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Mastering Predictive Analytics with R, Second Edition

Machine learning techniques for advanced models

by James D. Miller, Rui Miguel Forte ...

Master the craft of predictive modeling in R by developing strategy, intuition, and a solid foundation in essential conceptsKey FeaturesGrasping the major methods of predictive modeling and moving beyond black box thinking to a deeper level of understandingLeveraging the flexibility and modularity of R to experiment with a range of different techniques and data typesPacked with practical advice ... Read more

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Master the craft of predictive modeling in R by developing strategy, intuition, and a solid foundation in essential conceptsKey FeaturesGrasping the major methods of predictive modeling and moving beyond black box thinking to a deeper level of understandingLeveraging the flexibility and modularity of R to experiment with a range of different techniques and data typesPacked with practical advice
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Networked Systems

6th International Conference, NETYS 2018, Essaouira, Morocco, May 9–11, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Andreas Podelski, François Taïani ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2018, held in Essaouira, Morocco, in May 2018.The 22 full and 6 short papers presented together with 11 keynotes and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They are organized in the following topics: distribution; concurrency; ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2018, held in Essaouira, Morocco, in May 2018.The 22 full and 6 short papers presented together with 11 keynotes and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They are organized in the following topics: distribution; concurrency;
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Exploring Swift Playgrounds

The Fastest and Most Effective Way to Learn to Code and to Teach Others to Use Your Code

by Jesse Feiler ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn how to build playgrounds so you can test your code, syntax, and ideas quickly. You can even learn from playgrounds built by others or build playgrounds to teach. And the playgrounds you build and use on your Mac and on your iPad are automatically shared using your Apple ID.Exploring Swift Playgrounds shows you how to use playgrounds to try out your basic app design ideas to see what they ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Learn how to build playgrounds so you can test your code, syntax, and ideas quickly. You can even learn from playgrounds built by others or build playgrounds to teach. And the playgrounds you build and use on your Mac and on your iPad are automatically shared using your Apple ID.Exploring Swift Playgrounds shows you how to use playgrounds to try out your basic app design ideas to see what they
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An Introduction to PHP for Scientists and Engineers

Beyond JavaScript

by David R. Brooks ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. —Benjamin Disraeli i. Background The purpose of this book is provide an introduction to using a server-side programming language to solve some kinds of computing problems that cannot be solved with a client-side language such as JavaScript. The language is PHP (originally created in 1994 by Danish/Icelandic programmer ... Read more

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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. —Benjamin Disraeli i. Background The purpose of this book is provide an introduction to using a server-side programming language to solve some kinds of computing problems that cannot be solved with a client-side language such as JavaScript. The language is PHP (originally created in 1994 by Danish/Icelandic programmer
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Unifying Theories of Programming

7th International Symposium, UTP 2019, Dedicated to Tony Hoare on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday, Porto, Portugal, October 8, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Pedro Ribeiro, Augusto Sampaio ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume contains papers presented at UTP 2019, the 7th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, held in Porto, Portugal, on the 8th of October 2019. This edition of the UTP symposium is in honor of Sir Tony Hoare, on the occasion of his 85th birthday. The papers contained in this volume were invited, and friendly refereed, original contributions sought from the UTP ... Read more

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This volume contains papers presented at UTP 2019, the 7th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, held in Porto, Portugal, on the 8th of October 2019. This edition of the UTP symposium is in honor of Sir Tony Hoare, on the occasion of his 85th birthday. The papers contained in this volume were invited, and friendly refereed, original contributions sought from the UTP
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Bíblia De Programação Python Para Iniciantes

by Jideon F Marques ...

Programar significa escrever instruções que um computador irá literalmente executar. Ele realiza a atividade como um comando dado pelo programador ao computador. Primeiro escreva as instruções em uma linguagem que o computador entenda, e o computador as executa quando o programador lhe diz para fazê-lo. Se as ordens forem dadas incorretamente, o computador emitirá mensagens mostrando os erros. É ... Read more

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Programar significa escrever instruções que um computador irá literalmente executar. Ele realiza a atividade como um comando dado pelo programador ao computador. Primeiro escreva as instruções em uma linguagem que o computador entenda, e o computador as executa quando o programador lhe diz para fazê-lo. Se as ordens forem dadas incorretamente, o computador emitirá mensagens mostrando os erros. É
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Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018

17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 17–20, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Esteban Clua, Licinio Roque, Artur Lugmayr, Pauliina Tuomi ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018.The 15 full papers, 13 short papers, and 23 poster, demostration, and workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They cover a large range of ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018.The 15 full papers, 13 short papers, and 23 poster, demostration, and workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They cover a large range of
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Collaboration in Creative Design

Methods and Tools

Edited by Panos Markopoulos, Jean-Bernard Martens, Julian Malins, Karin Coninx, Aggelos Liapis ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book presents a number of new methods, tools, and approaches aimed to assist researchers and designers during the early stages of the design process, focusing on the need to approach the development of new interactive products, systems and related services by closely observing the needs of potential end-users through adopting a design thinking approach.A wide range of design approaches are ... Read more

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This book presents a number of new methods, tools, and approaches aimed to assist researchers and designers during the early stages of the design process, focusing on the need to approach the development of new interactive products, systems and related services by closely observing the needs of potential end-users through adopting a design thinking approach.A wide range of design approaches are
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Instant Highcharts

by Cyril Grandjean ...

