Intro; Preface; Contents; About the Editors; 1 Testing the Functionality of Firewall in Software-Defined Networking; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Firewall; 3 OpenFlow Protocol; 4 Methodology; 5 Experimental Set-Up; 6 Result and Discussion; 6.1 Scenario 1; 6.2 Scenario 2; 6.3 Scenario 3; 7 Latency and Throughput; 8 Conclusion; References; 2 An Extension of 2D Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG)-Based Spot Detection Method to 3D; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 2.1 Original 2D Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG); 2.2 3D Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG); 2.3 3D Synthetic Image Datasets

2.4 Performance Measures3 Experimental Results; 4 Conclusions; Bibliography; 3 Distributive MPPT Approach Using ANFIS and Perturb&Observe Techniques Under Uniform and Partial Shading Conditions; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 MPPT Techniques; 2.1 Perturb&Observe (P&O) Technique; 2.2 Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS); 2.3 Series-Connected Distributed Maximum Power Point Tracking (DMPPT); 3 Simulation Model; 4 Results and Discussion; 5 Conclusion; References; 4 Performance of MPPT in Photovoltaic Systems Using GA-ANN Optimization Scheme; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Works

3 Proposed Model3.1 Modeling of Buck-Boost DC-to-DC Converter; 3.2 Artificial Neural Network Maximum Power Point Tracking Controller (ANN-MPPT); 3.3 Genetic Algorithm Maximum Power Point Tracking Controller (GA-MPPT); 4 Simulation and Numerical Results; 5 Conclusion; References; 5 The Use of Multilayer Perceptron to Classify and Locate Power Transmission Line Faults; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Experimental Setup; 3 Experimental Results; 4 Conclusions; References; 6 Generation of 3D Realistic Synthetic Image Datasets for Spot Detection Evaluation; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Previous Work

2 Simulation Framework2.1 Background Modelling; 2.2 Spot Appearance; 2.3 Noise Generation; 2.4 Signal-to-Noise Ratio; 3 Experimental Set-up; 3.1 Synthetic Images; 3.2 Evaluation; 4 Experimental Results; 5 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 7 Modified Newton's Method in the Leapfrog Method for Mobile Robot Path Planning; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Optimal Control; 2.1 Leapfrog Method; 2.2 Modified Newton's Method; 3 Simulation Results; 4 Conclusion and Future Work; Bibliography; 8 Impact of Poor Data Quality in Remotely Sensed Data; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Missing Data Techniques

2.1 Listwise Deletion2.2 Mean-Mode Imputation; 2.3 Nearest Neighbour Imputation; 2.4 Regression Imputation; 3 Machine Learning Techniques; 3.1 Random Forest; 3.2 k-nearest Neighbour; 3.3 Artificial Neural Networks; 3.4 Support Vector Machines; 4 Study Methodology; 4.1 Experimental Set-up; 4.2 Experimental Results; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 9 Image Enrichment Using Single Discrete Wavelet Transform Multi-resolution and Frequency Partition; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Image Fusion; 1.2 Standard Image Fusion Methods; 2 DCT-Frequency Partition; 2.1 Procedure for DCT-FP