Applied computing Books

Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th ATEE Spring Conference onSocial Justice, Media and Technology, ATEE 2021, held in Florence, Italy, during October 28–30, 2021.The 19 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: teaching critical media/digital literacy in multicultural societies; decommodifying teacher (digital) education; and digital technology and equity for inclusive teaching.Table of ContentsTeaching critical media/digital literacy in multicultural societies.- Media Education and Digital Storytelling: an Experience of University Teaching.- Engaging with Media Constructs and Power Dimensions in Initial Teacher Education: Enabling Student Teachers to Challenge Stereotypical Representations of Minorities in the Classroom.- Immersive Environments in Higher Education: the Digital Well-Being Perspective.- Cultures, Intersections, Networks. The Role of Algorithms in Defining Power Relations Based on Gender, Race, Class, Disability.- Integration of LifeComp and DigComp 2.2 as a Theoretical Framework for Media Education.- Digital Citizenship Education Curriculum. Results of a National Investigation and Didactic Proposals.- Study and Analysis on the Student Response System Adoption: Experimentation in a Programming Course.- Decommodifying teacher (digital) education.- Learning Analytics to Foster Quality Culture in Education and Training Organizations.- Legalisation Issues and Reconfiguration of Education? Challenges for Nordic Teacher Education in the Digital Age.- The Training of Teachers in Citizenship Education through Theatre and Dialectical Method.- Educating Students at Teacher Education Faculties in Art Fields (Visual Arts and Music) in the Online Environment.- Digital technology and equity for inclusive teaching.- “La scuola si Nutre del Territorio nel Quale Alberga” “The school is Nourished by the Local Context”.- Teaching in Upper Secondary Schools with High Migratory Complexity: the European Project QuaMMELOT.- Accessible School Textbooks for Students with Hearing Impairments.- Educational Robotics for Inclusive Design.- Teachers in a Searchable World: Findings from an Introductory Survey.- Teaching with Digital Conceptual Maps for the Development of Inclusive Processes.- Teacher Professional Development on Social Inclusion: the PLEIADE Approach.- Educational Technologies, Social and Emotional Learning and School Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 5th The Global IoT Summit, GIoTS 2022, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in June 20–23, 2022. The 33 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed andselected from 75 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: ioT enabling technologies; ioT applications, services and real implementations; ioT security, privacy and data protection; and ioT pilots, testbeds and experimentation results.Table of Contents​IoT Enabling Technologies.- Overview of Drone Communication Requirements in 5G.- Accurate indoor positioning based on beacon weighting using RSSI.- Adaptive Data-Driven Routing for Edge-to-Cloud Continuum: a Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Approach.- Online Decentralized Frank-Wolfe: From theoretical bound to applications in smart-building.- IntellIoT: Intelligent IoT Environments.- An Interoperable Framework for Heterogeneous IoT Infrastructure to Unlock Data Value.- Task offloading in Computing Continuum using collaborative reinforcement learning.- Assessing Efficiency Benefits of Edge Intelligence.- IoT Applications, Services and Real Implementations.- A Smart IoT Gateway capable of Prescreening for Atrial Fibrillation.- Internet of Things with web technologies solution for flood notification in S~ao Paulo.- Wi-Monitor: Wi-Fi Channel State Information-based Crowd Counting with Lightweight and Low-cost IoT Devices.- Design of a next-generation interoperable Cognitive Port Solution.- Conceptual Framework of Contact-less Consumer Products Industry during and Post-Pandemic Era.- Blockchain for economy of scale in wind industry: A Demo Case.- Sleep Stage detection on a Wearable Headband using Deep Neural Networks.- A Comparative Study on Energy Consumption Models for Drones.- ConQeng: A Middleware for Quality of Context Aware Selection, Measurement and Validation.- Automating Heterogeneous IoT Device Networks from Multiple Brokers with Multiple Data Models.- A Persuasive system for Stress Detection and Management in an Educational Environment.- Domain Generalization on Constrained Platforms: on the Compatibility with Pruning Techniques.- IoT Security, Privacy and Data Protection.- A low-overhead approach for self-sovereign identity in IoT.- An Analysis of Process Parameters for the Optimization of Specific Emitter Identification Under Rayleigh Fading.- Secure Image Data Storage And Transmission Using ESP32-Cam And Raspberry Pi With Steganography.- Modelling of Resource-aware Information Exchange for Resource Constraint IoT Devices.- IRIS Advanced Threat Intelligence Orchestrator- A way to manage cybersecurity challenges of IoT ecosystems in Smart Cities.- Federated learning-based IoT intrusion detection on non-IID data.- A holistic approach for IoT networks' identity and trust management - The ERATOSTHENES project.- A holistic approach for IoT networks' identity and trust management - The ERATOSTHENES project.- ARCADIAN-IoT - Enabling Autonomous Trust, Security and PrivacyManagement for IoT.- IoT Pilots, Testbeds and Experimentation Results.- GAIA 5G: A Multi-Access Smart-Campus Architecture.- IoT Device for Reduction of Roe Deer Fawn Mortality During Haymaking.- Latency and Energy Consumption of Convolutional Neural Network Models from IoT Edge Perspective.- Industry-Academia Cooperation: Applied IoT Research for SMEs in South-East Sweden.- Experiment to scope Low Carbon Electricity based Additive Manufacturing with IoT.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2022, held in Tampere, Finland, in November/December 2022. The 27 full papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers cover a broad spectrum of topics: Serious Games and Game Design; Serious Games for Instruction; Serious Game for Digital Literacy and Numeracy; Novel Approaches and Application Domains; Taxonomies and Evaluation Frameworks.Table of ContentsTurtle Heroes: Designing a Serious Game for a VR interactive Tunnel.- Comparison with Self vs Comparison with Others: The Influence of Learning Analytics Dashboard Design on Learner Dashboard Use.- Game Design for a Museum Visit: Insights into The Co-Design of AL-2049, A Game About Food Systems.- Supporting Knowledge Sharing for The Co-Design of Digital Learning Games.- A Serious Game for Using Socio-Economic and Trust Based Decision-Making Scenarios for Elicitation of Emotional Responses.- FLIGBY: The Serious Game Harnessing Flow Experience for Leadership.- 10 Commandments of The Serious Game Padawan: Lessons Learned After 4 Years of Professional Training.- Microcosmos 3.0 Perception of Teachers in Outdoor Hybrid Playing Based on Mobile Learning for Natural Sciences.- An Autoethnographic Perspective on Teaching Soft Skills Using Multiplayer Online Games.- Evaluating the Expectations and Motivational Drivers in An Undergraduate Geology Classroom Using the Magma Pop Serious Game.- A Serious Game to Improve Phishing Awareness.- More Than Meets the Eye – An Anti-Phishing Learning Game with a Focus on Phishing Emails.- Promoting Adaptive Number Knowledge Through Deliberate Practice in The Number Navigation Game.- Effects of a Game-Based Fraction Estimation Task on Math Anxiety.- Motivation and Emotions in a Health Literacy Game: Insights from Co-Occurrence Network Analysis.- Swarming as a Bird/Fish: Investigating the Effect of First-Person Perspective Simulation on Players’ Connectedness with Nature.- Design Of a Novel Serious Game for The Detection and Measurement of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.- The Role of Games in Overcoming the Barriers to Paediatric Speech Therapy Training.- Ludic Didactics for an Inspired, Motivating and Playful Education.- Out of the Maze: Investigating the Effects of Fluid Intelligence and Numeracy on Planning Skills Using Video Games.- A Virtual Ship Evacuation Serious Game: Assessment of Data and Passenger Training.- High-level Decision-Making Non-Player Vehicles.- Influence of a Mixed Reality Game on Students’ Personal Epistemology. An Empirical Study.- Experts’ Evaluation of a Proposed Taxonomy for Immersive Learning Systems.- A Design Space of Educational Authoring Tools for Augmented Reality.- The Effectiveness of Adaptive Digital Games for Learning: Calling for a Broader View on Assessment.- Gamification in Work Teams: A Q study on How Team Members Experience Gamification.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2021, held in Winterthur, Switzerland, in September 2022. The 14 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Networks; Droplets, Fluids, and Synthetic Biology; Robot Systems; Computer Vision and Computational Creativity; Semantic Search; Artificial Medicine and Pharmacy; Trade and Finance; Ethics in Computational Modelling.Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 22, and 24 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of Contents​Networks.- Dynamical criticality in growing networks.- Effective Resistance based Weight Thresholding for Community Detection.- An Oracle for the Optimization of Underconstrained Compositions of Neural Networks - The Tick Hazard Use Case.- Droplets, Fluids, and Synthetic Biology.- Obstacles on the Pathway towards Chemical Programmability using Agglomerations of Droplets.- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: droplet recognition by a "shootout"-heuristics.- Exploring the three-dimensional arrangement of droplets.- Geometric restrictions to the agglomeration of spherical particles.- Effectiveness of Dynamic Load Balancing in Parallel Execution of a Subsurface Flow Cellular Automata Model.- Two possible AI-related paths for bottom-up synthetic cell research.- Robot Systems.- A hybrid control system architecture for a mobile robot to provide an energy-efficient and fast data processing.- On the evolution of mechanisms for collective decision making in a swarm of robots.- A novel online adaptation mechanism in artificial systems provides phenotypic plasticity.- Computer Vision and Computational Creativity.- Exploration of Genetic Algorithms and CNN for Melanoma Classification.- Using Genetic Algorithms to optimize a deep learning based system for the prediction of cognitive impairments.- Autonomous inspections of power towers with an UAV.- Self-organizing Maps of Artificial Neural Classifiers - a Brain like Pin Factory.- Evolutionary Music: Statistical Learning and Novelty for automatic improvisation.- Semantic Search.- ARISE: Artificial Intelligence Semantic Search Engine.- Artificial Medicine and Pharmacy.- Influence of the Antigen Pattern Vector on the Dynamics in a Perceptron-based Artificial Immune - Tumour-Ecosystem during and after Radiation Therapy.- Two-level detection of dynamic organization in cancer evolution models.- Artificial chemical neural network for drug discovery applications.- Trade and Finance.- Information Flow Simulations in Multi-Dimensional and Dynamic Systems.- Investigation of the Ramsey-Pierce-Bowman Model.- Ethics in Computational Modelling.- Ethical Aspects of Computational Modelling in Science, Decision Support and Communication.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computing, iCETiC 2022, held in Chester, UK, August 15-16, 2022. The 16 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cloud, IoT and Distributed Computing; and AI, Expert Systems and Big Data Analytics.Table of ContentsCloud, IoT and Distributed Computing.- An evaluation of the correlation between task characteristics and input data size in scientific workflows.- Evaluation of Semantic Interoperability of Automotive Service API Models based on Metamodels Similarity Metrics using a Semi-Automated Approach.- BCoT-based Smart Manufacturing: An Enhanced Precise Measurement Management System.- Investigation of the Digitalisation Process of Traditional Businesses and its Concept for Retail.- Data Integrity for Dynamic Big Data in Cloud Storage: A comprehensive review and critical issues.- AI, Expert Systems and Big Data Analytics.- A Review of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Techniques on Bengali Scripts.- Traffic sign detection and recognition system using improved YOLOV5s.- Prediction of the Arbutus unedo colonization time via an agent-based distribution model.- Stock Price Prediction Using Semi-supervised Ridge Regression.- Accessibility of Multimedia Resources from Irish Universities for People With Epilepsy.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Internet of Everything, IoECon 2022, which took place in Guimarães, Portugal in September 16-17 2022. IoECon 2022 presents IoE paradigms to their whole dimension, intelligently connecting devices, people, processes, data, and things. IoE is multi-disciplinary and offers an opportunity to explore the co-relations between different areas, techniques, and theories about a new cyber world.The 10 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers focus on a complete ecosystem that digitally interconnects everything, including people-to-people, people-to-machines, and machines-to-machines.Table of Contents​People-to-People.- Perspectives on the Internet of Everything.- Guidelines to Develop Consumers Cyber Resilience Capabilities in The IoE Ecosystem.- A competency definition based on the knowledge, skills, and human dispositions constructs.- The influence of the image and photography of E-Commerce products on the purchase decision of online consumers.- People-to-Machine and Machine-to-People.- The Man-Machine Relationship on the Web: Motivation to Use the Internet.- Cybersecurity Challenges in Healthcare Medical Devices.- A WSN real-time monitoring system approach for measuring Indoor Air Quality using the Internet of Things.- Scalability of IoT Systems: Do Execution Costs Predict the Quality of Service?.- Machine-to-Machine.- Transient Session Key Derivation Protocol for Key Escrow Prevention in Public Key Infrastructure.- Evaluating CoAP, OSCORE, DTLS and HTTPS for Secure Device Communication.

