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Cognitive Systems Engineering for User-computer Interface Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation

by Stephen J. Andriole, Leonard Adelman ...

This volume seeks to answer the question: "Can findings from cognitive science enhance the user-computer interaction process?" In so doing, it recognizes that user-computer interfaces (UCIs) are often essential parts of an information or decision support system -- and often critical components of software-intensive systems of all kinds. From the outset, the authors note that the design, ... Read more

$80.07 CAD

This volume seeks to answer the question: "Can findings from cognitive science enhance the user-computer interaction process?" In so doing, it recognizes that user-computer interfaces (UCIs) are often essential parts of an information or decision support system -- and often critical components of software-intensive systems of all kinds. From the outset, the authors note that the design,
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Natural Language Processing for Business and Organizations

Research and Innovation

Edited by Rachit Garg, Debashis Guha, Arvind Kiwelekar, Rajat Guglani, Anshul Gupta ...

This book offers a comprehensive and application-oriented exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), addressing both foundational principles and modern, data-driven methodologies. It is designed to equip readers with a deep understanding of how intelligent systems learn from data, interpret human language, and support automated decision-making across real ... Read more

$96.09 CAD

This book offers a comprehensive and application-oriented exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), addressing both foundational principles and modern, data-driven methodologies. It is designed to equip readers with a deep understanding of how intelligent systems learn from data, interpret human language, and support automated decision-making across real
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AI for Marketing

The Consumer Perspective

by Idil M. Cakim ...

Series series AI for Everything
AI for Marketing: The Consumer Perspective examines the human side of AI adoption at a moment when technology is advancing faster than consumer comfort. While millions use AI to search, plan, create and make decisions, trust remains fragile. This book explains why that gap persists and what it means for marketers trying to reach audiences who are both curious and cautious.Drawing on proprietary ... Read more

$43.11 CAD

AI for Marketing: The Consumer Perspective examines the human side of AI adoption at a moment when technology is advancing faster than consumer comfort. While millions use AI to search, plan, create and make decisions, trust remains fragile. This book explains why that gap persists and what it means for marketers trying to reach audiences who are both curious and cautious.Drawing on proprietary
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Transactions on Edutainment XIII

Edited by Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, Mingmin Zhang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields. It covers aspects ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields. It covers aspects
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Rules and Reasoning

International Joint Conference, RuleML+RR 2017, London, UK, July 12–15, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Stefania Costantini, Enrico Franconi, William Van Woensel, Roman Kontchakov, Fariba Sadri, Dumitru Roman ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR 2017, held in London, UK, during July 2017. This is the first conference of a new series, joining the efforts of two existing conference series, namely “RuleML” (International Web Rule Symposium) and “RR” (Web Reasoning and Rule Systems).The 16 regular papers presented together with 2 ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR 2017, held in London, UK, during July 2017. This is the first conference of a new series, joining the efforts of two existing conference series, namely “RuleML” (International Web Rule Symposium) and “RR” (Web Reasoning and Rule Systems).The 16 regular papers presented together with 2
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Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies

Edited by Youakim Badr, Richard Chbeir, Ajith Abraham, Aboul-Ella Hassanien ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The success of the World Wide Web depends on the ability of users to store, p- cess and retrieve digital information regardless of distance boundaries, languages and domains of knowledge. The universality and ?exibility of the World Wide Web have also enabled the rapid growth of a variety of new services and applications based on human–machine interaction. The semantics of exchanged information ... Read more

$162.62 CAD

The success of the World Wide Web depends on the ability of users to store, p- cess and retrieve digital information regardless of distance boundaries, languages and domains of knowledge. The universality and ?exibility of the World Wide Web have also enabled the rapid growth of a variety of new services and applications based on human–machine interaction. The semantics of exchanged information
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Individualized Quality of Experience Estimation in Audiovisual Communication

by Robert Philipp Spang ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
The book presents an in-depth exploration of the Individuality Assisted Estimation (IAE) model in the context of Quality of Experience (QoE) assessment for multimedia, specifically audiovisual communication. The book delves into how individual characteristics, including psychological traits and states, influence perceptions of multimedia quality. The book argues for the integration of individual ... Read more

