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Future-Ready Data Foundation with MongoDB

Principles for designing scalable and AI-ready data architectures

by Sarah Evans ...

Learn how MongoDB helps organizations build scalable, secure, and AI-ready data foundations that power RAG, AI agents, and intelligent applications while simplifying performance, governance, and growth.Key FeaturesIdentify the data requirements that enable AI applications to succeed in productionEvaluate retrieval strategies for accurate and trustworthy AI experiencesApply architectural principles ... Read more

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Learn how MongoDB helps organizations build scalable, secure, and AI-ready data foundations that power RAG, AI agents, and intelligent applications while simplifying performance, governance, and growth.Key FeaturesIdentify the data requirements that enable AI applications to succeed in productionEvaluate retrieval strategies for accurate and trustworthy AI experiencesApply architectural principles
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Healthcare Simulation

A Guide for Operations Specialists

by Laura T. Gantt, H. Michael Young ...

A focused guide for healthcare simulation operations in education and trainingWith the growing use of simulation within the field of healthcare, Healthcare Simulation: A Guide for Operations Specialists provides a much needed resource for developing the roles and responsibilities of simulation operations specialists. The book illustrates the current state and evolution of the simulation ... Read more

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A focused guide for healthcare simulation operations in education and trainingWith the growing use of simulation within the field of healthcare, Healthcare Simulation: A Guide for Operations Specialists provides a much needed resource for developing the roles and responsibilities of simulation operations specialists. The book illustrates the current state and evolution of the simulation
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Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2016

13th International Colloquium, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, October 24–31, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Augusto Sampaio, Farn Wang ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in October 2016.The 23 revised full papers presented together with two short papers, two invited papers and one abstract of an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in October 2016.The 23 revised full papers presented together with two short papers, two invited papers and one abstract of an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections
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Bioinformatics Research and Applications

14th International Symposium, ISBRA 2018, Beijing, China, June 8-11, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Fa Zhang, Zhipeng Cai, Pavel Skums, Shihua Zhang ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2018, held in Beijing, China, in June 2018.The 24 full and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 138 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: network analysis and modelling; genomic data analysis; ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2018, held in Beijing, China, in June 2018.The 24 full and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 138 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: network analysis and modelling; genomic data analysis;
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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII

COIN 2016 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS, Singapore, Singapore, May 9, 2016, COIN@ECAI, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Stephen Cranefield, Samhar Mahmoud, Julian Padget, Ana Paula Rocha ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2016. The workshop COIN@AAMAS 2016 was held in Singapore, Singapore, in May 2016, and the workshop COIN@ECAI 2016 was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in August 2016.The 9 full papers were carefully reviewed ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2016. The workshop COIN@AAMAS 2016 was held in Singapore, Singapore, in May 2016, and the workshop COIN@ECAI 2016 was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in August 2016.The 9 full papers were carefully reviewed
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Knowledge Representation for Health Care

HEC 2016 International Joint Workshop, KR4HC/ProHealth 2016, Munich, Germany, September 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by David Riaño, Richard Lenz, Manfred Reichert ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two workshops held at the International Conference on Health – Exploring Complexity and Medical Informatics Europe, HEC 2016, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2016: the 8th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, KR4HC 2016, and the 9th International Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare, ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two workshops held at the International Conference on Health – Exploring Complexity and Medical Informatics Europe, HEC 2016, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2016: the 8th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, KR4HC 2016, and the 9th International Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare,
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Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications

9th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2014, Versailles, France, June 24-26, 2014, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Malika Auvray, Christian Duriez ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNCS 8618 and 8619 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference EuroHaptics 2014, held in Versailles, France, in June 2014.The 118 papers (36 oral presentations and 82 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. Furthermore, 27 demos were exhibited, each of them resulting in a short paper included in the ... Read more

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The two-volume set LNCS 8618 and 8619 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference EuroHaptics 2014, held in Versailles, France, in June 2014.The 118 papers (36 oral presentations and 82 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. Furthermore, 27 demos were exhibited, each of them resulting in a short paper included in the
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Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages

Third International Conference, IberSPEECH 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, November 23-25, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Alberto Abad, Alfonso Ortega, António Teixeira, Carmen García Mateo, Carlos D. Martínez Hinarejos, Fernando Perdigão, Fernando Batista, Nuno Mamede ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IberSPEECH 2016 Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2016. The 27 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions.The selected articles in this volume are organized into four different topics:Speech Production, Analysis, Coding and Synthesis;Automatic Speech Recognition;Paralinguistic Speaker Trait ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IberSPEECH 2016 Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2016. The 27 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions.The selected articles in this volume are organized into four different topics:Speech Production, Analysis, Coding and Synthesis;Automatic Speech Recognition;Paralinguistic Speaker Trait
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Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications

10th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2016, London, UK, July 4-7, 2016, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Fernando Bello, Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Yon Visell ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNCS 9774 and 9775 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference EuroHaptics 2016, held in London, UK, in July 2016.The 100 papers (36 oral presentations and 64 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. These proceedings reflect the multidisciplinary nature of EuroHaptics and cover topics such as ... Read more

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The two-volume set LNCS 9774 and 9775 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference EuroHaptics 2016, held in London, UK, in July 2016.The 100 papers (36 oral presentations and 64 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. These proceedings reflect the multidisciplinary nature of EuroHaptics and cover topics such as
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Meaning and Proscription in Formal Logic

Variations on the Propositional Logic of William T. Parry

by Thomas Macaulay Ferguson ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This book aids in the rehabilitation of the wrongfully deprecated work of William Parry, and is the only full-length investigation into Parry-type propositional logics.A central tenet of the monograph is that the sheer diversity of the contexts in which the mereological analogy emerges – its effervescence with respect to fields ranging from metaphysics to computer programming – provides compelling ... Read more

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This book aids in the rehabilitation of the wrongfully deprecated work of William Parry, and is the only full-length investigation into Parry-type propositional logics.A central tenet of the monograph is that the sheer diversity of the contexts in which the mereological analogy emerges – its effervescence with respect to fields ranging from metaphysics to computer programming – provides compelling
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Serious Games, Interaction and Simulation

6th International Conference, SGAMES 2016, Porto, Portugal, June 16-17, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, Paula Escudeiro, António Coelho ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction and Simulation, SGAMES 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016.The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers and an editorial introduction were carefully reviewed and selected from all the submissions. The papers cover areas like ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction and Simulation, SGAMES 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016.The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers and an editorial introduction were carefully reviewed and selected from all the submissions. The papers cover areas like
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Digital Libraries: The Era of Big Data and Data Science

16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, Bari, Italy, January 30–31, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Michelangelo Ceci, Stefano Ferilli, Antonella Poggi ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, held in Bari, Italy, in January 2020.The 12 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, bid data and data science in DL; cultural heritage; open science. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, held in Bari, Italy, in January 2020.The 12 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, bid data and data science in DL; cultural heritage; open science.
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Explainable, Trustworthy, and Responsible AI and Multi-Agent Systems

7th International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2025, Detroit, MI, USA, May 19–20, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Davide Calvaresi, Amro Najjar, Andrea Omicini, Reyhan Aydogan, Rachele Carli, Giovanni Ciatto, Simona Tiribelli, Kary Främling ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2025, held in Detroit, MI, USA, during May 19-20, 2025.The 12 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2025, held in Detroit, MI, USA, during May 19-20, 2025.The 12 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI
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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

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

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

Series Book 4 - 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

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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
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation

22nd International Conference, EvoApplications 2019, Held as Part of EvoStar 2019, Leipzig, Germany, April 24–26, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Paul Kaufmann, Pedro A. Castillo ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2019, held in Leipzig, Germany, in April 2019, co-located with the Evo*2019 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoMUSART.The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2019, held in Leipzig, Germany, in April 2019, co-located with the Evo*2019 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoMUSART.The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named:
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Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems

20th International Symposium, SSS 2018, Tokyo, Japan, November 4–7, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Taisuke Izumi, Petr Kuznetsov ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2018, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2018.The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized into three tracks reflecting major trends related to distributed systems: theoretical ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2018, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2018.The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized into three tracks reflecting major trends related to distributed systems: theoretical
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Software Engineering and Formal Methods

SEFM 2014 Collocated Workshops: HOFM, SAFOME, OpenCert, MoKMaSD, WS-FMDS, Grenoble, France, September 1-2, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Carlos Canal, Akram Idani ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops collocated with the SEFM 2014 conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, held in Grenoble, France, in September 2014. The 26 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They are from the following workshops: the 1st Workshop on Human-Oriented Formal Methods - From Readability ... Read more

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops collocated with the SEFM 2014 conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, held in Grenoble, France, in September 2014. The 26 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They are from the following workshops: the 1st Workshop on Human-Oriented Formal Methods - From Readability
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New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns

6th International Workshop, NFMCP 2017, Held in Conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2017, Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Annalisa Appice, Corrado Loglisci, Giuseppe Manco, Elio Masciari, Zbigniew W. Ras ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book features a collection of revised and significantly extended versions of the papers accepted for presentation at the 6th International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns, NFMCP 2017, held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2017 in Skopje, Macedonia, in September 2017. The book is composed of five parts: feature selection and induction; classification prediction; clustering; ... Read more

