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The growing intensity and complexity of public service has spurred
policy reform efforts across the globe, many featuring attempts to
promote more collaborative government. Collaboration in Public
Service Delivery sheds light on these efforts, analysing and
reconceptualising the major types of collaboration in public
service delivery through a governance lens. Featuring careful
analysis with a global scope, this book unpacks the concept of
collaborative service delivery and its practice, drawing from the
fields of public policy, public administration, and management.
Chapters by leading authors in these areas address service delivery
arrangements including co-production, co-management, consultations,
contracting-out, commissioning and certification. With a keen focus
on conditions that are critical for the success of such
collaborative arrangements, as well as their different pathways and
pitfalls, the authors suggest ways to improve the analytical,
managerial and political capacities needed for successful
collaboration in public service delivery. This timely and
comprehensive book is useful for students at all levels interested
in public policy, governance, administration and management, as
well as researchers investigating the governance of collaborative
service delivery. Policymakers and practitioners working to
re-evaluate and improve public service provision, especially, will
also benefit from its insightful discussions of the conditions and
mechanisms under which collaborative arrangements operate and fail
or succeed.
The growing intensity and complexity of public service has spurred
policy reform efforts across the globe, many featuring attempts to
promote more collaborative government. Collaboration in Public
Service Delivery sheds light on these efforts, analysing and
reconceptualising the major types of collaboration in public
service delivery through a governance lens. Featuring careful
analysis with a global scope, this book unpacks the concept of
collaborative service delivery and its practice, drawing from the
fields of public policy, public administration, and management.
Chapters by leading authors in these areas address service delivery
arrangements including co-production, co-management, consultations,
contracting-out, commissioning and certification. With a keen focus
on conditions that are critical for the success of such
collaborative arrangements, as well as their different pathways and
pitfalls, the authors suggest ways to improve the analytical,
managerial and political capacities needed for successful
collaboration in public service delivery. This timely and
comprehensive book is useful for students at all levels interested
in public policy, governance, administration and management, as
well as researchers investigating the governance of collaborative
service delivery. Policymakers and practitioners working to
re-evaluate and improve public service provision, especially, will
also benefit from its insightful discussions of the conditions and
mechanisms under which collaborative arrangements operate and fail
or succeed.
In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on
anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with
the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of
our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new ways of
thinking about a particular problem that is fundamental to how we
live, such as facing difficult choices, uncontrollable
contingencies, complex evaluations, the failures of justice, the
miasma of boredom, and the inescapable hypocrisies of social life.
Kekes considers how we might deal with these predicaments by
comparing how others in different times and cultures have
approached them. He examines what is good, bad, instructive, and
dangerous in the sexually charged politics of the Shilluk, the
Hindu caste system, Balinese role-morality, the religious passion
of Cortes and Simone Weil, the fate of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara
during and after the battle for Okinawa, the ritual human
sacrifices of the Aztecs, and the tragedies to which innocence may
lead. In doing so, he shakes us out of our deep-seated ways of
thinking, enlarging our understanding of the possibilities
available to us as we struggle with the problems that stand in the
way of how we want to live. The result is a highly interesting
journey through time and space that illuminates and helps us cope
with some of the most basic predicaments we all face as human
beings.
Mobile Cloud Computing: Models, Implementation, and Security
provides a comprehensive introduction to mobile cloud computing,
including key concepts, models, and relevant applications. The book
focuses on novel and advanced algorithms, as well as mobile app
development. The book begins with an overview of mobile cloud
computing concepts, models, and service deployments, as well as
specific cloud service models. It continues with the basic
mechanisms and principles of mobile computing, as well as
virtualization techniques. The book also introduces mobile cloud
computing architecture, design, key techniques, and challenges. The
second part of the book covers optimizations of data processing and
storage in mobile clouds, including performance and green clouds.
