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Lessons from COVID-19: Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology
uncovers the impact that COVID-19 has made on healthcare and
technology industries. State-of-the-art case studies, empirical
research, and new trends in technology-mediated solution are
discussed to help inform and guide readers in understanding the
effects that the COVID-19 outbreak has had across healthcare and
technology industries. The book discusses challenges to identify
vaccines, changes in legislation on clinical trials and
re-purposing of licensed drugs, effects on primary healthcare, best
practices adopted by different countries to control the pandemic,
and different effects on patients within diverse age groups and
comorbidities. In addition, the book covers technology-mediated
solutions and infrastructures applied, digital transformations,
modeling techniques, statistical projections, and the benefits and
use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This is a
valuable resource for healthcare professionals, medical doctors,
researchers and graduate students from both biomedical and
technological fields who are interested in learning more about the
use of new technologies to fight a pandemic.
This book highlights recent research on intelligent systems and
nature-inspired computing. It presents 62 selected papers from the
19th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and
Applications (ISDA 2019), which was held online. The ISDA is a
premier conference in the field of computational intelligence, and
the latest installment brought together researchers, engineers and
practitioners whose work involves intelligent systems and their
applications in industry. Including contributions by authors from
33 countries, the book offers a valuable reference guide for all
researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of Computer
Science and Engineering.
This book presents different methods for analyzing the body
language (movement, position, use of personal space, silences,
pauses and tone, the eyes, pupil dilation or constriction, smiles,
body temperature and the like) for better understanding people’s
needs and actions, including biometric data gathering and reading.
Different studies described in this book indicate that sufficiently
much data, information and knowledge can be gained by utilizing
biometric technologies. This is the first, wide-ranging book that
is devoted completely to the area of intelligent decision support
systems, biometrics technologies and their integrations. This book
is designated for scholars, practitioners and doctoral and
master’s degree students in various areas and those who are
interested in the latest biometric and intelligent decision making
support problems and means for their resolutions, biometric and
intelligent decision making support systems and the theory and
practice of their integration and the opportunities for the
practical use of biometric and intelligent decision making support.
The recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD)
was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the
European Union on 19 May 2010. For new buildings, the recast fixes
2020 as the deadline for all new buildings to be "nearly zero
energy" (and even sooner for public buildings - by the end of
2018). This book gives practitioner an important tool to tackle the
challenges of building refurbishment towards nearly zero energy.
This book is welcome at this time and sets the scene for
professionals whether practitioners or researchers to learn more
about how we can make whether old or new buildings more efficient
and effective in terms of energy performance.
This book presents different methods for analyzing the body
language (movement, position, use of personal space, silences,
pauses and tone, the eyes, pupil dilation or constriction, smiles,
body temperature and the like) for better understanding people's
needs and actions, including biometric data gathering and reading.
Different studies described in this book indicate that sufficiently
much data, information and knowledge can be gained by utilizing
biometric technologies. This is the first, wide-ranging book that
is devoted completely to the area of intelligent decision support
systems, biometrics technologies and their integrations. This book
is designated for scholars, practitioners and doctoral and master's
degree students in various areas and those who are interested in
the latest biometric and intelligent decision making support
problems and means for their resolutions, biometric and intelligent
decision making support systems and the theory and practice of
their integration and the opportunities for the practical use of
biometric and intelligent decision making support.
The recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD)
was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the
European Union on 19 May 2010. For new buildings, the recast fixes
2020 as the deadline for all new buildings to be "nearly zero
energy" (and even sooner for public buildings - by the end of
2018). This book gives practitioner an important tool to tackle the
challenges of building refurbishment towards nearly zero energy.
This book is welcome at this time and sets the scene for
professionals whether practitioners or researchers to learn more
about how we can make whether old or new buildings more efficient
and effective in terms of energy performance.
This book highlights recent research on bio-inspired computing and
its various innovative applications in information and
communication technologies. It presents 80 high-quality papers from
the 12th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired
Computing and Applications (IBICA 2021) and 11th World Congress on
Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2021), which was
held online during December 16-18, 2021. As a premier conference,
IBICA-WICT brings together researchers, engineers and practitioners
whose work involves bio-inspired computing, computational
intelligence and their applications in information security,
real-world contexts, etc. Including contributions by authors from
25 countries, the book offers a valuable reference guide for all
researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of Computer
Science and Engineering.
This book includes high-quality research on various aspects of
intelligent interactive multimedia technologies in healthcare
services. The topics covered in the book focus on state-of-the-art
approaches, methodologies, and systems in the design, development,
deployment, and innovative use of multimedia systems, tools, and
technologies in healthcare. The volume provides insights into smart
healthcare service demands. It presents all information about
multimedia uses in e-healthcare applications. The book also
includes case studies and self-assessment problems for readers and
future researchers. This book proves to be a valuable resource to
know how AI can be an alternative tool for automated and
intelligent analytics for e-healthcare applications.