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. Instant Highcharts Starter has a step-by-step approach to help you understand the core concepts of different types of Highcharts and create your own customized charts.Instant Highcharts Starter is for web developers who are new to the Highcharts ... Read more

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Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. Instant Highcharts Starter has a step-by-step approach to help you understand the core concepts of different types of Highcharts and create your own customized charts.Instant Highcharts Starter is for web developers who are new to the Highcharts
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Perspectives of System Informatics

9th International Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Andrei Voronkov, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book contains the thoroughly refereed papers from the 9th International Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2014, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2014.The 17 revised full papers, 11 revised short papers, and 2 system and experimental papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The volume also contains 5 keynote talks which cover a range of ... Read more

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This book contains the thoroughly refereed papers from the 9th International Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2014, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2014.The 17 revised full papers, 11 revised short papers, and 2 system and experimental papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The volume also contains 5 keynote talks which cover a range of
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Fuzzy Sets and Systems III

An Introduction with Cases from Business Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering

Edited by Edy Portmann, Gwendolin Wilke, Luis Terán, Sara D'Onofrio ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
As organizations strive to balance innovation with accountability, this second volume in a trilogy on fuzzy systems and digital ethics examines how ethical and sustainable practices can be operationalized at the institutional level. Through the lens of design science and fuzzy logic, it demonstrates how organizations can build resilient, data-driven infrastructures that support responsible ... Read more

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As organizations strive to balance innovation with accountability, this second volume in a trilogy on fuzzy systems and digital ethics examines how ethical and sustainable practices can be operationalized at the institutional level. Through the lens of design science and fuzzy logic, it demonstrates how organizations can build resilient, data-driven infrastructures that support responsible
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Methods and Applications for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems

20th Asian Simulation Conference, AsiaSim 2021, Virtual Event, November 17–20, 2021, Proceedings

Edited by Byeong-Yun Chang, Changbeom Choi ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Asian Simulation Conference, AsiaSim 2021, held as a virtual event in November 2021.The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation and visualization; modeling and simulation of systems. ... Read more

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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Asian Simulation Conference, AsiaSim 2021, held as a virtual event in November 2021.The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation and visualization; modeling and simulation of systems.
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Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures

19th International Conference, FOSSACS 2016, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-8, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Bart Jacobs, Christof Löding ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, FOSSACS 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 31 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, FOSSACS 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 31 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 85
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Smart Homes and Their Users

by Charlie Wilson, Tom Hargreaves ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Smart home technologies promise to transform domestic comfort, convenience, security and leisure while also reducing energy use. But delivering on these potentially conflicting promises depends on how they are adopted and used in homes.This book starts by developing a new analytical framework for understanding smart homes and their users. Drawing on a range of new empirical research combining both ... Read more

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Smart home technologies promise to transform domestic comfort, convenience, security and leisure while also reducing energy use. But delivering on these potentially conflicting promises depends on how they are adopted and used in homes.This book starts by developing a new analytical framework for understanding smart homes and their users. Drawing on a range of new empirical research combining both
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Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

by Johannes Pittermann, Angela Pittermann, Wolfgang Minker ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described. With the robust recognition of emotions from speech signals as their goal, the authors analyze the effectiveness of using a plain emotion recognizer, a speech-emotion recognizer combining speech and emotion recognition, and multiple speech-emotion recognizers ... Read more

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In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described. With the robust recognition of emotions from speech signals as their goal, the authors analyze the effectiveness of using a plain emotion recognizer, a speech-emotion recognizer combining speech and emotion recognition, and multiple speech-emotion recognizers
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Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience

Edited by Aaron Marcus, Anxo Cereijo Roibás, Riccardo Sala ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Developing usable, useful, and appealing solutions for the customer or user experience requires customization according to specific users' needs amidst frequently changing physical and social environments. Complex design problems like these require interdisciplinary perspectives that cover software functionality, human interaction and communication experiences, and perceived value.After defining ... Read more

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Developing usable, useful, and appealing solutions for the customer or user experience requires customization according to specific users' needs amidst frequently changing physical and social environments. Complex design problems like these require interdisciplinary perspectives that cover software functionality, human interaction and communication experiences, and perceived value.After defining
... Read more
Mastering Replit

by Khushabu Gupta ...

