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Book SynopsisAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading public cloud platform. In this book you will learn to use Microsoft PowerShell to create, host, manage, and administer workloads using Amazon Web Services. You will learn how to create virtual machines, provision storage, configure networks, and more-all using your preferred Windows scripting language.CIOs everywhere are leading their organizations to the cloud, but there are few books available to help. This book focuses on moving Microsoft Windows workloads to the cloud using technologies familiar to enterprise Microsoft-based professionals.The completely revised and expanded Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads on Amazon Web Services. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of dollars, can be completed in minutes for a fraction of a penny.New chapters in this second edition cover: AWS Lambda, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, AWS Directory Service, Amazon WorkDocs, and AWS System Manager.What You''ll Learn Create and manage Windows servers on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Configure and secure networks with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Leverage autoscaling to adjust resources as load changes Deploy and manage SQL Server using the Relational Database Service (RDS) Manage virtual desktops using WorkSpaces and AppStream Leverage AWS Systems Manager to manage Windows at scale Who This Book Is ForWindows professionals who want to learn more about Amazon Web Services, with a focus on running Windows workloads and automated management at scale using PowerShell tools for AWS. The book assumes you have knowledge of Windows and PowerShell, but are new to AWS.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book provides users with cutting edge methods and technologies in the area of big data and visual analytics, as well as an insight to the big data and data analytics research conducted by world-renowned researchers in this field. The authors present comprehensive educational resources on big data and visual analytics covering state-of-the art techniques on data analytics, data and information visualization, and visual analytics. Each chapter covers specific topics related to big data and data analytics as virtual data machine, security of big data, big data applications, high performance computing cluster, and big data implementation techniques. Every chapter includes a description of an unique contribution to the area of big data and visual analytics. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals working in the area of big data, data analytics, and information visualization. Advanced-level students studying computer science will also find this book helpful as a secondary textbook or reference.Table of ContentsInformation visualization.- Data analytics.- Visual analytics.- Intelligent information systems.- Business analytics,- Virtual data machine.- Big data architecture.- Security of big data.- Big data applications.- Tensor-based computation and modeling.- High performance computing cluster.- Big data technologies.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the inexorable exhaustion of the IPv4 address space, the interim fix to this based on Network Address Translation (NAT) and Private Addresses, and the differences between IPv4 and IPv6. It will help you understand the limitations and problems introduced by the use of NAT and introduce you to the far simpler network and software designs possible, using a larger, unified address space.IPv6, a mature and viable replacement for IPv4, is currently used by more than 36% of all global Internet traffic. Wireless telephone service providers in many countries have migrated their networks to IPv6 with great success. The elimination of NAT and Private Addresses has vastly simplified network design and implementation. Further, there are now enough public addresses allocated to accommodate all anticipated uses for the foreseeable future.Most networking products and software, especially open-source software, are already fully IPv6 compliant. Today, no business shTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. History of Computer Networks up to IPv4 3. Review of IPv4 4. The Depletion of the IPv4 Address Space 5. IPv6 Deployment Progress 6. IPv6 Core Protocols 7. IPSec and IKEv2 8. Transition Mechanisms 9. IPv6 on Mobile Devices 10. DNS 11. The Future of Messaging with No NAT 12. IPv6 Related Organizations 13. IPv6 Projects

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the key concerns as well as research challenges in designing secure and resilient Industrial Control Systems (ICS). It will discuss today's state of the art security architectures and couple it with near and long term research needs that compare to the baseline. It will also establish all discussions to generic reference architecture for ICS that reflects and protects high consequence scenarios.Significant strides have been made in making industrial control systems secure. However, increasing connectivity of ICS systems with commodity IT devices and significant human interaction of ICS systems during its operation regularly introduces newer threats to these systems resulting in ICS security defenses always playing catch-up. There is an emerging consensus that it is very important for ICS missions to survive cyber-attacks as well as failures and continue to maintain a certain level and quality of service. Such resilient ICS design requires one to be proactive in understanding and reasoning about evolving threats to ICS components, their potential effects on the ICS mission’s survivability goals, and identify ways to design secure resilient ICS systems.This book targets primarily educators and researchers working in the area of ICS and Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems security and resiliency. Practitioners responsible for security deployment, management and governance in ICS and SCADA systems would also find this book useful. Graduate students will find this book to be a good starting point for research in this area and a reference source.Table of Contents1. Current and New Practice.- 2. Cyber-Modeling, Detection, and Forensics.- 3. Proactive Defense Mechanism Design.- 4. Human System Interface.- 5. Metrics For Resilience.

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Book SynopsisThis reference book provides a compact overview of the increasingly important topic of Business Development. The author not only describes the role of the Business Development Manager with its tasks, but also shows how Business Development can be organizationally integrated into a company. In addition, a prototypical Business Development Process is specifically presented and explained using a case study.The second, revised and expanded edition of the reference book shows that crises can also be an opportunity, explains specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Business Development and describes new digital business models. In addition, the book was supplemented by a practical interview and quotes from business and science.The reference book helps everyone who is responsible for introducing or optimizing Business Development in the company or who wants to work in this area in the future.Table of ContentsBusiness Development: role, role profile, business unit, process - Portfolio structure, management and life cycle - Resources - Target market - Market cultivation strategy - Case study - Six steps to Business Development

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Book Synopsis Design, develop, build, and deliver an end-to-end serverless architecture by leveraging Azure services, frameworks, and tools. This book offers a holistic approach, guiding you through the design and development of a Twitter Bot application, while leveraging Azure Functions. Integrating Serverless Architecture begins with an overview of serverless computing and getting started with Azure Functions. Here, you will create a Twitter bot function which scans Twitter for the latest tweets and makes use of dependency injection. Further, you will learn about Azure Cosmos DB where you will cover its change feed mechanism and the repository pattern. You will create a Cosmos DB trigger-based tweet notifier function, which will broadcast the latest tweets to connected clients. You will explore the basics of Azure Service Bus and create a tweet scheduler function, which will prioritize different keywords for the Twitter bot function. Along the way, you will debug, deliverTable of Contents 1. New Era of Serverless Computing · Introduction to Serverless Computing · Introduction to Twitter Bot application · Scope of Work · Technologies to be Used · Logical Architecture · Physical Architecture · Software Prerequisites · Summary · References 2. Getting Started with Azure Functions · Understanding Azure Functions · Explore Tweetinvi Library and interact with Twitter · Create a Tweet Bot Function · Debug the Azure Function · Logging support in Azure Function · Deploy the Function to Azure · Exercises · Summary · References 3. Explore Azure Cosmos DB and its Change feed mechanism · Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB · Azure Cosmos DB Repository Pattern · Sample CRUD Operations · Integrate with Tweet Bot Function · Understand Change Feed mechanism · Implement Azure Cosmos DB Trigger Function · Exercises · Summary · References 4. Secure Secrets in Azure Key Vault · Introduction to Azure Key Vault · Store Secrets in Key Vault · Access Secrets in Azure Functions from Key Vault · Summary · References 5. Getting Started with Azure SignalR Service · Introduction to Azure SignalR Service · Create a SignalR Service · Integrate with Azure Cosmos DB Trigger Function · Summary · References 6. Create Tweet Bot Web Application · Getting started with .NET Core · Create a Web application with Materialize CSS · Integrate with Tweetinvi to display list of Hashtags · Save User Preference to Cosmos DB · Display latest tweets from Cosmos DB · Integrate with Azure SignalR Service and display real-time notifications · Deploy to Azure Web App Service · Exercises · Summary · References 7. Enable App Service Authentication on Azure Functions · Introduction to App Service Authentication · Enable App Service Authentication on Azure Web App · Enable App Service Authentication on Azure Functions · Integrate Authentication flow from Web app to Azure Functions · Exercises · Summary · References 8. Configuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment to Azure Environment · Design a Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline · Create VSTS and Check-in the Source Code · Create Build Definition · Create Release Definition · Testing the CI/CI Pipeline · Provisioning and configuring our Azure Function infrastructure (optional) · Extending Twitter Bot Exercises 9. Setup Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline for Azure Functions

