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1) The book provides a basic understanding to readers who want to start their career in web application development. The book develops an understanding of the basics concepts and then takes a broader turn to enlighten the readers about the horizons which can be accessed using JavaScript. 2) JavaScript is exhaustively used in almost all kinds of application development, be it the web applications, cross platform mobile applications, server backend applications. JavaScript is now being used for full stack development and is thus used to write independent applications. Since the need for JavaScript web developers is high, the numbers of students should be high as well. 3) As compared to other books in the market, the proposed book would cover more topics (or, better, levels) in a single volume.
"In our increasingly digitally enabled education world, analytics used ethically, strategically, and with care holds the potential to help more and more diverse students be more successful on higher education journeys than ever before. Jay Liebowitz and a cadre of the fields best 'good trouble' makers in this space help shine a light on the possibilities, potential challenges, and the power of learning together in this work." -Mark David Milliron, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Executive Dean of the Teachers College, Western Governors University Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftereffects, we have begun to enter the "new normal" of education. Instead of online learning being an "added feature" of K-12 schools and universities worldwide, it will be incorporated as an essential feature in education. There are many questions and concerns from parents, students, teachers, professors, administrators, staff, accrediting bodies, and others regarding the quality of virtual learning and its impact on student learning outcomes. Online Learning Analytics is conceived on trying to answer the questions of those who may be skeptical about online learning. Through better understanding and applying learning analytics, we can assess how successful learning and student/faculty engagement, as examples, can contribute towards producing the educational outcomes needed to advance student learning for future generations. Learning analytics has proven to be successful in many areas, such as the impact of using learning analytics in asynchronous online discussions in higher education. To prepare for a future where online learning plays a major role, this book examines: Data insights for improving curriculum design, teaching practice, and learning Scaling up learning analytics in an evidence-informed way The role of trust in online learning. Online learning faces very real philosophical and operational challenges. This book addresses areas of concern about the future of education and learning. It also energizes the field of learning analytics by presenting research on a range of topics that is broad and recognizes the humanness and depth of educating and learning.
"In our increasingly digitally enabled education world, analytics used ethically, strategically, and with care holds the potential to help more and more diverse students be more successful on higher education journeys than ever before. Jay Liebowitz and a cadre of the fields best 'good trouble' makers in this space help shine a light on the possibilities, potential challenges, and the power of learning together in this work." -Mark David Milliron, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Executive Dean of the Teachers College, Western Governors University Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftereffects, we have begun to enter the "new normal" of education. Instead of online learning being an "added feature" of K-12 schools and universities worldwide, it will be incorporated as an essential feature in education. There are many questions and concerns from parents, students, teachers, professors, administrators, staff, accrediting bodies, and others regarding the quality of virtual learning and its impact on student learning outcomes. Online Learning Analytics is conceived on trying to answer the questions of those who may be skeptical about online learning. Through better understanding and applying learning analytics, we can assess how successful learning and student/faculty engagement, as examples, can contribute towards producing the educational outcomes needed to advance student learning for future generations. Learning analytics has proven to be successful in many areas, such as the impact of using learning analytics in asynchronous online discussions in higher education. To prepare for a future where online learning plays a major role, this book examines: Data insights for improving curriculum design, teaching practice, and learning Scaling up learning analytics in an evidence-informed way The role of trust in online learning. Online learning faces very real philosophical and operational challenges. This book addresses areas of concern about the future of education and learning. It also energizes the field of learning analytics by presenting research on a range of topics that is broad and recognizes the humanness and depth of educating and learning.
1) Focuses on the concepts and implementation strategies of various Deep Learning algorithms through properly curated examples. 2) The subject area will be valid for the next 10 years or so, as Deep Learning theory/algorithms and their applications will not be outdated easily. Hence there will be demand for such a book in the market. 3) In comparison to other titles, this book rigorously covers mathematical and conceptual details of relevant topics.
