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Human-Technology Interaction

Shaping the Future of Industrial User Interfaces

Edited by Carsten Röcker, Sebastian Büttner ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Digitalization and automation are leading to fundamental changes in the industrial landscape. In the German-speaking countries, this development is often summarized under the term Industry 4.0. Simultaneously, interaction technologies have made huge developments in the last decades. The use of mobile devices and touch screens is ubiquitous, augmented and virtual reality technologies have made ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

Digitalization and automation are leading to fundamental changes in the industrial landscape. In the German-speaking countries, this development is often summarized under the term Industry 4.0. Simultaneously, interaction technologies have made huge developments in the last decades. The use of mobile devices and touch screens is ubiquitous, augmented and virtual reality technologies have made
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Human Factors and Design

by Yuri Spirochkin ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book describes various manifestations of human factors when interacting with potentially dangerous technical systems: airplanes, launch vehicles and spaceships, nuclear power plants, energy-saturated ground vehicles and infrastructure facilities. The idea of the book arose from the desire to find a common ground between industries that are important for safety. Their similarity lies, in ... Read more

$127.70 CAD

This book describes various manifestations of human factors when interacting with potentially dangerous technical systems: airplanes, launch vehicles and spaceships, nuclear power plants, energy-saturated ground vehicles and infrastructure facilities. The idea of the book arose from the desire to find a common ground between industries that are important for safety. Their similarity lies, in
... Read more
Generative AI

How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Will Revolutionize Business

by Tom Taulli ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
This book will show how generative technology works and the drivers. It will also look at the applications – showing what various startupsand large companies are doing in the space. There will also be a look at the challenges and risk factors.During the past decade, companies have spent billions on AI. But the focus has been on applying the technology to predictions – which is known as analytical ... Read more

$61.91 CAD

This book will show how generative technology works and the drivers. It will also look at the applications – showing what various startupsand large companies are doing in the space. There will also be a look at the challenges and risk factors.During the past decade, companies have spent billions on AI. But the focus has been on applying the technology to predictions – which is known as analytical
... Read more
Introduction to Annotated Logics

Foundations for Paracomplete and Paraconsistent Reasoning

by Seiki Akama, Kazumi Nakamatsu, Jair Minoro Abe ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book is written as an introduction to annotated logics. It provides logical foundations for annotated logics, discusses some interesting applications of these logics and also includes the authors' contributions to annotated logics. The central idea of the book is to show how annotated logic can be applied as a tool to solve problems of technology and of applied science. The book will be of ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This book is written as an introduction to annotated logics. It provides logical foundations for annotated logics, discusses some interesting applications of these logics and also includes the authors' contributions to annotated logics. The central idea of the book is to show how annotated logic can be applied as a tool to solve problems of technology and of applied science. The book will be of
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Explainable and Customizable Job Sequencing and Scheduling

Advancing Production Control and Management with XAI

by Tin-Chih Toly Chen ...

Series series Mechanical Engineering (R0)
This book systematically reviews the progress in explainable AI (XAI) and introduces the methods, tools, and applications of XAI technologies in job sequencing and scheduling. Relevant references and real case studies are provided as supporting evidence.To date, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been widely applied in job sequencing and scheduling. However, some advanced AI methods ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book systematically reviews the progress in explainable AI (XAI) and introduces the methods, tools, and applications of XAI technologies in job sequencing and scheduling. Relevant references and real case studies are provided as supporting evidence.To date, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been widely applied in job sequencing and scheduling. However, some advanced AI methods
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Fuzzy Sets and Systems III

An Introduction with Cases from Business Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering

Edited by Edy Portmann, Gwendolin Wilke, Luis Terán, Sara D'Onofrio ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
As organizations strive to balance innovation with accountability, this second volume in a trilogy on fuzzy systems and digital ethics examines how ethical and sustainable practices can be operationalized at the institutional level. Through the lens of design science and fuzzy logic, it demonstrates how organizations can build resilient, data-driven infrastructures that support responsible ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

As organizations strive to balance innovation with accountability, this second volume in a trilogy on fuzzy systems and digital ethics examines how ethical and sustainable practices can be operationalized at the institutional level. Through the lens of design science and fuzzy logic, it demonstrates how organizations can build resilient, data-driven infrastructures that support responsible
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HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia

Edited by Rens Brankaert, Gail Kenning ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Old age is currently the greatest risk factor for developing dementia. Since older people make up a larger portion of the population than ever before, the resulting increase in the incidence of dementia presents a major challenge for society. Dementia is complex and multifaceted and impacts not only the person with the diagnosis but also those caring for them and society as a whole.Human-Computer ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

Old age is currently the greatest risk factor for developing dementia. Since older people make up a larger portion of the population than ever before, the resulting increase in the incidence of dementia presents a major challenge for society. Dementia is complex and multifaceted and impacts not only the person with the diagnosis but also those caring for them and society as a whole.Human-Computer
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Human Information Processing in Speech Quality Assessment

by Stefan Uhrig ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book provides a new multi-method, process-oriented approach towards speech quality assessment, which allows readers to examine the influence of speech transmission quality on a variety of perceptual and cognitive processes in human listeners. Fundamental concepts and methodologies surrounding the topic of process-oriented quality assessment are introduced and discussed. The book further ... Read more

$92.87 CAD

This book provides a new multi-method, process-oriented approach towards speech quality assessment, which allows readers to examine the influence of speech transmission quality on a variety of perceptual and cognitive processes in human listeners. Fundamental concepts and methodologies surrounding the topic of process-oriented quality assessment are introduced and discussed. The book further
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Game Dynamics

Best Practices in Procedural and Dynamic Game Content Generation

Edited by Oliver Korn, Newton Lee ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book offers a compendium of best practices in game dynamics. It covers a wide range of dynamic game elements ranging from player behavior over artificial intelligence to procedural content generation. Such dynamics make virtual worlds more lively and realistic and they also create the potential for moments of amazement and surprise. In many cases, game dynamics are driven by a combination of ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This book offers a compendium of best practices in game dynamics. It covers a wide range of dynamic game elements ranging from player behavior over artificial intelligence to procedural content generation. Such dynamics make virtual worlds more lively and realistic and they also create the potential for moments of amazement and surprise. In many cases, game dynamics are driven by a combination of
... Read more
Functional Programming in R

Advanced Statistical Programming for Data Science, Analysis and Finance

by Thomas Mailund ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Master functions and discover how to write functional programs in R. In this concise book, you'll make your functions pure by avoiding side-effects; you’ll write functions that manipulate other functions, and you’ll construct complex functions using simpler functions as building blocks.In Functional Programming in R, you’ll see how we can replace loops, which can have side-effects, with recursive ... Read more

$51.02 CAD

Master functions and discover how to write functional programs in R. In this concise book, you'll make your functions pure by avoiding side-effects; you’ll write functions that manipulate other functions, and you’ll construct complex functions using simpler functions as building blocks.In Functional Programming in R, you’ll see how we can replace loops, which can have side-effects, with recursive
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Creative Prototyping with Generative AI

Augmenting Creative Workflows with Generative AI

by Patrick Parra Pennefather ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Reimagine different generative AI as useful creative prototyping tools that can be used to augment your own creative process and projects. Gain a deeper understanding of how generative AI can elevate your creative future.You will acquire a comprehensive understanding of how AI works, uncover tools that can enhance your AI interactions, learn how to extract maximum potential from AI-produced ... Read more

$57.50 CAD

Reimagine different generative AI as useful creative prototyping tools that can be used to augment your own creative process and projects. Gain a deeper understanding of how generative AI can elevate your creative future.You will acquire a comprehensive understanding of how AI works, uncover tools that can enhance your AI interactions, learn how to extract maximum potential from AI-produced
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Creating Business Applications with Office 365

Techniques in SharePoint, PowerApps, Power BI, and More

by Jeffrey M. Rhodes ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Take your Office 365 and SharePoint projects to a higher level by using PowerApps, Flow, Power BI, JavaScript/jQuery jQuery UI widgets, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and more. This book will help you create easier solutions to client-side problems and applications. Additionally, you will be able to effectively visualize your data with Power BI.This book starts with configuration of SharePoint and ... Read more

$40.13 CAD

Take your Office 365 and SharePoint projects to a higher level by using PowerApps, Flow, Power BI, JavaScript/jQuery jQuery UI widgets, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and more. This book will help you create easier solutions to client-side problems and applications. Additionally, you will be able to effectively visualize your data with Power BI.This book starts with configuration of SharePoint and
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Audio Processing and Speech Recognition