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Book SynopsisSAS ODS graphics users will learn in this book how to visually understand and communicate the significance of data to deliver images for quick and easy insight, with precise numbers. Many charts or plots require the viewer to run the eye from a bar end or plot point to some point on an axis, and then to interpolate between tick marks to estimate the value. Some design choices can lead to wrong conclusions or mistaken impressions. Graphic software relies on defaults to deliver something if you make a minimal effort, but that something is not likely to be exactly what you want. Visual Data Insights Using SAS ODS Graphics provides examples using experience-based design principles. It presents examples of bar charts, pie charts, and trend lines or time series plots, the graph types commonly used in business, other organizations, and the media for visual insight into data. Newer graphs are also included: dot plots, needle plots, waterfall charts, butterfly chaTable of ContentsIntroduction About this book Part I: Design Principles Chapter 1: Principles of Communication-Effective Graphic Design A. Joseph Pulitzer on Communication (principles for Press are universally applicable) B. Accelerate/Facilitate Visual Data Insights with Simplicity C. The Effects of Needless Complexity D. Simplicity E. Elegance F. Sparse Image Focuses Attention G. Sparse Graph more easily, more quickly interpreted H. Whenever possible, make graph title a headline I. Text readability—often wrongly assumed by graph creators J. Is what the creator sees what the viewer sees? K. How assure text readability L. We read horizontally M. Axis Labels N. Image Plus Precise Numbers—Both Are Necessary O. Annotation or On-Image Table P. Sparse Line Annotation Q. Y Axis for Time Series Plots R. Ranking and Subsetting Information S. Scrolling on Web Graphs T. Maximizing Information Delivery in Titles and Subtitles U. 3D Chapter 2: Principles of Communication-Effective Use of Color A. When and Why Color: Communication, Not Decoration B. Benefits of Boring Black and White C. Contrast with Background D. Always Bad Backgrounds 1) Image Backgrounds (continuous tone color) 2) Color Gradient Backgrounds 3) Textured Backgrounds E. Visual Dominance F. Other Choices for Text Emphasis G. Monitor Color vs HardCopy Color H. Consistency I. Purpose/Significance Assumed Even If Unintended J. Color-Coding K. Thickness of Lines and Text L. Size of Plot Markers and Legend Color Blocks M. Maximum Number of Distinguishable Shades of One Hue N. Other Tips O. Color Control with ODS Graphics Attribute Maps P. Multi-Line Plot That Obviates Need for a Legend Part II: Widely Applicable Examples You Can Use Chapter 3: Technical Introduction A. Outer Structure of ODS Graphics Code in Examples B. Inner Structure of ODS Graphics Code in Examples C. Text Parts of ODS Graphics Images D. Borders E. From Defaults through Customization for a Simple Example F. What Follows Chapter 4: Charts for Data in Categories A. Getting Your Charts In Order B. Pie Charts 1) The Perils of Pie Charts a) 3D Pie Charts are ALWAYS misleading b) Labels Can Collide If All Outside c) Labels Can Be Hard To Read If Inside If Insufficient Color Fill Contrast d) Slices Too Small To Be Seen Are Not Necessarily a Problem e) Reason to Avoid the OTHER Collective Pie Slice 2) Pie Chart Alternatives a) Default Colors vs Better Background for Inside-Of-Slice Labels b) All Inside Labels c) All Outside Labels for Name/Category, Value, Percent d) Label Collisions Problem e) Collision Problem Solved f) Maximally Informative CallOut Labels g) Default Legend h) Maximally Informative Legend i) The Ineffable Incontrovertible Insightful Power of Simplicity: The Pac-Man Pie Chart—the Extremes of Other C. Donut Charts D. Horizontal Bar Charts 1) Default Chart 2) Easy Bar Annotation 3) Adding Percent of Total Measurement 4) Key Design Principles a) Ranking; Show Them What’s Important b) Subsetting: Let Part Stand for the Whole 5) The Maximally Informative Horizontal Bar Chart 6) Interlinked Subsets Images Only 7) A Tall Horizontal Bar Chart: The Complement of a Subset 8) “Nested” Bar Charts (Web Charts) 9) Clustered Bar Chart 10 Dot Chart 11 When to use alphabetical order for bar labels 12 ButterFly Chart E. Vertical Bar Charts 1) Basic 2) Alternative to the Always Unsatisfactory Stacked Bar Chart 3) Bar Over Bar (Overlay) Chart 4) Needle Plot 5) WaterFall Charts F. Panels of Bar Charts G. Other Charts Data with a Single Categorical Key 1) Series Chart with Block Chart 2) Needle Plot with Block Chart H. Single Categorical Key But Two Measurement Variables: Vertical Bar Chart with Overlaid Line Chart I. Charts for Two Categorical Keys 1) Bubble Chart 2) Heat Map a) Default b) Improved c) Alternative with Simpler Code Chapter 5: Plots for Time-Dependent Data A. Best Use of Vertical Axis Space B. CurveLabels vs Legend C. Single-Line Plots 1) Simple 2) Band Plot 3) With Band As OverLay “Companion” to Highlight Part of Plotted Area D. All the ways to present a v e r y l o n g plot E. Multiple Line Plots Concurrently Displayed 1) Overlaid 2) Overlaid and Using Line Color Control 3) Overlaid and Using Data Labels and, to Eliminate Need for Legend, Curve Labels 4) Overlaid and Using XAxis Table, No Legend or CurveLabels Needed 5) In a Panel F. The Ineffable Incontrovertible Insightful Power of Simplicity: Annotated SparseLines 1) Single 2) Stacked or Paneled G. Spark Tables - SparkLines Used in a Table H. Other Ways To Present Time Series Data 1) Needle Plot 2) Step Plot 3) High-Low Open-Close Plot for Virtual Multi-Line Plot I. Vertical Bar Charts to Show Date/Time Dependence J. Animation To Show Time Evolution K. Other Alternatives to Providing Numbers 1) Limiting Labels to Y Values by Using Needle Plot to Get to X axis precisely 2) Use DropLines to Both Axes 3) Using TEXT Statements 4) Using ODS Graphics Annotation [LIGHT HERE, a usage example is provided for the US By-State Population Map] L. When all on-image annotation methods are infeasible, or declined 1) Web Graph Linked to Excel Table and Back 2) Graph and Table Composite in Excel WorkSheet 3) Graph and Table Composite in PowerPoint Slide 4) Graph and Table Composite in Word Document 5) Graph and Table Composite in PDF File Chapter 6: Looking for Relationships between Two Variables A. Scatter Charts 1) SGSCATTER with PLOT Statement vs SGPLOT with SCATTER Statement 2) Annotation with DataLabels 3) Highly Informative DataLabels 4) DropLines Instead of DataLabels 5) Annotation with the TEXT Statement 6) PROC SGSCATTER Panel of One Y Variable vs Two X Variables 7) PROC SGSCATTER Panel of Two Y Variables vs One X Variable 8) PROC SGSCATTER Panel of Three Y Variables vs One X Variable 9, 10, 11) Use PROC SGPANEL and SCATTER statement to create above examples—possibly retain just this solution 12} Overlay of Two Scatter Plots for Different Values of a Categorical Variable (e.g., Gender) to See Correlations and Differences in the y-x Relationship 13) SGPANEL of two Gender-Specific SCATTER plots for data in Item 12 13) Horizontal or Vertical Panel of the Above Overlay with the Two Individual Scatter Plots as Companion Images for Clarity 15) Annotated Scattter Plot using SGPLOT and SCATTER Statement 16) Add x values to annotation and suppress the superfluous axis 17) Replace y,x annotation with names of people whose data is plotted 18) Maximal annotation with Name, y, x 19) SGPANEL other examples TBD, maybe none B. Fit and Confidence Plots 1) Introduction 2) ELLIPSE 3) Linear Regression Plot 4) Cubic Regression Plot 5) LOESS Fit 6) SPLINE 7) Penalized B-Spline Plot C. VLINE Plus VBAR on the Same Chart Chapter 7: Distribution of a Single Variable A. Histogram 1) Basic 2) With Density Plot 3) With Fringe Plot B. Density Plot with Fringe Plot C. Box Plots Chapter 8: Maps for Data with Geographic Keys A. Examples for various types of unit area 1) By Country 2) By State 3) By County 4) By Point Location, such as City B. Rationales for Range Setting for the Measurement Reported C. Automating implementation of the rationale D. Annotating the map for maximal information communication E. The “For Color” Map Problem Solved—Color Coding for Maps F. What to do for a unit area that is too tiny to be readily visible Part III: Other Features Chapter 9: Ways to Enhance Your Graph A. Attribute Maps B. Reference Lines C. Inserting Text with INSET and TEXT Statements Chapter 10: Other Ways To Deliver Data Visualization A. Graph and Table Composite in Excel WorkSheet B. Graph and Table Composite in & Other Examples in PowerPoint Slides C. Graph and Table Composite in Word Document D. Graph and Table Composite in PDF File E. So you want to build an InfoGraphic 1) Creating the elements as individual images 2) Assembling a composite from those images 3) Creating an image file from the slide Chapter 11: Miscellaneous Tips A. Positioning of Titles in ODS Graphics Images B. Title and Footnote Text Handling in Web Graphs C. Pseudo-3D Effects That Introduce No Distortion or Needless Complexity Part IV: Appendixes Appendix A: Additional Resources 1. SAS-Institute-provided Documentation 2. Other Resources at support.sas.com 3. Online Conference Proceedings (not available from SAS Institute) 4. Online Newsletters 5. Blogs 6. Others TBD Appendix B: Possible Lengthy Code for Some Examples

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Book SynopsisThe study of people, information, and communication technologies and the contexts in which these technologies are designed, implemented, and used has long interested scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including the social study of computing, science and technology studies, the sociology of technology, and management information systems. As ICT use has spread from organizations into the larger world, these devices have become routine information appliances in our social lives, researchers have begun to ask deeper and more profound questions about how our lives have become bound up with technologies. A common theme running through this research is that the relationships among people, technology, and context are dynamic, complex, and critically important to understand. This book explores social informatics (SI), one important and dynamic approach that researchers have used to study these complex relationships. SI is "the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technology that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts" (Kling 1998, p. 52; 1999). SI provides flexible frameworks to explore complex and dynamic socio-technical interactions. As a domain of study related largely by common vocabulary and conclusions, SI critically examines common conceptions of and expectations for technology, by providing contextual evidence. This book describes the evolution of SI research and identifies challenges and opportunities for future research. In what might be seen as an example of socio-technical "natural selection," SI emerged in six different locations during the 1980s and 1990s: Norway, Slovenia, Japan, the former Soviet Union, the UK and, last, the U.S. As SI evolved, the version popularized in the US became globally dominant. The evolution of SI is presented in five stages: emergence, foundational, expansion, coherence, and transformation. Thus, we divide SI research into five major periods: an emergence stage, when various forms of SI emerged around the globe, an early period of foundational work which grounds SI (Pre-1990s), a period of expansion (1990s), a robust period of coherence and influence by Rob Kling (2000–2005), and a period of transformation (2006–present). Following the description of the five periods we discuss the evolution throughout the periods under five sections: principles, concepts, approaches, topics, and findings. Principles refer to the overarching motivations and labels employed to describe scholarly work. Approaches describe the theories, frameworks, and models employed in analysis, emphasizing the multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of SI. Concepts include specific processes, entities, themes, and elements of discourse within a given context, revealing a shared SI language surrounding change, complexity, consequences, and social elements of technology. Topics label the issues and general domains studied within social informatics, ranging from scholarly communication to online communities to information systems. Findings from seminal SI works illustrate growing insights over time and demonstrate how repeatable explanations unify SI. In the concluding remarks, we raise questions about the possible futures of SI research.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments.- Introduction.- Emergence of Competing Sources of Social Informatics.- The Evolution of Social Informatics.- Principles.- Approaches and Methods.- Concepts.- Topics.- Findings.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Author Biographies.

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Book SynopsisOverview .- Setting Up Your System .- Securing the Internet of Things .- Networking and APIs .- Designing Smart, Connected Products .- Networking with MQTT .- Sensors and Actuators .- Hyperlocal References and Proximity Beacons .- Mesh Network.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction Chapter 1: The quest for effectiveness.- Chapter 2: Foundations: Making sense of change.- Chapter 3: Foundations: The art and science  of change.- Chapter 4: Foundations: The patterns of change.- Chapter 5: Foundations: The layers of change.- Chapter 6: Foundations: The cycles of change.-Chapter 7: Foundations: The practice of change.- Chapter 8: Step 1: Identify the enterprise.- Chapter 9: Step 2: Get ready for action.- Chapter 10: Step 3: Set out the stall.- Chapter 11: Step 4: Interact with the market.- Chapter 12: Step 5: Interact with the enterprise.- Chapter 13: Engaging others in the architecture.- Chapter 14: Wrapping up.- Appendix A: Glossary.- Appendix B: Sources and Resources.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communications, TridentCom 2018, held in November 2018 in Shanghai, China. The 10 full papers were selected from 29 submissions and are grouped into three sessions: wireless and testbed application; uncertainty analytics and formal verification; knowledge graph.Table of ContentsBig Data Science and Applications.- Big Data and Cloud Computing.- Big Data Outsourcing.- Security and privacy in Big Data.- Big Data Testbeds and Applications in Industries.- Cyber Physical Systems and Applications: Smart Homes, Smart Health, Smart Grids and Green Cities.- Connected Vehicles, Internet of Things, and Industrial Control Systems.- Security and privacy in IoT & CPS.- Next Generation Service Oriented Architectures & Web 2.0 Services.- Emerging Technology in networking and Communications.- Emerging Wired, Wireless and Optical Communication technology.- Virtualized Network and Data Center Network.- Software-Defined Network Testbeds.- Crowd Sourcing, Crowd Sensing and IoT.- Testbeds for Big data, CPS or Emerging Networking technology.- Testbed Development, Operations and Management.- Testbed Experiences in Big data, CPS or Emerging Networking Technology.- Experimental Facilities for Big data Testbeds.- Methodologies and Tools of Testbeds Performance Evaluation.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2018, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in December 2018. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers are organized thematically in tracks, starting with security and privacy, telecommunication systems and networks, networks and applications.Table of ContentsImproving Privacy for GeoIP DNS Traffic.- Deep Reinforcement Learning based QoS-aware Routing in Knowledge-defined networking.- 3 Throughput optimization for multirate multicasting through association control in IEEE 802.11 WLAN.- An NS-3 MPTCP Implementation.- A Novel Security Framework for Industrial IoT based on ISA 100.11a.- Social-aware Caching and Resource Sharing Optimization for Video Delivering in 5G Networks.- Energy Efficiency in QoS Constrained 60 GHz Millimeter-Wave Ultra-dense Networks.- Priority-based Device Discovery in Public Safety D2D Networks with Full Duplexing.- Modified Direct Method for Point-to-Point Blocking.- Probability in Multi-service Switching Networks with Resource Allocation Control.- Inconsistencies among Spectral Robustness Metrics.- QoS criteria for energy-aware switching networks.- Modelling Overflow Systems with Queuing in Primary.- Exploring YouTube’s CDN Heterogeneity.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1406 “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet)“ project. Long considered important pillars of the scientific method, Modelling and Simulation have evolved from traditional discrete numerical methods to complex data-intensive continuous analytical optimisations. Resolution, scale, and accuracy have become essential to predict and analyse natural and complex systems in science and engineering. When their level of abstraction raises to have a better discernment of the domain at hand, their representation gets increasingly demanding for computational and data resources. On the other hand, High Performance Computing typically entails the effective use of parallel and distributed processing units coupled with efficient storage, communication and visualisation systems to underpin complex data-intensive applications in distinct scientific and technical domains. It is then arguably required to have a seamless interaction of High Performance Computing with Modelling and Simulation in order to store, compute, analyse, and visualise large data sets in science and engineering. Funded by the European Commission, cHiPSet has provided a dynamic trans-European forum for their members and distinguished guests to openly discuss novel perspectives and topics of interests for these two communities. This cHiPSet compendium presents a set of selected case studies related to healthcare, biological data, computational advertising, multimedia, finance, bioinformatics, and telecommunications.Table of ContentsWhy High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications Matters.- Parallelization of hierarchical matrix algorithms for electromagnetic scattering problems.- Tail Distribution and Extreme Quantile Estimation using Non-Parametric Approaches.- Towards efficient and scalable data-intensive content delivery: State-of-the-art, issues and challenges.- Big Data in 5G Distributed Applications.- Big Data Processing, Analysis and Applications in Mobile Cellular Networks.- Medical Data Processing and Analysis for Remote Health and Activities Monitoring.- Towards human cell simulation.- Cloud-based High Throughput Virtual Screening in Novel Drug Discovery.- Ultra Wide Band Body Area Networks: Design and integration with Computational Clouds.- Survey on AI-based multimodal methods for emotion detection.- Forecasting Cryptocurrency Value by Sentiment Analysis: An HPC-oriented Survey of the State-of-the-Art in the Cloud Era.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, GameNets 2019, held in Paris, France, in April 2019. The 8 full and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Game Theory for Wireless Networks; Games for Economy and Resource Allocation; and Game Theory for Social Networks.Table of ContentsGame Theory for Wireless Networks.- Games for Economy and Resource Allocation.- Game Theory for Social Networks.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2019, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2019. The 24 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. ARCS has always been a conference attracting leading-edge research outcomes in Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, including a wide spectrum of topics ranging from embedded and real-time systems all the way to large-scale and parallel systems. The selected papers are organized in the following topical sections: Dependable systems; real-time systems; special applications; architecture; memory hierarchy; FPGA; energy awareness; NoC/SoC. The chapter 'MEMPower: Data-Aware GPU Memory Power Model' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.Table of ContentsDependable Systems.- Hardware/Software Co-designed Security Extensions for Embedded Devices.- SDES - Scalable Software Support for Dependable Embedded Systems.- Real-Time Systems.- Asynchronous Critical Sections in Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems.- Resource-Aware Parameter Tuning for Real-Time Applications.- A Hybrid NoC Enabling Fail-Operational and Hard Real-Time Communication in MPSoC.- Special Applications.- DSL-based Acceleration of Automotive Environment Perception and Mapping Algorithms for embedded CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs.- Applying the Concept of Artificial DNA and Hormone System to a Low-Performance Automotive Environment.- A Parallel Adaptive Swarm Search Framework for Solving Black-Box Optimization Problems.- Architecture.- Leros: the Return of the Accumulator Machine.- A Generic Functional Simulation of Heterogeneous Systems.- Evaluating Dynamic Task Scheduling in a Task-based Runtime System for Heterogeneous Architectures.- Dynamic Scheduling of Pipelined Functional Units in Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array Elements.- Memory Hierarchy.- CyPhOS { A Component-based Cache-Aware Multi-Core Operating System.- Investigation of L2-Cache interferences in a NXP QorIQ T4240 multicore processor.- MEMPower: Data-Aware GPU Memory Power Model.- FPGA.- Effective FPGA Architecture for General CRC.- Receive-Side Notification for Enhanced RDMA in FPGA Based Networks.- An Efficient FPGA Accelerator Design for Optimized CNNs using OpenCL.- Energy Awareness.- The Return of Power Gating: Smart Leakage Energy Reductions in Modern Out-of-Order Processor Architectures.- A Heterogeneous and Reconfigurable Embedded Architecture for Energy-efficient Execution of Convolutional Neural Networks.- An energy efficient embedded processor for hard real-time Java applications.- NoC/SoC.- A Minimal Network Interface for a Simple Network-on-Chip.- Network Coding in Networks-on-Chip with Lossy Links.- Application Specific Reconfigurable SoC Interconnection Network Architectures.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2020, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2020. The 20 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. In addition, the book included 6 invited papers. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: invited talks; concurrent and distributed systems modelling and verification; cloud and grid computing; social networks, machine learning and mobile networks; data processing and blockchain technology; and short papers. Table of ContentsInvited Talks.- Graph Analytics.- A distributed and trusted web of formal proofs.- Prosperos Books: A Distributed Architecture for AI.- Trust: Anthropomorphic Algorithmic.- A Very Gentle Introduction to Multiparty Session Types.- Constructing Knowledge Graph from Data Catalogues.- Concurrent and Distributed Systems Modelling and Verification.- Round-Message Trade-off in Distributed Steiner Tree Construction in the CON GEST model.- An Efficient Message Transmission and Verification Scheme for VANETs.- Generalised Dining Philosophers as Feedback Control.- Verifying Implicitly Quantified Modal Logic over dynamic networks of processes.- Cloud and Grid Computing.- Secure Content-based Image Retrieval using Combined Features in Cloud.- Design of a Scheduling Approach for Budget-deadline Constrained Applications in Heterogeneous Clouds.- Resource Scheduling for Tasks of a Workflow in Cloud Environment.- Bearing Fault Classification using Wavelet Energy and Autoencoder.- Social Networks, Machine Learning and Mobile Networks.- Community Detection in Social Networks using Deep Learning.- Multi-Winner Heterogeneous Spectrum Auction Mechanism for Channel Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks.- A Hybrid Approach for Fake News Detection in Twitter based on User Features and Graph Embedding.- Online Context-Adaptive Energy-Aware Security Allocation in Mobile Devices: A Tale of Two Algorithms.- A Framework Towards Generalized Mid-term Energy Forecasting Model for Industrial Sector in Smart Grid.- An Online Low-Cost System for Air Quality Monitoring, Prediction, and Warning.-Word2vecs Distributed Word Representation for Hindi Word Sense Disambiguation.- Text Document Clustering using Community Discovery Approach.- Data Processing and Blockchain Technology.- An Efficient and Novel Buyer and Sellers Distributed Ledger Based Protocol Using Smart Contracts.- Distributed and Lazy Auditing of Outsourced Data HealthChain: A Secure Scalable Health Care Data Management System Using Blockchain.- HealthChain: A Secure Scalable Health Care Data Management System Using Blockchain.- Transcript Management Using Blockchain enabled Smart Contracts.- Short Papers.- Identifying Reduced Features based on IG-Threshold for DoS Attack Detection using PART.- Uniform Circle Formation by Swarm Robots Under Limited Visibility.- Histopathological Image Classification by Optimized Neural Network using IGSA.

