The One Book of ChatGPT: The Complete Guide to Unlocking ChatGPT's Power. Decode ChatGPT From AI Basics to Advanced Prompt Engineering by Ananna Books (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

The One Book of ChatGPT? The Complete Guide to Unlocking ChatGPT's Power. Decode ChatGPT From AI Basics to Advanced Prompt Engineering In the ever-evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence, understanding how AI Models works is an essential piece of knowledge. "The One Book of ChatGPT" is your ultimate guide to understanding and harnessing the power of ChatGPT, the ground-breaking AI-powered language model that is transforming industries. A Glimpse into the AI Revolution? Understanding AI is fundamental to unleashing its ...

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Microsoft Word Guide to Success: Mastery Made Easy with Enhanced Document Productivity [III EDITION] by Kevin Pitch (28 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Feeling overwhelmed by the extensive features in Microsoft Word? Struggling to efficiently navigate and utilize this renowned word-processing software? Desire a guide that provides a clear and concise pathway to mastering Microsoft Word without hassle? Microsoft Word, especially in its newest iteration within Microsoft 365, is a potent tool brimming with functionalities designed to facilitate seamless documentation. However, its multitude of features can often be intimidating. Fear not! Our guide is meticulously crafted to be your ...

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Co-governed Sovereignty Network: Legal Basis and Its Prototype & Applications with MIN Architecture by Hui Li (Springer) Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book introduces MIN, a novel networking architecture to implement the sovereign equality of all countries in the cyberspace. Combining legal theory and network technology, it first discusses the historical development of sovereignty and expounds the legal basis of cyberspace sovereignty. Then, based on the high-performance blockchain, it describes a new network architecture designed to implement co-governance at the technical level. Explaining network sovereignty and including rich illustrations and tables, the ...

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Mission AI: The New System Technology (Research for Policy) by Haroon Sheikh (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 minutes ago

This open access book offers a strategic perspective on AI and the process of embedding it in society. ?After decades of research, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now entering society at large. Due to its general purpose character, AI will change society in multiple, fundamental and unpredictable ways. Therefore, the Netherlands Scienti?c Council for Government Policy (WRR) characterizes AI as a system technology: a rare type of technologies that have a systemic impact on society. Earlier system technologies include electricity, the ...

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WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web by Alan B. Johnston (32 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

WebRTC, Web Real-Time Communications, is revolutionizing the way web users communicate, both in the consumer and enterprise worlds. WebRTC adds standard APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and built-in real-time audio and video capabilities and codecs to browsers without a plug-in. With just a few lines of JavaScript, web developers can add high quality peer-to-peer voice, video, and data channel communications to their collaboration, conferencing, telephony, or even gaming site or application. Key topics such as signaling, ...

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Make Bootstrap Themes by Bo Feng (47 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Bootstrap perhaps is the most popular frontend framework for developing mobile first projects on the web in recent years, its repository on github gets more than 100 thousands stars. Millions of websites are using it not only because it is easy to learn and use but the flexibility of customization. In this book, we'll focus on the customization part - build your own Bootstrap theme. At the time of writing this book, Bootstrap 4 is still in its alpha version, by "Bootstrap" here we are referring to Bootstrap 3. We will start with ...

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Algorithms for Big Data: DFG Priority Program 1736 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 13201) by Hannah Bast (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book surveys the progress in addressing selected challenges related to the growth of big data in combination with increasingly complicated hardware. It emerged from a research program established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as priority program SPP 1736 on Algorithmics for Big Data where researchers from theoretical computer science worked together with application experts in order to tackle problems in domains such as networking, genomics research, and information retrieval. Such domains are unthinkable ...

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Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing III: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering & ... by Lionel Roucoules (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book gathers contributions presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2020), held as a web conference on June 2-4, 2020. It reports on cutting-edge topics in product design and manufacturing, such as industrial methods for integrated product and process design; innovative design; and computer-aided design. Further topics covered include virtual simulation and reverse engineering; additive manufacturing; product manufacturing; engineering methods in ...