This book provides IT professionals, educators, researchers, and
students a compendium of knowledge on smart sensors and devices,
types of sensors, data analysis and monitoring with the help of
smart sensors, decision making, impact of machine learning
algorithms, and artificial intelligence-related methodologies for
data analysis and understanding of smart applications in networks.
Smart sensor networks play an important role in the establishment
of network devices which can easily interact with physical world
through plethora of variety of sensors for collecting and
monitoring the surrounding context and allowing environment
information. Apart from military applications, smart sensor
networks are used in many civilian applications nowadays and there
is a need to manage high volume of demands in related applications.
This book comprises of 9 chapters and presents a valuable insight
on the original research and review articles on the latest
achievements that contributes to the field of smart sensor networks
and their usage in real-life applications like smart city, smart
home, e-healthcare, smart social sensing networks, etc. Chapters
illustrate technological advances and trends, examine research
opportunities, highlight best practices and standards, and discuss
applications and adoption. Some chapters also provide holistic and
multiple perspectives while examining the impact of smart sensor
networks and the role of data analytics, data sharing, and its
control along with future prospects.
This book provides IT professionals, educators, researchers, and
students a compendium of knowledge on smart sensors and devices,
types of sensors, data analysis and monitoring with the help of
smart sensors, decision making, impact of machine learning
algorithms, and artificial intelligence-related methodologies for
data analysis and understanding of smart applications in networks.
Smart sensor networks play an important role in the establishment
of network devices which can easily interact with physical world
through plethora of variety of sensors for collecting and
monitoring the surrounding context and allowing environment
information. Apart from military applications, smart sensor
networks are used in many civilian applications nowadays and there
is a need to manage high volume of demands in related applications.
This book comprises of 9 chapters and presents a valuable insight
on the original research and review articles on the latest
achievements that contributes to the field of smart sensor networks
and their usage in real-life applications like smart city, smart
home, e-healthcare, smart social sensing networks, etc. Chapters
illustrate technological advances and trends, examine research
opportunities, highlight best practices and standards, and discuss
applications and adoption. Some chapters also provide holistic and
multiple perspectives while examining the impact of smart sensor
networks and the role of data analytics, data sharing, and its
control along with future prospects.
Internet of Things (IoTs) are now being integrated at a large scale
in fast-developing applications such as healthcare, transportation,
education, finance, insurance and retail. The next generation of
automated applications will command machines to do tasks better and
more efficiently. Both industry and academic researchers are
looking at transforming applications using machine learning and
deep learning to build better models and by taking advantage of the
decentralized nature of Blockchain. But the advent of these new
technologies also brings very high expectations to industries,
organisations and users. The decrease of computing costs, the
improvement of data integrity in Blockchain, and the verification
of transactions using Machine Learning are becoming essential
goals. This edited book covers the challenges, opportunities,
innovations, new concepts and emerging trends related to the use of
machine learning, Blockchain and Big Data analytics for IoTs. The
book is aimed at a broad audience of ICTs, data science, machine
learning and cybersecurity researchers interested in the
integration of these disruptive technologies and their applications
for IoTs.
Start-Up Creation: The Smart Eco-efficient Built Environment
provides a state-of-the-art review on high-technology applications
and explains how these can be applied to improve the eco-efficiency
of the built environment. Divided into four main parts, the book
explains the key factors behind successful startup companies that
grow from university research, including the development of a
business plan, the importance of intellectual property, necessary
entrepreneurial skills, and innovative thinking. Part Two presents
the latest research findings on nano and bio-based technologies and
their application and use to the energy efficiency of the built
environment. Part Three focuses on the use of genetic algorithms,
Big Data, and the Internet of Things applications. Finally, the
book ends with an entire section dedicated to App development using
selected case studies that illustrate their application and use for
monitoring building energy-efficiency.
Start-up creation is the most distinctive feature of the
entrepreneurial knowledge-based economy. It is also essential for
economic growth and especially important in the current context of
young graduate's high unemployment rates that are expected to
increase in the next few decades. There are other books on the
creation of start-up companies, designed to be of value to
academics wishing to exploit the commercial value of a new
technology or business solution, but none of these existing titles
focus on start-up creation in the construction industry. In the
second edition of this extremely successful title the editors
present a state-of-the-art review on advanced technologies, and
their application in several areas of the built environment
covering energy efficiency, structural performance, air and water
quality to inspire the creation of start-up companies from
university research. Part One begins with the key factors behind
successful start-up companies from university research, including
the development of a business plan, start-up financing, and the
importance of intellectual property. Part Two focuses on the use of
Big Data, Intelligent decision support systems, the Internet of
Things and their use in the energy efficiency of the built
environment. Finally, Part three is an entire new section that
focuses on several smartphone applications for the smart built
environment. While in the first edition the section concerning apps
for smart buildings had just two chapters, one for app programming
basics and a second a case study on building security in this
second edition the core of the book is about app development that
constitutes 50% of the book.
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