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this book provides an easily accessible introduction to the statistical analysis of network data using R. It has been fully revised and can be used as a stand-alone resource in which multiple R packages are used to illustrate how to conduct a wide range of network analyses, from basic manipulation and visualization, to summary and characterization, to modeling of network data. The central package is igraph, which provides extensive capabilities for studying network graphs in R. The new edition of this book includes an overhaul to recent changes in igraph. The material in this book is organized to flow from descriptive statistical methods to topics centered on modeling and inference with networks, with the latter separated into two sub-areas, corresponding first to the modeling and inference of networks themselves, and then, to processes on networks. The book begins by covering tools for the manipulation of network data. Next, it addresses visualization and characterization of networks. The book then examines mathematical and statistical network modeling. This is followed by a special case of network modeling wherein the network topology must be inferred. Network processes, both static and dynamic are addressed in the subsequent chapters. The book concludes by featuring chapters on network flows, dynamic networks, and networked experiments. Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R, 2nd Ed. has been written at a level aimed at graduate students and researchers in quantitative disciplines engaged in the statistical analysis of network data, although advanced undergraduates already comfortable with R should find the book fairly accessible as well.Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Manipulating Network Data.- 3 Visualizing Network Data.- 4 Descriptive Analysis of Network Graph Characteristics.- 5 Mathematical Models for Network Graphs.- 6 Statistical Models for Network Graphs.- 7 Network Topology Inference.- 8 Modeling and Prediction for Processes on Network Graphs.- 9 Analysis of Network Flow Data.- 10 Networked Experiments.- 11 Dynamic Networks.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2020, held in Bangkok, in August 2020.The 33 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The conference theme of ICBL 2020 is Blended Learning : Education in a Smart Learning Environment. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Blended Learning, Hybrid Learning, Online Learning, Enriched and Smart Learning, Learning Management System and Content and Instructional Design. Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Applied Cryptography in Computer and Communications, AC3 2021, and the First International Workshop on Security for Internet of Things (IoT). The conference was held in May 2021 and due to COVID-19 pandemic virtually.The 15 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers present are grouped in 4 tracks on blockchain; authentication; secure computation; practical crypto application. They detail technical aspects of applied cryptography, including symmetric cryptography, public-key cryptography, cryptographic protocols, cryptographic implementations, cryptographic standards and practices.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Emerging Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Museums and Heritage Sites, RISE IMET 2020, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in June 2021*.The 23 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: digital curation and visitor engagement in museums and heritage sites; VR, AR, MR, mobile applications and gamification in museums and heritage sites; digital storytelling and embodied characters for the interpretation of cultural heritage; emerging technologies, difficult heritage and affective practices; participatory approaches, crowdsourcing and new technologies; digitization, documentation and digital representation of cultural heritage.* The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of ContentsDigital curation and visitor engagement in museums and heritage sites.- VR, AR, MR, mobile applications and gamification in museums and heritage sites.- Digital storytelling and embodied characters for the interpretation of cultural heritage.- Emerging technologies, difficult heritage and affective practices.- Participatory approaches, crowdsourcing and new technologies.- Digitization, documentation and digital representation of cultural heritage.

