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Computer Aided Writing (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Andre Klahold, Madjid Fathi Computer Aided Writing (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Andre Klahold, Madjid Fathi
R4,316 Discovery Miles 43 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book deals with "Computer Aided Writing", CAW for short. The contents of that is a sector of Knowledge based technics and Knowledge Management. The role of Knowledge Management in social media, education and Industry 4.0 is out of question. More important is the expectation of combining Knowledge Management and Cognitive Technology, which needs more and more new innovations in this field to face recent problems in social and technological areas. The book is intended to provide an overview of the state of research in this field, show the extent to which computer assistance in writing is already being used and present current research contributions. After a brief introduction into the history of writing and the tools that were created, the current developments are examined on the basis of a formal writing model. Tools such as word processing and content management systems will be discussed in detail. The special form of writing, "journalism", is used to examine the effects of Computer Aided Writing. We dedicate a separate chapter to the topic of research, since it is of essential importance in the writing process. With Knowledge Discovery from Text (KDT) and recommendation systems we enter the field of Knowledge Management in the context of Computer Aided Writing. Finally, we will look at methods for automated text generation before giving a final outlook on future developments.

Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2021 - Proceedings of 15th KES International Conference,... Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2021 - Proceedings of 15th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2021, June 2021 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
G. Jezic, J. Chen-Burger, M. Kusek, R. Sperka, R.J. Howlett, …
R5,680 Discovery Miles 56 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights new trends and challenges in research on agents and the new digital and knowledge economy. It includes papers on business process management, agent-based modeling and simulation, and anthropic-oriented computing that were originally presented at the 15th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2021), being held as a Virtual Conference in June 14-16, 2021. The respective papers cover topics such as software agents, multi-agent systems, agent modeling, mobile and cloud computing, big data analysis, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, social systems, computer embedded systems, and nature-inspired manufacturing, all of which contribute to the modern digital economy.

Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control 13 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Sven Knoth, Wolfgang Schmid Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control 13 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Sven Knoth, Wolfgang Schmid
R5,645 Discovery Miles 56 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This contributed book focuses on major aspects of statistical quality control, shares insights into important new developments in the field, and adapts established statistical quality control methods for use in e.g. big data, network analysis and medical applications. The content is divided into two parts, the first of which mainly addresses statistical process control, also known as statistical process monitoring. In turn, the second part explores selected topics in statistical quality control, including measurement uncertainty analysis and data quality. The peer-reviewed contributions gathered here were originally presented at the 13th International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control, ISQC 2019, held in Hong Kong on August 12-14, 2019. Taken together, they bridge the gap between theory and practice, making the book of interest to both practitioners and researchers in the field of statistical quality control.

