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Springer International Publishing AG Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: 9th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference, ESOCC 2022, Wittenberg, Germany, March 22–24, 2022, Proceedings
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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Springer International Publishing AG Computational Neuroscience: Third Latin American Workshop, LAWCN 2021, São Luís, Brazil, December 8–10, 2021, Revised Selected Papers
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Latin American Workshop, LAWCN 2021, held in Sao Luis do Maranhao, Brazil, during December 8–10, 2021.The 13 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Interdisciplinary applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML); AI and ML applied to robotics; AI and ML applied to biomedical sciences; Health issues and computational neuroscience; Software and hardware implementations in neuroscience; and Neuroengineering – science and technology.Table of ContentsInterdisciplinary applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).- Semantic segmentation of the cultivated area of plantations with U-net.- Use and Interpretation of Item Response Theory applied to Machine Learning.- AI and ML applied to robotics.- Towards Loop Closure Detection for SLAM Applications using Bag of Visual Features: Experiments and Simulation.- Loss Function Regularisation on the Iterated Racing Procedure for Automatic Tuning of RatSLAM Parameters.- Controlling the UR3 robotic arm using a leap motion: a comparative study.- AI and ML applied to biomedical sciences.- Web service based epileptic seizure detection by applying machine learning techniques.- Health issues and computational neuroscience.- Machine Learning Search of Novel Selective NaV1.2 and NaV1.6 Inhibitors as Potential Treatment against Dravet Syndrome.- Implementation of intra and extracellular nonperiodic scale-free stimulation in silico for the NEURON simulator.- In silico investigation of the effects of distinct temporal patterns of electrical stimulation to the amygdala using a network of Izhikevich neurons.- Software and hardware implementations in neuroscience.- Brain connectivity measures in EEG-based biometry for epilepsy patients.- A multiplatform output stage for the development of current-fixed electrical stimulators applied to neural electrophysiology.- Neuroengineering – science and technology.- Physiological self-regulation using biofeedback training: from concept to clinical applicability.- Movement-Related Electroencephalography in Stroke Patients across a Brain-Computer Interface-based Intervention.- Electrophysiological Correlates of Freeze of Gait in Parkinson Disease: Increased STN-LFP Alpha Power and the Possible Role of Attentional Circuits.- Effect of hand dominance when decoding motor imagery grasping tasks within the same hand.- Kinematic responses as a control strategy to visual occlusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Software Technologies: 16th International Conference, ICSOFT 2021, Virtual Event, July 6–8, 2021, Revised Selected Papers
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2021, Virtual Event, July 6–8, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions.Table of ContentsLinked Data as Medium for Stigmergy-based Optimization and Coordination.- Object Parsing Expressions for Unplanned, Unmodified, and Incremental Grammar Reuse.- A Methodology for Organizational Data Science towards Evidence-based Process Improvement.- Feedback Generation for Automatic User Interface Design Evaluation.- Tales from the Code #2: A Detailed Assessment of Code Refactoring's Impact on Energy Consumption.- Towards Power Consumption Optimization for Embedded Systems from a Model-driven Software Development Perspective.- Materializing Microservice-oriented Architecture from Monolithic Object-oriented Source Code.- A Personalized Code Formatter: Detection & Fixing.- Software Framework of Context-aware Reconfigurable Secure Smart Grids.- A Novel Neural Network-based Malware Severity Classification System.
