The author shows how using computers and FORTRAN 95 it is possible to tackle and solve a wide range of problems as they might be encountered in engineering or in the physical sciences.

Human attention is in the highest demand it has ever been. The drastic increase in available information has compelled individuals to find a way to sift through the media that is literally at their fingertips. Content recommendation systems have emerged as the technological solution to this social and informational problem, but they've also created a bigger crisis in confirming our biases by showing us only, and exactly, what it predicts we want to see. Data versus Democracy investigates and explores how, in the era of social media, human cognition, algorithmic recommendation systems, and human psychology are all working together to reinforce (and exaggerate) human bias. The dangerous confluence of these factors is driving media narratives, influencing opinions, and possibly changing election results. In this book, algorithmic recommendations, clickbait, familiarity bias, propaganda, and other pivotal concepts are analyzed and then expanded upon via fascinating and timely case studies: the 2016 US presidential election, Ferguson, GamerGate, international political movements, and more events that come to affect every one of us. What are the implications of how we engage with information in the digital age? Data versus Democracy explores this topic and an abundance of related crucial questions. We live in a culture vastly different from any that has come before. In a society where engagement is currency, we are the product. Understanding the value of our attention, how organizations operate based on this concept, and how engagement can be used against our best interests is essential in responsibly equipping ourselves against the perils of disinformation. Who This Book Is For Individuals who are curious about how social media algorithms work and how they can be manipulated to influence culture. Social media managers, data scientists, data administrators, and educators will find this book particularly relevant to their work.

As security technology (ST) becomes specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in ST have common threads and because of this, advances in one sub-discipline may transmit to another. The presentation of results between d- ferent sub-disciplines of ST encourages this interchange for the advancement of ST as a whole. Of particular interest is the hybrid approach of combining ideas from one discipline with those of another to achieve a result that is more significant than the sum of the individual parts. Through this hybrid philosophy, a new or common pr- ciple can be discovered which has the propensity to propagate throughout this mul- faceted discipline. This volume comprises the selection of extended versions of papers that were p- sented in their shortened form at the 2008 International Conference on Security Te- nology (http: //www.sersc.org/SECTECH2008/) and 2009 Advanced Science and Te- nology (http: //www.sersc.org/AST2009/). We would like to acknowledge the great effort of all in the SecTech 2008 and AST 2009 International Advisory Board and members of the International Program Committee, as well as all the organizations and individuals who supported the idea of publishing these advances in security technology, including SERSC (http: //www.sersc.org/) and Springer. We would like to give special thanks to Rosslin John Robles, Maricel O. Balitanas, Farkhod Alisherov Alisherovish, Feruza Sattarova Yusfovna. These graduate school students of Hannam University attended to the editing process of this volume with great passi

It isour greatpleasureto welcomeyouto the SecondInternationalWorkshopon Future Multimedia Networking (FMN). Following the ?rst successful workshop (held in Cardi?, Wales) in 2008, this year's workshop continues the tradition of being a premier forum that gives researchers and practitioners a unique - portunity to share their experiences and discuss state-of-the-art research results and major recent accomplishments in the area of multimedia networking. In recent years, real-time multimedia services have contributed extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the future Internet. The management of content distribution services and the e?cient deliveryof real-timemultimedia servicesoverdiverseand heterogeneous wired and wireless systems remain a signi?cant challenge for future multimedia networking systems. This year's workshop focused on various aspects of mul- media systems, content networking, and autonomous communication. A speci?c emphasis was placed on upcoming autonomic content networks and technologies that contribute to their development. The call for papers attracted 64 submissions from 32 countries for the main workshop. The Program Committee accepted 16 papers (an acceptance rate of 25%) that cover a range of topics, including wireless and ad-hoc networks in autonomic content networking, streaming and voice services, group and mul- party services, and quality in video and Internet services. This year we also had a Demonstration Session on Future Multimedia Networking for which 12 papers wereacceptedoutofsubmissionsreceivedfromover15countries. Itisoursincere hope that the proceedings of this workshop will serve as a valuable reference for multimedia researchers and developers.