Software Architecture - 14th European Conference, ECSA 2020 Tracks and Workshops, L'Aquila, Italy, September 14-18, 2020,... Software Architecture - 14th European Conference, ECSA 2020 Tracks and Workshops, L'Aquila, Italy, September 14-18, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Henry Muccini, Paris Avgeriou, Barbora Buhnova, Javier Camara, Mauro Caporuscio, …
R2,956 Discovery Miles 29 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tracks and workshops which complemented the 14th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2020, held in L'Aquila, Italy*, in September 2020. The 30 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. Papers presented were accepted into the following tracks and workshops: ECSA 2020 Doctoral Symposium track; ECSA 2020 Tool Demos track; ECSA 2020 Gender Diversity in Software Architecture &Software Engineering track; CASA - 3rd International Workshop on Context-aware, Autonomous and Smart Architecture; CSE/QUDOS - Joint Workshop on Continuous Software Engineering and Quality-Aware DevOps; DETECT - 3rd International Workshop on Modeling, Verication and Testing of Dependable Critical Systems; FAACS-MDE4SA - Joint Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems and Model-Driven Engineering for Software Architecture; IoT-ASAP - 4th International Workshop on Engineering IoT Systems: Architectures, Services, Applications, and Platforms; SASI4 - 2nd Workshop on Systems, Architectures, and Solutions for Industry 4.0; WASA - 6th International Workshop on Automotive System/Software Architecture. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fuzzy Logic - Recent Applications and Developments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Jenny Carter, Francisco Chiclana, Arjab Singh... Fuzzy Logic - Recent Applications and Developments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Jenny Carter, Francisco Chiclana, Arjab Singh Khuman, Tianhua Chen
R4,620 Discovery Miles 46 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since its inception, fuzzy logic has attracted an incredible amount of interest, and this interest continues to grow at an exponential rate. As such, scientists, researchers, educators and practitioners of fuzzy logic continue to expand on the applicability of what and how fuzzy can be utilised in the real-world. In this book, the authors present key application areas where fuzzy has had significant success. The chapters cover a plethora of application domains, proving credence to the versatility and robustness of a fuzzy approach. A better understanding of fuzzy will ultimately allow for a better appreciation of fuzzy. This book provides the reader with a varied range of examples to illustrate what fuzzy logic can be capable of and how it can be applied. The text will be ideal for individuals new to the notion of fuzzy, as well as for early career academics who wish to further expand on their knowledge of fuzzy applications. The book is also suitable as a supporting text for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level modules on fuzzy logic, soft computing, and applications of AI.

Provenance in Data Science - From Data Models to Context-Aware Knowledge Graphs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Leslie F Sikos,... Provenance in Data Science - From Data Models to Context-Aware Knowledge Graphs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Leslie F Sikos, Oshani W. Seneviratne, Deborah L. McGuinness
R4,348 Discovery Miles 43 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

RDF-based knowledge graphs require additional formalisms to be fully context-aware, which is presented in this book. This book also provides a collection of provenance techniques and state-of-the-art metadata-enhanced, provenance-aware, knowledge graph-based representations across multiple application domains, in order to demonstrate how to combine graph-based data models and provenance representations. This is important to make statements authoritative, verifiable, and reproducible, such as in biomedical, pharmaceutical, and cybersecurity applications, where the data source and generator can be just as important as the data itself. Capturing provenance is critical to ensure sound experimental results and rigorously designed research studies for patient and drug safety, pathology reports, and medical evidence generation. Similarly, provenance is needed for cyberthreat intelligence dashboards and attack maps that aggregate and/or fuse heterogeneous data from disparate data sources to differentiate between unimportant online events and dangerous cyberattacks, which is demonstrated in this book. Without provenance, data reliability and trustworthiness might be limited, causing data reuse, trust, reproducibility and accountability issues. This book primarily targets researchers who utilize knowledge graphs in their methods and approaches (this includes researchers from a variety of domains, such as cybersecurity, eHealth, data science, Semantic Web, etc.). This book collects core facts for the state of the art in provenance approaches and techniques, complemented by a critical review of existing approaches. New research directions are also provided that combine data science and knowledge graphs, for an increasingly important research topic.

Real-Time C++ - Efficient Object-Oriented and Template Microcontroller Programming (Paperback, 4th ed. 2021): Christopher... Real-Time C++ - Efficient Object-Oriented and Template Microcontroller Programming (Paperback, 4th ed. 2021)
Christopher Kormanyos
R1,287 Discovery Miles 12 870 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With this book, Christopher Kormanyos delivers a highly practical guide to programming real-time embedded microcontroller systems in C++. It is divided into three parts plus several appendices. Part I provides a foundation for real-time C++ by covering language technologies, including object-oriented methods, template programming and optimization. Next, part II presents detailed descriptions of a variety of C++ components that are widely used in microcontroller programming. It details some of C++'s most powerful language elements, such as class types, templates and the STL, to develop components for microcontroller register access, low-level drivers, custom memory management, embedded containers, multitasking, etc. Finally, part III describes mathematical methods and generic utilities that can be employed to solve recurring problems in real-time C++. The appendices include a brief C++ language tutorial, information on the real-time C++ development environment and instructions for building GNU GCC cross-compilers and a microcontroller circuit. For this fourth edition, the most recent specification of C++20 is used throughout the text. Several sections on new C++20 functionality have been added, and various others reworked to reflect changes in the standard. Also several new example projects ranging from introductory to advanced level are included and existing ones extended, and various reader suggestions have been incorporated. Efficiency is always in focus and numerous examples are backed up with runtime measurements and size analyses that quantify the true costs of the code down to the very last byte and microsecond. The target audience of this book mainly consists of students and professionals interested in real-time C++. Readers should be familiar with C or another programming language and will benefit most if they have had some previous experience with microcontroller electronics and the performance and size issues prevalent in embedded systems programming.

