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Book SynopsisIs the Unified Process the be all and end all standard for developing object-oriented component-based software? This book is the final in a four volume series that presents a critical review of the Unified Process. The authors present a survey of the alteTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Introduction Chapter 2: Deployment2.1 Best Practices for the Deployment Workflow 2.2 The Articles Chapter 3: Test 3.1 Best Practices for the Test Workflow 3.2 The Articles Chapter 4: Project Management 4.1 Best Practices for the Project Management Workflow 4.2 The Articles Chapter 5: Operations and Support 5.1 Best Practices for the Operations and Support Workflow 5.2 The Articles Chapter 6: Infrastructure Management 6.1 Best Practices for the Infrastructure Management Workflow 6.2 The Articles Chapter 7: Beyond the Unified Process — Agile Software Processes7.1 Towards Agility 7.2 Agile Software Processes 7.3 The Articles Chapter 8: Parting Words 8.1 Scott’s Really Bad Zen Poetry

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Book SynopsisWork smarter with authorizations! Have you ever had an unauthorized user access something in your system that you could have sworn was off limits? Here you go: SAP PRESS equips you with ""100 Things"" that unlock the secrets of managing your security and authorizations in SAP.The tips are grouped together based on the area of authorizations they cover, such as development security, Profile Generator, upgrades, and more. They have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. An invaluable resource to support you in your SAP administration duties! Highlights: User master records Development security Profile Generator Segregation of duties Upgrades Auditing Security templates Continuous Compliance and Governance Table of Contents Acknowledgments PART 1 User Master Records Displaying the Technical Names of Transactions in the SAP Easy Access Menu en Masse Improving Your User Master Record Accuracy with Hidden Fields Defining an SAP User ID Naming Convention to Manage User Master Records Using BAPIs to Help Mass-Maintain the User Master Record Customizing the Rules for Automatically Generated Passwords During User Creation Finding and Using User Parameters to Prepopulate Transactional Fields Improving Your Business Reporting through User Groups Working with Inactive Users Customizing SAP and User Menus through the Session Manager Assigning Roles through an Organization Structure without SAP HCM Deployed Constraining Organization Structure Visibility through an HR Personnel Development Profile Automatically Maintaining Structural Authorizations Linking User Master Records to HR Data Performing Mass Changes for Users and Roles in Java Displaying Authorization Errors in Transaction Log SU53 for Different Users Customizing Users' Selection en Masse Mass-Changing Secure Network Communications Data for SSO User Mapping PART 2 Development Security Validating Your ABAP Code before Moving into the Production System Archiving and Restoring a User's Favorites Displaying the Security Data Dictionary Definition with the Object Navigator Finding Vulnerability Strings in Your ABAP Code Creating a Transaction Variant to Restrict User Activities Finding Authorization Object Documentation Searching for Values and Definitions in ABAP Data Dictionary Tables Mass-Exporting Query User Group Information Managing an Authorization Check in the Transaction Header Restricting a User's Access to Called Transactions Managing Customizing Tables in a Production System Analyzing Your Security System to Keep it Updated Using Parameter Transactions to Avoid Giving Direct Tables/Programs Access to End Users Discovering Maintenance Customizing Transactions with a Table Name PART 3 Profile Generator Finding Roles That Contain Transactions at the Menu Level Permanently Enable the Technical Name View in Transaction PFCG's Authorization Tree Creating a Sustainable Authorization Roles Naming Convention Evaluating the Manual or Modified Authorization Status during Profile Generator Maintenance Creating an SAP_ALL Display-Only Role Maintaining an Aligned Set of Job Roles with a Naming Convention Designing and Assigning a Basic Role to All Users Maintaining Derived Roles to Improve Authorization Maintenance Discovering Misalignment between Transactions by Downloading Data to Spreadsheets Finding Misinterpreted Authorization Wildcards in Your Roles Performing Mass Downloads and Uploads of Standard Authorization Values Setting Up Mass Adjustments for Derived Roles Troubleshooting Authorization Problems for Users Customizing Your Tree Menu Settings to Avoid Duplicate Structures Automatically Populating the Authorization Objects Transaction Link When Performing a Developer Trace Adjusting Query Maintenance to Avoid Security Problems Cleaning Up Unused Batch Jobs Setting Up Authorizations to Allow Internet Service Avoiding Security Holes during SAP Menu Role Maintenance Changing the Rules to Generate Profile Names Comparing Authorization Roles to Check for Alignment Between Systems Replacing the Parent Role of a Derived Role en Masse Generating Large Quantities of Profiles for Roles in a Single Transaction Using SAP BAPIs to Manage Roles with an External Program Using Manual Composite Profiles to Bypass the Profile Technical Limit of 312 Using Parameter IDs and Customizing Transactions to Manage Authorizations Removing Expired User-Role Links Filtering Roles by Their Status PART 4 Segregation of Duties Tailoring Your Ad-Hoc Analysis by Using Custom Groups in RAR and ARA Modifying Your Selection Criteria for User/Roles Analysis in SAP GRC 10.0 Clustering Data to Enhance Your RAR Reporting for Easier Consumption Performing a User Impact Risk Analysis Setting Selection Criteria for the Web Interface as a Default Value Defining a Firefighter User ID Naming Method Using Organizational-Level Mapping in Business Role Management to Improve Role Derivation Using Business Role Management to Define Business Roles in Place of Composite Roles Setting Up Data Segregation in SAP GRC ARA Keeping Your Mitigation Tables Clean and Accurate with the Invalid Mitigation Report PART 5 Upgrades Making Your Roles Compliant with Transaction SU25 Deciding How to Set Up Your Authorization Upgrade Managing Derived Roles during an Upgrade Converting a Manually Created Profile into a Role Avoid Maintaining a Role's Authorization Tree Twice When New Transaction Codes Are Added Identifying New Transactions in a Role's Menu Communicating Password Requirement Changes During SAP Upgrades PART 6 Auditing Searching for Roles or Users Using Transaction SUIM with Asterisk Searching Using the Security Audit Log to Manage Your Super Users' Access Changing the Classification of an Audit Log Message Configuring the SAP System to Log Activity in the Security Structure Activating Table Tracing to Log the Details of Changes Made Viewing All Instances of Profile Parameters Identifying Alias Transactions to Eliminate Unauthorized System Access Finding a Specific User Who Has Made Changes to Values Identifying Query Changes Protecting and Auditing Your Remote Function Call PART 7 Security Templates Using a Spreadsheet to Collect Authorization Data Defining a Template for Gathering and Defining Your Job Role Data Defining a Template for Gathering the Organizational Constraints of Job Role Data Defining a Template for Gathering the Nonorganizational Constraints of Job Role Data Using Pivot Tables and Authorization Reports to Customize Data for the Reader PART 8 Continuous Compliance and Governance Defining Data for User Revalidation Revalidating Roles and Providing Documentation for Analysis Making Sure Users Are Assigned Only to the Roles and Transactions They Use Using Indirect Role Assignment to Simplify User Maintenance and Reporting Defining Business Owners Finding Misalignments between Organizational-Level Pop-Ups and Authorization Data in Derived Roles Finding Manually Created Authorizations in a Role's Authorization Tree Substituting SAP Queries with Specific Transaction Codes Using a Query to Find Manually Created Authorizations and Convert them to Roles Additional Resources Index

