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Data Spaces - Design, Deployment and Future Directions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Edward Curry, Simon Scerri, Tuomo Tuikka Data Spaces - Design, Deployment and Future Directions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Edward Curry, Simon Scerri, Tuomo Tuikka
R1,681 Discovery Miles 16 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This open access book aims to educate data space designers to understand what is required to create a successful data space. It explores cutting-edge theory, technologies, methodologies, and best practices for data spaces for both industrial and personal data and provides the reader with a basis for understanding the design, deployment, and future directions of data spaces. The book captures the early lessons and experience in creating data spaces. It arranges these contributions into three parts covering design, deployment, and future directions respectively. The first part explores the design space of data spaces. The single chapters detail the organisational design for data spaces, data platforms, data governance federated learning, personal data sharing, data marketplaces, and hybrid artificial intelligence for data spaces. The second part describes the use of data spaces within real-world deployments. Its chapters are co-authored with industry experts and include case studies of data spaces in sectors including industry 4.0, food safety, FinTech, health care, and energy. The third and final part details future directions for data spaces, including challenges and opportunities for common European data spaces and privacy-preserving techniques for trustworthy data sharing. The book is of interest to two primary audiences: first, researchers interested in data management and data sharing, and second, practitioners and industry experts engaged in data-driven systems where the sharing and exchange of data within an ecosystem are critical.

Engineering Economics of Life Cycle Cost Analysis (Hardcover, 2nd edition): John Vail Farr, Isaac J. Faber Engineering Economics of Life Cycle Cost Analysis (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
John Vail Farr, Isaac J. Faber
R3,879 Discovery Miles 38 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The rise of the information age and the digital economy has dramatically changed engineering. With tremendous advances in computing and communication systems, causing major organizational upheaval, all fueled by complexity, globalization, short cycle times, and lean supply chains, the functions of engineers have significantly changed. Engineers must be technically savvy and have product management and costing skills all while working in a distributed and often unstable environment. This new edition textbook is updated to cover the integration of cost, risk, value, scheduling, and information technologies going beyond basic engineering economics. Engineering Economics of Life Cycle Cost Analysis, Second Edition offers a systems and life cycle or total ownership cost perspective. It presents advanced costing techniques such as simulation-based costing, decision analysis, complex systems costing, software, big data, and cloud computing estimation. Examples and problems demonstrating these techniques with real-world applications are also included. All engineers will find this book useful, but it is mainly written for systems engineers, engineering management, and industrial engineers along with graduate courses on advanced engineering economic analysis and cost management, and financial analysis for engineers. To assist with classroom teaching, the textbook provides an instructor's manual for qualified course adoption and downloadable Excel solutions.

Performance Analysis of Network Architectures (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): Dietmar Tutsch Performance Analysis of Network Architectures (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Dietmar Tutsch
R2,893 Discovery Miles 28 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Three approaches can be applied to determine the performance of parallel and distributed computer systems: measurement, simulation, and mathematical methods. This book introduces various network architectures for parallel and distributed systems as well as for systems-on-chips, and presents a strategy for developing a generator for automatic model derivation. It will appeal to researchers and students in network architecture design and performance analysis.