The fusion of AI and IoT enables the systems to be predictive, prescriptive, and autonomous, and this convergence has evolved the nature of emerging applications from being assisted to augmented, and ultimately to autonomous intelligence. This book discusses algorithmic applications in the field of machine learning and IoT with pertinent applications. It further discusses challenges and future directions in the machine learning area and develops understanding of its role in technology, in terms of IoT security issues. Pertinent applications described include speech recognition, medical diagnosis, optimizations, predictions, and security aspects. Features: Focuses on algorithmic and practical parts of the artificial intelligence approaches in IoT applications. Discusses supervised and unsupervised machine learning for IoT data and devices. Presents an overview of the different algorithms related to Machine learning and IoT. Covers practical case studies on industrial and smart home automation. Includes implementation of AI from case studies in personal and industrial IoT. This book aims at Researchers and Graduate students in Computer Engineering, Networking Communications, Information Science Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.
An introduction to the Central Dogma of molecular biology and information flow in biological systems. A systematic overview of the methods for generating gene expression data. Background knowledge on statistical modeling and machine learning techniques. Detailed methodology of analyzing gene expression data with an example case study. Clustering methods for finding co-expression patterns from microarray, bulkRNA and scRNA data. A large number of practical tools, systems and repositories that are useful for computational biologists to create, analyze and validate biologically relevant gene expression patterns. Suitable for multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners in computer science and biological sciences.
The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including: A general overview of pandemics and their outbreak behavior. A detailed overview of CI techniques. Intelligent modeling, prediction and diagnostic measures for pandemics. Prognostic models. Post-pandemic socio-economic structure.
Cyberspace is changing the face of crime. For criminals it has become a place for rich collaboration and learning, not just within one country; and a place where new kinds of crimes can be carried out, and a vehicle for committing conventional crimes with unprecedented range, scale, and speed. Law enforcement faces a challenge in keeping up and dealing with this new environment. The news is not all bad - collecting and analyzing data about criminals and their activities can provide new levels of insight into what they are doing and how they are doing it. However, using data analytics requires a change of process and new skills that (so far) many law enforcement organizations have had difficulty leveraging. Cyberspace, Data Analytics, and Policing surveys the changes that cyberspace has brought to criminality and to policing with enough technical content to expose the issues and suggest ways in which law enforcement organizations can adapt. Key Features: Provides a non-technical but robust overview of how cyberspace enables new kinds of crime and changes existing crimes. Describes how criminals exploit the ability to communicate globally to learn, form groups, and acquire cybertools. Describes how law enforcement can use the ability to collect data and apply analytics to better protect society and to discover and prosecute criminals. Provides examples from open-source data of how hot spot and intelligence-led policing can benefit law enforcement. Describes how law enforcement can exploit the ability to communicate globally to collaborate in dealing with trans-national crime.
1) Make use of digital technology for social care services is the major responsibility of computing domain. Social care services require attention for health care, old age person and disables. Thus the book focuses on suggesting software solutions for supporting societal issues such as health care, support system for old age citizens, learning and monitoring mythology for disables and also technical solutions for better living. It is considered that technology is enabling people so that they could access to advances and so that there could be benefits in the health and technology 2) Interdisciplinary computing can be applicable to all the ranges. It would remove barriers to cooperation. This book would be helpful to undergraduate, post graduate and researchers. This course is offered in many universities in US, UK etc. Interdisciplinary studies are emerging as both necessary and expedient in the academy. Hence there would be a demand for such a book. This book would also help improve computational thinking to 'understand and change the world'. It will be a link between computing and variety of other fields. 3) There are several books available on computing which either focus on programming or basics of assistive technology, online social interactions, or general topics of information science in the market currently. However, none of the available books which covers the use of recent technologies to solve real life societal problems. This book not only focuses the computing technologies, basic theories, challenges, and implementation but also covers case studies. It focuses on core theories, architectures, and technologies necessary to develop and understand the computing models and its applications. The book also has the high potential to be used as recommended textbook for research scholars and post-graduate programs.
