This book is an essential guide to optimal and safe navigation planning in inland waterways. The book’s comprehensive coverage includes:In-depth coverage of optimal planning, safety measures and economic considerations.Practical tools including images, diagrams, and algorithms for actionable solutions.Optimization methods for optimal navigation planning.Algorithms for safe navigation.Instructions for implementing a monitoring system and...

This book examines the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Analytics from a technical, application, and business point of view.Internet of Things and Data Analytics Handbook describes essential technical knowledge, building blocks, processes, design principles, implementation, and marketing for IoT projects. It provides readers with knowledge in planning, designing, and implementing IoT projects. The book is written by experts on the subject matter, includin...

This Open Access book constitutes the proceedings from the First Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing Summit, GIECS 2024, held in September 24–25, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium.The 12 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. These papers have been organized under the following topical sections: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Digital Twins; Data Management, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems; Edge Computing and Cross-...

In this title, the authors leap into a novel paradigm of scalability and cost-effectiveness, on the basis of resource reuse. In a world with much abundance of wirelessly accessible devices, WSN deployments should capitalize on the resources already available in the region of deployment, and only augment it with the components required to meet new application requirements. However, if the required resources already exist in that region, WSN deployment converges to an assignment and scheduli...

Shaping Future 6G NetworksDiscover the societal and technology drivers contributing to build the next generation of wireless telecommunication networksShaping Future 6G Networks: Needs, Impacts, and Technologies is a holistic snapshot on the evolution of 5G technologies towards 6G. With contributions from international key players in industry and academia, the book presents the hype versus the realistic capabilities of 6G technolog...

Includes a preface written by Professor Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UCLA, USAThis book discusses and explores the concept of mobile cloud**, creating an inspiring research space for exploiting opportunistic resource sharing, and covering from theoretical research approaches to the development of commercially profitable ideas.**A mobile cloud is a cooperative arrangement of dynam...

The 2024 IAIN World Congress, held from October 28th – 30th, at the Beijing International Convention Center, brought together over 350 participants and 31 delegates from all over the world to discuss cutting-edge advancements in navigation and maritime technology.Organized by the International Association of Institutes of Navigation (IAIN) and hosted by the China Institute of Navigation (CIN), the Congress delved into the latest technological trends, research, and industry developm...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2024, held in Monterrey, Mexico, during September 8–10, 2024.The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI-Robotics/Logistics; AI-Driven Supply Chains; Freight and Transport Planning; Maritime Logistics; Retail, Logistics and Nearshoring; Sustainability.

A thorough look at how societies can use cultural algorithms to understand human social evolutionFor those working in computational intelligence, developing an understanding of how cultural algorithms and social intelligence form the essential framework for the evolution of human social interaction is essential. This book, Cultural Algorithms: Tools to Model Complex Dynamic Social Systems, is the foundation of that study. It showcases how we can use cultur...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems, INTSYS 2022, which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 15-16, 2022. With the globalization of trade and transportation and the consequent multi-modal solutions used, additional challenges are faced by organizations and countries. Intelligent Transport Systems make transport safer, more efficient, and more sustainable by applying information and communication technologies to all...

This book aims at stimulating discussion between researchers working on state of the art approaches for operational control and design of transport of water on the one hand and researchers working on state of the art approaches for transport over water on the other hand. The main contribution of the book as a whole is to present novel perspectives ultimately leading to the management of an envisioned unified management framework taking the recent advances from both worlds as a baseline.

This two-volume set, CCIS 2348 and CCIS 2349 ,constitutes the revised selected papers from the International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability 2024, ARTIIS 2024 Workshops**,** held in Santiago de Chile, Chile, in October 2024.The 55 full papers and 10 short papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions. These proceedings include papers from the following workshops:Par...