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Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing

29th International Conference, CollabTech 2023, Osaka, Japan, August 29–September 1, 2023, Proceedings

Edited by Hideyuki Takada, D. Moritz Marutschke, Claudio Alvarez, Tomoo Inoue, Yugo Hayashi, Davinia Hernandez-Leo ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing, CollabTech 2023, held in Osaka, Japan, during August 29–September 1, 2023, in hybrid mode.The 8 full papers presented in this book together with 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions.The papers focus on innovative technical, ... Read more

$83.29 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing, CollabTech 2023, held in Osaka, Japan, during August 29–September 1, 2023, in hybrid mode.The 8 full papers presented in this book together with 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions.The papers focus on innovative technical,
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Software Technologies

9th International Joint Conference, ICSOFT 2014, Vienna, Austria, August 29-31, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Andreas Holzinger, Jorge Cardoso, José Cordeiro, Therese Libourel, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marten van Sinderen ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014.The 15 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers focus on enterprise software technologies; software engineering and systems security; ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014.The 15 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers focus on enterprise software technologies; software engineering and systems security;
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Quality of Synthetic Speech

Perceptual Dimensions, Influencing Factors, and Instrumental Assessment

by Florian Hinterleitner ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and intelligibility, (iv) absence of disturbances, and (v) calmness. Moreover, a test protocol for the ... Read more

$140.89 CAD

This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and intelligibility, (iv) absence of disturbances, and (v) calmness. Moreover, a test protocol for the
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Genetic Programming

21st European Conference, EuroGP 2018, Parma, Italy, April 4-6, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Mauro Castelli, Lukas Sekanina, Mengjie Zhang, Stefano Cagnoni, Pablo García-Sánchez ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2018, held in Parma, Italy, in April 2018, co-located with the Evo* 2018 events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EvoApplications.The 11 revised full papers presented together with 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2018, held in Parma, Italy, in April 2018, co-located with the Evo* 2018 events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EvoApplications.The 11 revised full papers presented together with 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume
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Systems Programming in Unix/Linux

by K.C. Wang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Covering all the essential components of Unix/Linux, including process management, concurrent programming, timer and time service, file systems and network programming, this textbook emphasizes programming practice in the Unix/Linux environment. Systems Programming in Unix/Linux is intended as a textbook for systems programming courses in technically-oriented Computer Science/Engineering curricula ... Read more

$76.89 CAD

Covering all the essential components of Unix/Linux, including process management, concurrent programming, timer and time service, file systems and network programming, this textbook emphasizes programming practice in the Unix/Linux environment. Systems Programming in Unix/Linux is intended as a textbook for systems programming courses in technically-oriented Computer Science/Engineering curricula
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E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training

Third International Conference, eLEOT 2016, Dublin, Ireland, August 31 – September 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Markus Helfert, Alberto Bucciero, Matthias Glowatz, Giovanni Vincenti ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training, eLEOT 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, August 31 – September 2, 2016.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They focus on topics as augmented reality learning, blended learning, learning analytics, mobile learning, virtual ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training, eLEOT 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, August 31 – September 2, 2016.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They focus on topics as augmented reality learning, blended learning, learning analytics, mobile learning, virtual
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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

14th Annual Conference, TAROS 2013, Oxford, UK, August 28--30, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Mark Witkowski, Chris Melhuish, Stephen Cameron, Ashutosh Natraj ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Conference on Advances in Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2013, held in Oxford, UK, in August 2013. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 25 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired and aerial robotics, computer vision, ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Conference on Advances in Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2013, held in Oxford, UK, in August 2013. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 25 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired and aerial robotics, computer vision,
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Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

Collaborate, predict and solve business intelligence problems with cloud computing

by Riaz Ahmed, David Lai ...

Start making better business decisions backed by dataKey FeaturesPredict new opportunities and risks in a few mouse clicksEliminate complexity with tools that let you plan, analyze, and collaborate in context—in real timeDiscover, visualize, plan, and predict in a single product with agile BI toolsBook DescriptionThe book starts with the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud (formerly known as SAP ... Read more

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Start making better business decisions backed by dataKey FeaturesPredict new opportunities and risks in a few mouse clicksEliminate complexity with tools that let you plan, analyze, and collaborate in context—in real timeDiscover, visualize, plan, and predict in a single product with agile BI toolsBook DescriptionThe book starts with the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud (formerly known as SAP
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HCI Redux

The Promise of Post-Cognitive Interaction

by Phil Turner ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book explores the role of cognition in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) assessing how the field has developed over the past thirty years and discusses where the field is heading, as we begin to live in increasingly interconnected digital environments.Taking a broad chronological view, the author discusses cognition in relation to areas like make-believe, and appropriation, and ... Read more

