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Innovative Technologies in Urban Mapping

Built Space and Mental Space

Edited by Antonella Contin, Paolo Paolini, Rossella Salerno ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
The book presents a comprehensive vision of the impact of ICT on the contemporary city, heritage, public spaces and meta-cities on both urban and metropolitan scales, not only in producing innovative perspectives but also related to newly discovered scientific methods, which can be used to stimulate the emerging reciprocal relations between cities and information technologies. Using the principles ... Read more

$49.49 USD

The book presents a comprehensive vision of the impact of ICT on the contemporary city, heritage, public spaces and meta-cities on both urban and metropolitan scales, not only in producing innovative perspectives but also related to newly discovered scientific methods, which can be used to stimulate the emerging reciprocal relations between cities and information technologies. Using the principles
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Advances in Practical Applications of Survivable Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection

17th International Conference, PAAMS 2019, Ávila, Spain, June 26–28, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Yves Demazeau, Eric Matson, Juan Manuel Corchado, Fernando De la Prieta ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2019, held in Ávila, Spain, in June 2019.The 19 regular and 14 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They deal with the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, and technologies in a ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2019, held in Ávila, Spain, in June 2019.The 19 regular and 14 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They deal with the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, and technologies in a
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Personality in Speech

Assessment and Automatic Classification

by Tim Polzehl ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This work combines interdisciplinary knowledge and experience from research fields of psychology, linguistics, audio-processing, machine learning, and computer science. The work systematically explores a novel research topic devoted to automated modeling of personality expression from speech. For this aim, it introduces a novel personality assessment questionnaire and presents the results of ... Read more

$89.09 USD

This work combines interdisciplinary knowledge and experience from research fields of psychology, linguistics, audio-processing, machine learning, and computer science. The work systematically explores a novel research topic devoted to automated modeling of personality expression from speech. For this aim, it introduces a novel personality assessment questionnaire and presents the results of
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Math Mutation Classics

Exploring Interesting, Fun and Weird Corners of Mathematics

by Erik Seligman ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Use math in unique ways to analyze things you observe in life and use proof to attain the unexpected. There is quite a wide diversity of topics here and so all age levels and ability levels will enjoy the discussions. You'll see how the author's unique viewpoint puts a mathematical spin on everything from politicians to hippos. Along the way, you will enjoy the different point of view and ... Read more

$23.79 USD

Use math in unique ways to analyze things you observe in life and use proof to attain the unexpected. There is quite a wide diversity of topics here and so all age levels and ability levels will enjoy the discussions. You'll see how the author's unique viewpoint puts a mathematical spin on everything from politicians to hippos. Along the way, you will enjoy the different point of view and
... Read more
Getting Started with Flurry Analytics

by Bhanu Birani ...

An easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial full of examples and code to help you quickly get started with Flurry analytics.This book is great for developers who want to track their applications instantly using Flurry analytics and who are looking to get a good grounding in how to use Flurry for analytics in their application. It's assumed that you will have some experience with Objective-C and a ... Read more

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An easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial full of examples and code to help you quickly get started with Flurry analytics.This book is great for developers who want to track their applications instantly using Flurry analytics and who are looking to get a good grounding in how to use Flurry for analytics in their application. It's assumed that you will have some experience with Objective-C and a
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Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies

Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies, July 25-29, 2021, USA

Edited by Daniel Raposo, Nuno Martins, Daniel Brandão ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book addresses the importance of human factors in the design of artifacts and systems that serves contemporary individual and societal needs. It reports on cutting-edge, multidisciplinary design research and practices fostering creativity, interaction and co-creation, sustainability, digital development, mobility, as well as science and education. Gathering contributions to the first edition ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book addresses the importance of human factors in the design of artifacts and systems that serves contemporary individual and societal needs. It reports on cutting-edge, multidisciplinary design research and practices fostering creativity, interaction and co-creation, sustainability, digital development, mobility, as well as science and education. Gathering contributions to the first edition
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HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia

Edited by Rens Brankaert, Gail Kenning ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Old age is currently the greatest risk factor for developing dementia. Since older people make up a larger portion of the population than ever before, the resulting increase in the incidence of dementia presents a major challenge for society. Dementia is complex and multifaceted and impacts not only the person with the diagnosis but also those caring for them and society as a whole.Human-Computer ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Old age is currently the greatest risk factor for developing dementia. Since older people make up a larger portion of the population than ever before, the resulting increase in the incidence of dementia presents a major challenge for society. Dementia is complex and multifaceted and impacts not only the person with the diagnosis but also those caring for them and society as a whole.Human-Computer
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Design for Flexibility

A Human Systems Integration Approach

by Guy André Boy ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Design for flexibility requires anticipation, preparation, creativity and experience. Future highly digital sociotechnical systems should contrast with those stemming from technology-centered engineering that produces objects and machines with the immensely codified and rigid practices we know today. Most of the time, current technologies are designed and developed for normal situations, leaving ... Read more

$71.99 USD

Design for flexibility requires anticipation, preparation, creativity and experience. Future highly digital sociotechnical systems should contrast with those stemming from technology-centered engineering that produces objects and machines with the immensely codified and rigid practices we know today. Most of the time, current technologies are designed and developed for normal situations, leaving
... Read more
Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bari, Italy, August 30 – September 3, 2021, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia, Helen Petrie, Antonio Piccinno, Giuseppe Desolda, Kori Inkpen ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The five-volume set LNCS 12932-12936 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2021, held in Bari, Italy, in August/September 2021.The total of 105 full papers presented together with 72 short papers and 70 other papers in these books was carefully reviewed and selected from 680 submissions. The contributions are organized ... Read more

$134.09 USD

The five-volume set LNCS 12932-12936 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2021, held in Bari, Italy, in August/September 2021.The total of 105 full papers presented together with 72 short papers and 70 other papers in these books was carefully reviewed and selected from 680 submissions. The contributions are organized
... Read more
Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems

4th International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2022, Virtual Event, May 9–10, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Davide Calvaresi, Amro Najjar, Michael Winikoff, Kary Främling ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2022, held virtually during May 9–10, 2022.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: explainable machine learning; explainable neuro-symbolic ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2022, held virtually during May 9–10, 2022.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: explainable machine learning; explainable neuro-symbolic
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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design, Interaction and Technology Acceptance

8th International Conference, ITAP 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Qin Gao, Jia Zhou ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, held as a virtual event, during June-July 2022.ITAP 2022 includes a total of 75 papers, which focus on topics related to designing for and with older users, technology ... Read more

$98.09 USD

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, held as a virtual event, during June-July 2022.ITAP 2022 includes a total of 75 papers, which focus on topics related to designing for and with older users, technology
... Read more
Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence Enabled Research

Theoretical Foundations and Applications

Edited by Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Paramartha Dutta, Debabrata Samanta, Anirban Mukherjee, Indrajit Pan ...

The field of computational intelligence has grown tremendously over that past five years, thanks to evolving soft computing and artificial intelligent methodologies, tools and techniques for envisaging the essence of intelligence embedded in real life observations. Consequently, scientists have been able to explain and understand real life processes and practices which previously often remain ... Read more

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The field of computational intelligence has grown tremendously over that past five years, thanks to evolving soft computing and artificial intelligent methodologies, tools and techniques for envisaging the essence of intelligence embedded in real life observations. Consequently, scientists have been able to explain and understand real life processes and practices which previously often remain
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Advances in Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering

Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA

Edited by Ben Amaba ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book provides a platform for addressing human factors challenges in software and systems engineering, both pushing the boundaries of current research and responding to new challenges, fostering new research ideas in the process. This book is intended for researchers, professional software and systems engineers, and human factors and human systems integration experts to help them address ... Read more

$89.09 USD

This book provides a platform for addressing human factors challenges in software and systems engineering, both pushing the boundaries of current research and responding to new challenges, fostering new research ideas in the process. This book is intended for researchers, professional software and systems engineers, and human factors and human systems integration experts to help them address
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Splunk: Enterprise Operational Intelligence Delivered

by Betsy Page Sigman, Erickson Delgado, Josh Diakun, Paul R Johnson, Derek Mock, Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav ...

