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Although the transition between the first three industrial
revolutions took more than a century, Industry 4.0 is progressing
quickly. The emergence of digitalization has been rapid thanks to
the development of cutting-edge technologies. Though we are
witnessing this rapid technological decentralization and
interconnectivity at present, organizations and researchers are
already discussing Industry 5.0 where full integration of the human
side of business and intelligent systems is expected. In this
scenario, it is essential to look forward to such strategic
workplaces that allow a combination of humans and technology to
assure a high degree of automation merged with the cognitive skills
of business leaders. Managing Technology Integration for Human
Resources in Industry 5.0 provides insights into the impact of the
Industrial Revolution 4.0 on human resources. It provides insights
for both industry and academia to assist them in teaching and
training the next generation leaders through universities and
corporate training. Covering topics such as business performance,
human technology integration, and digitalization, this premier
reference source is an essential resource for human resource
managers, IT managers, organizational executives and leaders,
entrepreneurs, students and educators of higher education,
librarians, researchers, and academicians.
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.
Big Mechanisms in Systems Biology: Big Data Mining, Network
Modeling, and Genome-Wide Data Identification explains big
mechanisms of systems biology by system identification and big data
mining methods using models of biological systems. Systems biology
is currently undergoing revolutionary changes in response to the
integration of powerful technologies. Faced with a large volume of
available literature, complicated mechanisms, small prior
knowledge, few classes on the topics, and causal and mechanistic
language, this is an ideal resource. This book addresses system
immunity, regulation, infection, aging, evolution, and
carcinogenesis, which are complicated biological systems with
inconsistent findings in existing resources. These inconsistencies
may reflect the underlying biology time-varying systems and signal
transduction events that are often context-dependent, which raises
a significant problem for mechanistic modeling since it is not
clear which genes/proteins to include in models or experimental
measurements. The book is a valuable resource for bioinformaticians
and members of several areas of the biomedical field who are
interested in an in-depth understanding on how to process and apply
great amounts of biological data to improve research.
Advances in Computers, the latest volume in the series published
since 1960, presents detailed coverage of innovations in computer
hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. In addition,
it provides contributors with a medium in which they can explore
their subjects in greater depth and breadth than journal articles
usually allow. As a result, many articles have become standard
references that continue to be of significant, lasting value in
this rapidly expanding field.
Wearable technology can range anywhere between activity trackers to
prosthetics. These new advancements are continuously progressing
and becoming a part of daily life. Examining Developments and
Applications of Wearable Devices in Modern Society is a pivotal
reference source for the most innovative research on the expansion
of wearable computing and technology. Featuring coverage on a broad
range of topics such as stroke monitoring, augmented reality, and
cancer detection, this publication is ideally designed for
academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on
the challenges and benefits of the latest wearable devices.
The highly dynamic world of information technology service
management stresses the benefits of the quick and correct
implementation of IT services. A disciplined approach relies on a
separate set of assumptions and principles as an agile approach,
both of which have complicated implementation processes as well as
copious benefits. Combining these two approaches to enhance the
effectiveness of each, while difficult, can yield exceptional
dividends. Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and
Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products is an
essential publication that focuses on clarifying theoretical
foundations of balanced design methods with conceptual frameworks
and empirical cases. Highlighting a broad range of topics including
business trends, IT service, and software development, this book is
ideally designed for software engineers, software developers,
programmers, information technology professionals, researchers,
academicians, and students.
Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry provides timely and
critical reviews of important topics in computational chemistry as
applied to all chemical disciplines. Topics covered include quantum
chemistry, molecular mechanics, force fields, chemical education,
and applications in academic and industrial settings. Focusing on
the most recent literature and advances in the field, each article
covers a specific topic of importance to computational chemists.
Advances in Computers, the latest volume in the series published
since 1960, presents detailed coverage of innovations in computer
hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. In addition,
it provides contributors with a medium in which they can explore
their subjects in greater depth and breadth than journal articles
usually allow. As a result, many articles have become standard
references that continue to be of significant, lasting value in
this rapidly expanding field.
This book is a celebration of Leslie Lamport's work on concurrency,
interwoven in four-and-a-half decades of an evolving industry: from
the introduction of the first personal computer to an era when
parallel and distributed multiprocessors are abundant. His works
lay formal foundations for concurrent computations executed by
interconnected computers. Some of the algorithms have become
standard engineering practice for fault tolerant distributed
computing - distributed systems that continue to function correctly
despite failures of individual components. He also developed a
substantial body of work on the formal specification and
verification of concurrent systems, and has contributed to the
development of automated tools applying these methods. Part I
consists of technical chapters of the book and a biography. The
technical chapters of this book present a retrospective on
Lamport's original ideas from experts in the field. Through this
lens, it portrays their long-lasting impact. The chapters cover
timeless notions Lamport introduced: the Bakery algorithm, atomic
shared registers and sequential consistency; causality and logical
time; Byzantine Agreement; state machine replication and Paxos;
temporal logic of actions (TLA). The professional biography tells
of Lamport's career, providing the context in which his work arose
and broke new grounds, and discusses LaTeX - perhaps Lamport's most
influential contribution outside the field of concurrency. This
chapter gives a voice to the people behind the achievements,
notably Lamport himself, and additionally the colleagues around
him, who inspired, collaborated, and helped him drive worldwide
impact. Part II consists of a selection of Leslie Lamport's most
influential papers. This book touches on a lifetime of
contributions by Leslie Lamport to the field of concurrency and on
the extensive influence he had on people working in the field. It
will be of value to historians of science, and to researchers and
students who work in the area of concurrency and who are interested
to read about the work of one of the most influential researchers
in this field.
Advances in Computers carries on a tradition of excellence,
presenting detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware,
software, theory, design, and applications. The book provides
contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects
in greater depth and breadth than journal articles typically allow.
The articles included in this book will become standard references,
with lasting value in this rapidly expanding field.
Emerging Trends in Applications and Infrastructures for
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology: Systems
and Applications covers the latest trends in the field with special
emphasis on their applications. The first part covers the major
areas of computational biology, development and application of
data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling, and
computational simulation techniques for the study of biological and
behavioral systems. The second part covers bioinformatics, an
interdisciplinary field concerned with methods for storing,
retrieving, organizing, and analyzing biological data. The book
also explores the software tools used to generate useful biological
knowledge. The third part, on systems biology, explores how to
obtain, integrate, and analyze complex datasets from multiple
experimental sources using interdisciplinary tools and techniques,
with the final section focusing on big data and the collection of
datasets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process
using conventional database management systems or traditional data
processing applications.
Fog computing is quickly increasing its applications and uses to
the next level. As it continues to grow, different types of
virtualization technologies can thrust this branch of computing
further into mainstream use. The Handbook of Research on Cloud and
Fog Computing Infrastructures for Data Science is a key reference
volume on the latest research on the role of next-generation
systems and devices that are capable of self-learning and how those
devices will impact society. Featuring wide-ranging coverage across
a variety of relevant views and themes such as cognitive analytics,
data mining algorithms, and the internet of things, this
publication is ideally designed for programmers, IT professionals,
students, researchers, and engineers looking for innovative
research on software-defined cloud infrastructures and
domain-specific analytics.
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