Applied computing Books
Apress Learn Sprite Kit For Ios Game Development
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
£29.50
APress MMOs from the Inside Out
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
£61.74
Apress Practical Azure Application Development
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.
£34.19
Springer London Ltd Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose
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.
£44.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Software Product Management: Finding the Right
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.
£66.49
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Computer Networks and the Internet: A Hands-On Approach
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Distributed Computing for Emerging Smart Networks: First International Workshop, DiCES-N 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 30, 2019, Revised Selected Papers
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education: 3rd EAI International Conference, TIE 2019, Braga, Portugal, October 17–18, 2019, Proceedings
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Primer on Process Mining: Practical Skills with Python and Graphviz
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Web Engineering: 20th International Conference, ICWE 2020, Helsinki, Finland, June 9–12, 2020, Proceedings
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences: A Reference Model Guided Approach for Common Challenges
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Knowledge Graphs and Big Data Processing
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs: 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 7–10, 2020, Proceedings
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG High Performance Computing: ISC High Performance 2020 International Workshops, Frankfurt, Germany, June 21–25, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Reflections on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity
Book SynopsisWe already observe the positive effects of AI in almost every field, and foresee its potential to help address our sustainable development goals and the urgent challenges for the preservation of the environment. We also perceive that the risks related to the safety, security, confidentiality, and fairness of AI systems, the threats to free will of possibly manipulative systems, as well as the impact of AI on the economy, employment, human rights, equality, diversity, inclusion, and social cohesion need to be better assessed. The development and use of AI must be guided by principles of social cohesion, environmental sustainability, resource sharing, and inclusion. It has to integrate human rights, and social, cultural, and ethical values of democracy. It requires continued education and training as well as continual assessment of its effects through social deliberation. The “Reflections on AI for Humanity” proposed in this book develop the following issues and sketch approaches for addressing them: How can we ensure the security requirements of critical applications and the safety and confidentiality of data communication and processing? What techniques and regulations for the validation, certification, and audit of AI tools are needed to develop confidence in AI? How can we identify and overcome biases in algorithms? How do we design systems that respect essential human values, ensuring moral equality and inclusion? What kinds of governance mechanisms are needed for personal data, metadata, and aggregated data at various levels? What are the effects of AI and automation on the transformation and social division of labor? What are the impacts on economic structures? What proactive and accommodation measures will be required? How will people benefit from decision support systems and personal digital assistants without the risk of manipulation? How do we design transparent and intelligible procedures and ensure that their functions reflect our values and criteria? How can we anticipate failure and restore human control over an AI system when it operates outside its intended scope? How can we devote a substantial part of our research and development resources to the major challenges of our time such as climate, environment, health, and education? Table of ContentsReflections on AI for Humanity: Introduction.- Trustworthy AI.- Democratising the digital revolution: the role of data governance.- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work.- Reflections on Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence.- AI and Human values: inequalities, biases, fairness, nudge and feedback loops.- Next big challenges in core AI technology.- AI for Humanity: The Global Challenges.- AI and Constitutionalism: the challenges ahead.- Analyzing the Contributions of ethical charters to building the Future of Artificial Intelligence governance.- What does “Ethical by Design” Mean?.- AI for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences.- Augmented Human and Human-Machine Co-Evolution: efficiency and ethics.- Democratizing AI for Humanity: A Common Goal.- A Framework for Global Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence and its Governance.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: 6th International Workshop, GKR 2020, Virtual Event, September 5, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
Book SynopsisThis open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2020, held virtually in September 2020, associated with ECAI 2020, the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.The 7 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were reviewed and selected from 9 submissions. The contributions address various issues for knowledge representation and reasoning and the common graph-theoretic background, which allows to bridge the gap between the different communities.Table of ContentsExtended Workshop Papers.- Active Semantic Relations in Layered Enterprise Architecture Development.- A Belief Update System Using an Event Model for Location of People in a Smart Home.- A Natural Language Generation Technique for Automated Psychotherapy.- Creative Composition Problem: A Knowledge Graph Logical-based AI Construction and Optimization Solution.- Set Visualisations with Euler and Hasse Diagrams.- Usage Patterns Identification Using Graphs and Machine Learning.- Collaborative Design and Manufacture: Information Structures for Team Formation and Coordination.- Invited Additional Contributions.- Approximate Knowledge Graph Query Answering: From Ranking to Binary Classification.- Galois Connections for Patterns: An Algebra of Labelled Graphs.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Once-Only Principle: The TOOP Project
Book SynopsisThis open access State-of-the-Art Survey describes and documents the developments and results of the Once-Only Principle Project (TOOP). The Once-Only Principle (OOP) is part of the seven underlying principles of the eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020. It aims to make the government more effective and to reduce administrative burdens by asking citizens and companies to provide certain standard information to the public authorities only once.The project was horizontal and policy-driven with the aim of showing that the implementation of OOP in a cross-border and cross-sector setting is feasible. The book summarizes the results of the project from policy, organizational, architectural, and technical points of view. Table of ContentsThe Once-Only Principle: A Matter of Trust.- Implementation of the 'once-only' principle in Europe – national approaches.- Drivers for and Barriers to the Cross-Border Implementation of the Once-Only Principle - Once-Only Principle Good Practices in Europe.- The Single Digital Gateway Regulation as an Enabler and Constraint of Once-Only in Europe.- Legal Basis and Regulatory Applications of the Once-Only Principle: the Italian Case.- TOOP Trust Architecture.- The Technical challenges in OOP application across the European Union and the TOOP OOP architecture.- Testing methodology for the TOOP pilots.- TOOP pilot experiences: challenges and achievements in implementing once-only in different domains and Member States.- Measuring the Impact of the Once Only Principle for Businesses Across Borders.- The Future of the Once-Only Principle in Europe.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Technology-Enhanced Learning for a Free, Safe, and Sustainable World: 16th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2021, Bolzano, Italy, September 20-24, 2021, Proceedings
