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Ageing and Digital Technology

Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults

Edited by Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere ...

This book brings together Sociologists, Computer Scientists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to explore the design, implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people. It offers an innovative and comprehensive overview, not only of the rapidly developing suite of current digital technologies and platforms, but also of perennial theoretical, methodological and ethical issues. ... Read more

$134.99 USD

This book brings together Sociologists, Computer Scientists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to explore the design, implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people. It offers an innovative and comprehensive overview, not only of the rapidly developing suite of current digital technologies and platforms, but also of perennial theoretical, methodological and ethical issues.
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Modelling Foundations and Applications

14th European Conference, ECMFA 2018, Held as Part of STAF 2018, Toulouse, France, June 26-28, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Alfonso Pierantonio, Salvador Trujillo ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, ECMFA 2018, held as part of STAF 2018, in Toulouse, France, in June 2018.The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The cover topics such as (bidirectional and unidirectional) model transformations, model management, re-engineering, ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, ECMFA 2018, held as part of STAF 2018, in Toulouse, France, in June 2018.The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The cover topics such as (bidirectional and unidirectional) model transformations, model management, re-engineering,
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Dynamic Data-Driven Environmental Systems Science

First International Conference, DyDESS 2014, Cambridge, MA, USA, November 5-7, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Sai Ravela, Adrian Sandu ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Dynamic Data-Driven Environmental Systems Science, DyDESS 2014, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in November 2014.The 24 revised full papers and 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions and cover topics on sensing, imaging and retrieval for the oceans, atmosphere, space, land, earth ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Dynamic Data-Driven Environmental Systems Science, DyDESS 2014, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in November 2014.The 24 revised full papers and 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions and cover topics on sensing, imaging and retrieval for the oceans, atmosphere, space, land, earth
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Cybersecurity Principles for Fraud Detection

Enterprise Systems, Secure Payments, and Database Resilience

by Kolawole Olakojo ...

Cybersecurity Principles for Fraud Detection: Enterprise Systems, Secure Payments, and Database Resilience addresses the critical challenge of protecting modern enterprises in an increasingly interconnected and vulnerable digital landscape. As organizations integrate advanced technologies like AI and automated payment systems, the sophistication of cybercrime has grown into a global industry of ... Read more

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Cybersecurity Principles for Fraud Detection: Enterprise Systems, Secure Payments, and Database Resilience addresses the critical challenge of protecting modern enterprises in an increasingly interconnected and vulnerable digital landscape. As organizations integrate advanced technologies like AI and automated payment systems, the sophistication of cybercrime has grown into a global industry of
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Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide

Modern Data Lakehouse Architectures with Data Lakes

by Denny Lee, Tristen Wentling, Scott Haines, Prashanth Babu ...

Ready to simplify the process of building data lakehouses and data pipelines at scale? In this practical guide, learn how Delta Lake is helping data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts overcome key data reliability challenges with modern data engineering and management techniques.Authors Denny Lee, Tristen Wentling, Scott Haines, and Prashanth Babu (with contributions from Delta Lake ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Ready to simplify the process of building data lakehouses and data pipelines at scale? In this practical guide, learn how Delta Lake is helping data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts overcome key data reliability challenges with modern data engineering and management techniques.Authors Denny Lee, Tristen Wentling, Scott Haines, and Prashanth Babu (with contributions from Delta Lake
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3D Printing and Ubiquitous Manufacturing

by Tin-Chih Toly Chen ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book provides a thorough overview of the applications of 3D printing technologies to ubiquitous manufacturing (UM). UM itself represents an application of ubiquitous computing in the manufacturing sector, and this book reveals how it offers convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable manufacturing resources, including software tools, equipment, and capabilities.Given ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book provides a thorough overview of the applications of 3D printing technologies to ubiquitous manufacturing (UM). UM itself represents an application of ubiquitous computing in the manufacturing sector, and this book reveals how it offers convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable manufacturing resources, including software tools, equipment, and capabilities.Given
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Understanding and Improving Information Search

A Cognitive Approach

Edited by Wai Tat Fu, Herre van Oostendorp ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This edited book adopts a cognitive perspective to provide breadth and depth to state-of-the-art research related to understanding, analyzing, predicting and improving one of the most prominent and important classes of behavior of modern humans, information search. It is timely as the broader research area of cognitive computing and cognitive technology have recently attracted much attention, and ... Read more

$152.99 USD

This edited book adopts a cognitive perspective to provide breadth and depth to state-of-the-art research related to understanding, analyzing, predicting and improving one of the most prominent and important classes of behavior of modern humans, information search. It is timely as the broader research area of cognitive computing and cognitive technology have recently attracted much attention, and
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Practical Probabilistic Programming

by Avi Pfeffer ...

