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Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML,
Sixth Edition helps students develop the core skills required to
plan, design, analyze, and implement information systems. Offering
a practical hands-on approach to the subject, this textbook is
designed to keep students focused on doing SAD, rather than simply
reading about it. Each chapter describes a specific part of the SAD
process, providing clear instructions, a detailed example, and
practice exercises. Students are guided through the topics in the
same order as professional analysts working on a typical real-world
project. Now in its sixth edition, this edition has been carefully
updated to reflect current methods and practices in SAD and prepare
students for their future roles as systems analysts. Every
essential area of systems analysis and design is clearly and
thoroughly covered, from project management, to analysis and design
modeling, to construction, installation, and operations. The
textbook includes access to a range of teaching and learning
resources, and a running case study of a fictitious healthcare
company that shows students how SAD concepts are applied in
real-life scenarios.
The Internet is now, but the future is the metaverse. The metaverse
is a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a
computer-generated environment and others. The prediction is that
the next ten years will be the golden era of the metaverse, and
everyone's life, entertainment, social interaction, and work will
increasingly take place in the metaverse world. This book outlines
six important trends in the era of the metaverse, that will see
dramatic changes in technology and the bringing together of digital
and physical worlds. People will experience a great migration of
their social life and economic activities into the metaverse.
Furthermore, the authors argue that, in the metaverse, we can get
rid of many of the constraints of the physical world, achieve a
better self in the new digital space, and truly maximize our own
value as human beings. This book sets out how you can seize the
opportunity of the metaverse era.
Competition in today's global market offers strong motivation for
the development of sophisticated tools within computer science. The
neuron multi-functional technology platform is a developing field
of study that regards the various interactive approaches that can
be applied within this subject matter. As advancing technologies
continue to emerge, managers and researchers need a compilation of
research that discusses the advancements and specific
implementations of these intelligent approaches with this platform.
Avatar-Based Control, Estimation, Communications, and Development
of Neuron Multi-Functional Technology Platforms is a pivotal
reference source that provides vital research on the application of
artificial and natural approaches towards neuron-based programs.
While highlighting topics such as natural intelligence,
neurolinguistics, and smart data storage, this publication presents
techniques, case studies, and methodologies that combine the use of
intelligent artificial and natural approaches with optimization
techniques for facing problems and combines many types of hardware
and software with a variety of communication technologies to enable
the development of innovative applications. This book is ideally
designed for researchers, practitioners, scientists, field experts,
professors, and students seeking current research on the
optimization of avatar-based advancements in multifaceted
technology systems.
Quality assurance is an essential aspect for ensuring the success
of corporations worldwide. Consistent quality requirements across
organizations of similar types ensure that these requirements can
be accurately and easily evaluated. Shaping the Future Through
Standardization is an essential scholarly book that examines
quality and standardization within diverse organizations globally
with a special focus on future perspectives, including how
standards and standardization may shape the future. Featuring a
wide range of topics such as economics, pedagogy, and management,
this book is ideal for academicians, researchers, decision makers,
policymakers, managers, corporate professionals, and students.
With the internet of things (IoT), it is proven that enormous
networks can be created to interconnect objects and facilitate
daily life in a variety of domains. Research is needed to study how
these improvements can be applied in different ways, using
different technologies, and through the creation of different
applications. IoT Protocols and Applications for Improving
Industry, Environment, and Society contains the latest research on
the most important areas and challenges in the internet of things
and its intersection with technologies and tools such as artificial
intelligence, blockchain, model-driven engineering, and cloud
computing. The book covers subfields that examine smart homes,
smart towns, smart earth, and the industrial internet of things in
order to improve daily life, protect the environment, and create
safer and easier jobs. While covering a range of topics within IoT
including Industry 4.0, security, and privacy, this book is ideal
for computer scientists, engineers, practitioners, stakeholders,
researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in the
latest applications of IoT.
This book presents the state-of-the-art, current challenges, and
future perspectives for the field of many-criteria optimization and
decision analysis. The field recognizes that real-life problems
often involve trying to balance a multiplicity of considerations
simultaneously – such as performance, cost, risk, sustainability,
and quality. The field develops theory, methods and tools that can
support decision makers in finding appropriate solutions when faced
with many (typically more than three) such criteria at the same
time. The book consists of two parts: key research topics,
and emerging topics. Part I begins with a general introduction to
many-criteria optimization, perspectives from research leaders in
real-world problems, and a contemporary survey of the attributes of
problems of this kind. This part continues with chapters on
fundamental aspects of many-criteria optimization, namely on order
relations, quality measures, benchmarking, visualization, and
theoretical considerations. Part II offers more specialized
chapters on correlated objectives, heterogeneous objectives,
Bayesian optimization, and game theory. Written by leading experts
across the field of many-criteria optimization, this book will be
an essential resource for researchers in the fields of evolutionary
computing, operations research, multiobjective optimization, and
decision science.
