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Visualization for Artificial Intelligence

by Shixia Liu, Weikai Yang, Junpeng Wang, Jun Yuan ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book explores how visualization provides an effective way of improving not only the interpretability but also the generalization capabilities of machine learning models. It shows how visualization can bridge the gap between complex models or algorithms and human understanding while also facilitating data curation and model refinement. Therefore, visualization for artificial intelligence ... Read more

$40.49 USD

This book explores how visualization provides an effective way of improving not only the interpretability but also the generalization capabilities of machine learning models. It shows how visualization can bridge the gap between complex models or algorithms and human understanding while also facilitating data curation and model refinement. Therefore, visualization for artificial intelligence
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Data-driven Modelling of Wind Farm Flow Control Strategies

by Nassir Cassamo, Jan-Willem van Wingerden ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book presents data-driven algorithms used in the context of wind farm modelling and exploits their relation with concepts from non-linear dynamical system theory. The algortihms include Input Output Dynamic Mode Decomposition and their combination with the Koopman Operator theory. The latter improves on modelling and analysis of the aerodynamic interaction between wind turbines in wind farms ... Read more

$144.98 USD

This book presents data-driven algorithms used in the context of wind farm modelling and exploits their relation with concepts from non-linear dynamical system theory. The algortihms include Input Output Dynamic Mode Decomposition and their combination with the Koopman Operator theory. The latter improves on modelling and analysis of the aerodynamic interaction between wind turbines in wind farms
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Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering

Proceedings of ICCCBE 2024, Volume 2, Simulation and Automation

Edited by Adel Francis, Edmond Miresco, Silvio Melhado ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 20th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Montreal, Canada on August 25-28, 2024. It covers highly diverse topics such as BIM, construction information modeling, knowledge management, GIS ... Read more

$217.88 USD

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 20th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Montreal, Canada on August 25-28, 2024. It covers highly diverse topics such as BIM, construction information modeling, knowledge management, GIS
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Proceedings of the International Conferences on Digital Technology Driven Engineering 2024

ADDitively Manufactured OPTimized Structures by means of Machine Learning (ADDOPTML)

Edited by Nikos D. Lagaros, Savvas P. Triantafyllou, Rajai Z. Alrousan, Mohammad A. Alhassan, Khairedin M. Abdalla ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of engineering optimization and architectural design, presented at the 1st International Conference on ADDitively Manufactured OPTimized Structures by means of Machine Learning (ADDOPTML), held in Amman, Jordan, on October 1–4, 2024, jointly with conferences OPTARCH2024 and OPT-ii2024. It covers topics such as ... Read more

$177.38 USD

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of engineering optimization and architectural design, presented at the 1st International Conference on ADDitively Manufactured OPTimized Structures by means of Machine Learning (ADDOPTML), held in Amman, Jordan, on October 1–4, 2024, jointly with conferences OPTARCH2024 and OPT-ii2024. It covers topics such as
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IoT, Big Data and AI for Improving Quality of Everyday Life: Present and Future Challenges

IOT, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Technologies

Edited by Pradeep Kumar Singh, Sławomir T. Wierzchoń, Wiesław Pawłowski, Arpan Kumar Kar, Yugal Kumar ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book focuses mainly on the usages of three key technologies: IoT, big data, and AI for various day to day applications. Further, it explores the possibilities of future research based on the usages of latest information systems.This book explores the current research and challenges to be faced by different researchers for building intelligent information solutions using key technologies; IoT, ... Read more

$161.18 USD

This book focuses mainly on the usages of three key technologies: IoT, big data, and AI for various day to day applications. Further, it explores the possibilities of future research based on the usages of latest information systems.This book explores the current research and challenges to be faced by different researchers for building intelligent information solutions using key technologies; IoT,
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Computational Intelligence in Engineering and Project Management

Edited by Pedro Yobanis Piñero Pérez, Janusz Kacprzyk, Rafael Bello Pérez, Iliana Pérez Pupo ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book is dedicated to all those interested in the application of artificial intelligence in engineering and project management. Most of the jobs are focused on achieving agile project development. New algorithms that combine various computational intelligence techniques are applied in different areas of knowledge in project management.In this book, computational intelligence is presented as ... Read more

$161.18 USD

This book is dedicated to all those interested in the application of artificial intelligence in engineering and project management. Most of the jobs are focused on achieving agile project development. New algorithms that combine various computational intelligence techniques are applied in different areas of knowledge in project management.In this book, computational intelligence is presented as
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Scenarios, Fictions, and Imagined Possibilities in Science, Engineering, and Education

XXIV Professional Culture of the Specialist of the Future, Volume 2

Edited by Daria Bylieva, Alfred Nordmann ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book presents the proceedings of the 24th International Conference Professional Culture of the Specialist of the Future. Professionals and experts in all fields need to be prepared to handle unfamiliar situations. Some of these are unexpected events that may occur quite suddenly out of the blue, and others may emerge in the course of technological development or predicted trends. In order to ... Read more

$201.68 USD

This book presents the proceedings of the 24th International Conference Professional Culture of the Specialist of the Future. Professionals and experts in all fields need to be prepared to handle unfamiliar situations. Some of these are unexpected events that may occur quite suddenly out of the blue, and others may emerge in the course of technological development or predicted trends. In order to
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Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Modeling

Techniques and Applications

Edited by John A, Satheesh Abimannan, El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, Yue-Shan Chang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
With the growing advances in technology and transformation to digital services, the world is becoming more connected and more complex. Huge heterogeneous data are generated at rapid speed from various types of sensors. Augmented with artificial intelligence and machine learning and internet of things, latent relations, and new insights can be captured helping in optimizing plans and resource ... Read more

$161.18 USD

With the growing advances in technology and transformation to digital services, the world is becoming more connected and more complex. Huge heterogeneous data are generated at rapid speed from various types of sensors. Augmented with artificial intelligence and machine learning and internet of things, latent relations, and new insights can be captured helping in optimizing plans and resource
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Transforming Public Services—Combining Data and Algorithms to Fulfil Citizen’s Expectations

Edited by Christophe Gaie, Mayuri Mehta ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book provides a precise portrayal of the current trends and future perspectives of e-Government. It outlines new approaches that optimize public services across diverse sectors. Going beyond traditional boundaries, it offers mathematical models for public services supported by convincing case studies. This book significantly enhances various government services, such as education, healthcare, ... Read more

$177.38 USD

This book provides a precise portrayal of the current trends and future perspectives of e-Government. It outlines new approaches that optimize public services across diverse sectors. Going beyond traditional boundaries, it offers mathematical models for public services supported by convincing case studies. This book significantly enhances various government services, such as education, healthcare,
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Analytical and Approximate Methods for Complex Dynamical Systems

Edited by Alexander Timokha ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book presents Analytical and Approximate Methods for Complex Dynamical Systems and introduces ideas of discontinuous mapping treated as complex dynamical systems. Mathematicians of world-recognized Ukrainian scientific schools established by M.Krylov, M.Bogolyubov, Yu.Mitropolskiy, and A.Sharkovsky used to cooperate for writing the collective book whose purpose consists of illustrating a ... Read more

$201.68 USD

This book presents Analytical and Approximate Methods for Complex Dynamical Systems and introduces ideas of discontinuous mapping treated as complex dynamical systems. Mathematicians of world-recognized Ukrainian scientific schools established by M.Krylov, M.Bogolyubov, Yu.Mitropolskiy, and A.Sharkovsky used to cooperate for writing the collective book whose purpose consists of illustrating a
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Artificial Intelligence in Education: The Intersection of Technology and Pedagogy

Edited by Peter Ilic, Imogen Casebourne, Rupert Wegerif ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways in which the careful integration of AI might enhance learning outcomes. By inviting dialogue between engineering (what is possible) and pedagogy (what might be desirable), the book offers a holistic view of AI's potential for education. Offering both case studies of practical implementation and pedagogically informed frameworks, it ... Read more

$161.18 USD

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways in which the careful integration of AI might enhance learning outcomes. By inviting dialogue between engineering (what is possible) and pedagogy (what might be desirable), the book offers a holistic view of AI's potential for education. Offering both case studies of practical implementation and pedagogically informed frameworks, it
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Cognitive Aspects of Virtual Reality

by Ildikó Horváth, Borbála Berki, Anna Sudár, Ádám Csapó, Péter Baranyi ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book outlines a range of user experiments, providing comprehensive evaluations that underline the rationale behind implementing collaborative 3D virtual offices in corporate settings and 3D classrooms in educational institutions. In this book, radically new scientific approaches are taken for studying user effectiveness in the realm of 3D graphical interfaces. The emergence of VR is seen in ... Read more