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Book SynopsisThe volume LNAI 13054 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2021, held in Lincoln, UK, in September 2021.*The 45 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. Organized in the topical sections "Algorithms" and "Systems", they discuss significant findings and advances in the following areas: artificial intelligence; mechatronics; image processing and computer vision; special purpose and application-based systems; user interfaces and human computer interaction.* The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of Contents​Algorithms.- A Study on Dense and Sparse (Visual) Rewards in Robot Policy Learning.- An Open-Source Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning Environment for Robotic Manipulation with Pybullet.- CPG-Actor: Reinforcement Learning for Central Pattern Generators .- Deep semantic segmentation of 3D plant point clouds.- Grasp Stability Prediction for a Dexterous Robotic Hand combining RGB-D Vision and Haptic Bayesian Exploration.- Improving SLAM in Pipe Networks by Leveraging Cylindrical Regularity.- CRH*: A Deadlock Free Framework for Scalable Prioritised Path Planning in Multi-Robot Systems.- TASK-BASED AD-HOC TEAMWORK with ADVERSARY.- Human-Robot Cooperative Lifting using IMUs and Human Gestures.- Reinforcement Learning-based Mapless Navigation with Fail-safe Localisation.- Collaborative Coverage for a Network of Vacuum Cleaner Robots.- Network-Aware Genetic Algorithms for the Coordination of MALE UAV Networks.- Self-organised Flocking of Robotic Swarm in Cluttered Environments.- Exploring Feedback Modalities in a Mobile Robot for Telecare.- Demonstrating the Differential Impact of Flock Heterogeneity on Multi-Agent Herding.- Evaluation of an OpenCV Implementation of Structure from Motion on Open Source Data.- Benchmark of visual and 3D lidar SLAM systems in simulation environment for vineyards.- Lidar-only localization in 3D Pose-Feature Map.- Toward robust visual odometry using prior 2D map information.- Comparison of Concentrated and Distributed Compliant Elements in a 3D Printed Gripper.- Perception of a humanoid robot as an interface for auditory testing.- Deep Learning Traversability Estimator for Mobile Robots in Unstructured Environments.- Systems.- Predicting Artist Drawing Activity via Multi-Camera Inputs for Co-Creative Drawing.- 3D printed mechanically modular two-degree-of-freedom robotic segment utilizing variable-stiffness actuators.- Design of a Multimaterial 3D-printed Soft Actuator with Bi-directional Variable Stiffness.- Designing a Multi-Locomotion Modular Snake Robot.- Deep robot path planning from demonstrations for breast cancer examination.- Priors inspired by Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs for Incremental Learning of Probabilistic Movement Primitives.- Tactile Dynamic Behaviour Prediction Based on Robot Action.- State space analysis of variable-stiffness tendon drive with non-back-drivable worm-gear motor actuation.- Development of a ROS Driver and Support Stack for the KMR iiwa Mobile Manipulator.- Collision Avoidance with Optimal Path Replanning for Mobile Robots.- An Autonomous Mapping Approach for Confined Spaces using Flying Robots.- Maximising availability of transportation robots through intelligent allocation of parking spaces.- A Minimalist Solution to the Multi-Robot Barrier Coverage Problem.- Scheduling Multi-robot Missions with JointTasks and Heterogeneous Robot Teams.- Area Coverage in Two-Dimensional Grid Worlds Using Computation-Free Agents.- Online Scene Visibility Estimation as a Complement to SLAM in UAVs.- Statics Optimization of a Hexapedal Robot Modelled as a Stewart Platform.- EtherCAT implementation of a variable-stiffness tendon drive with non-back-drivable worm-gear motor actuation.- Growing Robotic Endoscope for early Breast Cancer Detection: Robot Motion Control.- Design and Charachterisation of a Variable-Stiffness Soft Actuator Based on Tendon Twisting.- WhiskEye: A biomimetic model of multisensoryspatial memory based on sensory reconstruction.- Equipment Detection based Inspection Robot for Industrial Plants.- Inference of Mechanical Properties of Dynamic Objects through Active Perception.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2021, which took place in November 2021. The conference took place in Lübeck, Germany, and changed to a hybrid format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named Side-Channel Attacks, Fault Attacks, Public Key and Secure Implementations. Table of ContentsSide-Channel Attacks.- Fault Attacks.- Public Key.- Secure Implementations.

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this popular textbook keeps its structure, introducing the advanced topics of: (i) wireless communications, (ii) free-space optical (FSO) communications, (iii) indoor optical wireless (IR) communications, and (iv) fiber-optics communications, but thoroughly updates the content for new technologies and practical applications. The author presents fundamental concepts, such as propagation principles, modulation formats, channel coding, diversity principles, MIMO signal processing, multicarrier modulation, equalization, adaptive modulation and coding, detection principles, and software defined transmission, first describing them and then following up with a detailed look at each particular system. The book is self-contained and structured to provide straightforward guidance to readers looking to capture fundamentals and gain theoretical and practical knowledge about wireless communications, free-space optical communications, and fiber-optics communications, all which can be readily applied in studies, research, and practical applications. The textbook is intended for an upper undergraduate or graduate level courses in fiber-optics communication, wireless communication, and free-space optical communication problems, an appendix with all background material needed, and homework problems. In the second edition, in addition to the existing chapters being updated and problems being inserted, one new chapter has been added, related to the physical-layer security thus covering both security and reliability issues. New material on 5G and 6G technologies has been added in corresponding chapters.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Propagation Effects in Optical and Wireless Communications Channels, Noise Sources, and Channel Impairments.- Components, Modules, and Subsystems.- Wireless and Optical Channels Capacities.- Advanced Modulation and Multiplexing Techniques.- Advanced Detection Techniques and Compensation of Channel Impairments.- OFDM for Wireless and Optical Communications.- Diversity and MIMO Techniques.- Advanced Coding and Coded Modulation Techniques.- Spread Spectrum, CDMA, and Ultra-Wideband Communications.- 5G/6G Technologies.- Physical-layer Security.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2021, held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 17 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions and detail cloud computing technologies for efficient and intelligent computing in secure and smart environments with distributed devices. The theme of CloudComp 2021 was “Cloud Computing for Secure and Smart Applications”. The book is organized in three general areas of data analytics for cloud systems with distributed applications, cloud architecture and challenges in real-world use, and security in cloud/edge platforms.Table of ContentsData Analytics for Cloud Systems with Distributed Applications 1 Load quality analysis and forecasting for power data set on cloud platform.- A Survey of Traffic Prediction Based on Deep Neural Network: Data, Methods and Challenges.- A dynamic gesture recognition control file method based on deep learning.- A Lightweight FCNN-Driven Approach to Concrete Composition Extraction in a Distributed Environment.- Triangle Coordinate Diagram Localization for Academic Literature Based on Line Segment Detection.- Optimizing Fund Allocation for Game-based Verifiable Computation Outsourcing.- A Survey of Face Image Inpainting Based on Deep Learning.- Cloud Architecture and Challenges in Real-World Use.- Layered Service Model Architecture for Cloud Computin.- KPG4Rec: Knowledge Property-aware Graph for Recommender Systems.- 10 ERP as Software-as-a-Service: Factors depicting large enterprises cloud adoption.- Design Of An Evaluation System Of Limb Motor Function Using Inertial Sensor.- Towards a GPU-accelerated Open Source VDI for OpenStack Manuel.- Security in Cloud/Edge Platforms.- Trustworthy IoT Computing Environment Based on Layered Blockchain Consensus Framework.- Heuristic Network Security Risk Assessment Based on Attack Graph.- Research on Network Security Automation and Orchestration Oriented to Electric Power Monitoring System.- Energy- and Reliability-aware Computation Offloading with Security Constraints.- A Review of Cross-Blockchain Solutions.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains revised selected papers from the 28th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2021, held as a virtual event September and October 2021.* The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They cover the following research areas: design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, MAC algorithms, and authenticated encryption schemes, efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms, mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology, and secure elections and related cryptographic constructions. *The conference was originally planned to take place at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was held virtually.

