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Indie Games: The Origins of Minecraft, Journey, Limbo, Dead Cells, The Banner Saga and Firewatch (Hardcover): Bounthavy Suvilay Indie Games: The Origins of Minecraft, Journey, Limbo, Dead Cells, The Banner Saga and Firewatch (Hardcover)
Bounthavy Suvilay; Edited by Sarah Rodriguez
R1,132 R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Save R225 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Video games have grown exponentially in recent years and have captured the hearts of millions thanks to the success of titles such as Minecraft, Journey, Limbo, Dead Cells, The Banner Saga or Firewatch. To compete with the blockbusters, the independents have had to be massively creative and come up with innovative gameplay, top-notch writing, original graphic universes, and sumptuous soundtracks. INDIE GAMES pays homage to some of the greatest success stories in the world of independent video games. Superbly illustrated, INDIE GAMES contains more than three hundred images from titles that revolutionized the gaming industry. Full of anecdotes and interviews with personalities like industry veteran Eric Chahi and young designers like Ian Dallas. You will see behind the scenes at Indie studios, revealing the creators, designs and marketing. This exploration will give you a better understanding on what is an “Indie” game. Official and authorized, with the participation of studios around the world, including over 50 interviews highlighting over 70 games, INDIE GAMES is the most complete and up-to-date overview of indie video gaming. With exclusive behind the scenes content provided by the studios, it serves as a fitting tribute to the audacity of these developers, who have elevated video games into an art.

The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Hardcover): Leon Kappelman The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Hardcover)
Leon Kappelman
R2,173 Discovery Miles 21 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Enterprise architecture is leading IT 's way to the executive boardroom, as CIOs are now taking their place at the management table. Organizations investing their time, money, and talent in enterprise architecture (EA) have realized significant process improvement and competitive advantage. However, as these organizations discovered, it is one thing to acquire a game-changing technology but quite another to discover ways to use it well.

A project of the Society for Information Management 's Enterprise Architecture Working Group and edited by Leon A. Kappelman, The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture provides insights from leading authorities on EA, including John Zachman, Larry DeBoever, George Paras, Jeanne Ross, and Randy Hite. The book supplies a solid understanding of key concepts for effectively leveraging EA to redesign business processes, integrate services, and become an Information Age enterprise. Beginning with a look at current theory and frameworks, the book discusses the practical application of enterprise architecture and includes a wealth of best practices, resources, and references. It contains the SIM survey of IT organizations EA activities, which provides important metrics for evaluating progress and success.

Successful businesses exploit synergy among business functions and push the boundaries of process design. IT 's cross-functional position uniquely qualifies it to lead process innovation. EA lets CIOs integrate technology with business vision and is the roadmap for implementing new systems, changing behavior, and driving value. This book explores the vision, foundation, and enabling technology required to successfully transform organizations with enterprise architecture.

The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook (Paperback): Paul Gibbons The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook (Paperback)
Paul Gibbons
R2,135 Discovery Miles 21 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freedom of information (FOI) is now an international phenomenon with over 100 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe enacting the right to know for their citizens. Since 2005, the UK’s Freedom of Information Act has opened up thousands of public bodies to unparalleled scrutiny and prompted further moves to transparency. Wherever the right to know is introduced, its success depends on the way it is implemented. In organisations worldwide, FOI only works because of those who oversee its operation on a day-to-day basis, promoting openness, processing requests and advising colleagues and the public. FOI is dependent on the FOI Officers. The Freedom of Information Officer’s Handbook is a comprehensive guide to FOI and its management. It is designed to be an indispensable tool for FOI Officers and their colleagues. It includes: a guide to the UK’s FOI Act, the right to know and the exemptions clear analysis of the most important case law and its implications for the handling of FOI requests pointers to the best resources to help FOI officers in their work explanations of how FOI interacts with other legislation, including detailed explorations of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and how the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation impacts on FOI a look at requirements to proactively publish information and the effect of copyright and re-use laws on FOI and open data comparisons of the UK’s Act with FOI legislation in other jurisdictions from Scotland to South Africa an exploration of the role of the FOI Officer: who they are, what they do, their career development and what makes them effective suggestions on how to embed FOI within an organisation using effective procedures, technology and training a stage-by-stage guide to processing requests for information. The Freedom of Information Officers’ Handbook includes the latest developments in FOI including amendments made to the UK’s FOI Act by the Data Protection Act 2018 and the revised s.45 code of practice published by the Cabinet Office in July 2018.