$177.38 USD

This book outlines a range of user experiments, providing comprehensive evaluations that underline the rationale behind implementing collaborative 3D virtual offices in corporate settings and 3D classrooms in educational institutions. In this book, radically new scientific approaches are taken for studying user effectiveness in the realm of 3D graphical interfaces. The emergence of VR is seen in
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Advanced Systems for Environmental Monitoring, IoT and the application of Artificial Intelligence

Edited by Jamal Mabrouki, Mourade Azrour ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Environmental risks put one in six people at risk, as well as our complex ecosystems. Today, IoT sites can monitor the environment and assess risks. Clean technologies can help detect toxic substances, chemical spills, hazardous pollutants, and other issues, enabling both governments and industries to clean or protect the air, land, water, and other environments, and how IoT can support these ... Read more

$161.18 USD

Environmental risks put one in six people at risk, as well as our complex ecosystems. Today, IoT sites can monitor the environment and assess risks. Clean technologies can help detect toxic substances, chemical spills, hazardous pollutants, and other issues, enabling both governments and industries to clean or protect the air, land, water, and other environments, and how IoT can support these
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MySQL Cookbook

Solutions for Database Developers and Administrators

by Sveta Smirnova, Alkin Tezuysal ...

For MySQL, the price of popularity comes with a flood of questions from users on how to solve specific data-related issues. That's where this cookbook comes in. When you need quick solutions or techniques, this handy resource provides scores of short, focused pieces of code, hundreds of worked-out examples, and clear, concise explanations for programmers who don't have the time (or expertise) to ... Read more

$49.94 USD

For MySQL, the price of popularity comes with a flood of questions from users on how to solve specific data-related issues. That's where this cookbook comes in. When you need quick solutions or techniques, this handy resource provides scores of short, focused pieces of code, hundreds of worked-out examples, and clear, concise explanations for programmers who don't have the time (or expertise) to
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Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, (Revised) Third Edition

Distributed Data at Web Scale

by Jeff Carpenter, Eben Hewitt ...

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra- ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra-
... Read more
Data Algorithms with Spark

Recipes and Design Patterns for Scaling Up using PySpark

by Mahmoud Parsian ...

Apache Spark's speed, ease of use, sophisticated analytics, and multilanguage support makes practical knowledge of this cluster-computing framework a required skill for data engineers and data scientists. With this hands-on guide, anyone looking for an introduction to Spark will learn practical algorithms and examples using PySpark.In each chapter, author Mahmoud Parsian shows you how to solve a ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Apache Spark's speed, ease of use, sophisticated analytics, and multilanguage support makes practical knowledge of this cluster-computing framework a required skill for data engineers and data scientists. With this hands-on guide, anyone looking for an introduction to Spark will learn practical algorithms and examples using PySpark.In each chapter, author Mahmoud Parsian shows you how to solve a
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R for Data Science

Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

by Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Garrett Grolemund ...

Use R to turn data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. With this practical book, aspiring data scientists will learn how to do data science with R and RStudio, along with the tidyverse—a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Even if you have no programming experience, this updated edition will have you doing data science quickly.You ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Use R to turn data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. With this practical book, aspiring data scientists will learn how to do data science with R and RStudio, along with the tidyverse—a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Even if you have no programming experience, this updated edition will have you doing data science quickly.You
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Learning Ray

Flexible Distributed Python for Machine Learning

by Max Pumperla, Edward Oakes, Richard Liaw ...

Get started with Ray, the open source distributed computing framework that simplifies the process of scaling compute-intensive Python workloads. With this practical book, Python programmers, data engineers, and data scientists will learn how to leverage Ray locally and spin up compute clusters. You'll be able to use Ray to structure and run machine learning programs at scale.Authors Max Pumperla, ... Read more

$36.98 USD

Get started with Ray, the open source distributed computing framework that simplifies the process of scaling compute-intensive Python workloads. With this practical book, Python programmers, data engineers, and data scientists will learn how to leverage Ray locally and spin up compute clusters. You'll be able to use Ray to structure and run machine learning programs at scale.Authors Max Pumperla,
... Read more
Delta Lake: Up and Running

Modern Data Lakehouse Architectures with Delta Lake

by Bennie Haelen, Dan Davis ...