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Book SynopsisState-of-the-art database systems manage and process a variety of complex objects, including strings and trees. For such objects equality comparisons are often not meaningful and must be replaced by similarity comparisons. This book describes the concepts and techniques to incorporate similarity into database systems. We start out by discussing the properties of strings and trees, and identify the edit distance as the de facto standard for comparing complex objects. Since the edit distance is computationally expensive, token-based distances have been introduced to speed up edit distance computations. The basic idea is to decompose complex objects into sets of tokens that can be compared efficiently. Token-based distances are used to compute an approximation of the edit distance and prune expensive edit distance calculations. A key observation when computing similarity joins is that many of the object pairs, for which the similarity is computed, are very different from each other. Filters exploit this property to improve the performance of similarity joins. A filter preprocesses the input data sets and produces a set of candidate pairs. The distance function is evaluated on the candidate pairs only. We describe the essential query processing techniques for filters based on lower and upper bounds. For token equality joins we describe prefix, size, positional and partitioning filters, which can be used to avoid the computation of small intersections that are not needed since the similarity would be too low.Table of ContentsPreface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Data Types.- Edit-Based Distances.- Token-Based Distances.- Query Processing Techniques.- Filters for Token Equality Joins.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 2.14 European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2022, held in Wittenberg, Germany, in March 2022. The 6 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. Table of ContentsInvited Talk.- Sniffbots to the Rescue – Fog Services for a Gas-Sniffng Immersive Robot Collective.-Support for Cloud Applications Dynamic Threshold Setting for VM Migration.- Secure Partitioning of Composite Cloud Applications.- A Decentralized Service Control framework for Decentralized Applications in Cloud Environments.- Service Design and Development.- A Systematic Comparison of IoT Middleware.- Pattern-Based Resolution of Integration Mismatches in Enterprise Applications.- Towards a Quality Model for Cloud-native Applications.- Serverless.- Upilio: Leveraging the Serverless Paradigm for Building a Versatile IoT Application.- MAAF: Self-Adaptive Memory Optimization for Serverless Functions.

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Book SynopsisThe two-volume set, LNCS 13325 and 13326, are conference proceedings that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, which took place during June-July 2022. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 58 papers of DAPI 2022 are organized in topical sections named for each volume: Part I: User Experience and Interaction Design for Smart Ecosystems; Smart Cities, Smart Islands, and Intelligent Urban Living; Smart Artifacts in Smart Environments; and Opportunities and Challenges for the Near Future Smart EnvironmentsPart II: Smart Living in Pervasive IoT Ecosystems; Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Education and Learning; Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Well-being and Healthcare; and Smart Creativity and Art.

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Book SynopsisThe two-volume set, LNCS 13325 and 13326, are conference proceedings that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, which took place during June-July 2022. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 58 papers of DAPI 2022 are organized in topical sections named for each volume: Part I: User Experience and Interaction Design for Smart Ecosystems; Smart Cities, Smart Islands, and Intelligent Urban Living; Smart Artifacts in Smart Environments; and Opportunities and Challenges for the Near Future Smart EnvironmentsPart II: Smart Living in Pervasive IoT Ecosystems; Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Education and Learning; Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Well-being and Healthcare; and Smart Creativity and Art.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2022, which was held virtually in June 2021. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: application of concurrency to system design; timed models; tools; applications; synthesis; petri nets architecture; and process mining.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2022, held in Rome, Italy, in August 2022.The 18 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers of MobiWIS 2022 deal focus on topics such as security and privacy; web and mobile applications; networking and communication; intelligent information systems; and IoT and ubiquitous computing.Table of Contents​Session 1: Mobile Applications and Technologies.- Knowledge Behavior Gap Model: An Application for Technology Acceptance.- UI-Re-Engineering of a Mobile Documentation Software in the Care Sector.- GUI Element Detection from Mobile UI Images Using YOLOv5.- Session 2: Mobile Devices and Automous Vehicles.- Active Federated YOLOR Model for Enhancing Autonomous Vehicles Safety.- Neural Network for Public Transport Mode Inference on Mobile Devices.- Data-Driven Federated Autonomous Driving.- Session 3: Security in Healthcare and Smart Cities Environment.- Case Study on a Session Hijacking Attack: The 2021 CVS Health Data Breach.- Blockchain for Cybersecure Healthcare.- Design of a Method for Setting IoT Security Standards in Smart Cities.- Session 4: Software-Defined Networks.- Mathematical Models for Minimizing Latency in Software-Defined Networks.- Analyzing the Impact of DNN Hardware Accelerators-Oriented Compression Techniques on General-Purpose Low-End Boards.- Spatial Dependency in Software-Defined Networking In-Band Monitoring: Challenges and Future Perspective.- Session 5: Smart Systems and Applications.- What is a Smart Service?.- SSSB: An Approach to Insurance for Cross-Border Exchange by using Smart Contracts.- A Review: Sensors Used in Tool Wear Monitoring and Prediction.- Session 6: Advanced Information Systems.- Towards the use of IT technologies for health literacy and health information competences – a case study.- A Systematic Literature Review on Relationship between Internet Usage Behavior and Internet QoS in Campus.- Model Checking Intelligent Information Systems with 3-Valued Timed Commitments.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 15th Colombian Congress on Advances in Computing, CCC 2021, held in Bogotá, Colombia, during November 22–26, 2021.The 8 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Artificial intelligence; educational informatics; and information systems.Table of Contents​Artificial Intelligence.- SIMALL: Emotional BDI Model for Customer Simulation in a Mall.- Classification of Depression Based on Audio with Artificial Intelligence.- Analytical model of recommendations for the mitigation of theft risks.- Implementing a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Denial of Service Attacks.- Correlations and cross-correlations in temperature and relative humidity temporal series from Manizales, Colombia.- Educational Informatics.- ALPY PLUS – Adaptive Model Oriented to Pathway Planning in Virtual Learning System.- Problem-based learning and virtual platforms process in education for civil engineers: An experiment carried out by the University of Medellin, Colombia.- Information Systems.- Cost Estimate Migration for Crystal Reports.- Evaluation of Work Stealing Algorithms.- Analysis of the user experience for an application proposal oriented to the general medical consultation service.