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Book SynopsisThis volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the ICWE 2022 International Workshops, BECS, SWEET and WALS, held in Bari, Italy, July 5–8, 2022.The 14 revised full papers and 1 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. ICWE 2022 presents the following three workshops:Second International Workshop on Big Data driven Edge Cloud Services (BECS 2022)First International Workshop on the Semantic WEb of Everything (SWEET 2022)First International Workshop on Web Applications for Life Sciences (WALS 2022)Table of ContentsSecond International Workshop on Big Data driven Edge Cloud Services (BECS 2022)).-CodeBERT Based Software Defect Prediction for Edge-Cloud Systems.- A Novel Hybrid Approach for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks.- An Empirical Analysis on Just-In-Time Defect prediction Models for Self-driving Software Systems.- Knowledge Sharing in Proactive WoT Multi-Environment Models.- First International Workshop on the Semantic WEb of Everything (SWEET 2022).- Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Based on Reconstructed Differences Using Graph Attention Networks.- A Decentralized Environment for Biomedical Semantic Content Authoring and Publishing.- AI for Food Waste Reduction in Smart Homes.- Cowl: a lightweight OWL library for the Semantic Web of Everything.- Features and capabilities of a blockchain-based ridesharing enhanced with semantics.- Semantic-based decision support for network management and orchestration.- Semantic Matchmaking for Argumentative Intelligence in Ubiquitous Computing.- First International Workshop on Web Applications for Life Sciences (WALS 2022).- Smart District 4.0 project: validation of results and exploitation perspectives.- WALS 2022 Invited Talk - Are web applications fulfilling the needs of life science scientists?.- CitrusGenome: A Bioinformatics Tool to Characterize, Visualize, and Explore Large Citrus Variant Datasets.- The Laniakea Dashboard and storage encryption components: a foundation for developing on-demand cloud services for Life Science.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2021, held as a virtual event, February 8–10, 2021.The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 371 submissions. The purpose of VISIGRAPP is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in both theoretical advances and applications of computer vision, computer graphics and information visualization. VISIGRAPP is composed of four co-located conferences, each specialized in at least one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas, namely GRAPP, IVAPP, HUCAPP and VISAPP. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Computer Graphics Theory and Applications; Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications; Information Visualization Theory and Applications; Computer Vision Theory and Applications.Table of Contents​Computer Graphics Theory and Applications.- Impact of Avatar Representation in a Virtual Reality-based Multi-user Tunnel Fire Simulator for Training Purposes.- Facade Layout Completion with Long Short-term Memory Networks.- Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications.- Generating Haptic Sensations over Spherical Surface.- Effects of Emotion-Induction Words on Memory and Pupillary Reactions while Viewing Visual Stimuli with Audio Guide.- A Bimanual Flick-based Japanese Software Keyboard using Direct Kanji Input.- Comparison of Cardiac Activity and Subjective Measures during Virtual Reality and Real Aircraft Flight.- Information Visualization Theory and Applications.- Improving Self-supervised Dimensionality Reduction: Exploring Hyperparameters and Pseudo-labeling Strategies.- Visualization of Source Code Similarity using 2.5D Semantic Software Maps.- Revisiting Order-Preserving, Gap-Avoiding Rectangle Packing.- Exploratory Data Analysis of Population Level Smartphone-sensed Data.- Towards Interactive Geovisualization Authoring Toolkit for Industry Use Cases.- Computer Vision Theory and Applications.- Global-fiirst Training Strategy with Convolutional Neural Networks to Improve Scale Invariance.- Spline-based Dense Medial Descriptors for Image Simplification using Saliency Maps.- BS-GAENets: Brain-spatial Feature Learning Via a Graph Deep Autoencoder for Multi-modal Neuroimaging Analysis.- Enhancing Backlight and Spotlight Images by the Retinex-inspired Bilateral Filter SuPeR-B.- Rethinking RNN-based Video Object Segmentation.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Wireless Internet, WiCON 2022, held in November 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 16 full papers were selected from 45 submissions and are grouped into the following topics: Security and privacy; blockchain and wireless networks; Resource management, routing, and internet computing; social networks and learning.Table of Contents​Security and Privacy.- Preventing Adversarial Attacks on Autonomous Driving Models.- Implementation Aspects of Supersingular Isogeny-Based Cryptographic Hash Function.- Trust-based Communities for Smart Grid Security and Privacy.- Decentralized federated learning: A defense against gradient inversion attack.- Blockchain and Wireless Networks.- A Framework for a Blockchain-Based Decentralized Data Marketplace.- Formulate Full View Camera Sensor Coverage by Using Group Set Coverage.- Delay-aware Hash Tree for Blockchain on Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks.- Learning the Propagation of Worms in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Resource Management, Routing, and Internet Computing.- 5G Channel Forecasting and Power Allocation Based on LSTM Network and Cooperative Communication.- Fog Resource Sharing to enable Pay per Use Mode.- An Emergency Information Broadcast Routing in VANET.- IP Lookup Technology for Internet Computing.- Social Networks and Learning.- Equilibrium Strategies and Social Welfare in Cognitive Radio Networks with Imperfect Spectrum Sensing.- Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Network Model for Rumor Source Detection under Multiple Observations in Social Networks.- Addressing Class Imbalance in Federated Learning via Collaborative GAN-based Up-Sampling.- Deep-Steiner: Learning to Solve the Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2022, held in Grenoble, France, during September 19, 2022. The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Football, Racket sports, Cycling.Table of ContentsFootball.- Towards expected counter - Using comprehensible features to predict counterattacks.- Shot analysis in different levels of German football using Expected Goals.- Analyzing passing sequences for the prediction of goal-scoring opportunities.- Let’s penetrate the defense: A machine learning model for prediction and valuation of penetrative passes.- Evaluation of creating scoring opportunities for teammates in soccer via trajectory prediction.- Cost-efficient and bias-robust sports player tracking by integrating GPS and video.- Racket sports.- Predicting tennis serve directions with machine learning.- Discovering and visualizing tactics in table tennis games based on subgroup discovery.- Cycling.- Athlete monitoring in professional road cycling using similarity search on time series data.

