Mechatronics for Safety, Security and Dependability in the New Era contains selected leading papers from the International Conference on Machine Automation 2004, the work of researchers from USA, Japan, China and Europe.

The first part of the book surveys the data sources, the learning and mining methods, evaluation methodologies, and past work relevant for computer security.

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