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Springer International Publishing AG Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation: 22nd International Conference, SAMOS 2022, Samos, Greece, July 3–7, 2022, Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 22st International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS 2021, which took place in July 2022 in Samos, Greece. The 21 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topics as follows: High level synthesis; memory systems; processor architecture; embedded software systems and beyond; deep learning optimization; extra-functional property estimation; innovative architectures and tools for security; european research projects on digital systems, services, and platforms.Table of ContentsHigh Level Synthesis.- High-Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits from Template Haskell and SDF-AP 1 H. H. .- Implementing Synthetic Aperture Radar Backprojection in Chisel – A Field Report.- EasyHBM: Simple and Fast HBM Access for FPGAs using High-Level Synthesis.- Memory Systems.- TREAM: A Tool for Evaluating Error Resilience of Tree-based Models using Approximate Memory.- Split’n’Cover: ISO 26262 Hardware Safety Analysis with SystemC.- Tagged Geometric History Length Access Interval Prediction for Tightly Coupled Memory Systems.- Processor Architecture.- NanoController: A Minimal and Flexible Processor Architecture for UltraLow-Power.- ControlPULP: A RISC-V Power Controller for HPC Processors with Parallel Control-Law Computation Acceleration.- Embedded Software Systems and beyond.- CASA: An Approach for exposing and documenting Concurrency-related Software Properties.- High-Level Simulation of Embedded Software Vulnerabilities to EM SideChannel Attacks.- Deep Learning Optimization I.- A Design Space Exploration Methodology for Enabling Tensor Train Decomposition in Edge Devices.- Study of DNN-based Ragweed Detection from Drones.- PULP-TrainLib: Enabling On-Device Training for RISC-V Multi-Core MCUs through Performance-Driven Autotuning.- Extra-functional Property Estimation.- The Impact of Dynamic Storage Allocation on CPython Execution Time, Memory Footprint and Energy Consumption: An Empirical Study.- Application runtime estimation for AURIX embedded MCU using deep learning.- A Hybrid Performance Prediction Approach for Fully-Connected Artificial Neural Networks on Multi-Core Platforms.- Deep Learning Optimization I.- A Smart HW-Accelerator for Non-Uniform Linear Interpolation of MLActivation Functions.- Hardware-Aware Evolutionary Filter Pruning.- Innovative Architectures and tools for Security.- Obfuscating the Hierarchy of a Digital IP.- On the effectiveness of true random number generators implemented on FPGAs.- Power and Energy.- SIDAM: A Design Space Exploration Framework for Multi-Sensor Embedded Systems Powered by Energy Harvesting.- A Data-Driven Approach to Lightweight DVFS-Aware Counter-Based Power Modeling for Heterogeneous Platforms.
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Springer International Publishing AG Architecture of Computing Systems: 35th International Conference, ARCS 2022, Heilbronn, Germany, September 13–15, 2022, Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2022, held virtually in July 2022. The 18 full papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. ARCS provides a platform covering newly emerging and cross-cutting topics, such as autonomous and ubiquitous systems, reconfigurable computing and acceleration, neural networks and artificial intelligence. The selected papers cover a variety of topics from the ARCS core domains, including energy efficiency, applied machine learning, hardware and software system security, reliable and fault-tolerant systems and organic computing.Table of ContentsEnergy Efficiency.- Energy Efficient Frequency Scaling on GPUs in Heterogeneous HPC Systems.- Dual-IS: Instruction Set Modality for Efficient Instruction Level Parallelism.- Pasithea-1: An Energy-Efficient Self-Contained CGRA With RISC-Like ISA.- Applied Machine Learning.- Orchestrated Co-Scheduling, Resource Partitioning, and Power Capping on CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Systems via Machine Learning.- FPGA-based Dynamic Deep Learning Acceleration for Real-time Video Analytics.- Advanced Computing Techniques.- Effects of Approximate Computing on Workload Characteristics.- QPU-System Co-Design for Quantum HPC Accelerators.- Hardware and Software System Security.- Protected Functions: User Space Privileged Function Calls.- Using Look Up Table Content as Signatures to Identify IP Cores in Modern FPGAs.- Hardware Isolation Support for Low-Cost SoC-FPGAs.- Reliable and Fault-tolerant systems.- Memristor based FPGAs: Understanding the Effect of Configuration Memory Faults.- On the Reliability of Real-time Operating System on Embedded Soft Processor for Space Applications.- Special Track: Organic Computing.- NDNET: a Unified Framework for Anomaly and Novelty Detection.- Organic Computing to Improve the Dependability of an Automotive Environment.- A context aware and self-improving monitoring system for field vegetables.- Semi-Model-Based Reinforcement Learning in Organic Computing Systems.- Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Classifier System – First Steps.- GAE-LCT: A run-time GA-based Classifier Evolution Method for Hardware LCT controlled SoC Performance-Power Optimization.
