Python in 1 Day: From Beginner to Intermediate by Carl Otterman (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Python in 1 Day: From Beginner to Intermediate is the ultimate crash course for those eager to master Python programming swiftly and efficiently. ? This eBook is tailored for absolute beginners, gradually guiding you through the basics of Python syntax, data structures, and fundamental concepts, ensuring a solid foundation. By the end of the day, you'll not only understand the core principles but also how to apply them in real-world scenarios. Diving deeper, the eBook transitions seamlessly into intermediate topics, exploring more complex data types, exception handling, and modules. ? Each chapter includes practical examples and exercises designed to reinforce learning and build confidence. With step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow explanations, you'll gain the skills needed to develop your own Python projects and solve typical programming challenges. Python in 1 Day: From Beginner to Intermediate also provides valuable resources, including best practices for coding, debugging tips, and further learning materials to continue your programming journey. ? Whether you're looking to start a career in tech or just curious about coding, this eBook is your fast track to becoming proficient in Python. Grab your copy today and start coding like a pro!

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Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning (Digital Humanities) by Jack Dougherty (5 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

The essays in Web Writing respond to contemporary debates over the proper role of the Internet in higher education, steering a middle course between polarized attitudes that often dominate the conversation. The authors argue for the wise integration of web tools into what the liberal arts does best: writing across the curriculum. All academic disciplines value clear and compelling prose, whether that prose comes in the shape of a persuasive essay, scientific report, or creative expression. The act of writing visually demonstrates how we think in original and critical ways and in ways that are deeper than those that can be taught or assessed by a computer. Furthermore, learning to write well requires engaged readers who encourage and challenge us to revise our muddled first drafts and craft more distinctive and informed points of view. Indeed, a new generation of web-based tools for authoring, annotating, editing, and publishing can dramatically enrich the writing process, but doing so requires liberal arts educators to rethink why and how we teach this skill, and to question those who blindly call for embracing or rejecting technology.

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Artificial Intelligence for Business: Master Basic Tools to Drive Revenue Growth, Maximize Productivity & Efficiency, and Create a Culture of ... by B.B. Jankoski (10 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

If you want to get ahead, you're going to need AI... and that means understanding what to do with it. Read on... Want to know the secret other businesses are using to take the lead in the market and hit a never-ending stream of ambitious targets? Of course, you do... but the surprising thing is, it's no secret... It's the thing you've probably been avoiding like the plague. They're using artificial intelligence - and they're doing it so well that they're dodging all the pitfalls you've been worried about. You can too - and when you do, you'll see that there's nothing to worry about at all. Think of any company that's become a household name, and you can bet your bottom dollar that they're using AI. Netflix, Google, Amazon, you name it... They all understand the potential of artificial intelligence, and they know how to use it to its best effect. For most skeptical business owners, there's a misconception that AI is an unpredictable new addition to technology, but the surprising truth is that it's been around since the 50s... and it's being used in every field. AI is a tool... and that means that to make it work, you need to understand how to use it. No matter the size of your company or your background knowledge of the technical side of your operations, the ticket to success is AI - a technology that's now accessible to everyone... a technology that's now accessible to you. Inside this complete guide to using AI to skyrocket the success of your business, you'll find all the foundational knowledge you need to make a huge difference to your company. You'll discover: • The role of AI in business - and why understanding it matters • From "narrow AI" to "general AI"... every type of artificial intelligence demystified and made simple • A complete guide to the most popular technologies used in business (so you can make the right call for your company) • The best tools to use for content creation and management - and how to incorporate them ...

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Python Programmer's Toolkit: The Essential Tools And Libraries That Every Python Developer Should Know About (Computer Programming) by Mark Reed Price verified 3 hours ago

Discover the Ultimate Python Toolkit: Your Path to Becoming a Python Programming Pro! Are you ready to level up your Python skills and unlock a world of programming possibilities? Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, "Python Programmer's Toolkit" is your go-to resource for mastering essential Python tools and libraries that will set you apart in the competitive world of coding. This comprehensive guide is designed to take you from the basics of Python programming to advanced concepts, empowering you with the knowledge to tackle real-world projects and boost your career prospects. What You'll Learn in Python Programmer's Toolkit:The Essential Tools And Libraries That Every Python Developer Should Know About: • Create and manage Python virtual environments, ensuring clean and isolated development spaces. • Harness the power of Git for version control, collaboration, and repository management. • Discover effective debugging techniques using the Python Debugger (pdb) and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). • Explore popular Python libraries for diverse tasks, including data analysis, web development, machine learning, and more. • Connect to databases, query and modify data, and work with Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) libraries. • Build command-line tools and create interactive interfaces for enhanced user experiences. • Automate web scraping and learn best practices for interacting with websites. • Develop GUI applications using Tkinter and other cross-platform tools. And much, much more... With "Python Programmer's Toolkit," you'll gain the knowledge and confidence to create efficient code, work with powerful libraries, and build robust applications. Whether you're exploring Python for the first time or aiming to deepen your expertise, this book provides the guidance you need. Don't miss out on this must-have resource for Python developers! Order your copy today and start building a stronger Python ...

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Co-governed Sovereignty Network: Legal Basis and Its Prototype & Applications with MIN Architecture by Hui Li (Springer) Price verified 4 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 book helps readers new to the field grasp the evolution and necessity of cyberspace sovereignty, gain insights into network trends and develop a preliminary understanding of complex network technologies such as blockchain, security mechanisms and routing strategies. The MIN network implements the "four principles" of cyberspace adopted by most nations and people: respecting cyber sovereignty; maintaining peace and protection; promoting opennessand cooperation; and building good order to provide network system security. There maybe three scales of application scenario for MIN, the big one is for UN of Cyberspace, the middle one is for Smart city, the small one is for enterprise group or organizations as private network, MIN-VPN. We have developed the product of MIN-VPN, you could find its message on the preface if care about the security of your network.

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Mission AI: The New System Technology (Research for Policy) by Haroon Sheikh (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours 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 combustion engine and the computer. The history of these technologies provides us with useful insights about what it takes to direct the introduction of AI in society. The WRR identifies five key tasks to structurally work on this process: demystification, contextualisation, engagement, regulation and positioning. By clarifying what AI is (demystification), creating a functional ecosystem (contextualisation), involving diverse stakeholders (engagement), developing directive frameworks (regulation) and engaging internationally (positioning), societies can meaningfully influence how AI settles. Collectively, these activities steer the process of co-development between technology and society, and each representing a different path to safeguard public values. Mission AI - The New System Technology was originally published as an advisory report for the government of the Netherlands. The strategic analysis and the outlined recommendations are, however, relevant to every government and organization that aims to take up 'misson AI' and embed this newest system technology in our world.

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ChatGPT Chronicles: A Quick Guide to Mastering Health, Wealth, and Wisdom with Artificial Intelligence (AI) by William Leeson (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

If you've always wanted to improve your life, but time, money, and resources have held you back then keep reading... Are you struggling to improve your health? Have you suffered from financial difficulties for a long time? Do you want to enrich your mind, body, and soul? If so, then this book is for you. Becoming healthier, wealthier, and wiser doesn't have to be complicated. The good news is that it can be a walk in the park, thanks to the wonders of AI. ChatGPT Chronicles provides you with a step-by-step blueprint for using ChatGPT to achieve a better you. In this book, you will discover the following: • The best ways to get useful answers from ChatGPT • Using AI to improve your health • Getting advice about your personal finances • Ways to improve your outlook and self-confidence • How to create simple prompts for great results Imagine how you'll feel once you have the power of ChatGPT in your corner and how your life could change for the better. Even if you're not an AI expert, all you need is a little guidance from ChatGPT Chronicles to start living your best live now.If you're ready to take action, then scroll up and click "Add to Cart" NOW!