Understanding Software Dynamics (Paperback): Richard Sites Understanding Software Dynamics (Paperback)
Richard Sites
R1,094 Discovery Miles 10 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An Expert Guide to Software Performance Optimization From mobile and cloud apps to video games to driverless vehicle control, more and more software is time-constrained: It must deliver reliable results seamlessly, consistently, and virtually instantaneously. If it doesn't, customers are unhappy--and sometimes lives are put at risk. When complex software underperforms or fails, software engineers need to identify and address the root causes. This is difficult and, historically, few tools have been available to help. In Understanding Software Dynamics, performance expert Richard L. Sites tackles the problem head on, offering expert methods and advanced tools for understanding complex, time-constrained software dynamics, improving reliability and troubleshooting challenging performance problems. Sites draws on several decades of experience pioneering software performance optimization, as well as extensive experience teaching graduate-level developers. He introduces principles and techniques for use in any environment, from embedded devices to datacenters, illuminating them with examples based on x86 or ARM processors running Linux and linked by Ethernet. He also guides readers through building and applying a powerful, new, extremely low-overhead open-source software tool, KUtrace, to precisely trace executions on every CPU core. Using insights gleaned from this tool, readers can apply nuanced solutions--not merely brute-force techniques such as turning off caches or cores. Measure and address issues associated with CPUs, memory, disk/SSD, networks, and their interactions Fix programs that are always too slow, and those that sometimes lag for no apparent reason Design useful observability, logging, and time-stamping capabilities into your code Reason more effectively about performance data to see why reality differs from expectations Identify problems such as excess execution, slow instruction execution, waiting for resources, and software locks Understanding Software Dynamics will be valuable to experienced software professionals, including application and OS developers, hardware and system architects, real-time system designers, and game developers, as well as advanced students. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

IoT in Healthcare Systems - Applications, Benefits, Challenges, and Case Studies (Hardcover): Piyush Kumar Shukla, Aditya... IoT in Healthcare Systems - Applications, Benefits, Challenges, and Case Studies (Hardcover)
Piyush Kumar Shukla, Aditya Patel, Prashant Kumar Shukla, Prashant Parashar, Basant Tiwari
R3,569 Discovery Miles 35 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Includes several emerging required standardization and interoperability initiatives Offers various AI and Machine Learning algorithms Discusses how health technology can face the challenge of improving the quality of life regardless of social and financial consideration, gender, age, and residence Presents real-time applications and case studies in the field of engineering, computer science, IoT, Smart Cities with modern tools and technologies used in healthcare Focuses on many examples of successful IoT projects from various industries

Integral Transforms and Engineering - Theory, Methods, and Applications (Hardcover): Abdon Atangana, Ali Akgul Integral Transforms and Engineering - Theory, Methods, and Applications (Hardcover)
Abdon Atangana, Ali Akgul
R4,938 Discovery Miles 49 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With the aim to better understand nature, mathematical tools are being used nowadays in many different fields. The concept of integral transforms, in particular, has been found to be a useful mathematical tool for solving a variety of problems not only in mathematics, but also in various other branches of science, engineering, and technology. Integral Transforms and Engineering: Theory, Methods, and Applications presents a mathematical analysis of integral transforms and their applications. The book illustrates the possibility of obtaining transfer functions using different integral transforms, especially when mapping any function into the frequency domain. Various differential operators, models, and applications are included such as classical derivative, Caputo derivative, Caputo-Fabrizio derivative, and Atangana-Baleanu derivative. This book is a useful reference for practitioners, engineers, researchers, and graduate students in mathematics, applied sciences, engineering, and technology fields.

Information Systems Development - Asian Experiences (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.): William Wei Song, Shenghua Xu, Changxuan Wan,... Information Systems Development - Asian Experiences (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
William Wei Song, Shenghua Xu, Changxuan Wan, Yuansheng Zhong, Wita Wojtkowski, …
R5,698 Discovery Miles 56 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice. This conference will discuss issues pertaining to information systems development (ISD) in the inter-networked digital economy. Participants will include researchers, both experienced and novice, from industry and academia, as well as students and practitioners. Themes will include methods and approaches for ISD; ISD education; philosophical, ethical, and sociological aspects of ISD; as well as specialized tracks such as: distributed software development, ISD and knowledge management, ISD and electronic business / electronic government, ISD in public sector organizations, IOS.