The crucial optimization algorithm in mobile cloud computing is
also explored, along with big data and service computing. Security
issues in mobile cloud computing are covered in-depth, including a
brief introduction to security and privacy issues and threats, as
well as privacy protection techniques in mobile systems. The last
part of the book features the integration of service-oriented
architecture with mobile cloud computing. It discusses web service
specifications related to implementations of mobile cloud
computing. The book not only presents critical concepts in mobile
cloud systems, but also drives readers to deeper research, through
open discussion questions. Practical case studies are also
included. Suitable for graduate students and professionals, this
book provides a detailed and timely overview of mobile cloud
computing for a broad range of readers.
Mobile Applications Development with Android: Technologies and
Algorithms presents advanced techniques for mobile app development,
and addresses recent developments in mobile technologies and
wireless networks. The book covers advanced algorithms, embedded
systems, novel mobile app architecture, and mobile cloud computing
paradigms. Divided into three sections, the book explores three
major dimensions in the current mobile app development domain. The
first section describes mobile app design and development skills,
including a quick start on using Java to run an Android application
on a real phone. It also introduces 2D graphics and UI design, as
well as multimedia in Android mobile apps. The second part of the
book delves into advanced mobile app optimization, including an
overview of mobile embedded systems and architecture. Data storage
in Android, mobile optimization by dynamic programming, and mobile
optimization by loop scheduling are also covered. The last section
of the book looks at emerging technologies, including mobile cloud
computing, advanced techniques using Big Data, and mobile Big Data
storage. About the Authors Meikang Qiu is an Associate Professor of
Computer Science at Pace University, and an adjunct professor at
Columbia University. He is an IEEE/ACM Senior Member, as well as
Chair of the IEEE STC (Special Technical Community) on Smart
Computing. He is an Associate Editor of a dozen of journals
including IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on
Cloud Computing. He has published 320+ peer-reviewed
journal/conference papers and won 10+ Best Paper Awards. Wenyun Dai
is pursuing his PhD at Pace University. His research interests
include high performance computing, mobile data privacy, resource
management optimization, cloud computing, and mobile networking.
His paper about mobile app privacy has been published in IEEE
Transactions on Computers. Keke Gai is pursuing his PhD at Pace
University. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal or
conference papers, and has received three IEEE Best Paper Awards.
His research interests include cloud computing, cyber security,
combinatorial optimization, business process modeling, enterprise
architecture, and Internet computing. .
Mobile Applications Development with Android: Technologies and
Algorithms presents advanced techniques for mobile app development,
and addresses recent developments in mobile technologies and
wireless networks. The book covers advanced algorithms, embedded
systems, novel mobile app architecture, and mobile cloud computing
paradigms. Divided into three sections, the book explores three
major dimensions in the current mobile app development domain. The
first section describes mobile app design and development skills,
including a quick start on using Java to run an Android application
on a real phone. It also introduces 2D graphics and UI design, as
well as multimedia in Android mobile apps. The second part of the
book delves into advanced mobile app optimization, including an
overview of mobile embedded systems and architecture. Data storage
in Android, mobile optimization by dynamic programming, and mobile
optimization by loop scheduling are also covered. The last section
of the book looks at emerging technologies, including mobile cloud
computing, advanced techniques using Big Data, and mobile Big Data
storage. About the Authors Meikang Qiu is an Associate Professor of
Computer Science at Pace University, and an adjunct professor at
Columbia University. He is an IEEE/ACM Senior Member, as well as
Chair of the IEEE STC (Special Technical Community) on Smart
Computing. He is an Associate Editor of a dozen of journals
including IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on
Cloud Computing. He has published 320+ peer-reviewed
journal/conference papers and won 10+ Best Paper Awards. Wenyun Dai
is pursuing his PhD at Pace University. His research interests
include high performance computing, mobile data privacy, resource
management optimization, cloud computing, and mobile networking.
His paper about mobile app privacy has been published in IEEE
Transactions on Computers. Keke Gai is pursuing his PhD at Pace
University. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal or
conference papers, and has received three IEEE Best Paper Awards.
His research interests include cloud computing, cyber security,
combinatorial optimization, business process modeling, enterprise
architecture, and Internet computing. .