Social Work and ICT (Paperback): Andrew Hill, Ian Shaw Social Work and ICT (Paperback)
Andrew Hill, Ian Shaw
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become an integral part of social and working lives. Within social work ICTs play a vital role, helping professionals to store and share information and contributing to new forms of practice. This book goes a step further than simply describing ICT skills, but asks why ICT is used and how this affects practice and the experience of people who use services. The book has a practical focus and includes guidance on: Best Practice for Social Work and ICT ICT Use in Social Work Service Users, Carers and ICT Technology and Professional Practice ICT and Social Work Agencies Social Work Programmes in the Virtual World ICT and Practice Based Learning Written in a student-friendly style, Social Work and ICT is interspersed with activities and exercises to enable students to develop their skills and knowledge. Each chapter also includes a 'Taking it Further' section with useful websites, suggestions for further reading and ideas to improve practice. The book has been designed to enhance professional practice and it will be essential reading for all undergraduate programmes in social work.

Coding for Beginners in easy steps (Paperback, 2nd edition): Mike McGrath Coding for Beginners in easy steps (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mike McGrath
R527 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R82 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Indigeneity in Real Time - The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia (Hardcover): Ingrid Kummels Indigeneity in Real Time - The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia (Hardcover)
Ingrid Kummels
R3,402 Discovery Miles 34 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
MLOps Engineering at Scale (Paperback): Carl Osipov MLOps Engineering at Scale (Paperback)
Carl Osipov
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Deploying a machine learning model into a fully realized production system usually requires painstaking work by an operations team creating and managing custom servers. Cloud Native Machine Learning helps you bridge that gap by using the pre-built services provided by cloud platforms like Azure and AWS to assemble your ML system's infrastructure. Following a real-world use case for calculating taxi fares, you'll learn how to get a serverless ML pipeline up and running using AWS services. Clear and detailed tutorials show you how to develop reliable, flexible, and scalable machine learning systems without time-consuming management tasks or the costly overheads of physical hardware. about the technologyYour new machine learning model is ready to put into production, and suddenly all your time is taken up by setting up your server infrastructure. Serverless machine learning offers a productivity-boosting alternative. It eliminates the time-consuming operations tasks from your machine learning lifecycle, letting out-of-the-box cloud services take over launching, running, and managing your ML systems. With the serverless capabilities of major cloud vendors handling your infrastructure, you're free to focus on tuning and improving your models. about the book Cloud Native Machine Learning is a guide to bringing your experimental machine learning code to production using serverless capabilities from major cloud providers. You'll start with best practices for your datasets, learning to bring VACUUM data-quality principles to your projects, and ensure that your datasets can be reproducibly sampled. Next, you'll learn to implement machine learning models with PyTorch, discovering how to scale up your models in the cloud and how to use PyTorch Lightning for distributed ML training. Finally, you'll tune and engineer your serverless machine learning pipeline for scalability, elasticity, and ease of monitoring with the built-in notification tools of your cloud platform. When you're done, you'll have the tools to easily bridge the gap between ML models and a fully functioning production system. what's inside Extracting, transforming, and loading datasets Querying datasets with SQL Understanding automatic differentiation in PyTorch Deploying trained models and pipelines as a service endpoint Monitoring and managing your pipeline's life cycle Measuring performance improvements about the readerFor data professionals with intermediate Python skills and basic familiarity with machine learning. No cloud experience required. about the author Carl Osipov has spent over 15 years working on big data processing and machine learning in multi-core, distributed systems, such as service-oriented architecture and cloud computing platforms. While at IBM, Carl helped IBM Software Group to shape its strategy around the use of Docker and other container-based technologies for serverless computing using IBM Cloud and Amazon Web Services. At Google, Carl learned from the world's foremost experts in machine learning and also helped manage the company's efforts to democratize artificial intelligence. You can learn more about Carl from his blog Clouds With Carl.

Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2011 - Smart Systems for Electric, Safe and Networked Mobility (Hardcover,... Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2011 - Smart Systems for Electric, Safe and Networked Mobility (Hardcover, Edition.)
Gereon Meyer, JĂźrgen Valldorf
R7,151 Discovery Miles 71 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fundamental transformations are imminent for the automobile today: propulsion technologies are going to shift from combustion engines to electric motors; cars and roads will soon be as safe and convenient as never before; and traffic will flow increasingly efficient. Many of these advancements are due to innovative information and communication technologies, controls and smart systems, both in the vehicle and at its interfaces with the systems for power supply, mobility and data communication.

The papers published in this book are selected from the submissions to the 15th International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2011) Smart Systems for Electric, Safe and Networked Mobility . They cover components, architectures and smart systems enabling the following functionalities: electric driving, safe cars and roads, and connected vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.amaa.de

Multifunctional Nanocomposites for Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy (Paperback): Awesh K. Yadav, Rahul Shukla, Rewati... Multifunctional Nanocomposites for Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy (Paperback)
Awesh K. Yadav, Rahul Shukla, Rewati Raman Ujjwal
R3,340 Discovery Miles 33 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Multifunctional Nanocomposites for Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy explores the design, synthesis, and application of different multifunctional nanocomposites drug delivery system for cancer treatment. It encompasses initial chapters discussing introductory information about cancer, followed by chapters focusing on the detailed information about various novel drug delivery systems for treatment of several organ site cancers such as prostate, skin, breast, lung, liver, pancreas, stomach, colon, blood, mouth and throat. It is a valuable resource for cancer researchers, oncologists, graduate students, and members of biomedical research who need to understand more about novel nanotechnologies applied to cancer treatment.

Cartooning, The Professional Step-by-Step Guide to - Learn to draw cartoons with over 1500 practical illustrations; all you... Cartooning, The Professional Step-by-Step Guide to - Learn to draw cartoons with over 1500 practical illustrations; all you need to know to create cartoon and comic strip characters and how to bring the to life using props and imaginative backgrounds, including techniques for digital enhancement and simple animation (Paperback)
Ivan Hissey, Curtis Tappenden
R308 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R45 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Computing Skills for Economists (Paperback): G Judge Computing Skills for Economists (Paperback)
G Judge
R1,379 Discovery Miles 13 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Computing Skills for Economists can be used as a core textbook for students taking an introductory course in computing for economists and also as a guide for economists who wish to develop their computing skills through self-directed study. In this book, Guy Judge focuses on the tools and resources that are particularly relevant to economists with examples of their use in economics. A web site has been set up to support this book providing information on new developments and supplementary materials. This web site can be found at http://www.wiley.co.uk/judge

"A unique book, essential to any economist's toolkit. From the level of the absolute beginner, and in a very user-friendly style, it takes the reader step by step through the entire range of computing skills essential to the study of economics. The book answers innumerable questions and saves many hours otherwise typically squandered on 'trial and error' methods of mastering software. Almost any economics student, whatever their level, will learn something new from this book." Geoff Renshaw, Lecturer in Economics, University of Warwick

"This book is impressive for the comprehensiveness and clarity of its explanations of mainly Windows applications of personal computer research tools for economists. Its accessibility to those with diverse computer literacy will raise the bar of the skills instructors can reasonable expect of their students without sacrificing valuable class time or having to prepare elaborate handouts to level the playing field. Its extensive examples will teach students a good deal of ecomonics as well as enriching their research abilities." Arnie Katz, Economics Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburhg

"A goldmine of skills for every aspiring economist. Something for everyone." Ron Shone, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Stirling