Smart Technologies for Precision Assembly - 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2020, Virtual Event,... Smart Technologies for Precision Assembly - 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2020, Virtual Event, December 14-15, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Svetan Ratchev
R1,577 Discovery Miles 15 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2020, held virtually in December 2020.The 16 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presented together with 1 keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address topics such as assembly design and planning; assembly operations; assembly cells and systems; human centred assembly; and assistance methods in assembly.

Enabling Smart Urban Services with GPS Trajectory Data (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Chao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Yasha Wang, Hongyu... Enabling Smart Urban Services with GPS Trajectory Data (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Chao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Yasha Wang, Hongyu Huang
R5,137 Discovery Miles 51 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the proliferation of GPS devices in daily life, trajectory data that records where and when people move is now readily available on a large scale. As one of the most typical representatives, it has now become widely recognized that taxi trajectory data provides rich opportunities to enable promising smart urban services. Yet, a considerable gap still exists between the raw data available, and the extraction of actionable intelligence. This gap poses fundamental challenges on how we can achieve such intelligence. These challenges include inaccuracy issues, large data volumes to process, and sparse GPS data, to name but a few. Moreover, the movements of taxis and the leaving trajectory data are the result of a complex interplay between several parties, including drivers, passengers, travellers, urban planners, etc. In this book, we present our latest findings on mining taxi GPS trajectory data to enable a number of smart urban services, and to bring us one step closer to the vision of smart mobility. Firstly, we focus on some fundamental issues in trajectory data mining and analytics, including data map-matching, data compression, and data protection. Secondly, driven by the real needs and the most common concerns of each party involved, we formulate each problem mathematically and propose novel data mining or machine learning methods to solve it. Extensive evaluations with real-world datasets are also provided, to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of using trajectory data. Unlike other books, which deal with people and goods transportation separately, this book also extends smart urban services to goods transportation by introducing the idea of crowdshipping, i.e., recruiting taxis to make package deliveries on the basis of real-time information. Since people and goods are two essential components of smart cities, we feel this extension is bot logical and essential. Lastly, we discuss the most important scientific problems and open issues in mining GPS trajectory data.

Current Achievements, Challenges and Digital Chances of Knowledge Based Economy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Svetlana Igorevna... Current Achievements, Challenges and Digital Chances of Knowledge Based Economy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Svetlana Igorevna Ashmarina, Valentina Vyacheslavovna Mantulenko
R5,747 Discovery Miles 57 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is based on research from Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Switzerland and the Czech Republic on issues related to knowledge-based economy development. The idea for this book was developed during three international conferences on digitalization: VI, VII and VIII International Scientific Weeks, organized by Samara State University of Economics (Samara, Russia) in 2018-2020. It is an initiative by the scientific and business organizations in the Samara Region and their Russian and international partners to analyze the current digitalization of social-economic systems, the problems and perspectives of this process, and its role in the creation and development of a new type of economy and new quality of human capital. All the contributions focus on the search for effective ways of adapting to the new digital reality and are based analyses of international statistics, and data from specific companies, educational institutions and governmental development programs. The book explores a variety of topics, including * Knowledge and Information as Basic Values of a New Economic Paradigm; * Information Technologies for Ensuring Sustainable Development of Organizations; * Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Education and Business; * Digital Platforms and the Sharing Economy; * Potential of Digital Footprints in Economies and Education; * Sociocultural Consequences of Digitalization.

