Part I Wireless Sensor Networks and Cyber-Physical Systems - New Approaches and Methods 1. Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey 2. Replay Attack Detection Using Excitation Source and System Features 3. Hypergraph-Based Type Theory and Requirements Engineering for Software Development in a Cyber-Physical Context 4. A New Method of Power Efficient Speech Transmission over 5G Networks Using New Signaling Techniques
Part II Smart Cities, Smart Homes and Smart Communities 5. A Study Of Robust Language Identification Techniques for The Future Smart Cities 6. Natural Interaction with our Sensorized Smart Homes 7. A Study of Emotional State of a Speaker in Voice Biometrics in Building Smart Cities
Part III Ecological Monitoring 8. Ubiquitous Computing and Biodiversity Monitoring 9. The use of Wireless Sensor Networks in the surveillance of endangered bird species: A Case Study
Amy Neustein, PhD is CEO and Founder of Linguistic Technology Systems, in Fort Lee, NJ (USA), a think tank for database engineering, scientific computing, and programming language theory. She is the Volume Editor of 'Advances in Ubiquitous Computing: Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Cities, and Ecological Monitoring' (Elsevier 2020) and author/editor of 15 academic books covering a wide range of topics: speech technology, natural language processing, robotics in healthcare, mobile speech, text mining, voice technologies for speech reconstruction and enhancement, signal and acoustic modeling for speech and communication disorders, acoustic analysis of pathologies in infants and children, legal jurisprudence and child health-related issues, forensic speaker recognition, and AI, IoT, Big Data, and Cloud Computing for Industry 4.0. She has authored over 75 articles/chapters/conference papers on this wide panoply of subjects. Dr. Neustein received her PhD in Sociology (with a concentration in sociolinguistics and ethnomethodology) from Boston University. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Speech Technology' (Springer) from 2008 till present. She was featured in March 2018 in the SpringerNature "Women in STEM joint campaign with the United Nations for women in science and technology during Women's History Month. Dr. Neustein serves as Series Editor of 'SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology: Studies in Signal Processing, Natural Language Understanding, and Machine Learning' (Springer); Series Editor of two additional book series: 'Signals and Communication Technology' (Springer); 'Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Healthcare' (de Gruyter).