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Preface to the USTC Alumni's Series

Preface

1 Adaptive Particle Filters

2 Feature Localization and Shape Indexing for Content-Based Image Retrieval

3 BlueGene/L Failure Analysis and Prediction Models

4 A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach towards Adaptive Intrusion Tolerant Database Systems

5 Artificial Neural Network Applications in Software Re-liability

6 A New Computational Intelligent Approach to Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction

7 Recursive Nonparametric Discriminant Analysis for Object Detection

8 On the Privacy Preserving Properties of Projection-Based Data Perturbation Techniques

9 Bayesian Networks Modeling for Software Inspection Effectiveness

10 CI and CFD:Integration through Smart Simulations

11 Intelligent Video Content Analysis and Applications

Editors of the Book