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Book SynopsisThis proceedings constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 3rd EAI International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems, IC4S 2022, held at Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh, India, in November 26-27, 2022. The theme of IC4S 2022 was: cognitive computing approaches with data mining and machine learning techniques. The 22 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers are clustered in thematical issues as follows: machine learning and its applications; cyber security and networking; image processing; IoT applications; smart city eco-system and communications.Table of ContentsMachine Learning and Its applications.- SQL Injection and its detection using Machine Learning Algorithms and BERT.- Solar Energy Prediction Using Machine Learning With Support Vector Regression Algorithm.- Price Estimation of Used Cars using Machine Learning Algorithms.- MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ABNORMAL EEG SIGNAL.- ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE DETECTION USING ENSEMBLE OF CLASSIFIERS.- Cyber Security and Networking.- Publishing Data Objects in Data Aware Networking.- YouTube Comment Analysis using Lexicon based Techniques.- Information Theoretic Heuristics to Find the Minimal SOP Expression considering Don’t Care Using Binary Decision Diagrams.- Image Processing.- Single Image Dehazing through Feed Forward Artificial Neural Network.- Performance Evaluation of Multiwavelet Transform for Single Image Dehazing.- Performance Evaluation of Fast DCP Algorithm for Single Image Dehazing.- Non Destructive analysis of Crack using Image Processing, Ultrasonic and IRT: A critical review and analysis.- IoT Applications.- IoT Enabled Driver Compatible Cost-Effective System for Drowsiness Detection with Optimized Response Time.- Voice based Objects detection for visually challenged using Active RFID Technology.- Depth Estimation and Navigation Route Planning for Mobile Robots based on Stereo Camera.- Water Level Forecasting in Reservoirs using Time Series Analysis – Auto ARIMA Model.- Water Quality Monitoring using a Remote Control Boat.- Smart City Eco-system and Communications.- Study of Smart City Compatible Monolithic Quantum Well Photodetector.- Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna for 5G Applications at n77 and n78 Bands.- Analysis of Acoustic Channel Model Characteristics in Deep-Sea Water.- A Comprehensive Review on Channel Estimation Methods for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems.- Comparison of Acoustic Channel Characteristics in Shallow and Deep-sea Water.

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Book SynopsisThis 4-volume set of LNCS 14495-14498 constitutes the proceedings of the 40th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2023, held in Shanghai, China, August 28 – September 1, 2023. The 149 papers in this set were carefully reviewed and selected from 385 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Detection and Recognition; Image Analysis and Processing; Image Restoration and Enhancement; Image Attention and Perception; Reconstruction; Rendering and Animation; Synthesis and Generation; Visual Analytics and Modeling; Graphics and AR/VR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Theoretical Analysis; Image Analysis and Visualization in Advanced Medical Imaging Technology; Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics and Engineering.Table of ContentsDetection and Recognition.- Image Analysis and Processing; Image Restoration and Enhancement; Image Attention and Perception.- Reconstruction; Rendering and Animation.- Synthesis and Generation.- Visual Analytics and Modeling; Graphics and AR/VR.- Medical Imaging and Robotics.- Theoretical Analysis; Image Analysis and Visualization in Advanced Medical Imaging Technology.- Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics and Engineering.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the massive changes currently taking place in the business world and commonly known under the label “digitalization.” In addition, it describes the significant impacts of technological innovations on processes, products, services and business models. The digital transformation resulting from these developments leads to disruption for many enterprises and industries. While for many years, IT departments mainly concentrated on fulfilling the requirements of business departments effectively and efficiently by means of high-quality IT services and operations, today’s IT departments are increasingly expected to actively co-design and co-create the enterprise. This book describes how information technology enables innovation for businesses, and how IT departments can proactively and in a timely manner collaborate with the business departments of their corporation to leverage these innovations. It also delineates the implications of digitalization for the structures, processes and people in today’s IT departments. IT leaders and managers who are responsible for corporate IT, as well as practice-oriented researchers, will find valuable inspirations and guidance in this book, the central mission of which is to encourage and enable a more proactive role for IT in the digital transformation processes."This book demonstrates the impact of digital transformation on IT organizations and their management. It also presents potential risks for technology availability, security and data protection. The authors develop a vision of what IT management should look like in ten years if it is to continue playing an important role in the company. The book seeks to motivate IT executives and managers with IT responsibility to actively adapt their thinking and their IT organizations before they are forced to react to external pressure. Definitely worth reading!" Sven Kreimendahl, Director Business Technology Services, Campana & SchottTable of Contents