Interest in developing smart cities has grown exponentially over
the years with many governments across the world hoping to initiate
these projects in their own countries. One of the key challenges
for the success of any smart city project is the assurance of smart
security and privacy of the citizens. Due to the use of a wide
range of interconnected cyber-physical systems, traditional
security solutions cannot be applied to smart city applications,
and new practices must be sought. Secure Cyber-Physical Systems for
Smart Cities is an essential reference publication that examines
information security and privacy in smart city settings including
discussions on new security frameworks, solutions, cybersecurity
laws and regulations, and risk management frameworks for smart city
environments. Covering a wide range of topics including wireless
networks, security, and cyber-physical systems, this book is
ideally designed for IT specialists and consultants, engineers,
government officials, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and
industry professionals.
Unlock your creativity with easy digital illustration techniques.
Learn how to create professional-looking art and illustration in
Procreate, the industry-leading digital painting app for iPad. In
this step-by-step guide you will learn how to create unique art,
make seamless patterns, and master all the elements of the
software: from layers to selections, how to use brushes, how to
tile patterns and everything you need to know to take your art to
new digital highs. Artist and illustrator Ruth Burrows takes a
beginner-friendly, jargon-free approach to explaining how to get
the most from Procreate, delivering not a heavy technical manual
but rather, an inspirational workbook that encourages you to play,
make mistakes and seek out your own way of using the app. The Basic
Tools section introduces essential features and takes you on a
quick tour of Procreate.You will learn by doing and if you're
unsure of anything later on, you can dip back into this section to
refresh your memory. The Projects section takes you a bit further
on your 'learning by doing' journey. The first few projects explain
techniques step-by-step. There are screenshots of the actual
interface so you can see exactly how things work and where things
are. The later projects are more art based and look in detail at
how the author uses Procreate to make her highly commercial art. By
the end of this book, you will be creating digital illustrations
that will feel as natural and intuitive as drawing with pencil and
paper. As well as mastering the art techniques, you will also find
practical advice on how to monetize your artwork, from tips on
licensing to how to have your art printed on products, and more.
Wearable continuous monitoring systems are necessary in risky
environments such as mining and diving and are especially important
in the medical monitoring of patients both in medical facilities
and at home. All these applications of monitoring with data
transmission functions can be achieved by using wearable antennas.
Recently, possibilities of connecting completely independent
appliances with textiles have emerged. However, full success will
be achieved only when antennas and all related components are
entirely converted into 100% textile materials. Design and
Optimization of Sensors and Antennas for Wearable Devices provides
innovative insights on the development of adaptable materials and
textile antennas that can be used in the construction of wearable
devices that are biocompatible and offer high conductivity, low
cost, simplistic manufacturing, are comfortable for the wearer, and
are water/climate safe and condition amicable. The content within
this publication examines data transmission, wearable computing,
and medical applications. It is designed for engineers,
manufacturers, researchers, academicians, and scientists who are
interested in the development of wearable technologies.
Remediating Sound studies the phenomena of remixing, mashup and
recomposition: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to
characterise much of YouTube's audiovisual content. Through
collaborative composition, collage and cover songs to reaction
videos and political activism , users from diverse backgrounds have
embraced the democratised space of YouTube to open up new and
innovative forms of sonic creativity and push the boundaries of
audiovisual possibilities. Observing the reciprocal flow of
influence that runs between various online platforms, 12 chapters
position YouTube as a central hub for the exploration of digital
sound, music and the moving image. With special focus on aspects of
networked creativity that remain overlooked in contemporary
scholarship, including library music, memetic media, artificial
intelligence, the sonic arts and music fandom, this volume offers
interdisciplinary insight into contemporary audiovisual culture.
To provide the necessary security and quality assurance activities
into Internet of Things (IoT)-based software development,
innovative engineering practices are vital. They must be given an
even higher level of importance than most other events in the
field. Integrating the Internet of Things Into Software Engineering
Practices provides research on the integration of IoT into the
software development life cycle (SDLC) in terms of requirements
management, analysis, design, coding, and testing, and provides
security and quality assurance activities to IoT-based software
development. The content within this publication covers agile
software, language specification, and collaborative software and is
designed for analysts, security experts, IoT software programmers,
computer and software engineers, students, professionals, and
researchers.
Research on artificial life is critical to solving various dynamic
obstacles individuals face on a daily basis. From electric
wheelchairs to navigation, artificial life can play a role in
improving both the simple and complex aspects of civilian life. The
Handbook of Research on Investigations in Artificial Life Research
and Development is a vital scholarly reference source that examines
emergent research in handling real-world problems through the
application of various computation technologies and techniques.
Examining topics such as computational intelligence, multi-agent
systems, and fuzzy logic, this publication is a valuable resource
for academicians, scientists, researchers, and individuals
interested in artificial intelligence developments.
Though an individual can process a limitless amount of information,
the human brain can only comprehend a small amount of data at a
time. Using technology can improve the process and comprehension of
information, but the technology must learn to behave more like a
human brain to employ concepts like memory, learning, visualization
ability, and decision making. Emerging Trends and Applications in
Cognitive Computing is a fundamental scholarly source that provides
empirical studies and theoretical analysis to show how learning
methods can solve important application problems throughout various
industries and explain how machine learning research is conducted.
Including innovative research on topics such as deep neural
networks, cyber-physical systems, and pattern recognition, this
collection of research will benefit individuals such as IT
professionals, academicians, students, researchers, and managers.
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