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Big Data - BigData 2019 - 8th International Congress, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2019, San Diego, CA, USA, June 25-30, 2019, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Keke Chen, Sangeetha Seshadri, Liang-Jie Zhang
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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International
Congress on BIGDATA 2019, held as Part of SCF 2019 in San Diego,
CA, USA in June 2019. The 9 full papers presented in this volume
were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They
cover topics such as: Big Data Models and Algorithms; Big Data
Architectures; Big Data Management; Big Data Protection, Integrity
and Privacy; Security Applications of Big Data; Big Data Search and
Mining; Big Data for Enterprise, Government and Society.
What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know
that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists,
social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by
very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years
philosophers have sought a single, overriding ideal that should
guide everyone, always, everywhere, and after centuries of debate
we're no closer to an answer. In How Should We Live?, John Kekes
offers a refreshing alternative, one in which we eschew absolute
ideals and instead consider our lives as they really are, day by
day, subject to countless vicissitudes and unforeseen obstacles.
Kekes argues that ideal theories are abstractions from the
realities of everyday life and its problems. The well-known arenas
where absolute ideals conflict--dramatic moral controversies about
complex problems involved in abortion, euthanasia, plea bargaining,
privacy, and other hotly debated topics--should not be the primary
concerns of moral thinking. Instead, he focuses on the simpler
problems of ordinary lives in ordinary circumstances. In each
chapter he presents the conflicts that a real person--a
schoolteacher, lawyer, father, or nurse, for example--is likely to
face. He then uses their situations to shed light on the mundane
issues we all must deal with in everyday life, such as how we use
our limited time, energy, or money; how we balance short- and
long-term satisfactions; how we deal with conflicting loyalties;
how we control our emotions; how we deal with people we dislike;
and so on. Along the way he engages some of our most important
theorists, including Donald Davidson, Thomas Nagel, Christine
Korsgaard, Harry Frankfurt, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and
Bernard Williams, ultimately showing that no ideal--whether
autonomy, love, duty, happiness, or truthfulness--trumps any other.
No single ideal can always guide how we overcome the many different
problems that stand in the way of living as we should. Rather than
rejecting such ideals, How Should We Live? offers a way of
balancing them by a practical and pluralistic approach--rather than
a theory--that helps us cope with our problems and come closer to
what our lives should be.
In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on
anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with
the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of
our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new ways of
thinking about a particular problem that is fundamental to how we
live, such as facing difficult choices, uncontrollable
contingencies, complex evaluations, the failures of justice, the
miasma of boredom, and the inescapable hypocrisies of social life.
Kekes considers how we might deal with these predicaments by
comparing how others in different times and cultures have
approached them. He examines what is good, bad, instructive, and
dangerous in the sexually charged politics of the Shilluk, the
Hindu caste system, Balinese role-morality, the religious passion
of Cortes and Simone Weil, the fate of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara
during and after the battle for Okinawa, the ritual human
sacrifices of the Aztecs, and the tragedies to which innocence may
lead. In doing so, he shakes us out of our deep-seated ways of
thinking, enlarging our understanding of the possibilities
available to us as we struggle with the problems that stand in the
way of how we want to live. The result is a highly interesting
journey through time and space that illuminates and helps us cope
with some of the most basic predicaments we all face as human
beings.
In this systematic and scathing attack on the dominant contemporary
version of liberalism, John Kekes challenges political assumptions
shared by the majority of people in Western societies.
Egalitarianism, as it's widely known, holds that a government ought
to treat all citizens with equal consideration. Kekes charges that
belief in egalitarianism rests on illusions that prevent people
from facing unpleasant truths.Kekes, a major voice in modern
political thought, argues that differences among human beings in
the areas of morality, reasonability, legality, and citizenship are
too important for governance to ignore. In a rigorous criticism of
prominent egalitarian thinkers, including Dworkin, Nagel, Nussbaum,
Rawls, Raz, and Singer, Kekes charges that their views present a
serious threat to both morality and reason. For Kekes, certain
"inegalitarian truths" are obvious: people should get what they
deserve, those who are good and those who are evil should not be
treated as if they had the same moral worth, people should not be
denied what they have earned in order to benefit those who have not
earned it, and individuals should be held responsible for their
actions. His provocative book will compel many readers to question
their faith in liberalism.
Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental
problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a
conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the
main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our
character defects and that we can increase our control over the
evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper.
This book provides an integrative interdisciplinary view of how
intellectual and moral virtues are understood in two separate
practices, science and music. The authors engage with philosophical
and psychological accounts of virtue to understand scientists' and
musicians' understandings of intellectual and moral virtues. They
present empirical evidence substantiating the MacIntyrean claim
that traditions and practices are central to understanding the
virtues."
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Smart Computing and Communication - 6th International Conference, SmartCom 2021, New York City, NY, USA, December 29-31, 2021, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Meikang Qiu, Keke Gai, Han Qiu
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International
Conference on Smart Computing and Communication, SmartCom 2021,
which took place in New York City, USA, during December 29-31,
2021.* The 44 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed
and selected from 165 submissions. The scope of SmartCom 2021 was
broad, from smart data to smart communications, from smart cloud
computing to smart security. The conference gathered all
high-quality research/industrial papers related to smart computing
and communications and aimed at proposing a reference guideline for
further research. * Conference was held online due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Spacecraft Attitude Control: A Linear Matrix Inequality Approach
solves problems for spacecraft attitude control systems using
convex optimization and, specifi cally, through a linear matrix
inequality (LMI) approach. High-precision pointing and improved
robustness in the face of external disturbances and other
uncertainties are requirements for the current generation of
spacecraft. This book presents an LMI approach to spacecraft
attitude control and shows that all uncertainties in the
maneuvering process can be solved numerically. It explains how a
model-like state space can be developed through a mathematical
presentation of attitude control systems, allowing the controller
in question to be applied universally. The authors describe a wide
variety of novel and robust controllers, applicable both to
spacecraft attitude control and easily extendable to second-order
systems. Spacecraft Attitude Control provides its readers with an
accessible introduction to spacecraft attitude control and robust
systems, giving an extensive survey of current research and helping
researchers improve robust control performance.
This book focuses on picturing B-IoT techniques from a few
perspectives, which are architecture, key technologies, security
and privacy, service models and framework, practical use cases and
more. Main contents of this book derive from most updated technical
achievements or breakthroughs in the field. A number of
representative IoT service offerings will be covered by this book,
such as vehicular networks, document sharing system, and
telehealth. Both theoretical and practical contents will be
involved in this book in order to assist readers to have a
comprehensive and deep understanding the mechanism of using
blockchain for powering up IoT systems. The blockchain-enabled
Internet of Things (B-IoT) is deemed to be a novel technical
alternative that provides network-based services with additional
functionalities, benefits, and implementations in terms of
decentralization, immutability, and auditability. Towards the
enhanced secure and privacy-preserving Internet of Things (IoT),
this book introduces a few significant aspects of B-IoT, which
includes fundamental knowledge of both blockchain and IoT,
state-of-the-art reviews of B-IoT applications, crucial components
in the B-IoT system and the model design, and future development
potentials and trends. IoT technologies and services, e.g. cloud
data storage technologies and vehicular services, play important
roles in wireless technology developments. On the other side,
blockchain technologies are being adopted in a variety of academic
societies and professional realms due to its promising
characteristics. It is observable that the research and development
on integrating these two technologies will provide critical
thinking and solid references for contemporary and future
network-relevant solutions. This book targets researchers and
advanced level students in computer science, who are focused on
cryptography, cloud computing and internet of things, as well as
electrical engineering students and researchers focused on
vehicular networks and more. Professionals working in these fields
will also find this book to be a valuable resource.
In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends
a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude-one that
can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often
conflicting possibilities and limits of life in the context in
which we live. Wisdom includes basic assumptions about the concrete
and constantly changing conditions of life; reflective
understanding of how we can rely on reason to evaluate the
possibilities open to us and recognize the limits we have no choice
but to accept; and it includes depth that enables us to accept that
perennial problems are part of the human condition and yet to
restrain our false hopes and disenchanted reactions to the
vicissitudes of life. The evaluative attitude of wisdom is
personal, not theoretical; anthropocentric, not metaphysical;
context-dependent, not universal; and humanistic, not scientific.