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Book SynopsisLeitfaden zur effektiven Einführung und Nutzung eines Risikomanagementsystems: Umfassend führen die Autoren in die Thematik ein und sprechen dabei alle Mitarbeiter und ihre Rollen an – vom Management bis hin zur Entwicklung. Ihre Kombination von Grundlagenwissen, Anwendungsleitfaden und Risikokatalog ermöglicht den praktischen und regelmäßigen Einsatz in Softwareentwicklungsprojekten beliebiger Größe. Projektmanager und Programmierer erhalten hier eine gemeinsame Wissensgrundlage und optimierte Ansätze. Der Risikokatalog eignet sich ideal zum Nachschlagen. Sämtliche Risiken sind systematisch und übersichtlich in Tabellenform aufgelistet. Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: "… In dem vorliegenden Buch beschränken die Autoren das Thema IT-Risikomanagement auf einen dedizierten Teilaspekt, nämlich die Softwareentwicklung. … Im dritten Kapitel stellen die Autoren ihre ‘10 Thesen‘ für ein erfolgreiches Risikomanagement vor. Hier steht insbesondere der Faktor Mensch im Vordergrund. … Im siebten Kapitel haben die Autoren ein umfangreiches Risikolexikon zusammengestellt. Das Lexikon ist eine gute Referenz für die Umsetzung im eigenen Unternehmen. … Das Buch bietet dem Praktiker in der Softwareentwicklung eine solide und praxisorientierte Grundlage für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Projekten …" (Frank Romeike, in: Risiko Manager, 6. Februar 2008, S. 11) "… Das Buch stellt Erfolgsfaktoren für die wirkungsvolle Anwendung und Einführung eines Risiko-Managements in Softwareentwicklungsprojekten vor. Dabei greift es auf Praxiserfahrungen und wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse gleichermaßen zurück. Das Hauptgewicht liegt ... auf dem praktischen Einsatz. Zudem enthält das Buch ein umfangreiches Risikolexikon mit einer Maßnahmensammlung für mehr als 70 verbreitete Risiken in Softwareprojekten …" (in: Computerwoche, 2008, Issue 46, S. 34 f.)Table of ContentsEinführung in das Risikomanagement.- Prinzipien wirkungsvollen Risikomanagements.- Ein Risikomanagementsystem nach Art des Hauses.- Integration des Risikomanagements in Vorgehensmodelle der Softwareentwicklung.- Risiken beschreiben und das Risikolexikon einsetzen.- Risikolexikon.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2012, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in December 2012. The 21 full papers, 18 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: social choice mechanisms in the e-society,computational models of social phenomena, social simulation, web mining and its social interpretations, algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies, socio-economic systems and applications, trust, privacy, risk and security in social contexts.Table of ContentsA System for Web Widget Discovery Using Semantic Distance between User Intent and Social Tags.- An Automated Multiscale Map of Conversations: Mothers and Matters.- How Influential Are You: Detecting Influential Bloggers in a Blogging Community.- A Simulation Model Using Transaction Cost Economics to Analyze the Impact of Social Media on Online Shopping.- Predicting Group Evolution in the Social Network.- Interpolating between Random Walks and Shortest Paths: A Path Functional Approach.- Dynamic Targeting in an Online Social Medium.- Connecting with Active People Matters: The Influence of an Online Community on Physical Activity Behavior.- Detecting Overlapping Communities in Location-Based Social Networks.- CrowdLang: A Programming Language for the Systematic Exploration of Human Computation Systems.- Experiments in Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis in Discussion Forums.- Quality Assessment of User Comments on Mobile Platforms Considering Channel of Activation and Platform Design.- A Method Based on Congestion Game Theory for Determining Electoral Tendencies.- A Model to Represent Human Social Relationships in Social Network Graphs .- C4PS - Helping Facebookers Manage Their Privacy Settings.- Dynamic “Participative Rules” in Serious Games, New Ways for Evaluation?.- Mobile Phones, Family and Personal Relationships: The Case of Indonesian Micro-entrepreneurs.- An Analysis of Topical Proximity in the Twitter Social Graph.- A Foresight Support System to Manage Knowledge on Information Society Evolution.- How Many Answers Are Enough? Optimal Number of Answers for Q&A Sites.- Analysis and Support of Lifestyle via Emotions Using Social Media.- A Computational Analysis of Joint Decision Making Processes.- Collaboratively Constructing a VDL-Based Icon System for Knowledge Tagging.- A Multi-dimensional and Event-Based Model for Trust Computation in the Social Web.- On Recommending Hashtags in Twitter Networks.- A Framework for the Design and Synthesis of Coordinated Social Systems.- Swayed by Friends or by the Crowd?.- Are Twitter Users Equal in Predicting Elections? A Study of User Groups in Predicting 2012 U.S. Republican Presidential Primaries.-Web Page Recommendation Based on Semantic Web Usage Mining.- Scalable Analysis for Large Social Networks: The Data-Aware Mean-Field Approach.- A Survey of Recommender Systems in Twitter.- Multi-view Content-Based User Recommendation Scheme for Following Users in Twitter.- Spam Fighting in Social Tagging Systems.- The Multidimensional Study of Viral Campaigns as Branching Processes.- Models of Social Groups in Blogosphere Based on Information about Comment Addressees and Sentiments.- Dark Retweets: Investigating Non-conventional Retweeting Patterns.-Studying Paths of Participation in Viral Diffusion Process.- Paradox of Proximity – Trust and Provenance within the Context of Social Networks and Policy.- Namelings: Discover Given Name Relatedness Based on Data from the SocialWeb.- SocialTrends: A Web Application for Monitoring and Visualizing Users in Social Media.- Demonstration of Dynamic Targeting in an Online Social Medium.- Navigating between Chaos and Bureaucracy: Backgrounding Trust in Open-Content Communities.-

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview and an insight in cooperative objects and defines the classification of topics into the different areas. A significant number of researchers and industrial partners were contacted in order to prepare the roadmap. The book presents of the main results provided by the corresponding European project "CONET".Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“The book is useful for those interested in cooperating objects/IoT applications in a variety of scenarios. The work covers many application and deployment case studies in a concise, understandable manner. … I recommend this book for people in both industry and academia, to help them understand real system and deployment experiences from cooperating objects applications. This book may also help readers in this area choose hardware/sensor platforms, software architectures, software platforms, data management methods, and networking protocols.” (Debraj De, Computer Reviews, March, 2014)

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Book SynopsisThis book integrates the foundations of quantum computing with a hands-on coding approach to this emerging field; it is the first to bring these elements together in an updated manner. This work is suitable for both academic coursework and corporate technical training.The second edition includes extensive updates and revisions, both to textual content and to the code. Sections have been added on quantum machine learning, quantum error correction, Dirac notation and more. This new edition benefits from the input of the many faculty, students, corporate engineering teams, and independent readers who have used the first edition.This volume comprises three books under one cover: Part I outlines the necessary foundations of quantum computing and quantum circuits. Part II walks through the canon of quantum computing algorithms and provides code on a range of quantum computing methods in current use. Part III covers the mathematical toolkit required to master quantum computing. Additional resources include a table of operators and circuit elements and a companion GitHub site providing code and updates.Jack D. Hidary is a research scientist in quantum computing and in AI at Alphabet X, formerly Google X. Trade Review“This well-put-together book is a valuable addition to the literature in the field.” (Shrisha Rao, Computing Reviews, February 3, 2023)Table of Contents-Preface the the Second Edition.- Preface to the First Edition.- Acknowledgements.- Navigating this Book.- I. Foundations.- 1. Superposition, Entanglement and Reversibility.- 2. A Brief History of Quantum Computing.- 3. Qubits, Operators and Measurement.- 4. Complexity Theory.- II. 5. Building a Quantum Computer.- 6. Development Libraries for Quantum Computer Programming.- 7. Teleportation, Superdense Coding and Bell’s Inequality.- 8. The Canon: Code Walkthroughs.- 9. Quantum Computing Methods.- 10. Applications and Quantum Supremacy.- III. Toolkit.- 11. Mathematical Tools for Quantum Computing I.- 12. Mathematical Tools for Quantum Computing II.- 13. Mathematical Tools for Quantum Computing III.- 14. Dirac Notation.- 15. Table of Quantum Operators and Core Circuits.- Works Cited.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook covers the entire Business Process Management (BPM) lifecycle, from process identification to process monitoring, covering along the way process modelling, analysis, redesign and automation. Concepts, methods and tools from business management, computer science and industrial engineering are blended into one comprehensive and inter-disciplinary approach. The presentation is illustrated using the BPMN industry standard defined by the Object Management Group and widely endorsed by practitioners and vendors worldwide.In addition to explaining the relevant conceptual background, the book provides dozens of examples, more than 230 exercises – many with solutions – and numerous suggestions for further reading. This second edition includes extended and completely revised chapters on process identification, process discovery, qualitative process analysis, process redesign, process automation and process monitoring. A new chapter on BPM as an enterprise capability has been added, which expands the scope of the book to encompass topics such as the strategic alignment and governance of BPM initiatives.The textbook is the result of many years of combined teaching experience of the authors, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in the context of professional training. Students and professionals from both business management and computer science will benefit from the step-by-step style of the textbook and its focus on fundamental concepts and proven methods. Lecturers will appreciate the class-tested format and the additional teaching material available on the accompanying website.Table of Contents1 Introduction to Business Process Management.- 2 Process Identification.- 3 Essential Process Modeling.- 4 Advanced Process Modeling.- 5 Process Discovery.- 6 Qualitative Process Analysis.- 7 Quantitative Process Analysis.- 8 Process Redesign.- 9 Process-Aware Information Systems.- 10 Process Implementation with Executable Models.- 11 Process Monitoring.- 12 BPM as an Enterprise Capability.