Blockchain-Enabled Resilience - An Integrated Approach for Disaster Supply Chain and Logistics Management (Hardcover):... Blockchain-Enabled Resilience - An Integrated Approach for Disaster Supply Chain and Logistics Management (Hardcover)
Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Adrian V. Gheorghe
R2,505 Discovery Miles 25 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a first-of-its-kind approach for using blockchain to enhance resilience in disaster supply chain and logistics management, especially when dealing with dynamic communication, relief operations, prioritization, coordination, and distribution of scarce resources - these are elements of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) describing a dynamic environment that now form the "new norm" for many leaders. Blockchain-Enabled Resilience: An Integrated Approach for Disaster Supply Chain and Logistics Management analyzes the application of blockchain technology used to enable resilience in a disaster supply chain network. It discusses IoT and DVFS algorithms for developing a network-based simulation and presents advancements in disaster supply chain strategies using smart contacts for collaborations. The book covers how success is based on collaboration, coordination, sovereignty, and equality in distributing resources and offers a theoretical analysis that reveals that enhancing resilience can improve collaboration and communication and can result in more time-efficient processing for disaster supply management. This book provides a first-of-its-kind approach for managers and policy-makers as well as researchers interested in using blockchain to enhance resilience in disaster supply chains, especially when dealing with dynamic communication, relief operations, prioritization, coordination, and distribution of scarce resources. Practical guidance is provided for managers interested in implementation. A robust research agenda is also provided for those interested in expanding present research.

Online Learning Systems - Methods and Applications with Large-Scale Data (Hardcover): Zdzislaw Polkowski, Samarjeet Borah,... Online Learning Systems - Methods and Applications with Large-Scale Data (Hardcover)
Zdzislaw Polkowski, Samarjeet Borah, Sambit Kumar Mishra, Darshana Desai
R3,423 Discovery Miles 34 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Discusses the efficiency measurement of online education Presents the environmental impact of online education Offers a parametric evaluation and categorization of online learning systems Covers big data ecosystems in cloud computing Provides analytical methods to find solutions for big data challenges

Hardware Description Languages and their Applications - Specification, modelling, verification and synthesis of microelectronic... Hardware Description Languages and their Applications - Specification, modelling, verification and synthesis of microelectronic systems (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Eduard Cerny
R4,556 Discovery Miles 45 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the past few decades Computer Hardware Description Languages (CHDLs) have been a rapidly expanding subject area due to a number of factors, including the advancing complexity of digital electronics, the increasing prevalence of generic and programmable components of software-hardware and the migration of VLSI design to high level synthesis based on HDLs. Currently the subject has reached the consolidation phase in which languages and standards are being increasingly used, at the same time as the scope is being broadened to additional application areas. This book presents the latest developments in this area and provides a forum from which readers can learn from the past and look forward to what the future holds.

Software for Exascale Computing - SPPEXA 2016-2019 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Severin Reiz, Benjamin... Software for Exascale Computing - SPPEXA 2016-2019 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Severin Reiz, Benjamin Uekermann, Philipp Neumann, Wolfgang E. Nagel
R1,710 Discovery Miles 17 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This open access book summarizes the research done and results obtained in the second funding phase of the Priority Program 1648 "Software for Exascale Computing" (SPPEXA) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) presented at the SPPEXA Symposium in Dresden during October 21-23, 2019. In that respect, it both represents a continuation of Vol. 113 in Springer's series Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, the corresponding report of SPPEXA's first funding phase, and provides an overview of SPPEXA's contributions towards exascale computing in today's sumpercomputer technology. The individual chapters address one or more of the research directions (1) computational algorithms, (2) system software, (3) application software, (4) data management and exploration, (5) programming, and (6) software tools. The book has an interdisciplinary appeal: scholars from computational sub-fields in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering will find it of particular interest.