Social Big Data Analytics - Practices, Techniques, and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Bilal Abu-Salih, Pornpit... Social Big Data Analytics - Practices, Techniques, and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Bilal Abu-Salih, Pornpit Wongthongtham, Dengya Zhu, Kit Yan Chan, Amit Rudra
R4,114 Discovery Miles 41 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on data and how modern business firms use social data, specifically Online Social Networks (OSNs) incorporated as part of the infrastructure for a number of emerging applications such as personalized recommendation systems, opinion analysis, expertise retrieval, and computational advertising. This book identifies how in such applications, social data offers a plethora of benefits to enhance the decision making process. This book highlights that business intelligence applications are more focused on structured data; however, in order to understand and analyse the social big data, there is a need to aggregate data from various sources and to present it in a plausible format. Big Social Data (BSD) exhibit all the typical properties of big data: wide physical distribution, diversity of formats, non-standard data models, independently-managed and heterogeneous semantics but even further valuable with marketing opportunities. The book provides a review of the current state-of-the-art approaches for big social data analytics as well as to present dissimilar methods to infer value from social data. The book further examines several areas of research that benefits from the propagation of the social data. In particular, the book presents various technical approaches that produce data analytics capable of handling big data features and effective in filtering out unsolicited data and inferring a value. These approaches comprise advanced technical solutions able to capture huge amounts of generated data, scrutinise the collected data to eliminate unwanted data, measure the quality of the inferred data, and transform the amended data for further data analysis. Furthermore, the book presents solutions to derive knowledge and sentiments from BSD and to provide social data classification and prediction. The approaches in this book also incorporate several technologies such as semantic discovery, sentiment analysis, affective computing and machine learning. This book has additional special feature enriched with numerous illustrations such as tables, graphs and charts incorporating advanced visualisation tools in accessible an attractive display.

Data Analytics - Models and Algorithms for Intelligent Data Analysis (Paperback, 3rd ed. 2020): Thomas A Runkler Data Analytics - Models and Algorithms for Intelligent Data Analysis (Paperback, 3rd ed. 2020)
Thomas A Runkler
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the methods and algorithms of modern data analytics. It provides a sound mathematical basis, discusses advantages and drawbacks of different approaches, and enables the reader to design and implement data analytics solutions for real-world applications. This book has been used for more than ten years in the Data Mining course at the Technical University of Munich. Much of the content is based on the results of industrial research and development projects at Siemens.

Data Science and Social Research II - Methods, Technologies and  Applications (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Paolo Mariani,... Data Science and Social Research II - Methods, Technologies and Applications (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Paolo Mariani, Mariangela Zenga
R5,118 Discovery Miles 51 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The peer-reviewed contributions gathered in this book address methods, software and applications of statistics and data science in the social sciences. The data revolution in social science research has not only produced new business models, but has also provided policymakers with better decision-making support tools. In this volume, statisticians, computer scientists and experts on social research discuss the opportunities and challenges of the social data revolution in order to pave the way for addressing new research problems. The respective contributions focus on complex social systems and current methodological advances in extracting social knowledge from large data sets, as well as modern social research on human behavior and society using large data sets. Moreover, they analyze integrated systems designed to take advantage of new social data sources, and discuss quality-related issues. The papers were originally presented at the 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Social Research, held in Milan, Italy, on February 4-5, 2019.