Global Perspectives on Design Science Research - 5th International Conference, DESRIST 2010, St. Gallen, Switzerland, June 4-5,... Global Perspectives on Design Science Research - 5th International Conference, DESRIST 2010, St. Gallen, Switzerland, June 4-5, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Robert Winter, J. Leon Zhao, Stephan Aier
R3,219 Discovery Miles 32 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Withfour inspiringconferencesthattookplaceinClaremont,Pasadena,Atlanta and Philadelphia, the International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) has developed into a premier conferencefordesign-orientedresearchinInformationSystems.Becomingatruly global conference series, DESRIST was held in St.Gallen, Switzerland, in 2010. DESRIST2010broughttogetherresearchersandpractitionersengagedindesign science research from all over the world to provide global perspectives on both design science and design research in the broadest sense. The design science research paradigm has been discussed thoroughly in - centyearsandisnowgaininggroundfor bothbuildingknowledgeandimproving practice in information systems and several related disciplines. As opposed to naturalandsocialresearch,designresearchdoesnotcraveultimatetruths,grand theories or general laws, but seeks to identify and understand real-world pr- lems and propose appropriate, useful solutions. It is commonly believed that design research involves building, investigating and evaluating innovative ar- facts such as constructs, frameworks, models, methods, and information system instantiations in order to solve practicalproblems. Moreover,the study of me- ods, behaviours, and best practices related to the problem analysis and artefact development process are encompassed - commonly referred to as design science. Anongoingdebaterelatedtothenature,scopeanddominantideologiesofdesign science research, however, shows that the paradigm is still emerging. Its core, its boundaries and its interplay with other research approaches are increasingly being revealed and de?ned. The topical theme of DESRIST 2010 is "Global Perspectives on Design S- ence Research". Once more, the DESRIST conference successfully serves as a forum for raising and discussing new ideas in the area of design science research.

High-Quality Visual Experience - Creation, Processing and Interactivity of High-Resolution and High-Dimensional Video Signals... High-Quality Visual Experience - Creation, Processing and Interactivity of High-Resolution and High-Dimensional Video Signals (Hardcover, Edition.)
Marta Mrak, Mislav Grgic, Murat Kunt
R7,174 Discovery Miles 71 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Last few years have seen rapid acceptance of high-definition television (HDTV) technology around the world. This technology has been hugely successful in delivering more realistic television experience at home and accurate imaging for professional applications. Adoption of high definition continues to grow as consumers demand enhanced features and greater quality of content. Following this trend, natural evolution of visualisation technologies will be in the direction of fully realistic visual experience and highly precise imaging. However, using the content of even higher resolution and quality is not straightforward as such videos require significantly higher access bandwidth and more processing power. Therefore, methods for radical reduction of video bandwidth are crucial for realisation of high visual quality. Moreover, it is desirable to look into other ways of accessing visual content, solution to which lies in innovative schemes for content delivery and consumption. This book presents selected chapters covering technologies that will enable greater flexibility in video content representation and allow users to access content from any device and to interact with it.

Web Information Systems and Technologies - 5th International Conference, WEBIST 2009, Lisbon, Portugal, March 23-26, 2009,... Web Information Systems and Technologies - 5th International Conference, WEBIST 2009, Lisbon, Portugal, March 23-26, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
JosĂŠ Cordeiro, Joaquim Filipe
R2,871 Discovery Miles 28 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contains a selection of the best papers from WEBIST 2009 (the 5th Int- national Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies), held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2009, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Inf- mation, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in collaboration with ACM SIGMIS and co-sponsored by the Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC). The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of Web-based information systems. The conference has four main tracks, covering different aspects of Web information systems, including Internet Techn- ogy, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business and e-Government. WEBIST 2009 received 203 paper submissions from 47 countries on all con- nents. A double-blind review process was enforced, with the help of more than 150 experts from the International Program Committee; each of them specialized in one of the main conference topic areas. After reviewing, 28 papers were selected to be published and presented as full papers and 44 additional papers, describing work-- progress, published and presented as short papers. Furthermore, 35 papers were p- sented as posters. The full-paper acceptance ratio was 13%, and the total oral paper acceptance ratio was 36%. Therefore, we hope that you find the papers included in this book interesting, and we trust they may represent a helpful reference for all those who need to address any of the research areas mentioned above. January 2010 JosĂŠ Cordeiro Joaquim Filipe

Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography - 4th Workshop, TQC 2009, Waterloo, Canada, May 11-13. Revised... Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography - 4th Workshop, TQC 2009, Waterloo, Canada, May 11-13. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Andrew Childs, Michele Mosca
R2,557 Discovery Miles 25 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography, TQC 2009, held in Waterloo, Canada, in May 2009.