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WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web by Alan B. Johnston (32 Reviews)    Price verified 4 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, security and privacy, and NAT traversal with ICE, STUN, and TURN protocols are covered. The third edition has an enhanced demo application which now shows the use of the data channel for real-time text sent directly between browsers. Also, a full description of the browser media negotiation process including actual SDP session descriptions from Firefox and Chrome. Hints on how to use Wireshark to monitor WebRTC protocols, and example captures are also included. TURN server support for NAT and firewall traversal is also new. This edition also features a step-by-step introduction to WebRTC, with concepts such as local media, signaling, and the Peer Connection introduced through separate runnable demos. Written by experts involved in the standardization effort, this book contains the most up to date discussion of WebRTC standards in W3C and IETF. Packed with figures, example code, and summary tables, this book is the ultimate WebRTC reference. Table of Contents 1 Introduction to Web Real-Time Communications 1.1 WebRTC Introduction 1.2 Multiple Media Streams in WebRTC 1.3 Multi-Party Sessions in WebRTC 1.4 WebRTC Standards 1.5 What is New in WebRTC 1.6 Important Terminology Notes 1.7 References 2 How to Use WebRTC 2.1 Setting Up a WebRTC Session 2.2 WebRTC Networking and Interworking Examples 2.3 WebRTC Pseudo-Code Example 2.4 References 3 Local Media 3.1 Media in WebRTC 3.2 Capturing Local Media 3.3 Media Selection and Control 3.4 ...

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Programming Problems: A Primer for The Technical Interview by Bradley Green (37 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

A complete primer for the technical programming interview. This book reviews the fundamentals of computer programming through programming problems posed to candidates at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and others. Complete solutions to every programming problem is provided in clear explanations and easy to read C++11 code. If you are learning to code then this book provides a great introduction to C++11 and fundamental data structures and algorithms. If you are preparing for an interview or want to challenge yourself, then this book will cover all the fundamentals asked at major companies such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

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Programming Problems: Advanced Algorithms by Bradley Green (17 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Self contained with problems completely worked out in clear, readable C++11, Volume II covers a wide swatch of advanced programming techniques. The sections range from specialized procedures for bit manipulation, numerical analysis, subsequence problems, and random algorithms. Each chapter gives an in excellent coverage of the topics by providing a wide array of problems and solutions. For both beginning programmers and senior engineers, this book is sure to provide you with more valuable insights and enjoyable challenges.

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LangChain Unveiled: Navigating the Future of LLM by Dr. Ray Islam (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

LangChain is an important tool in the realm of artificial intelligence and natural language processing. This book, "LangChain Unveiled: Navigating the Future of LLM" is a comprehensive exploration of LangChain, an open-source platform that enables the development of applications utilizing large language models like GPT-3 and GPT-4. The book covers LangChain's inception, growth, integration capabilities, and its unique feature, LangChain Expression Language (LCEL), which simplifies complex text processing tasks. It discusses the modular architecture of LangChain and its potential for creating advanced NLP applications. The book also reviews alternative platforms like Auto-GPT and LlamaIndex. Overall, the summary highlights LangChain's significance in AI-driven language processing, emphasizing its capabilities, applications, and the need for ongoing technical refinement and ethical considerations in data management.

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Foundations of Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems by Paulo Carreira (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book coherently gathers well-founded information on the fundamentals of and formalisms for modelling cyber-physical systems (CPS). Highlighting the cross-disciplinary nature of CPS modelling, it also serves as a bridge for anyone entering CPS from related areas of computer science or engineering. Truly complex, engineered systems -- known as cyber-physical systems -- that integrate physical, software, and network aspects are now on the rise. However, there is no unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques or tools for these systems. Individual (mechanical, electrical, network or software) engineering disciplines only offer partial solutions. A technique known as Multi-Paradigm Modelling has recently emerged suggesting to model every part and aspect of a system explicitly, at the most appropriate level(s) of abstraction, using the most appropriate modelling formalism(s), and then weaving the results together to form a representation of the system. If properlyapplied, it enables, among other global aspects, performance analysis, exhaustive simulation, and verification. This book is the first systematic attempt to bring together these formalisms for anyone starting in the field of CPS who seeks solid modelling foundations and a comprehensive introduction to the distinct existing techniques that are multi-paradigmatic. Though chiefly intended for master and post-graduate level students in computer science and engineering, it can also be used as a reference text for practitioners.

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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 7 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 without substantial hardware and software support, and these systems acquire, process, exchange, and store data at an exponential rate. The chapters of this volume summarize the results of projects realized within the program and survey-related work. This is an open access book.

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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 2 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 medicine and education; representation techniques; and nautical, aeronautics and aerospace design and modeling. The book is organized into four main parts, reflecting the focus and primary themes of the conference. The contributions presented here not only provide researchers, engineers and experts in a range of industrial engineering subfields with extensive information to support their daily work; they are also intended to stimulate new research directions, advanced applications of the methods discussed and future interdisciplinary collaborations.

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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 3 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 students and practitioners who are interested in contemporary technology and managerial implications.

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Python For Everybody: Python Programming Made Easy by Cher Hin Chong (13 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Yes, Python developers are in high-demand. Python software engineers are also among the highest-paid software developers today, earning an average income of $150,000 a year. The Python language is easy to learn, yet POWERFUL. YouTube, Dropbox, Google, Instagram, Spotify, Reddit, Netflix, Pinterest - they are all developed using Python. And most recently, ChatGPT is also written in Python. Learning Python opens up the possibilities of a whole new career in Machine Learning and Data Science. This book contains only the first 8 chapters of my online Python course as a Udemy instructor. The remaining chapters are available at: https://www.udemy.com/course/python-programming-tutorial-a-z/?referralCode=923195F66CF0BA283A50 Free previews of some of the videos are available at the above udemy course link. The video-based online Python course at Udemy is consistently highly rated at 4.8 out of 5 stars with an enrollment of 28,498 students and 7,261 reviews as of 12 January 2024. This course is curated by Udemy into the Udemy For Business platform where the top Udemy courses are specially selected for listing. My website is at: https://tutorialpython.net There are no prerequisites for this course. This is a foundation course in Python that does not assume any knowledge of programming. This course does not claim to teach everything, just as no other courses can ever teach you everything you need to know about Python. The main purpose of this course is to ensure students master the essential concepts of the Python language so that they will begin to LOVE the language. This course wants you to be inspired to learn Python. Come on and join me in my Python For Everybody lessons... Cheers everyone!

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Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains: Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 13300) by Joanna Kołodziej (Springer) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the latter still lacking orchestration and agility to effectively address the dynamicity of the former. This book provides a comprehensive review of the main concepts, architectures, algorithms, and non-technical aspects developed during three years of investigation; the description of the Smart Mobility use case developed at the end of the project gives a practical example of how the GUARD platform and related technologies can be deployed in practical scenarios. We expect the book to be interesting for the broad group of researchers, engineers, and professionals daily experiencing the inadequacy of outdated cybersecurity models for modern computing environments and cyber-physical systems.