Unlock the full potential of cloud-based development with "Mastering Replit: The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Coding, Collaboration, and App Development" by Khushabu Gupta. This comprehensive guide walks you through every aspect of using Replit, the revolutionary platform changing the way coders around the world build, collaborate, and deploy software. Whether you're a beginner eager to write your ... Read more

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Unlock the full potential of cloud-based development with "Mastering Replit: The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Coding, Collaboration, and App Development" by Khushabu Gupta. This comprehensive guide walks you through every aspect of using Replit, the revolutionary platform changing the way coders around the world build, collaborate, and deploy software. Whether you're a beginner eager to write your
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Deep Learning Based Speech Quality Prediction

by Gabriel Mittag ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book presents how to apply recent machine learning (deep learning) methods for the task of speech quality prediction. The author shows how recent advancements in machine learning can be leveraged for the task of speech quality prediction and provides an in-depth analysis of the suitability of different deep learning architectures for this task. The author then shows how the resulting model ... Read more

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This book presents how to apply recent machine learning (deep learning) methods for the task of speech quality prediction. The author shows how recent advancements in machine learning can be leveraged for the task of speech quality prediction and provides an in-depth analysis of the suitability of different deep learning architectures for this task. The author then shows how the resulting model
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Internet Science

INSCI 2018 International Workshops, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 24–26, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Olessia Koltsova, Asbjørn Følstad, Harry Halpin, Polina Kolozaridi, Leonid Yuldashev, Anna Smoliarova, Heiko Niedermayer ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 4 workshops, held at the 5th International Conference on Internet Science, St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2018: Workshop 1 : Detecting Social Problems in Online Content, Workshop 2: CONVERSATIONS, Workshop 3: The Future of Decentralized Governance: A Workshop on Encryption,Blockchains, and Personal Data, and Workshop 4: Internet ... Read more

$58.49 USD

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 4 workshops, held at the 5th International Conference on Internet Science, St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2018: Workshop 1 : Detecting Social Problems in Online Content, Workshop 2: CONVERSATIONS, Workshop 3: The Future of Decentralized Governance: A Workshop on Encryption,Blockchains, and Personal Data, and Workshop 4: Internet
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Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing

30th International Workshop, LCPC 2017, College Station, TX, USA, October 11–13, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Lawrence Rauchwerger ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2017, held in College Station, TX, USA, in October 2017.The 17 full papers presented together with abstracts of 5 keynote talks, 11 invited speakers and 4 poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. LCPC encourages submissions ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2017, held in College Station, TX, USA, in October 2017.The 17 full papers presented together with abstracts of 5 keynote talks, 11 invited speakers and 4 poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. LCPC encourages submissions
... Read more
Practical Machine Learning and Image Processing

For Facial Recognition, Object Detection, and Pattern Recognition Using Python

by Himanshu Singh ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Gain insights into image-processing methodologies and algorithms, using machine learning and neural networks in Python. This book begins with the environment setup, understanding basic image-processing terminology, and exploring Python concepts that will be useful for implementing the algorithms discussed in the book. You will then cover all the core image processing algorithms in detail before ... Read more

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Gain insights into image-processing methodologies and algorithms, using machine learning and neural networks in Python. This book begins with the environment setup, understanding basic image-processing terminology, and exploring Python concepts that will be useful for implementing the algorithms discussed in the book. You will then cover all the core image processing algorithms in detail before
... Read more
Integral Communication and Digital Identity

Edited by Ozren Rafajac, Alen Jakupović ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book explains how taxonomy can be used to describe and connect social actors in an integral way. Integral communication refers to a specific way of open information exchange which uses all qualities and preferences of subjects in conversation and allows anonymous feedback exchange, which enhances trust, learning and development. The role of integral communication is to promote perceptiveness, ... Read more

$107.99 USD

This book explains how taxonomy can be used to describe and connect social actors in an integral way. Integral communication refers to a specific way of open information exchange which uses all qualities and preferences of subjects in conversation and allows anonymous feedback exchange, which enhances trust, learning and development. The role of integral communication is to promote perceptiveness,
... Read more
Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map

A Metadata Map

by David C. Hay ...

Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from ... Read more

$78.29 USD

In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from
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User-Centered Agile Methods

by Hugh Beyer ...

Series series Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics
With the introduction and popularization of Agile methods of software development, existing relationships and working agreements between user experience groups and developers are being disrupted. Agile methods introduce new concepts: the Product Owner, the Customer (but not the user), short iterations, User Stories. Where do UX professionals fit in this new world? Agile methods also bring a new ... Read more

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With the introduction and popularization of Agile methods of software development, existing relationships and working agreements between user experience groups and developers are being disrupted. Agile methods introduce new concepts: the Product Owner, the Customer (but not the user), short iterations, User Stories. Where do UX professionals fit in this new world? Agile methods also bring a new
... Read more

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