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Knowledge Management in the SocioTechnical World

The Graffiti Continues

Edited by Elayne Coakes, Dianne Willis, Steve Clarke ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
$89.99 USD
Design, User Experience, and Usability: UX Research and Design

10th International Conference, DUXU 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24–29, 2021, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Marcelo M. Soares, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Aaron Marcus ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This three volume set LNCS 12779, 12780, and 12781 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the ... Read more

$116.99 USD

This three volume set LNCS 12779, 12780, and 12781 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the
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Programming Languages and Systems

20th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2022, Auckland, New Zealand, December 5, 2022, Proceedings

Edited by Ilya Sergey ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2022, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2022.The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Semantics and Analysis; Testing and Verification; Types. ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2022, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2022.The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Semantics and Analysis; Testing and Verification; Types.
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Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design

Proceedings of the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, July 24-28, 2019, Washington D.C., USA

Edited by Cliff Sungsoo Shin ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book provides readers with a snapshot of cutting-edge methods and procedures in industrial design, with a particular focus on human-centered and user-experience design, service design, sustainable design and applications of virtual & augmented reality. Reporting on both theoretical and practical investigations aimed at improving industrial design through interdisciplinary collaboration, it ... Read more

$143.99 USD

This book provides readers with a snapshot of cutting-edge methods and procedures in industrial design, with a particular focus on human-centered and user-experience design, service design, sustainable design and applications of virtual & augmented reality. Reporting on both theoretical and practical investigations aimed at improving industrial design through interdisciplinary collaboration, it
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Lifelong Machine Learning

Second Edition

by Zhiyuan Chen, Bing Liu, Ronald Brachman, Peter Stone, Francesca Rossi ...

Series series Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Lifelong Machine Learning, Second Edition is an introduction to an advanced machine learning paradigm that continuously learns by accumulating past knowledge that it then uses in future learning and problem solving. In contrast, the current dominant machine learning paradigm learns in isolation: given a training dataset, it runs a machine learning algorithm on the dataset to produce a model that ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Lifelong Machine Learning, Second Edition is an introduction to an advanced machine learning paradigm that continuously learns by accumulating past knowledge that it then uses in future learning and problem solving. In contrast, the current dominant machine learning paradigm learns in isolation: given a training dataset, it runs a machine learning algorithm on the dataset to produce a model that
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Tableau Prep: Up & Running

by Carl Allchin ...

For self-service data preparation, Tableau Prep is relatively easy to use—as long as you know how to clean and organize your datasets. Carl Allchin, from The Information Lab in London, gets you up to speed on Tableau Prep through a series of practical lessons that include methods for preparing, cleaning, automating, organizing, and outputting your datasets.Based on Allchin’s popular blog, Preppin’ ... Read more

$48.99 USD

For self-service data preparation, Tableau Prep is relatively easy to use—as long as you know how to clean and organize your datasets. Carl Allchin, from The Information Lab in London, gets you up to speed on Tableau Prep through a series of practical lessons that include methods for preparing, cleaning, automating, organizing, and outputting your datasets.Based on Allchin’s popular blog, Preppin’
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Web Site Measurement Hacks

Tips & Tools to Help Optimize Your Online Business

by Eric T. Peterson ...

In order to establish and then maintain a successful presence on the Web, designing a creative site is only half the battle. What good is an intricate Web infrastructure if you're unable to measure its effectiveness? That's why every business is desperate for feedback on their site's visitors: Who are they? Why do they visit? What information or service is most valuable to them?Unfortunately, most ... Read more

$14.99 USD

In order to establish and then maintain a successful presence on the Web, designing a creative site is only half the battle. What good is an intricate Web infrastructure if you're unable to measure its effectiveness? That's why every business is desperate for feedback on their site's visitors: Who are they? Why do they visit? What information or service is most valuable to them?Unfortunately, most
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Software Technologies

9th International Joint Conference, ICSOFT 2014, Vienna, Austria, August 29-31, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Andreas Holzinger, Jorge Cardoso, José Cordeiro, Therese Libourel, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marten van Sinderen ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014.The 15 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers focus on enterprise software technologies; software engineering and systems security; ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014.The 15 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers focus on enterprise software technologies; software engineering and systems security;
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Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development

Edited by Hannakaisa Isomäki, Samuli Pekkola ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Modern society has been transformed by the digital convergence towards a future where technologies embed themselves into the fabric of everyday life. This ongoing merging of social and technological infrastructures provides and necessitates new possibilities to renovate past notions, models and methods of information systems development that accommodates humans as actors within the infrastructure. ... Read more