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Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies (SpringerBriefs in ... by Bernd Carsten Stahl (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of boring work. But undesirable and ethically problematic consequences are possible too: biases and discrimination, breaches of privacy and security, and societal distortions such as unemployment, economic exploitation and weakened democratic processes. There is even a prospect, ultimately, of super-intelligent machines replacing humans. The key question, then, is: how can we benefit from AI while addressing its ethical problems? This book presents an innovative answer to the question by presenting a different perspective on AI and its ethical consequences. Instead of looking at individual AI techniques, applications or ethical issues, we can understand AI as a system of ecosystems, consisting of numerous interdependent technologies, applications and stakeholders. Developing this idea, the book explores how AI ecosystems can be shaped to foster human flourishing. Drawing on rich empirical insights and detailed conceptual analysis, it suggests practical measures to ensure that AI is used to make the world a better place.

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Digital Humanism: For a Humane Transformation of Democracy, Economy and Culture in the Digital Age by Julian Nida-Rümelin (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a "digital humanism". This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is being used in the world, particularly formulated by former heroes of Internet, social media and search engine companies, philosophical as well as industrial thought leaders begin to plead for a humane use of digital tools. Yet the term "digital humanism" is a particular terminology that lacks a sound conceptual and philosophical basis and needs clarification still - and this gap is exactly filled by this book. It propagates a vision of society in which digitization is used to strengthen human self-determination, autonomy and dignity and whose time has come to be propagated throughout the world. The advantage of this book is that it is philosophically sound and yet written in a way that will make it accessible for everybody interested in the subject. Every chapters begins with a film scene illustrating a precise philosophical problem with AI and how we look at it - making the book not only readable, but even entertaining. And after having read the book the reader will have a clear vision of what it means to live in a world where digitization and AI are central technologies for a better and more humane civilization.

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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 3 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 engineering is built, including topics like software engineering as an engineering discipline, requirements engineering, software architectures, software quality, model-driven development, software processes, software evolution, AI-based software engineering, and the specification, design, and implementation of particular classes of systems, such as (self-)adaptive, collaborative, AI, embedded, distributed, mobile, pervasive, cyber-physical, or service-oriented applications.

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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 in information producers' creation of links? How do links shape the size and scope of the public sphere in the digital age? Are hyperlinks "bridging" mechanisms that encourage people to see beyond their personal beliefs to a broader and more diverse world? Or do they simply reinforce existing bonds by encouraging people to ignore social and political perspectives that conflict with their existing interests and beliefs? This pathbreaking collection of essays will be valuable to anyone interested in the now taken for granted connections that structure communication, commerce, and civic discourse in the world of digital media. "This collection provides a broad and deep examination of the social, political, and economic implications of the evolving, web-based media environment. The Hyperlinked Society will be a very useful contribution to the scholarly debate about the role of the internet in modern society, and especially about the interaction between the internet and other media systems in modern society." ---Charles Steinfield, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He was named a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association and a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2010. He has authored eight books, ...

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Excel Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide with Pictures for Absolute Beginners to Master the Basics and Start Using Excel with Confidence by Nigel Tillery (153 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

SPECIAL BONUS: Only The PAPERBACK VERSION Includes exclusive access to the "Excel Fundamentals" Video Course Are you new to Excel and looking for an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide? Look no further! Unlock a video course, 'Excel Fundamentals,' when you purchase the paperback version. This exclusive BONUS is your golden ticket to hands-on learning of how to use Excel from the basics. In today's fast-paced digital world, knowing how to use Excel, even at a basic level,is crucial for successin various professional fields. Don't let your lack of Excel knowledge hold you back any longer! With "Excel Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide with Pictures for Absolute Beginners," you'll master the basics of Excel and gain the confidence to use it effectively. Here's what makes this guide the perfect choice: • Comprehensive coverage of essential Excel topics for beginners • Packed with lots of pictures for easy understanding and learning • Step-by-step guidance to ensure you grasp each concept thoroughly • Tailored specifically for those who have never used Excel before • Expert tips on keyboard shortcuts, utilizing the help function, and organizational best practices • Learn how to create charts and graphs to visualize data effectively • Develop a valuable skill that is in high demand in the job market Don't let the fear of Excel hold you back any longer. Don't miss out on the opportunity to master Excel and unlock its full potential. Grab your copy today and start your journey toward becoming an Excel expert! Scroll up, Click on "Read Now", and Start Today!

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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 others.

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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 4 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 applications in the sector, including novel applications in the areas of Know Your Customer (KYC), Personalized Wealth Management and Asset Management, Portfolio Risk Assessment, as well as variety of novel Usage-based Insurance applications based on Internet-of-Things data. Most of the presented applications have been developed, deployed and validated in real-life digital finance settings in the context of the European Commission funded INFINITECH project, which is a flagship innovation initiative for Big Data and AI in digital finance. This book is ideal for researchers and practitioners in Big Data, AI, banking and digital finance.

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Python For Beginners: A Practical and Step-by-Step Guide to Programming with Python by Daniel Correa (7 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Python For Beginners: A Practical and Step-by-Step Guide to Programming with Python Book Description This book is for beginners in programming and Python. The book covers all the basic and fundamental elements of programming in Python, including topics such as computers, programming, algorithms, variables, conditionals, loops, functions, lists, dictionaries, files, and a brief introduction to libraries. It is a short book designed not to overwhelm the reader. You will find hundreds of pieces of code, diagrams, a cheat sheet, exercises, and a very practical approach to learning. You'll be up and running with Python in no time. By the end of the book, you will have acquired knowledge about basic programming concepts and techniques, which can later be applied to more advanced projects. This will allow you to continue your learning journey with greater ease and confidence. What you will learn: • The basic elements of computing and programming. • How to design algorithms. • How to use Colab. • The fundamental elements of Python programming language. • How to solve dozens of programming exercises. • How to manipulate files and perform data analysis. • How to use libraries in Python and create charts with Matplotlib. This book contains the following chapters: • Chapter 01 - Introduction. • Chapter 02 - Computers and programming. • Chapter 03 - Python. • Chapter 04 - Hello world in Colab. • Chapter 05 - Int, float, and str variables. • Chapter 06 - Data input and output. • Chapter 07 - Simple conditionals. • Chapter 08 - Multiple conditionals. • Chapter 09 - While loop. • Chapter 10 - Strings. • Chapter 11 - Lists. • Chapter 12 - Dictionaries. • Chapter 13 - For loop. • Chapter 14 - Functions. • Chapter 15 - Counters, accumulators, and flags. • Chapter 16 - Files. • Chapter 17 - Libraries - Matplotlib. • Chapter 18 - Continue your learning. • Chapter 19 - Exercise solutions. Who is this ...

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From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond: Engineering and Social Models for a Trans-humanist World by Franz Barachini (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). The authors describe why it is crucial for digital selves to be able to develop emotional behavior and why a humanity-inspired AI is necessary so that humans and humanoids can coexist. The introductory chapter describes major milestones in computer science which form the basis for the implementation of digital twins and digital selves. The subsequent Part I then lays the foundation to develop a socio-technical understanding of the nature of digital twins as representations and trans-human development objects. Following the conceptual understanding of digital twins and how they could be engineered according to cognitive and organizational structures, Part II forms the groundwork for understanding social behavior and its modeling. It discusses various perception-based socio-emotional approaches before sketching behavior-relevant models and their simulation capabilities. In particular, it is shown how emotions can substantially influence the collective behavior of artificial actors. Part III eventually presents a symbiosis showing under which preconditions digital selves might construct and produce digital twins as integrated design elements in trans-human ecosystems. The chapters in this part are dedicated to opportunities and modes of co-creating reflective socio-trans-human systems based on digital twin models, exploring mutual control and continuous development. The final epilog is congenitally speculative in its nature by presenting thoughts on future developments of artificial life in computational substrates. The book is written for researchers and professionals in areas like cyber-physical systems, robotics, social simulation or systems engineering, interested to take a speculative look into the future of digital twins and autonomous agents. ...