$174.23 CAD

The book presents an in-depth exploration of the Individuality Assisted Estimation (IAE) model in the context of Quality of Experience (QoE) assessment for multimedia, specifically audiovisual communication. The book delves into how individual characteristics, including psychological traits and states, influence perceptions of multimedia quality. The book argues for the integration of individual
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Programmierung mit PASCAL

Eine Einführung für Programmieranfänger

by Thomas Ottmann, Peter Widmayer ...

Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
Dieses Buch gibt eine Einführung in Pascal, die auch für Anfänger ohne Informatikkenntnisse verständlich ist. Schwerpunkt ist eine genaue Formulierung und weitgehend programmiersprachenunabhängige algorithmische Lösung von Problemen. Auf diesem Wege werden die Grundsätze zum Schreiben guter Pascal-Programme illustriert, da es nicht ausreicht, lediglich den Formalisierungsprozess zu erklären, der ... Read more

$43.46 CAD

Dieses Buch gibt eine Einführung in Pascal, die auch für Anfänger ohne Informatikkenntnisse verständlich ist. Schwerpunkt ist eine genaue Formulierung und weitgehend programmiersprachenunabhängige algorithmische Lösung von Problemen. Auf diesem Wege werden die Grundsätze zum Schreiben guter Pascal-Programme illustriert, da es nicht ausreicht, lediglich den Formalisierungsprozess zu erklären, der
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Human-Centered Software Engineering

8th IFIP WG 13.2 International Working Conference, HCSE 2020, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 30 – December 2, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Regina Bernhaupt, Carmelo Ardito, Stefan Sauer ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 13.2 International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2020, which was supposed to be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in November/December 2020, was instead held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 10 full papers and 5 short poster and demo papers presented together with 5 poster and demo ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 13.2 International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2020, which was supposed to be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in November/December 2020, was instead held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 10 full papers and 5 short poster and demo papers presented together with 5 poster and demo
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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2025

20th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 8–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part IV

Edited by Carmelo Ardito, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Tayana Conte, André Freire, Isabela Gasparini, Philippe Palanque, Raquel Prates ...

Series Book 4 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This four-volume set LNCS 16108-16111 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2025, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, during September 8–12, 2025.The 69 full papers, 34 short papers and 79 papers of other types included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 330 submissions. They were organized in topical ... Read more

$174.23 CAD

This four-volume set LNCS 16108-16111 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2025, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, during September 8–12, 2025.The 69 full papers, 34 short papers and 79 papers of other types included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 330 submissions. They were organized in topical
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U.S. Healthcare Data All-in-One

Clinical-Trial and Real-World Data

by Jiazheng Chen ...

U.S. Healthcare Data All-in-One is a hands-on handbook for anyone working with healthcare data, bridging its two worlds: the strict order of clinical-trial data (CDISC's SDTM and ADaM, define.xml, and submission packages) and the sprawl of real-world data (insurance claims and electronic health records, medical coding systems, and the OMOP common data model). Across 42 chapters and five appendices ... Read more

$7.28 CAD

U.S. Healthcare Data All-in-One is a hands-on handbook for anyone working with healthcare data, bridging its two worlds: the strict order of clinical-trial data (CDISC's SDTM and ADaM, define.xml, and submission packages) and the sprawl of real-world data (insurance claims and electronic health records, medical coding systems, and the OMOP common data model). Across 42 chapters and five appendices
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Ultimate BigQuery for Data Engineering

by Dinak Lal ...

Every Great AI System Begins with a Great Data PlatformBigQuery is the backbone of modern cloud data engineering. Ultimate BigQuery for Data Engineering takes you from SQL fundamentals to building a complete production analytics platform on Google Cloud - with hands-on labs and real engineering patterns at every stage.You begin with BigQuery internals - columnar storage, Dremel execution, and slot ... Read more

$25.91 CAD

Every Great AI System Begins with a Great Data PlatformBigQuery is the backbone of modern cloud data engineering. Ultimate BigQuery for Data Engineering takes you from SQL fundamentals to building a complete production analytics platform on Google Cloud - with hands-on labs and real engineering patterns at every stage.You begin with BigQuery internals - columnar storage, Dremel execution, and slot
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Digital Personality: A Man Forever

Volume 4: Cognitive Modeling to Real World Applications

by Kuldeep Singh Kaswan, Jagjit Singh Dhatterwal, Anand Nayyar ...

The book provides an overview of what it means to create personality-like, thinking, reasoning, deciding technologies. It reviews the development of cognitive modeling as theory based on the principles of psychology and neuroscience and as used in AI, ML, and human computer interaction. The chapters deal with topics like cognitive architectures, knowledge representation, natural language ... Read more

$86.23 CAD

The book provides an overview of what it means to create personality-like, thinking, reasoning, deciding technologies. It reviews the development of cognitive modeling as theory based on the principles of psychology and neuroscience and as used in AI, ML, and human computer interaction. The chapters deal with topics like cognitive architectures, knowledge representation, natural language
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SQL for Data Analysis

Advanced Techniques for Transforming Data into Insights

by Cathy Tanimura ...

With the explosion of data, computing power, and cloud data warehouses, SQL has become an even more indispensable tool for the savvy analyst or data scientist. This practical book reveals new and hidden ways to improve your SQL skills, solve problems, and make the most of SQL as part of your workflow.You'll learn how to use both common and exotic SQL functions such as joins, window functions, ... Read more

$51.83 CAD

With the explosion of data, computing power, and cloud data warehouses, SQL has become an even more indispensable tool for the savvy analyst or data scientist. This practical book reveals new and hidden ways to improve your SQL skills, solve problems, and make the most of SQL as part of your workflow.You'll learn how to use both common and exotic SQL functions such as joins, window functions,
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Social Information Access

Systems and Technologies

Edited by Peter Brusilovsky, Daqing He ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Social information access is defined as a stream of research that explores methods for organizing the past interactions of users in a community in order to provide future users with better access to information. Social information access covers a wide range of different technologies and strategies that operate on a different scale, which can range from a small closed corpus site to the whole Web ... Read more

$92.87 CAD

Social information access is defined as a stream of research that explores methods for organizing the past interactions of users in a community in order to provide future users with better access to information. Social information access covers a wide range of different technologies and strategies that operate on a different scale, which can range from a small closed corpus site to the whole Web
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An Introduction to Data Science With Python

by Jeffrey S. Saltz, Jeffrey Morgan Stanton ...

An Introduction to Data Science with Python by Jeffrey S. Saltz and Jeffery M. Stanton provides readers who are new to Python and data science with a step-by-step walkthrough of the tools and techniques used to analyze data and generate predictive models. After introducing the basic concepts of data science, the book builds on these foundations to explain data science techniques using Python-based ... Read more

$78.47 CAD

An Introduction to Data Science with Python by Jeffrey S. Saltz and Jeffery M. Stanton provides readers who are new to Python and data science with a step-by-step walkthrough of the tools and techniques used to analyze data and generate predictive models. After introducing the basic concepts of data science, the book builds on these foundations to explain data science techniques using Python-based
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Verified Software. Theories, Tools, and Experiments

8th International Conference, VSTTE 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17–18, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Sandrine Blazy, Marsha Chechik ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments, VSTTE 2016, held in July 2016 in Toronto, ON, Canada.The 8 full papers together with 4 short papers and 5 invited papers presented were carefully revised and selected 21 submissions.The goal of the VSTTE conference is to advance ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments, VSTTE 2016, held in July 2016 in Toronto, ON, Canada.The 8 full papers together with 4 short papers and 5 invited papers presented were carefully revised and selected 21 submissions.The goal of the VSTTE conference is to advance
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Cross-Cultural Design. Applications in Health, Learning, Communication, and Creativity