SummaryPractical Probabilistic Programming introduces the working programmer to probabilistic programming. In it, you'll learn how to use the PP paradigm to model application domains and then express those probabilistic models in code. Although PP can seem abstract, in this book you'll immediately work on practical examples, like using the Figaro language to build a spam filter and applying ... Read more

$58.99 USD

SummaryPractical Probabilistic Programming introduces the working programmer to probabilistic programming. In it, you'll learn how to use the PP paradigm to model application domains and then express those probabilistic models in code. Although PP can seem abstract, in this book you'll immediately work on practical examples, like using the Figaro language to build a spam filter and applying
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Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing II

Proceedings of the 2nd European Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, October 16, 2024, Athens, Greece

Edited by Kosmas Alexopoulos, Sotiris Makris, Panagiotis Stavropoulos ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This open access book reports on recent developments of artificial intelligence applications in the manufacturing industry. Gathering contributions to the second European Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, held on October 16, 2024, in Athens, Greece, it reports on machine learning, deep learning and generative AI models for process monitoring, optimization, and control, ... Read more

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This open access book reports on recent developments of artificial intelligence applications in the manufacturing industry. Gathering contributions to the second European Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, held on October 16, 2024, in Athens, Greece, it reports on machine learning, deep learning and generative AI models for process monitoring, optimization, and control,
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Build a Website with ChatGPT

No coding experience necessary

by Paul McFedries ...

Create a portfolio of cool and creative websites—all without having to write your own code.Build a Website with ChatGPT teaches you zero-coding web development utilizing powerful generative AI tools like ChatGPT. If you can open a web browser, you’re ready to start building—absolutely no coding experience required.Inside Build a Website with ChatGPT you’ll learn the important skills of AI-assisted ... Read more

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Create a portfolio of cool and creative websites—all without having to write your own code.Build a Website with ChatGPT teaches you zero-coding web development utilizing powerful generative AI tools like ChatGPT. If you can open a web browser, you’re ready to start building—absolutely no coding experience required.Inside Build a Website with ChatGPT you’ll learn the important skills of AI-assisted
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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

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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,
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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

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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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Data Science with Python and Dask

by Jesse Daniel ...

SummaryDask is a native parallel analytics tool designed to integrate seamlessly with the libraries you're already using, including Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-Learn. With Dask you can crunch and work with huge datasets, using the tools you already have. And Data Science with Python and Dask is your guide to using Dask for your data projects without changing the way you work!Purchase of the print ... Read more

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SummaryDask is a native parallel analytics tool designed to integrate seamlessly with the libraries you're already using, including Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-Learn. With Dask you can crunch and work with huge datasets, using the tools you already have. And Data Science with Python and Dask is your guide to using Dask for your data projects without changing the way you work!Purchase of the print
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Computer Vision and Machine Learning with RGB-D Sensors

Edited by Ling Shao, Jungong Han, Pushmeet Kohli, Zhengyou Zhang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book presents an interdisciplinary selection of cutting-edge research on RGB-D based computer vision. Features: discusses the calibration of color and depth cameras, the reduction of noise on depth maps and methods for capturing human performance in 3D; reviews a selection of applications which use RGB-D information to reconstruct human figures, evaluate energy consumption and obtain accurate ... Read more

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This book presents an interdisciplinary selection of cutting-edge research on RGB-D based computer vision. Features: discusses the calibration of color and depth cameras, the reduction of noise on depth maps and methods for capturing human performance in 3D; reviews a selection of applications which use RGB-D information to reconstruct human figures, evaluate energy consumption and obtain accurate
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Learning and Collaboration Technologies

Second International Conference, LCT 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings

Edited by Panayiotis Zaphiris, Andri Ioannou ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The LNCS volume 9192 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, in Los Angeles, CA, USA in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the ... Read more

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The LNCS volume 9192 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, in Los Angeles, CA, USA in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the
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"Artificial Intelligence in Graphic Design: Understanding Its Benefits, Limitations, and Future"

by SAMI AOUNI ...