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Artificial Ink: A Study of AI Done By Artificial Minds by Muhammad Khurram (8 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Artificial Ink: A Study of AI Done By Artificial Minds presents an insightful exploration of the far-reaching impact of artificial intelligence beyond non-fiction books. From transforming industries to reshaping education and employment, this book delves into the profound effects of AI across various aspects of our lives. With an expert blend of storytelling and technical insights, the book unveils the intricacies of training AI models, curating vast amounts of data, and leveraging machine learning algorithms to generate a coherent and engaging narrative. From scientific research to historical analysis, the author demonstrates how AI has become an indispensable tool in augmenting human intellect and expanding the boundaries of knowledge. Artificial Ink: A Study of AI Done By Artificial Minds not only celebrates the remarkable achievements made possible by AI but also delves into the ethical considerations surrounding its use. By examining the implications of AI-driven content creation, the book prompts readers to reflect on the role of technology in shaping our understanding of the world and its impact on the future of non-fiction writing. Through captivating anecdotes and thought-provoking analysis, this book offers a captivating glimpse into the cutting-edge realm where human creativity intertwines with artificial intelligence to redefine the landscape of non-fiction literature.

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Data Communications and Network Technologies by Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co. (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 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, static and dynamic routing, Ethernet networking technology, ACL and AAA, network address translation, DHCP server, WLAN, IPv6, WAN PPP and PPPoE protocol, typical networking architecture and design cases of campus networks, SNMP protocol used by network management, operation and maintenance, network time protocol NTP, SND and NFV, programming, and automation. As the world's leading provider of ICT (information and communication technology) infrastructure and smart terminals, Huawei's products range from digital data communication, cyber security, wireless technology, data storage, cloud-computing, and smart computing to artificial intelligence.

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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 6 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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Security in Computer and Information Sciences: Second International Symposium, EuroCybersec 2021, Nice, France, October 25–26, 2021, Revised ... by Erol Gelenbe (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, EuroCybersec 2021, held in Nice, France, in October 2021. The 9 papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers focus on topics of security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, Internet of Things, health informatics systems, energy systems, digital cities, digital economy, mobile networks, and the underlying physical and network infrastructures. This is an open access book.

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Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2020: Practice Meets Foundations by Michael Felderer (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the eleven nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2020. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is awarded for excellent work within the discipline of Software Engineering, which includes methods, tools and procedures for better and efficient development of high quality software. An essential requirement for the nominated work is its applicability and usability in industrial practice. The book contains eleven papers that describe the works by Jonathan Brachthäuser (EPFL Lausanne) entitled What You See Is What You Get: Practical Effect Handlers in Capability-Passing Style, Mojdeh Golagha's (Fortiss, Munich) thesis How to Effectively Reduce Failure Analysis Time?, Nikolay Harutyunyan's (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work on Open Source Software Governance, Dominic Henze's (TU Munich) research about Dynamically Scalable Fog Architectures, Anne Hess's (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern) work on Crossing Disciplinary Borders to Improve Requirements Communication,Istvan Koren's (RWTH Aachen U) thesis DevOpsUse: A Community-Oriented Methodology for Societal Software Engineering, Yannic Noller's (NU Singapore) work on Hybrid Differential Software Testing, Dominic Steinhofel's (TU Darmstadt) thesis entitled Ever Change a Running System: Structured Software Reengineering Using Automatically Proven-Correct Transformation Rules, Peter Wägemann's (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work Static Worst-Case Analyses and Their Validation Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, Michael von Wenckstern's (RWTH Aachen U) research on Improving the Model-Based Systems Engineering Process, and Franz Zieris's (FU Berlin) thesis on Understanding How Pair Programming Actually Works in Industry: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Dynamics - which actually won the award. The chapters describe key findings of the respective works, show their relevance and applicability to practice and industrial ...

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Rhetorical Code Studies: Discovering Arguments in and around Code (Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative) by Kevin Brock (University of Michigan Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Winner of the 2017 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Software developers work rhetorically to make meaning through the code they write. In some ways, writing code is like any other form of communication; in others, it proves to be new, exciting, and unique. In Rhetorical Code Studies, Kevin Brock explores how software code serves as meaningful communication through which software developers construct arguments that are made up of logical procedures and express both implicit and explicit claims as to how a given program operates. Building on current scholarly work in digital rhetoric, software studies, and technical communication, Brock connects and continues ongoing conversations among rhetoricians, technical communicators, software studies scholars, and programming practitioners to demonstrate how software code and its surrounding discourse are highly rhetorical forms of communication. He considers examples ranging from large, well-known projects like Mozilla Firefox to small-scale programs like the "FizzBuzz" test common in many programming job interviews. Undertaking specific examinations of code texts as well as the contexts surrounding their composition, Brock illuminates the variety and depth of rhetorical activity taking place in and around code, from individual differences in style to changes in large-scale organizational and community norms. Rhetorical Code Studies holds significant implications for digital communication, multimodal composition, and the cultural analysis of software and its creation. It will interest academics and students of writing, rhetoric, and software engineering as well as technical communicators and developers of all types of software.

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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 2 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, you'll have the knowledge required to design and build real-world complex systems that effectively leverage the advantages of the OCaml functional programming language. What You Will Learn • Optimize core operations based on N-dimensional arrays • Design and implement an industry-level algorithmic differentiation module • Implement mathematical optimization, regression, and deep neural network functionalities based on algorithmic differentiation • Design and optimize a computation graph module, and understand the benefits it brings to the numerical computing library • Accommodate the growing number of hardware accelerators (e.g. GPU, TPU) and execution backends (e.g. web browser, unikernel) of numerical computation • Use the Zoo system for efficient scripting, code sharing, service deployment, and composition • Design and implement a distributed computing engine to work with a numerical computing library, providing convenient APIs and high performance Who This Book Is For Those with prior programming experience, especially with the OCaml programming language, or with scientific computing experience who may be new to OCaml. Most importantly, it is for those who are eager to understand not only how to use something, but also how it is built up.

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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 5 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 47 minutes 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 comprehensive set of tools and case studies, this book is essential reading for those researching innovation and digitization, organization and business strategy.

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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 3 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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Passive Income: Proven Ideas Of Side Hustles To Make Money Online (Get Financial Freedom With Blogging, Ecommerce, Dropshipping And Affiliate ... by Mark Johns (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Use this ideas to immediately start your journey to financial freedom and apply it today! This book contains proven steps and strategies on the secret to financial independence, numerous ways to make money while you sleep, proven ideas of side hustles that will get your time and freedom back. You picked up a book on passive income, probably a little skeptical, but you obviously want freedom, but you are in a situation that constrains you. Doesn't allow you to fully be you and share some awesome with the world. In fact, the millennials are struggling to save 20% of their first home deposit. A large number of people will retire having less than $100,000 in their bank accounts. The easiest solution is to create passive income streams. The author saved more than $100,000 in less than three years, bought his first home, and bought a rental property. This success was possible as the author created passive income streams along with a busy day job. The author wrote this book to discuss numerous solid battle-tested passive income ideas that work today. Each of these ideas has the potential to make you rich. It doesn't take a lot of commitment and high investment. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... • Create your own automatic money machine • Misunderstanding of passive income recognition • Unexpected form of passive income • Create your portfolio income model • Passive income ideas • A New Way of Thinking If you have never tried generating passive income, you'll find this guide very resourceful and give you a robust start. If you have already tried earlier and failed, don't fret. You need a step-by-step blueprint to start generating passive income. Passive Income is your essential guide to generate multiple passive income stream, so you can work less and earn more. Download your copy today!