$115.29 CAD

This book explores the role of cognition in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) assessing how the field has developed over the past thirty years and discusses where the field is heading, as we begin to live in increasingly interconnected digital environments.Taking a broad chronological view, the author discusses cognition in relation to areas like make-believe, and appropriation, and
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Social Robotics

8th International Conference, ICSR 2016, Kansas City, MO, USA, November 1-3, 2016 Proceedings

Edited by Arvin Agah, John-John Cabibihan, Ayanna M. Howard, Miguel A. Salichs, Hongsheng He ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016, held in Kansas City, MO, USA, in November 2016. The 98 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions.The theme of the 2016 conference is Sociorobotics: Design and implementation of social behaviors of robots interacting with each other and ... Read more

$115.29 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016, held in Kansas City, MO, USA, in November 2016. The 98 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions.The theme of the 2016 conference is Sociorobotics: Design and implementation of social behaviors of robots interacting with each other and
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Advances in Neuromorphic Hardware Exploiting Emerging Nanoscale Devices

Edited by Manan Suri ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book covers all major aspects of cutting-edge research in the field of neuromorphic hardware engineering involving emerging nanoscale devices. Special emphasis is given to leading works in hybrid low-power CMOS-Nanodevice design. The book offers readers a bidirectional (top-down and bottom-up) perspective on designing efficient bio-inspired hardware. At the nanodevice level, it focuses on ... Read more

$166.49 CAD

This book covers all major aspects of cutting-edge research in the field of neuromorphic hardware engineering involving emerging nanoscale devices. Special emphasis is given to leading works in hybrid low-power CMOS-Nanodevice design. The book offers readers a bidirectional (top-down and bottom-up) perspective on designing efficient bio-inspired hardware. At the nanodevice level, it focuses on
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Internet of Things: Novel Advances and Envisioned Applications

Edited by D. P. Acharjya, M. Kalaiselvi Geetha ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book focuses on a combination of theoretical advances in the Internet of Things, cloud computing and its real-life applications to serve society. The book discusses technological innovations, authentication, mobility support and security, group rekeying schemes and a range of concrete applications.The Internet has restructured not only global interrelations, but also an unbelievable number of ... Read more

$179.39 CAD

This book focuses on a combination of theoretical advances in the Internet of Things, cloud computing and its real-life applications to serve society. The book discusses technological innovations, authentication, mobility support and security, group rekeying schemes and a range of concrete applications.The Internet has restructured not only global interrelations, but also an unbelievable number of
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Behavior Modeling -- Foundations and Applications

International Workshops, BM-FA 2009-2014, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Christian Gerth, Ella Roubtsova, Ashley McNeile, Ekkart Kindler ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the six International Workshops on Behavior Modelling - Foundations and Applications, BM-FA, which took place annually between 2009 and 2014.The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 58 papers presented at these 6 workshops. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: modelling ... Read more

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the six International Workshops on Behavior Modelling - Foundations and Applications, BM-FA, which took place annually between 2009 and 2014.The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 58 papers presented at these 6 workshops. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: modelling
... Read more
Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes

7th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2018, London, UK, July 9-10, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Khalid Belhajjame, Ashish Gehani, Pinar Alper ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2018, held in London, UK, in July 2018.The 12 revised full papers, 19 poster papers, and 2 demonstration papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers feature a variety of provenance-related topics ranging from the capture and inference of ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2018, held in London, UK, in July 2018.The 12 revised full papers, 19 poster papers, and 2 demonstration papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers feature a variety of provenance-related topics ranging from the capture and inference of
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Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things

International Workshop, FP7 OpenIoT Project, Held in Conjunction with SoftCOM 2014, Split, Croatia, September 18, 2014, Invited Papers

Edited by Martin Serrano, Ivana Podnar Žarko, Krešimir Pripužić ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things, FP7 OpenIot Project, held in Conjunction with SoftCOM 2014, in Split, Croatia, in September 2014.The 11 revised full papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

$51.29 CAD

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things, FP7 OpenIot Project, held in Conjunction with SoftCOM 2014, in Split, Croatia, in September 2014.The 11 revised full papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and
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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference

10th International Conference, Diagrams 2018, Edinburgh, UK, June 18-22, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Peter Chapman, Gem Stapleton, Amirouche Moktefi, Sarah Perez-Kriz, Francesco Bellucci ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2018, held in Edinburgh, UK, in June 2018.The 26 revised full papers and 28 short papers presented together with 32 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: generating and ... Read more

$115.29 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2018, held in Edinburgh, UK, in June 2018.The 26 revised full papers and 28 short papers presented together with 32 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: generating and
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Search Based Software Engineering