The First International ICST Conference on Communications Infrastructure, Systems and Applications in Europe (EuropeComm 2009) was held August 11-13, 2009, in London. EuropeComm 2009 brought together decision makers from the EU comm- sion, top researchers and industry executives to discuss the directions of communi- tions research and development in Europe. The event also attracted academia and industry representatives, as well as government officials to discuss the current dev- opments and future trends in technology, applications and services in the communi- tions field. Organizing this conference was motivated by the fact that the development and - ployment of future services will require a common global-scale infrastructure, and therefore it is important that designers and stakeholders from all the systems stacks come together to discuss these developments. Rapidly decreasing costs of compu- tional power, storage capacity, and communication bandwidth have led to the dev- opment of a multitude of applications carrying an increasingly huge amount of traffic on the global networking infrastructure. What we have seen is an evolution: an inf- structure looking for networked applications has evolved into an infrastructure str- gling to meet the social, technological and business challenges posed by the plethora of bandwidth-hungry emerging applications.

Computer-based systems have become omnipresent commodities within our - vironment. While for a large variety of these systems such as transportation systems, nuclear or chemical plants, or medical systems their relation to safety is obvious, we often do not re?ect that others are as directly related to risks concerning harm done to persons or matter as, for example, elevator control or mobile phones. At least we are not aware of the risk in our daily use of them. Safecomp as a community and a conference series has accompanied this - velopment for 30 years up to Safecomp 2009, which was the 28th of the series. During this time the topics and methods as well as the community have und- gone changes. These changes re?ect the requirements of the above-mentioned ubiquitious presence of safety-related systems. Safecomp has always encouraged and will further encourage academia and industry to share and exchange their ideas and experiences. After 30 years, we as the organizers of Safecomp 2009, found it imperative to take stock: which methods found their way into the application areas; which new approaches need to be checked for their practical applicability. As di?erent application domains developed their own approaches over the previous decades, we tried to attract people with di?erent backgrounds for this conference. - though the years 2008 and 2009 were not easy with regard to the overall global economic situation, we succeeded with this goal.

The 8th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2004) was held during December 15-17, 2004 at Grenoble, France. It continued a tradition of successful conferences with friendly and pleasant - mospheres. The earlier organizationsof OPODIS were held in Luzarches(1997), Amiens (1998), Hanoi (1999), Paris (2000), Mexico (2001), Reims (2002) and La Martinique (2003). OPODIS is an open forum for exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on distributed computing and systems among researchers from around the world. Followingthetraditionofthepreviousorganizations,the2004programwasc- posed of high-quality contributed and invited papers by experts of international caliberinthisscienti?carea. Thetopics ofinterestwerethetheory,speci?cation, design and implementation of distributed systems, which include: - peer-to-peer systems, cluster and grid-based computing - fault tolerance and self-stabilizing systems -real-timeandembeddedsystems - coordination and consistency protocols - distributed and multiprocessor algorithms - communication and synchronization protocols - self-stabilization, reliability and fault tolerance - performance analysis of distributed algorithms and systems - speci? cation and veri?cation of distributed systems - security issues in distributed computing and systems - distributed collaborative environments - location- and context-aware systems - overlay network architectures In response to the call for papers for OPODIS 2004, in total 102 papers in the above areas were submitted from 28 countries from over the world. Each paper was reviewed by three reviewers, and judged according to scienti?c and presentationquality,originality andrelevance to the conference topics. Then the ProgramCommitteeselected30papers. Theacceptanceratiowaslessthan30%. Besides the technical contributed papers, the program included two exciting invited talks: Prof. David Lee (Ohio State University, USA) and Dr.