12th International Conference, CCD 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Pei-Luen Patrick Rau ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This two-volume set LNCS 12192 and 12193 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2020, held as part of HCI International 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2020.The conference was held virtually due to the corona pandemic.The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters included in the 40 HCII 2020 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This two-volume set LNCS 12192 and 12193 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2020, held as part of HCI International 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2020.The conference was held virtually due to the corona pandemic.The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters included in the 40 HCII 2020 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed
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HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Papers: Interaction, Knowledge and Social Media

22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis, Gavriel Salvendy, June Wei, Sakae Yamamoto, Hirohiko Mori, Gabriele Meiselwitz, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes late breaking papers from the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which was held in July 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This book constitutes late breaking papers from the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which was held in July 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for
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Social Robotics

12th International Conference, ICSR 2020, Golden, CO, USA, November 14–18, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Alan R. Wagner, David Feil-Seifer, Kerstin S. Haring, Silvia Rossi, Thomas Williams, Hongsheng He, Shuzhi Sam Ge ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2020, held in Golden, CO, USA, in November 2020. The conference was held virtually.The 57 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The theme of the 2020 conference is Entertaining Robots. The papers focus on the following topics: human-robot trust and ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2020, held in Golden, CO, USA, in November 2020. The conference was held virtually.The 57 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The theme of the 2020 conference is Entertaining Robots. The papers focus on the following topics: human-robot trust and
... Read more
Technology-Enhanced Learning for a Free, Safe, and Sustainable World

16th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2021, Bolzano, Italy, September 20-24, 2021, Proceedings

Edited by Tinne De Laet, Roland Klemke, Carlos Alario-Hoyos, Isabel Hilliger, Alejandro Ortega-Arranz ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
Chapters "Investigating the Role of Educational Robotics in Formal Mathematics Education: The Case of Geometry for 15-Year-Old Students" and "From Paper to Online: Digitizing Card Based Co-creation of Games for Privacy Education" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via springer.com. ... Read more

$98.72 CAD

Chapters "Investigating the Role of Educational Robotics in Formal Mathematics Education: The Case of Geometry for 15-Year-Old Students" and "From Paper to Online: Digitizing Card Based Co-creation of Games for Privacy Education" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via springer.com.
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Brain Informatics

14th International Conference, BI 2021, Virtual Event, September 17–19, 2021, Proceedings

Edited by Mufti Mahmud, M Shamim Kaiser, Stefano Vassanelli, Qionghai Dai, Ning Zhong ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2021, held in September 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 49 full and 2 short papers together with 18 abstract papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: cognitive and ... Read more

$116.09 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2021, held in September 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 49 full and 2 short papers together with 18 abstract papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: cognitive and
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Accelerator Programming Using Directives

8th International Workshop, WACCPD 2021, Virtual Event, November 14, 2021, Proceedings

Edited by Sridutt Bhalachandra, Christopher Daley, Verónica Melesse Vergara ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives, WACCPD 2021, which took place in November 2021. The conference was held as hybrid event.WACCPD is one of the major forums for bringing together users, developers, and the software and tools community to share knowledge and experiences when programming emerging complex parallel ... Read more

$63.89 CAD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives, WACCPD 2021, which took place in November 2021. The conference was held as hybrid event.WACCPD is one of the major forums for bringing together users, developers, and the software and tools community to share knowledge and experiences when programming emerging complex parallel
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Intelligent Human Computer Interaction

13th International Conference, IHCI 2021, Kent, OH, USA, December 20–22, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Jong-Hoon Kim, Madhusudan Singh, Javed Khan, Uma Shanker Tiwary, Marigankar Sur, Dhananjay Singh ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2021, which took place in Kent, OH, USA, in December 2021.The 59 full and 9 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 142 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named human centered AI; and ... Read more

$116.09 CAD

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2021, which took place in Kent, OH, USA, in December 2021.The 59 full and 9 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 142 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named human centered AI; and
... Read more

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