Book SynopsisChapters "Investigating the Role of Educational Robotics in Formal Mathematics Education: The Case of Geometry for 15-Year-Old Students" and "From Paper to Online: Digitizing Card Based Co-creation of Games for Privacy Education" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via springer.com.Table of ContentsThe Impact of Explicating Learning Goals on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Evaluating a Learning Goal Visualization.- Catching group criteria semantic information when forming collaborative learning groups.- The role of social practices of knowledge appropriation for sustaining TEL innovations in the classroom.- Visual Aids for Teaching Piano to Students with Autism: Designing a Web App through Practice.- Interactive and explainable advising dashboard opens the black box of student success prediction.- Investigating the role of educational robotics in formal mathematics education: a case study of geometry for 15-year-old students.- Peer Assessment Interactions and Their Temporal Dynamics Using a Graphlet-Based Method.- VLE Limits and Perspectives for Digital Integration in Teaching Practices Lessons Learned from the French Basic Education Teachers’ Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic.- First-year university students in distance learning: motivations and early experiences.- The dire cost of early disengagement: A four-year learning analytics study over a full program.- Analysis of the ”D’oh!” moments. Physiological markers of performance in cognitive switching tasks.- Examining the Effect of Self-Explanations in Distributed Self-Assessment.- 148 Cheng-Yu Chung and I-Han Hsiao Examining the relationship between reflective writing behaviour and self-regulated learning competence: A time-series analysis.- From Paper to Online: Digitizing Card Based Co-Creation of Games for Privacy Education.- An in-depth methodology to predict at-risk learners.- A Framework to Guide Educational Technology Studies in the Evolving Classroom Research Environment.- Using Prompts and Remediation to Improve Primary School Students Self-Evaluation and Self-Efficacy in a Literacy Web Application.- Student Creativity to Design Fake News Literacy Training: An Overview of Twelve Graduate Student Projects.- Recommendations for Orchestration of Formative Assessment Sequences: a Data-driven Approach.- Surveying Teachers’ Preferences and Boundaries regarding Human-AI Control in Dynamic Pairing of Students for Collaborative Learning.- What Do Learning Designs Show about Pedagogical Adoption? An Analysis Approach and a Case Study on Inquiry-Based Learning.- On the Linguistic and Pedagogical Quality of Automatic Question Generation via Neural Machine Translation.- Developing a prototype of an Open Educational Resource on research methods for PhD candidates in Technology-Enhanced Learning.- Comparing usage in and between primary and secondary schools for a blended TEL portal.- Investigating the Associations between Emotion, Cognitive Load and Personal Learning Goals: The Case for MOOCs.- I need more motivation: Engaging Students in the Gamification Design Process.- Augmented Reality as Educational Tool: Perceptions, Challenges, and Requirements from Teachers.- Towards a self-assessment tool for teachers to improve LMS mastery based on Teaching Analytics.- Uncovering Latent Profiles Based on How Students Review Paper-based Assessments.- Orchestrating an ubiquitous learning situation about Cultural Heritage with Casual Learn.- Bibliometric Analysis of the Last Ten Years of the European Conference on Technology-enhanced Learning.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Network Games, Control and Optimization: 10th International Conference, NetGCooP 2020, France, September 22–24, 2021, Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization, NETGCOOP 2020, held in Cargèse, Corsica, France, in September 2021*.The 12 full papers and 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: game theory and iterative algorithms applied to wireless communication; stochastic models for network performance analysis; game theory in mobile and wireless networks; scheduling and resource allocation problems in networks; advance in game theory; social network; electrical network.* The conference was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of ContentsGame theory and iterative algorithms applied to wireless communication.- Stochastic models for network performance analysis.- Game theory in Mobile and Wireless Networks.- Scheduling and resource allocation problems in networks.- Advance in game theory.- Social network.- Electrical network.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Information and Communications Security: 23rd International Conference, ICICS 2021, Chongqing, China, November 19-21, 2021, Proceedings, Part II
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set LNCS 12918 - 12919 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2021, held in Chongqing, China, in September 2021. The 49 revised full papers presented in the book were carefully selected from 182 submissions. The papers in Part II are organized in the following thematic blocks: machine learning security; multimedia security; security analysis; post-quantum cryptography; applied cryptography.Table of ContentsMachine Learning Security.- Multimedia Security.- Security Analysis.- Post-Quantum Cryptography.- Applied Cryptography.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 12th International Workshop, COSADE 2021, Lugano, Switzerland, October 25–27, 2021, Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2021, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in October 2021.The 14 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions are presented in this volume together with the 4 extended keynote abstracts. The workshop covers the following subjects: cryptography, side-channel analysis, cryptographic implementations, fault attacks, implementation attacks, post-quantum cryptography, hardware accelerators, etc.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 14th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2021, Riga, Latvia, November 24–26, 2021, Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings papers of the 14th IFIP Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, held in Riga, Latvia, during November 24-26, 2021. PoEM offers a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector. This year the theme of the conference is the use of enterprise modeling and enterprise architecture towards ensuring sustainability and resilience of enterprises and societies. The 14 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: enterprise modeling and enterprise architecture; enterprise modeling methods and method engineering; business process modeling and management; requirements engineering for privacy, security and governance; and case studies and experiences.Table of ContentsEnterprise Modeling and Enterprise Architecture.- Enterprise Coherence with GEA – a 15 Year Co-evolution of Practice and Theory.- Machine Learning-Based Enterprise Modeling Assistance: Approach and Potentials.- The Models for Knowledge Acquisition in PMI Specific Requirements Engineering.- Using Knowledge Graphs to Detect Enterprise Architecture Smells.- “Mind the Gap!”: Learning Missing Constraints from Annotated Conceptual Model Simulations.- Detecting value capture processes using FEM.- OLIVE, a Model-Aware Microservice Framework.- Enterprise Modeling Methods and Method Engineering.- An Experience Report on the Implementation of the KYKLOS Modeling Method.- Validation and Verification in Domain-Specific Modeling Method Engineering.- A Foundation for Design, Analysis, and Management of Digital Business Ecosystem through Situational Method Engineering.- Business Process Modeling and Management.- Design Guidelines to Derive ane3valueBusinessModel from a BPMN process model in the Financial Securities Sector.- Context-Aware Process Modelling for Medicinal Product Development.- Process Model Repair Meets Theory Revision - Initial Ideas.- Upper-bounded Model Checking for Declarative Process Models.- Requirements Engineering for Privacy, Security and Governance.- On the Philosophical Foundations of Privacy: Five Theses.- A Cyber Security Digital Twin for Critical Infrastructure Protection: the Intelligent Transport System Use Case.- Expanding Data Governance Across Company Boundaries – An Inter-Organizational Perspective of Roles and Responsibilities.- Case Studies and Experiences.- Can SysML Be Used for Enterprise Modelling?.- A Collaborative Model for Connecting Product Design and Assembly Line Design: an Aeronautical Case.- Assignment of Actors to Activities at Process-oriented Applications: A Research Agenda.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Computational Data and Social Networks: 10th International Conference, CSoNet 2021, Virtual Event, November 15–17, 2021, Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2021, which was held online during November 15-17, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 full and 8 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Combinatorial optimization and learning; deep learning and applications to complex and social systems; measurements of insight from data; complex networks analytics; special track on fact-checking, fake news and malware detection in online social networks; and special track on information spread in social and data networks. Table of ContentsCombinatorial Optimization and Learning.- Streaming algorithms for maximizing non-submodular functions on the integer lattice.- Causal Inference for Influence Propagation --- Identifiability of the In-dependent Cascade Model.- Streaming algorithms for Budgeted $k$-Submodular Maximization problem.- Approximation algorithms for the lower bounded correlation clustering problem.- Approximation Algorithm for Maximizing Nonnegative Weakly Mono-tonic Set Functions.- Differentially Private Submodular Maximization over Integer Lattice.- Maximizing the sum of a supermodular function and a monotone DR-submodular function subject to a knapsack constraint on the integer lattice.- Deep Learning and Applications to Complex and Social Systems.- A Framework for Accelerating Graph Convolution Networks on Massive Datasets.- AdvEdge: Optimizing Adversarial Perturbations against Interpretable Deep Learning.- Incorporating Transformer Models for Sentiment Analysis and News Classification in Khmer.- Deep Bangla Authorship Attribution using Transformer Models.- A Deep Learning Based Traffic Sign Detection for Intelligent Transportation Systems.- Detecting Hate Speech Contents Using Embedding Models.- MIC Model for Cervical Cancer Risk Factors Deep Association Analysis.- Power Grid Cascading Failure Prediction Based on Transforme.- Measurements of Insight from Data.- Security Breaches in the Healthcare Domain: A Spatiotemporal Analysis.- Social and Motivational Factors for the Spread of Physical Activities in a Health Social Network.- Understanding the Issues Surrounding COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out Via User Tweets.- Complex Networks Analytics.- Minimize Travel Time with Traffic Flow Density Equilibrium on Road Network.- Network based Framework to Compare Vaccination Strategies.- Groups Influence with Minimum Cost in Social Network.- Recovering communities in temporal networks using persistent edges.- Community Detection using Semilocal Topological Features and Label Propagation Algorithm.- Twitter Analysis of Covid-19 Misinformation in Spain.- Comparing Community-aware Centrality Measures in Online Social Networks.- Two-Tier Cache-Aided Full-Duplex Content Delivery in Satellite-Terrestrial Networks.- Special Track: Fact-Checking, Fake News and Malware Detection in Online Social Networks.- Mean User-Text Agglomeration (MUTA): Practical User Representation and Visualization for Detection of Online Influence Operations.- The Role of Information Organization and Knowledge Structuring in Combatting Misinformation: A Literary Analysis.- Fake News Detection using LDA Topic Modelling and K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier.- Special Track: Information Spread in Social and Data Networks.- Summarization Algorithms for News: a Study of the Coronavirus Theme and its Impact on the News Extracting Algorithm.- Social cohesion during stay-at-home phase during the first wave of COVID-19 in Poland.- Influence and Activation Thresholds Target Set Selection within Community Structure.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 22nd International Conference, PROFES 2021, Turin, Italy, November 26, 2021, Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2021, held in Turin, Italy, in November 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held as a hybrid event. The 20 revised papers, including 14 full papers, 3 short papers and 3 industry papers, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to professional software development and process improvement driven by product and service quality needs. They are organized in the following topical sections: agile and migration, requirements, human factors, and software quality.Table of ContentsAgile and Migration.- Migration from Ionic to Android: Implications.- The migration journey towards microservices.- Migrating from a Centralized Data Warehouse to a Decentralized Data Platform Architecture.- How Do Agile Teams Manage Impediments?.- Keeping the momentum: Driving continuous improvement after the large-scale agile transformation.- Requirements.- How Do Practitioners Interpret Conditionals in Requirements?.- Situation- and Domain-specific Composition and Enactment of Business Model Development Methods.- Using a data-driven context model to support the elicitation of context-aware functionalities – a controlled experiment.- A Transformation Model for Excelling in Product Roadmapping in Dynamic and Uncertain Market Environments.- Introducing Traceability in GitHub for Medical Software Development.- Human Factors.- An Empirical Study on Personality Traits and Team Climate in a Smart-Working Development Context.- Searching for bellwether developers for cross-personalized defect prediction.- Using Machine Learning to Recognise Novice and Expert Developers.- Is knowledge the key? An experiment on debiasing architectural decision-making - a pilot study.-Communicating Cybersecurity Vulnerability Information: A Producer-Acquirer Case Study.- Software quality.- Analyzing SAFe Practices with respect to Quality Requirements: Findings from a Qualitative Study.- Capitalizing on Developer-Tester Communication – A Case Study.- Toward a Technical Debt Relationship with the Pivoting of Growth Phase Startups.- Towards a Common Testing Terminology for Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Experts.- Towards RegOps: A DevOps Pipeline for Medical Device Software.-
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG ICWE 2021 Workshops: ICWE 2021 International Workshops, BECS and Invited Papers, Biarritz, France, May 18–21, 2021, Revised Selected Papers
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2021, held in Biarritz, France, in May 2021.*The first international workshop on Big data-driven Edge Cloud Services (BECS 2021) was held to provide a venue in which scholars and practitioners can share their experiences and present on-going work on providing value-added Web services for users by utilizing big data in edge cloud environments. The 5 revised full papers and 1 revised short contribution selected from 11 submissions are presented with 2 invited papers.*The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of ContentsBECS 2021.- Putting Data Science Pipelines on the Edge.- DNN Model Deployment on Distributed Edges.- Towards Proactive Context-Aware IoT Environments by means of Federated Learning.- Real-time Deep Learning-based Anomaly Detection Approach for Multivariate Data Streams with Apache Flink.- A Novel Approach to Dynamic Pricing for Cloud Computing Through Price Band Prediction.- Learning-based Activation of Energy Harvesting Sensors for Fresh Data Acquisition.- Invited Papers.- Exploiting Triangle Patterns for Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network.- Towards Seamless IoT Device-Edge-Cloud Continuum: Software Architecture Options of IoT Devices Revisited.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Process Querying Methods
Book SynopsisThis book presents a framework for developing as well as a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art process querying methods. Process querying combines concepts from Big Data and Process Modeling and Analysis with Business Process Intelligence and Process Analytics to study techniques for retrieving and manipulating models of real-world and envisioned processes to organize and extract process-related information for subsequent systematic use. The book comprises sixteen contributed chapters distributed over four parts and two auxiliary chapters. The auxiliary chapters by the editor provide an introduction to the area of process querying and a summary of the presented methods, techniques, and applications for process querying. The introductory chapter also examines a process querying framework. The contributed chapters present various process querying methods, including discussions on how they instantiate the framework components, thus supporting the comparison of the methods. The four parts are due to the distinctive features of the methods they include. The first three are devoted to querying event logs generated by IT-systems that support business processes at organizations, querying process designs captured in process models, and methods that address querying both event logs and process models. The methods in these three parts usually define a language for specifying process queries. The fourth part discusses methods that operate over inputs other than event logs and process models, e.g., streams of process events, or do not develop dedicated languages for specifying queries, e.g., methods for assessing process model similarity. This book is mainly intended for researchers. All the chapters in this book are contributed by active researchers in the research disciplines of business process management, process mining, and process querying. They describe state-of-the-art methods for process querying, discuss use cases of process querying, and suggest directions for future work for advancing the field. Yet, also other groups like business or data scientists and other professionals, lecturers, graduate students, and tool vendors will find relevant information for their distinctive needs.Chapter "Celonis PQL: A Query Language for Process Mining" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Process Querying.- Part I: Event Log Querying.- BP-SPARQL: A Query Language for Summarizing and Analyzing Big Process Data.- Data-Aware Process Oriented Query Language.- Process Instance Query Language and the Process Querying Framework.- Part II: Process Model Querying.- The Diagramed Model Query Language 2.0: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation.- VM*: A Family of Visual Model Manipulation Languages.- The BPMN Visual Query Language and Process Querying Framework.- Retrieving, Abstracting, and Changing Business Process Models with PQL.- QuBPAL: Querying Business Process Knowledge.- CRL and the Design-Time Compliance Management Framework.- Process Query Language.- Part III: Event Log and Process Model Querying.- Business Process Query Language.- Celonis PQL: A Query Language for Process Mining.- Part IV: Other Process Querying Methods.- Process Querying Using Process Model Similarity.- Logic-Based Approaches for Process Querying.- Process Model Similarity Techniques for Process Querying.- Complex Event Processing Methods for Process Querying.- Process Querying: Methods, Techniques, and Applications.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Compendium on Enterprise Resource Planning: Market, Functional and Conceptual View based on SAP S/4HANA
Book SynopsisThis book explains the functional scope, the data model, the solution architecture, the underlying engineering concepts, and the programming model of SAP S/4HANA as the most well-known enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The approach is to start with general concepts and then to proceed step-by-step to concrete implementations in SAP S/4HANA. In the first part the reader learns about the market view of ERP solutions and vendors. The second part deals with the business processes for sales, marketing, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, services, procurement, and human resources which are covered with SAP S/4HANA. In the third part the underlying concepts of SAP S/4HANA are described, for example in-memory storage, analytics and search, artificial intelligence, process and data integration, security and compliance, lifecycle management, performance and scalability, configuration and implementation. The book is concluded with a final chapter explaining how to deploy an appliance to explore SAP S/4HANA. The target audience for the book are managers and business analysts who want to understand the market situation and future ERP trends, end users and process experts who need to comprehend the business processes and the according solution capabilities provided with SAP S/4HANA, architects and developers who have to learn the technical concepts and frameworks for enhancing SAP S/4HANA functionality, and consultants and partners who require to adopt and configure SAP S/4HANA.Table of ContentsPart 1: Market View.- 1. Challenges and Characteristics of ERP Systems.- 2. ERP Market Analysis.- 3. ERP Future Trends.- Part 2: Functional View.- 4. Functional Departments and Enterprise Domains.- 5. Master Data of Business Partner.- 6. Master Data of Product.- 7. Master Data of Bill of Material.- 8. Process of Idea to Market.- 9. Process of Source to Pay.- 10. Process of Plan to Fulfill.- 11. Process of Lead to Cash.- 12. Process of Recruit to Retire.- 13. Process of Acquire to Decommission.- 14. Process of Governance.- 15. Process of Finance.- 16. Industry Solutions.- Part 3: Conceptual View.- 17. ERP Product Qualities: Customer View.- 18. ERP Product Qualities: Provider View.- 19. In-Memory Persistency.- 20. Virtual Data Model.- 21. Transactional Programming Model.- 22. Analytics.- 23. Search.- 24. Artificial Intelligence.- 25. Internet of Things.- 26. Process Integration.- 27. Data Integration.- 28. In-App Extensibility.- 29. Side-by-Side Extensibility.- 30. User Experience.- 31. Identity and Access Management.- 32. Data Protection and Privacy.- 33. Secure Development and Operations.- 34. Globalization and Localization.- 35. Scalability and Performance.- 36. Lifecycle Management.- 37. Configuration.- 38. Implementation.- Appendix.- 39. Explore SAP S/4HANA System.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Designing Data Spaces: The Ecosystem Approach to
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries. To this end, the book is structured in four parts: Part I “Foundations and Contexts” provides a general overview about building, running, and governing data spaces and an introduction to the IDS and GAIA-X projects. Part II “Data Space Technologies” subsequently details various implementation aspects of IDS and GAIA-X, including eg data usage control, the usage of blockchain technologies, or semantic data integration and interoperability. Next, Part III describes various “Use Cases and Data Ecosystems” from various application areas such as agriculture, healthcare, industry, energy, and mobility. Part IV eventually offers an overview of several “Solutions and Applications”, eg including products and experiences from companies like Google, SAP, Huawei, T-Systems, Innopay and many more. Overall, the book provides professionals in industry with an encompassing overview of the technological and economic aspects of data spaces, based on the International Data Spaces and Gaia-X initiatives. It presents implementations and business cases and gives an outlook to future developments. In doing so, it aims at proliferating the vision of a social data market economy based on data spaces which embrace trust and data sovereignty.Table of ContentsPart I: Foundations and Context.- 1. The Evolution of Data Spaces.- 2. How to Build, Run, and Govern Data Spaces.- 3. International Data Spaces in a Nutshell.- 4. Role of Gaia-X in the European Data Space Ecosystem.- 5. Legal Aspects of IDS: Data Sovereignty—What Does It Imply?.- 6. Tokenomics: Decentralized Incentivization in the Context of Data Spaces.- Part II: Data Space Technologies.- 7. The IDS Information Model: A Semantic Vocabulary for Sovereign Data Exchange.- 8. Data Usage Control.- 9. Building Trust in Data Spaces.- 10. Blockchain Technology and International Data Spaces.- 11. Federated Data Integration in Data Spaces.- 12. Semantic Integration and Interoperability.- 13. Data Ecosystems: A New Dimension of Value Creation Using AI and Machine Learning.- 14. IDS as a Foundation for Open Data Ecosystems.- 15. Defining Platform Research Infrastructure as a Service (PRIaaS) for Future Scientific Data Infrastructure.- Part III: Use Cases and Data Ecosystems.- 16. Silicon Economy: Logistics as the Natural Data Ecosystem.- 17. Agricultural Data Space.- 18. Medical Data Spaces in Healthcare Data Ecosystems.- 19. Industrial Data Spaces.- 20. Energy Data Space.- 21. Mobility Data Space.- Part IV: Solutions and Applications.- 22. Data Sharing Spaces: The BDVA Perspective.- 23. Data Platform Solutions.- 24. FIWARE for Data Spaces.- 25. Sovereign Cloud Technologies for Scalable Data Spaces.- 26. Data Space Based on Mass Customization Model.- 27. Huawei and International Data Spaces.- International Collaboration Between Data Spaces and Carrier Networks.- 29. From Linear Supply Chains to Open Supply Ecosystems.- 30. Data Spaces: First Applications in Mobility and Industry.- 31. Competition, Security, and Transparency: Data in Connected Vehicles.- Data Space Functionality.- The Energy Data Space: The Path to a European Approach for Energy.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Third International Conference, DAI 2021, Shanghai, China, December 17–18, 2021, Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, DAI 2021, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2021.The 15 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. DAI aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners in related areas including general AI, multiagent systems, distributed learning, computational game theory, etc., to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of distributed AI.Table of ContentsThe Power of Signaling and its Intrinsic Connection to the Price of Anarchy.- Uncertainty-aware Low-Rank Q-Matrix Estimation for Deep Reinforcement Learning.- SEIHAI: A Sample-effcient Hierarchical AI for the MineRL Competition.- GC: Multi-Agent Group Belief with Graph Clustering.- Incomplete Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems: Model, Algorithms, and Heuristics.- Securities Based Decision Markets.- MARL for Traffc Signal Control in Scenarios with Different Intersection Importance.- Safe Distributional Reinforcement Learning.- The Positive Effect of User Faults over Agent Perception in Collaborative Settings and its Use in Agent Design.- Behavioral Stable Marriage Problems.- FUN-Agent: a HUMAINE Competitor.- Signal Instructed Coordination in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.- A Description of the Jadescript Type System.- Combining M-MCTS and Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Game Playing.- A Two-Step Method for Dynamics of Abstract Argumentation.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Artificial Intelligence Research: Second Southern
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research, SACAIR 2021, held in Durban, South Africa, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the SACAIR 2021 was held online. The 22 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 70 submissions. They are organized on the topical sections on AI in the humanities and society, AI in and for information systems, computer vision and image processing, deep learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, philosophy and ethics of AI.Table of ContentsAI in the Humanities and Society.- AI in and for Information Systems.- Computer Vision and Image Processing.- Deep Learning.- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Machine Learning.- Philosophy and Ethics of AI.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture Management: Foundations for Steering the Enterprise-Wide Digital System
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive, holistic, scientifically precise, and practically relevant description of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). Based on state-of-the-art concepts, it also addresses current trends like disruptive digitization or agile methods. The book is structured in five chapters. The first chapter offers a comprehensive overview of EAM. It addresses questions like: what does EAM mean, what is the history of EAM, why do enterprises need EAM, what are its goals, and how is it related to digitalization? It also includes a short overview of essential EAM standards and literature. The second chapter provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture (EA). It starts with clarifying basic terminology and the difference between EA and EAM. It also gives a short summary of existing EA frameworks and methods for structuring the digital ecosystem into layers and views. The third chapter addresses the strategic and tactical context of the EAM capability in an enterprise. It defines essential terms and parameters in the context of enterprise strategy and tactics as well as the operative, organizational context of EAM. The fourth chapter specifies the detailed goals, processes, functions, artifacts, roles and tools of EAM, building the basis for an EAM process framework that provides a comprehensive overview of EAM processes and functions. Closing the circle, the last chapter describes how to evaluate EAM in an enterprise. It starts by laying out core terminology, like “metric” and “strategic performance measurement system” and ends with a framework that integrates the various measuring areas in the context of EA and EAM. This textbook focuses on two groups: First, EAM scholars, ie bachelor or master students of Business Information Systems, Business Administration or Computer Science. And second, EAM practitioners working in the field of IT strategy or EA who need a reliable, scientifically solid, and practically proven state-of-the-art description of essential EAM methods.Table of Contents1. EAM in a Nutshell.- 2. Enterprise Architecture in a Nutshell.- 3. Strategic and Tactical Context of EAM.- 4. EAM Implementation.- 5. EAM Evaluation.
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De Gruyter Mathematical Foundations of Data Science Using R
Book SynopsisThe aim of the book is to help students become data scientists. Since this requires a series of courses over a considerable period of time, the book intends to accompany students from the beginning to an advanced understanding of the knowledge and skills that define a modern data scientist. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the mathematical foundations of the programming language R and of its applications to data science.
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH ChatGPT fur Dummies
Book SynopsisPrompt zur Stelle: Ihr Leitfaden für den Umgang mit generativer KI Profitieren auch Sie von den wunderbaren Fähigkeiten von ChatGPT. Pam Baker erklärt Ihnen, wie ChatGPT funktioniert und wie Sie den Chatbot gewinnbringend einsetzen sei es bei der Texterstellung für Werbezwecke, der Kundenbetreuung auf einer Webseite, dem Brainstorming für eine Marketing-Aktion oder für die Beantwortung all jener Fragen, auf die Sie bisher keine Antwort gefunden haben. Sie lernen die Stärken und die Schwächen des Tools kennen. So können Sie besser einschätzen, wo es Ihnen nutzt und wo Sie besser weiter arbeiten wie bisher. Erschließen Sie das Potenzial von ChatGPT! Sie erfahren Wie generative KI funktioniertWelche Möglichkeiten die integrierten GPTs Ihnen bietenWas einen guten Prompt ausmachtWarum Sie die Ausgabe von ChatGPT kritisch hinterfragen sollten
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Methoden der Computeranimation
Book SynopsisDas Buch richtet sich an eine Leserschaft, die bereits Grundkenntnisse in der Computergrafik hat. Vorwiegend ist hierbei an Studenten der Informatik gedacht, die bereits eine Computeranimationsvorlesung belegt haben oder die ein vertieftes Interesse an diesem Gebiet besitzen. Neben einem Überblick über die relevanten Themen der Computeranimation wurde ein besonderes Schwergewicht auf die physikalisch-basierten Animationsmethoden gelegt. Zum einfacheren Verständnis, speziell der physikalisch-basierten Methoden, sind allerdings Grundkenntnisse in der Physik sowie in der Analysis sehr hilfreich. Das Buch zeichnet sich im Besonderen dadurch aus, dass es auch exemplarisch wichtige Details einiger Animationsmethoden behandelt, die deren Implementierungen erleichtern.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Globale Bewegungen.- Deformationen.- Warping und Morphing.- Gesichtsanimation.- Prozedurale Animationstechniken.- Motion Capturing und Motion Editing.- Modellierung und Animation von Naturerscheinungen.- Modellierung und Animation von Stoffen.- Animationen mit neuronalen Netzen.- Physikalisch-basierte Animation mechanischer Systeme.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Digital Cash: Zahlungssysteme im Internet
Book SynopsisDas Internet und insbesondere dessen kommerzielle Nutzung werden großen Einfluß auf das private und öffentliche Leben haben. Eine entscheidende Rolle bei der kommerziellen Weiterentwicklung haben elektronische Zahlungssysteme, die die Bezahlung von Waren und Dienstleistungen über das globale Internet ermöglichen. Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über die derzeit verfügbaren Zahlungssysteme im Internet und die zukünftige Entwicklung in diesem Bereich. Der Leser wird schrittweise von der zugrundeliegenden Technik bis zur detaillierten Beschreibung der Zahlungssysteme im Internet geführt. Neben den technischen Aspekten betrachtet das Buch auch rechtliche Probleme bei der Verwendung der vorgestellten Systeme, bewertet deren Marktchancen und stellt Kostenmodelle vor.Trade Review" "Digital Cash", von drei Internet-Experten geschrieben, bietet eine knappe Einführung in das Thema. Dabei geht es nicht nur um digitales Bargeld.Vorgestellt werden auch Arten der Kreditkartenzahlung und der Bezahlung über Kundenkonten. Die entscheidende Frage lautet immer: Wie kann verhindert werden, daß Ungebetene den virtuellen Geldbeutel plündern? Die Autoren fördern überraschende Ergebnisse zutage."(Handelsblatt)"...Alles in allem: eine knappe, leicht verständliche und trotzdem umfassende Übersicht..."(Buissiness Online) "...Praktische Wegweisung durch den undurchschaubaren Verfahrensdschungel..." "...Kenntnisreich und verständlich für Internetlaien und - experten, umsichtig,akzentuiert und doch differenziert..."(Lebensmittel Zeitung)Table of Contents1 Internet und Electronic Commerce.- 1.1 Eine kurze Geschichte des Internet.- 1.2 Sicherheitsprobleme im Internet.- 1.3 Elektronische Kaufvorgänge.- 1.4 Zahlungssysteme.- 2 Technische Grundlagen.- 2.1 Einführung.- 2.2 Sichere Nachrichtenübertragung.- 2.2.1 Symmetrische Verschlüsselungsverfahren.- 2.2.2 Asymmetrische Verschlüsselungsverfahren.- 2.2.3 Hybride Verfahren.- 2.3 Authentische Nachrichtenübertragung.- 2.3.1 Asymmetrische Verschlüsselungsverfahren.- 2.3.2 Digitale Signatur.- 2.3.3 Dual Signature.- 2.3.4 Challenge Response.- 2.4 Schlüsselmanagement.- 2.4.1 Schlüsselmanagement mit Hilfe von Zertifikaten.- 2.4.2 Kerberos.- 2.5 Anonymität und Kopierschutz bei digitalem Bargeld.- 2.5.1 Anonymität durch Kryptologie.- 2.5.2 Kopierschutz durch Aufhebung der Anonymität.- 2.6 Weitere Verfahren.- 2.6.1 One Time Pad.- 2.6.2 Steganographie.- 3 Rahmenbedingungen für Electronic Commerce.- 3.1 Technische Voraussetzungen.- 3.2 Rechtliche Probleme.- 3.2.1 Verwendung von Kryptographie.- 3.2.2 Digitale Signatur.- 3.2.3 Datenschutz.- 3.3 Interessensgruppen.- 3.3.1 Kunde.- 3.3.2 Händler.- 3.3.3 Systemarchitekt.- 3.3.4 Systembetreiber.- 3.3.5 Banken (Herausgeber).- 3.3.6 Zertifizierungsstellen/Trust-Center.- 3.4 Chancen.- 4 Analyse elektronischer Zahlungssysteme.- 4.1 Kategorisierung.- 4.1.1 Kreditkartenzahlung über das Internet.- 4.1.2 Zahlung über Kundenkonten.- 4.1.3 Zahlung mit digitalem Bargeld.- 4.2 Systemeigenschaften eines elektronischen Zahlungssystems.- 4.2.1 Sicherheit.- 4.2.2 Skalierbarkeit.- 4.2.3 Mikrozahlungen.- 4.2.4 Bedienbarkeit.- 4.2.5 Kleinhändler.- 4.2.6 Anonymität.- 4.3 Kreditkartenzahlung.- 4.3.1 Sichere Übertragungsprotokolle.- 4.3.2 Secure Electronic Transaction.- 4.3.3 CyberCash.- 4.4 Zahlung über Kundenkonten.- 4.4.1 Online-Dienste.- 4.4.2 Geschlossene elektronische Marktplätze.- 4.4.3 First Virtual.- 4.4.4 NetCheque.- 4.5 Digitales Bargeld.- 4.5.1 Grundprinzip.- 4.5.2 DigiCash.- 4.5.3 NetCash.- 4.5.4 Chipkarte als elektronische Geldbörse.- 4.5.5 Millicent.- 5 Bewertung der Zahlungssysteme.- 5.1 Technische Aspekte.- 5.1.1 Kreditkartenzahlung im Internet.- 5.1.2 Zahlung über Kundenkonten.- 5.1.3 Digitales Bargeld.- 5.2 Kosten.- 5.2.1 Kreditkartenzahlung im Internet.- 5.2.2 Zahlung über Kundenkonten.- 5.2.3 Digitales Bargeld.- 5.3 Rechtliche Aspekte.- 5.3.1 Kreditkartenzahlung im Internet.- 5.3.2 Zahlung über Kundenkonten.- 5.3.3 Digitales Bargeld.- 6 Zukünftige Entwicklung.- 6.1 Kreditkartenzahlung.- 6.2 Zahlung über Kundenkonten.- 6.3 Digitales Bargeld.- 6.4 Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.- Anhang A. Chipkarten.- Anhang B. Chipkartenbasierte Zahlungssysteme.- Anhang C. Glossar.- Anhang D. Informationsquellen zu Zahlungssystemen im Internet.- Anhang E. Quellenverzeichnis.- Anhang F. Stichwortverzeichnis.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Begriffliche Wissensverarbeitung: Methoden und
Book SynopsisDieses Buch stellt Methoden der Begrifflichen Wissensverarbeitung vor und präsentiert Anwendungen aus unterschiedlichen Praxisfeldern. Im Methodenteil wird in moderne Techniken der Begrifflichen Datenanalyse und Wissensverarbeitung eingeführt. Hierbei werden die mathematischen Grundlagen abgehandelt und durch zahlreiche Beispiele anschaulich gemacht. Der zweite Teil des Buches richtet sich verstärkt an potentielle Anwender. An ausgewählten Anwendungen wird die Vorgehensweise bei der Datenanalyse und dem Information Retrieval mit den Methoden der Begrifflichen Wissensverarbeitung vorgestellt und ihr Potential aufgezeigt.Table of ContentsI: Methoden der Begrifflichen Wissensverarbeitung.- Begriffe und Implikationen.- ConImp - Ein Programm zur Formalen Begriffsanalyse.- Ähnlichkeit als Distanz in Begriffsverbänden.- Datenanalyse mit Fuzzy-Begriffen.- Terminologische Merkmalslogik in der Formalen Begriffsanalyse.- II: Anwendungen der Begrifflichen Wissensverarbeitung.- Formale Begriffsanalyse im Software Engineering.- Zugriffskontrolle bei Programmsystemen und im Datenschutz mittels Formaler Begriffsanalyse.- Inhaltliche Erschließung des Bereichs 'Sozialorientierte Gestaltung von Informationstechnik' - Ein begriffsanalytischer Ansatz.- Wissensdarstellungen in Informationssystemen, Fragetypen und Anforderungen an Retrievalkomponenten.- Ein TOSCANA-Erkundungssystem zur Literatursuche.- Ein Erkundungssystem zum Baurecht: Methoden der Entwicklung eines TOSCANA-Systems.- Begriffliche Erkundung semantischer Strukturen von Sprechaktverben.- Grundwerte, Ziele und Maßnahmen in einem regionalen Krankenhaus - Eine Anwendung des Verfahrens GABEK.- Normen- und regelgeleitete internationale Kooperationen - Formale Begriffsanalyse in der Politikwissenschaft.- Entwicklung eines kontextuellen Methodenkonzeptes mit Hilfe der Formalen Begriffsanalyse an Beispielen zum Risikoverständnis.- Über Möglichkeiten der Formalen Begriffsanalyse in der Mathematischen Archäochemie.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Enterprise Architecture Frameworks Kompendium: Über 50 Rahmenwerke für das IT-Management
Book SynopsisIn dem Band werden 50 Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (EAF) ausführlich behandelt und 45 weitere hinsichtlich ihrer Intention kurz und prägnant dargestellt. Die detaillierten Beschreibungen erlauben durch ein einheitliches Raster den Vergleich unterschiedlicher EAF. Sie enthalten Informationen zum Entwickler, zu Versionen, zur Marktrelevanz, zu Abhängigkeiten, Verfügbarkeit, unterstützenden Tools sowie Anschaffungskosten. Die Unterstützungsvielfalt, die Frameworks bieten, demonstriert der Autor anhand eines Anwendungsszenarios.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: “... Das Buch empfiehlt sich allen Verantwortlichen, welche vor der architekturgeleiteten Umsetzung eines IT-Projekts stehen oder eine aktuelle IT-Strategie zu entwickeln haben, da es die Entscheidungsfindung dank seiner strukturierten Herangehensweise effektiv unterstutzt. ... Da dieses Buch von einer aktuellen Website begleitet wird, sind nicht nur weiterführende Informationen, sondern auch ein interaktives Navigationssystem nach der Registrierung einfach zuganglich. Lehrende finden dort detaillierte Framework-Beschreibungen, Übungs- und Vortragsmaterialien sowie eine Orientierungshilfe als Druckvorlage ...“ (WI Wirtschaftsinformatik www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de, June/2012)Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Einführung eines grundlegenden Begriffsverständnisses.- Recherche und Ordnung der Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.- Grundlagen für die Beschreibung ausgewählter Rahmenwerke im Interesse des Informationsmanagers.- Detaillierte Beschreibung ausgewählter Rahmenwerke.- Exemplarische Umsetzung einzelner Rahmenwerke innerhalb eines fiktiven Anwendungsszenarios.- Anhang A: Konspekt zum Grundlagenkapital Rahmenwerke.- Anhang B: Framework Selection Guide.- Literaturverzeichnis.- Index.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG False Feathers: A Perspective on Academic Plagiarism
Book SynopsisSince human beings have been writing it seems there has been plagiarism. It is not something that sprouted with the advent of the Internet. Teachers have been struggling for years in countries all over the globe to find good methods for dealing with the problem of plagiarizing students. How do we spot plagiarism? How do we teach them not to plagiarize? And how do we deal with those who have been found out to be plagiarists? The purpose of this book is to collect material on the various aspects of plagiarism in education with special attention given to the German problem of dissertation plagiarism. Since there is a wide-spread interest in the German plagiarism situation and in strategies for dealing with it, the book is written in English in order to be accessible to a larger audience.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Plagiarism and Scientific Misconduct.- Plagiarism in Germany.- Plagiarism Detection.- Plagiarism Avoidance.- Plagiarism Policies and Procedures Abroad.- Plagiarism Perspective.- The future?.- Works Cited.- Appendix.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis
Book SynopsisLankhorst and his co‑authors present ArchiMate® 3.0, enterprise modelling language that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. They provide architects with concrete instruments that improve their architectural practice. As this is not enough, they additionally present techniques and heuristics for communicating with all relevant stakeholders about these architectures. Since an architecture model is useful not only for providing insight into the current or future situation but can also be used to evaluate the transition from ‘as‑is’ to ‘to‑be’, the authors also describe analysis methods for assessing both the qualitative impact of changes to an architecture and the quantitative aspects of architectures, such as performance and cost issues.The modelling language presented has been proven in practice in many real‑life case studies and has been adopted by The Open Group as an international standard. So this book is an ideal companion for enterprise IT or business architects in industry as well as for computer or management science students studying the field of enterprise architecture.This fourth edition of the book has been completely reworked to be compatible with ArchiMate® 3.0, and it includes a new chapter relating this new version to other standards. New sections on capability analysis, risk analysis, and business architecture in general have also been introduced.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Enterprise Architecture.-State of the Art.- Foundations.- Communication of Enterprise Architectures.- A Language for Enterprise Modelling.- Combining ArchiMate with Other Standards and Approaches.- Guidelines for Modelling.- Viewpoints and Visualisation.- Architecture Analysis.- Architecture Alignment.- Tool Support.- Case Studies.- Beyond Enterprise Architecture.- Appendix.- References.- Index.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis
Book SynopsisLankhorst and his co‑authors present ArchiMate® 3.0, enterprise modelling language that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. They provide architects with concrete instruments that improve their architectural practice. As this is not enough, they additionally present techniques and heuristics for communicating with all relevant stakeholders about these architectures. Since an architecture model is useful not only for providing insight into the current or future situation but can also be used to evaluate the transition from ‘as‑is’ to ‘to‑be’, the authors also describe analysis methods for assessing both the qualitative impact of changes to an architecture and the quantitative aspects of architectures, such as performance and cost issues.The modelling language presented has been proven in practice in many real‑life case studies and has been adopted by The Open Group as an international standard. So this book is an ideal companion for enterprise IT or business architects in industry as well as for computer or management science students studying the field of enterprise architecture.This fourth edition of the book has been completely reworked to be compatible with ArchiMate® 3.0, and it includes a new chapter relating this new version to other standards. New sections on capability analysis, risk analysis, and business architecture in general have also been introduced.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Enterprise Architecture.-State of the Art.- Foundations.- Communication of Enterprise Architectures.- A Language for Enterprise Modelling.- Combining ArchiMate with Other Standards and Approaches.- Guidelines for Modelling.- Viewpoints and Visualisation.- Architecture Analysis.- Architecture Alignment.- Tool Support.- Case Studies.- Beyond Enterprise Architecture.- Appendix.- References.- Index.
£24.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XLV: Special Issue on Data Management and Knowledge Extraction in Digital Ecosystems
Book SynopsisThe LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing (e.g., computing resources, services, metadata, data sources) across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. This, the 45th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains eight revised selected regular papers. Topics covered include data analysis, information extraction, blockchains, and big data.Table of ContentsInteroperable Data Extraction and Analytics Queries over Blockchains.- Exploiting Twitter for Informativeness Classification in Disaster Situations.- COTILES: Leveraging Content and Structure for Evolutionary Community Detection.- A Weighted Feature-Based Image Quality Assessment Framework in Real-Time.- Sharing Knowledge in Digital Ecosystems Using Semantic Multimedia Big Data.- Facilitating and Managing Machine Learning and Data Analysis Tasks in Big Data Environments Using Web and Microservice Technologies.- Stable Marriage Matching for Homogenizing Load Distribution in a Cloud Data Center.- A Sentiment Analysis Software Framework for the Support of Business Information Architecture in the Tourist Sector
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Transactions on Computational Collective
Book SynopsisThese transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning. This 36th issue contains 7 selected papers which present new findings and innovative methodologies as well as discuss issues and challenges in the field of collective intelligence from big data and networking paradigms while addressing security, privacy, reliability and optimality to achieve QoS to the benefit of final usersThis is an open access book.
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APress SAP S4HANA Embedded Analytics
Book SynopsisImagine you are a business user, consultant, or developer about to enter an SAP S/4HANA implementation project. You are well-versed with SAP''s product portfolio and you know that the preferred reporting option in S/4HANA is embedded analytics. But what exactly is embedded analytics? And how can it be implemented? And who can do it: a business user, a functional consultant specialized in financial or logistics processes? Or does a business intelligence expert or a programmer need to be involved? Good questions!This book will answer these questions, one by one. It will also take you on the same journey that the implementation team needs to follow for every reporting requirement that pops up: start with assessing a more standard option and only move on to a less standard option if the requirement cannot be fulfilled. In consecutive chapters, analytical apps delivered by SAP, apps created using Smart Business Services, and Analytical Queries developed either using tiles or in a Table of ContentsChapter 1: Before the Work Starts Chapter Goal: Miscellaneous intro topics. No of pages: 40 Sub -Topics 1. Business Intelligence: the art of enriching data 2. HANA changing the OLTP versus OLAP game 3. Cloud flavors: SaaS versus IaaS 4. The latest thing: CDS-views 5. Frontend: Fiori and UI5 6. SAP’s BI portfolio 7. S/4HANA and Embedded Analytics Chapter 2: No Work: Use What is Delivered Chapter Goal: S/4HANA comes with rich analytical apps that can be used immediately. This chapter focuses on the content delivered by SAP. No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics 1. Discover analytical apps 2. Activate them 3. Use them Chapter 3: Some Work: Smart Business Service Chapter Goal: S/4HANA has built-in functions for codeless creation of simple analytical apps. Target group of these functions are power users, but in practice functional (non-BI) consultants are most suitable to use this functionality. Functions are made available as a group of Fiori-tiles under the product name “Smart Business Service”. No of pages : 30 Sub - Topics: 1. Tiles “KPI Design”2. Tiles “Report Design”3. Tile “Analysis Path Framework Modeling”4. The end-result: again tilesChapter 4: More Work: Building Analytical Queries Using TilesChapter Goal: S/4HANA comes with tiles to create so-called “Analytical Queries” starting from SAP-delivered CDS-views. Analytical Queries are not static reports, but versatile, interactive queries on real-time data.For the SaaS version of S/4HANA, this is the only option to create Analytical Queries.No of pages: 40Sub - Topics: 1. Discovery of SAP-delivered CDS-views with tile “View Browser”2. Enriching CDS-views with tiles “Custom CDS Views”3. Building an Analytical Query with tile “Custom Analytical Query”4. Running the query with tile “Query Browser”5. How to navigate within an Analytical Query.6. Creating a dedicated tile for the query Chapter 5: Most Work: Building Analytical Queries in a Development EnvironmentChapter Goal: Starting from real-life business requirements, often the conclusion is reached that SAP-delivered CDS-views won’t do the trick. For a SaaS version of S/4HANA, the process following this conclusion is called “managing expectations”. For an on-premise version, a development environment can be applied. And then … the sky is the limit! Development can start not only from SAP-delivered CDS-views but also from tables.No of pages: 60Sub - Topics: 1. Layered approach towards the analytical query2. Data-integration3. “Cube-view”4. Analytical query5. Examples transaction data6. Examples master data7. Example: Replacing custom ABAP-report by analytical query8. Performance considerations; balance between performance and support-friendliness9. Access and data authorizationChapter 6: Extensibility, OData and BeyondChapter Goal: Miscellaneous outro topics related to Embedded AnalyticsNo of pages: 20Sub - Topics: 1. S/4HANA Extensibility2. OData and APIs3. Agile development and Devops 4. Ideal skill-set for an Embedded Analytics expert
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APress Mastering VMware Horizon 8
Book SynopsisLearn all about designing, installing, configuring, and managing VMware Horizon, with a core focus on how to deliver virtual desktops using Horizon. This book allows you to follow the complete process for deploying VMware Horizon and covers the design, deployment, and management of solutions. You''ll start by reviewing remote solutions, from virtual desktops to published applications, including the benefits and what the different solutions deliver. Once through the high-level technology you''ll then look at the VMware Horizon solution focusing on the architecture and the components that make up the solution and how to design a production-ready environment. Other VMware EUC technologies that complement the core Horizon solution will also be incorporate into it. Armed with the knowledge of how to design a solution, you''ll move onto the installation phase and start to build a test lab environment. Once your lab is installed, you''ll move onto the configurTable of ContentsChapter 1: What Are Remote Desktop Solutions?Chapter 2: Getting Started with VMware HorizonChapter 3: Architecting Horizon for DeploymentChapter 4: Installing and Configuring Your Horizon EnvironmentChapter 5: Creating Virtual Desktop Images for DeploymentChapter 6: Building and Configuring Desktop PoolsChapter 7: Managing Horizon with Active Directory GPOsChapter 8: Horizon Computer GPOs Settings (split from chapter 7)Chapter 9: Horizon User GPO Settings (split from chapter 7)Chapter 10: Managing the End User Environments (former chapter 8)Chapter 11: Horizon Apps (former chapter 9)Chapter 12: Horizon Published Desktop (former chapter 10) Chapter 13: Connecting End Users (former chapter 11)Chapter 14: Horizon Enterprise Edition (former chapter 12)Chapter 15: Upgrading Horizon (former chapter 13)Chapter 16: Running Horizon in the Cloud (former chapter 14)Chapter 17: Horizon Troubleshooting (former chapter 15) Online Resource: Advanced Configuration and Management (former chapter 16)