Secure, Resilient, and Agile Software Development (Paperback): Mark Merkow Secure, Resilient, and Agile Software Development (Paperback)
Mark Merkow
R1,466 Discovery Miles 14 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A collection of best practices and effective implementation recommendations that are proven to work, Secure, Resilient, and Agile Software Development leaves the boring details of software security theory out of the discussion as much as possible to concentrate on practical applied software security for practical people. Written to aid your career as well as your organization, the book shows how to gain skills in secure and resilient software development and related tasks. The book explains how to integrate these development skills into your daily duties, thereby increasing your professional value to your company, your management, your community, and your industry. Secure, Resilient, and Agile Software Development was written for the following professionals: AppSec architects and program managers in information security organizations Enterprise architecture teams with application development focus Scrum teams DevOps teams Product owners and their managers Project managers Application security auditors With a detailed look at Agile and Scrum software development methodologies, this book explains how security controls need to change in light of an entirely new paradigm on how software is developed. It focuses on ways to educate everyone who has a hand in any software development project with appropriate and practical skills to Build Security In. After covering foundational and fundamental principles for secure application design, this book dives into concepts, techniques, and design goals to meet well-understood acceptance criteria on features an application must implement. It also explains how the design sprint is adapted for proper consideration of security as well as defensive programming techniques. The book concludes with a look at white box application analysis and sprint-based activities to improve the security and quality of software under development.

Designing Complex Products with Systems Engineering Processes and Techniques (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Vivek D. Bhise Designing Complex Products with Systems Engineering Processes and Techniques (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Vivek D. Bhise
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Completely revised including six new chapters, this new edition presents a more comprehensive knowledge of issues facing developers of complex products and process management. It includes more tools for implementing a Systems Engineering approach to minimize the risks of delays and cost overruns and helps create the right product for its customers. Designing Complex Products with Systems Engineering Processes and Techniques, Second Edition highlights how to increase customer satisfaction, quality, safety, and usability to meet program timings and budgets using a Systems Engineering approach. It provides decision-making considerations and models for creating sustainable product design and describes many techniques and tools used in product development and the product life-cycle orientation. The book also offers techniques used in Design for Manufacturing, Design for Assembly, and product evaluation methods for verification and validation testing. Many new examples, case studies, six new chapters, and updated program and data charts held on our website are offered. The book targets practicing engineers, engineering management personnel, product designers, product planners, product and program managers in all industrialized and developing countries. In addition the book is also useful to undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty in engineering, product design, and product project and program management.

Circuits and Systems: Design and Applications (Volume VI) (Hardcover): Helena Walker Circuits and Systems: Design and Applications (Volume VI) (Hardcover)
Helena Walker
R3,437 R3,108 Discovery Miles 31 080 Save R329 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reliability and Maintenance of Complex Systems (Hardcover, 1996 ed.): Suleyman OEzekici Reliability and Maintenance of Complex Systems (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Suleyman OEzekici
R8,638 Discovery Miles 86 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Complex high-technology devices are in growing use in industry, service sectors, and everyday life. Their reliability and maintenance is of utmost importance in view of their cost and critical functions. This book focuses on this theme and is intended to serve as a graduate-level textbook and reference book for scientists and academics in the field. The chapters are grouped into five complementary parts that cover the most important aspects of reliability and maintenance: stochastic models of reliability and maintenance, decision models involving optimal replacement and repair, stochastic methods in software engineering, computational methods and simulation, and maintenance management systems. This wide range of topics provides the reader with a complete picture in a self-contained volume.

Toward Solving Complex Human Problems - Techniques for Increasing Our Understanding of What Matters in Doing So (Paperback):... Toward Solving Complex Human Problems - Techniques for Increasing Our Understanding of What Matters in Doing So (Paperback)
Brian E. White
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book serves three basic purposes: (1) a tutorial-type reference for complex systems engineering (CSE) concepts and associated terminology, (2) a recommendation of a proposed methodology showing how the evolving practice of CSE can lead to a more unified theory, and (3) a complex systems (CSs) initiative for organizations to invest some of their resources toward helping to make the world a better place. A wide variety of technical practitioners-e.g., developers of new or improved systems (particularly systems engineers), program and project managers, associated staff/workers, funders and overseers, government executives, military officers, systems acquisition personnel, contract specialists, owners of large and small businesses, professional society members, and CS researchers-may be interested in further exploring these topics. Readers will learn more about CS characteristics and behaviors and CSE principles and will therefore be able to focus on techniques that will better serve them in their everyday work environments in dealing with complexity. The fundamental observation is that many systems inherently involve a deeper complexity because stakeholders are engaged in the enterprise. This means that such CSs are more difficult to invent, create, or improve upon because no one can be in total control since people cannot be completely controlled. Therefore, one needs to concentrate on trying to influence progress, then wait a suitable amount of time to see what happens, iterating as necessary. With just three chapters in this book, it seems to make sense to provide a tutorial introduction that readers can peruse only as necessary, considering their background and understanding, then a chapter laying out the suggested artifacts and methodology, followed by a chapter emphasizing worthwhile areas of application.