- The book shows you what 'data science' actually is and focuses uniquely on how to minimize the negatives of (bad) data science - It discusses the actual place of data science in a variety of companies, and what that means for the process of data science - It provides 'how to' advice to both individuals and managers - It takes a critical approach to data science and provides widely-relatable examples
Focuses on new machine learning developments that can lead to newly developed applications Uses a predictive and futuristic approach which makes Machine Learning a promising tool for business processes and sustainable solutions Promotes newer algorithms which are more efficient and reliable for a new dimension in discovering certain latent domains of applications Discusses the huge potential in making better use of machines in order to ensure optimal prediction, execution, and decision-making Offers many real-time case studies
Convergence of Blockchain, AI, and IoT: Concepts and Challenges discusses the convergence of three powerful technologies that play into the digital revolution and blur the lines between biological, digital, and physical objects. This book covers novel algorithms, solutions for addressing issues in applications, security, authentication, and privacy. The book provides an overview of the clinical scientific research enabling smart diagnosis equipment through AI. It presents the role these technologies play in augmented reality and blockchain, covers digital currency managed with bitcoin, and discusses deep learning and how it can enhance human thoughts and behaviors. Targeted audiences range from those interested in the technical revolution of blockchain, big data and the Internet of Things, to research scholars and the professional market.
Discusses how entrepreneurs use big data to cut costs and minimize the waste of time Covers how using big data as a way to study competitors Offers how using big data can increase efficiency Presents how big data can improve the pricing of products Provides how big data is used to help increase sales and loyalty
"The more we know about smart and intelligent systems and their use, the more productive organizations can become, and the more quality of life will improve."-Gavriel Salvendy, President Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida, University Distinguished Professor University of Central Florida" "Robots, drones, self-driving cars, and personal assistants are only some of the 'intelligent' and 'smart' systems which are populating our world and changing the way we use technology to carry out our everyday activities, bringing about both exciting opportunities for human-technology symbiosis, as well as compelling design and development challenges. Through a carefully selected choice of chapters, authored by top scientists in the field, this book, edited by Abbas Moallem, sheds light on fundamental aspects of intelligent and smart systems, investigating the role and impact of affective and psychophysiological computing, machine learning, cybersecurity, agent transparency, and human-agent teaming in the shaping of this new interaction paradigm, as well as the human factors involved in their application in critical domains such as health, education, and manufacturing in the emerging technological landscape."-Constantine Stephanidis, Professor of Computer Science, University of Crete, Distinguished member of Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) In today's digital world, the words "smart" and intelligent" are now used to label devices, machinery, systems, and even environments. What is a "smart" system? Is "smart" synonymous with "intelligent"? If not, what does an "intelligent system" mean? Are all smart systems intelligent? This book tries to answer these questions by summarizing the existing research in various areas and providing new research findings. Smart and Intelligent Systems: The Human Elements in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Cybersecurity presents new areas of smart and intelligent system design. It defines smart and intelligent systems, offers a human factors approach, discusses networking applications, and combines the human element with smart and intelligent systems. This book is perfect for engineering students in data sciences and artificial intelligence and practitioners at all levels in the fields of human factors and ergonomics, systems engineering, computer science, software engineering, and robotics.
