This book explores the emerging concept of cultural DNA, considering its application across different fields and examining commonalities in approach. It approaches the subject from four different perspectives, in which the topics include theories, analysis and synthesis of cultural DNA artefacts. After an opening section which reviews theoretical work on cultural DNA research, the second section discusses analysis & synthesis of cultural DNA at the urban scale. Section three covers analysis & synthesis of cultural DNA artefacts, and the final section offers approaches to grammar-based cultural DNA research. The book places emphasis on two specific axes: one is the scale of the object under discussion, which ranges from the small (handheld artefacts) to the very large (cities); and the other is the methodology used from analysis to synthesis. This diverse approach with detailed information about grammar-based methodologies toward cultural DNA makes the book unique. This book will serve as a source of inspiration for designers and researchers trying to find the essence, archetype, and the building blocks of our environment for the incorporation of social and cultural factors into their designs.

The ability to communicate with anyone at anytime, anywhere, necessitates a need to provide reliable, resilient, and sustainable applications to support the evolving uses of mobile technologies. Movement-Aware Applications for Sustainable Mobility: Technologies and Approaches focuses on the use of location sensing technology and its wider applicability in supporting sustainable mobility, and presents current research on developing innovative approaches for gathering, representing, storing and analyzing movement data sets being generated from location sensing technology. Offering a unique opportunity for learning about how different techniques are being used to develop new movement-aware applications, this reference work gives students, researchers and practitioners the opportunity to acquire new concepts in the production, awareness and use of sensors, data, and information products for supporting sustainable mobility.

This book of conference proceedings contains papers presented at the Art and Design International Conference (AnDIC 2016). It examines the impact of Cyberology, also known as Internet Science, on the world of art and design. It looks at how the rapid growth of Cyberology and the creation of various applications and devices have influenced human relationships. The book discusses the impact of Cyberology on the behaviour, attitudes and perceptions of users, including the way they work and communicate. With a strong focus on how the Cyberology world influences and changes the methods and works of artists, this book features topics that are relevant to four key players - artists, intermediaries, policy makers, and the audience - in a cultural system, especially in the world of art and design. It examines the development, problems and issues of traditional cultural values, identity and new trends in contemporary art. Most importantly, the book attempts to discuss the past, present and future of art and design whilst looking at some underlying issues that need to be addressed collectively.

The excitement of having your own games console, the unrivaled emotion of opening a new game, the awe of discovery and the thrilling atmosphere of the 80s. Now you can feel all the excitement again, while developing your own games for Intellivision consoles. A smooth trip using an easily readable language across the foundations of game programming, including the complete source code to 4 amazing games: Game of Ball, Monkey Moon, Space Raider and Bouncy Cube. All tools and information are provided, as well as links to download the required development software.

This book highlights practical solutions for flight safety improvement techniques, which are currently the focus of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). It has become clear that, in order to rapidly and significantly improve flight safety, the integrated use of new aeronautical technologies is called for. Considering the size of the aviation fleet, its constant growth and the long service lives of aircraft, new technologies should be adapted both to cutting-edge air navigation systems and to those that have been used for over a decade. Concretely, the book discusses methodological approaches to the construction of ground and on-board avionics that make it possible to achieve improved flight safety using innovative new methods. The proposed approaches are illustrated with real-world examples of e.g. satellite-based navigation systems and enhanced ground proximity warning systems. The book is written for professionals involved in the development of avionics systems, as well as students, researchers and experts in the field of radiolocation, radio navigation and air traffic control, the book will support the development and modeling of radio technical complexes, as well as the analysis of complex radio technical systems.