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Bootstrap 4 Quick Start: Responsive Web Design and Development Basics for Beginners (Bootstrap 4 Tutorial Book 1) by Jacob Lett (80 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Learn Bootstrap 4 and Responsive Web Design... Fast! Code examples updated to v4.2.1 Jan. 2019 Want to improve the design of your web application or website without having to write CSS styles from scratch? Learning web development (html & css) is a lot more challenging than it used to be. Responsive web design adds more layers of complexity to design and develop websites. In this book you will become familiar with the new cards component, setting up the new flexbox grid layout, customizing the look and feel, how to follow the mobile-first development workflow, and more! Web designer and developer Jacob Lett has built 100+ websites and WordPress themes. Let him show you exactly how to build responsive layouts that look great in every browser and device. He shares what you can't learn from the official documentation... the process of actually building a full web design layout. This book is focused on the workflow and does not duplicate what you can already find in the official documentation. This book will show you how to reference the documentation and use it effectively in your projects. BONUS: Includes a link to download a free cheat sheets bundle and a 1 hour training video. Who is this for? • You're a web development beginner and want to learn how to become a developer. • You're an experienced backend developer or programmer (Python, Perl, Node.js, PHP, ASP.NET / .Net Core, Ruby on Rails, SQL etc.) and you want to improve your frontend design skills. • You learned HTML5 & CSS3 but are new to responsive web design basics. • You have used Bootstrap before but want to learn new techniques and workflow. What will I learn? • Learn what responsive web design is, the history behind it, and how the Bootstrap 4 frontend framework makes it easier to implement. • Learn the web design process and how to build a website using Bootstrap 4. • Learn what's new in Bootstrap 4 with a deep focus on CSS3 Flexbox, Cards, and the responsive grid ...

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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 4 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 model transformation; software evolution and requirements engineering; specification, design, and implementation of particular classes of systems; and software testing.

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The Boost C++ Libraries by Boris Schäling (31 Reviews)    Price verified 6 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 complete, so you can compile and run them as is. They show you what the Boost libraries offer and give you a head start on using the libraries in your own applications. The goal of this book is to increase your efficiency as a C++ developer and to simplify software development with C++. The Boost libraries introduced in this book will help you write less code with fewer bugs and finish projects faster. You code will be more concise and self-explanatory and more easily adapted when requirements change. The second edition is based on the Boost libraries 1.55.0 and 1.56.0 with the latter version having been released in August 2014. The examples are based on C++11 and have been tested with Visual Studio 2013, GCC 4.8 and Clang 3.3 on various platforms. For Boost libraries which were incorporated into the C++11 standard library, differences between Boost and the standard library are highlighted. The Boost libraries are one of the most important and influential open source C++ libraries. Their source code is available under a permissive free software license. Several Boost libraries have been incorporated into the C++11 standard library. The Boost libraries are developed and supported by the Boost community - a worldwide developer community with a strong interest in pushing C++ boundaries further.

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Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (Language, Cognition, and Mind Book 9) by Lucas Bechberger (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book is a timely contribution in presenting recent issues, approaches, and results that are not only central to the highly interdisciplinary field of concept research but also particularly important to newly emergent paradigms and challenges. The contributors present a unique, holistic picture for the understanding and use of concepts from a wide range of fields including cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science. The chapters focus on three distinct points of view that lie at the core of concept research: representation, learning, and application. The contributions present a combination of theoretical, experimental, computational, and applied methods that appeal to students and researchers working in these fields.

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Contextual Process Digitalization: Changing Perspectives – Design Thinking – Value-Led Design by Albert Fleischmann (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants' perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a model and how it is embedded in the organizational and IT environment of the company. Lastly, the book examines the joint processing of instances in the resulting socio-technical systems. A corresponding illustration, which expands with the overview, enables readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of business process management. The book presents various facets of business process management from the perspective of the participants, and introduces a selection of models that have proved useful in practice. The design of such models supports the transition from a more-or-less unstructured or unsatisfactory way of working to a structured process that corresponds to the ideas of the company and its customers. The book is intended for professionals in industry as well as students in the field of business information systems who are looking for guidelines on how to discover, create and implement real-world processes.

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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 consisting of the competition report. TACAS is a forum for researchers, developers, and users interested in rigorously based tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems. The conference aims to bridge the gaps between different communities with this common interest and to support them in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, exibility, and efficiency of tools and algorithms for building computer-controlled systems.

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Affiliate Marketing: Build Passive Income And Sell Through Affiliate Networks (Master Social Media, Grow Your Brand, Get Customers And Make Profit) by Zack Ackers (20 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Are you looking to understand affiliate marketing strategy but tired with all those "shiny objects" and 'gurus' shoving their brand new (and costly) products on you? Getting email after email pitching the latest and greatest thing since sliced bread you can end up wasting weeks, months, or years working on some affiliate system which turns out to fail miserably. Not to mention all the money thrown down the tubes along the way. This book guarantees to give you the 20,000 foot view of affiliate marketing the right way, starting from the beginning all the way through to owning and operating a highly successful and profitable Internet business. Here is a short preview of what is included in this book: • What is affiliate marketing? • Different types of affiliate products • Niche • How to market and get sales for free • How to market with ads • Social media affiliate • How to have the right mindset • Product creation • How to put it together So what are you waiting for? It's now or never! Make sure you grab your own copy to learn precisely how affiliate marketing can change your life. Even if this is the first time that you've considered the ways of online marketing, in this step-by-step guide, you will find everything you need to start from scratch. The beauty is that you will get your first results sooner than you think! Start Now!! Scroll up and get the book today!!

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A Study of Crisis by Michael Brecher (University of Michigan Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 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 contribute to the advancement of international peace and world order. The culmination of more than twenty years of research by Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, the book analyzes crucial themes about crisis, conflict, and war and presents systematic knowledge about more than 400 crises, thirty-one protracted conflicts and almost 900 state participants. The authors explore many aspects of conflict, including the ethnic dimension, the effect of different kinds of political regimes--notably the question whether democracies are more peaceful than authoritarian regimes, and the role of violence in crisis management. They employ both case studies and aggregate data analysis in a Unified Model of Crisis to focus on two levels of analysis--hostile interactions among states, and the behavior of decision-makers who must cope with the challenge posed by a threat to values, time pressure, and the increased likelihood that military hostilities will engulf them. This book will appeal to scholars in history, political science, sociology, and economics as well as policy makers interested in the causes and effects of crises in international relations. The rich data sets will serve researchers for years to come as they probe additional aspects of crisis, conflict and war in international relations. Michael Brecher is R. B. Angus Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Jonathan Wilkenfeld is Professor and Chair of the Department of ...