Every enterprise application creates data, whether it's log messages, metrics, user activity, outgoing messages, or something else. And how to move all of this data becomes nearly as important as the data itself. If you're an application architect, developer, or production engineer new to Apache Kafka, this practical guide shows you how to use this open source streaming platform to handle real-time data feeds. Engineers from Confluent and LinkedIn who are responsible for developing Kafka explain how to deploy production Kafka clusters, write reliable event-driven microservices, and build scalable stream-processing applications with this platform. Through detailed examples, you'll learn Kafka's design principles, reliability guarantees, key APIs, and architecture details, including the replication protocol, the controller, and the storage layer. Understand publish-subscribe messaging and how it fits in the big data ecosystem. Explore Kafka producers and consumers for writing and reading messages Understand Kafka patterns and use-case requirements to ensure reliable data delivery Get best practices for building data pipelines and applications with Kafka Manage Kafka in production, and learn to perform monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks Learn the most critical metrics among Kafka's operational measurements Explore how Kafka's stream delivery capabilities make it a perfect source for stream processing systems
A systematic overview of concepts in Medical Internet of Things (MIoT) has been included. Recent research and some pointers to future advancements in areas of MIoT have been discussed. Examples and case studies have been included. Written in easily understandable style with the help of numerous figures and dataset
Focused on the mechanics of managing environmental data, this book provides guidelines on how to evaluate data requirements, assess tools and techniques, and implement an effective system. Moving beyond the hypothetical, Gerald Burnette illustrates the decision-making processes and the compromises required when applying environmental principles and practices to actual data. Managing Environmental Data explains the basic principles of relational databases, discusses database design, explores user interface options, and examines the process of implementation. Best practices are identified during each portion of the process. The discussion is summarized via the development of a hypothetical environmental data management system. Details of the design help establish a common framework that bridges the gap between data managers, users, and software developers. It is an ideal text for environmental professionals and students. The growth in both volume and complexity of environmental data presents challenges to environmental professionals. Developing better data management skills offers an excellent opportunity to meet these challenges. Gaining knowledge of and experience with data management best practices complements students' more traditional science education, providing them with the skills required to address complex data requirements.
Connects four contemporary areas of research: Artificial Intelligence, big data analytics, knowledge modelling, and healthcare Covers a list of diverse topics related to healthcare and knowledge modelling Summarizes the most important recent and valuable research related to big data analytics in the healthcare sector Includes case studies related to the application of big data in healthcare Highlights modern developments, challenges, opportunities, and future research directions in healthcare
Exploratory data analysis helps to recognize natural patterns hidden in the data. This book describes the tools for hypothesis generation by visualizing data through graphical representation and provides insight into advanced analytics concepts in an easy way. The book addresses the complete data visualization technologies workflow, explores basic and high-level concepts of computer science and engineering in medical science, and provides an overview of the clinical scientific research areas that enables smart diagnosis equipment. It will discuss techniques and tools used to explore large volumes of medical data and offers case studies that focus on the innovative technological upgradation and challenges faced today. The primary audience for the book includes specialists, researchers, graduates, designers, experts, physicians, and engineers who are doing research in this domain.
Covers AI and ML for digital health and wellbeing in society 5.0 Presents how putting Knowledge Management systems in place can facilitate the flow of information and result in better and more informed decisions. Discusses applications of distruptive technologies in digital health and wellbeing Offers examples of implementation of Knowledge Management along with case studies Addresses the challenges associated with practical implementation and adoption of technologies in healthcare
The use of biometric identification systems is rapidly increasing across the world, owing to their potential to combat terrorism, fraud, corruption and other illegal activities. However, critics of the technology complain that the creation of an extensive central register of personal information controlled by the government will increase opportunities for the state to abuse citizens. There is also concern about the extent to which data about an individual is recorded and kept. This book reviews some of the most current and complex legal and ethical issues relating to the use of biometrics. Beginning with an overview of biometric systems, the book goes on to examine some of the theoretical underpinnings of the surveillance state, questioning whether these conceptual approaches are still relevant, particularly the integration of ubiquitous surveillance systems and devices. The book also analyses the implementation of the world's largest biometric database, Aadhaar, in detail. Additionally, the identification of individuals at border checkpoints in the United States, Australia and the EU is explored, as well as the legal and ethical debates surrounding the use of biometrics regarding: the war on terror and the current refugee crisis; violations of international human rights law principles; and mobility and privacy rights. The book concludes by addressing the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by private-sector entities such as Axciom and Facebook, and government use of these tools to profile individuals. By examining the major legal and ethical issues surrounding the debate on this rapidly emerging technology, this book will appeal to students and scholars of law, criminology and surveillance studies, as well as law enforcement and criminal law practitioners.