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Advanced Digital Auditing: Theory and Practice of Auditing Complex Information Systems and Technologies (Progress in IS) by Egon Berghout (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book discusses the most modern approach to auditing complex digital systems and technologies. It combines proven auditing approaches, advanced programming techniques and complex application areas, and covers the latest findings on theory and practice in this rapidly developing field. Especially for those who want to learn more about novel approaches to testing complex information systems and related technologies, such as blockchain and self-learning systems, the book will be a valuable resource. It is aimed at ...

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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 25th International Conference, FASE 2022, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory ... by Einar Broch Johnsen (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2022, which was held during April 4-5, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2022. The 17 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The proceedings also contain 3 contributions from the Test-Comp Competition. The papers deal with the foundations on which software ...

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Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences: A Reference Model Guided Approach for Common Challenges (Lecture ... by Zhiming Zhao (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single community. It provides readers with a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures and how a 'reference model guided' engineering approach can be used to achieve greater interoperability among such infrastructures in the environmental and earth sciences. The 20 contributions in this ...

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The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (The New Media World) by Lokman Tsui (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

"Links" are among the most basic---and most unexamined---features of online life. Bringing together a prominent array of thinkers from industry and the academy, The Hyperlinked Society addresses a provocative series of questions about the ways in which hyperlinks organize behavior online. How do media producers' considerations of links change the way they approach their work, and how do these considerations in turn affect the ways that audiences consume news and entertainment? What role do economic and political considerations play ...

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Electronic Voting: 7th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2022, Bregenz, Austria, October 4–7, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer ... by Robert Krimmer (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book LNCS 13353 constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2022, held in Bregenz, Austria, in October 2022. The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The conference collected the most relevant debates on the development of Electronic Voting, from aspects relating to security and usability through to practical experiences and applications of voting systems, also including legal, social, or political aspects, amongst ...

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Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Finance: Increasing Personalization and Trust in Digital Finance using Big Data and AI by John Soldatos (Springer) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book presents how cutting-edge digital technologies like Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain are set to disrupt the financial sector. The book illustrates how recent advances in these technologies facilitate banks, FinTech, and financial institutions to collect, process, analyze, and fully leverage the very large amounts of data that are nowadays produced and exchanged in the sector. To this end, the book also describes some more the most popular Big Data, AI and Blockchain ...

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Data Communications and Network Technologies by Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co. (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book is written according to the examination outline for Huawei HCIA-Routing Switching V2.5 certification, aiming to help readers master the basics of network communications and use Huawei network devices to set up enterprise LANs and WANs, wired networks, and wireless networks, ensure network security for enterprises, and grasp cutting-edge computer network technologies. The content of this book includes: network communication fundamentals, TCP/IP protocol, Huawei VRP operating system, IP addresses and subnetting, ...

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Process Mining Handbook (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 448) by Wil M. P. van der Aalst (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This is an open access book. This book comprises all the single courses given as part of the First Summer School on Process Mining, PMSS 2022, which was held in Aachen, Germany, during July 4-8, 2022. This volume contains 17 chapters organized into the following topical sections: Introduction; process discovery; conformance checking; data preprocessing; process enhancement and monitoring; assorted process mining topics; industrial perspective and applications; and closing.

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Architecture of Advanced Numerical Analysis Systems: Designing a Scientific Computing System using OCaml by Liang Wang (Apress) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This unique open access book applies the functional OCaml programming language to numerical or computational weighted data science, engineering, and scientific applications. This book is based on the authors' first-hand experience building and maintaining Owl, an OCaml-based numerical computing library. You'll first learn the various components in a modern numerical computation library. Then, you will learn how these components are designed and built up and how to optimize their performance. After reading and using this book, ...

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Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES: The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020) by Philip F. Yuan (Springer) Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES -- The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers will encounter new ideas about understanding intelligence in architecture.