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Springer International Publishing AG Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: International Workshops of ESOCC 2022, Wittenberg, Germany, March 22–24, 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the technical papers presented in the workshops, which took place at the 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2022, held in Wittenberg, Germany, in March 2022.The 4 full papers and 7 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The workshop proceedings volume of ESOCC 2022 contains contributions from the following workshops and events:First International Workshop on AI for Web Application Infrastructure and Cloud Platform Security (AWACS 2022)PhD Symposium of ESOCC 2022ESOCC 2022 Projects TrackESOCC 2022 Industrial TrackTable of ContentsFirst International Workshop on AI for Web Application Infrastructure and Cloud Platform Security (AWACS 2022).- Towards a Metadata Management System for provenance, reproducibility and accountability in Federated Machine Learning.- Towards a Secure Peer-to-Peer Federated Learning Framework.- MIDA: Micro-Flow Independent Detection of DDoS Attacks with CNNs.- ESOCC 2022 PhD Symposium.- Improving the Key Exchange Process of the eXtended Triple Diffie-Hellman Protocol with Blockchain.- Towards Data Governance for Federated Machine Learning.- ESOCC 2022 Projects Track.- QuickFaaS: Providing Portability and Interoperability between FaaS Platforms.- Cloud Computing Continuum research topics and challenges. A multi-source analysis.- Developing a New DevOps Modelling Language to Support the Creation of Infrastructure as Code.- Urban Heat Island Detection Utilizing Citizen Science.- Using a multi-sourced methodology to identify challenges in Software Technologies research.- ESOCC 2022 Industrial Track.- Rethinking Monitoring for Cloud Environments: BMC Software AIOps Case Study.
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Springer International Publishing AG Advances in Computer Graphics: 40th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2023, Shanghai, China, August 28 – September 1, 2023, Proceedings, Part I
Book SynopsisThis 4-volume set of LNCS 14495-14498 constitutes the proceedings of the 40th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2023, held in Shanghai, China, August 28 – September 1, 2023. The 149 papers in this set were carefully reviewed and selected from 385 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Detection and Recognition; Image Analysis and Processing; Image Restoration and Enhancement; Image Attention and Perception; Reconstruction; Rendering and Animation; Synthesis and Generation; Visual Analytics and Modeling; Graphics and AR/VR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Theoretical Analysis; Image Analysis and Visualization in Advanced Medical Imaging Technology; Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics and Engineering.Table of ContentsDetection and Recognition.- Image Analysis and Processing; Image Restoration and Enhancement; Image Attention and Perception.- Reconstruction; Rendering and Animation.- Synthesis and Generation.- Visual Analytics and Modeling; Graphics and AR/VR.- Medical Imaging and Robotics.- Theoretical Analysis; Image Analysis and Visualization in Advanced Medical Imaging Technology.- Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics and Engineering.
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Springer International Publishing AG Requirements Engineering
Book SynopsisWritten for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students.Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, Requirements Engineering gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. It explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems. It describes the underlying representations used in system modeling and introduces the UML2, and considers the relationship between requirements and modeling. Covering a generic multi-layer requirements process, the book discusses the key elements of effective requirements management. The latest version of DOORS (Version 7) - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process - is also introduced to the reader here.Additional material and links are available at: http://www.requirementsengineering.infoTable of ContentsIntroduction.- A Generic Process for Requirements Engineering.- System Modelling for Requirements Engineering.- Writing and Reviewing Requirements.- Requirements Engineering in the Problem Domain.- Requirements Engineering in the Solution Domain.- Advanced Traceability.- DOORS: A Tool to Manage Requirements.- Management Aspects of Requirements Engineering.-
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XLVIII: Special Issue In Memory of Univ. Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner
Book SynopsisThe LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing (e.g., computing resources, services, metadata, data sources) across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. This, the 48th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains 8 invited papers dedicated to the memory of Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner. The topics covered include distributed database systems, NewSQL, scalable transaction management, strong consistency, caches, data warehouse, ETL, reinforcement learning, stochastic approximation, multi-agent systems, ontology, model-driven development, organisational modelling, digital government, new institutional economics and data governance.Table of ContentsDistributed Database Systems: The Case for NewSQL.- Boosting OLTP Performance using Write-back Client-side Caches.- pygrametl: A Powerful Programming Framework for Easy Creation and Testing of ETL Flows.- A Data Warehouse of Wi-Fi Sessions for Contact Tracing and Outbreak Investigation.- Convergence Proof for Actor-Critic Methods Applied to PPO and RUDDER.- Revival of MAS Technologies in Industry.- From Strategy to Code: Achieving Strategical Alignment in Software Development Projects through Conceptual Modelling.- On State-Level Architecture of Digital Government Ecosystems: From ICT-Driven to Data-Centric.