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Book SynopsisThis volume constitutes selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Engineering Software for Modern Challenges, ESMoC 2021, held in Johor, Malaysia, in October 20-21, 2021.The 17 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 167 submissions. They are organized in the topical sections on ​software engineering; intelligent systems; software quality. Table of ContentsSoftware Engineering.- Intelligent Systems.- Software Quality.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Internet of Things, SGIoT 2021, held in TaiChung, Taiwan, in December 2021.The 9 regular papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in wireless sensor, vehicular ad hoc networks, security, deep learning and big data. The papers are organized in two subject areas: applications on internet of things, and communication security, big data, neural networks and machine learning.Table of ContentsApplications on Internet of Things.- Intellectual Property Protection of Zhuang Nationality Funeral Culture on Internet of Things.- China IoT UBI Car Insurance Regulatory Development Trend.- Constructing a violence recognition technique for elderly patients with lower limb disability.- Aquaculture Monitoring Systems based on Lightweight Kubernetes and Rancher.- Design and Implementation of Water Monitoring Using LoRa and NB-IoT.- InterWorking Function for Mission Critical Push To Talk Services.- Communication Security, Big Data, Neural Networks and Machine Learning.- Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Scheme Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Smart Grid Communications.- Design and Implementation of Distributed Image Recognition App with Federal Learning Techniques.- Improving Vision Clarity and Object Detection Accuracy in Heavy Rain Base on Neural Network.- An Enhanced Location-data Differential Privacy Protection Method Based on Filter.- Big data grave register information management system outside cemeteries under Internet of Things.- Machine Learning-based Models for Monofacial and Bifacial PV Module and Critical Model Feature Selection.- Study on the discovery of personal information on the network of people diagnosed with COVID-19.

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

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes selected papers presented at the First International Scientific and Practical Conference on Information Technologies and Intelligent Decision Making Systems, ITIDMS 2021, held as Virtual Event in January, 2021.The 13 presented papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 41 submissions. The conference was held with the aim of summarizing international experience in the field of information, digital and intellectual development, within which proposals were formulated for digital and information transformation, the development of computer models, information technologies, automated and computing processes. A distinctive feature of the conference is that it presented reports of authors from China, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Poland, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria and Russia. Researchers from different countries presented the process of transition of the information and digital path of development, presented the main directions and developments that can improve the efficiency and development.Table of ContentsAnalysis of Domain Name Resolution Strategy of Local DNS Server in the Transition from IPv4 to IPv6.- Experimental Evaluation of the Efficiency of Compression of Files by Fractal-Spectral Codec.- An Intelligent Decision Support System for Solving Complex Territorial Planning Problems.- Fault tolerance of distributed worker processes in corporate information systems and technologies.- Functioning of the Thermal Memory Cell.- Using Data mining technology in monitoring and modeling the epidemiological situation of the human immunodeficiency virus in Kazakhstan.- Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Improving of Center Pivot Irrigation Control.- KOA Pathology Screening using Multi-channel VAG Signal Fusion Method.- Prioritization of Distributed Worker Processes Based on Etcd Locks.- Analysis of Methods for Classifying and Segmenting 3D Images.- Tone Image Processing with Discrete Data Structure.- The Concept of Client-Server Architecture for Remote Control of a Distributed Knowledge Base.- Experimental Study of Russian-language News Text Categorization Performance Using Machine Learning Algorithms.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas, InterSol 2022, held in Nile University of Nigeria Abuja, Nigeria, in March 2022. The 26 papers presented were selected from 66 submissions and issue different problems in underserved and unserved areas. They face problems in almost all sectors such as energy, water, communication, climate change, food, education, transportation, social development, and economic growth.Table of ContentsSustainable Development for Underserved Areas.- Effects of Noise Pollution on learning in Schools of Bamenda II Municipality, Northwest Region of Cameroon.- Hydro-meteorological Trends and Thermal comfort of Khartoum Sudan.- Community Water Projects Sustainability for Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation in Suam Catchment Area of West Pokot County, Kenya.- The Nigerian HealthCare Facilities: Need for Adopting Evidence-Based Design as an Innovative Approach for Improved Health and Wellbeing.- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for Development.- An E-Nose Using Metal Oxide Semiconductor Sensors Array to Recognize the Odors of Fall Armyworm Pest For Its Early Detection in the Farm.- Prediction of process failure approach using process mining.- An AI-based Model for the Prediction of a newborn’s Sickle Cell Disease Status.- Study of an approach based on the analysis of computer program execution traces for the detection of vulnerabilities.- ICT for Development.- Comparative Evaluation on Sentiment Analysis Algorithms.- A new wavelet based steganography method for Securing medical Data.- A dual ring architecture using controllers for better load balancing in a Fog Computing environment.- Recommendation System for Carbon Reduction.- Engineering Impact on Sustainability Development.- Assessment of Heavy Metal Concentration of Municipal open-air Dumpsite: A case study of Gosa Dumpsite, Abuja.- Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster - lessons learned for a better cementing job.- Generating Bioelectricity From Traditional Food Processing Wastewater Using An Inoculum Of Return Activated Sewage Sludge.- Application of molasses in improving water purification efficiency of diatomaceous earth-waste ceramic membranes.- Community Engagements and Collaboration.- The levels of crop raiding by rodents and primates in a subsistence farming community, in South Africa.- Survey on crop disease detection and identification based on deep learning.- Pest Birds Detection Approach in Rice Crops Using Pre-trained YOLOv4 Model.- Pest Birds Detection Approach in Rice Crops Using Pre-trained YOLOv4 Model.- Truncation effect of a three-dimensional compound parabolic concentrator on the solar flux at the input of the receiver of a 30 kWe solar tower power plant.- Renewable Energy Transition: A Panacea to the Ravaging Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria.- Investigation on Concrete with Partial Replacement of Aggregate from Demolition Waste.- Valorization of the recovered lime in cement-typha concretes: thermal and mechanical behavior.- Engineering and Science Education in Underserved Areas.- The Need for Nigerian Universities to Collaborate for Quality Research Output.- SenTekki: online platform and Restful Web service for translation between Wolof and French.- Towards an optimal placement of learning ressources in a fog computing based e-learning system : The case of UVS.

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