Facing unprecedented challenges including extreme weather events, shifting rainfall patterns, and rising temperatures, the agriculture sector is at an inflection point. These difficulties endanger the global food supply chain and the livelihoods of millions of producers. This collected work provides the tools required to navigate the complex relationship between smart farming and climate resilience.Sustainable and Smart Farming Eco-systems: Changing Landscapes in the Age of Tec...

Global business has been affected by several unprecedented and significant problems and threats in the recent past. This book offers comprehensive strategies for managing crises and disruptions to reinvigorate productivity and performance.It discusses themes and issues like crisis management; consumer behaviour during crisis; emerging business models and trends in global business; and risks, impacts and mitigation strategies. The book provides an overview of business processes high...

A series of calamities has, in recent years, had an impact on business performance. This book explores strategies and business responses in times of crisis.The COVID-19 pandemic and the hyper competitive market environment have compelled organizations and industries to redraw the limits of their operational and strategic activities. Organizations in emerging markets are facing a great challenge in keeping their businesses afloat in these difficult times. This book offers an insight...

This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary source of reference for the gig economy for sustainable businesses with a focus on Industry 4.0. It covers the theoretical and practical implications of the rise of an alternative system in the era of technology-driven business entities; and explains the emergence of the gig economy as a crucial factor in devising approaches that will help in ensuring better decision making.As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, investors and corporat...

This book explores emerging research and pedagogy in analytics and data science that have become core to many businesses as they work to derive value from data. The chapters examine the role of analytics and data science to create, spread, develop and utilize analytics applications for practice. Selected chapters provide a good balance between discussing research advances and pedagogical tools in key topic areas in analytics and data science in a systematic manner. This book also focuses o...

This book presents the select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Experimental Methods in Mechanical Engineering (ICCEMME 2020). The book discusses the recent researches and concrete findings in the field of mechanical design and automation with its allied branches. Various topics covered in this book include modeling and simulation, application of modelling to complex real-world systems, application of machine or deep learning in mechanical problems, artif...

This textbook is part of a two-volume exploration of Human Resources Management with an emphasis on organisational success. It promises a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted realm of human resource management (HRM) and its pivotal role in shaping the triumph of organizations. This second volume, comprising of Chapters 16–27, covers advanced topics, detailed explorations, and practical insights, comprising five parts, namely – Compensation; Maintenance; Industrial relations and wo...

Generative artifical intelligence (AI) technologies are reshaping the way we create, communicate, and compute, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and profound challenges. As these systems increasingly influence decisions that shape our lives, it becomes clear that performance metrics alone cannot define their success. A deeper understanding of the intersection between technical innovation and human values is essential to navigate this transformative era.The Art and Eth...

Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Challenges and Utilities is a comprehensive resource that begins with the basics and main components of computational intelligence. It brings together many different aspects of the current research on HCI technologies, such as neural networks, support vector machines, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computation, while also covering a wide range of applications and implementation issues, from pattern recognition and system modeling, to intelligent control pro...

The book discusses Explainable (XAI) and Responsive Artificial Intelligence (RAI) for biomedical and healthcare applications. It will discuss the advantages in dealing with big and complex data by using explainable AI concepts in the field of biomedical sciences. The book explains both positive as well as negative findings obtained by explainable AI techniques. It features real time experiences by physicians and medical staff for applied deep learning based solutions. The book will be extr...

Wearable Telemedicine Technology for the Healthcare Industry: Product Design and Development focuses on recent advances and benefits of wearable telemedicine techniques for remote health monitoring and prevention of chronic conditions, providing real time feedback and help with rehabilitation and biomedical applications. Readers will learn about various techniques used by software engineers, computer scientists and biomedical engineers to apply intelligent systems, artificial intelligence,...

Your success in this world is proportional to your ability to manage the world and get what you need while building sustainable relationships. Communication in its various forms is the technology that allows you to do this. This is a handbook or a dictionary of communication related situations and how we would solve them. This is a simple and directly applicable toolkit for a communication-related situation you might have Tuesday morning for a presentation, or Friday evening on a date. Wha...