It recognizes that there are many forms of worthwhile lives, and
denies that there is one ideal of The Good that everyone should try
to approximate. It accepts that all of our beliefs, emotions, and
desires are fallible, yet they are correctable provided we are
sufficiently critical of them. The resulting conception of wisdom
is intended as a contribution to philosophy as a humanistic
discipline. It is a radical departure from traditional ways of
thinking about wisdom.
This book focuses on picturing B-IoT techniques from a few
perspectives, which are architecture, key technologies, security
and privacy, service models and framework, practical use cases and
more. Main contents of this book derive from most updated technical
achievements or breakthroughs in the field. A number of
representative IoT service offerings will be covered by this book,
such as vehicular networks, document sharing system, and
telehealth. Both theoretical and practical contents will be
involved in this book in order to assist readers to have a
comprehensive and deep understanding the mechanism of using
blockchain for powering up IoT systems. The blockchain-enabled
Internet of Things (B-IoT) is deemed to be a novel technical
alternative that provides network-based services with additional
functionalities, benefits, and implementations in terms of
decentralization, immutability, and auditability. Towards the
enhanced secure and privacy-preserving Internet of Things (IoT),
this book introduces a few significant aspects of B-IoT, which
includes fundamental knowledge of both blockchain and IoT,
state-of-the-art reviews of B-IoT applications, crucial components
in the B-IoT system and the model design, and future development
potentials and trends. IoT technologies and services, e.g. cloud
data storage technologies and vehicular services, play important
roles in wireless technology developments. On the other side,
blockchain technologies are being adopted in a variety of academic
societies and professional realms due to its promising
characteristics. It is observable that the research and development
on integrating these two technologies will provide critical
thinking and solid references for contemporary and future
network-relevant solutions. This book targets researchers and
advanced level students in computer science, who are focused on
cryptography, cloud computing and internet of things, as well as
electrical engineering students and researchers focused on
vehicular networks and more. Professionals working in these fields
will also find this book to be a valuable resource.
"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does
not mean . . . that it cannot be taught and learned or that
individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it
proceeds by way of exemplary lives, and learning it consists in
coming to appreciate what makes some lives exemplary. . . . That
imitation here is impossible does not mean one cannot learn from
examples. The question is, How can that be done reasonably; how can
decisions about how one should live escape being arbitrary, if they
are left to individual creativity and imagination and are not
governed by rules that apply to everyone living in a particular
context?" from The Art of LifeThe art of life, according to John
Kekes, consists in living a life of personal and moral excellence.
This art requires continuous creative effort, drawing on one's
character, circumstances, experiences, and ideals. Since these
conditions vary with times and places, Kekes says, there can be no
single blueprint for the achievement of excellence. We must do it
ourselves but we can learn from those who have lived exemplary
lives.Reflecting on lives of integrity and honor, Kekes formulates
what we can learn from them and what we can do to adapt the ideals
they represent to our personal circumstances. Avoiding both the
abstractness that characterizes much moral thought and the
relativism that recognizes no rational or moral limits, Kekes shows
how serious philosophical thinking can be readable and helpful to
those who struggle with the perennial problems of human existence."
Corporate governance is an important issue on the research agenda
of financial economists. Using a new and unique data set of German
corporations this book examines three topics that are crucial to a
better understanding of corporate governance: (a) the frequency,
causes, and consequences of control transfers, (b) the determinants
of acquisition and failure, and (c) the role of corporate
governance and market discipline for productivity growth. This book
points out methodological drawbacks of previous empirical studies
and provides suggestions on how to avoid these problems in research
practice.
Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography,
AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether
there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether
values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present
moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our
society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism
is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values.
Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet it avoids a chaotic
relativism according to which all values are in the end arbitrary.
Maintaining that good lives must be reasonable, but denying that
they must conform to one true pattern, Kekes develops and justifies
a pluralistic account of good lives and values, and works out its
political, moral, and personal implications.
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