Concepts, Techniques and Research Overviews

by Soumya Sen, Anjan Dutta, Nilanjan Dey ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book offers an overview of audio processing, including the latest advances in the methodologies used in audio processing and speech recognition. First, it discusses the importance of audio indexing and classical information retrieval problem and presents two major indexing techniques, namely Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) and Phonetic Search. It then offers brief ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book offers an overview of audio processing, including the latest advances in the methodologies used in audio processing and speech recognition. First, it discusses the importance of audio indexing and classical information retrieval problem and presents two major indexing techniques, namely Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) and Phonetic Search. It then offers brief
... Read more
Beginning C++ Compilers

An Introductory Guide to Microsoft C/C++ and MinGW Compilers

by Berik I. Tuleuov, Ademi B. Ospanova ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
This book focuses on how to install C/C++ compilers on Linux and Windows platforms in a timely and efficient way. Installing C/C++ compilers, especially Microsoft compilers, typically takes quite a lot of time because it comes with Microsoft Visual Studio for the vast majority of users. Installing Visual Studio requires usually about 40 GB of disk space and a large amount of RAM, so it is ... Read more

$59.66 CAD

This book focuses on how to install C/C++ compilers on Linux and Windows platforms in a timely and efficient way. Installing C/C++ compilers, especially Microsoft compilers, typically takes quite a lot of time because it comes with Microsoft Visual Studio for the vast majority of users. Installing Visual Studio requires usually about 40 GB of disk space and a large amount of RAM, so it is
... Read more
Arduino Software Internals

A Complete Guide to How Your Arduino Language and Hardware Work Together

by Norman Dunbar ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
"It's not enough to just build your Arduino projects; it's time to actually learn how things work!" This book goes beyond the basics, providing a comprehensive understanding of Arduino software and hardware, as well as how they intertwine. Gain valuable insights into the inner workings of Arduino and its language, and discover how to communicate with the microcontroller in its native language, AVR ... Read more

$61.91 CAD

"It's not enough to just build your Arduino projects; it's time to actually learn how things work!" This book goes beyond the basics, providing a comprehensive understanding of Arduino software and hardware, as well as how they intertwine. Gain valuable insights into the inner workings of Arduino and its language, and discover how to communicate with the microcontroller in its native language, AVR
... Read more
Android Apps for Absolute Beginners

Covering Android 7

by Wallace Jackson ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Get your first Android apps up and running with the help of plain English and practical examples. If you have a great idea for an Android app, but have never programmed before, then this book is for you. Android Apps for Absolute Beginners cuts through the fog of jargon and mystery that surrounds Android app development, and gives you simple, step-by-step instructions to get you started.This book ... Read more

$51.02 CAD

Get your first Android apps up and running with the help of plain English and practical examples. If you have a great idea for an Android app, but have never programmed before, then this book is for you. Android Apps for Absolute Beginners cuts through the fog of jargon and mystery that surrounds Android app development, and gives you simple, step-by-step instructions to get you started.This book
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The Importance of Speculation in Design Research

by Ron Wakkary, Doenja Oogjes ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book explores speculation in design research in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). The authors reveal how speculative reasoning in design research increases the capacity of HCI to address a wider array of social and research challenges. Speculation in design research employs (1) leaps of imagination, (2) diverse ways of knowing or epistemologies, (3) ethical reflexivity, (4) and ... Read more

$34.82 CAD

This book explores speculation in design research in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). The authors reveal how speculative reasoning in design research increases the capacity of HCI to address a wider array of social and research challenges. Speculation in design research employs (1) leaps of imagination, (2) diverse ways of knowing or epistemologies, (3) ethical reflexivity, (4) and
... Read more
Human-Centric AI with Common Sense

by Filip Ilievski ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book enables readers to understand the challenges and opportunities of developing human-centered AI with commonsense reasoning abilities. Despite apparent accuracy improvements brought by large neural models across task benchmarks, common sense is still lacking. The lack of common sense affects many tasks, including story understanding, decision-making, and question answering. Commonsense ... Read more

$52.28 CAD

This book enables readers to understand the challenges and opportunities of developing human-centered AI with commonsense reasoning abilities. Despite apparent accuracy improvements brought by large neural models across task benchmarks, common sense is still lacking. The lack of common sense affects many tasks, including story understanding, decision-making, and question answering. Commonsense
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Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Smart Applications