"Get ahead in Graphic Design with AI. A comprehensive guide to utilizing AI in design workflows, exploring the latest AI tools, techniques and advanced concepts for unlocking new levels of creativity. Boost your design process and stay ahead of the curve.""Get ahead in Graphic Design with AI. A comprehensive guide to utilizing AI in design workflows, exploring the latest AI tools, techniques and ... Read more

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"Get ahead in Graphic Design with AI. A comprehensive guide to utilizing AI in design workflows, exploring the latest AI tools, techniques and advanced concepts for unlocking new levels of creativity. Boost your design process and stay ahead of the curve.""Get ahead in Graphic Design with AI. A comprehensive guide to utilizing AI in design workflows, exploring the latest AI tools, techniques and
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Culture and Computing

11th International Conference, C&C 2023, Held as Part of the 25th HCI International Conference, HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23–28, 2023, Proceedings

Edited by Matthias Rauterberg ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Culture and Computing, C&C 2023, held as part of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which was held virtually in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2023.The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions.The C&C ... Read more

$98.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Culture and Computing, C&C 2023, held as part of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which was held virtually in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2023.The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions.The C&C
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Workload Characterization for Computer System Design

Edited by Lizy Kurian John, Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard ...

Series Book 542 - The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
The advent of the world-wide web and web-based applications have dramatically changed the nature of computer applications. Computer system design, in the light of these changes, involves understanding these modem workloads, identifying bottlenecks during their execution, and appropriately tailoring microprocessors, memory systems, and the overall system to minimize bottlenecks. This book contains ... Read more

$89.99 USD

The advent of the world-wide web and web-based applications have dramatically changed the nature of computer applications. Computer system design, in the light of these changes, involves understanding these modem workloads, identifying bottlenecks during their execution, and appropriately tailoring microprocessors, memory systems, and the overall system to minimize bottlenecks. This book contains
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Online Harassment

Edited by Jennifer Golbeck ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Online Harassment is one of the most serious problems in social media. To address it requires understanding the forms harassment takes, how it impacts the targets, who harasses, and how technology that stands between users and social media can stop harassers and protect users. The field of Human-Computer Interaction provides a unique set of tools to address this challenge. This book brings ... Read more

$89.99 USD

Online Harassment is one of the most serious problems in social media. To address it requires understanding the forms harassment takes, how it impacts the targets, who harasses, and how technology that stands between users and social media can stop harassers and protect users. The field of Human-Computer Interaction provides a unique set of tools to address this challenge. This book brings
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Human-Computer Interaction. User Interface Design, Development and Multimodality

19th International Conference, HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9-14, 2017, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Masaaki Kurosu ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNCS 10271 and 10272 constitutes the refereed proceedings 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 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4340 submissions. The papers address the latest research and development efforts ... Read more

$49.99 USD

The two-volume set LNCS 10271 and 10272 constitutes the refereed proceedings 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 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4340 submissions. The papers address the latest research and development efforts
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Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Technologies

17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2–7, 2015. Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Masaaki Kurosu ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The 3-volume set LNCS 9169, 9170, 9171 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development ... Read more

$49.99 USD

The 3-volume set LNCS 9169, 9170, 9171 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development
... Read more
Creating Maintainable APIs

A Practical, Case-Study Approach

by Ervin Varga ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Build straightforward and maintainable APIs to create services that are usable and maintainable. Although this book focuses on distributed services, it also emphasizes how the core principles apply even to pure OOD and OOP constructs.The overall context of Creating Maintainable APIs is to classify the topics into four main areas: classes and interfaces, HTTP REST APIs, messaging APIs, and message ... Read more

$44.99 USD

Build straightforward and maintainable APIs to create services that are usable and maintainable. Although this book focuses on distributed services, it also emphasizes how the core principles apply even to pure OOD and OOP constructs.The overall context of Creating Maintainable APIs is to classify the topics into four main areas: classes and interfaces, HTTP REST APIs, messaging APIs, and message
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Ant: The Definitive Guide

Complete Build Management for Java

by Steve Holzner ...

Soon after its launch, Ant succeeded in taking the Java world by storm, becoming the most widely used tool for building applications in Java environments. Like most popular technologies, Ant quickly went through a series of early revision cycles. With each new version, more functionality was added, and more complexity was introduced. Ant evolved from a simple-to-learn build tool into a full ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Soon after its launch, Ant succeeded in taking the Java world by storm, becoming the most widely used tool for building applications in Java environments. Like most popular technologies, Ant quickly went through a series of early revision cycles. With each new version, more functionality was added, and more complexity was introduced. Ant evolved from a simple-to-learn build tool into a full
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Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXVI

Edited by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Anna Motylska-Kuźma, Jacek Mercik ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning. This 36th issue contains 7 selected papers which present new findings and innovative methodologies as well as ... Read more

$62.99 USD

These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning. This 36th issue contains 7 selected papers which present new findings and innovative methodologies as well as
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