Overview
- Showcases techniques of applied probability with applications in EE and CS
- Presents all topics with concrete applications so students see the relevance of the theory
- Illustrates methods with Jupyter notebooks that use widgets to enable the users to modify parameters
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, classification, and estimation. He then explains how these applications work and, along the way, provides the readers with the understanding of the key concepts and methods of applied probability. Python labs enable the readers to experiment and consolidate their understanding. The book includes homework, solutions, and Jupyter notebooks. This edition includes new topics such as Boosting, Multi-armed bandits, statistical tests, social networks, queuing networks, and neural networks. For ancillaries related to this book, including examples of Python demos and also Python labs used in Berkeley, please email Mary James at mary.james@springer.com.
This is an open access book.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jean Camille Walrand is a professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been on the faculty of that department since 1982. He is the author of "An Introduction to Queueing Networks" (Prentice Hall, 1988), "Communication Networks: A First Course" (2nd ed. McGraw-Hill,1998), and “Uncertainty: A User Guide” (Amazon, 2019) and co-author of "High-Performance Communication Networks" (2nd ed, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000), "Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction" (2nd ed, Morgan & Claypool, 2017), "Scheduling and Congestion Control for Communication and Processing networks" (Morgan & Claypool, 2010), and “Sharing Network Resources” (Morgan & Claypool, 2014). His research interests include stochastic processes, queuing theory, communication networks, game theory, and the economics of theInternet. Walrand has received numerous awards for his work over the years. He is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the IEEE. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Lanchester Prize, the Stephen O. Rice Prize., the IEEE Kobayashi Award, and the ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Book Subtitle: An Application-Driven Course
Authors: Jean Walrand
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49995-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49994-5Published: 23 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49997-6Published: 24 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49995-2Published: 22 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 380
Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations, 146 illustrations in colour
Topics: Probability and Statistics in Computer Science, Communications Engineering, Networks, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences