Digital and IT general topics Books

Book SynopsisGet the most out of your computer with our quick and easy 6-page laminated guide focusing on configuration and management of your system for you, with guidance for setting up and securing other users that may use your computer. Joan Lambert, author of multiple books on the Microsoft Office Suite, creator of many Lynda.com videos and an experienced corporate trainer used her experience and knowledge to cover the most relevant functions for users at different levels. Suggested uses: Workplace -- easy access at a moments notice to find a function you need to use; Company Training -- reduce help-desk calls and keep productivity flowing for a team or for your entire company; Family & Shared -- admin and set up secure family accounts to keep things separated while controlling time spent on the computer; Students/Teachers/Parents -- help with the learning curve in a classroom or at home; College Students -- make sure you are set-up, secure and using features that can make your life easier.

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Book SynopsisWhether you are a beginner or experienced user, learn about new features in this version or discover and use some of Word's functions for the first time. Joan Lambert, author of multiple books on the Microsoft Office Suite, creator of many Lynda.com videos and an experienced corporate trainer used her experience and knowledge to cover the most relevant functions for users at different levels. Suggested uses: Workplace -- flat for easy storage and access at a moments notice to find a function you need to use, or to jog your memory for a function you do not use often; Company Training -- reduce help-desk calls and keep productivity flowing for a team or for your entire company; Students/Teachers/Parents -- help with the learning curve in a classroom or for your child and any projects requiring Word; College Students -- make sure you are using features that can make your life easier.

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Book SynopsisStep up your presentation skills with our 6-page laminated guide, focusing on graphic features, animation, audio and a variety of ways presentations can be formatted and distributed. Joan Lambert, author of multiple books on the Microsoft Office Suite, creator of many Lynda.com videos and an experienced corporate trainer used her experience and knowledge to cover the most relevant functions for users at different levels. Also look for the PowerPoint 2016 QuickStudy for more general coverage of software use, then use the pair to become a power user that can create presentations that wow. Suggested uses: Workplace -- flat for easy storage and access at a moments notice to find a function you need to use, or to jog your memory for a function you do not use often; Company Training -- reduce help-desk calls and keep productivity flowing for a team or for your entire company; Students/Teachers/Parents -- help with the learning curve in a classroom or for your child and any projects requirin

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Book SynopsisFuzzy Logic really is about how the Internet and related technologies have infiltrated our daily lives, how it is changing established social patterns, eroding older technologies at a hugely accelerated rate. There is a social cost to this kind of change, and a personal sense of loss or melancholy. Friedman evokes this bittersweet feeling without wallowing in it. More importantly, Friedman, with considerable good humour, deflates some of the more egregious babblings of the techno-Messiahs who would have us believe that we have reached a digital state of grace. -- Mark Shainblum, Internet Quarterly

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Book SynopsisUnlock the Door to the Federal IT Marketplace Here’s your key to selling IT goods and services to the government. David Perera and Steve Charles present the ins and outs of successfully competing for—and winning—a share of the tens of billions of dollars the federal government spends each year on IT. Getting a piece of that business is not easy—it takes accurate knowledge of systems and procedures, as well as sharp insight into the structure and details of government procurement. The Inside Guide to the Federal IT Market penetrates the haze of jargon and apparent complexity to reveal the inner workings of the IT contracting process. Whether you’re just setting out or seek a bigger share, this comprehensive book provides valuable information you can put to immediate use. The Inside Guide to the Federal IT Market covers: • Technology standards • Basic contracting concepts • Advanced contracting concepts, such as getting on and staying on the GSA schedules • The effect of the federal budget process on the sales cycle • What you need to know about ethics to earn business fairly, without avoidable delays and hassle This book’s focus on the IT market makes it a unique reference on federal procurement for private companies. Government procurement personnel will also find the depth and breadth of coverage useful in reviewing and evaluating IT offerings.

