和圖論的數學工具，幫助讀者理解這些複雜網絡動態及其問題。它不僅介紹和解釋如何設計數據分析和可靠的網絡取證，以應對網絡安全問題，如發現網絡威脅來源，還提供了關於前向工程新應用，如病毒行銷和未來複雜網絡設計的見解。因此，它是信息處理和網絡推斷領域的研究生和高級研究人員的寶貴資源。
作者簡介
Chee Wei Tan received the B.S. (First Class Honors) in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2002, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 2006 and 2008, respectively.
He is an Assistant Professor at the City University Hong Kong. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, and affiliated with the Netlab and the Rigorous Systems Research Group at Caltech. He is currently serving as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) and the Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Society Hong Kong Chapter. Dr. Tan was the recipient of the 2008 Princeton University Wu Prize for Excellence, a 2011 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award and a selected participant of the US. National Academy of Engineering 2013 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Chee Wei Tan於2002年從新加坡國立大學獲得電機工程學士學位（一等榮譽），並於2006年和2008年分別從普林斯頓大學獲得電機工程碩士和博士學位。
他現任香港城市大學助理教授，曾在加州理工學院擔任博士後研究學者，並與該校的Netlab和Rigorous Systems Research Group有所合作。他目前擔任IEEE通信學會（TCOM）的編輯，並擔任IEEE信息理論學會香港分會主席。Tan博士曾獲得2008年普林斯頓大學Wu獎，2011年IEEE通信學會亞太區青年研究者獎以及2013年美國國家工程院中美工程前沿研討會的選定參與者。