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Multimedia Forensics (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) by Husrev Taha Sencar (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 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 outcome. The underlying technologies that drive this trend, however, also pose a profound challenge in establishing trust in what we see, hear, and read, and make media content the preferred target of malicious attacks. In this new threat landscape powered by innovative imaging technologies and sophisticated tools, based on autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, this book fills an important gap. It presents a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art forensics capabilities that relate to media attribution, integrity and authenticity verification, and counter forensics. Its content is developed to provide practitioners, researchers, photo and video enthusiasts, and students a holistic view of the field.

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Special Topics in Information Technology (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Angelo Geraci (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdisciplinary nature, which is becoming more and more important in recent technological advances, in collaborative projects, and in the education of young researchers. Accordingly, the focus of advanced research is on pursuing a rigorous approach to specific research topics starting from a broad background in various areas of Information Technology, especially Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, and Telecommunications. Each year, more than 50 PhDs graduate from the program. This book gathers the outcomes of the thirteen best theses defended in 2019-20 and selected for the IT PhD Award. Each of the authors provides a chapter summarizing his/her findings, including an introduction, description of methods, main achievements and future work on the topic. Hence, the book provides a cutting-edge overview of the latest research trends in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano, presented in an easy-to-read format that will also appeal to non-specialists.

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An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS Whitepaper) by AWS Whitepapers (48 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

November 2021 As the proliferation of digital technologies continues to disrupt market segments and industries, adopting Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help you transform your organization to meet the changing business conditions and evolving customer needs. As the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, AWS can help you lower costs, reduce business risks, improve operational efficiency, become more agile, innovate faster, create new revenue streams, and reinvent customer and employee experience. The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. Use the AWS CAF to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and iteratively evolve your transformation roadmap. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in HTML or PDF format at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/welcome.html

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SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, on AWS (AWS Quick Start) by AWS Whitepapers (Amazon Web Services) (69 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This Quick Start enables you to automatically deploy SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, on the AWS cloud. SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed for dynamically growing small and midsize businesses. This solution is powered by SAP HANA, which is an in-memory database management system that provides fast, predictable performance. You can use the AWS CloudFormation templates included with the Quick Start to deploy SAP Business One either into a new Amazon VPC or into an existing Amazon VPC in your AWS account. The Quick Start configures the Amazon VPC with two subnets (public and private), and sets up Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and network address translation (NAT) instances in the public subnet. On the private subnet, the Quick Start deploys SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Microsoft Windows Server instances, configures storage and other AWS resources, and installs the SAP HANA database and SAP Business One application components. Review the deployment guide for architectural considerations and step-by-step deployment instructions. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/.

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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 3 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 dynamic systems. Part II: model checking; software verification; stochastic systems; and synthesis. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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 virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Affiliate Marketing For Beginners: Build Your Own Six Figure Business With Clickbank Products, Internet Marketing And Affiliate Links (Earn Passive ... by Mark Glazer (115 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

You cannot fail to be impressed by the thrilling world of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a field that gives you the option to promote anything without having to actually own it. The choices you have to work with are endless. The networks and companies you can start an affiliate enterprise with are also diverse. However, you should choose carefully which program will be an asset to you. In this day and age, having a passive income stream is mandatory. Previously, passive income was exclusive to those who were wealthy enough to pay the requirements to start up a passive income source. In this book, you´ll discover: • How to start an affiliate marketing business from scratch with zero background knowledge • The same formula used by top affiliate marketer to make $7 million in affiliate marketing revenue in a single year • Why you don´t even need a product to sell to make money while you sleep • Why once you set "it" up you never have to work for more than 4 hours a week • How to offer huge value for your followers on social media and turn your hobby into a business • Why one size does not fit all and how to find your perfect product niche • All you need to kick start your business and make your first sale within your first week • And much more. I have dedicated the last 10 years to becoming an expert in affiliate marketing so I know what works and what doesn't work, the in's and the out's and the do's and the don'ts. You do not need to make the same mistakes that many other new affiliate marketers make, because I will show you how to do it properly. Join me on this incredible journey of becoming an affiliate marketer and your dream of running a profitable online business can truly become a reality

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15 Stories 180,000 Views: Read and learn how to write high-performing stories by Marx D. (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A magician never reveals his tricks and a writer (usually) never reveals how much money they've made from a story or how many views a story has received. Fortunately for you, this book does just that. This book is a compilation of stories that have performed extremely well on Medium.com. If you didn't already know, Medium pays writers to publish stories on their platform for their readers. These 15 stories have garnered nearly 200,000 views and earned thousands of dollars in the process. They are real stories that were seen by real readers and have earned real money. And now they are available for you to read. Read them and find out whether or not writing on Medium is right for you. If nothing else you'll be reading stories that 180,000 other readers have (hopefully) enjoyed.

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Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: 6th International Workshop, GKR 2020, Virtual Event, September 5, 2020, Revised Selected ... by Michael Cochez (Springer) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2020, held virtually in September 2020, associated with ECAI 2020, the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The 7 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were reviewed and selected from 9 submissions. The contributions address various issues for knowledge representation and reasoning and the common graph-theoretic background, which allows to bridge the gap between the different communities.

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META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 (White Paper Series) by Georg Rehm (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

In everyday communication, Europe's citizens, business partners and politicians are inevitably confronted with language barriers. Language technology has the potential to overcome these barriers and to provide innovative interfaces to technologies and knowledge. This document presents a Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020. The agenda was prepared by META-NET, a European Network of Excellence. META-NET consists of 60 research centres in 34 countries, who cooperate with stakeholders from economy, government agencies, research organisations, non-governmental organisations, language communities and European universities. META-NET's vision is high-quality language technology for all European languages. "The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society." -- Dr. Pedro Passos Coelho (Prime-Minister of Portugal) "It is imperative that language technologies for Slovene are developed systematically if we want Slovene to flourish also in the future digital world." -- Dr. Danilo Türk (President of the Republic of Slovenia) "For such small languages like Latvian keeping up with the ever increasing pace of time and technological development is crucial. The only way to ensure future existence of our language is to provide its users with equal opportunities as the users of larger languages enjoy. Therefore being on the forefront of modern technologies is our opportunity." -- Valdis Dombrovskis (Prime Minister of Latvia) "Europe's inherent multilingualism and our scientific expertise are the perfect prerequisites for significantly advancing the challenge that language technology poses. META-NET opens up new opportunities for the development of ubiquitous multilingual technologies." -- Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan (German Minister of Education and Research)

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Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System: A Participatory Framework to Promote Sustainability (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and ... by Marcus M. Dapp (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today's global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this situation, could one boost smart human coordination, sustainability and resilience by tweaking society at its core: the monetary system? A Computational Social Science team at ETH Zürich has indeed worked on a concept and little demonstrator for a new financial system, called "Finance 4.0" or just "FIN4", which combines blockchain technology with the Internet of Things ("IoT"). What if communities could reward sustainable actions by issuing their own money ("tokens")? Would people behave differently, when various externalities became visible and were actionable through cryptographic tokens? Could a novel, participatory, multi-dimensional financial system be created? Could it be run by the people for the people and lead to more societal resilience than today's financial system (which is effectively one-dimensional due to its almost frictionless exchange)? How could one manage such a system in an ethical and democratic way? This book presents some early attempts in a nascent field, but provides a fresh view on what cryptoeconomic systems could do for us, for a circular economy, and for scalable, sustainable action.