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Book SynopsisA flood of data means that many of the challenges in biology are now challenges in computing. Bioinformatics, the application of computational techniques to analyse the information associated with biomolecules on a large-scale, has now firmly established itself as a discipline in molecular biology, and encompasses a wide range of subject areas from structural biology, genomics to gene expression studies. In this text we provide an introduction and overview of the current state of the field. We discuss the main principles that underpin bioinformatics analyses, look at the types of biological information and databases that are commonly used, and finally examine some of the studies that are being conducted, particularly with reference to transcription regulatory systems. The aims of bioinformatics are threefold. First, at its simplest bioinformatics organises data in a way that allows researchers to access existing information and to submit new entries as they are produced, e.g. the Protein Data Bank for 3D macromolecular structures . While data-curation is an essential task, the information stored in these databases is essentially useless until analysed. Thus the purpose of bioinformatics extends much further. The second aim is to develop tools and resources that aid in the analysis of data. For example, having sequenced a particular protein, it is of interest to compare it with previously characterised sequences. This needs more than just a simple text-based search and programs such as FASTA and PSI-BLAST must consider what comprises a biologically significant match. Development of such resources dictates expertise in computational theory as well as a thorough understanding of biology. The third aim is to use these tools to analyse the data and interpret the results in a biologically meaningful manner. Traditionally, biological studies examined individual systems in detail, and frequently compared them with a few that are related. In bioinformatics, we can now conduct global analyses of all the available data with the aim of uncovering common principles that apply across many systems and highlight novel feature.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the different challenges of secure processor architecture design for architects working in industry who want to add security features to their designs as well as graduate students interested in research on architecture and hardware security.It educates readers about how the different challenges have been solved in the past and what are the best practices, i.e., the principles, for design of new secure processor architectures. Based on the careful review of past work by many computer architects and security researchers, readers also will come to know the five basic principles needed for secure processor architecture design. The book also presents existing research challenges and potential new research directions. Finally, it presents numerous design suggestions, as well as discussing pitfalls and fallacies that designers should avoid.With growing interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in today's processors has increased significantly over the recent years. No longer of just academic interest, security features inside processors have been embraced by industry as well, with a number of commercial secure processor architectures available today. This book gives readers insights into the principles behind the design of academic and commercial secure processor architectures. Secure processor architecture research is concerned with exploring and designing hardware features inside computer processors, features which can help protect confidentiality and integrity of the code and data executing on the processor. Unlike traditional processor architecture research that focuses on performance, efficiency, and energy as the first-order design objectives, secure processor architecture design has security as the first-order design objective (while still keeping the others as important design aspects that need to be considered).Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Basic Computer Security Concepts Secure Processor Architectures Trusted Execution Environments Hardware Root of Trust Memory Protections Multiprocessor and Many-Core Protections Side-Channel Threats and Protections Security Verification of Processor Architectures Principles of Secure Processor Architecture Design Bibliography Online Resources Author's Biography