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Designing Digital Work: Concepts and Methods for Human-centered Digitization by Stefan Oppl (Palgrave Macmillan) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Combining theory, methodology and tools, this open access book illustrates how to guide innovation in today's digitized business environment. Highlighting the importance of human knowledge and experience in implementing business processes, the authors take a conceptual perspective to explore the challenges and issues currently facing organizations. Subsequent chapters put these concepts into practice, discussing instruments that can be used to support the articulation and alignment of knowledge within work processes. A timely and ...

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Cyber Security: 19th China Annual Conference, CNCERT 2022, Beijing, China, August 16–17, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer ... by Wei Lu (Springer) Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th China Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2022, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: ??data security; anomaly detection; cryptocurrency; information security; vulnerabilities; mobile internet; threat intelligence; text recognition.

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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 22nd International Conference, FASE 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory ... by Reiner Hähnle (Springer) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: software verification; model-driven development and ...

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The Boost C++ Libraries by Boris Schäling (31 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The second edition of "The Boost C++ Libraries" introduces 72 Boost libraries that provide a wide range of useful capabilities. They help you manage memory and process strings more easily. They provide containers and other data structures that go well beyond what the standard library offers. They make it easy to build platform-independent network applications. Simply put, these 72 libraries greatly expand your C++ toolbox. The second edition contains more than 430 examples. All examples are as short as possible, but they are ...

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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 28th International Conference, TACAS 2022, Held as Part of the European Joint ... by Grigore Rosu (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2022, which was held during April 2-7, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2022. The 46 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The proceedings also contain 16 tool papers of the affiliated competition SV-Comp and 1 paper ...

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A Study of Crisis by Michael Brecher (University of Michigan Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

As the twentieth century draws to a close, it is time to look back on an epoch of widespread turmoil, including two world wars, the end of the colonial era in world history, and a large number of international crises and conflicts. This book is designed to shed light on the causes and consequences of military-security crises since the end of World War I, in every region, across diverse economic and political regimes, and cultures. The primary aim of this volume is to uncover patterns of crises, conflicts and wars and thereby to ...

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Multimedia Forensics (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) by Husrev Taha Sencar (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book is open access. Media forensics has never been more relevant to societal life. Not only media content represents an ever-increasing share of the data traveling on the net and the preferred communications means for most users, it has also become integral part of most innovative applications in the digital information ecosystem that serves various sectors of society, from the entertainment, to journalism, to politics. Undoubtedly, the advances in deep learning and computational imaging contributed significantly to this ...

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New Metropolitan Perspectives: Knowledge Dynamics, Innovation-driven Policies Towards the Territories’ Attractiveness Volume 1 (Smart Innovation, ... by Carmelina Bevilacqua (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

?This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium "NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES," held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26-28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools in connection with urban-rural area networks and metropolitan centers. The respective papers focus on ...

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Computer Aided Verification: 32nd International Conference, CAV 2020, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 21–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes ... by Shuvendu K. Lahiri (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

The open access two-volume set LNCS 12224 and 12225 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2020, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in July 2020.* The 43 full papers presented together with 18 tool papers and 4 case studies, were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections: Part I: AI verification; blockchain and Security; Concurrency; hardware verification and decision procedures; and hybrid and ...

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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries: 18th International Conference, ICOST 2020, Hammamet, ... by Mohamed Jmaiel (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.* The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover topics such as: IoT and AI solutions for e-health; biomedical and health informatics; behavior and activity monitoring; behavior and activity monitoring; and wellbeing technology. *This conference was held ...

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Urban Informatics (The Urban Book Series) by Wenzhong Shi (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently - to become 'smart' and 'sustainable'. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric ...

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Bisociative Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction to Concept, Algorithms, Tools, and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 7250) by Michael R. Berthold (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Modern knowledge discovery methods enable users to discover complex patterns of various types in large information repositories. However, the underlying assumption has always been that the data to which the methods are applied to originates from one domain. The focus of this book, and the BISON project from which the contributions are originating, is a network based integration of various types of data repositories and the development of new ways to analyse and explore the resulting gigantic information networks. Instead of finding ...

