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Programming Languages and Systems

16th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2018, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2–6, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Sukyoung Ryu ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2018, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in December 2018.The 22 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: types; program analysis; tools; functional programs and probabilistic programs; ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2018, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in December 2018.The 22 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: types; program analysis; tools; functional programs and probabilistic programs;
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Learning Technology for Education in Cloud – The Changing Face of Education

5th International Workshop, LTEC 2016, Hagen, Germany, July 25-28, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Lorna Uden, Dario Liberona, Birgit Feldmann ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud, LTEC 2016, held in Hagen, Germany, in July 2016.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning technologies; learning tools and environment; MOOC for learning; problem ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud, LTEC 2016, held in Hagen, Germany, in July 2016.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning technologies; learning tools and environment; MOOC for learning; problem
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Extended Reality

International Conference, XR Salento 2025, Otranto, Italy, June 17–20, 2025, Proceedings, Part VII

Edited by Lucio Tommaso De Paolis, Pasquale Arpaia, Marco Sacco ...

Series Book 7 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The seven-volume set LNCS 15737-15743 constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2025, held in Otranto, Italy, during June 17-20, 2025.The 128 full papers presented together with 65 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 256 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Virtual Reality; and Augmented ... Read more

$93.99 CAD

The seven-volume set LNCS 15737-15743 constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2025, held in Otranto, Italy, during June 17-20, 2025.The 128 full papers presented together with 65 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 256 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Virtual Reality; and Augmented
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Tecnosapiens

Cripto, IA y escaloneta. Cápsulas para entender el nuevo mundo

by Santiago Siri ...

Tecnosapiens explora, a través de experiencias personales, las innovaciones tecnológicas más impactantes de nuestro presente de la mano del máximo referente en estos temas.Santiago Siri propone una hoja de ruta audaz para repensar el rol de la inteligencia artificial, el software libre y el bitcoin en la creación de un nuevo orden político y económico. Tecnosapiens no es solo un testimonio de vida ... Read more

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Tecnosapiens explora, a través de experiencias personales, las innovaciones tecnológicas más impactantes de nuestro presente de la mano del máximo referente en estos temas.Santiago Siri propone una hoja de ruta audaz para repensar el rol de la inteligencia artificial, el software libre y el bitcoin en la creación de un nuevo orden político y económico. Tecnosapiens no es solo un testimonio de vida
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A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

by Michael Friendly, Howard Wainer ...

A comprehensive history of data visualization—its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems.With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time, interactive traffic data. A color-coded map of exit polls details election balloting down to the county level. Charts communicate stock market trends, ... Read more

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A comprehensive history of data visualization—its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems.With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time, interactive traffic data. A color-coded map of exit polls details election balloting down to the county level. Charts communicate stock market trends,
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Securing Next-Generation Connected Healthcare Systems

Artificial Intelligence Technologies

Edited by Deepak Gupta, Aboul Ella Hassanien ...

Securing Next-Generation Connected Healthcare Systems focuses on the crucial aspects of IoT security in a connected environment, which will not only benefit from cutting-edge methodological approaches but also assist in the rapid scalability and improvement of these systems. This book shows how to utilize technologies like blockchain and its integration with IoT for communication, data security, ... Read more

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Securing Next-Generation Connected Healthcare Systems focuses on the crucial aspects of IoT security in a connected environment, which will not only benefit from cutting-edge methodological approaches but also assist in the rapid scalability and improvement of these systems. This book shows how to utilize technologies like blockchain and its integration with IoT for communication, data security,
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Make a 2D RPG in a Weekend

Second Edition: With RPG Maker MV

by Darrin Perez ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Updated for RPG Maker MV using JavaScript, Make a 2D RPG in a Weekend shows you how to create your very own dungeon crawler game in RPG Maker MV in a single weekend. The entire process, from start to finish, is covered within this book. You will see a variety of dungeon maps and events, all broken down for your convenience.One of the hardest parts of game development is actually finishing a game, ... Read more

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Updated for RPG Maker MV using JavaScript, Make a 2D RPG in a Weekend shows you how to create your very own dungeon crawler game in RPG Maker MV in a single weekend. The entire process, from start to finish, is covered within this book. You will see a variety of dungeon maps and events, all broken down for your convenience.One of the hardest parts of game development is actually finishing a game,
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Healthcare Technology Management Systems

Towards a New Organizational Model for Health Services

by Luis Vilcahuamán, Rossana Rivas ...

Healthcare Technology Management Systems provides a model for implementing an effective healthcare technology management (HTM) system in hospitals and healthcare provider settings, as well as promoting a new analysis of hospital organization for decision-making regarding technology. Despite healthcare complexity and challenges, current models of management and organization of technology in ... Read more

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Healthcare Technology Management Systems provides a model for implementing an effective healthcare technology management (HTM) system in hospitals and healthcare provider settings, as well as promoting a new analysis of hospital organization for decision-making regarding technology. Despite healthcare complexity and challenges, current models of management and organization of technology in
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Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Context

17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Sakae Yamamoto ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNCS 9172 and 9173 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Interface and the Management of Information thematic track, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the ... Read more

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The two-volume set LNCS 9172 and 9173 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Interface and the Management of Information thematic track, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the
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Software Engineering and Formal Methods

13th International Conference, SEFM 2015, York, UK, September 7-11, 2015. Proceedings

Edited by Radu Calinescu, Bernhard Rumpe ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2015, held in York, UK, in September 2015.The 17 full papers presented together with 2 invited and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The topics of interest included the following aspects of software engineering and formal ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2015, held in York, UK, in September 2015.The 17 full papers presented together with 2 invited and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The topics of interest included the following aspects of software engineering and formal
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Beginning Application Lifecycle Management

by Joachim Rossberg ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Beginning Application Lifecycle Management is a guide to an area of rapidly growing interest within the development community: managing the entire cycle of building software. ALM is an area that spans everything from requirements specifications to retirement of an IT-system or application. Because its techniques allow you to deal with the process of developing applications across many areas of ... Read more

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Beginning Application Lifecycle Management is a guide to an area of rapidly growing interest within the development community: managing the entire cycle of building software. ALM is an area that spans everything from requirements specifications to retirement of an IT-system or application. Because its techniques allow you to deal with the process of developing applications across many areas of
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Business Intelligence Career Master Plan

Launch and advance your BI career with proven techniques and actionable insights

by Eduardo Chavez, Danny Moncada ...

Learn the foundations of business intelligence, sector trade-offs, organizational structures, and technology stacks while mastering coursework, certifications, and interview success strategies Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesIdentify promising job opportunities and ideal entry point into BIBuild, design, implement, and maintain BI systems successfullyAce ... Read more

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Learn the foundations of business intelligence, sector trade-offs, organizational structures, and technology stacks while mastering coursework, certifications, and interview success strategies Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesIdentify promising job opportunities and ideal entry point into BIBuild, design, implement, and maintain BI systems successfullyAce
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Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Thinking and Methods

5th International Conference, DUXU 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17–22, 2016, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Aaron Marcus ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1287 papers presented at the HCII 2016 ... Read more

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The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1287 papers presented at the HCII 2016
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Predicting User Performance and Errors

Automated Usability Evaluation Through Computational Introspection of Model-Based User Interfaces

by Marc Halbrügge ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book proposes a combination of cognitive modeling with model-based user interface development to tackle the problem of maintaining the usability of applications that target several device types at once (e.g., desktop PC, smart phone, smart TV). Model-based applications provide interesting meta-information about the elements of the user interface (UI) that are accessible through computational ... Read more

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This book proposes a combination of cognitive modeling with model-based user interface development to tackle the problem of maintaining the usability of applications that target several device types at once (e.g., desktop PC, smart phone, smart TV). Model-based applications provide interesting meta-information about the elements of the user interface (UI) that are accessible through computational
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Integrating Psychoinformatics with Ubiquitous Social Networking

Advanced Mobile-Sensing Concepts and Applications

by Felix Beierle ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book deepens the understanding of people through smartphone data obtained via mobile sensing and applies psychological insights for social networking applications. The author first introduces TYDR, an application for researching smartphone data and user personality. A novel, structured privacy model for mobile sensing applications is developed and the obtained empirical results help ... Read more

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This book deepens the understanding of people through smartphone data obtained via mobile sensing and applies psychological insights for social networking applications. The author first introduces TYDR, an application for researching smartphone data and user personality. A novel, structured privacy model for mobile sensing applications is developed and the obtained empirical results help
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Creative Convergence

The AI Renaissance in Art and Design

by James Hutson, Jason Lively, Bryan Robertson, Peter Cotroneo, Martin Lang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Embark on a journey that transcends the boundaries of art and technology in the groundbreaking realm of Creative Convergence: The AI Renaissance in Art and Design. This isn't just another book on art and technology- it's a journey that sparks curiosity, fuels innovation, and challenges traditional artistic boundaries.Discover the power of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it melds with ... Read more

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Embark on a journey that transcends the boundaries of art and technology in the groundbreaking realm of Creative Convergence: The AI Renaissance in Art and Design. This isn't just another book on art and technology- it's a journey that sparks curiosity, fuels innovation, and challenges traditional artistic boundaries.Discover the power of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it melds with
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Man-Machine Speech Communication