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Book Synopsis1883884594Table of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition Introduction SECTION 1: Installation Chapter 1: Getting Up and Running SECTION 2: Operations Chapter 2: Powering Up and Down Chapter 3: Controlling the System Chapter 4: Subsystems Chapter 5: Working with Printed Output Chapter 6: Backup and Recovery Chapter 7: Operational Assistant Chapter 8: User Messages Chapter 9: Commands and System Help SECTION 3: Administration Chapter 10: iSeries Navigator Chapter 11: System Values Chapter 12: iSeries Access on i5 Chapter 13: Elements of Security and Configuration Chapter 14: Printing Chapter 15: Journaling and Commitment Control Chapter 16: Maintenance Chapter 17: Manuals Chapter 18: Upgrading to a New Release SECTION 4: System Architecture Chapter 19: Libraries, Objects, and Library Lists Chapter 20: Database and Device Files Chapter 21: Understanding the S/36 Environment SECTION 5: Programming Chapter 22: Data Description Specifications Chapter 23: Control Language Chapter 24: RPG IV Chapter 25: SQL on i5 and iSeries Chapter 26: JAVA on i5 and iSeries Chapter 27: Qshell Chapter 28: Sorting Data Chapter 29: IBM Utilities SECTION 6: The Internet Chapter 30: Putting the i5 on the Net Chapter 31: Programming with the HTTP Server SECTION 7: Troubleshooting Chapter 32: Basic Troubleshooting Chapter 33: Using ECS Chapter 34: Reporting Problems Chapter 35: PTF Management Glossary

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of case studies from a variety of industries to show how customer experience analytics (CEA) is reshaping business, this book explores the technologies available to help businesses create a competitive advantage and real-time relationship with customers. This book provides a program based in business values that appeal to senior management and a solution architecture that utilizes the fast, intelligent, and productive capabilities of CEA. Exploring the internet's impact on consumer power, this book reflects on the sophistication of business markets in multisupplier management, electronic gateways, and customer and product data across the supply hierarchy.

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Book SynopsisWritten by experts in the field, this indispensable guide provides a services-patterns approach to transforming IT infrastructures to a virtualized state to derive compelling business value for organizations. Thorough and informative, this account will demonstrate how businesses can become more productive in managing overall costs, more agile in provisioning new business services and improving time to market, more proactive in catering to rapidly changing business models and client demands, and more charged as an engine for fueling business growth.

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Book SynopsisProviding expert knowledge about the features in the new release of DB2 for z/OS, this extensive guide details the innovations of DB2 10’s SQL and pureXML enhancements—which increase productivity, enhance performance, and simplify application ports. DB2 for z/OS continues to be the undisputed leader in total system availability, scalability, security, and reliability at the lowest cost per transaction. This resource focuses on the features and functions of DB2 10 for IT, including improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs, as well as covering innovations in resiliency for business-critical information, rapid application and warehouse deployment for business growth, and enhanced business analytics and mathematical functions with QMF.

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Book SynopsisCelebrating the 30th anniversary of the first release of DB2, this book highlights the important milestones, capabilities, and impacts of the database management software for IBM s mainframe operating system. Special focus is given to IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, covering the key design and operational aspects that enable IBM DB2 for z/OS clients to benefit from faster performance, reduced CPU usage, and lower costs. The second half of the book discusses performance enhancements and cost-saving measures in the version 10 release and is rich with hints and tips for a successful upgrade. A special section on query performance and IBM DB2 Optimizer illustrates how DB2 10 addresses customer issues such as reducing total cost of ownership while maintaining stability and reliability. The final section is a collection of case studies in which DB2 10 for z/OS customers share their migration experiences and articulate the business benefits they are seeing since upgrading to the new release.

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Book SynopsisRoger E. Sanders, a leading DB2 author and an active participant in the development of DB2 certification exams, covers everything a reader needs to know to take and pass the DB2 10.5 DBA for LUW Upgrade from DB2 10.1 certification exam. This set of study notes takes the reader through each of the topics: DB2 server management; physical design; monitoring DB2 activity; high availability; and utilities. In addition, this book contains a complete practice exam with 60 questions, which closely models the actual 311 exam, along with a detailed answer key.

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Book SynopsisDigital practices are shaped by graphical representations that appear on the computer screen, which is the principal surface for designing, visualizing, and interacting with digital information. Before any digital image or graphical interface is rendered on the screen there is a series of layers that affect its visual properties. To discover such processes it is necessary to investigate software applications, graphical user interfaces, programming languages and code, algorithms, data structures, and data types in their relationship with graphical outcomes and design possibilities. This book studies interfaces as images and images as interfaces. It offers a comprehensible framework to study graphical representations of visual information. It explores the relationship between visual information and its graphical supports, taking into account contributions from fields of visual computing. Graphical supports are considered as material but also as formal aspects underlying the representation of digital images on the digital screen. Table of Contents1. Describing Images. 2. Describing Graphical Information. 3. Practicing Image-Interfaces. 4. Designing Image-Interfaces. 5. Prototyping Image-Interfaces.

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Book SynopsisThis book will examine the issues of IoT according to three complementary axes: technique, use, ethics. The techniques used to produce artefacts (physical objects, infrastructures), programs (algorithms, software) and data (Big data, linked data, metadata, ontologies) are the subject of many innovations as the field of IoT is rich and stimulating. Along with this technological boom, IoT uses colonize new fields of application in the fields of transport, administration, housing, maintenance, health, sports, well-being. ... Privileged interface with digital ecosystems now at the heart of social exchanges, the IoT develops a power to act whose consequences both good and bad make it difficult to assess a fair business.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiImad Saleh, Mehdi Ammi and Samuel Szoniecky Chapter 1 Internet of Things (IoT): Concepts, Issues, Challenges and Perspectives 1Imad Saleh 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 The connected object (CO) 2 1.3 Internet of Things: definition 3 1.3.1 Applications 5 1.4 Steps and technologies in the IoT ecosystem 5 1.4.1 IoT architecture 6 1.5 From the IoT to the Internet of Everything (IoE) 9 1.6 IoT and Big Data 10 1.7 Cloud computing applied to Big Data and the IoT 13 1.8 Data science and the IoT 13 1.9 Stakes and challenges of the IoT 14 1.9.1 Technological challenges 14 1.9.2 Societal challenges 15 1.9.3 Environmental challenges 16 1.9.4 Confidence in the IoT 16 1.9.5 Challenges for businesses 16 1.9.6 Challenges for researchers 17 1.10 Opportunities and threats in the IoT ecosystem 17 1.11 IoT security 18 1.12 Blockchain and the IoT 20 1.12.1 Definition 20 1.12.2 Operation 20 1.12.3 Applications 22 1.13 Conclusion 22 1.14 References 24 Chapter 2 Deep Learning Approach of Raw Human Activity Data 27Hamdi Amroun, M’Hamed (Hamy) Temkit and Mehdi Ammi 2.1 Introduction 27 2.2 State of the art 29 2.3 Experimental configuration 33 2.4 Analysis of the activity 34 2.4.1 Neural network architecture 34 2.5 Results 41 2.6 Discussion 42 2.7 Conclusion 44 2.8 References 44 Chapter 3 Study and Development of a Smart Cup for Monitoring Post-stroke Patientsʼ Activities at Home 53Mehdi Ammi, Mehdi Boukallel, Margarita Anastassova, Hamdi Amroun and Maxence Bobin 3.1 Introduction 53 3.2 Related work 55 3.2.1 Upper limbs motor assessment tools 55 3.2.2 New platforms for stroke assessment 56 3.2.3 Activity analysis and monitoring 56 3.2.4 Tasks and rehabilitation exercises for strokes 57 3.3 Design concept 58 3.3.1 Task identification 58 3.3.2 Monitored information 59 3.3.3 Sensory feedback 61 3.4 Implementation of the prototype 61 3.4.1 Grasping force detection 62 3.4.2 Liquid level detection 62 3.4.3 Orientation detection 63 3.4.4 Relative position detection 63 3.5 Data processing 64 3.5.1 Orientation calculation 64 3.5.2 Tremor detection 65 3.5.3 Activity recognition 67 3.6 Planned studies 72 3.6.1 Studies with therapists 72 3.6.2 Studies with patients 72 3.7 Conclusion and perspectives 72 3.8 References 73 Chapter 4 Enabling Fast-prototyping of Connected Things using the WiNo* Family 77Adrien Van Den Bossche, Réjane Dalcé and Thierry Val 4.1 Introduction 77 4.2 Context 79 4.3 State of the art 80 4.4 Introducing the WiNo* family 85 4.4.1 WiNoRF22 and TeensyWiNo 87 4.4.2 WiNoLoRa 89 4.4.3 DecaWiNo 90 4.4.4 Summary of WiNo nodes 92 4.5 Results and examples of use 93 4.5.1 WiNo and TeensyWiNo 93 4.5.2 WiNoLoRa 97 4.5.3 DecaWiNo 98 4.5.4 Summary and comparative analysis 99 4.6 Conclusion and outlook 100 4.7 Acknowledgments 101 4.8 References 101 Chapter 5 Multi-standard Receiver for Medical IoT Sensor Networks 105Tarak Arbi and Benoit Geller 5.1 Introduction 105 5.2 General context 106 5.2.1 OFDM 106 5.2.2 Characteristics of IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac standards 107 5.3 The IEEE 802.15.6 standard 109 5.3.1 The WBAN frame 110 5.3.2 Specificities of the WBAN physical layer 111 5.4 Physical layer design 114 5.4.1 Frame synchronization 114 5.4.2 Frequency synchronization 115 5.4.3 Time synchronization 117 5.5 Simulation results 118 5.6 Conclusion 120 5.7 References 120 Chapter 6 Ambient Atoms: a Device for Ambient Information Visualization 123Sébastien Crouzy, Stan Borkowski and Sabine Coquillart 6.1 Introduction 123 6.2 Previous research 125 6.2.1 Dedicated ambient displays that do not integrate a display screen 125 6.2.2 Generic ambient displays that do not include a display screen 126 6.3 Ambient Atoms: user’s point of view 126 6.4 Ambient Atoms: hardware and software components 127 6.4.1 Hardware: microcontroller 127 6.4.2 Hardware: LEDs 128 6.4.3 Software 129 6.5 Ambient Atoms: prototype applied to the housing information visualization 130 6.6 Future research and conclusion 133 6.7 Acknowledgments 134 6.8 References 134 Chapter 7 New Robust Protocol for IoV Communications 137Lylia Alouache, Nga Nguyen, Makhlouf Aliouat and Rachid Chelouah 7.1 Introduction 137 7.2 Latest developments 138 7.2.1 Architecture of the IoV 138 7.2.2 Communication obstacles 139 7.2.3 Related work 140 7.3 Multi-criterion routing protocol 145 7.3.1 Applications and services 146 7.3.2 Multi-criterion routing protocols in IoV communications 148 7.4 Conclusion and perspectives 159 7.5 References 161 Chapter 8 Interconnected Virtual Space and Theater: A Research–Creation Project on Theatrical Performance Space in the Network Era 165Georges Gagneré, Cédric Plessiet and Rémy Sohier 8.1 Introduction 165 8.2 A multidisciplinary experiment involving live performance and digital art 166 8.2.1 Defining avatar and mocaptor 166 8.2.2 System description 167 8.2.3 From Kinect to Perception Neuron: a new mobility 168 8.3 Acting relationship between the mocaptor and the avatar 170 8.3.1 Controlling the avatar’s spatial disposition 170 8.3.2 The mocaptor’s reference space: the Ninja Theory example 171 8.3.3 A closer look at the articulation of the reference spaces 173 8.3.4 Mobility of the mocaptor in their performance space 174 8.4 From mocaptor to avatar from a technical perspective 175 8.4.1 Two-stage motion retargeting 175 8.4.2 Avatar movement: combination of multiple sources 177 8.4.3 Combination with independent behavior: pathfinding 179 8.4.4 An architecture oriented toward interconnected objects 181 8.5 A practical application that raises new questions 183 8.5.1 New experimentation spaces for actors, directors and digital artists 183 8.5.2 The problem of visual composition for augmented scenes 184 8.5.3 Redefining the role of the digital artist 187 8.6 Conclusion 188 8.7 References 188 Chapter 9 Mobile Telephones and Mobile Health: a Societal Question Under Debate in the Public Domain 191Brigitte Juanals 9.1 Introduction 191 9.2 An interdisciplinary activity sector and field of research: between connected health and connected well-being 193 9.3 “Boundary objects”, socioeconomic strategies and innovative forms of sociotechnical mediation in equipped mobility 196 9.4 Mobile health-care service access systems: toward intermediation or disintermediation? 198 9.5 Forms of regulation of mobile health-care access: a legal, technical and sociopolitical issue under debate 204 9.6 Conclusion and new avenues of research 210 9.7 References 211 Chapter 10 Modeling Power to Act for an Ethics of the Internet of Things 215Samuel Szoniecky 10.1 Introduction 215 10.2 Principles of ethical modelling 216 10.2.1 Theoretical principles 217 10.2.2 Graphic principles 218 10.3 Calculating the complexity of an ecosystem 228 10.3.1 Existential complexity 228 10.3.2 Comparing the complexity of points of view 231 10.4 Automatic ecosystem enrichment 235 10.4.1 Constitution of raw data corpus 235 10.4.2 Transformation of raw data 238 10.5 Conclusion 241 10.6 References 243 List of Authors 247 Index 249

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Book SynopsisThis book presents statistical models that have recently been developed within several research communities to access information contained in text collections. The problems considered are linked to applications aiming at facilitating information access: - information extraction and retrieval; - text classification and clustering; - opinion mining; - comprehension aids (automatic summarization, machine translation, visualization). In order to give the reader as complete a description as possible, the focus is placed on the probability models used in the applications concerned, by highlighting the relationship between models and applications and by illustrating the behavior of each model on real collections. Textual Information Access is organized around four themes: informational retrieval and ranking models, classification and clustering (regression logistics, kernel methods, Markov fields, etc.), multilingualism and machine translation, and emerging applications such as information exploration. Contents Part 1: Information Retrieval 1. Probabilistic Models for Information Retrieval, Stéphane Clinchant and Eric Gaussier. 2. Learnable Ranking Models for Automatic Text Summarization and Information Retrieval, Massih-Réza Amini, David Buffoni, Patrick Gallinari,
 Tuong Vinh Truong and Nicolas Usunier. Part 2: Classification and Clustering 3. Logistic Regression and Text Classification, Sujeevan Aseervatham, Eric Gaussier, Anestis Antoniadis,
 Michel Burlet and Yves Denneulin. 4. Kernel Methods for Textual Information Access, Jean-Michel Renders. 5. Topic-Based Generative Models for Text 
Information Access, Jean-Cédric Chappelier. 6. Conditional Random Fields for Information Extraction, Isabelle Tellier and Marc Tommasi. Part 3: Multilingualism 7. Statistical Methods for Machine Translation, Alexandre Allauzen and François Yvon. Part 4: Emerging Applications 8. Information Mining: Methods and Interfaces for Accessing Complex Information, Josiane Mothe, Kurt Englmeier and Fionn Murtagh. 9. Opinion Detection as a Topic Classification Problem, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Marc El-Bèze, Patrice Bellot and
 Fréderic Béchet.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiii Eric Gaussier and François Yvon PART 1: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 1 Chapter 1. Probabilistic Models for Information Retrieval 3 Stéphane Clinchant and Eric Gaussier 1.1. Introduction 3 1.3. Probability ranking principle (PRP) 10 1.4. Language models 15 1.5. Informational approaches 21 1.6. Experimental comparison 27 1.7. Tools for information retrieval 28 1.8. Conclusion 28 1.9. Bibliography 29 Chapter 2. Learnable Ranking Models for Automatic Text Summarization and Information Retrieval 33 Massih-Réza Amini, David Buffoni, Patrick Gallinari, Tuong Vinh Truong, and Nicolas Usunier 2.1. Introduction 33 2.2. Application to automatic text summarization 45 2.3. Application to information retrieval 49 2.4. Conclusion 54 2.5. Bibliography 54 PART 2: CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING 59 Chapter 3. Logistic Regression and Text Classification 61 Sujeevan Aseervatham, Eric Gaussier, Anestis Antoniadis,Michel Burlet, and Yves Denneulin 3.1. Introduction 61 3.2. Generalized linear model62 3.3. Parameter estimation 65 3.4. Logistic regression 68 3.5. Model selection 70 3.6. Logistic regression applied to text classification 74 3.7. Conclusion 81 3.8. Bibliography 82 Chapter 4. Kernel Methods for Textual Information Access 85 Jean-Michel Renders 4.1. Kernel methods: context and intuitions 85 4.2. General principles of kernel methods 88 4.3. General problems with kernel choices (kernel engineering) 95 4.4. Kernel versions of standard algorithms: examples of solvers 97 4.5. Kernels for text entities 103 4.6. Summary 123 4.7. Bibliography 124 Chapter 5. Topic-Based Generative Models for Text Information Access 129 Jean-Cédric Chappelier 5.1. Introduction 129 5.2. Topic-based models 135 5.3. Topic models 142 5.4. Term models 161 5.5. Similarity measures between documents 164 5.6. Conclusion 168 5.7. Appendix: topic model software 169 5.8. Bibliography 170 Chapter 6. Conditional Random Fields for Information Extraction 179 Isabelle Tellier and Marc Tommasi 6.1. Introduction 179 6.2. Information extraction 180 6.3. Machine learning for information extraction 184 6.4. Introduction to conditional random fields 187 6.5. Conditional random fields 193 6.6. Conditional random fields and their applications 203 6.7. Conclusion 214 6.8. Bibliography 215 PART 3: MULTILINGUALISM 221 Chapter 7. Statistical Methods for Machine Translation 223 Alexandre Allauzen and François Yvon 7.1. Introduction 223 7.2. Probabilistic machine translation: an overview 227 7.3. Phrase-based models 235 7.4. Modeling reorderings 250 7.5. Translation: a search problem 259 7.6. Evaluating machine translation 272 7.7. State-of-the-art and recent developments 279 7.8. Useful resources 287 7.9. Conclusion 289 7.10. Acknowledgments 291 7.11. Bibliography 291 PART 4: EMERGING APPLICATIONS 305 Chapter 8. Information Mining: Methods and Interfaces for Accessing Complex Information 307 Josiane Mothe, Kurt Englmeier, and Fionn Murtagh 8.1. Introduction 307 8.2. The multidimensional visualization of information 309 8.3. Domain mapping via social networks 320 8.4. Analyzing the variability of searches and data merging 323 8.5. The seven types of evaluation measures used in IR 327 8.6. Conclusion 331 8.7. Acknowledgments 332 8.8. Bibliography 332 Chapter 9. Opinion Detection as a Topic Classification Problem 337 Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Marc El-Bèze, Patrice Bellot, and Fréderic Béchet 9.1. Introduction 337 9.2. The TREC and TAC evaluation campaigns 339 9.3. Cosine weights - a second glance 347 9.4. Which components for a opinion vectors? 348 9.5. Experiments 352 9.6. Extracting opinions from speech: automatic analysis of phone polls 357 9.7. Conclusion 365 9.8. Bibliography 366 Appendix A. Probabilistic Models: An Introduction 369 François Yvon A.1. Introduction 369 A.2. Supervised categorization 370 A.3. Unsupervised learning: the multinomial mixture model 384 A.4. Markov models: statistical models for sequences 391 A.5. Hidden Markov models 397 A.6. Conclusion 410 A.7. A primer of probability theory 411 A.8. Bibliography 420 List of Authors 423 Index 425

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Book SynopsisToday, huge quantities of digital audiovisual resources are already available – everywhere and at any time – through Web portals, online archives and libraries, and video blogs. One central question with respect to this huge amount of audiovisual data is how they can be used in specific (social, pedagogical, etc.) contexts and what are their potential interest for target groups (communities, professionals, students, researchers, etc.). This book examines the question of the (creative) exploitation of digital audiovisual archives from a theoretical, methodological, technical and practical point of view, especially in three main directions of work: - The repurposing and republishing of existing audiovisual data. - The building of community-centric audiovisual archives. - The use of digital social media and Web 2 technology for the diffusion and sharing of audiovisual content. This book presents a series of concrete examples of creative uses of digital audiovisual corpora for education, research and cultural heritage preservation and valorization.Table of ContentsIntroduction xi PART 1: ANALYSIS, REWRITINGS AND REPUBLICATIONS 1 Chapter 1. Analyzing an Audiovisual Corpus of A Thousand and One Nights 3 Muriel CHEMOUNY 1.1. Introduction 3 1.2. Creating a thematic educational dossier based on A Thousand and One Nights 6 1.3. Perspectives: ASWs and new forms of digital writing 18 Chapter 2. Analyzing a Corpus of Traditional Bread Making 21 Elisabeth DE PABLO 2.1. Introduction 21 2.2. Creating educational dossiers to raise public awareness 23 2.3. Creating a communication dossier for improving cultural events 36 Chapter 3. Republishing Audiovisual Resources 41 Peter STOCKINGER and Elisabeth DE PABLO 3.1. Introduction 41 3.2. Breakdown of the (re)publication process according to genre 44 3.3. “Rerecording” audiovisual texts 47 3.4. Interactive video books 50 3.5. Thematic folders 53 3.6. Educational folders 56 3.7. Narrative path 59 PART 2: AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL HERITAGE 61 Chapter 4. An Archive on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Andean Populations in Peru and Bolivia 63 Valérie LEGRAND-GALARZA 4.1. Introduction 63 4.2. Scientific methodology and ethical and participative approaches 65 4.3. The Andean intangible cultural heritage portal 75 4.4. Interests and perspectives of the project 89 4.5. Conclusion 102 Chapter 5. An Audiovisual Azerbaijani Cultural Heritage Portal for Educational and Academic Use 105 Aygun EYYUBOVA 5.1. Introduction 105 5.2. Disseminating and transmitting cultural heritages via the Internet 107 5.3. Aims of creating an Azerbaijani cultural heritage portal (AACHP) in the ASA-SHS project 110 5.4. Principal aspects of cultural heritage approach in developing an Azerbaijani cultural heritage portal (AACH)111 5.5. Analyzing audiovisual corpora for AACH in ASA 118 5.6. Applications for the AACH portal and the ASW environment 135 5.7. Conclusion: advantages, benefits and perspectives 137 PART 3: SOCIAL NETWORKS, WEB 2.0 AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION 139 Chapter 6. Academic Communication via Facebook and Twitter 141 Jirasri DESLIS 6.1. Introduction 141 6.2. The ArkWork portal 142 6.3. Facebook for sharing various types of information 145 6.4. Twitter as a means of publicizing short information 157 Chapter 7. Uses for Digital Content Sharing Platforms 169 Jirasri DESLIS 7.1. Introduction 169 7.2. Flickr 170 7.3. Twitpic 172 7.4. ArkWork on YouTube 173 7.5. ArkWork on Dailymotion 181 7.6. ArkWork on Vimeo 183 7.7. Nomadic approaches: mobile communication for sharing academic content 184 Chapter 8. Uses for Content Aggregators and Community Networks 189 Jirasri DESLIS 8.1. Netvibes, a content aggregator 189 8.2. Pearltrees, a content curation platform 196 8.3. Sharing information on community portals: the Louvre Community portal (communauté.louvre.fr) 199 8.4. Conclusion 207 Chapter 9. Tracing Video Usage: The Potential of VDI 209 Francis LEMAITRE and Valérie LEGRAND-GALARZA 9.1. Introduction 209 9.2. Presentation of the scenario 211 9.3. Walkthrough 227 9.4. Conclusion 244 Glossary of Specialized Terms 247 Peter STOCKINGER Glossary of the Acronyms and Names 271 Peter STOCKINGER Bibliography 291 List of Authors 297 Index 299

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Book SynopsisThis book is about complexity in Information Systems (IS). The subject is addressed from both conceptual and applied perspectives. Concepts are drawn from information theory, industrial design and software engineering. Its content capitalizes on experiences gathered by the authors during various contracting jobs involving software architecture, modeling and IS architecture that were conducted for large organizations in the banking and industry sectors, as well as in the public sector. The authors develop the point of view according to which mastering complexity involves two essential steps: first, one should develop a clear understanding of the real nature of complexity within the IS; second, one should identify the primary causes which contribute to its uncontrolled growth and organize these into a logical framework, in order to define efficient countermeasures. Both technical and psychological causes of complexity are to be considered. Two themes make up the main thread of the book: complexity and value. Both themes are quite common when considered separately, but their interplay remains a largely unexplored topic. The analysis of this interplay is one of the sources of originality of this book.Table of ContentsForeword xi Pascal GROJEAN Preface xv Chapter 1. Why Simplicity? 1 1.1. Solving conflicting requirements 1 1.2. Three periods in IS management 5 1.3. And now … simplicity! 10 1.4. Plan of the book 13 Chapter 2. Complexity, Simplicity, and Abstraction 17 2.1. What does information theory tell us? 17 2.2. What does the design tell us? 33 Chapter 3. Value or Values? 77 3.1. Who is concerned? 79 3.2. Concepts of value for an IS 80 3.3. Are these values sufficient and independent? 90 Chapter 4. Promoting Value Through Simplicity 97 4.1. Growing technical heterogeneity 100 4.2. Changing requirements 121 4.3. Human factors 131 Chapter 5. Simplicity Best Practices 149 5.1. Putting simplicity principles into practice 149 5.2. Defining a generic IS 149 5.3. A simplicity framework 152 Conclusion 173 APPENDICES 177 Appendix 1. Digging into Information Theory 179 Appendix 2. Two Measures of Code Complexity 195 Appendix 3. Why Has SOA Failed So Often? 207 Bibliography 219 Index 221