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Vidding: A History by Francesca Coppa (9 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Vidding is a well-established remix practice where fans edit an existing film, music video, TV show, or other performance and set it to music of their choosing. Vids emerged forty years ago as a complicated technological feat involving capturing footage from TV with a VCR and syncing with music -- and their makers and consumers were almost exclusively women, many of them queer women. The technological challenges of doing this kind of work in the 1970s and 1980s when vidding began gave rise to a rich culture of collective work, as well as conventions of creators who gathered to share new work and new techniques. While the rise of personal digital technology eventually democratized the tools vidders use, the collective aspect of the culture grew even stronger with the advent of YouTube, Vimeo, and other channels for sharing work. Vidding: A History emphasizes vidding as a critical, feminist form of fan practice. Working outward from interviews, VHS liner notes, convention programs, and mailing list archives, Coppa offers a rich history of vidding communities as they evolved from the 1970s through to the present. Built with the classroom in mind, the open-access electronic version of this book includes over one-hundred vids and an appendix that includes additional close readings of vids.

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Machine Learning Lens: AWS Well-Architected Framework (AWS Whitepaper) by AWS Whitepapers (13 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

October 2021 This paper describes the Machine Learning Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This document includes common machine learning (ML) scenarios and identifies key elements to ensure that your workloads are architected according to best practices.

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Actualizing Human Rights: Global Inequality, Future People, and Motivation (Routledge Studies in Human Rights) by Jos Philips (Routledge) (48 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for realizing human rights. Taking a perspective from moral and political philosophy, the book focuses on two challenges to human rights that have until now received little attention, but that need to be addressed if human rights are to remain plausible as a global ideal. Firstly, the challenge of global inequality: how, if at all, can one be sincerely committed to human rights in a structurally greatly unequal world that produces widespread inequalities of human rights protection? Secondly, the challenge of future people: how to adequately include future people in human rights, and how to set adequate priorities between the present and the future, especially in times of climate change? The book also asks whether people worldwide can be motivated to do what it takes to realize human rights. Furthermore, it considers the common and prominent challenges of relativism and of the political abuse of human rights. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, political philosophy, and more broadly political theory, philosophy and the wider social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003011569, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Electronic Democracy (The World of Political Science – The development of the discipline Book Series) by Norbert Kersting (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a tool for political mobilisation, internet Voting and Voting Advice Applications, and other phenomena, this volume critically engages with the hope for more transparency and political participation through e-democracy.

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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 of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of 'big' data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.

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Tempest: Geometries of Play (Landmark Video Games) by Judd Ethan Ruggill (University of Michigan Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Atari's 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a "tube shooter" built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game's initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed "SkillStep"), a feature that has since became standard for games of all types. Tempest was also one of the most aesthetically impactful games of the twentieth century, lending its crisp, vector aesthetic to many subsequent movies, television shows, and video games. In this book, Ruggill and McAllister enumerate and analyze Tempest's landmark qualities, exploring the game's aesthetics, development context, and connections to and impact on video game history and culture. By describing the game in technical, historical, and ludic detail, they unpack the game's latent and manifest audio-visual iconography and the ideological meanings this iconography evokes.

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Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe: Expanding Capacities by Lars Klüver (Palgrave Macmillan) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by science, nor will conventional methods of innovation bring such transitions about. A turn to interactive governance is therefore underway with policy-makers and citizens becoming increasingly involved in processes of deliberating futures. Technology Assessment (TA) is the art of structuring such processes. TA goes beyond traditional expert policy analysis by systematically combining a multi-disciplinary evidence base with participatory approaches to policy deliberation. TA thus seeks to act as a hub for serious and transparent dialogue between policy, industry, science, and society about the challenges ahead and the available options for overcoming them responsibly. This volume offers an up-to-date account of the expansion of technology assessment capacities across new European member states. The contributions of this volume are written by leading European researchers and practitioners in technology assessment (TA) and are based on the PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment) project.

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Benefit/Cost-Driven Software Development: With Benefit Points and Size Points (Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing Book 8) by Jo Erskine Hannay (Springer) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book presents a set of basic techniques for estimating the benefit of IT development projects and portfolios. It also offers methods for monitoring how much of that estimated benefit is being achieved during projects. Readers can then use these benefit estimates together with cost estimates to create a benefit/cost index to help them decide which functionalities to send into construction and in what order. This allows them to focus on constructing the functionality that offers the best value for money at an early stage. Although benefits management involves a wide range of activities in addition to estimation and monitoring, the techniques in this book provides a clear guide to achieving what has always been the goal of project and portfolio stakeholders: developing systems that produce as much usefulness and value as possible for the money invested. The techniques can also help deal with vicarious motives and obstacles that prevent this happening. The book equips readers to recognize when a project budget should not be spent in full and resources be allocated elsewhere in a portfolio instead. It also provides development managers and upper management with common ground as a basis for making informed decisions.

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HACKS TO CRUSH PLC PROGRAM FAST & EFFICIENTLY EVERYTIME... : CODING, SIMULATING & TESTING PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLER WITH EXAMPLES (Program, ... by Michael Blake (51 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Are you ready to take your PLC programming skills to the next level? Do you want to learn the ins and outs of ladder logic programming and become an expert in IEC language? If so, then "Hacks To Crush PLC Programs From Beginning" is the book for you! In this comprehensive guide, we'll walk you through the process of designing, building, simulating, and testing PLC programs using ladder logic (LD). You'll gain a deeper understanding of LD programming and the editing interface, as well as practical methods for building a PLC program that can tackle real-world tasks. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced programmer, this book has something for you. We cover the basics of ladder logic programming and provide ample practical examples to help you gain a better understanding of the concepts. By the end of the book, you'll be able to create a PLC-HMI program from start to finish, and you'll have the skills you need to work in any PLC environment. So why wait? Start crushing PLC programs today with "Hacks To Crush PLC Programs From Beginning"!

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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 5 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 well defined global or local patterns they wanted to find domain bridging associations which are, by definition, not well defined since they will be especially interesting if they are sparse and have not been encountered before. The 32 contributions presented in this state-of-the-art volume together with a detailed introduction to the book are organized in topical sections on bisociation; representation and network creation; network analysis; exploration; and applications and evaluation.

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Cognitive Supervision for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Laser Surgery (Springer Theses) by Loris Fichera (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This thesis lays the groundwork for the automatic supervision of the laser incision process, which aims to complement surgeons' perception of the state of tissues and enhance their control over laser incisions. The research problem is formulated as the estimation of variables that are representative of the state of tissues during laser cutting. Prior research in this area leveraged numerical computation methods that bear a high computational cost and are not straightforward to use in a surgical setting. This book proposes a novel solution to this problem, using models inspired by the ability of experienced surgeons to perform precise and clean laser cutting. It shows that these new models, which were extracted from experimental data using statistical learning techniques, are straightforward to use in a surgical setup, allowing greater precision in laser-based surgical procedures.

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European E-Democracy in Practice (Studies in Digital Politics and Governance) by Leonhard Hennen (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 3 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 e-publics, and offers recommendations for improving the integration of e-democracy in European politics and governance. Accordingly, it will appeal to scholars as well as practitioners interested in identifying suitable e-participation tools for European institutions and thus helps to reduce the EU's current democratic deficit. This book is a continuation of the book "Electronic Democracy in Europe" published by Springer.

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Computer Aided Verification: 32nd International Conference, CAV 2020, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 21–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in ... by Shuvendu K. Lahiri (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 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 dynamic systems. Part II: model checking; software verification; stochastic systems; and synthesis. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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 6 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 machine learning; probabilistic systems, runtime techniques; dynamical, hybrid, and reactive systems; Part II: logics, decision procedures; and solvers; numerical programs; verification; distributed systems and networks; verification and invariants; and concurrency.