Proceedings of RAAISA 2023

Edited by Jyotsna Kumar Mandal, Mike Hinchey, Satyajit Chakrabarti ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
The book includes original unpublished contributions presented in First International Conference on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Smart Applications (RAAISA 2023), organized by Department of CSE, University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India during 14 – 15 December 2023. The topics covered are progression of artificial intelligence techniques like smart agent-based ... Read more

$347.21 CAD

The book includes original unpublished contributions presented in First International Conference on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Smart Applications (RAAISA 2023), organized by Department of CSE, University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India during 14 – 15 December 2023. The topics covered are progression of artificial intelligence techniques like smart agent-based
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The History of the GPU - New Developments

by Jon Peddie ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This third book in the three-part series on the History of the GPU covers the second to sixth eras of the GPU, which can be found in anything that has a display or screen. The GPU is now part of supercomputers, PCs, Smartphones and tablets, wearables, game consoles and handhelds, TVs, and every type of vehicle including boats and planes.In the early 2000s the number of GPU suppliers consolidated ... Read more

$43.01 CAD

This third book in the three-part series on the History of the GPU covers the second to sixth eras of the GPU, which can be found in anything that has a display or screen. The GPU is now part of supercomputers, PCs, Smartphones and tablets, wearables, game consoles and handhelds, TVs, and every type of vehicle including boats and planes.In the early 2000s the number of GPU suppliers consolidated
... Read more
Beginning Backdrop CMS

by Todd Tomlinson ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn what Backdrop CMS is and how it fulfills the role of a content management system, along with how to install and configure it. This book teaches how to create and manage content, taxonomy, users, page layouts, and menus to get the best site possible. You'll also see how to install on shared hosting – which is a focus of the Backdrop CMS team – to make hosting your website affordable.Backdrop ... Read more

$52.28 CAD

Learn what Backdrop CMS is and how it fulfills the role of a content management system, along with how to install and configure it. This book teaches how to create and manage content, taxonomy, users, page layouts, and menus to get the best site possible. You'll also see how to install on shared hosting – which is a focus of the Backdrop CMS team – to make hosting your website affordable.Backdrop
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Business Analytics Using R - A Practical Approach

by Umesh R Hodeghatta, Umesha Nayak ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn the fundamental aspects of the business statistics, data mining, and machine learning techniques required to understand the huge amount of data generated by your organization. This book explains practical business analytics through examples, covers the steps involved in using it correctly, and shows you the context in which a particular technique does not make sense. Further, Practical ... Read more

$68.39 CAD

Learn the fundamental aspects of the business statistics, data mining, and machine learning techniques required to understand the huge amount of data generated by your organization. This book explains practical business analytics through examples, covers the steps involved in using it correctly, and shows you the context in which a particular technique does not make sense. Further, Practical
... Read more
Game User Experience And Player-Centered Design

Edited by Barbaros Bostan ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book provides an introduction and overview of the rapidly evolving topic of game user experience, presenting the new perspectives employed by researchers and the industry, and highlighting the recent empirical findings that illustrate the nature of it. The first section deals with cognition and player psychology, the second section includes new research on modeling and measuring player ... Read more

$209.06 CAD

This book provides an introduction and overview of the rapidly evolving topic of game user experience, presenting the new perspectives employed by researchers and the industry, and highlighting the recent empirical findings that illustrate the nature of it. The first section deals with cognition and player psychology, the second section includes new research on modeling and measuring player
... Read more
Embedding Knowledge Graphs with RDF2vec

by Heiko Paulheim, Petar Ristoski, Jan Portisch ...

Series series eBColl Synthesis Collection 12
This book explains the ideas behind one of the most well-known methods for knowledge graph embedding of transformations to compute vector representations from a graph, known as RDF2vec. The authors describe its usage in practice, from reusing pre-trained knowledge graph embeddings to training tailored vectors for a knowledge graph at hand. They also demonstrate different extensions of RDF2vec and ... Read more

$52.28 CAD

This book explains the ideas behind one of the most well-known methods for knowledge graph embedding of transformations to compute vector representations from a graph, known as RDF2vec. The authors describe its usage in practice, from reusing pre-trained knowledge graph embeddings to training tailored vectors for a knowledge graph at hand. They also demonstrate different extensions of RDF2vec and
... Read more

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