Demystify Big Data and discover how to bring operational intelligence to your data to revolutionize your workAbout This BookGet maximum use out of your data with Splunk's exceptional analysis and visualization capabilitiesAnalyze and understand your operational data skillfully using this end-to-end courseFull coverage of high-level Splunk techniques such as advanced searches, manipulations, and ... Read more

$71.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Demystify Big Data and discover how to bring operational intelligence to your data to revolutionize your workAbout This BookGet maximum use out of your data with Splunk's exceptional analysis and visualization capabilitiesAnalyze and understand your operational data skillfully using this end-to-end courseFull coverage of high-level Splunk techniques such as advanced searches, manipulations, and
... Read more
Foundations of Libvirt Development

How to Set Up and Maintain a Virtual Machine Environment with Python

by W. David Ashley ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Discover the essential concepts of libvirt development and see how to interface to Linux virtualization environments, such as QEMU/KVM, XEN, Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX, LXC, Bhyve, and more. This book will prepare you to set up and maintain a virtual machine environment.You'll start by reviewing virtualization in general and then move on to libvirt-specific concepts using Python, including virtualized ... Read more

$49.49 USD

Discover the essential concepts of libvirt development and see how to interface to Linux virtualization environments, such as QEMU/KVM, XEN, Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX, LXC, Bhyve, and more. This book will prepare you to set up and maintain a virtual machine environment.You'll start by reviewing virtualization in general and then move on to libvirt-specific concepts using Python, including virtualized
... Read more
Models, Languages, and Tools for Concurrent and Distributed Programming

Essays Dedicated to Rocco De Nicola on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

Edited by Michele Boreale, Flavio Corradini, Michele Loreti, Rosario Pugliese ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This volume was published in honor of Rocco De Nicola’s 65th birthday. The Festschrift volume contains 27 papers written by close collaborators and friends of Rocco De Nicola and was presented to Rocco on the 1st of July 2019 during a two-day symposium held in Lucca, Italy.The papers present many research ideas that have been influenced by Rocco's work. They testify his intellectual curiosity, ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This volume was published in honor of Rocco De Nicola’s 65th birthday. The Festschrift volume contains 27 papers written by close collaborators and friends of Rocco De Nicola and was presented to Rocco on the 1st of July 2019 during a two-day symposium held in Lucca, Italy.The papers present many research ideas that have been influenced by Rocco's work. They testify his intellectual curiosity,
... Read more
Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors

Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, July 17-21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

Edited by Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, Waldemar Karwowski ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book reports on the state of the art in physical ergonomics and is concerned with the design of products, process, services, and work systems to assure their productive, safe, and satisfying use by people. With focus on the human body's responses to physical and physiological work demands, repetitive strain injuries from repetition, vibration, force, and posture are the most common types of ... Read more

$188.09 USD

This book reports on the state of the art in physical ergonomics and is concerned with the design of products, process, services, and work systems to assure their productive, safe, and satisfying use by people. With focus on the human body's responses to physical and physiological work demands, repetitive strain injuries from repetition, vibration, force, and posture are the most common types of
... Read more
Python: Real World Machine Learning

by Prateek Joshi, John Hearty, Bastiaan Sjardin, Luca Massaron, Alberto Boschetti ...

Learn to solve challenging data science problems by building powerful machine learning models using PythonAbout This BookUnderstand which algorithms to use in a given context with the help of this exciting recipe-based guideThis practical tutorial tackles real-world computing problems through a rigorous and effective approachBuild state-of-the-art models and develop personalized recommendations to ... Read more

$64.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn to solve challenging data science problems by building powerful machine learning models using PythonAbout This BookUnderstand which algorithms to use in a given context with the help of this exciting recipe-based guideThis practical tutorial tackles real-world computing problems through a rigorous and effective approachBuild state-of-the-art models and develop personalized recommendations to
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Practical Time Series Analysis

Master Time Series Data Processing, Visualization, and Modeling using Python

by PKS Prakash, Avishek Pal ...