Die Vernetzung von industriellen Produktionssystemen soll in Zukunft auf Basis von Ethernet Time Sensitive Networks (TSN) umgesetzt werden. Die Einfuhrung einer neuen Netzwerktechnik in die Feldebene der industriellen Produktion stellt jedoch eine besondere Herausforderung dar, da neben Netzwerkfunktionen eine echtzeitfahige Implementierung von Protokollen und spezifischen Anwendungen in die Feldgerate erforderlich ist. Bei haufig geringen Stuckzahlen der anwendungsspezifischen Gerate sind derartige Neuentwicklungen haufig wirtschaftlich nicht tragbar. Migrationsstrategien kommt daher eine entsprechend grosse Bedeutung zu. Die Forschungsfrage dieser Arbeit lautet: Wie koennen bestehende Gerate des Echtzeit-Ethernet-Systems PROFINET mit den geforderten Funktions- und Leistungsmerkmalen wie Zeitsynchronisation und synchronisierte Kommunikation kompatibel mit Ethernet TSN-Netzwerken genutzt werden? Der Autor entwickelte Kompatibilitatsverfahren, mit denen dies moeglich wird. Das zentrale Kompatibilitatsverfahren ist der Ethernet TSN-kompatible Bridging-Modus Time Aware Forwarding (TAF), der zeitgesteuerte Kommunikation auf der Basis der Empfangszeit zeitrichtig weiterleitet und per Softwareupdate auf bestehender PROFINET-Hardware implementiert werden kann. Diese Gerate koennen damit in TSN-Netzwerke integriert werden und synchronisierte Kommunikation mit einem Jitter kleiner als 1 s nutzen.

A comprehensive look at General automata and how it can be used to establish the fundamentals for communication in human-computer systems

Drawing on author Eldo C. Koenig's extensive expertise and culling from his thirty-four previously published works, this seminal resource presents knowledge structures for communication in Human-Computer Systems (HCS) based on General automata. The resulting model provides knowledge representations for software engineering.

Of the many features required for a method to achieve the desired communication in HCS, Knowledge Structures for Communications in Human-Computer Systems identifies six of them in great length--extracting and storing the knowledge of sentences; knowledge association; deductive processes; inferences; feedback; and sequencing of knowledge--along with illustrations for achieving them by the General Automata Method. After presenting the analysis for each feature, the book includes practical applications that illustrate the results. Koenig also describes algorithms and programs that achieve some of the features, and provides readers with additional algorithms and further research.

Richly illustrated throughout to elucidate concepts, Knowledge Structures for Communications in Human-Computer Systems is an excellent teaching text suitable for both academic and industrial settings.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2019, held in Uberlandia, Brazil, in May 2019. The 17 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 initial submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: machine learning; Internet of Things and mobility; cloud and related technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2019, held in Leipzig, Germany, in April 2019, co-located with the Evo*2019 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoMUSART. The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Engineering and Real World Applications; Games; General; Image and Signal Processing; Life Sciences; Networks and Distributed Systems; Neuroevolution and Data Analytics; Numerical Optimization: Theory, Benchmarks, and Applications; Robotics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2018, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2018. The 46 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Future Challenges of Advanced M&S Technology; Swarming - R&D and Application; M&S of Intelligent Systems - AI, R&D and Application; AxS in Context of Future Warfare and Security Environment (Concepts, Applications, Training, Interoperability, etc.).