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Book SynopsisProblem management is the one IT service management process that tends to return more benefits more quickly than any of the others. This book offers practical, real-world guidance on all aspects of implementing and running an effective problem management function. Offering advice and recommendations tailored to different types of organisations, it gives IT practitioners, consultants and managers the tools to add real value to their businesses.Trade ReviewMichael covers problem management from soup to nuts. Regardless of the maturity of your problem management process, this book will improve it. A must read! -- Joseph GallagherThis is essential reading for anyone who wants to take problem management seriously. I thoroughly recommend it. -- James Bourgerie * Computacenter *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION SECTION 1 – INTRODUCING PROBLEM MANAGEMENT 1. What is problem management? 2. Factors for success 3. Developing the business case SECTION 2 – IMPLEMENTING AND RUNNING PROBLEM MANAGEMENT 4. The implementation project 5. Organising problem management as a function 6. Realising the benefits of problem management 7. Metrics, key performance indicators and reporting 8. Tool requirements 9. Where next for problem management? SECTION 3 – PROBLEM MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND TECHNIQUES 10. Process overview 11. Detect and log problems 12. Assess, prioritise and assign problems 13. Investigation and diagnosis 14. Error resolution 15. Closing problems CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisDo you feel frustrated and left behind as every aspect of daily life from banking and shopping to health and communication becomes increasingly dependent on technology, the internet, and artificial intelligence (AI)?SeniorITy empowers us as we age, and those hesitant to engage with new technologies, by exploring the positives of becoming knowledgable and fully connected online. Accepting technological advances can help you live a long, healthy, and more rewarding life. Learn how to: Understand why you find it difficult to engage with the digital world Overcome frustration with the technology necessary for everyday life Make decisions about the best tech options for you Protect yourself and your data online Embrace digital advances that can increase independence and improve quality of life

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Book SynopsisMachine learning allows for non-conventional and productive answers for issues within various fields, including problems related to visually perceptive computers. Applying these strategies and algorithms to the area of computer vision allows for higher achievement in tasks such as spatial recognition, big data collection, and image processing. There is a need for research that seeks to understand the development and efficiency of current methods that enable machines to see.Challenges and Applications for Implementing Machine Learning in Computer Vision is a collection of innovative research that combines theory and practice on adopting the latest deep learning advancements for machines capable of visual processing. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as video segmentation, object recognition, and 3D modelling, this publication is ideally designed for computer scientists, medical professionals, computer engineers, information technology practitioners, industry experts, scholars, researchers, and students seeking current research on the utilization of evolving computer vision techniques.