Modern Data Mining Algorithms in C++ and CUDA C - Recent Developments in Feature Extraction and Selection Algorithms for Data... Modern Data Mining Algorithms in C++ and CUDA C - Recent Developments in Feature Extraction and Selection Algorithms for Data Science (Paperback, 1st ed.)
Timothy Masters
R1,621 R1,318 Discovery Miles 13 180 Save R303 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Discover a variety of data-mining algorithms that are useful for selecting small sets of important features from among unwieldy masses of candidates, or extracting useful features from measured variables. As a serious data miner you will often be faced with thousands of candidate features for your prediction or classification application, with most of the features being of little or no value. You'll know that many of these features may be useful only in combination with certain other features while being practically worthless alone or in combination with most others. Some features may have enormous predictive power, but only within a small, specialized area of the feature space. The problems that plague modern data miners are endless. This book helps you solve this problem by presenting modern feature selection techniques and the code to implement them. Some of these techniques are: Forward selection component analysis Local feature selection Linking features and a target with a hidden Markov model Improvements on traditional stepwise selection Nominal-to-ordinal conversion All algorithms are intuitively justified and supported by the relevant equations and explanatory material. The author also presents and explains complete, highly commented source code. The example code is in C++ and CUDA C but Python or other code can be substituted; the algorithm is important, not the code that's used to write it. What You Will Learn Combine principal component analysis with forward and backward stepwise selection to identify a compact subset of a large collection of variables that captures the maximum possible variation within the entire set. Identify features that may have predictive power over only a small subset of the feature domain. Such features can be profitably used by modern predictive models but may be missed by other feature selection methods. Find an underlying hidden Markov model that controls the distributions of feature variables and the target simultaneously. The memory inherent in this method is especially valuable in high-noise applications such as prediction of financial markets. Improve traditional stepwise selection in three ways: examine a collection of 'best-so-far' feature sets; test candidate features for inclusion with cross validation to automatically and effectively limit model complexity; and at each step estimate the probability that our results so far could be just the product of random good luck. We also estimate the probability that the improvement obtained by adding a new variable could have been just good luck. Take a potentially valuable nominal variable (a category or class membership) that is unsuitable for input to a prediction model, and assign to each category a sensible numeric value that can be used as a model input. Who This Book Is For Intermediate to advanced data science programmers and analysts.

Recent Trends in Image and Signal Processing in Computer Vision (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Shruti Jain, Sudip Paul Recent Trends in Image and Signal Processing in Computer Vision (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Shruti Jain, Sudip Paul
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights recent advances and emerging technologies that utilize computational intelligence in signal processing, computing, imaging science, artificial intelligence, and their applications. It covers all branches of artificial intelligence and machine learning that are based on computation at some level, e.g. artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, and automatic medical identification systems. Exploring recent trends in research and applications, the book offers a valuable resource for professors, researchers, and engineers alike.

Knowledge-Based Explorable Extended Reality Environments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Jakub Flotynski Knowledge-Based Explorable Extended Reality Environments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Jakub Flotynski
R2,901 Discovery Miles 29 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents explorable XR environments-their rationale, concept, architectures as well as methods and tools for spatial-temporal composition based on domain knowledge, including geometrical, presentational, structural and behavioral elements. Explorable XR environments enable monitoring, analyzing, comprehending, examining and controlling users' and objects' behavior and features as well as users' skills, experience, interests and preferences. The E-XR approach proposed in this book relies on two main pillars. The first is knowledge representation technologies, such as logic programming, description logics and the semantic web, which permit automated reasoning and queries. The second is imperative programming languages, which are a prevalent solution for building XR environments. Potential applications of E-XR are in a variety of domains, e.g., education, training, medicine, design, tourism, marketing, merchandising, engineering and entertainment. The book's readers will understand the emerging domain of explorable XR environments with their possible applications. Special attention is given to an in-depth discussion of the field with taxonomy and classification of the available related solutions. Examples and design patterns of knowledge-based composition and exploration of XR behavior are provided, and an extensive evaluation and analysis of the proposed approach is included. This book helps researchers in XR systems, 3D modeling tools and game engines as well as lecturers and students who search for clearly presented information supported by use cases. For XR and game programmers as well as graphic designers, the book is a valuable source of information and examples in XR development. Professional software and web developers may find the book interesting as the proposed ideas are illustrated by rich examples demonstrating design patterns and guidelines in object-oriented, procedural and declarative programming.