This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies - the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of the CyberParks Project, this book aims at fostering the understanding about the current and future interactions of the nexus people, public spaces and technology. It addresses a wide range of challenges and multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging phenomena related to the penetration of technology in people's lifestyles - affecting therefore the whole society, and with this, the production and use of public spaces. Cyberparks coined the term cyberpark to describe the mediated public space, that emerging type of urban spaces where nature and cybertechnologies blend together to generate hybrid experiences and enhance quality of life.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Gerotechnology, IWoG 2018, held in Caceres, Spain on December 14, 2018, and in Evora, Portugal, on December 17, 2018. The 24 revised full papers along with 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions.The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge management for health: context, cognition, behavior and user modeling; technologies to increase the quality of life of the elderly population; Internet of Things (IoT); smarts technologies and algorithms for health; monitoring and management of chronic and non-chronic diseases;solutions for active aging, social integration and self-care; health interventions to support caregivers of elderly people; public health initiatives.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2018, held in Limassol, Cyprus, on October 23-26, 2018. The 19 full and 16 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on metadata, linked data, semantics, ontologies and SKOS; digital libraries, information retrieval, big, linked, social and open data; cultural collections and applications; Knowledge IT Artifacts (KITA) in professional communities and aggregations; Digital Humanities and Digital Curation (DHC); European and national projects; agriculture, food and environment; open repositories, research information systems and data infrastructures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Supercomputing, ISUM 2018, held in Merida, Mexico, in March 2018. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on scheduling, architecture, and programming; parallel computing; applications and HPC.

A revolutionary approach to the ongoing transformation of knowledge media as an evolutionary process

In this age of information, knowledge is the currency that drives society. But what is knowledge, and how do you manage it? In this revolutionary book, Yuzuru Tanaka proposes a powerful new paradigm: that knowledge media, or "memes," operate in a way that closely resembles the biological function of genes, with their network publishing repository working as a gene pool to accelerate the evolution of knowledge shared in our societies. In Meme Media and Meme Market Architectures: Knowledge Media for Editing, Distributing, and Managing Intellectual Resources, Tanaka outlines a ready-to-use knowledge media system, supplemented with sample media objects, which allows readers to experience the knowledge media paradigm.

Professor Tanaka begins with a thorough, logical tracing of the development of "knowledge media" from Egyptian scrolls through printed matter to MS Word documents complete with embedded charts and images, and shows how this development resembles the human evolutionary process.

He then presents an integrated view of the five kinds of enabling technologies in terms of knowledge media architecture, including:

• Multimedia and hypermedia
• Object-oriented GUI and visual programming
• Reusable component software and component integration
• Network publishing and electronic commerce
• Object-oriented and multimedia databases

Finally, the author introduces the IntelligentPad content management system and shows how it meets the criteria for advancing knowledge media to the next level. He provides everything the practicing engineer or researcher needs to work with IntelligentPad, including creating and using new Pads, as well as information for end-users who want to create custom applications using existing low-level Pads and Pad applications.

Among the first books to focus on media for the editing, distribution, and management of knowledge, Meme Media and Meme Market Architectures: Knowledge Media for Editing, Distributing, and Managing Intellectual Resources propels the field of knowledge media from hypothesis into real-world application.

Presenting a reference model architecture for the design of intelligent systems

Engineering of Mind presents the foundations for a computational theory of intelligence. It discusses the main streams of investigation that will eventually converge in a scientific theory of mind and proposes an avenue of research that might best lead to the development of truly intelligent systems.

This book presents a model of the brain as a hierarchy of massive parallel computational modules and data structures interconnected by information pathways. Using this as the basic model on which intelligent systems should be based, the authors propose a reference model architecture that accommodates concepts from artificial intelligence, control theory, image understanding, signal processing, and decision theory. Algorithms, procedures, and data embedded within this architecture would enable the analysis of situations, the formulation of plans, the choice of behaviors, and the computation of uncertainties. The computational power to implement the model can be achieved in practical systems in the foreseeable future through hierarchical and parallel distribution of computational tasks.

The authors’ reference model architecture is expressed in terms of the Real-time Control System (RCS) that has been developed primarily at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Suitable for engineers, computer scientists, researchers, and students, Engineering of Mind blends current theory and practice to achieve a coherent model for the design of intelligent systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems, CyPhy2017, held in conjunction with ESWeek 2017, in Seoul, South Korea, in October 2017. The 10 papers presented together with 1 extended and 1 invited abstracts in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The conference presents a wide range of domains including robotics; smart homes, vehicles, and buildings; medical implants; and future-generation sensor networks.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, ARC 2019, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in April 2019. The 20 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. In addition, the volume contains 1 invited paper. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Applications; partial reconfiguration and security; image/video processing; high-level synthesis; CGRAs and vector processing; architectures; design frameworks and methodology; convolutional neural networks.