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Book SynopsisAdvances in technology have provided numerous innovations that make people's daily lives easier and more convenient. However, as technology becomes more ubiquitous, corresponding risks also increase. The field of cryptography has become a solution to this ever-increasing problem. Applying strategic algorithms to cryptic issues can help save time and energy in solving the expanding problems within this field.Cryptography: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines novel designs and recent developments in cryptographic security control procedures to improve the efficiency of existing security mechanisms that can help in securing sensors, devices, networks, communication, and data. Highlighting a range of topics such as cyber security, threat detection, and encryption, this publication is an ideal reference source for academicians, graduate students, engineers, IT specialists, software engineers, security analysts, industry professionals, and researchers interested in expanding their knowledge of current trends and techniques within the cryptology field.

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Book SynopsisHigher education is undergoing radical changes with the arrival of emerging technology that can facilitate better teaching and learning experiences. However, with a lack of technical awareness, technophobia, and security and trust issues, there are several barriers to the uptake of emerging technologies. As a result, many of these new technologies have been overlooked or underutilized. In the information systems and higher education domains, there exists a need to explore underutilized technologies in higher education that can foster communication and learning. Fostering Communication and Learning With Underutilized Technologies in Higher Education is a critical reference source that provides contemporary theories in the area of technology-driven communication and learning in higher education. The book offers new knowledge about educational technologies and explores such themes as artificial intelligence, digital learning platforms, gamification tools, and interactive exhibits. The target audience includes researchers, academicians, practitioners, and students who are working or have a keen interest in information systems, learning technologies, and technology-led teaching and learning. Moreover, the book provides an understanding and support to higher education practitioners, faculty, educational board members, technology vendors and firms, and the Ministry of Education.

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Book SynopsisThis is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.Uncover the secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers.In 1940, almost a year after the outbreak of the Second World War, Allied radio operators at an interception station in South London began picking up messages in a strange new code. Using science, maths, innovation and improvisation BletchleyPark codebreakers worked furiously to invent a machine to decipher what turned out to be the secrets of Nazi high command. It was called Colossus.What these codebreakers didn't realize was that they had fashioned the world's first true computer. When the war ended, this incredible invention was dismantled and hidden away for almost 50 years. Paul Gannon has pieced together the tremendous story of what is now recognized as the greatest secret of BletchleyPark.'Gannon's book contains a mass of utterly fascinating and largely unknown material about an immensely important wartime project, and is very welcome indeed.' - Brian Randell, TESTrade ReviewPaul Gannon has revealed a previously untold story . . . [Colossus] tells of the heroic efforts of the inventors and mathematicians [who] received no recognition for decades . . . Gannon sets the record straight. -- Simon Singh * The Times *Seeks to restore Colossus to its rightful place in the history of computing... read Gannon to feel the collective power of human minds harnessed to the cause of defending our freedom. -- Georgina Ferry * Guardian *Masterly in its breadth and sweep . . . Gannon's account of wartime interception and encryption is deeply researched . . . I commend the book to both the professional and the general reader. -- Donald Michie * Spectator *

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Book SynopsisIs the Unified Process the be all and end all standard for developing object-oriented component-based software? This book is the third in a four volume series that presents a critical review of the Unified Process. The authors present a survey of the alteTable of ContentsPreface The Inception Phase Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 The Unified Process 1.2 The Enhanced Lifecycle for the Unified Process 1.3 The Goals of the Inception Phase 1.4 How Work Generally Proceeds During the Inception Phase 1.5 The Organization of this Book Chapter 2 Best Practices for the Business Modeling Workflow 2.1 The Articles Chapter 3 Workflow. Best Practices for the Requirements 3.1 Putting the Requirements Workflow into Perspective 3.2 Requirements Gathering Techniques 3.3 User Interfaces and Internationalization 3.4 Lessons from the Real World 3.5 The Articles Chapter 4 Best Practices for the Test Workflow 4.1 Why Test? 4.2 Starting Testing Off on the Right Foot 4.3 Testing Techniques for the Inception Phase 4.4 The Articles Chapter 5 Best Practices for the Project Management Workflow 5.1 Starting Out Right 5.2 Technical Project Management Activities 5.3 Soft Project Management Activities 5.4 A Few More Thoughts 5.5 The Articles Chapter 6 Best Practices for the Environment Workflow 6.1 Selecting and Deploying the Right Tools 6.2 Deploying Your Software Process, Standards, and Guidelines 6.3 The Articles Chapter 7 Parting Words 7.1 Looking Towards Elaboration

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Book SynopsisContrary to popular myth, we do not yet live in the “Information Age.” At best, we live the “Data Age,” obsessed with the production, collection, storage, dissemination, and monetization of digital data. But data, in and of itself, isn’t valuable. Data only becomes valuable when we make sense of it. We rely on “information professionals” to help us understand data, but most fail in their efforts. Why? Not because they lack intelligence or tools, but mostly because they lack the necessary skills. Most information professionals have been trained primarily in the use of data analysis tools (Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik, SAS, Excel, R, etc.), but even the best tools are only useful in the hands of skilled individuals. Anyone can pick up a hammer and pound a nail, but only skilled carpenters can use a hammer to build a reliable structure. Making sense of data is skilled work, and developing those skills requires study and practice. Weaving data into understanding involves several distinct but complementary thinking skills. Foremost among them are critical thinking and scientific thinking. Until information professionals develop these capabilities, we will remain in the dark ages of data. This book is for information professionals, especially those who have been thrust into this important work without having a chance to develop these foundational skills. If you’re an information professional and have never been trained to think critically and scientifically with data, this book will get you started. Once on this path, you’ll be able to help usher in an Information Age worthy of the name.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook presents the elementary aspects of quantum computing in a mathematical form. It is intended as core or supplementary reading for physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists taking a first course on quantum computing. It starts by introducing the basic mathematics required for quantum mechanics, and then goes on to present, in detail, the notions of quantum mechanics, entanglement, quantum gates, and quantum algorithms, of which Shor's factorisation and Grover's search algorithm are discussed extensively. In addition, the algorithms for the Abelian Hidden Subgroup and Discrete Logarithm problems are presented and the latter is used to show how the Bitcoin digital signature may be compromised. It also addresses the problem of error correction as well as giving a detailed exposition of adiabatic quantum computing. The book contains around 140 exercises for the student, covering all of the topics treated, together with an appendix of solutions.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Basic Notions of Quantum Mechanics.- Tensor Products and Composite Systems.- Entanglement.- Quantum Gates and Circuits for Elementary Calculations.- On the Use of Entanglement.- Error Correction.- Adiabatic Quantum Computing.- Epilogue Appendices: A Elementary Probability Theory.- B Elementary Arithmetic Operations.- C LANDAU Symbols.- D Modular Arithmetic.- E Continued Fractions.- F Some Group Theory.- G Proof of a Quantum Adiabatic Theorem.- Solutions to Exercises.

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Book SynopsisThis book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book, LNCS 11429, is part III of the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019. It's a special volume on the occasion of the 25 year anniversary of TACAS. Table of ContentsTOOLympics 2019: An Overview of Competitions in Formal Methods.- Confluence Competion 2019.- International Competition on Runtime Verification (CRV).- The Model Checking Contest (2019).- The 2019 Comparison of Tools for the Analysis of Quantitative Formal Models.- The Rewrite Engines Competitions: A RECtrospective.- RERS 2019: Combining Synthesis with Real-World Models.- SL-COMP: Competition of Solvers for Separation Logic.- Automatic Verification of C and Java Programs: SV-COMP 2019.- The Termination and Complexity Competition.- Competition on Software Testing (Test-Comp).- VerifyThis - Verification Competition with a Human Factor.- SV-COMP 2019.- CBMC Path: A Symbolic Execution Retrofit of the C Bounded Model Checker (Competition Contribution).- Extending DIVINE with Symbolic Verification using SMT (Competition Contribution).- ESBMC v6.0: Verifying C Programs using k-Induction and Invariant Inference (Competition Contribution).- JBMC: Bounded Model Checking for Java Bytecode (Competition Contribution).- JayHorn: A Java Model Checker (Competition Contribution).- Java Pathfinder at SV-COMP 2019.- Pinaka: Symbolic Execution meets Incremental Solving (Competition Contribution).- PeSCo: Predicting Sequential Combinations of Verifiers (Competition Contribution).- Symbolic Pathfinder for SV-COMP.- VeriFuzz: Program Aware Fuzzing.- VIAP 1.1 (Competition Contribution).

