Advancing Software Engineering Through AI, Federated Learning, and Large Language Models

Advancing Software Engineering Through AI, Federated Learning, and Large Language Models
Author: Sharma, Avinash Kumar
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Computers
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The rapid evolution of software engineering demands innovative approaches to meet the growing complexity and scale of modern software systems. Traditional methods often need help to keep pace with the demands for efficiency, reliability, and scalability. Manual development, testing, and maintenance processes are time-consuming and error-prone, leading to delays and increased costs. Additionally, integrating new technologies, such as AI, ML, Federated Learning, and Large Language Models (LLM), presents unique challenges in terms of implementation and ethical considerations. Advancing Software Engineering Through AI, Federated Learning, and Large Language Models provides a compelling solution by comprehensively exploring how AI, ML, Federated Learning, and LLM intersect with software engineering. By presenting real-world case studies, practical examples, and implementation guidelines, the book ensures that readers can readily apply these concepts in their software engineering projects. Researchers, academicians, practitioners, industrialists, and students will benefit from the interdisciplinary insights provided by experts in AI, ML, software engineering, and ethics.

Frontiers in Software Engineering Education

Frontiers in Software Engineering Education
Author: Alfredo Capozucca
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031486390

This book constitutes invited papers from the Second International Workshop on Frontiers in Software Engineering Education, FISEE 2023, which took place at the Château de Villebrumier, France, during January 23-25, 2023. The Editorial and the 8 papers included in this volume were considerably enhanced after the conference and during two different peer-review phases. The contributions cover the main topics of the workshop: education in technology and technology for education; new (and fearless) ideas on education; adjustments in teaching during pandemic: experience reports; models for class development; how to design learning objectives and outcomes; labs and practical sessions: how to conduct them; curriculum development; course design; quality course assessment; long-life studies in education; empirical research in SE education; experiences in starting-up new educational systems; blended education. FISEE 2023 is part of a series of scientific events held at the new LASER center in Villebrumier near Montauban and Toulouse, France.

Large Language Models in Cybersecurity

Large Language Models in Cybersecurity
Author: Andrei Kucharavy
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2024
Genre: Computer security
ISBN: 3031548272

This open access book provides cybersecurity practitioners with the knowledge needed to understand the risks of the increased availability of powerful large language models (LLMs) and how they can be mitigated. It attempts to outrun the malicious attackers by anticipating what they could do. It also alerts LLM developers to understand their work's risks for cybersecurity and provides them with tools to mitigate those risks. The book starts in Part I with a general introduction to LLMs and their main application areas. Part II collects a description of the most salient threats LLMs represent in cybersecurity, be they as tools for cybercriminals or as novel attack surfaces if integrated into existing software. Part III focuses on attempting to forecast the exposure and the development of technologies and science underpinning LLMs, as well as macro levers available to regulators to further cybersecurity in the age of LLMs. Eventually, in Part IV, mitigation techniques that should allowsafe and secure development and deployment of LLMs are presented. The book concludes with two final chapters in Part V, one speculating what a secure design and integration of LLMs from first principles would look like and the other presenting a summary of the duality of LLMs in cyber-security. This book represents the second in a series published by the Technology Monitoring (TM) team of the Cyber-Defence Campus. The first book entitled "Trends in Data Protection and Encryption Technologies" appeared in 2023. This book series provides technology and trend anticipation for government, industry, and academic decision-makers as well as technical experts.