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Book SynopsisLearn all about blockchain and its applications in cryptocurrency, healthcare, Internet of Things, finance, decentralized organizations, and more. Featuring case studies and practical insights, this book covers a unique mix of topics and offers insight into how to overcome hurdles that arise as the market and consumers grow accustomed to blockchain-based organizations and services.The book is divided into three major sections. The first section provides a historical background to blockchain technology. You will start with a historical context to financial capital markets when Bitcoin was invented, followed by mining protocols, the need for consensus, hardware mining, etc. Next, a formal introduction to blockchain is provided covering transaction workflow, role of decentralized network, and payment verification. Then, we dive deep into a different implementation of a blockchain: Ethereum. The main technical features, such as Ethereum Virtual Machine, are presented aTable of ContentsChapter 1: Behold the DeamersChapter Goal: Provide a backdrop for introducing blockhain and the basics of a decentralized appSub -Topics:1. Financial crisis of 2008, the origins of bitcoin2. Basics of private-public keys3. What is a block, how is a block created4. What's a blockchain-enabled application? What is a decentralized application?Chapter 2: Gold Rush: Mining BitcoinChapter Goal: Provide a technical introduction to mining and the mathematical background to hashes, block headers, and consensusSub -Topics:1. Overview of mining, why is mining necessary for Bitcoin2. What is consensus3. Components of a block and a block header (mining components)4. What are hashes and how are they used in Bitcoin5. Hardware for mining (the gold rush part refers to the arms race that happened in hardware mining field).Chapter 3: Foundations of a BlockchainChapter Goal: Provide a technical introduction to transaction workflow, a blockchain network, simple payment verification, merkel roots, and block identifiersSub -Topics:1. What is a block header (block identifiers)2. How does the network participate3. A transaction workflow 4. Unspent transaction outputs, transaction propagation5. Simple payment verification6. Merkel roots, blockchain forksChapter 4: Unpacking EthereumChapter Goal: Provide a technical introduction to Ethereum, the differences between a Bitcoin blockchain and Ethereum blockchain, internal states, Ethereum Virtual Machine, and dAppsSub -Topics:1. Overview of Ethereum 2. Proof of stake3. Accounts and contract model in Ethereum4. Global state, gas, internal storage5. Ethereum Virtual Machine6. Solidity programming language + Smart Contracts7. World Computer Model and components8. Blockchain as a service9. Decentralized apps10. Geth, MistChapter 5: Decentralized Organizations (DAOs)Chapter Goal: Provide a technical introduction to DAOs and Aragon for setting up a DAO, including updates to new implementations of decentralized organizations in 2020. Sub -Topics:1. What is a DAO 2. What is a blockchain organizations/companies3. Aragon-core and Kernel4. How do you make DAOs and other blockchain organizations using Aragon?5. How do you operate DAOs?Chapter 6: The DAO HackedChapter Goal: Provide an overview to the vulnerabilities in the original DAO model, the conditions that led up to the hack, and the consequences to security hardening since. Sub -Topics:1. Concept of a DAO building on Vitalik’s concepts2. Slock.it and its involvement in making the DAO 3. The Smart Contract for DAO4. The code vulnerability responsible for the hack5. Consequences of the hack6. Ethereum splitting into ETCChapter 7: Ethereum Tokens: High Performance Computing (HPC)Chapter Goal: Provide an introduction to token in Ethereum by highlighting applications in HPC. Particularly, focus on Golem, SONM, and iEx.ec grid computing for off-chain computations and conflict resolution.Sub -Topics:1. Why tokens and what’s the value of using tokens2. Introduction to tokens, ERC 20 compatibility3. Token layer and an app layer4. Prototype for tokens and HPC – Ethereum Computation Markets5. Golem network, app registry, transaction framework, use-cases initially, and how the Smart Contract system ties them together6. SONM network and fog computing, use-cases, Smart Contract system, buyer-miner-hub interactions, purchasing computational power, Superglobal architecture, and OS7. iEx.ec, grid computing, sidechains, and how iEx.ec works Chapter 8: Blockchain in HealthcareChapter Goal: Provide an introduction to areas in healthcare where using a blockchain can provide benefit - Patient workflows, insurance claims processing, lightning network, verifiable data auditSub -Topics:1. Payer-provider-patient model, how claims work within this framework, and how will that change in the future2. Patient workflow based on permissions, blockchain-based workflow of a simple EHR, how permissions are passed as a patient moves from a general physician to a specialist 3. Show how permissions work in blockchain insurance claims processing4. Waste management in healthcare and claims processing5. Concept of hotswitching, mentioning lightning network6. How can blockchain be used to reduce economic waste 7. DeepMind’s Verifiable Data Audit as an alternative to blockchain8. Blockchain to streamline business processesChapter 9: Blockchain in ScienceChapter Goal: Provide an introduction to major topics in science where blockchain can be beneficial – Reputation markets, reproducibility crisis, drug tracking, digital clinical trialsSub -Topics:1. Reproducibility crisis in science2. Prediction markets in science – Augur and Gnosis3. Initiatives to fix reproducibility traditionally4. Clinical trials using the blockchain, colored coins to demonstrate workflow5. Reputation systems using Blockchain6. Pharma drug tracking using blockchainChapter 10: Building Healthcare Companies on BlockchainChapter Goal: Interview with John Bass on how to build a healthcare company on the blockchain and lessons learned along the way.Sub -Topics:1. The makings of Hashed Health2. Collaborative and consortium models3. Working groups for high-risk, high-reward technologies4. Governance models for Hashed Health consortia5. Member participationChapter 11: Rise of ConsortiumsChapter Goal: Provide an overview of consortium models that have become popular in the blockchain industry, the challenges consortiums hope to solve, and advantages to individual membersSub -Topics:1. Collaborative and consortium models2. Working groups for high-risk, high-reward technologies3. Governance models for Hashed Health consortiaChapter 12: The Hyperledger ProjectChapter Goal: Provide a broad overview of the Hyperledger Project and cover the rapid pace of developments since 2018 to the new products launched.Sub -Topics:1. Updates to all the components under Hyperledger umbrella including Fabric and Sawtooth2. New consensus algorithm (PBFT)3. Demo of Hyperledger Fabric Constructor4. Does your business need a blockchain (flowcharts)?5. Security in enterprise-grade Blockchains6. Smart Contracts in FabricChapter 13: Recent Advances in BlockchainChapter Goal: Provide a review of three major networks shaping the future of Blockchain – EOS.io with parallel processing virtual machine, chain-core with asset management, and Ivy Playground and Quorum with private–public transaction interfacesSub -Topics:1. EOS.io, how the tech works, the new advances such as parallel processing of smart contracts and instructions2. Chain Core, managing assets on blockchain, Ivy Playground as the new programming language to manage assets3. Quorum by JP Morgan, how the consensus works, how private transactions work, zero-knowledge proofs, Ethereum Enterprise AllianceChapter 14: Blockchain GamesChapter Goal: Provide a review of the educational games and APIs that have been released to teach the basic concepts of a blockchain networkSub -Topics:1. Components of a blockchain game2. Formal education and training in blockchain3. Formalization of blockchain study with journals and research articles4. Review of major blockchain games (3)Chapter 15: Cloud BlockchainsChapter Goal: Provide an overview of how to click and deploy a blockchain using cloud services and give a visual tutorial on how to set it upSub -Topics:1. Demo of Hyperledger Fabric Constructor on IBM Bluemix 2. Azure blockchain deployment3. Amazon ECS cloud blockchain deployment4. Setting up your own blockchain test-lab and budget itChapter 16: Technological Revolutions and Financial CapitalChapter Goal: Provide an overview of the financial markets and ICOs, focusing particularly on how to set up ICOs, how to manage them, advances to financial regulation technology based on blockchainSub -Topics:1. Dr. Hooper’s chapter focused on ICOs and financial capital markets2. Setting up ICOs, major pitfalls to avoid, and challenges to overcome during an ICO3. Major tech advances in financial markets using blockchain4. Reg TechAfterword – Call to Action and The Future of Blockchain

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Book SynopsisGain insights into the different challenges that can be solved using Go, with a focus on containers, Linux, security, networking, user interfaces and other relevant cloud based topics. This book reviews the necessary tools to create container-based cloud solutions with Go, a programming language that was born out of the need to address scalable, high availability cloud computing architecture needs inside Google. Go, also known as Golang, has been adopted across different industries and products with many popular Open Source projects that power cloud computing technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes being written with Go. As the complexity of cloud technology increases, so does the need for people to understand how things work under-the-hood and to fix them when they''re broken. What You Will Learn Understand how the various components of a container-based system works Tackle complex technical isTable of ContentsSoftware Development with Go Part 1: System Programming Chapter 1 - System Calls Chapter 2 - System Calls Using Go Chapter 3 - Accessing proc File System Part 2: Containers Chapter 4 - Simple Containers Chapter 5 - Containers with Networking Chapter 6 - Docker Security Part 3: Application Security Chapter 7 - Gosec and AST Chapter 8 – Scorecard Part 4: Networking Chapter 9 - Simple Networking Chapter 10 - System Networking Chapter 11 - Google gopacket Chapter 12 - Epoll Library Part 5: Securing Linux Chapter 13 - Vulnerability Scanner Chapter 14 – CrowdSec Part 6: Terminal User Interface Chapter 15 - ANSI and UI Chapter 16 - TUI Framework Part 7: Linux System Chapter 17 – systemd Chapter 18 – cadvisor