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European E-Democracy in Practice (Studies in Digital Politics and Governance) by Leonhard Hennen (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement of EU citizens in European politics. By analyzing selected representative e-participation projects at the local, national and European governmental levels, it identifies the preconditions, best practices and shortcomings of e-participation practices in connection with EU decision-making procedures and institutions. The book features case studies on parliamentary monitoring, e-voting practices, and ...

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Computer Aided Verification: 31st International Conference, CAV 2019, New York City, NY, USA, July 15-18, 2019, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in ... by Isil Dillig (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access two-volume set LNCS 11561 and 11562 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2019, held in New York City, USA, in July 2019. The 52 full papers presented together with 13 tool papers and 2 case studies, were carefully reviewed and selected from 258 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections: Part I: automata and timed systems; security and hyperproperties; synthesis; model checking; cyber-physical systems and ...

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Handbook of Vascular Biometrics (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) by Andreas Uhl (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of biometrics exploiting the shape of human blood vessels for biometric recognition, i.e. vascular biometrics, including finger vein recognition, hand/palm vein recognition, retina recognition, and sclera recognition. After an introductory chapter summarizing the state of the art in and availability of commercial systems and open datasets/open source software, individual chapters focus on specific aspects of one of the biometric modalities, including questions of ...

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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 26th International Conference, TACAS 2020, Held as Part of the European Joint ... by Armin Biere (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and was held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The total of 60 regular papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 155 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Program verification; ...

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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 24th International Conference, TACAS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint ... by Dirk Beyer (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. The LNCS 10805 and 10806 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2018, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018. The total of 43 full and 11 short papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 154submissions. The papers are organized ...

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The Brain Makers: The History of Artificial Intelligence – Genius, Ego, And Greed In The Quest For Machines That Think by HP Newquist (The Relayer Group) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

"The Brain Makers" is the definitive history of artificial intelligence (AI). From ancient myth to modern computers, the book explores the attempt to create machines that behave and think like humans. Along the way, readers meet the mythical Talas, Frankenstein's monster, Edgar Allan Poe's chess player, and the first mechanical robots--and are then introduced to the work of Alan Turing and the secretive military research labs of the 1960s. An entire industry was built around AI in the 1980s, one which came crashing down once the ...

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Computational Conflict Research (Computational Social Sciences) by Emanuel Deutschmann (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis. Empirical cases range from migration policy framing in North America and street protests in Iran to violence against civilians in Congo and food riots world-wide. ...

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Real-time Linked Dataspaces: Enabling Data Ecosystems for Intelligent Systems by Edward Curry (Springer) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book explores the dataspace paradigm as a best-effort approach to data management within data ecosystems. It establishes the theoretical foundations and principles of real-time linked dataspaces as a data platform for intelligent systems. The book introduces a set of specialized best-effort techniques and models to enable loose administrative proximity and semantic integration for managing and processing events and streams. The book is divided into five major parts: Part I "Fundamentals and Concepts" details the ...

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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World by Karol Jan Borowiecki (Springer) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The central purpose of this collection of essays is to make a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain. In the 21st century the world faces epochal changes which affect every part of society, including the arenas in which cultural heritage is made, held, collected, curated, exhibited, or simply exists. The book is about these changes; about the decentring of culture and cultural heritage away from institutional structures towards the individual; about the questions which the advent of digital ...

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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 23rd International Conference, FASE 2020, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory ... by Heike Wehrheim (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and was held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The 23 full papers, 1 tool paper and 6 testing competition papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers cover topics such as requirements engineering, software architectures, ...

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Programming Languages and Systems: 28th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and ... by Luís Caires (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 19th International Conference, XP 2018, Porto, Portugal, May 21–25, 2018, ... by Juan Garbajosa (Springer) (31 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in May 2018. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice, and XP 2018 provided a playful and informal environment to learn and trigger discussions around its main theme - make, inspect, adapt. The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: ...