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Handbook of Vascular Biometrics (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) by Andreas Uhl (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 5 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 usability, security, and privacy. The book features contributions from both academia and major industrial manufacturers.

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Financing the future of supercomputing: How to increase investments in high performance computing in Europe by European Investment Bank (5 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Supercomputing has become an indispensable resource in the digital age, thereby transforming research, businesses and our daily lives. It strongly increases the ability of researchers, industry, SMEs and government to process and analyse large amounts of data. The study demonstrates that the use of supercomputing for industrial and commercial applications in Europe has grown rapidly across many sectors such as automotive, renewable energy and mechanical engineering. To realise this potential, significant public ('cornerstone') investments in strategic HPC infrastructure and services are essential. This is expected to lead to the creation of public value via the growth of high-tech companies and the creation of new ecosystems across Europe. At the same time, new thinking is required about how to optimise the use of HPC infrastructure from a predominantly public good approach to ensure that adequate socio-economic returns are generated. This study analysis the key financing challenges of supercomputing in Europe and provides concrete recommendations on how to overcome the current investment gap in this strategic sector. It provides a new rationale for public and private investment as a basis for improving the conditions for robust and long-term financing.

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Security Infrastructure Technology for Integrated Utilization of Big Data: Applied to the Living Safety and Medical Fields by Atsuko Miyaji (Springer) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book describes the technologies needed to construct a secure big data infrastructure that connects data owners, analytical institutions, and user institutions in a circle of trust. It begins by discussing the most relevant technical issues involved in creating safe and privacy-preserving big data distribution platforms, and especially focuses on cryptographic primitives and privacy-preserving techniques, which are essential prerequisites. The book also covers elliptic curve cryptosystems, which offer compact public key cryptosystems; and LWE-based cryptosystems, which are a type of post-quantum cryptosystem. Since big data distribution platforms require appropriate data handling, the book also describes a privacy-preserving data integration protocol and privacy-preserving classification protocol for secure computation. Furthermore, it introduces an anonymization technique and privacy risk evaluation technique. This book also describes the latest related findings in both the living safety and medical fields. In the living safety field, to prevent injuries occurring in everyday life, it is necessary to analyze injury data, find problems, and implement suitable measures. But most cases don't include enough information for injury prevention because the necessary data is spread across multiple organizations, and data integration is difficult from a security standpoint. This book introduces a system for solving this problem by applying a method for integrating distributed data securely and introduces applications concerning childhood injury at home and school injury. In the medical field, privacy protection and patient consent management are crucial for all research. The book describes a medical test bed for the secure collection and analysis of electronic medical records distributed among various medical institutions. The system promotes big-data analysis of medical data with a cloud infrastructure and includes various security measures developed in our ...

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Managing Distributed Cloud Applications and Infrastructure: A Self-Optimising Approach (Palgrave Studies in Digital Business & Enabling Technologies) by Theo Lynn (Palgrave Macmillan) (29 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with greater heterogeneity not only online in cloud computing architectures but across the cloud-to-edge continuum, is introducing new challenges for managing applications and infrastructure across this continuum. The scale and complexity is simply so complex that it is no longer realistic for IT teams to manually foresee the potential issues and manage the dynamism and dependencies across an increasing inter-dependent chain of service provision. This Open Access Pivot explores these challenges and offers a solution for the intelligent and reliable management of physical infrastructure and the optimal placement of applications for the provision of services on distributed clouds. This book provides a conceptual reference model for reliable capacity provisioning for distributed clouds and discusses how data analytics and machine learning, application and infrastructure optimization, and simulation can deliver quality of service requirements cost-efficiently in this complex feature space. These are illustrated through a series of case studies in cloud computing, telecommunications, big data analytics, and smart cities.

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What is Digital Journalism Studies? (Disruptions) by Steen Steensen (Routledge) (36 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

What is Digital Journalism Studies? delves into the technologies, platforms, and audience relations that constitute digital journalism studies' central objects of study, outlining its principal theories, the research methods being developed, its normative underpinnings, and possible futures for the academic field. The book argues that digital journalism studies is much more than the study of journalism produced, distributed, and consumed with the aid of digital technologies. Rather, the scholarly field of digital journalism studies is built on questions that disrupt much of what previously was taken for granted concerning media, journalism, and public spheres, asking questions like: What is a news organisation? To what degree has news become separated from journalism? What roles do platform companies and emerging technologies play in the production, distribution, and consumption of news and journalism? The book reviews the research into these questions and argues that digital journalism studies constitutes a cross-disciplinary field that does not focus on journalism solely from the traditions of journalism studies, but is open to research from and conversations with related fields. This is a timely overview of an increasingly prominent field of media studies that will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, and students of journalism and communication.

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Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning (Digital Humanities) by Jack Dougherty (University of Michigan Press) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Teaching writing across the curriculum with online tools

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Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (Digital Humanities) by Douglas Eyman (University of Michigan Press) (21 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

What is "digital rhetoric"? This book aims to answer that question by looking at a number of interrelated histories, as well as evaluating a wide range of methods and practices from fields in the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences to determine what might constitute the work and the world of digital rhetoric. The advent of digital and networked communication technologies prompts renewed interest in basic questions such as What counts as a text? and Can traditional rhetoric operate in digital spheres or will it need to be revised? Or will we need to invent new rhetorical practices altogether? Through examples and consideration of digital rhetoric theories, methods for both researching and making in digital rhetoric fields, and examples of digital rhetoric pedagogy, scholarship, and public performance, this book delivers a broad overview of digital rhetoric. In addition, Douglas Eyman provides historical context by investigating the histories and boundaries that arise from mapping this emerging field and by focusing on the theories that have been taken up and revised by digital rhetoric scholars and practitioners. Both traditional and new methods are examined for the tools they provide that can be used to both study digital rhetoric and to potentially make new forms that draw on digital rhetoric for their persuasive power.

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Open Science, the challenge of transparency by Bernard Rentier (Académie royale de Belgique) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

A new way of conceiving scientific research, Open Science, was born with the computer revolution. In the wake of Open Access (free public access to the results of publicly funded research), it accompanies the great ideal of transparency that is now invading all spheres of life in society. This book describes its origins, perspectives and objectives. It also reveals the obstacles and barriers due to private profit and academic conservatism. Bernard Rentier is a Belgian virologist, associate member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, in the «Technology and Society» class. He is First Vice-President of the Belgian Federal Council of Science Policy. After an international career as a researcher, he became Vice-rector (1997-2005) and then Rector of the University of Liège (2005-2014). He has established an institutional repository for scientific publications with a mandate that has become a famed Open Access model and he is currently working to promote Open Science in all its implications for research and researchers.

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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 5 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; SAT and SMT; Timed and Dynamical Systems; Verifying Concurrent Systems; Probabilistic Systems; Model Checking and Reachability; and Timed and Probabilistic Systems. Part II: Bisimulation; Verification and Efficiency; Logic and Proof; Tools and Case Studies; Games and Automata; and SV-COMP 2020.

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AWS Security Incident Response Guide by AWS Whitepapers (20 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

November 2020 This guide presents an overview of the fundamentals of responding to security incidents within a customer's AWS Cloud environment. It focuses on an overview of cloud security and incident response concepts, and identifies cloud capabilities, services, and mechanisms that are available to customers who are responding to security issues. This paper is intended for those in technical roles and assumes that you are familiar with the general principles of information security, have a basic understanding of incident response in your current on-premises environments, and have some familiarity with cloud services.

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