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Book SynopsisAfter a slow incubation period of nearly 15 years, a large and growing number of organizations now have one or more projects using the Semantic Web stack of technologies. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is an essential ingredient in this stack, and the need for ontologists is increasing faster than the number and variety of available resources for learning OWL. This is especially true for the primary target audience for this book: modelers who want to build OWL ontologies for practical use in enterprise and government settings. The purpose of this book is to speed up the process of learning and mastering OWL. To that end, the focus is on the 30% of OWL that gets used 90% of the time. Others who may benefit from this book include technically oriented managers, semantic technology developers, undergraduate and post-graduate students, and finally, instructors looking for new ways to explain OWL. The book unfolds in a spiral manner, starting with the core ideas. Each subsequent cycle reinforces and expands on what has been learned in prior cycles and introduces new related ideas. Part 1 is a cook's tour of ontology and OWL, giving an informal overview of what things need to be said to build an ontology, followed by a detailed look at how to say them in OWL. This is illustrated using a healthcare example. Part 1 concludes with an explanation of some foundational ideas about meaning and semantics to prepare the reader for subsequent chapters. Part 2 goes into depth on properties and classes, which are the core of OWL. There are detailed descriptions of the main constructs that you are likely to need in every day modeling, including what inferences are sanctioned. Each is illustrated with real-world examples. Part 3 explains and illustrates how to put OWL into practice, using examples in healthcare, collateral, and financial transactions. A small ontology is described for each, along with some key inferences. Key limitations of OWL are identified, along with possible workarounds. The final chapter gives a variety of practical tips and guidelines to send the reader on their way.Table of ContentsForward by Dave McComb.- Foreword by Mark A. Musen.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Part 1: Introducing OWL.- Getting Started: What Do We Need to Say?.- How Do We Say it in OWL?.- Fundamentals: Meaning, Semantics, and Sets.- Part 2: Going into Depth: Properties and Classes.- Properties.- Classes.- Part 3: Using OWL in Practice.- More Examples.- OWL Limitations.- Go Forth and Ontologize.- Appendices.- Author Biography.- Index .

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Book SynopsisThe increase in fake news, the growing influence on elections, increasing false reports and targeted disinformation campaigns are not least a consequence of advancing digitalisation. Information technology is needed to put a stop to these undesirable developments. With intelligent algorithms and refined data analysis, fakes must be detected more quickly in the future and their spread prevented. However, in order to meaningfully recognize and filter fakes by means of artificial intelligence, it must be possible to distinguish fakes from facts, facts from fictions, and fictions from fakes. This book therefore also asks questions about the distinctions of fake, factual and fictional. The underlying theories of truth are discussed, and practical-technical ways of differentiating truth from falsity are outlined. By considering the fictional as well as the assumption that information-technical further development can profit from humanities knowledge, the authors hope that content-related, technical and methodological challenges of the present and future can be overcome.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Truth relativism, scientific skepticism and the political consequences - Of Fakes and Frauds: Can scientific "hoaxes" be a legitimate tool of knowledge? - Fiction, Fake and Fact - Stranger than Fiction - The Marxist-Leninist Definition of Fascism and the Building of the Wall - Beware: possible "Fake News" - a technical approach to early detection - Countering Fake News technically - Detection and treatment approaches to support users - NewsDeps: Visualizing the Origin of Information in News Articles

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Book SynopsisThe book explains strategic issues, trends, challenges, and future scenario of global economy in the light of Fourth Industrial Revolution. It consists of insightful scientific essays authored by scholars and practitioners from business, technology, and economics area. The book contributes to business education by means of research, critical and theoretical reviews of issues in Fourth Industrial Revolution.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Big Data and Organizational Ambidexterity: A Strategic Perspective.- Chapter 2 Performance and Growth of artificial intelligence in service sector.- Chapter 3 Healthcare Governance in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Reviewing the Role of Patient Centeredness and Empowerment in the UAE.- Chapter 4 Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Impact Assessment of 3D Printing Applications in Building Construction in Oman.- Chapter 5 The prospects and risks of Industry 4.0: Issues and Implications.- Chapter 6 Driving Factors of Adopting 4th Industrial Revolution Technologies in The Logistics Industry: An Empirical Study from Oman.- Chapter 7 Re-inventing Human Resource Management through Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 8 Understanding the Emerging Role and Importance of Robo-advisory: A Case Study Approach.- Chapter 9 Industrial Revolution 4.0: Transformation of Job market.- Chapter 10 Industry 4.0: The Human Resource Perspective.- Chapter 11 Big Data Analytics and Accounting Education: A Systematic Literature Review.- Chapter 12 Industry 4.0: The Future of Manufacturing Foundational Technologies, Adoption Challenges and Future Research Directions.- Chapter 13 Talent Development Challenges and Opportunities in the 4th Industrial Revolution: A Boundary less Career Theory Perspectives.- Chapter 14 Social Media and Modern Business World: Present Practices and Future Challenges.- Chapter 15 Diffusion and adoption of E-wallets in Oman for sustainable growth.

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Book SynopsisBlackBerry devices and applications are selling by the millions. As a BlackBerry developer, you need an advanced skill set to successfully exploit the most compelling features of the platform. This book will help you develop that skill set and teach you how to create the most sophisticated BlackBerry programs possible.With Advanced BlackBerry Development, you''ll learn you how to take advantage of BlackBerry media capabilities, including the camera and video playback. The book also shows you how to send and receive text and multimedia messages, use powerful cryptography libraries, and connect with the user''s personal and business contacts and calendar.Not only will you be learning how to use these application programming interfaces, but you''ll also be building a program that takes full advantage of them: a wireless media-sharing app. Each chapter''s lessons will be applied by enhancing the app from a prototype to a fully polished program. Along the way, yo''Table of Contents Getting Started Media Capture Media Playback Wireless Messaging Cryptography Personal Information Browser Digging in Deep RIM Security Porting Your App Advanced Build Techniques Conclusion

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Table of ContentsChapter 1: History & Evolution of Android OS Chapter 2: Mobile Device Applications – Uses and Trends Chapter 3: Why x86 on Android? Chapter 4: Android Development – Business Overview andConsiderations Chapter 5: Android Devices with Intel Processors Chapter 6: Installing the Android SDK for IntelApplication Development Chapter 7: The Intel Mobile Processor Chapter 8: Creating and Porting NDK-based AndroidApplications Chapter 9: Debugging Android Chapter 10: Performance Optimization for AndroidApplications on x86 Chapter 11: x86 NDK and C++ Optimizations Chapter 12: Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution ManagerAppendix: References

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Book SynopsisWith Learn Sprite Kit for iOS Game Development, you'll discover how easy it is to create 2D games using the new Sprite Kit framework from Apple.Table of Contents1. Hello World2. SKActions and SKTexture: Your First Animated Sprite3. Sprite Movement with User Input4. Edges, Boundaries, and Ledges5. More Animated Sprites: Enemies and Bonuses6. Creating a Cast of Characters7. Points and Scoring8. Contacts and Collisions9. Adding More Scenes and Levels10. Where to Go from Here

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Book SynopsisThe ideas, information and instruction of a pioneer of MassivelyMultiplayer Online RolePlaying Games speak to designers and players, taking it that the games are inspirational and boundless forces for good, and aiming to enthuse an upcoming generation, inspire and educate players and designerstobe, and reinvigorate those already in the field.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Azure--A Solutions Development Platform.- Chapter 2: Beginning Application Development with Azure Web Apps, SQL Database, and Blob Storage.- Chapter 3: DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services and Azure.- Chapter 4: Azure Active Directory and Multi-Tenancy.- Chapter 5: Getting Started with Azure NoSQL Services.- Chapter 6: Security and Data Protection.- Chapter 7: Integrating Azure Search.- Chapter 8: Data Visualization with Power BI Embedded.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Azure--A Solutions Development Platform.- Chapter 2: Beginning Application Development with Azure Web Apps, SQL Database, and Blob Storage.- Chapter 3: DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services and Azure.- Chapter 4: Azure Active Directory and Multi-Tenancy.- Chapter 5: Getting Started with Azure NoSQL Services.- Chapter 6: Security and Data Protection.- Chapter 7: Integrating Azure Search.- Chapter 8: Data Visualization with Power BI Embedded.