17th National Conference, NCMMSC 2022, Hefei, China, December 15–18, 2022, Proceedings

Edited by Ling Zhenhua, Gao Jianqing, Yu Kai, Jia Jia ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Man–Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2022, held in China, in December 2022.The 21 full papers and 7 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: MCPN: A Multiple Cross-Perception Network for Real-Time Emotion ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Man–Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2022, held in China, in December 2022.The 21 full papers and 7 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: MCPN: A Multiple Cross-Perception Network for Real-Time Emotion
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Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization

IFIP TC9 Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers August 25–28, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland

Edited by Silvio Munari, Colin Beardon, Leif Bloch Rasmussen ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
In modernity, an individual identity was constituted from civil society, while in a globalized network society, human identity, if it develops at all, must grow from communal resistance. A communal resistance to an abstract conceptualised world, where there is no possibility for perception and experience of power and therefore no possibility for human choice and action, is of utmost importance for ... Read more

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In modernity, an individual identity was constituted from civil society, while in a globalized network society, human identity, if it develops at all, must grow from communal resistance. A communal resistance to an abstract conceptualised world, where there is no possibility for perception and experience of power and therefore no possibility for human choice and action, is of utmost importance for
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Augmented Reality

Where We Will All Live

by Jon Peddie ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book provides an in-depth exploration of the field of augmented reality (AR) in its entirety and sets out to distinguish AR from other inter-related technologies like virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR).The author presents AR from its initial philosophies and early developments, to its current technologies and its impact on our modern society, to its possible future developments; ... Read more

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This book provides an in-depth exploration of the field of augmented reality (AR) in its entirety and sets out to distinguish AR from other inter-related technologies like virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR).The author presents AR from its initial philosophies and early developments, to its current technologies and its impact on our modern society, to its possible future developments;
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Building Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloud

A Simple Guide to Programming and Administering Cloud-Based Applications

by Jonathan Bartlett ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Eliminate the guesswork involved in writing and deploying a cloud application. This step-by-step guide uses PHP to minimize the complexity of the code and setup, but the tools and techniques can be applied on any platform using any language. Everything that you need to jumpstart your application on the cloud is right here.Clear diagrams, step-by-step configuration information, and complete code ... Read more

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Eliminate the guesswork involved in writing and deploying a cloud application. This step-by-step guide uses PHP to minimize the complexity of the code and setup, but the tools and techniques can be applied on any platform using any language. Everything that you need to jumpstart your application on the cloud is right here.Clear diagrams, step-by-step configuration information, and complete code
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Engineering Haptic Devices

A Beginner's Guide

Edited by Christian Hatzfeld, Thorsten A. Kern ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
In this greatly reworked second edition of Engineering Haptic Devices the psychophysic content has been thoroughly revised and updated. Chapters on haptic interaction, system structures and design methodology were rewritten from scratch to include further basic principles and recent findings. New chapters on the evaluation of haptic systems and the design of three exemplary haptic systems from ... Read more

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In this greatly reworked second edition of Engineering Haptic Devices the psychophysic content has been thoroughly revised and updated. Chapters on haptic interaction, system structures and design methodology were rewritten from scratch to include further basic principles and recent findings. New chapters on the evaluation of haptic systems and the design of three exemplary haptic systems from
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TelE-Learning

The Challenge for the Third Millennium

Edited by Mike Kendall, Don Ebdon ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Many of the early issues in the field of telE-learning are now not only recognised but are being addressed, through professional and staff development routes, through innovative technological solutions, and through approaches and concepts that are better suited to particular educational contexts. TelE-LEARNING: The Challenge for the Third Millennium provides details of the most recent advances in ... Read more

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Many of the early issues in the field of telE-learning are now not only recognised but are being addressed, through professional and staff development routes, through innovative technological solutions, and through approaches and concepts that are better suited to particular educational contexts. TelE-LEARNING: The Challenge for the Third Millennium provides details of the most recent advances in
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Programming Languages and Systems

25th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2016, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-8, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Peter Thiemann ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 29 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. Being devoted to fundamental issues in the ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 29 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. Being devoted to fundamental issues in the
... Read more
Computers Helping People with Special Needs

15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Linz, Austria, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Christian Bühler, Petr Penaz, Klaus Miesenberger ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two volume set LNCS 9758 and 9759, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2015, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2016.The 115 revised full papers and 48 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 239 submissions. The papers included in the second volume are organized in the following ... Read more

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The two volume set LNCS 9758 and 9759, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2015, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2016.The 115 revised full papers and 48 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 239 submissions. The papers included in the second volume are organized in the following
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