Step by Step guide filled with real world practical examples.Key FeaturesGet your first experience with data analysis with one of the most powerful types of analysis—time series.Find patterns in your data and predict the future pattern based on historical data.Learn the statistics, theory, and implementation of Time Series methods using this example-rich guideBook DescriptionTime Series Analysis ... Read more

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Step by Step guide filled with real world practical examples.Key FeaturesGet your first experience with data analysis with one of the most powerful types of analysis—time series.Find patterns in your data and predict the future pattern based on historical data.Learn the statistics, theory, and implementation of Time Series methods using this example-rich guideBook DescriptionTime Series Analysis
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Web Engineering

18th International Conference, ICWE 2018, Cáceres, Spain, June 5-8, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Tommi Mikkonen, Ralf Klamma, Juan Hernández ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2018, held in Cáceres, Spain, in June 2018.The 18 full research papers and 17 short papers presented together with 2 practice papers, 6 demonstration papers, and 5 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers cover research areas such as Web application ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2018, held in Cáceres, Spain, in June 2018.The 18 full research papers and 17 short papers presented together with 2 practice papers, 6 demonstration papers, and 5 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers cover research areas such as Web application
... Read more
Computer Engineering and Technology

22nd CCF Conference, NCCET 2018, Yinchuan, China, August 15–17, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Weixia Xu, Liquan Xiao, Jinwen Li, Zhenzhen Zhu ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd CCF Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2018, held in Yinchuan, China, in August 2018.The 17 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They address topics such as processor architecture; application specific processors; computer application and software optimization; technology on ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd CCF Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2018, held in Yinchuan, China, in August 2018.The 17 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They address topics such as processor architecture; application specific processors; computer application and software optimization; technology on
... Read more
Hands-On Android UI Development

Design and develop attractive user interfaces for Android applications

by Jason Morris ...

Master the art of creating impressive and reactive UIs for mobile applications on the latest version of Android Oreo.Key Features\[\*\] A comprehensive guide to designing and developing highly interactive user interfaces for your app.\[\*\] Design responsive and agile applications targeting multiple Android devices (up to Android Oreo) using Android Studio 3.0\[\*\] Write reactive user interfaces ... Read more

$34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the art of creating impressive and reactive UIs for mobile applications on the latest version of Android Oreo.Key Features\[\*\] A comprehensive guide to designing and developing highly interactive user interfaces for your app.\[\*\] Design responsive and agile applications targeting multiple Android devices (up to Android Oreo) using Android Studio 3.0\[\*\] Write reactive user interfaces
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C Recipes

A Problem-Solution Approach

by Shirish Chavan ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Solve your C programming problems with practical and informative recipes. This book covers various aspects of C programming including the fundamentals of C, operators and expressions, control statements, recursion, and user-defined functions. Each chapter contains a series of recipes that you can easily reference to quickly find the answers you are looking for.C Recipes also contains recipes and ... Read more

$49.49 USD

Solve your C programming problems with practical and informative recipes. This book covers various aspects of C programming including the fundamentals of C, operators and expressions, control statements, recursion, and user-defined functions. Each chapter contains a series of recipes that you can easily reference to quickly find the answers you are looking for.C Recipes also contains recipes and
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Digital Hampi: Preserving Indian Cultural Heritage

Edited by Sharada Srinivasan, Anupama Mallik, Vijay Chandru, Santanu Chaudhury ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The book represents the culmination of a hugely successful heritage preservation project initiated by the Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology. It presents extensive research on the digital preservation of the history, mythology, art, architecture and culture of the world heritage site Hampi in Karnataka, the seat of the Vijayanagara dynasty in medieval India. Further, the ... Read more

$152.09 USD

The book represents the culmination of a hugely successful heritage preservation project initiated by the Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology. It presents extensive research on the digital preservation of the history, mythology, art, architecture and culture of the world heritage site Hampi in Karnataka, the seat of the Vijayanagara dynasty in medieval India. Further, the
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