$143.99 USD

Modern society has been transformed by the digital convergence towards a future where technologies embed themselves into the fabric of everyday life. This ongoing merging of social and technological infrastructures provides and necessitates new possibilities to renovate past notions, models and methods of information systems development that accommodates humans as actors within the infrastructure.
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Business Analytics Using R - A Practical Approach

by Umesh R Hodeghatta, Umesha Nayak ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn the fundamental aspects of the business statistics, data mining, and machine learning techniques required to understand the huge amount of data generated by your organization. This book explains practical business analytics through examples, covers the steps involved in using it correctly, and shows you the context in which a particular technique does not make sense. Further, Practical ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Learn the fundamental aspects of the business statistics, data mining, and machine learning techniques required to understand the huge amount of data generated by your organization. This book explains practical business analytics through examples, covers the steps involved in using it correctly, and shows you the context in which a particular technique does not make sense. Further, Practical
... Read more
Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions

5th International Conference, DAPI 2017, Held as Part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9–14, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Norbert Streitz, Panos Markopoulos ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017. The total of 1228 papers presented at the 15 colocated HCII 2017 conferenceswas carefully reviewed and selected from ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017. The total of 1228 papers presented at the 15 colocated HCII 2017 conferenceswas carefully reviewed and selected from
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Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2017

19th International Conference, Catania, Italy, September 11-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Gallo, Raimondo Schettini, Filippo Stanco ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNCS 10484 and 10485 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2017, held in Catania, Italy, in September 2017.The 138 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 229 submissions. The papers cover both classic and the most recent trends in image processing, computer vision, and pattern ... Read more

$49.99 USD

The two-volume set LNCS 10484 and 10485 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2017, held in Catania, Italy, in September 2017.The 138 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 229 submissions. The papers cover both classic and the most recent trends in image processing, computer vision, and pattern
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IoT Sensor-Based Activity Recognition

Human Activity Recognition

by Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, Anindya Das Antar, Masud Ahmed ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book offer clear descriptions of the basic structure for the recognition and classification of human activities using different types of sensor module and smart devices in e.g. healthcare, education, monitoring the elderly, daily human behavior, and fitness monitoring. In addition, the complexities, challenges, and design issues involved in data collection, processing, and other fundamental ... Read more

$143.99 USD

This book offer clear descriptions of the basic structure for the recognition and classification of human activities using different types of sensor module and smart devices in e.g. healthcare, education, monitoring the elderly, daily human behavior, and fitness monitoring. In addition, the complexities, challenges, and design issues involved in data collection, processing, and other fundamental
... Read more
OpenMP: Portable Multi-Level Parallelism on Modern Systems

16th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2020, Austin, TX, USA, September 22–24, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Kent Milfeld, Bronis R. de Supinski, Lars Koesterke, Jannis Klinkenberg ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2020, held in Austin, TX, USA, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 21 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The papers are organized in topical sections named: performance methodologies; ... Read more

$76.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2020, held in Austin, TX, USA, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 21 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The papers are organized in topical sections named: performance methodologies;
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Usability-Engineering in der Medizintechnik

Grundlagen - Methoden - Beispiele

by Claus Backhaus ...

Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
Ergonomisch gestaltete Medizintechnik führt zu effizienteren Arbeitsabläufen, erhöht die Patientensicherheit und reduziert die Arbeitsbelastung der Anwender. Gebrauchstaugliche Geräte verbessern die Anwenderakzeptanz und werden daher beim Kauf neuer Produkte bevorzugt.Das Buch erläutert für Studium und Praxis, wie Medizintechnik möglichst optimal an die Bedürfnisse der Nutzer und Anwender ... Read more

$98.99 USD

Ergonomisch gestaltete Medizintechnik führt zu effizienteren Arbeitsabläufen, erhöht die Patientensicherheit und reduziert die Arbeitsbelastung der Anwender. Gebrauchstaugliche Geräte verbessern die Anwenderakzeptanz und werden daher beim Kauf neuer Produkte bevorzugt.Das Buch erläutert für Studium und Praxis, wie Medizintechnik möglichst optimal an die Bedürfnisse der Nutzer und Anwender
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Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction

Second International Workshop, MA3HMI 2014, Held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, Singapore, September 14, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Ronald Böck, Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Ronald Poppe ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human Interaction, MA3HMI 2014, held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, in Singapore, Singapore, on September 14th, 2014.The 9 revised papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They ... Read more

$40.99 USD

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human Interaction, MA3HMI 2014, held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, in Singapore, Singapore, on September 14th, 2014.The 9 revised papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They
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Embedded Software Development with C

by Kai Qian, Li Cao, David Den Haring ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Embedded Software Development With C offers both an effectual reference for professionals and researchers, and a valuable learning tool for students by laying the groundwork for a solid foundation in the hardware and software aspects of embedded systems development.Key features include a resource for the fundamentals of embedded systems design and development with an emphasis on software, an ... Read more

$80.99 USD

Embedded Software Development With C offers both an effectual reference for professionals and researchers, and a valuable learning tool for students by laying the groundwork for a solid foundation in the hardware and software aspects of embedded systems development.Key features include a resource for the fundamentals of embedded systems design and development with an emphasis on software, an
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Architectures and Circuits for Distributed Quantum Computing

by Daniele Cuomo ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This thesis treats networks providing quantum computation based on distributed paradigms. Compared to architectures relying on one processor, a network promises to be more scalable and less fault-prone. Developing a distributed system able to provide practical quantum computation comes with numerous challenges, each of which need to be faced with careful analysis in order to create a seamless ... Read more