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Programming Languages and Systems: 27th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and ... by Amal Ahmed (Springer) (24 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2018, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018. The 36 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: language design; probabilistic programming; types and effects; concurrency; security; program verification; program analysis and ...

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Window Functions and Their Applications in Signal Processing by K. M. M. Prabhu (CRC Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Window functions -- otherwise known as weighting functions, tapering functions, or apodization functions -- are mathematical functions that are zero-valued outside the chosen interval. They are well established as a vital part of digital signal processing. Window Functions and their Applications in Signal Processing presents an exhaustive and detailed account of window functions and their applications in signal processing, focusing on the areas of digital spectral analysis, design of FIR filters, pulse compression radar, and speech ...

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The Ethics of Cybersecurity (The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology Book 21) by Markus Christen (Springer) (241 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This work is sorely needed in a world where cybersecurity has become indispensable to protect trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure whilst respecting fundamental values like equality, fairness, freedom, or privacy. The book has a strong practical focus as it includes case studies outlining ethical issues in ...

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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 21st International Conference, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory ... by Alessandra Russo (Springer) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 18 minutes ago

This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2018, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: model-based software development; distributed program ...

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S-BPM in the Wild: Practical Value Creation by Albert Fleischmann (Springer) (6 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This is the first book to present field studies on the application of subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM). Each case presents a specific story and focuses on an essential modeling or implementation issue, and most end with implications or suggestions for further studies. Significant variables and success factors are identified that were discovered during the respective study and lead to suggesting S-BPM novelties. For each case, the authors explain step-by-step how the story develops, and provide readers guidance by ...

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Principles of Security and Trust: 7th International Conference, POST 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of ... by Lujo Bauer (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2018, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: information flow and non-intereference; leakage, information flow, and protocols; smart contracts and ...

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Rational Cybersecurity for Business: The Security Leaders' Guide to Business Alignment by Dan Blum (Apress) (36 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives for aligning a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders in complex digital businesses, IT, and development environments. You will know how to prioritize your security program, and motivate and retain your team. Misalignment between security and your business can start at the top at the C-suite or happen at the line of business, IT, development, or user level. It ...

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Managed Software Evolution by Ralf Reussner (Springer) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book presents the outcomes of the "Design for Future - Managed Software Evolution" priority program 1593, which was launched by the German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)") to develop new approaches to software engineering with a specific focus on long-lived software systems. The different lifecycles of software and hardware platforms lead to interoperability problems in such systems. Instead of separating the development, adaptation and evolution of software and its platforms, as well as ...

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Manual of Digital Earth by Huadong Guo (13 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book offers a summary of the development of Digital Earth over the past twenty years. By reviewing the initial vision of Digital Earth, the evolution of that vision, the relevant key technologies, and the role of Digital Earth in helping people respond to global challenges, this publication reveals how and why Digital Earth is becoming vital for acquiring, processing, analysing and mining the rapidly growing volume of global data sets about the Earth. The main aspects of Digital Earth covered here include: Digital ...

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Computer and Information Sciences: 31st International Symposium, ISCIS 2016, Kraków, Poland, October 27–28, 2016, Proceedings (Communications in ... by Tadeusz Czachórski (Springer) (74 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2016, held in Krakow, Poland, in October 2016. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart algorithms; data classification and processing; stochastic modelling; performance evaluation; queuing systems; wireless networks and security; image processing and computer vision.

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 20th International Conference, XP 2019, Montréal, QC, Canada, May 21–25, 2019, ... by Philippe Kruchten (Springer) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 33 minutes ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a hybrid forum where agile researchers, academics, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. Following this history, for both ...

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Autonomous Driving: Technical, Legal and Social Aspects by Markus Maurer (Springer) (40 Reviews)    Price verified 33 minutes ago

This book takes a look at fully automated, autonomous vehicles and discusses many open questions: How can autonomous vehicles be integrated into the current transportation system with diverse users and human drivers? Where do automated vehicles fall under current legal frameworks? What risks are associated with automation and how will society respond to these risks? How will the marketplace react to automated vehicles and what changes may be necessary for companies? Experts from Germany and the United States define key societal, ...