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O'Reilly Media Storytelling in Design
Book SynopsisThis practical guide shows you how storytelling can make a powerful difference in product design. Author Anna Dahlström details the many ways you can use storytelling in your projects and throughout your organization.
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Manning Publications Bayesian Optimization in Action
Book SynopsisApply advanced techniques for optimising machine learning processes For machine learning practitioners confident in maths and statistics. Bayesian Optimization in Action shows you how to optimise hyperparameter tuning, A/B testing, and other aspects of the machine learning process, by applying cutting-edge Bayesian techniques. Using clear language, Bayesian Optimization helps pinpoint the best configuration for your machine-learning models with speed and accuracy. With a range of illustrations, and concrete examples, this book proves that Bayesian Optimisation doesn't have to be difficult! Key features include: Train Gaussian processes on both sparse and large data sets Combine Gaussian processes with deep neural networks to make them flexible and expressive Find the most successful strategies for hyperparameter tuning Navigate a search space and identify high-performing regions Apply Bayesian Optimisation to practical use cases such as cost-constrained, multi-objective, and preference optimisation Use PyTorch, GPyTorch, and BoTorch to implement Bayesian optimisation You will get in-depth insights into how Bayesian optimisation works and learn how to implement it with cutting-edge Python libraries. The book's easy-to-reuse code samples will let you hit the ground running by plugging them straight into your own projects! About the technology Experimenting in science and engineering can be costly and time-consuming, especially without a reliable way to narrow down your choices. Bayesian Optimisation helps you identify optimal configurations to pursue in a search space. It uses a Gaussian process and machine learning techniques to model an objective function and quantify the uncertainty of predictions. Whether you're tuning machine learning models, recommending products to customers, or engaging in research, Bayesian Optimisation can help you make better decisions faster.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Systems
Book SynopsisSystems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications Second Edition Brian Wilson Department of Systems and Information Management Lancaster University, UK The result of many years? experience, this book, now extensively revised and updated, emphasizes the application of systems concepts and methodologies that have been developed at Lancaster University. In particular the book is about problem solving and the relationship between theory and practice. Complementary to Systems Thinking, Systems Practice by Peter Checkland (Wiley, 1981), which has become a classic in the field, this book shows how systems ideas can be used to cope with real-life problems. Reviews of the first edition? ? an excellent book which provides a synthesis of the action-research undertaken by the well-known Department of Systems, University of Lancaster ? Wilson?s lucid style of writing and the historical perspective of the Lancaster learning experience provide a strong contextural case for the concept of a human actiTable of ContentsModels and Modeling. A Systems Language. Systems Methodologies. Problem-Solving and Methodology. Management Control. Analysis of Business Information. Role Analysis. Appendices. References. Index.
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Penguin Books Ltd Girl Decoded My Quest to Make Technology
Book SynopsisRana el Kaliouby, Ph.D. is a pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (EI), as well as the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, the acclaimed startup spun off from the MIT Media Lab. She grew up in Cairo, Egypt, studying an undergraduate and master's degree in computer science at the American University in Cairo. She attended Cambridge University, where she earned her Ph.D. Her company works with more than a quarter of the companies in the Fortune Global 500. An acclaimed TED speaker, Rana was named by Forbes to their list of America's Top 50 Women in Tech and Fortune included her in their list of 40 Under 40.