Business Component-Based Software Engineering (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): Franck Barbier Business Component-Based Software Engineering (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Franck Barbier
R3,034 Discovery Miles 30 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is becoming one of the great concerns of researchers and practitioners within the academic areas of computer science and the software industry. After the focus on object-oriented programming, design and modelling during the 90's, reuse and reusability of software entities is nowadays slowed down by new factors. The size of components, their deployment capability, their compatibility and interoperability features in order to be incorporated into heterogeneous cooperative environments, their faults tolerance, and above all, their ability to fulfill performance conditions, are critical expectations of software engineers.
Despite the maturity of the component market and some available results coming from academic research, software engineering and as a result CBSE, remain somehow, a backward discipline, since no modern technique of component composition has been recognized as satisfactory. Business Component-Based Software Engineering, an edited volume, aims to complement some other reputable books on CBSE, by stressing how components are built for large-scale applications, within dedicated development processes and for easy and direct combination. This book will emphasize these three facets and will offer a complete overview of some recent progresses. Projects and works explained herein will prompt graduate students, academics, software engineers, project managers and developers to adopt and to apply new component development methods gained from and validated by the authors. The authors of Business Component-Based Software Engineering are academic and professionals, experts in the field, who will introduce the state of the art on CBSE fromtheir shared experience by working on the same projects.
Business Component-Based Software Engineering is designed to meet the needs of practitioners and researchers in industry, and graduate-level students in Computer Science and Engineering.

Dependence Analysis (Hardcover, 1997 ed.): Utpal Banerjee Dependence Analysis (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Utpal Banerjee
R4,481 Discovery Miles 44 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dependence Analysis may be considered to be the second edition of the author's 1988 book, Dependence Analysis for Supercomputing. It is, however, a completely new work that subsumes the material of the 1988 publication. This book is the third volume in the series Loop Transformations for Restructuring Compilers. This series has been designed to provide a complete mathematical theory of transformations that can be used to automatically change a sequential program containing FORTRAN-like do loops into an equivalent parallel form. In Dependence Analysis, the author extends the model to a program consisting of do loops and assignment statements, where the loops need not be sequentially nested and are allowed to have arbitrary strides. In the context of such a program, the author studies, in detail, dependence between statements of the program caused by program variables that are elements of arrays. Dependence Analysis is directed toward graduate and undergraduate students, and professional writers of restructuring compilers. The prerequisite for the book consists of some knowledge of programming languages, and familiarity with calculus and graph theory. No knowledge of linear programming is required.

Model-Based Design for Effective Control System Development (Hardcover): Wei Wu Model-Based Design for Effective Control System Development (Hardcover)
Wei Wu
R5,030 Discovery Miles 50 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Control systems are an integral aspect of modern society and exist across numerous domains and applications. As technology advances more and more, the complexity of such systems continues to increase exponentially. Model-Based Design for Effective Control System Development is a critical source of scholarly information on model-centric approaches and implementations for control and other similar dynamic systems. Highlighting innovative topics such as configuration management, controllability analysis, and modeling requirements, this book is ideally designed for engineers, researchers, academics, project managers, and professionals interested in the design of embedded control systems.

Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis - The Essentials (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Jamie Champagne Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis - The Essentials (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Jamie Champagne
R1,735 Discovery Miles 17 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume in the Business Analysis Professional Development Series by leading expert and keynote speaker Jamie Champagne is the second edition of our number #1 best seller. It is an instructional text that will help relatively new analysts, and those expected who do business analysis work in addition to their main role, build their skill sets, master the essentials, and advance their careers. Since the content is aligned with the consensus-based business analysis standards of both the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), as articulated in their respective guides and bodies of knowledge, this book continues to be an excellent reference for the PMI-PBA, ECBA, CCBA, and CBAP certification exams. Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis, 2nd Edition, presents detailed explanations of business analysis concepts, terms, tasks, and techniques, and includes examples to help readers understand how to apply them to real-world situations. It also delineates the key activities that are core to the BA role and the diverse range of activities analysts perform based on their career competency level, ranging from problem solving and identification of business opportunities, to complex systems thinking and solution development, to strategic planning and change management. Even for those not interested in certification, like its first edition, this guide is a must-have reference for BA generalists, specialists, and hybrids at every career level and industry segment or perspective. Key Features: Helps new and experienced BAs, as well as project managers, system analysts, product managers and many others doing analysis work, master the skill sets essential to successful business analysis Supplies a clear definition of the business analysis role and insights on how to approach analysis work to help deliver successful solutions Brings needed attention to the significant value those performing the BA role are delivering to all areas of organizations today in the form of change efforts and in project-based work focused on elicitation, analysis, validation, problem solving, and solution delivery Articulates numerous techniques and approaches for learning the business you are working in and gaining an understanding of the technology environment regardless of your background Walks readers through the business case process for gaining support and initiating projects and change efforts Details techniques for successful requirements elicitation, analysis, and validation and how to successfully plan your approach to delivering high-quality business analysis deliverables Explains the current frameworks used for change and project-based work and offers suggestions on how to select the best approach/technique from the various analysis work methodologies Discusses why and how organizations approach change efforts through projects and the added value analysts can provide in helping project-based work be successful beyond the scope of the project Shows BAs how to work with stakeholders, approach them and identify what they need, build successful working relationships, and communicate and present deliverables Provides guidance relevant to BAs at every career level on how to plan, measure, and continuously improve your business analysis work and skill sets Examines the ideal traits, professional attributes, and skills of those most likely to be successful in the role to help aspiring BAs determine if it is a good fit for them and those hiring or managing BAs

Tools for High Performance Computing 2016 - Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High... Tools for High Performance Computing 2016 - Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, October 2016, Stuttgart, Germany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Christoph Niethammer, Jose Gracia, Tobias Hilbrich, Andreas Knupfer, Michael M Resch, …
R4,301 R3,444 Discovery Miles 34 440 Save R857 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents the proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Tools Workshop, held October 4-5, 2016 in Stuttgart, Germany - a forum to discuss the latest advances in parallel tools. High-performance computing plays an increasingly important role for numerical simulation and modelling in academic and industrial research. At the same time, using large-scale parallel systems efficiently is becoming more difficult. A number of tools addressing parallel program development and analysis have emerged from the high-performance computing community over the last decade, and what may have started as collection of small helper script has now matured to production-grade frameworks. Powerful user interfaces and an extensive body of documentation allow easy usage by non-specialists.

Aligning IT and Business - Fostering Organizational Performance, Employees' Commitment and Quality of Management Methods... Aligning IT and Business - Fostering Organizational Performance, Employees' Commitment and Quality of Management Methods (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Katarzyna Tworek
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the interplay between IT solutions and specific management methods in organizations. In particular, it assesses the impact of IT reliability on factors like employees' commitment and organizational performance. After developing the necessary theoretical foundation, the book presents a framework for aligning IT solutions with a number of specific management methods in organizations. In addition, it demonstrates the extent to which IT reliability can be an indicator for this alignment, and discusses the impact on employees' commitment and organizational performance under various management methods. Case studies from organizations in Switzerland and Poland help to illustrate the findings. In closing, the book presents roadmaps for improving IT and business alignment so as to achieve higher commitment and better results.