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Representation Learning for Natural Language Processing by Zhiyuan Liu (Springer) (77 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book provides an overview of the recent advances in representation learning theory, algorithms and applications for natural language processing (NLP). It is divided into three parts. Part I presents the representation learning techniques for multiple language entries, including words, phrases, sentences and documents. Part II then introduces the representation techniques for those objects that are closely related to NLP, including entity-based world knowledge, sememe-based linguistic knowledge, networks, and ...

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Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 23rd International Conference, FOSSACS 2020, Held as Part of the European Joint ... by Jean Goubault-Larrecq (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and was held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The 31 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers cover topics such as categorical models and logics; language theory, automata, and games; modal, ...

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Error-Correction Coding and Decoding: Bounds, Codes, Decoders, Analysis and Applications (Signals and Communication Technology) by Martin Tomlinson (Springer) (172 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book discusses both the theory and practical applications of self-correcting data, commonly known as error-correcting codes. The applications included demonstrate the importance of these codes in a wide range of everyday technologies, from smartphones to secure communications and transactions. Written in a readily understandable style, the book presents the authors' twenty-five years of research organized into five parts: Part I is concerned with the theoretical performance attainable by using error correcting codes to achieve ...

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Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities (Springer Series on Cultural Computing) by Julianne Nyhan (Springer) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a number of the ...

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Elements of Robotics by Mordechai Ben-Ari (Springer) (725 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained through detailed diagrams and calculations. Elements of Robotics presents an overview of different types of robots and the components used ...

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Subject-Oriented Business Process Management by Albert Fleischmann (Springer) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Activities performed in organizations are coordinated via communication between the people involved. The sentences used to communicate are naturally structured by subject, verb, and object. The subject describes the actor, the verb the action and the object what is affected by the action. Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) as presented in this book is based on this simple structure which enables process-oriented thinking and process modeling. S-BPM puts the subject of a process at the center of attention and ...

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CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology: New Approaches and Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 11380) by Carlos Smaniotto Costa (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies - the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of the CyberParks Project, this book aims at fostering the understanding about the current and future interactions of the nexus people, ...

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The Hackable City: Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Network Society by Michiel de Lange (Springer) (29 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing ...

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VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage: First International Conference, VRTCH 2018, Brasov, Romania, May 29–30, 2018, Revised Selected Papers ... by Mihai Duguleană (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage, VRTCH 2018, held in Brasov, Romania in May 2018. The 13 revised full papers along with the 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on data acquisition and modelling, visualization methods / audio, sensors and actuators, data management, restoration and digitization, cultural tourism.

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Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering by Caitlin Sadowski (Apress) (133 Reviews)    Price verified 18 minutes ago

Get the most out of this foundational reference and improve the productivity of your software teams. This open access book collects the wisdom of the 2017 "Dagstuhl" seminar on productivity in software engineering, a meeting of community leaders, who came together with the goal of rethinking traditional definitions and measures of productivity. The results of their work, Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering, includes chapters covering definitions and core concepts related to productivity, guidelines for measuring ...

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 18th International Conference, XP 2017, Cologne, Germany, May 22-26, 2017, ... by Hubert Baumeister (Springer) (27 Reviews)    Price verified 18 minutes ago

This book is open access under a CC BY license. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2017, held in Cologne, Germany, in May 2017. The 14 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: improving agile processes; agile in organization; and safety critical software. In addition, the volume contains 3 doctoral symposium papers (from 4 papers submitted).

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Intel Galileo and Intel Galileo Gen 2: API Features and Arduino Projects for Linux Programmers by Manoel Ramon (Apress) (75 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Intel® Galileo and Intel® Galileo Gen 2: API Features and Arduino Projects for Linux Programmers provides detailed information about Intel® Galileo and Intel® Galileo Gen 2 boards for all software developers interested in Arduino and the Linux platform. The book covers the new Arduino APIs and is an introduction for developers on natively using Linux. Author Manoel Carlos Ramon is a member of the Intel Galileo development team; in this book he draws on his practical experience in working on the Galileo project as he shares the ...

