1 Table of Contents: “...: Confidence bounds in social sensing; 6.1 The Reliability Assurance Problem...”

2 Table of Contents: “...Exercises2 Statistical background for engineering design; 2.1 Expectation; 2.2 Statistical...”

3 Table of Contents: “... -- Preliminaries on renewal theory; 1.3 -- Preliminaries on semi-Markov processes with arbitrary phase space...”

4 Table of Contents: “... Methods on Cloud Storage Systems; 2.2 Apache Cassandra...”

5 Table of Contents: “...2.2. Need and rationale for M2M standards2.3. Standardized M2M architecture; 2.4. Using M2M...”

6 Table of Contents: “...: A Real-World Application; 2.1 Introduction and Learning Objectives; 2.2 Background and Theory; Key...”

7 Table of Contents: “... -- Transport Protocols -- 2.1.8 Protocol Evolution -- 2.1.9 Format Evolution -- 2.2 Industry Evolution -- 2.2.1...”

8 Table of Contents: “...; 3.3.1. Radio basics; 3.3.2. Common misconceptions; 3.3.3. Reliable communication in practice: channel...”

9 Table of Contents: “... Definitions; 2.2 Markov Chain; 2.2.1 Classification of States; 2.3 Markov Process; 2.3.1 Markov Process...”

10 Table of Contents: “... Instabilities, or an Elementary Approach to Thom’s Theory of Catastrophes -- 6. Chance and Necessity -- 6.1...”

11 Table of Contents: “... Instabilities, or an Elementary Approach to Thorn’s Theory of Catastrophes -- 6. Chance and Necessity -- 6.1...”

12 Table of Contents: “...The Peierls instability in the ID metal TTF-TCNQ -- Organic conductors derived from substituted...”

13 Table of Contents: “... Flexibility at Front-End Strategizing; 2.2 -- Real Options: Theory and Practice; 2.3 -- Final Considerations...”

14 Table of Contents: “...2.1 Introduction2.2 Phenomenological Theory of Strongly Nonlocal Spatial Solitons; 2.2.1...”

15 Table of Contents: “... materials; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Phenomenological failure theories; 2.3 Mechanisms-based failure analysis...”

16 Table of Contents: “... to Gas-Liquid Interfaces; 2.1 The Reduction in Gibbs Free Energy upon Adsorption; 2.2 Equilibrium between...”

17 Table of Contents: “... Observations of Regular and Chaotic Motions -- 2.2 Chaos in Continuous and Discrete Time Dynamics -- 2.3...”

18 Table of Contents: “... An introduction to modern software quality assurance; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Requirement Conformance Versus...”

19 Table of Contents: “..., Navneet Kaur, Kamaljit Singh Saini and Manjot Kaur -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Issues in Healthcare -- 2.3...”