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Pearson Education Modern Systems Analysis and Design Global Edition
Book SynopsisAbout our authors Joseph S. Valacich is an Eller professor of management information systems in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. He has had visiting faculty appointments at Buskerud College (Norway), City University of Hong Kong, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Riga Technical University (Latvia), and Helsinki School of Economics and Business. He received a PhD from the University of Arizona (MIS), and an MBA and a BS degree in computer science from the University of Montana. His teaching interests include systems analysis and design, collaborative computing, project management, and management of information systems. Dr. Valacich co-chaired the national task forces to design IS 2010: The Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems. He also served on the Executive Committee, funded by the National Science Foundation, to define the IS Program Accreditation Standards and on the Board of Directors for CSAB (formally, the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board), representing the Association for Information Systems (AIS). He was the general conference co-chair for the 2003 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), and the co-chair for the Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in 2012. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Valacich worked in the information systems field as a programmer, a systems analyst, and a technical product manager. He has conducted numerous corporate training and executive development programs for organizations, including AT&T, Boeing, Dow Chemical, EDS, Exxon, FedEx, General Motors, Microsoft, and Xerox. Dr. Valacich is the co-editor-in-chief of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, a senior editor at MIS Quarterly, and was formerly an associate editor for Information Systems Research. He has published more than 200 scholarly articles in numerous prestigious journals and conferences. His scholarly work has had a tremendous impact not only on the field of information systems, but also on a number of other disciplines, including computer science, cognitive and social psychology, marketing, and management. In February 2014, Google Scholar listed his citation counts at over 13,800, with an H-index of 54. He is also a coauthor of the leading Modern Systems Analysis and Design, 7th Edition, and Information Systems Today, 7th Edition. Joey F. George is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University. Dr. George earned his bachelor's degree at Stanford University in 1979 and his PhD in management at the University of California at Irvine in 1986. He served at Florida State University as chair of the Department of Information and Management Sciences from 1995 to 1998 and as Associate Dean for Research in the Ivy College from 2019 to 2021. Dr. George has published over 95 articles in such academic journals as Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, and Communication Research. His research interests focus on the use of information systems in the workplace, including computer-based monitoring, computer-mediated deceptive communication, and group support systems. Dr. George has been a coauthor of Modern Systems Analysis and Design since its inception. Dr. George has served as an associate editor and senior editor for both MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research. For three years he was editor-in-chief of the Communications of the AIS. He was the conference co-chair for the 2001 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), held in New Orleans, Louisiana; conference chair for the 2012 ICIS, held in Orlando, Florida; and conference co-chair of the virtual (due to the pandemic) ICIS meeting in 2020. He is a fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and served as president of AIS from 2010 to 2011. AIS awarded him its highest honor, the LEO lifetime achievement award, in 2014.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Data Deduplication for High Performance Storage
Book SynopsisThis book comprehensively introduces data deduplication technologies for storage systems. It first presents the overview of data deduplication including its theoretical basis, basic workflow, application scenarios and its key technologies, and then the book focuses on each key technology of the deduplication to provide an insight into the evolution of the technology over the years including chunking algorithms, indexing schemes, fragmentation reduced schemes, rewriting algorithm and security solution. In particular, the state-of-the-art solutions and the newly proposed solutions are both elaborated. At the end of the book, the author discusses the fundamental trade-offs in each of deduplication design choices and propose an open-source deduplication prototype. The book with its fundamental theories and complete survey can guide the beginners, students and practitioners working on data deduplication in storage system. It also provides a compact reference in the perspective of key data deduplication technologies for those researchers in developing high performance storage solutions.Table of ContentsPreface.- Deduplication: Beginning from Data Backup System.- Overview of Data Deduplication.- Chunking Algorithms.- Indexing Schemes.- Rewriting Algorithms.- Secure Deduplication.- Post-deduplication Delta Compression Schemes.- The Framework of Data Deduplication.- References.
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MIT Press How to Design Programs An Introduction to
Book SynopsisA completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process, presenting program design guidelines that show the reader how to analyze a problem statement, how to formulate concise goals, how to make up examples, how to develop an outline of the solution, how to finish the program, and how to test it. Because learning to design programs is about the study of principles and the acquisition of transferable skills, the text does not use an off-the-shelf industrial language but presents a tailor-made teaching language. For the same reason, it offers DrRacket, a programming environment for novices that supports playful, feedback-oriented learning. The environment grows with readers as
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De Gruyter Systems Performance Modeling
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PHI Learning Computer Organization and Design
Book SynopsisThoroughly revised edition on Computer Organization and Design covers recent developments in Computer Architecture, including RISC and parallel processing. Explains how complex digital functions are realized through interconnected networks of digital blocks. Keeps students updated on technology and pedagogy in computer science and engineering.