Das Buch gewahrt einen Einblick in die Architektur eingebetteter Systeme und den Entwicklungsprozess fur die sie steuernde Firmware. Die Anforderungen an ein unbeaufsichtigt laufendes Embedded System sowie deren Umsetzung stehen dabei im Fokus. Alle Konzepte werden anhand von verbreiteten Komponenten wie ARM (R) Cortex (R) M3 und M4 basierten Prozessoren, FreeRTOS oder lwip praktisch umgesetzt. Praxistipps zur effizienten und zielgerichteten Nutzung von Debug-, Einkapselungs- und Analysewerkzeugen runden das Buch ab. Sie helfen sowohl dem Einsteiger als auch dem erfahrenen Profi bei der Entwicklung robuster und wartungsfreundlicher Firmware fur Mikrocontroller im eingebetteten Umfeld.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2017, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in August 2017. The 24 regular papers presented in this book together with 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They cover topics such as architectures; mathematical foundations; algorithms; safety; understanding; human cognition; and philosophy.

In diesem essential werden die ubergeordneten Zielsetzungen der Applikationsentwicklung und einfuhrung auf vier Evolutionsphasen verteilt, um unterschiedlichen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden. Durch den daraus resultierenden strategischen Applikationslebenszyklus (SALZ) koennen innovative Neuentwicklungen in fruhen Phasen von technischen und architekturbezogenen Vorgaben befreit und agil entwickelt werden, wahrend fur operative Kernsysteme weiterhin ein ausfuhrliches AEnderungsmanagement betrieben wird. Damit bietet der SALZ auch die Grundlage, um in Unternehmen IT-Entwicklungsprojekte adaptiv mit unterschiedlichen Geschwindigkeiten zu realisieren. Alle Erkenntnisse werden am erfolgreichen Praxisbeispiel des Q-Cockpit-Projekts demonstriert.

Eine gute Kenntnis des Problembereichs und eine im Projekt geteilte System vision sorgen dafur, dass die Summe der mit Scrum in agiler Weise reali sierten Systemfragmente bei der Abnahme genau dem Kundenwunsch entspricht. Das zur agilen Entwicklung noetige Hintergrundwissen bietet dieses Buch. Zum Vergleich werden einzelne agile Ansatze analysiert und de tailliert vorgestellt - mit Schwerpunkt auf Scrum. Komplexe Projekte erfordern es, dass die Kundenwunsche nicht starr sind, sondern sich im Verlauf eines Projekts bis zur Abnahme andern durfen. Scrum ist ein Verfah ren, das uber die entsprechende Adaptivitat verfugt. Ein System wird daher bei Scrum als eine Folge kleiner Systemfragmente realisiert, die nacheinander imple mentiert werden. Alle Anforderungen an das System durfen sich andern - mit Aus nahme derjenigen, deren Realisierung gerade ansteht. Die hohe Kunst der Entwick lungsmannschaft ist es hierbei, dafur zu sorgen, dass die Summe der reali sierten Softwarefragmente genau dem Kundenwunsch entspricht. Jeder Entwickler muss sich deshalb in der Welt des Kunden auskennen und dieselbe aktuelle Systemvision als Ziel vor Augen haben. Ansonsten ist es ungewiss, ob die Summe der Teile zum gewunschten System konvergiert.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory , ADT 2015, held in September 2015 in Lexington, USA. The 32 full papers presented were carefully selected from 76 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as preferences; manipulation, learning and other issues; utility and decision theory; argumentation; bribery and control; social choice; allocation and other problems; doctoral consortium.