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This book features a collection of revised and significantly extended versions of the papers accepted for presentation at the 6th International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns, NFMCP 2017, held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2017 in Skopje, Macedonia, in September 2017. The book is composed of five parts: feature selection and induction; classification prediction; clustering;
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Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS

by Anna Petrasova, Brendan Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Payam Tabrizian, Helena Mitasova ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book provides an overview of the latest developments in the fast growing field of tangible user interfaces. It presents a new type of modeling environment where the users interact with geospatial data and simulations using 3D physical landscape model coupled with 3D rendering engine. Multiple users can modify the physical model, while it is being scanned, providing input for geospatial ... Read more

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This book provides an overview of the latest developments in the fast growing field of tangible user interfaces. It presents a new type of modeling environment where the users interact with geospatial data and simulations using 3D physical landscape model coupled with 3D rendering engine. Multiple users can modify the physical model, while it is being scanned, providing input for geospatial
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High Performance Integer Arithmetic Circuit Design on FPGA

Architecture, Implementation and Design Automation

by Ayan Palchaudhuri, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book describes the optimized implementations of several arithmetic datapath, controlpath and pseudorandom sequence generator circuits for realization of high performance arithmetic circuits targeted towards a specific family of the high-end Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It explores regular, modular, cascadable and bit-sliced architectures of these circuits, by directly instantiating ... Read more

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This book describes the optimized implementations of several arithmetic datapath, controlpath and pseudorandom sequence generator circuits for realization of high performance arithmetic circuits targeted towards a specific family of the high-end Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It explores regular, modular, cascadable and bit-sliced architectures of these circuits, by directly instantiating
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Beginning SQL Server R Services

Analytics for Data Scientists

by Bradley Beard ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn how to develop powerful data analytics applications quickly for SQL Server database administrators and developers. Organizations will be able to sift data and derive the business intelligence needed to drive business decisions and profit. The addition of R to SQL Server 2016 places a powerful analytical processor into an environment most developers are already comfortable with – Visual ... Read more

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Learn how to develop powerful data analytics applications quickly for SQL Server database administrators and developers. Organizations will be able to sift data and derive the business intelligence needed to drive business decisions and profit. The addition of R to SQL Server 2016 places a powerful analytical processor into an environment most developers are already comfortable with – Visual
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Human-Centred Web Adaptation and Personalization

From Theory to Practice

by Panagiotis Germanakos, Marios Belk ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book focuses on the importance of adaptation and personalization in today’s society and the upgraded role computational systems and the Internet play in our day-to-day activities. In this era of wireless communication, pervasive computing and the Internet of Things, it is becoming increasingly critical to ensure humans remain central in the developmental process of new technologies to ... Read more

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This book focuses on the importance of adaptation and personalization in today’s society and the upgraded role computational systems and the Internet play in our day-to-day activities. In this era of wireless communication, pervasive computing and the Internet of Things, it is becoming increasingly critical to ensure humans remain central in the developmental process of new technologies to
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Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering II

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, ADM 2021, September 9–10, 2021, Rome, Italy

Edited by Caterina Rizzi, Francesca Campana, Michele Bici, Francesco Gherardini, Tommaso Ingrassia, Paolo Cicconi ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book gathers original papers reporting on innovative methods and tools in design, modelling, simulation and optimization, and their applications in engineering design, manufacturing and other relevant industrial sectors. Topics span from advances in geometric modelling, applications of virtual reality, innovative strategies for product development and additive manufacturing, human factors and ... Read more

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This book gathers original papers reporting on innovative methods and tools in design, modelling, simulation and optimization, and their applications in engineering design, manufacturing and other relevant industrial sectors. Topics span from advances in geometric modelling, applications of virtual reality, innovative strategies for product development and additive manufacturing, human factors and
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Python Machine Learning

Complete and Clear Introduction to the Basics of Machine Learning with Python. Comprehensive Guide to Data Science and Analytics

by Alex Campbell ...

Machine learning is fast becoming an important technique used by multiple industries, and in applications and research. But you don’t have to be part of a massive organization with an endless pot of money to get involved.Even beginners using the Python programming language can be a part of machine learning, and that is what this book is for. Today, the only limit to machine learning is your ... Read more

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Machine learning is fast becoming an important technique used by multiple industries, and in applications and research. But you don’t have to be part of a massive organization with an endless pot of money to get involved.Even beginners using the Python programming language can be a part of machine learning, and that is what this book is for. Today, the only limit to machine learning is your
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