Product Lifecycle Management Enabling Smart X - 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2020, Rapperswil, Switzerland,... Product Lifecycle Management Enabling Smart X - 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2020, Rapperswil, Switzerland, July 5-8, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Felix Nyffenegger, Jose Rios, Louis Rivest, Abdelaziz Bouras
R4,537 Discovery Miles 45 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2020, held in Rapperswil, Switzerland, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis. The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 technical industrial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: smart factory; digital twins; Internet of Things (IoT, IIoT); analytics in the order fulfillment process; ontologies for interoperability; tools to support early design phases; new product development; business models; circular economy; maturity implementation and adoption; model based systems engineering; artificial intelligence in CAx, MBE, and PLM; building information modelling; and industrial technical contributions.

Dynamic Logic. New Trends and Applications - Second International Workshop, DaLi 2019, Porto, Portugal, October 7-11, 2019,... Dynamic Logic. New Trends and Applications - Second International Workshop, DaLi 2019, Porto, Portugal, October 7-11, 2019, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Luis Soares Barbosa, Alexandru Baltag
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Dynamic Logic, DALI 2019, held in Porto, Portugal in October 2019. The workshop was held in Porto, Portugal, on October 9, 2019, as part of the Formal Methods Week which hosted the 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods. The 12 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The workshop is based on the project DaLi - Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems: towards contract based design.

Linking Sensitive Data - Methods and Techniques for Practical Privacy-Preserving Information Sharing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020):... Linking Sensitive Data - Methods and Techniques for Practical Privacy-Preserving Information Sharing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Peter Christen, Thilina Ranbaduge, Rainer Schnell
R4,681 Discovery Miles 46 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides modern technical answers to the legal requirements of pseudonymisation as recommended by privacy legislation. It covers topics such as modern regulatory frameworks for sharing and linking sensitive information, concepts and algorithms for privacy-preserving record linkage and their computational aspects, practical considerations such as dealing with dirty and missing data, as well as privacy, risk, and performance assessment measures. Existing techniques for privacy-preserving record linkage are evaluated empirically and real-world application examples that scale to population sizes are described. The book also includes pointers to freely available software tools, benchmark data sets, and tools to generate synthetic data that can be used to test and evaluate linkage techniques. This book consists of fourteen chapters grouped into four parts, and two appendices. The first part introduces the reader to the topic of linking sensitive data, the second part covers methods and techniques to link such data, the third part discusses aspects of practical importance, and the fourth part provides an outlook of future challenges and open research problems relevant to linking sensitive databases. The appendices provide pointers and describe freely available, open-source software systems that allow the linkage of sensitive data, and provide further details about the evaluations presented. A companion Web site at https://dmm.anu.edu.au/lsdbook2020 provides additional material and Python programs used in the book. This book is mainly written for applied scientists, researchers, and advanced practitioners in governments, industry, and universities who are concerned with developing, implementing, and deploying systems and tools to share sensitive information in administrative, commercial, or medical databases. The Book describes how linkage methods work and how to evaluate their performance. It covers all the major concepts and methods and also discusses practical matters such as computational efficiency, which are critical if the methods are to be used in practice - and it does all this in a highly accessible way!David J. Hand, Imperial College, London