$170.99 USD

This thesis treats networks providing quantum computation based on distributed paradigms. Compared to architectures relying on one processor, a network promises to be more scalable and less fault-prone. Developing a distributed system able to provide practical quantum computation comes with numerous challenges, each of which need to be faced with careful analysis in order to create a seamless
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Multi-Agent Systems

20th European Conference, EUMAS 2023, Naples, Italy, September 14–15, 2023, Proceedings

Edited by Vadim Malvone, Aniello Murano ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume LNCS 14282 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Conference EUMAS 2023, held in Naples, Italy, during September 2023.This volume includes 24 full papers and 5 short papers, carefully selected from 47 submissions. Additionally, the volume features 16 short papers, rigorously reviewed from 20 submissions for the PhD day. The conference focused on the theory and ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This volume LNCS 14282 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Conference EUMAS 2023, held in Naples, Italy, during September 2023.This volume includes 24 full papers and 5 short papers, carefully selected from 47 submissions. Additionally, the volume features 16 short papers, rigorously reviewed from 20 submissions for the PhD day. The conference focused on the theory and
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MACHINES LEARNING FOR BEGINNERS

A Beginner's Guide to the World of Machine Learning (2023)

by BOBBY FOSTER ...

"Machines Learning for Beginners: A Beginner's Guide to the World of Machine Learning" is your essential handbook for stepping into the realm of machine learning with confidence. This beginner-friendly book provides a solid foundation in machine learning concepts, making complex ideas accessible to anyone eager to explore this cutting-edge field.Inside this introductory guide, you'll uncover ... Read more

$7.99 USD

"Machines Learning for Beginners: A Beginner's Guide to the World of Machine Learning" is your essential handbook for stepping into the realm of machine learning with confidence. This beginner-friendly book provides a solid foundation in machine learning concepts, making complex ideas accessible to anyone eager to explore this cutting-edge field.Inside this introductory guide, you'll uncover
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AI for Games and Animation

A Cognitive Modeling Approach

by John David Funge ...

John Funge introduces a new approach to creating autonomous characters. Cognitive modeling provides computer-animated characters with logic, reasoning, and planning skills. Individual chapters in the book provide concrete examples of advanced character animation, automated cinematography, and a real-time computer game. Source code, animations, images, and other resources are available at the book ... Read more

$126.99 USD

John Funge introduces a new approach to creating autonomous characters. Cognitive modeling provides computer-animated characters with logic, reasoning, and planning skills. Individual chapters in the book provide concrete examples of advanced character animation, automated cinematography, and a real-time computer game. Source code, animations, images, and other resources are available at the book
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Inevitable Knowledge

by Janos J. Sarbo ...

Series series Artificial Intelligence (R0)
The Holy Grail of AI is artificial generative intelligence, a computer that can think human-like. However, human thinking is qualitatively more complex than computer calculations. So, the ultimate goal of AI cannot be achieved.Not quite. This book shows that a model of human-like, meaningful processing can be introduced based on a theory of cognition (how human processing can be abstracted in a ... Read more

$53.99 USD

The Holy Grail of AI is artificial generative intelligence, a computer that can think human-like. However, human thinking is qualitatively more complex than computer calculations. So, the ultimate goal of AI cannot be achieved.Not quite. This book shows that a model of human-like, meaningful processing can be introduced based on a theory of cognition (how human processing can be abstracted in a
... Read more
Exploring Graphs with Elixir

Connect Data with Native Graph Libraries and Graph Databases

by Tony Hammond ...

Data is everywhere - it's just not very well connected, which makes it super hard to relate dataset to dataset. Using graphs as the underlying glue, you can readily join data together and create navigation paths across diverse sets of data. Add Elixir, with its awesome power of concurrency, and you'll soon be mastering data networks. Learn how different graph models can be accessed and used from ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Data is everywhere - it's just not very well connected, which makes it super hard to relate dataset to dataset. Using graphs as the underlying glue, you can readily join data together and create navigation paths across diverse sets of data. Add Elixir, with its awesome power of concurrency, and you'll soon be mastering data networks. Learn how different graph models can be accessed and used from
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Mathematical and Computational Modelling of Covid-19 Transmission

Edited by Mandeep Mittal, Nita H. Shah ...

Series series River Publishers Series in Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Modelling for Engineering
Infectious diseases are leading threats and are of highest risk to the human population globally. Over the last two years, we saw the transmission of Covid-19. Millions of people died or were forced to live with a disability. Mathematical models are effective tools that enable analysis of relevant information, simulate the related process and evaluate beneficial results. They can help to make ... Read more

$140.99 USD

Infectious diseases are leading threats and are of highest risk to the human population globally. Over the last two years, we saw the transmission of Covid-19. Millions of people died or were forced to live with a disability. Mathematical models are effective tools that enable analysis of relevant information, simulate the related process and evaluate beneficial results. They can help to make
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