Sektion 1: Internet als Business-Plattform.- Elektronische Koordination interorganisatorischer Geschaftsprozesse zwischen privaten Haushalten und Versicherungen im Rahmen von Tele-Insuring.- Internet-Nutzung im Business-to-Business-Bereich: Stand der Entwicklung, Typologie und Anwendungsbeispiele.- Aufbau eines Elektronischen Handelsplatzes fur Java-Applets.- Preisstrategien fur ein integriertes Universal-Internet.- Sektion 2: Optimierung von Geschaftsprozessen.- Value-Based Management of Inter-Organizational Business Processes.- A Hierarchical Planning Procedure Supporting the Selection of Service Providers in Outtasking Decisions.- A Multiagent System-Approach for the Design of Information Systems in Virtual Organizations.- Office-Automation in Municipal and County Administration with an Integrated Workflow Based Information System.- Efficiency and Cost Implications of Capital Allocation Mechanisms: A Contribution to the Market-versus-Hierarchy-Discussion.- Sektion 3: Groupware- und Workflow-Strategien.- Organisatorischer Wandel bei Einfuhrung von Groupware.- Increased Competitiveness using a Groupware based Project Controlling System.- Architektur zur informationstechnologischen Unterstutzung von Kooperationen.- Enterprise Knowledge Medium (EKM) - Konzeption und Einsatz eines computergestutzten Planungs- und Kontrollsystems im prozessorientierten Unternehmen.- Unterstutzung der Workflow-Entwicklung durch ein unternehmensweites Repository fur Geschaftsprozessrealisierungen.- Sektion 4: Groupware-Anwendungen.- New perspectives for higher education processes as a team-based approach - Back-office information technology for higher education and training.- Konfiguration des Informationsdienstes in Groupware.- Sektion 5: Wirtschaftliche Programmerstellung.- Global Production: The Case of Offshore Programming.- Metriken fur die IV-Diagnose, Konzept und prototypische Implementierung.- Produktinformationssysteme in Business Networks.- Sektion 6: SAP und Client-Server-Integration.- System Migration and System Integration: Two SAP Cases.- Unternehmensweite Datenkonsistenz durch Integration bestehender Informationssysteme.- Client/Server Architecture: what it promises - what it really provides.- IS Project Risk in Polish Organizations.- Sektion 7: Organisation und Datenmanagement.- Flexible Organizations Through Object-oriented and Transaction-oriented Information Systems.- Determinants and Outcomes of Electronic Data Interchange Integration.- Referenz-Informationsmodelle fur den Handel: Begriff, Nutzen und Empfehlungen fur die Gestaltung und unternehmensspezifische Adaption von Referenzmodellen.- Entwicklung eines Data Warehouse fur das Produktionscontrolling: Konzepte und Erfahrungen.- Sektion 8: Neue Chancen durch Multimedia.- Der Markt fur interaktive elektronische Medien aus oekonomischer Sicht.- Sektion 9: Anwendungen von Internet/Intranet.- Improving Competitiveness of Direct Banking via IT-Enabled Incentive Schemes.- Die Nutzung von Internet-Diensten im Rahmen des Elektronischen Datenaustauschs - Architekturvarianten und ein Anwendungsszenario.- Sektion 10: Organisation und Workflow.- Neue Organisationsformen und IT: Herausforderung fur die Unternehmensgestalter.- INCOME/WF - A Petri Net Based Approach to Workflow Management.- On the Object-Oriented Modelling of Distributed Workflow Applications.- Sektion 11: Reorganisation des Unternehmens.- Synthesizing Business and Information Systems (IS): Towards a Common Business-IS Model based on Agents.- Planungs- und Kontrollmodelle zur Steuerung prozessorientierter Organisationen auf der Basis einer Intranet-Anwendung.- Neue Kernprozesse fur Versicherer mit Agenturnetz.- Sponsorenverzeichnis.- Autoren- und Adressverzeichnis.

Business processes are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic as they seek to cope with a wide range of internal and external interactions and changes. ""The Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments"" investigates the nature and history of dynamic processes essential to understanding the need for flexibility and adaptability as well as the requirements to improve solutions. This innovative collection covers the development of various strategies, architectures, and techniques for achieving adaptive processes in environments.