AI and Robotics in Disaster Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): T. V. Vijay Kumar, Keshav Sud AI and Robotics in Disaster Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
T. V. Vijay Kumar, Keshav Sud
R4,111 Discovery Miles 41 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book promotes a meaningful and appropriate dialogue and cross-disciplinary partnerships on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in governance and disaster management. The frequency and the cost of losses and damages due to disasters are rising every year. From wildfires to tsunamis, drought to hurricanes, floods to landslides combined with chemical, nuclear and biological disasters of epidemic proportions has increased human vulnerability and ecosystem sustainability. Life is not as it used to be and governance to manage disasters cannot be a business as usual. The quantum and proportion of responsibilities with the emergency services has increased many times to strain them beyond their human capacities. Its time that the struggling disaster management services get supported and facilitated by new technology of combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) with Data Analytics Technologies (DAT)to serve people and government in disaster management. AI and ML have advanced to a state where they could be utilized for many operations in disaster risk reduction. Even though many disasters cannot be prevented and a number of them are blind natural disasters yet through an appropriate application of AI and ML quick predictions, vulnerability identification and classification of relief and rescue operations could be achieved.

Smart Automotive Mobility - Reliable Technology for the Mobile Human (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Gerrit Meixner Smart Automotive Mobility - Reliable Technology for the Mobile Human (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Gerrit Meixner
R4,398 Discovery Miles 43 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on smart results in the field of smart automotive mobility concentrating on (semi-)autonomous cars. The results are based on 5 recently finished public-funded research projects with a budget of over 15 million Euro. Providing insights into the next generation of personalized mobility on the road the authors discuss personalized, adaptive cooperative systems for highly automated cars and how they can be developed in a human-centered way. Furthermore, the book reports on a cooperative driver-vehicle interaction. How can the driver and the vehicle support each other? What are their best skills and how can they benefit from each other? It also gives novel insights on intuitive steering gestures on the steering wheel which initiate maneuvers to be executed by the automation, and to be supervised by, influenced or interrupted by the driver. The book finishes with information on a cooperative laser beam system which improves the communication between the different road participants to optimize the road safety of tomorrow. Smart Automotive Mobility: Reliable Technology for the Mobile Human is an ideal source for researchers, students and practitioners working in the area of intelligent systems for the automotive industry. It gives valuable and condensed information from multi-million Euro research projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Efficient Integration of 5G and Beyond Heterogeneous Networks (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Zi-Yang Wu, Muhammad Ismail, Justin... Efficient Integration of 5G and Beyond Heterogeneous Networks (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Zi-Yang Wu, Muhammad Ismail, Justin Kong, Erchin Serpedin, Jiao Wang
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the smooth integration of optical and RF networks in 5G and beyond (5G+) heterogeneous networks (HetNets), covering both planning and operational aspects. The integration of high-frequency air interfaces into 5G+ wireless networks can relieve the congested radio frequency (RF) bands. Visible light communication (VLC) is now emerging as a promising candidate for future generations of HetNets. Heterogeneous RF-optical networks combine the high throughput of visible light and the high reliability of RF. However, when implementing these HetNets in mobile scenarios, several challenges arise from both planning and operational perspectives. Since the mmWave, terahertz, and visible light bands share similar wave propagation characteristics, the concepts presented here can be broadly applied in all such bands. To facilitate the planning of RF-optical HetNets, the authors present an algorithm that specifies the joint optimal densities of the base stations by drawing on stochastic geometry in order to satisfy the users' quality-of-service (QoS) demands with minimum network power consumption. From an operational perspective, the book explores vertical handovers and multi-homing using a cooperative framework. For vertical handovers, it employs a data-driven approach based on deep neural networks to predict abrupt optical outages; and, on the basis of this prediction, proposes a reinforcement learning strategy that ensures minimal network latency during handovers. In terms of multi-homing support, the authors examine the aggregation of the resources from both optical and RF networks, adopting a two-timescale multi-agent reinforcement learning strategy for optimal power allocation. Presenting comprehensive planning and operational strategies, the book allows readers to gain an in-depth grasp of how to integrate future coexisting networks at high-frequency bands in a cooperative manner, yielding reliable and high-speed 5G+ HetNets.

