This book reviews the development of physics-based modeling and sensor-based data fusion for optimizing medical decision making in connection with spatiotemporal cardiovascular disease processes. To improve cardiac care services and patients’ quality of life, it is very important to detect...

Utility or on-demand computing, a provisioningmodel where a service provider makes computing infrastructureavailable to customers as needed, is becoming increasinglycommon in enterprise computing systems. Realizing this modelrequires making dynamic, and sometimes risky, resourceprovisioning and...