The 10 revised papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers present current original research and focus on theoretical aspects of quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography, which are part of a larger interdisciplinary field embedding information science in a quantum mechanical framework. Topics addressed are such as quantum algorithms, models of quantum computation, quantum complexity theory, simulation of quantum systems, quantum cryptography, quantum communication, quantum estimation and measurement, quantum noise, quantum coding theory, fault-tolerant quantum computing, and entanglement theory.

Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (Paperback, 2010 ed.): George... Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
George Q. Huang, K.L. Mak, Paul G. Maropoulos
R12,992 Discovery Miles 129 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Proceedings volume contains articles presented at the CIRP-Sponsored Inter- tional Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (DET2009) that takes place December 14–16, 2009 in Hong Kong. This is the 6th DET conference in the series and the first to be held in Asia. Professor Paul Maropoulos initiated, hosted and chaired the 1st International DET Conference held in 2002 at the University of D- ham. Since this inaugural first DET conference, DET conference series has been s- cessfully held in 2004 at Seattle, Washington USA, in 2006 at Setubal Portugal, in 2007 at Bath England, and in 2008 at Nantes France. The DET2009 conference continues to bring together International expertise from the academic and industrial fields, pushing forward the boundaries of research kno- edge and best practice in digital enterprise technology for design and manufacturing, and logistics and supply chain management. Over 120 papers from over 10 countries have been accepted for presentation at DET2009 and inclusion in this Proceedings volume after stringent refereeing process. On behalf of the organizing and program committees, the Editors are grateful to the many people who have made DET2009 possible: to the authors and presenters, es- cially the keynote speakers, to those who have diligently reviewed submissions, to members of International Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee and Advisory Committes, and to colleagues for their hard work in sorting out all the arrangements. We would also like to extend our gratitude to DET2009 sponsors, co-organizers, and supporting organizations.

Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development V - Focus: Aspects, Dependencies and Interactions (Paperback, 2009 ed.):... Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development V - Focus: Aspects, Dependencies and Interactions (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Awais Rashid, Harold Ossher
R2,609 Discovery Miles 26 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The LNCS journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techniques in the context of all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution. The focus of the journal is on approaches for systematic identification, modularization, representation and composition of crosscutting concerns, i.e., the aspects and evaluation of such approaches and their impact on improving quality attributes of software systems.

This volume, the fifth in the Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development series, contains three papers submitted through the regular channel, and three papers on the special focus area of aspects, dependencies and interactions. The first two papers concentrate on applications of AOSD to the fields of scheduling of web applications and operations research, respectively, while the third paper applies the technique of bisimulation to aspect-oriented languages. The special focus area on aspects, dependencies and interactions is introduced by the guest editors Ruzanna Chitchyan, Johan Fabry, Shmuel Katz, and Arend Rensink.

Pixels & Paintings (Hardcover): David G. Stork Pixels & Paintings (Hardcover)
David G. Stork
R3,757 Discovery Miles 37 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The pioneering presentation of computer-based image analysis of fine art, forging a dialog between art scholars and the computer vision community In recent years, sophisticated computer vision, graphics, and artificial intelligence algorithms have proven to be increasingly powerful tools in the study of fine art. These methods—some adapted from forensic digital photography and others developed specifically for art—empower a growing number of computer-savvy art scholars, conservators, and historians to answer longstanding questions as well as provide new approaches to the interpretation of art. Pixels and Paintings provides the first and authoritative overview of the broad range of these methods, which extend from image processing of palette, marks, brush strokes, and shapes up through analysis of objects, poses, style, and composition, to the computation of simple interpretations of artworks. Throughout, this book stresses that computer methods must always be used in the cultural contexts and art-historical questions at hand—a blend of humanistic and scientific expertises. This book: Describes powerful computer image analysis methods and their application to problems in the history and interpretation of fine art Discusses some of the art historical lessons and revelations provided by the use of these methods Clarifies the assumptions and applicability of methods and the role of cultural contexts in their use Shows how computation can be used to analyze tens of thousands of artworks to reveal trends and anomalies that could not be found by traditional non-computer methods. Pixels and Paintings is essential reading for computer image analysts and graphics specialists, conservators, historians, students, psychologists and the general public interested in the study and appreciation of art.