Computational and Methodological Statistics and Biostatistics - Contemporary Essays in Advancement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020):... Computational and Methodological Statistics and Biostatistics - Contemporary Essays in Advancement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Andriette Bekker, (Din) Ding-Geng Chen, Johannes T. Ferreira
R4,458 Discovery Miles 44 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the statistical domain, certain topics have received considerable attention during the last decade or so, necessitated by the growth and evolution of data and theoretical challenges. This growth has invariably been accompanied by computational advancement, which has presented end users as well as researchers with the necessary opportunities to handle data and implement modelling solutions for statistical purposes. Showcasing the interplay among a variety of disciplines, this book offers pioneering theoretical and applied solutions to practice-oriented problems. As a carefully curated collection of prominent international thought leaders, it fosters collaboration between statisticians and biostatisticians and provides an array of thought processes and tools to its readers. The book thereby creates an understanding and appreciation of recent developments as well as an implementation of these contributions within the broader framework of both academia and industry. Computational and Methodological Statistics and Biostatistics is composed of three main themes: * Recent developments in theory and applications of statistical distributions;* Recent developments in supervised and unsupervised modelling;* Recent developments in biostatistics; and also features programming code and accompanying algorithms to enable readers to replicate and implement methodologies. Therefore, this monograph provides a concise point of reference for a variety of current trends and topics within the statistical domain. With interdisciplinary appeal, it will be useful to researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in statistics, biostatistics, clinical methodology, geology, data science, and actuarial science, amongst others.

Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: 2020 - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software... Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: 2020 - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering (JCKBSE 2020), Larnaca, Cyprus, August 24-26, 2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Maria Virvou, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Lakhmi C. Jain
R5,584 Discovery Miles 55 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book summarizes the research findings presented at the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering (JCKBSE 2020), which took place on August 24-26, 2020. JCKBSE 2020 was originally planned to take place in Larnaca, Cyprus. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic forced it be rescheduled as an online conference. JCKBSE is a well-established, international, biennial conference that focuses on the applications of artificial intelligence in software engineering. The 2020 edition of the conference was organized by Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan, and George A. Tsihrintzis and Maria Virvou, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece. This research book is a valuable resource for experts and researchers in the field of (knowledge-based) software engineering, as well as general readers in the fields of artificial and computational Intelligence and, more generally, computer science wanting to learn more about the field of (knowledge-based) software engineering and its applications. An extensive list of bibliographic references at the end of each paper helps readers to probe further into the application areas of interest to them.

The DATA Bonanza - Improving Knowledge Discovery in Science, Engineering, and Business (Hardcover): M. Atkinson The DATA Bonanza - Improving Knowledge Discovery in Science, Engineering, and Business (Hardcover)
M. Atkinson
R2,811 Discovery Miles 28 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Complete guidance for mastering the tools and techniques of the digital revolution

With the digital revolution opening up tremendous opportunities in many fields, there is a growing need for skilled professionals who can develop data-intensive systems and extract information and knowledge from them. This book frames for the first time a new systematic approach for tackling the challenges of data-intensive computing, providing decision makers and technical experts alike with practical tools for dealing with our exploding data collections.

Emphasizing data-intensive thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration, "The Data Bonanza: Improving Knowledge Discovery in Science, Engineering, and Business "examines the essential components of knowledge discovery, surveys many of the current research efforts worldwide, and points to new areas for innovation. Complete with a wealth of examples and DISPEL-based methods demonstrating how to gain more from data in real-world systems, the book: Outlines the concepts and rationale for implementing data-intensive computing in organizationsCovers from the ground up problem-solving strategies for data analysis in a data-rich worldIntroduces techniques for data-intensive engineering using the Data-Intensive Systems Process Engineering Language DISPELFeatures in-depth case studies in customer relations, environmental hazards, seismology, and moreShowcases successful applications in areas ranging from astronomy and the humanities to transport engineeringIncludes sample program snippets throughout the text as well as additional materials on a companion website

"The Data Bonanza" is a must-have guide for information strategists, data analysts, and engineers in business, research, and government, and for anyone wishing to be on the cutting edge of data mining, machine learning, databases, distributed systems, or large-scale computing.

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