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Book SynopsisReal Website Design is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, sharply focused throughout a project on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics – which are essential requirements of any website. This book offers practical discussion of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, and a down-to-earth, structured approach to designing a website or teaching website design.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "‘Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches with … the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics.’ … Throughout the book, there are many helpful figures and tables to support the methodology. The structure of the book makes it appropriate for academic use. In addition, practitioners looking for ways to improve or broaden their skills, to serve clients with varying needs and interests, will be interested in reading the book." (M. G. Murphy, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (3), March, 2008)Table of ContentsGrounding.- Balanced Website Design (BWD): The Context Explained.- The World of Website Design.- Website Usability.- Aesthetics and Websites.- Methodology Process.- Requirements – Initial Acquisition.- Design Needs – Building the Picture.- Designing the Solution.- Creating the Website.- Implementation Issues.- Software Tools.- Website Hosting and Website Management.

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Book SynopsisThis book is for product managers, product owners, product marketing managers, VPs and Heads of Product, CEOs, and start-up founders. In short, it serves anyone interested personally or professionally in software product management. You’ll learn how to plan, coordinate and execute all activities required for software product success. It enables you to find the right balance for delivering customer value and long-term product success.The book offers a comprehensive introduction for beginners as well as proven practices and a novel, holistic approach for experienced product managers. It provides much-needed clarity regarding the numerous tasks and responsibilities involved in the professional and successful management of software products. Readers can use this book as a reference book if they are interested in or have the urgent need to improve one of the following software product management dimensions: Product Viability, Product Development, Go-to-Market / Product Marketing, Software Demonstrations and Training, The Market / Your Customers, or Organizational Maturity.The book helps product people to maximize their impact and effectiveness. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner, new to software product management, or just want to learn more about the best-of-all disciplines and advance your skills, this book introduces a novel and “business” tested approach to structure and orchestrate the vital dimensions of software product management. You will learn how to create focus and alignment on the things that matter for product success.The book describes a holistic framework to keep the details that matter for product success in balance, taking into consideration the limiting factors, strategies and responsibilities that determine the overall product yield potential. It explains how to leverage and adapt the framework with regard to aspects like product viability, product development, product marketing and software demonstrations and training, as well as more general aspects like markets, customers and organizational maturity.The book focuses on the unique challenges of software product managers or any related roles, whether you are a founder of a small to mid-sized software company or working in the complex ecosystems of large software enterprises or corporate IT departments.Trade Review“This book is recommended for readers who are looking for a way to assess their own product management practices or who are interested in learning about how software product management can be introduced to an organization.” (Julia Yousefi, Computing Reviews, April 29, 2021)Table of ContentsPart I: Setting the Scene and Introducing the Product Yield Potential Radar.- Part II: PYPR Software Product Management Dimensions in Detail.- Part III: Case Studies Applying PYPR.

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Book SynopsisThe goal of this textbook is to provide enough background into the inner workings of the Internet to allow a novice to understand how the various protocols on the Internet work together to accomplish simple tasks, such as a search. By building an Internet with all the various services a person uses every day, one will gain an appreciation not only of the work that goes on unseen, but also of the choices made by designers to make life easier for the user.Each chapter consists of background information on a specific topic or Internet service, and where appropriate a final section on how to configure a Raspberry Pi to provide that service.While mainly meant as an undergraduate textbook for a course on networking or Internet protocols and services, it can also be used by anyone interested in the Internet as a step–by–step guide to building one's own Intranet, or as a reference guide as to how things work on the global Internet Trade Review“The detailed coverage of networking topics together with practical hands-on illustrations of the principles using the Raspberry Pi laboratory network make this an excellent candidate for a course textbook. In addition, the detailed table of contents, good index, and extensive list of references also make it useful for reference … . If you want just one book in your technical library to cover the Internet and networking technology, then this is an ideal candidate.” (David B. Henderson, Computing Reviews, August 17, 2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. The OSI Seven Layer Model.- 3. The Physical Layer, L1.- 4. The Data Layer, L2.- 5. The Network Layer, L3.- 6. The OSI Upper Layers.- 7. Flow Control.- 8. The Laboratory Network.- 9. Raspberry Pi Operating System.- 10. Routing.- 11. The Router.- 12. Populating and Maintaining the Route Table.- 13. Shortest Path Through the Network.- 14. Dynamic Host Configuration.- 15. Routing Protocols.- 16. Route Interchange Protocol.- 17. Open Shortest Path First.- 18. Service Provider Protocols.- 19. Babel.- 20. Domain Name Service.- 21. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol: The Web.- 22. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: Email.- 23. Other Services.- Glossary.- References.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains extended versions of the best papers presented at the First International Workshop on Distributed Computing for Emerging Smart Networks, DiCES-N 2019, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in October 2019.The 9 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 initial submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: ​intelligent transportation systems; distributed computing for networking and communication; articial intelligence applied to cyber physical systems.Table of ContentsIntelligent Transportation Systems.- Distributed Computing for Networking and Communication.- Articial Intelligence Applied to Cyber Physical Systems.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education, TIE 2019, held in Braga, Portugal, in October 2019. The 11 full and 2 short papers focus on emerging technologies for education, entertainment, well-being, creativity, arts and business development. In addition, it aims at promoting new venture creation opportunities that emerge from these innovations, as well as innovation methods that target these core subjects.Table of ContentsInnovating and Exploring Children´s Learning.- Reading to Level Up: Gamifying Reading Fluency.- Rethinking the Design of Hotspots in Children’s Digital Picturebooks: Insights from an Exploratory Study.- Children’s tinkering activity with Collapse Informatics: the Internalization of Environmental Consciousness.- ”Play and learn”: exploring CodeCubes Innovating Media Usage.- Question & Answering interface to improve the students’ experience in an e-learning course with a virtual tutor.- Exploring the Use of Augmented Reality Concepts to Enhance the TV Viewer Experience.- Design Experiments in Nonrepresentational VR and Symmetric Texture Generation in Real-Time Innovation for Special Needs.- Didactic toy for children with special needs.- Digitally-mediated Learning Environments and Information Literacy for Active Ageing: A Pilot Study.- European video game development and disability: Reflections on data, rights, decisions and assistance Innovating Methods.- From community datamining to enterprising villagers.- The transformational effect of a designerly approach within a research project.- Visual Quotes and Physical Activity Tracking: Can Aesthetic Pleasure Motivate Our Short-term Exercise Motivation?.- Raising the Odds of Success for Innovative Product by Experimentation and Utilizing Input of Future User.