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Laxmi Publications Network Analysis and Synthesis
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Voracious You Look Like a Thing and I Love You How
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Springer Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications Proceedings of the Workshop on Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications Held June 26 2004 in Saint Malo France Coregrid
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Springer Integrated Research in GRID Computing CoreGRID Integration Workshop 2005 Selected Papers November 2830 Pisa Italy
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Springer Lean Business Systems and Beyond
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Springer Parallel Processing and Parallel Algorithms Theory and Computation
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iUniverse Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis Meditations on Computer Systems Development
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Springer Parallel Language and Compiler Research in Japan
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Springer Languages Compilers and RunTime Systems for Scalable Computers
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Springer Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures
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Springer Advances in Systems Safety
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Provoking Thoughts Bridging the Communication Gap Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing
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Cody-Cassidy Press Bpmn Method and Style 2nd Edition with Bpmn Implementers Guide
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Designing for Service
Book SynopsisDaniela Sangiorgi is Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.Alison Prendiville is Senior Researcher for the Design School at London College of Communication, UK.Trade ReviewFew books are as timely as this one. Commercial and public sector interest in service design is growing rapidly, the impact of a service design approach is now well understood and many different forms of service design practice are emerging in different parts of the world. Daniela and Alison are two research practitioners who have been at the heart of many of these developments; in this book they both very generously share their perspectives and provide clear frameworks based on the insights of many other contributors. * Tom Inns, Director of Glasgow School of Art, UK *With the popularity and growth in the field of service design, we need more scholars to ask the harder questions about how interventions are made and what changes these are making to our lives. Designing for Service is a compelling collection of rich, insightful and interrogative essays that discuss salient issues and elusive themes in service design that few other 'how to' books have addressed. * Yoko Akama, Associate Professor of Design at RMIT University, Australia *Table of Contents1. Introduction by Daniela Sangiorgi and Alison Prendiville 1.1 A short introduction to Service Design 1.2 Evolution of the concepts of ‘design’ and ‘service’ 1.3 Service design impact and contribution to service development and implementation 1.4 Interest for and application of Design skills and approaches by non-designers 1.5 Development of boundary areas 1.6 The structure of the book SECTION I The Lay of the Land in Designing for Service 2. Expanding (Service) Design Spaces by Daniela Sangiorgi, Alison Prendiville and Jeyon Jung 2.1 Complementary perspectives on design-led service innovation 2.1.1 A stages-process understanding of Service Design 2.1.2 An outcome perspective on Service Design 2.1.3 A practice perspective on Service Design 2.2 Expanding Service Design spaces 2.2.1 Before Design 2.2.2 During Design 2.2.3 After Design 2.3 Discussion 3. Designing vs. Designers: How Organizational Design Narratives Shift the Focus from Designers to Designing by Sabine Junginger and Stuart Bailey 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Narratives in Design and Design Narratives for Organizations 3.3 Organizational Design Narratives as Enablers for Organizational Learning 3.3.1 Designers versus designing 3.4 Role and Function of an Organizational Design Narrative 3.4.1 What does an Organizational Design Narrative look like? Three Examples 3.5 Summary and Conclusion 4. Designing for Interdependence, Participation and Emergence in Complex Service Systems by Daniela Sangiorgi, Lia Patricio and Raymond Fisk 4.1 The increasing complexity of the service context 4.2 Evolution of Service Design - more actors, more interdependencies, and less control 4.3 Emerging Service Design strategies and principles 4.3.1 Design and Interdependence 4.3.2 Design and Participation 4.3.3 Design and Emergence 4.4 Discussion 5. Specialist Service Design Consulting: The end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end? by Eva-Maria Kirchberger and Bruce S. Tether 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The end of the beginning?: Engine’s Big Break: The Dubai Airport Project 5.3 The beginning of the end? The ‘Big Beasts’ of Management Consulting close in on Service Design 5.4 What Next for the Independent, Specialist Service Design Consultants? SECTION