This book concentrates on mining networks, a subfield within data science. Data science uses scientific and computational tools to extract valuable knowledge from large data sets. Once data is processed and cleaned, it is analyzed and presented to support decision-making processes. Data science and machine learning tools have become widely used in companies of all sizes. Networks are often large-scale, decentralized, and evolve dynamically over time. Mining complex networks aim to understand the principles governing the organization and the behavior of such networks is crucial for a broad range of fields of study. Here are a few selected typical applications of mining networks: Community detection (which users on some social media platforms are close friends). Link prediction (who is likely to connect to whom on such platforms). Node attribute prediction (what advertisement should be shown to a given user of a particular platform to match their interests). Influential node detection (which social media users would be the best ambassadors of a specific product). This textbook is suitable for an upper-year undergraduate course or a graduate course in programs such as data science, mathematics, computer science, business, engineering, physics, statistics, and social science. This book can be successfully used by all enthusiasts of data science at various levels of sophistication to expand their knowledge or consider changing their career path. Jupiter notebooks (in Python and Julia) accompany the book and can be accessed on https://www.ryerson.ca/mining-complex-networks/. These not only contain all the experiments presented in the book, but also include additional material. Bogumil Kaminski is the Chairman of the Scientific Council for the Discipline of Economics and Finance at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Data Science Laboratory at Ryerson University. Bogumil is an expert in applications of mathematical modeling to solving complex real-life problems. He is also a substantial open-source contributor to the development of the Julia language and its package ecosystem. Pawel Pralat is a Professor of Mathematics in Ryerson University, whose main research interests are in random graph theory, especially in modeling and mining complex networks. He is the Director of Fields-CQAM Lab on Computational Methods in Industrial Mathematics in The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and has pursued collaborations with various industry partners as well as the Government of Canada. He has written over 170 papers and three books with 130 plus collaborators. Francois Theberge holds a B.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Ottawa, a M.Sc. in telecommunications from INRS and a PhD in electrical engineering from McGill University. He has been employed by the Government of Canada since 1996 where he was involved in the creation of the data science team as well as the research group now known as the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing. He also holds an adjunct professorial position in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Ottawa. His current interests include relational-data mining and deep learning.
provides a thorough understanding of the integration of computational intelligence with information retrieval includes discussion on protecting and analysing big data on cloud platforms provides a plethora of theoretical as well as experimental research, along with surveys and impact studies
This handbook provides a computational perspective on green computing and blockchain technologies. It presents not only how to identify challenges using a practical approach but also how to develop strategies for addressing industry challenges. Handbook of Green Computing and Blockchain Technologies takes a practical-oriented approach, including solved examples and highlights standardization, industry bodies, and initiatives. Case studies provide a deeper understanding of blockchain and are related to real-time scenarios. The handbook analyzes current research and development in green computing and blockchain analytics, studies existing related standards and technologies, and provides results on implementation, challenges, and issues in today's society. FEATURES Analyzes current research developments in green computing and blockchain analytics Provides an analysis of implementation challenges and solutions Offers innovations in the decentralization process for the application of blockchain in areas such as healthcare, government services, agriculture, supply chain, financial, ecommerce, and more Discusses the impact of this technology on people's lives, the way they work and learn, and highlights standardization, industry bodies, and initiatives This handbook will benefit researchers, software developers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in industrial systems, manufacturing, information technology, computer science, manufacturing, communications, and electrical engineering.
Introduces design of experiments and digital twin concepts in simple lay terms for physicists to understand, adopt and adapt. Free from endless derivations equations are presented and explained strategically, explaining why it is imperative to use them and how they will help in your task at hand. Illustrations and simple explanation help readers visualize and absorb easily, difficult to understand concepts. |
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