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Book SynopsisThe main goal of this book is to explain the core ideas of process mining, and to demonstrate how they can be implemented using just some basic tools that are available to any computer scientist or data scientist. It describes how to analyze event logs in order to discover the behavior of real-world business processes. The end result can often be visualized as a graph, and the book explains how to use Python and Graphviz to render these graphs intuitively. Overall, it enables the reader to implement process mining techniques on his or her own, independently of any specific process mining tool. An introduction to two popular process mining tools, namely Disco and ProM, is also provided. In this second edition the code snippets have been updated to Python 3, and some smaller errors have been corrected.The book will be especially valuable for self-study or as a precursor to a more advanced text. Practitioners and students will be able to follow along on their own, even if they have no prior knowledge of the topic. After reading this book, they will be able to more confidently proceed to the research literature if needed.Table of ContentsEvent Logs.- Control-Flow Perspective.- Organizational Perspective.- Performance Perspective.- Process Mining in Practice.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2020, which was planned to take place in Helsinki, Finland, during June 9-12, 2020. Due to the corona pandemic the conference changed to a virtual format. The total of 24 full and 10 short contributions presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The book also contains 4 PhD and 7 demo papers. The papers were organized in topical sections named: User interface technologies; performance of Web technologies; machine learning; testing of Web applications; emotion detection; location-aware applications; sentiment analysis; open data; liquid Web applications; Web-based learning; PhD symposium; demos and posters.Table of ContentsUser Interface Technologies.- Detecting Responsive Design Bugs with Declarative Speci cations.- Layout as a Service (LaaS): A Service Platform for Self-Optimizing Web Layouts.- Structural Pro ling of Web Sites in the Wild.- Performance of Web Technologies.- Accelerating Web Start-up with Resource Preloading.- An Analysis of Throughput and Latency Behaviours under Microservice Decomposition.- W-ADE: Timing Performance Prediction in Web of Things.- Comparing a polling and push-based approach for live Open Data interfaces.- NuMessage: Providing Scalable and Reliable Messaging Service in Distributed Systems.- Machine Learning.- A Credit Scoring Model for SMEs Based on Social Media Data.- Who's Behind That Website? Classifying Websites by the Degree of Commercial Intent.- I Don't Have That Much Data! Reusing User Behavior Models for Websites from Different Domains.- Improving Detection Accuracy For Malicious JavaScript Using GAN.- VISH: Does Your Smart Home Dialogue System Also Need Training Data.- Neighborhood Aggregation Embedding Model for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs.- Testing of Web Applications.- Automatic Model Completion for Web Applications.- Almost Rerere: an approach for automating con ict resolution from similar resolved conflicts.- Generation of Realistic Navigation Paths for Web Site Testing using Recurrent Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Neural Networks.- Emotion Detection.- Scalable Real-time Emotion Detection for Personalized Onboarding Guides.- Creating and Capturing Arti cial Emotions in Autonomous Robots and Software Agents.- On Emotions in Con ict Wikipedia Talk Pages Discussions.- Location-aware Applications.- Geospatial partitioning of open transit data.- Efficient Live Public Transport Data Sharing for Route Planning on the Web.- Web-Based Development and Visualization Dashboards for Smart City Applications.- Sentiment Analysis.- Detecting Rumor on Microblogging Platforms via a Heterogeneous Stance Attention Mechanism.- A Hybrid Approach for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Using Deep Contextual Word Embeddings and Hierarchical Attention.- Just the Right Mood for HIT! Analyzing the Role of Worker Moods in Conversational Microtask Crowdsourcing.- Open Data.- SolidRDP: Applying Solid Data Containers for Research Data Publishing.- Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques to Generate Open Data Web APIs Documentation.- Liquid Web Applications.- WebDelta: Lightweight Migration of Web Applications with Modified Execution State.- User-side service synchronization in multiple devices environment.- An approach to build P2P Web Extensions.- Web-based Learning.- Blended or Distance Learning? Comparing Student Performance between University and Open University.- Teaching Web Stream Processing: Lessons Learned.- Teaching Container-based DevOps Practices.- PhD Symposium.- Predicting the outbreak of con ict in online discussions using emotion-based features.- An APIfication Approach to Facilitate the Access and Reuse of Open Data.- A Personal Health Trajectory API: addressing problems in health institution-oriented systems.- Context-Aware Encoding & Delivery in the Web.- Demos and posters.- An OpenAPI-based Testing Framework to Monitor Non-Functional Properties of REST APIs.- OpenAPI Bot: A Chatbot to Help You Understand REST APIs.- A different Web Analytics Perspective through Copy to Clipboard Heatmaps.- A Web Augmentation Framework for Accessibility based on Voice Interaction.- Annotated knowledge graphs for teaching in Higher Education: Supporting mentors and mentees by digital systems.- A Universal Application Programming Interface to access and reuse Linked Open Data.- OntoSemStats: an ontology to express the use of semantics in RDF-based knowledge graphs.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single community. It provides readers with a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures and how a ‘reference model guided’ engineering approach can be used to achieve greater interoperability among such infrastructures in the environmental and earth sciences. The 20 contributions in this book are structured in 5 parts on the design, development, deployment, operation and use of research infrastructures. Part one provides an overview of the state of the art of research infrastructure and relevant e-Infrastructure technologies, part two discusses the reference model guided engineering approach, the third part presents the software and tools developed for common data management challenges, the fourth part demonstrates the software via several use cases, and the last part discusses the sustainability and future directions.Table of ContentsSupporting cross-domain system-level environmental and earth science.- ICT infrastructure for environmental and earth sciences.- Common challenges and requirements.- ENVRI reference model.- Reference model guided engineering.- Semantic and knowledge engineering using ENVRI RM.- Data curation and preservation.- Data cataloguing.- Data identification and citation.- Data processing.- Virtual infrastructure optimization.- Data provenance.- Metadata, semantic linking.- Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting.- Virtual research environment.- Case study: e.g., data subscriptions using elastic Cloud service.- Case study: e.g., D4Science: a VRE solution for RI.- Case study: LifeWatch.- Sustainability.- Future challenges.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is part of the LAMBDA Project (Learning, Applying, Multiplying Big Data Analytics), funded by the European Union, GA No. 809965. Data Analytics involves applying algorithmic processes to derive insights. Nowadays it is used in many industries to allow organizations and companies to make better decisions as well as to verify or disprove existing theories or models. The term data analytics is often used interchangeably with intelligence, statistics, reasoning, data mining, knowledge discovery, and others. The goal of this book is to introduce some of the definitions, methods, tools, frameworks, and solutions for big data processing, starting from the process of information extraction and knowledge representation, via knowledge processing and analytics to visualization, sense-making, and practical applications. Each chapter in this book addresses some pertinent aspect of the data processing chain, with a specific focus on understanding Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Big Data Architectures, and Smart Data Analytics solutions. This book is addressed to graduate students from technical disciplines, to professional audiences following continuous education short courses, and to researchers from diverse areas following self-study courses. Basic skills in computer science, mathematics, and statistics are required.Table of ContentsFoundations.- Chapter 1. Ecosystem of Big Data.- Chapter 2. Knowledge Graphs: The Layered Perspective.- Chapter 3. Big Data Outlook, Tools, and Architectures.- Architecture.- Chapter 4. Creation of Knowledge Graphs.- Chapter 5. Federated Query Processing.- Chapter 6. Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs: An Embeddings Spotlight.- Methods and Solutions.- Chapter 7. Scalable Knowledge Graph Processing using SANSA.- Chapter 8. Context-Based Entity Matching for Big Data.- Applications.- Chapter 9. Survey on Big Data Applications.- Chapter 10. Case Study from the Energy Domain.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of ContentsThe New DBpedia Release Cycle: Increasing Agility and Efficiency in Knowledge Extraction Workflows.- DBpedia Archivo - A Web-Scale Interface for Ontology Archiving under Consumer-oriented Aspects,. A Knowledge Retrieval Framework for Household Objects and Actions with External Knowledge.- Semantic Annotation, Representation and Linking of Survey Data.- QueDI: from Knowledge Graph Querying to Data Visualization.- EcoDaLo: Federating advertisement targeting with Linked Data.- MINDS: a translator to embed mathematical expressions inside SPARQL queries.- Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 10 workshops held at the 35th International ISC High Performance 2020 Conference, in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2020: First Workshop on Compiler-assisted Correctness Checking and Performance Optimization for HPC (C3PO); First International Workshop on the Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Analysis (CFDML); HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC); First Workshop \Machine Learning on HPC Systems" (MLHPCS); First International Workshop on Monitoring and Data Analytics (MODA); 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC). The 25 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected. They cover all aspects of research, development, and application of large-scale, high performance experimental and commercial systems. Topics include high-performance computing (HPC), computer architecture and hardware, programming models, system software, performance analysis and modeling, compiler analysis and optimization techniques, software sustainability, scientific applications, deep learning.Table of ContentsChecking and Performance Optimization for HPC (C3PO'20).- Compiler-assisted type-safe checkpointing.- Static analysis to enhance programmability and performance in OmpSs-2 21 Automatic detection of MPI assertions.- Automatic Code Motion to Extend MPI Nonblocking Overlap Window.- First International Workshop on the Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Analysis (CFDML) .-Complete Deep Computer-Vision Methodology for Investigating Hydrodynamic Instabilities.- Prediction of Acoustic Fields using a Lattice-Boltzmann Method and Deep Learning.- Unsupervised Learning of Particle Image Velocimetry.- Reduced order modeling of dynamical systems using arti cial neural networks applied to water circulation.- Parameter Identification of RANS turbulence model using Physics-embedded neural network.- Investigating the Overhead of the REST Protocol when Using Cloud Services for HPC Storage.- Characterizing I/O Optimization E ect Through Holistic Log Data Analysis of Parallel File Systems and Interconnects.- The Importance of Temporal Behavior when Classifying Job IO Patterns Using Machine Learning Techniques.- GOPHER, an HPC framework for large scale graph exploration and inference.- Ensembles of Networks Produced from Neural Architecture Search.- SmartPred: Unsupervised Hard Disk Failure Detection.- Application IO analysis with Lustre Monitoring using LASSi for ARCHER.- Characterizing HPC Performance Variation with Monitoring and Unsupervised Learning.- Service Function Chaining Based on Segment Routing Using P4 and SR-IOV (P4-SFC) .- Seamlessly managing HPC workloads through Kubernetes.- Interference-aware Orchestration in Kubernetes.- RustyHermit: A Scalable, Rust-based Virtual Execution Environment.- Rootless Containers with Podman for HPC.- Bioinformatics application with Kube ow for batch processing in clouds.- Converging HPC, Big Data and Cloud technologies for precision agriculture data analytics on supercomputers.

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