II Contemporary Discourses and Influence in Designing for Service 6. The object of service design by Lucy Kimbell and Jeanette Blomberg 6.1 Introduction 6.2 A platform to surface the complexities 6.3 Three perspectives on the object of Service Design 6.3.1 The service encounter 6.3.2 The value co-creating system 6.3.3 The socio-material configuration 6.4 Implications for design 6.4.1 Cosmologies 6.4.2 Accountabilities 6.4.3 Temporalities 6.4.4 Politics 6.4.5 Expertise 6.5 Conclusion 7. Breaking free from NSD: Design and service beyond new service development by Stefan Holmlid, Katarina Wetter-Edman and Bo Edvardsson 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Limits of New Service Development 7.3 Opening up to a service logic 7.3.1 Exploring existing configurations of resource integration 7.3.2 Reconfiguring constellations of resource integration 7.3.3 Implications for designing and service 7.4 Beyond the limitations 8. Designing on the spikes of injustice: representation and co-design by Katie Collins, Mary Rose Cook and Joanna Choukeir 8.1 What is representation? 8.2 Participation in service design 8.3 Entwining strands 8.4 Whose participation is it anyway? 8.5 Conclusions 9. Co-design, organisational creativity and quality improvement in the healthcare sector: ‘designerly’ or ‘design-like’? Glenn Robert and Alastair S. Macdonald 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The healthcare sector 9.2.1 Development and local implementation 9.2.2 Quality Improvement (QI) in healthcare 9.3 The Service Design perspective 9.3.1 Publics and infrastructuring 9.4 Healthcare Quality Improvement & Design-based approaches 9.4.1 Case study 1 9.4.2 Case study 2 9.5 Bridging the divide: infrastructuring to release organisational creativity and improve service quality 9.6 Organisational creativity 9.7 Designerly or design-like? 9.8. Conclusions SECTION III Designing for Service in Public and Social Spaces 10. Service Design and the Edge Effect by Robert Young and Laura Warwick 10.1 Introduction 10.2 The state of the VCS 10.3 The fragmentary ascendency of design 10.4 Exposure to design to support the Paradigm 10.5 Continuous engagement with design to support the Paradigm 10.6 The design of infrastructure to support the Paradigm 10.7 Conclusion 11. Service Design as a sensemaking activity: Insights from low-income communities in Latin America by Carla Cipolla and Javier Reynoso 11.1 Social innovations and indigenous services in low-income communities 11.2 Interpretative framework: indigenous services, cultural values, and sensemaking 11.2.1 Sensemaking analysis: Local culture (Level 1) 11.2.2 Sensemaking analysis: Indigenous solution (Level 2) 11.3 Interpretative framework application: Examples from Brazil and Mexico 11.4 Brazil 11.4.1 Context: favelas in Rio de Janeiro 11.4.2 Favela Orgânica 11.4.3 Analysis: Local culture (Level 1) 11.4.4 Analysis: Indigenous solution (Level 2) 11.4.5 Service development and operation 11.4.6 Socio-cultural qualities of the service 11.5 Mexico 11.5.1 Context: Indigenous groups in Mexico 11.5.2 Case: Red Indígena de Turismo de México (RITA) 11.5.3 Analysis: Local culture (Level 1) 11.5.4 Analysis: Indigenous solution (level 2) 11.5.5 Developing and operating the service 11.5.6 Socio-cultural qualities of the service 11.6 Conclusions 12. The Social Innovation Journey. Emerging challenges in Service Design for the incubation of social innovation by Anna Meroni, Marta Corubolo and Matteo Bartolomeo 12.1 Design for services and for social innovation 12.2 Service Design when it comes to incubating and scaling social innovation 12.2.1 Scaling means increasing the capacity of a social innovation to be self-sustainable and make an impact 12.2.2 A consistent body of knowledge 12.2.3 The Social Innovation Journey 12.2.4 The contribution of Service Design 12.3 Social innovation in the Milanese context 12.3.1 Social innovations are dependent on their context and promoters 12.3.2 Social innovations are relational, collaborative, multi-stakeholder and adaptive services 12.3.3 Social innovations are entrepreneurial, conflicting and diversified ventures 12.4 Discussion 13. Service Design in Policy Making by Camilla Buchanan, Sabine Junginger and Nina Terrey 13.1 Growing interest in Service Design from policy makers 13.2 Service Design methods in policy making 13.3 Key contributions of Service Design to policy making 13.4 Examples from Australia, the UK and Germany 13.5 Key groups driving using Service Design in policy making 13.6 The need for service designers to understand policy making processes 13.7 Challenges for service designers in policy making 13.8 New ethical questions for Service Design 13.9 Conclusion SECTION IV _ Designing for Service, Shifting Economies, Emerging Markets 14. The potential of Service Design as a route to product-service systems by Tracy Bhamra, Andrew T. 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Making sense of Data through Service Design - opportunities and reflections Alison Prendiville, Ian Gwilt and Val Mitchell 16.1 Introduction 16.2 Notions of data 16.3 Sense Making: translation, visualisation and personalisation 16.3.1 Translation 16.3.2 Visualisation 16.3.3 Personalisation 16.3.4 How does the interaction between Service Design and data effect stakeholders? 16.4 Conclusion 17. 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