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Learn BlackBerry 10 App Development: A Cascades-Driven Approach by Anwar Ludin (Apress) (19 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Learn how to leverage the BlackBerry 10 Cascades framework to create rich native applications. Learn BlackBerry 10 App Development gives you a solid foundation for creating BlackBerry 10 apps efficiently. Along the way, you will learn how to use QML and JavaScript for designing your app's UI, and C++/Qt for the application logic. No prior knowledge of C++ is assumed and the book covers the fundamental aspects of the language for writing BlackBerry 10 apps. Also a particular emphasis is put on how to create a visually enticing user ...

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Foundations of Trusted Autonomy (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control Book 117) by Hussein A. Abbass (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book establishes the foundations needed to realize the ultimate goals for artificial intelligence, such as autonomy and trustworthiness. Aimed at scientists, researchers, technologists, practitioners, and students, it brings together contributions offering the basics, the challenges and the state-of-the-art on trusted autonomous systems in a single volume. The book is structured in three parts, with chapters written by eminent researchers and outstanding practitioners and users in the field. The first part covers foundational ...

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Android on x86: An Introduction to Optimizing for Intel Architecture by Iggy Krajci (Apress) (100 Reviews)    Price verified 48 minutes ago

Android on x86: an Introduction to Optimizing for Intel® Architecture serves two main purposes. First, it makes the case for adapting your applications onto Intel's x86 architecture, including discussions of the business potential, the changing landscape of the Android marketplace, and the unique challenges and opportunities that arise from x86 devices. The fundamental idea is that extending your applications to support x86 or creating new ones is not difficult, but it is imperative to know all of the technicalities. This book is ...

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Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud by Matthew Katzer (Apress) (50 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Written for the IT professional and business owner, this book provides the business and technical insight necessary to migrate your business to the cloud using Microsoft Office 365. This is a practical look at cloud migration and the use of different technologies to support that migration. Numerous examples of cloud migration with technical migration details are included. Cloud technology is a tremendous opportunity for an organization to reduce IT costs, and to improve productivity with increased access, simpler administration and ...

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Enabling Things to Talk: Designing IoT solutions with the IoT Architectural Reference Model by Alessandro Bassi (Springer) (82 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging network superstructure that will connect physical resources and actual users. It will support an ecosystem of smart applications and services bringing hyper-connectivity to our society by using augmented and rich interfaces. Whereas in the beginning IoT referred to the advent of barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), which helped to automate inventory, tracking and basic identification, today IoT is characterized by a dynamic trend toward connecting smart sensors, objects, ...

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AutoHotkey Tricks You Ought To Do With Windows (Sixth Edition): If You Do Nothing Else with the Free Autohotkey Software, These Tips Are a Must for ... by Jack Dunning (ComputorEdge E-Books) (32 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This AutoHotkey Tricks book offers an introduction to AutoHotkey, the powerful, free, Windows utility software. It's simple to use while adding tons of capability to your Windows computers. In "AutoHotkey Tricks" you'll find practical examples of techniques which demonstrate what AutoHotkey can do for you. Plus, you can immediately implement those quick apps on your PC. AutoHotkey is one of the easiest scripting languages to use. If you can open Windows Notepad and paste in one line of code, then you can simplify your computing ...

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Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online by The Open University (474 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This 24-hour free course introduced online security: how to recognise threats and take steps to reduce the chances that they will occur.

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Introducing Microsoft Power BI by Alberto Ferrari (1,725 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Introducing Microsoft Power BI enables you to evaluate when and how to use Power BI. Get inspired to improve business processes in your company by leveraging the available analytical and collaborative features of this environment. Be sure to watch for the publication of Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo's upcoming retail book, Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for ...

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