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Book SynopsisToday, cyber security, cyber defense, information warfare and cyber warfare issues are among the most relevant topics both at the national and international level. All the major states of the world are facing cyber threats and trying to understand how cyberspace could be used to increase power. Through an empirical, conceptual and theoretical approach, Cyber Conflict has been written by researchers and experts in the fields of cyber security, cyber defense and information warfare. It aims to analyze the processes of information warfare and cyber warfare through historical, operational and strategic perspectives of cyber attack. It is original in its delivery because of its multidisciplinary approach within an international framework, with studies dedicated to different states – Canada, Cuba, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Slovenia and South Africa – describing the state’s application of information warfare principles both in terms of global development and “local” usage and examples. Contents 1. Canada’s Cyber Security Policy: a Tortuous Path Toward a Cyber Security Strategy, Hugo Loiseau and Lina Lemay. 2. Cuba: Towards an Active Cyber-defense, Daniel Ventre. 3. French Perspectives on Cyber-conflict, Daniel Ventre. 4. Digital Sparta: Information Operations and Cyber-warfare in Greece, Joseph Fitsanakis. 5. Moving Toward an Italian Cyber Defense and Security Strategy, Stefania Ducci. 6. Cyberspace in Japan’s New Defense Strategy, Daniel Ventre. 7. Singapore’s Encounter with Information Warfare: Filtering Electronic Globalization and Military Enhancements, Alan Chong. 8. A Slovenian Perspective on Cyber Warfare, Gorazd Praprotnik, Iztok Podbregar, Igor Bernik and Bojan Ticar. 9. A South African Perspective on Information Warfare and Cyber Warfare, Brett van Niekerk and Manoj Maharaj. 10. Conclusion, Daniel VentreTable of ContentsIntroduction xi Chapter 1. Canada’s Cyber Security Policy: a Tortuous Path Toward a Cyber Security Strategy 1 Hugo LOISEAU and Lina LEMAY 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. Canada in North America: sovereign but subordinate? 4 1.3. Counter-terrorism for the improvement of national security 13 1.4. The long path to a national CI protection strategy and national cyber security strategy 25 1.5. The adoption of the current strategies for CI protection and cyber security 31 1.6. Conclusion 37 1.7. Bibliography 38 Chapter 2. Cuba: Towards an Active Cyber-defense 45 Daniel VENTRE 2.1. Cyberspace: statistics and history 47 2.2. Theoretical and practical considerations on information warfare and cyber-warfare 54 2.3. Cyber-warfare theories and practices 56 2.4. Regulations and ways around them 60 2.5. Capabilities of control, surveillance and interception 65 2.6. Enemies 66 2.7. Conclusion 70 2.8. Bibliography 73 Chapter 3. French Perspectives on Cyber-conflict 77 Daniel VENTRE 3.1. Cyberspace 79 3.2. Assessments, view on the world and awakening 88 3.3. Reaction, position of France and choice: theories, political strategies and military doctrines 100 3.4. Conclusion 127 3.5. Bibliography 131 Chapter 4. Digital Sparta: Information Operations and Cyber-warfare in Greece 135 Joseph FITSANAKIS 4.1. Geopolitical significance 136 4.2. Strategic concerns and internal balancing 139 4.3. Formative experiences in information operations: the Ergenekon conspiracy 141 4.4. Formative experiences in information operations: intensifying cyber-attacks 142 4.5. Formative experiences in information operations: the Öcalan affair 143 4.6. Formative experiences in information operations: the Greek wiretapping case of 2004–2005 145 4.7. Emerging civilian information operations strategies 148 4.8. Emerging military information operations strategies 152 4.9. The European Union dimension in Greek information operations 155 4.10. Conclusion 156 4.11. Bibliography 158 Chapter 5. Moving Toward an Italian Cyber Defense and Security Strategy 165 Stefania DUCCI 5.1. Information warfare and cyber warfare: what are they? 165 5.2. Understanding the current Italian geopolitical context 168 5.3. The Italian legal and organizational framework 172 5.4. The need for a national cyber-defense and -security strategy 177 5.5. Conclusion 188 5.6. Bibliography 188 Chapter 6. Cyberspace in Japan’s New Defense Strategy 193 Daniel VENTRE 6.1. Japan’s defense policy 194 6.2. Cyberspace in Japan’s defense strategy 197 6.3. Conclusion 217 6.4. Bibliography 221 Chapter 7. Singapore’s Encounter with Information Warfare: Filtering Electronic Globalization and Military Enhancements 223 Alan CHONG 7.1. Singapore: electronic globalization and its pitfalls 225 7.2. Cyberdefence in the private sector and society at large 228 7.3. The Singapore Armed Forces and the embrace of third-generation warfare 235 7.4. Conclusion 245 7.5. Bibliography 247 Chapter 8. A Slovenian Perspective on Cyber Warfare 251 Gorazd PRAPROTNIK, Iztok PODBREGAR, Igor BERNIK and Bojan TIÈAR 8.1. Introduction 251 8.2. Preparations for digital warfare 254 8.3. Specifics of technologically-advanced small countries 256 8.4. Geostrategic, geopolitics and the economic position of the Republic of Slovenia 258 8.5. Information and communication development in Slovenia 259 8.6. Cyber-threats in Slovenia 261 8.7. Slovenia in the field of information and communication security policy 264 8.8. Slovenia’s information and communication security policy strategy 266 8.9. Conclusion 274 8.10. Bibliography 276 Chapter 9. A South African Perspective on Information Warfare and Cyber Warfare 279 Brett VAN NIEKERK and Manoj MAHARAJ 9.1. The South African structure of information warfare 280 9.2. A South African perspective on cyber-warfare 283 9.3. The Southern African cyber-environment 284 9.4. Legislation 288 9.5. Cyber-security and information warfare organizations in South Africa 289 9.6. Estimated cyber-warfare capability in Africa 290 9.7. Conclusion 291 9.8. Bibliography 292 Chapter 10. Conclusion 297 Daniel VENTRE 10.1. Cyberspace 301 10.2. Bibliography 306 List of Authors 307 Index 309

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