The Coming Robot Revolution - Expectations and Fears About Emerging Intelligent, Humanlike Machines (Hardcover, 2009 ed.):... The Coming Robot Revolution - Expectations and Fears About Emerging Intelligent, Humanlike Machines (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Yoseph Bar-Cohen; Designed by Adi Marom; David Hanson
R969 R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Save R185 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Making a robot that looks and behaves like a human being has been the subject of many popular science fiction movies and books. Although the development of such a robot facesmanychallenges,themakingofavirtualhumanhaslongbeenpotentiallypossible. With recent advances in various key technologies related to hardware and software, the making of humanlike robots is increasingly becoming an engineering reality. Development of the required hardware that can perform humanlike functions in a lifelike manner has benefitted greatly from development in such technologies as biologically inspired materials, artificial intelligence, artificial vision, and many others. Producing a humanlike robot that makes body and facial expressions, communicates verbally using extensive vocabulary, and interprets speech with high accuracy is ext- mely complicated to engineer. Advances in voice recognition and speech synthesis are increasingly improving communication capabilities. In our daily life we encounter such innovations when we call the telephone operators of most companies today. As robotics technology continues to improve we are approaching the point where, on seeing such a robot, we will respond with ‘‘Wow, this robot looks unbelievably real!’’ just like the reaction to an artificial flower. The accelerating pace of advances in related fields suggests that the emergence of humanlike robots that become part of our daily life seems to be imminent. These robots are expected to raise ethical concerns and may also raise many complex questions related to their interaction with humans.

Engineering Interactive Systems 2008 - Second Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2008 and 7th... Engineering Interactive Systems 2008 - Second Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2008 and 7th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams, TAMODIA 2008, Pisa, Italy, September 25-26, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Fabio Paternò
R2,866 Discovery Miles 28 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the combined proceedings of the second working conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering (HCSE 2008) and the 6th International Workshop on TAsk MOdels and DIAgrams (TAMODIA 2008); jointly held as EIS 2008, the international event on Engineering Interactive Systems, in Pisa, Italy, in September 2008.

The 3 revised full and 11 revised short papers of HCSE 2008 and 7 revised long and 5 revised short papers of TAMODIA 2008 presented together with a keynote paper and 3 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. HCSE 2008 addresses the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and user-centred design as an essential part of software engineering process. TAMODIA 2008 is an international workshop on models, such as task models and visual representations in Human-Computer Interaction and focuses on notations used to describe user tasks ranging from textual and graphical forms to interactive, multimodal and multimedia tools.

Computer Science Logic - 22nd International Workshop, CSL 2008, 17th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Bertinoro, Italy,... Computer Science Logic - 22nd International Workshop, CSL 2008, 17th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Bertinoro, Italy, September 16-19, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Michael Kaminski, Simone Martini
R3,673 Discovery Miles 36 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Computer Science Logic, CSL 2008, held as the 17th Annual Conference of the EACSL in Bertinoro, Italy, in September 2008.

The 31 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. All current aspects of logic in computer science are addressed, ranging from foundational and methodological issues to application issues of practical relevance. The book concludes with a presentation of this year's Ackermann award.

Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems - Third International Workshop, HAIS 2008, Burgos, Spain, September 24-26, 2008,... Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems - Third International Workshop, HAIS 2008, Burgos, Spain, September 24-26, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Emilio Corchado, Ajith Abraham
R4,737 Discovery Miles 47 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Third International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2008) presented the most recent developments in the dynamically expanding realm of symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques aimed at the construction of highly robust and reliable problem-solving techniques. Hybrid intelligent systems have become incre- ingly popular given their capabilities to handle a broad spectrum of real-world c- plex problems which come with inherent imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness, high-dimensionality, and non stationarity. These systems provide us with the oppor- nity to exploit existing domain knowledge as well as raw data to come up with prom- ing solutions in an effective manner. Being truly multidisciplinary, the series of HAIS workshops offers a unique research forum to present and discuss the latest theoretical advances and real-world applications in this exciting research field. This volume of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) includes accepted papers presented at HAIS 2008 held in University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain, Sept- ber 2008 The global purpose of HAIS conferences has been to form a broad and interdis- plinary forum for hybrid artificial intelligence systems and associated learning pa- digms, which are playing increasingly important roles in a large number of application areas. Since its first edition in Brazil in 2006, HAIS has become an important forum for researchers working on fundamental and theoretical aspects of hybrid artificial intel- gence systems based on the use of agents and multiagent systems, bioinformatics and bio-inspired models, fuzzy systems, artificial vision, artificial neural networks, opti- zation models and alike.

Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns - 16th International Conference, EKAW 2008, Acitrezza, Sicily, Italy September 29... Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns - 16th International Conference, EKAW 2008, Acitrezza, Sicily, Italy September 29 - October 3, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Aldo Gangemi, JĂŠrĂ´me Euzenat
R3,152 Discovery Miles 31 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Knowledge is considered as the most important asset in our modern society. It has now penetrated all facets of computing practice: from the rise of knowledge management to the Semantic Web and from the blog culture to the knowledge economy. This penetration has made proper knowledge engineering a most - quired feature. This volume contains the papers presented at the 16th International C- ference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008) held in Acitrezza, Sicily, Italy, September 29 to October 3 2008. EKAW 2008 is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the Semantic Web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent integration information, etc. This year we paid special attention to the topic of “knowledge patterns” that can be considered as good practice or models that are applied or reused throughout the knowledge engineering life cycle. Hence, beyond traditional t- icsofEKAW,wesolicitedpapersthatcoverresearchonhowtodescribe,classify, model, extract and apply knowledge patterns in the design of ontologies, app- cations and products. We have paid special attention to the description of ex- riences that involve the application and identi?cation of knowledge patterns in social network analysis, natural language processing, multimedia analysis, p- tern recognition, etc.

Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications - 9th International Colloquium, ICGI 2008 Saint-Malo, France, September... Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications - 9th International Colloquium, ICGI 2008 Saint-Malo, France, September 22-24, 2008 Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Alexander Clark, François Coste, Laurent Miclet
R2,618 Discovery Miles 26 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, ICGI 2008, held in Saint-Malo, France, in September 2008.

The 21 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The topics of the papers presented vary from theoretical results of learning algorithms to innovative applications of grammatical inference, and from learning several interesting classes of formal grammars to applications to natural language processing.

Software Architecture - Second International Conference, ECSA 2008 Paphos, Cyprus, September 29-October 1, 2008 Proceedings... Software Architecture - Second International Conference, ECSA 2008 Paphos, Cyprus, September 29-October 1, 2008 Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Ronald Morrison, Dharini Balasubramaniam, Katrina Falkner
R2,885 Discovery Miles 28 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European conference dedicated to the field of software architecture, covering all architectural features of software engineering. It is the follow-up of a successful series of European workshops on software architecture held in the UK in 2004 (Springer LNCS 3047), Italy in 2005 (Springer LNCS 3527), and France in 2006 (Springer LNCS 4344). It evolved into a series of European conferences whose first edition was ECSA 2007, held in Madrid, Spain during September 24–26, 2007 (Springer LNCS 4758). This year’s conference was held at the beautiful Coral Beach Hotel and Resort near Paphos in Cyprus. As with the previous versions of the conference, ECSA 2008 (Springer LNCS 5292) provided an international forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present innovative research and to discuss a wide range of topics in the area of software architecture. It focused on formalisms, technologies, and processes for describing, verifying, validating, transforming, building, and evolving software systems. Covered topics included architecture modelling, architecture description languages, architectural aspects, architecture analysis, transformation and synthesis, architecture evolution, quality attributes, model-driven engineering, built-in testing and architecture-based support for component-based and service-oriented systems. The conference attracted paper submissions from 29 countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, - land, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the UK, USA, and Venezuela).

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