Pervasive Computing: A Networking Perspective and Future Directions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Deepshikha Bhargava, Sonali Vyas Pervasive Computing: A Networking Perspective and Future Directions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Deepshikha Bhargava, Sonali Vyas
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an accessible guide to ubiquitous computing, with an emphasis on pervasive networking. It addresses various technical obstacles, such as connectivity, levels of service, performance, reliability and fairness. The focus is on describing currently available off-the-shelf technologies, novel algorithms and techniques in areas such as: underwater sensor networks, ant colony based routing, heterogeneous networks, agent based distributed networks, cognitive radio networks, real-time WSN applications, machine translation, intelligent computing and ontology based bit masking. By introducing the core topics and exploring assistive pervasive systems that draw on pervasive networking, the book provides readers with a robust foundation of knowledge on this growing field of research. Written in a straightforward style, the book is also accessible to a broad audience of researchers and designers who are interested in exploring pervasive computing further.

Technology, Human Performance, and Nuclear Facilities - A Systems Engineering Approach to Reduce Human Error (Hardcover):... Technology, Human Performance, and Nuclear Facilities - A Systems Engineering Approach to Reduce Human Error (Hardcover)
Jonathan K. Corrado
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book statistically confirms that complexity and changing technologies that affect the way operators interact within the systems of the nuclear facili-ties exacerbate the severity of incidents caused by human error and details the application of the systems engineering process to reduce human error given industries' rapidly advancing technology. Technology, Human Performance, and Nuclear Facilities: A Systems Engineering Approach to Reduce Human Error provides a basic understand-ing of Human Error/ P erformance and its relation to industrial operations and advancing technologies incorporated into facilities. The book discusses the context surrounding the complexity of changing technologies at nuclear facili-ties and the potential worsening of problems caused by human error when technology advancements concerning operator interaction with control sys-tems are implemented. It presents how to reduce human error propensity given the incorporation of advanced technology and covers ways to reduce human error using the systems engineering process. Also offered are several concepts related to the operator's involvement in the systems engineering process and the human performance integration with system operational requirements and system testing, evaluation, and validation, and the procedures and training development in the systems engineering process. This book presents empirical evidence for the importance of human performance management in the con-text of nuclear facilities and offers practical recommendations for the improve-ment of this function. Systems engineers, plant/ design engineers, the nuclear industry, plant operations management, and those involved in industrial and nuclear safety will find something of interest in this book.

Next Generation Healthcare Systems Using Soft Computing Techniques (Hardcover): Rohit Raja, Korhan Cengiz, Hiral Raja, Rekh Ram... Next Generation Healthcare Systems Using Soft Computing Techniques (Hardcover)
Rohit Raja, Korhan Cengiz, Hiral Raja, Rekh Ram Janghel
R3,578 Discovery Miles 35 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents soft computing techniques and applications used in healthcare systems, along with the latest advancements. Written as a guide for assessing the roles that these techniques play, the book also highlights implementation strategies, lists problem-solving solutions, and paves the way for future research endeavors in smart and next-generation healthcare systems. This book provides applications of soft computing techniques related to healthcare systems and can be used as a reference guide for assessing the roles that various techniques, such as machine learning, fuzzy logic, and statical mathematics, play in the advancements of smart healthcare systems. The book presents the basics as well as the advanced concepts to help beginners, as well as industry professionals, get up to speed on the latest developments in healthcare systems. The book examines descriptive, predictive, and social network techniques and discusses analytical tools and the important role they play in finding solutions to problems in healthcare systems. A framework of robust and novel healthcare techniques is highlighted, as well as implementation strategies and a setup for future research endeavors. Healthcare Systems Using Soft Computing Techniques is a valuable resource for researchers and postgraduate students in healthcare systems engineering, computer science, information technology, and applied mathematics. The book introduces beginners to-and at the same time brings industry professionals up to speed with-the important role soft computing techniques play in smart healthcare systems.

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