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2019, held in Paris, France, in September 2019. In the Research Track, 11 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Services and Micro-services, Software Architecture in Development Process, Adaptation and Design Space Exploration, and Quality Attributes. In the Industrial Track, 6 submissions were received and 3 were accepted to form part of these proceedings. Table of ContentsServices and Micro-services.- Guiding Architectural Decision Making on Service Mesh Based Microservice Architectures.- Supporting Architectural Decision Making on Data Management in Microservice Architectures.- From a Monolith to a Microservices Architecture: An Approach Based on Transactional Contexts.- Software Architecture in Development Process.- An Exploratory Study of Naturalistic Decision Making in Complex Software Architecture Environments.- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Multi-level Greedy Modularity Clustering for Software Architecture Recovery.- What Quality Attributes Can we Find in Product Backlogs? A Machine Learning Perspective.- Architecturing Elastic Edge Storage Services for Data-Driven Decision Making.- Adaptation and Design Space Exploration.- Continuous Adaptation Management in Collective Intelligence Systems.- ADOOPLA – Product-Line- and Product-Level PLA Optimization.- Assessing Adaptability of Software Architectures for Cyber Physical Production Systems.- Quality Attributes.- Optimising Architectures for Performance, Cost, and Security.- QoS-based Formation of Software Architectures in the Internet of Things.- A Survey on Big Data Analytics Solutions Deployment.- Assessing the Quality Impact of Features in Component-based Software Architectures.- Components and Design Alternatives in E-Assessment Systems.- Industry track.- A Four-Layer Architecture Pattern for Constructing and Managing Digital Twins.- Tool Support for the Migration to Microservice Architecture: An Industrial Case Study.- ACE: Easy Deployment of Field Optimization Experiments.

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Book SynopsisThe multi-volume set LNAI 13713 until 13718 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, which took place in Grenoble, France, in September 2022.The 236 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 1060 submissions. In addition, the proceedings include 17 Demo Track contributions. The volumes are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Clustering and dimensionality reduction; anomaly detection; interpretability and explainability; ranking and recommender systems; transfer and multitask learning; Part II: Networks and graphs; knowledge graphs; social network analysis; graph neural networks; natural language processing and text mining; conversational systems; Part III: Deep learning; robust and adversarial machine learning; generative models; computer vision; meta-learning, neural architecture search; Part IV: Reinforcement learning; multi-agent reinforcement learning; bandits and online learning; active and semi-supervised learning; private and federated learning; . Part V: Supervised learning; probabilistic inference; optimal transport; optimization; quantum, hardware; sustainability; Part VI: Time series; financial machine learning; applications; applications: transportation; demo track. Table of ContentsSupervised learning.- Probabilistic inference.- Optimal transport.- Optimization.- Quantum, hardware.- Sustainability.

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Book SynopsisThe multi-volume set LNAI 14169 until 14175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, which took place in Turin, Italy, in September 2023.The 196 papers were selected from the 829 submissions for the Research Track, and 58 papers were selected from the 239 submissions for the Applied Data Science Track. The volumes are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Active Learning; Adversarial Machine Learning; Anomaly Detection; Applications; Bayesian Methods; Causality; Clustering.Part II: ​Computer Vision; Deep Learning; Fairness; Federated Learning; Few-shot learning; Generative Models; Graph Contrastive Learning.Part III: ​Graph Neural Networks; Graphs; Interpretability; Knowledge Graphs; Large-scale Learning.Part IV: ​Natural Language Processing; Neuro/Symbolic Learning; Optimization; Recommender Systems; Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning.Part V: ​Robustness; Time Series; Transfer and Multitask Learning.Part VI: ​Applied Machine Learning; Computational Social Sciences; Finance; Hardware and Systems; Healthcare & Bioinformatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Recommendation and Information Retrieval.​Part VII: Sustainability, Climate, and Environment.- Transportation & Urban Planning.- Demo.Table of ContentsNatural Language Processing.- Neuro/Symbolic Learning.- Optimization.- Recommender Systems.- Reinforcement Learning.- Representation Learning.