This book illustrates all the concepts of web mining from gathering the web data sources to discovering and representing the extracted knowledge. This book is ideal for many researchers and scholars who are interested in a reference book that involves all the techniques and algorithms that are applied to a Web environment. This book illustrates, analyzes, and compares all the techniques, applications, and algorithms that are used in Web mining categories and provides a thorough overview to undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars who wish to learn more about Web and data mining. The goal of this book is to foster transformative, multidisciplinary, and novel approaches that introduce the practical approach of analyzing various web data sources and extracting knowledge by taking into consideration the unique challenges present in the environment. This book provides a complete overview of Web mining techniques and applications; it will be crucial for postgraduate students who want to understand the Web environment better and do not know the differences between Web mining and data mining. It will also be helpful for companies and organizations to discover practical solutions to handle their internet data in a more efficient way, as well as undergraduate students in software engineering and computer science engineering departments who do not have a complete reference book that offers them a full explanation about Web mining.

Now fully revised and updated, "VSAT Networks" continues to cover all of the essential issues involved with the installation and operation of networks of small earth stations called 'Very Small Aperture Terminal'. VSATs are typically one to two meters in antenna reflector diameter and communicate with one another, or with a central earth station called a 'hub', via a relay satellite in space. This informative volume enables the reader to understand how services, economics and regulatory aspects condition the success of such networks.

Key features include: configuration and practical applications of VSAT networks radio frequency (RF) link analysis, focusing on basic formulae and the evaluation of the RF link performance protocols used, with emphasis on the necessary adaptation of protocols used in terrestrial networks procedures for the dimensioning of the network according to the type and volume of generated traffic and to the expected quality of service

Written by a well-known, highly respected academic, this authoritative volume will appeal to students of telecommunications, electronics and computer science. Practising telecommunications engineers and technical managers involved in the planning, design and operation of networks and service provision will all find this book a valuable reference source.

This "Second Edition" has taken full advantage of the author's experience gained from the success of the first edition. The theoretical background has been expanded and the operational contents have been updated in view of recent developments in the field.

A new set of major changes is reshaping the economy and creating challenges that are testing the mettle and talents of organizations and their employees. Unless organizations and their employees develop the requisite skills they need to cope with these challenges, many will become casualties of their own deficiencies. "Keys to Employee Success in Coming Decades" seeks to prepare employees for future success in an increasingly demanding and competitive global environment. Sims, Veres, and their contributors are careful to focus on what employees at different levels in the organization will need to do to be successful in the twenty-first century.

Mastery of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors discussed by the contributors in this book will lead to enhanced employee performance as the new decade approaches. The requirements for new employees or the redesigned employees is quickly changing. The organizations of tomorrow will expect employees who understand the importance of success; who welcome change and accept it, master it, and deliberately cause it. They are also employees who are proactive innovators, who confront constraints and the limitations on actions that they impose, who take risks and who continue to develop themselves professionally, technically, and personally. Written clearly, concisely, and with a minimum of academic jargon, the book will be important reading for specialists in human resource management, training and development, and others with critical responsibilities throughout the organization.

Recent improvements in healthcare delivery due to innovative technological advancements have redefined fields of biomedical science now allowing for enhanced information management, resource allocation, and quality assurance. Biocomputation and Biomedical Informatics: Case Studies and Applications provides a compendium of terms, definitions, and explanations of concepts, processes, and acronyms in this significant medical field of study. Featuring chapters authored by leading international experts, this unsurpassed collection provides a defining body of research indispensible to medical libraries, researchers, and institutions worldwide.

This book contains a selection of papers presented during a special workshop on Complexity Science organized as part of the 9th International Conference on GIScience 2016. Expert researchers in the areas of Agent-Based Modeling, Complexity Theory, Network Theory, Big Data, and emerging methods of Analysis and Visualization for new types of data explore novel complexity science approaches to dynamic geographic phenomena and their applications, addressing challenges and enriching research methodologies in geography in a Big Data Era.