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Springer London Ltd Digital Media: The Future
Book SynopsisThis volume presents state-of-the-art research from a wide area of subjects brought about by the digital convergence of computing, television, telecommunications and the World-Wide Web. It represents a unique snapshot of trends across a wide range of subjects including virtual environments; virtual reality; telepresence; human-computer interface design; interactivity; avatars; and the Internet. Both researchers and practitioners will find it an invaluable source of reference.Table of ContentsNew Media Technologies: The European Perspective (Eric Badiqu).- From Web-Site to On-Line Presence: From Internet to Information Society (Peter Thomas).- Human Computer Interaction with Global Information Spaces - Beyond Data Mining (Jim Thomas et al).- Transparent Access to Video Over the Web: A Review of Current Approaches (Peter J. Macer).- Ubiquitous Communications and Media: Steps Towards a Wearable Learning Tool (Nick Dyer et al).- Grafting the User Interface onto Reality (David Johnston et al).- Challenges for the World-Wide Web Graphics Web - FRA Hopgood Watermarking of Digital Images - Current Techniques and Future Prospects (Roger Green et al).- An Evolving Vision of Sound: An Intuitive User Interface for Creative Control of Complex Musical Objects (P.J. Comerford et al).- Integrating Paper and Digital Documents (Heather Brown).- Smart Documents with ActiveX 3D Data Visualisation Components (Michael Jern).- 3D Fashion Design and The Virtual Catwalk (Pascal Volino et al).- Artificial Garments for Synthetic Humans in Global Retailing (G.K. Stylios).- CATS: A Multimedia Tool for Scenographic Simulation in Theatre and TV - (F. Martinez et al).- Interpretation and Performance Assessment of Actors Representations in Virtual Rehearsals (I.J. Palmer).- Real-Time Virtual Humans (Norman Badler et al).- Dialogue Design for a Virtual Interactive Presenter (Marc Cavazza).- Virtual Humans Behaviour: Individuals, Groups and Crowds (Daniel Thalmann et al).- An Inhabited 3D Oil Platform for Immersive CSCW (Roland M. Banks).- 3D Virtual Community Building Applications in the PANAIVE Architecture (Chris Flerackers et al).- Telepresence - The Future of Telephony (Graham Walker).- A Journey to the Hemispheric User Interface - Creative and Technical Achievements (Janice Webster).
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Automatic Control Systems: With MATLAB
Book SynopsisThis book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate students enrolled in Electrical Engineering and related disciplines. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of linear system theory. In this book, the concepts around each topic are well discussed with a full-length presentation of numerical examples. Each example is unique in its way, and it is graded sequentially. This book highlights simple methods for solving problems. Even though, the subject requires a very strong mathematical foundation, wherever possible, rigorous mathematics is simplified for a quick understanding of the basic concepts. The book also includes select numerical problems to test the capability of the students. Time and frequency domain approaches for the analysis and design of linear automatic control systems have been explained using state-space and transfer function models of physical systems. All the chapters include a short theoretical summary of the topic followed by exercises on solving complex problems using MATLAB commands. In addition, each chapter offers a large number of end-of-chapter homework problems. This second edition includes a new chapter on state-space modeling and analysis. Detailed conceptual coverage and pedagogical tools make this an ideal textbook for students and researchers enrolled in electrical engineering and related programs.Trade Review“This apparently impressive book (908 pages) is in fact a textbook for undergraduates in automatic control, strongly relying on the courses taught in the Engineering Colleges of India … . This fact can ensure an impressive number of readers … . The book has no Reference list but the field tackled by it is covered by many references, much more recent than the classical aforementioned ones.” (Vladimir Răsvan, zbMATH 1496.93002, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Control Systems Modelling and their Representation.- Chapter 2. Time Response Analysis.- Chapter 3. Frequency Response Analysis.- Chapter 4. Stability Analysis of Linear Control System.- Chapter 5. Root Locus Method for Analysis.- Chapter 6. Design of Compensators.- Chapter 7. State Space Modelling and Analysis.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Coordination Technology for Collaborative
Book SynopsisGiven the broad popularity of Internet technology, even in its present immature state, and also the recent progress made towards a human-centered view of information technology, the time now seems ripe to essentially extend the scope and power of enterprise information systems.This carefully arranged book concentrates on the relationships between coordination technology and business application requirements and introduces general elements of a cooperative infrastructure allowing for the construction of collaborative applications. It is essential reading for research and development professionals active in the area as well as for IT managers interested in applying this promising new technology in order to remain competitive in the future.Table of ContentsA perspective on technology-assisted collaboration.- Coordination in knowledge-intensive organizations.- Co-ordination of management activities — Mapping organisational structure to the decision structure.- A cooperative approach to distributed applications engineering.- Towards logic programming based coordination in virtual worlds.- Enhancement of creative aspects of a daily conversation with a topic development agent.- Coordinating human and computer agents.- Coordination in workflow management systems — A rule-based approach.- A framework and mathematical model for collaboration technology.- Practical experiences and requirements on workflow.- Coordination science: Challenges and directions.- Supporting autonomous work and reintegration in collaborative systems.- Workspace awareness for distributed teams.- GeM and WeBUSE: Towards a WWW-database interface.- Post-client/server coordination tools.- An experimental delay analysis for local audio video streams for desktop collaborations.- Supporting both client-server and peer-to-peer models in a framework of a distributed object management system.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications: 6th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th KES International Conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, KES-AMSTA 2012, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in June 2012. The conference attracted a substantial number of researchers and practitioners from all over the world who submitted their papers for ten main tracks covering the methodology and applications of agent and multi-agent systems, one workshop (TRUMAS 2012) and five special sessions on specific topics within the field. The 66 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on virtual organizations, knowledge and learning agents, intelligent workflow, cloud computing and intelligent systems, self-organization, ICT-based alternative and augmentative communication, multi-agent systems, mental and holonic models, assessment methodologies in multi-agent and other paradigms, business processing agents, Trumas 2012 (first international workshop), conversational agents and agent teams, digital economy, and multi-agent systems in distributed environments.
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