9th International Symposium, SSBSE 2017, Paderborn, Germany, September 9-11, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Tim Menzies, Justyna Petke ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2017, held in Paderborn, Germany, in September 2017.The 7 full papers and 5 short papers presented together with 4 challenge track and 2 students student track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.SSBSE welcomes not only applications from ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2017, held in Paderborn, Germany, in September 2017.The 7 full papers and 5 short papers presented together with 4 challenge track and 2 students student track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.SSBSE welcomes not only applications from
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Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction

Second International Workshop, MA3HMI 2014, Held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, Singapore, September 14, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Ronald Böck, Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Ronald Poppe ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human Interaction, MA3HMI 2014, held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, in Singapore, Singapore, on September 14th, 2014.The 9 revised papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They ... Read more

$51.29 CAD

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human Interaction, MA3HMI 2014, held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, in Singapore, Singapore, on September 14th, 2014.The 9 revised papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They
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Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

by Raymond M. Smullyan ...

Series series Oxford Logic Guides
Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of our time, startled the world of mathematics in 1931 with his Theorem of Undecidability, which showed that some statements in mathematics are inherently "undecidable." His work on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum theory brought him further worldwide fame. In this ... Read more

$299.19 CAD

Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of our time, startled the world of mathematics in 1931 with his Theorem of Undecidability, which showed that some statements in mathematics are inherently "undecidable." His work on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum theory brought him further worldwide fame. In this
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Excel draaitabellen en -grafieken Visuele handleiding in stappen

by A. J. Wright ...

Hoe kun je dit boek gebruiken?Dit boek kan worden gebruikt als een handleiding of als een snelle visuele referentiegids. Het is bedoeld voor gebruikers die vertrouwd zijn met de basisbeginselen van Microsoft® Excel® en nu verder willen gaan met draaitabellen en -grafieken.Dit boek gaat ervan uit dat je al weet hoe je een Excel®-werkmap maakt, opent, opslaat en wijzigt en dat je bekend bent met de ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

Hoe kun je dit boek gebruiken?Dit boek kan worden gebruikt als een handleiding of als een snelle visuele referentiegids. Het is bedoeld voor gebruikers die vertrouwd zijn met de basisbeginselen van Microsoft® Excel® en nu verder willen gaan met draaitabellen en -grafieken.Dit boek gaat ervan uit dat je al weet hoe je een Excel®-werkmap maakt, opent, opslaat en wijzigt en dat je bekend bent met de
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Open Multithreaded Transactions

A Transaction Model for Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming

by Jörg Kienzle ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
$115.29 CAD
Artificial and Cognitive Computing for Sustainable Healthcare Systems in Smart Cities

Edited by Devasis Pradhan, Prasanna Kumar Sahu, Hla Myo Tun, Prasenjit Chatterjee ...

Artificial and Cognitive Computing for Sustainable Healthcare Systems in Smart Cities delves into the transformative potential of artificial and cognitive computing in the realm of healthcare systems, maintaining a specific emphasis on sustainability.By exploring the integration of advanced technologies in smart cities, the authors examine and discuss how AI and cognitive computing can be ... Read more

$188.99 CAD

Artificial and Cognitive Computing for Sustainable Healthcare Systems in Smart Cities delves into the transformative potential of artificial and cognitive computing in the realm of healthcare systems, maintaining a specific emphasis on sustainability.By exploring the integration of advanced technologies in smart cities, the authors examine and discuss how AI and cognitive computing can be
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Hugging Face in Action

Build intelligent applications with transformers, agents, and RAG

by Wei-Meng Lee ...

Everything you need to know about using the tools, libraries, and models at Hugging Face—from transformers, to RAG, LangChain, and Gradio.Hugging Face in Action reveals how to get the absolute best out of everything Hugging Face, from accessing state-of-the-art models to building intuitive frontends for AI apps.With Hugging Face in Action you’ll learn:Utilizing Hugging Face Transformers and ... Read more

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Everything you need to know about using the tools, libraries, and models at Hugging Face—from transformers, to RAG, LangChain, and Gradio.Hugging Face in Action reveals how to get the absolute best out of everything Hugging Face, from accessing state-of-the-art models to building intuitive frontends for AI apps.With Hugging Face in Action you’ll learn:Utilizing Hugging Face Transformers and
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Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments

by Wolfgang Minker, Tobias Heinroth ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments outlines the formalisms of a novel knowledge-driven framework for spoken dialogue management and presents the implementation of a model-based Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Manager(ASDM) called OwlSpeak. The authors have identified three stakeholders that potentially influence the behavior of the ASDM: the user, the SDS, and a complex ... Read more

$115.29 CAD

Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments outlines the formalisms of a novel knowledge-driven framework for spoken dialogue management and presents the implementation of a model-based Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Manager(ASDM) called OwlSpeak. The authors have identified three stakeholders that potentially influence the behavior of the ASDM: the user, the SDS, and a complex
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