Bioinformatics is an integrative field of computer science, genetics, genomics, proteomics, and statistics, which has undoubtedly revolutionized the study of biology and medicine in past decades. It mainly assists in modeling, predicting and interpreting large multidimensional biological data by utilizing advanced computational methods. Despite its enormous potential, bioinformatics is not widely integrated into the academic curriculum as most life science students and researchers are still not equipped with the necessary knowledge to take advantage of this powerful tool. Hence, the primary purpose of our book is to supplement this unmet need by providing an easily accessible platform for students and researchers starting their career in life sciences. This book aims to avoid sophisticated computational algorithms and programming. Instead, it focuses on simple DIY analysis and interpretation of biological data with personal computers. Our belief is that once the beginners acquire these basic skillsets, they will be able to handle most of the bioinformatics tools for their research work and to better understand their experimental outcomes. Our second title of this volume set In Silico Life Sciences: Medicine provides hands-on experience in analyzing high throughput molecular data for the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of monogenic or polygenic human diseases. The key concepts in this volume include risk factor assessment, genetic tests and result interpretation, personalized medicine, and drug discovery. This volume is expected to train readers in both single and multi-dimensional biological analysis using open data sets, and provides a unique learning experience through clinical scenarios and case studies.

Constant improvements in technological applications have allowed for more opportunities to develop automated systems. This not only leads to higher success in smart data analysis, but also ensures that technological progression will continue. Ubiquitous Machine Learning and its Applications is a pivotal reference source for the latest research on the issues and challenges machines face in the new millennium. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as computational advertising, software engineering, and bioinformatics, this publication is an ideal resource for academicians, graduate students, engineering professionals, and researchers interested in discovering how they can apply these advancements to various disciplines.

Advances in Computers, Volume 108, the latest volume in a series published since 1960, presents detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design and applications. This book provides contributors with a medium in which they can explore subjects in greater depth and breadth than similar topics in journal articles allow.

This volume contains papers based on presentations at the "Nagoya Winter Workshop 2015: Reality and Measurement in Algebraic Quantum Theory (NWW 2015)", held in Nagoya, Japan, in March 2015. The foundations of quantum theory have been a source of mysteries, puzzles, and confusions, and have encouraged innovations in mathematical languages to describe, analyze, and delineate this wonderland. Both ontological and epistemological questions about quantum reality and measurement have been placed in the center of the mysteries explored originally by Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, and Schroedinger. This volume describes how those traditional problems are nowadays explored from the most advanced perspectives. It includes new research results in quantum information theory, quantum measurement theory, information thermodynamics, operator algebraic and category theoretical foundations of quantum theory, and the interplay between experimental and theoretical investigations on the uncertainty principle. This book is suitable for a broad audience of mathematicians, theoretical and experimental physicists, and philosophers of science.

Wagman gives a broad, structured, and detailed account of advancing intellectual developments in both psychological and computational theories of the nature of problem- solving. Known for originating the PLATO computer-based Dilemma Counseling System, psychologist Wagman is the author of 17 books, including "Scientific Discovery Processes in Humans and Computers "(Praeger, 2000).

In this book, Professor Emeritus Morton Wagman gives a broad, structured, and detailed account of advancing intellectual developments in both psychological and computational theories of the nature of problem solving. Known for originating the PLATO computer-based Dilemma Counseling System, psychologist Wagman is the author of 17 books, including "Scientific Discovery Processes in Humans and Computers, "(Praeger, 2000)

Of special interest to readers will be Wagman's conclusion that artificial intelligence problem-solving systems are deepening and broadening theories of human problem solving from scientific to everyday approaches. Scholars and professionals in psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science will consider this a volume a valuable addition to their collections.

With complex systems and complex requirements being a challenge that designers must face to reach quality results, multi-formalism modeling offers tools and methods that allow modelers to exploit the benefits of different techniques in a general framework intended to address these challenges. Theory and Application of Multi-Formalism Modeling boldly explores the importance of this topic by gathering experiences, theories, applications, and solutions from diverse perspectives of those involved with multi-formalism modeling. Professionals, researchers, academics, and students in this field will be able to critically evaluate the latest developments and future directions of multi-formalism research.