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Book SynopsisArtifi cial Intelligence (AI) has been an exciting fi eld of study and research in educational institutions and research labs across the globe. Technology giants and IT organizations invest heavily on AI technologies and tools with the aim of preciselyautomating a variety of simple as well as complicated business operations acrossindustry verticals. This book covers the latest trends and transitions happening in thefuturistic AI domain. The book also focuses on machine and deep learning (ML/DL)algorithms, which are, undoubtedly, the mainstream implementation technologies ofstate-of-the-art AI systems and services. Also, there are chapters on computer vision(CV) and natural language processing (NLP), the primary use cases and applicationsof AI. The book has well-written chapters for demystifying AI model engineeringmethods. Further on, our esteemed readers can fi nd details on AI model evaluation,optimization, deployment and observability. Finally, the book deals and describesgenerative AI, the latest buzzword in the IT industry. The book presents the recent ground-breaking changes taking place in the aspects of AI model building, hosting, running and maintaining in cloud environments, articulates and accentuates the most recent developments taking place in the domain of Artifi cial Intelligence, covers the noteworthy innovations and disruptions towards Generative Artifi cial Intelligence (Generative AI), explains the breakthrough innovations and disruptions towards Artifi cial General Intelligence (AGI) and delineates an engaging discussion of Natural Language Processing, Neuromorphic Systems and Biometrics.

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Book SynopsisEine genaue Abstimmung zwischen IT-Systemen, Softwareentwicklung und Unternehmenserfordernissen ist ein wichtiger Wettbewerbsvorteil für ein Unternehmen. Für die Optimierung von IT im Unternehmen werden Methoden des IT-Alignments eingesetzt. In diesem Buch werden die unterschiedlichen Ebenen des Alignments erläutert und die strategische, architektonische, strukturelle und temporale Synchronisation von IT und Unternehmen dargestellt. Besondere Beachtung findet dabei die Messbarkeit des Grades der Ausrichtung von Unternehmen, IT-Architektur und Entwicklungsprozessen. Table of ContentsBetriebswirtschaftliche Größen.- Kognitives Alignment.- Architektur.- Architektonisches Alignment.- Strategisches Alignment.- Organisationsevolution.- Softwareevolution.- COTS-Software.- Temporales Alignment.- Systemisches Alignment.- Alignmentevolution.

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Book SynopsisMicroorganisms, viruses, and computer programs encode all the information necessary to reproduce and spread themselves. Yet these mechanisms are amazingly similar in the animate world, in the world of viruses, and even in the world of technical systems. The book shows how great the parallels are between these various animate and inanimate replicating systems and what they are based on.The excursion also leads into the fascinating world of genetics, to the question of what defines life and into the programming of software that multiplies itself independently. Finally, the question is derived whether and to what extent such self-replicating technical systems can become as dangerous as infectious viruses in triggering pandemics, such as the Corona pandemic in 2020.Table of ContentsViruses, microorganisms and molecular genetics.- What is life?.-Basic concepts of molecular genetics.- Viruses and early genetics.- Algorithms and self-replicating computer programs.- What is information?.- Coding of information in technology and biology.- Coevolution of life and technology.

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Book SynopsisA vision for the sustainable future of our planet

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Book SynopsisThis book presents orthotropic vibration modeling and analysis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which be helpful in applications such as oscillators and in non-destructive testing, and also vibrations characteristics of armchair double-walled CNT by means of nonlocal elasticity shell model. The nonlocal shell model is established by inferring the nonlocal elasticity equations in to Kelvin's theory, which is our particular motivation. The suggested method to investigate the solution of fundamental Eigen relations is wave propagation, which is a well-known and efficient technique to develop the fundamental frequency equations. The frequencies of three different types of SWCNTs are calculated. Also, the vibrations of the chiral single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNTs) with non-local theory using wave propagation approach is investigated. It has been investigated that by increasing the nonlocal parameter decreases the frequencies and on increasing the aspect ratio increases the frequencies throughout the computation frequencies of clamped-free lower than that of clamped-clamped.Carbon nanotubes have a variety of applications because of their distinctive molecular structure and show unique electronic and mechanical properties because of their curvature. Nanotubes and micro-beams can be cited as one of the very applicable micro- and nano-structures in various systems, namely, sensing devices, communications and the quantum mechanics. The application of the tiny structures, specifically, carbon nanotubes in the sensors and actuators enforce the engineers to study vibrational properties of those structures experimentally and theoretically. In addition, they are utilized in different fields such as bioengineering, tissue engineering, computer engineering, optics, energy and environmental systems.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive guide for managing SharePoint Online sites, covering fundamentals, next-gen site templates, features like permission management, content approval, metadata, webparts, and monitoring. Suitable for SharePoint users and administrators. Written by Deviprasad Panda, a seasoned SharePoint administrator and trainer.

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Book SynopsisImage Processing.- intelligent data analysis and prediction.- machine learning.

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