With the surge in big data and AI, organizations can rapidly create data products. However, the effectiveness of their analytics and machine learning models depends on the data's quality. Delta Lake's open source format offers a robust lakehouse framework over platforms like Amazon S3, ADLS, and GCS.This practical book shows data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts how to get Delta Lake ... Read more

$36.98 USD

With the surge in big data and AI, organizations can rapidly create data products. However, the effectiveness of their analytics and machine learning models depends on the data's quality. Delta Lake's open source format offers a robust lakehouse framework over platforms like Amazon S3, ADLS, and GCS.This practical book shows data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts how to get Delta Lake
... Read more
Advancing into Analytics

by George Mount ...

Data analytics may seem daunting, but if you're an experienced Excel user, you have a unique head start. With this hands-on guide, intermediate Excel users will gain a solid understanding of analytics and the data stack. By the time you complete this book, you'll be able to conduct exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing using a programming language.Exploring and testing relationships are ... Read more

$36.98 USD

Data analytics may seem daunting, but if you're an experienced Excel user, you have a unique head start. With this hands-on guide, intermediate Excel users will gain a solid understanding of analytics and the data stack. By the time you complete this book, you'll be able to conduct exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing using a programming language.Exploring and testing relationships are
... Read more
Learning Airtable

Building Database-Driven Applications with No-Code

by Elliott Adams ...

Get a concise yet comprehensive overview of Airtable, one of the most versatile platforms to emerge from the no-code movement. Whether you're planning a new project, sharing data analysis within your organization, tracking a detailed initiative among stakeholders, or dealing with any other project that requires well-structured collaboration, this practical book shows you how Airtable is an ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Get a concise yet comprehensive overview of Airtable, one of the most versatile platforms to emerge from the no-code movement. Whether you're planning a new project, sharing data analysis within your organization, tracking a detailed initiative among stakeholders, or dealing with any other project that requires well-structured collaboration, this practical book shows you how Airtable is an
... Read more
Aerospike: Up and Running

Developing on a Modern Operational Database for Globally Distributed Apps

by V. Srinivasan, Tim Faulkes, Albert Autin, Paige Roberts ...

If you're a developer looking to build a distributed, resilient, scalable, high-performance application, you may be evaluating distributed SQL and NoSQL solutions. Perhaps you're considering the Aerospike database.This practical book shows developers, architects, and engineers how to get the highly scalable and extremely low-latency Aerospike database up and running. You will learn how to power ... Read more

$44.09 USD

If you're a developer looking to build a distributed, resilient, scalable, high-performance application, you may be evaluating distributed SQL and NoSQL solutions. Perhaps you're considering the Aerospike database.This practical book shows developers, architects, and engineers how to get the highly scalable and extremely low-latency Aerospike database up and running. You will learn how to power
... Read more
Practical Lakehouse Architecture

Designing and Implementing Modern Data Platforms at Scale

by Gaurav Ashok Thalpati ...

This concise yet comprehensive guide explains how to adopt a data lakehouse architecture to implement modern data platforms. It reviews the design considerations, challenges, and best practices for implementing a lakehouse and provides key insights into the ways that using a lakehouse can impact your data platform, from managing structured and unstructured data and supporting BI and AI/ML use ... Read more

$38.87 USD

This concise yet comprehensive guide explains how to adopt a data lakehouse architecture to implement modern data platforms. It reviews the design considerations, challenges, and best practices for implementing a lakehouse and provides key insights into the ways that using a lakehouse can impact your data platform, from managing structured and unstructured data and supporting BI and AI/ML use
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Data Contracts

Developing Production-Grade Pipelines at Scale

by Chad Sanderson, Mark Freeman, B. E. Schmidt ...

Poor data quality can cause major problems for data teams, from breaking revenue-generating data pipelines to losing the trust of data consumers. Despite the importance of data quality, many data teams still struggle to avoid these issues—especially when their data is sourced from upstream workflows outside of their control. The solution: data contracts. Data contracts enable high-quality, well ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Poor data quality can cause major problems for data teams, from breaking revenue-generating data pipelines to losing the trust of data consumers. Despite the importance of data quality, many data teams still struggle to avoid these issues—especially when their data is sourced from upstream workflows outside of their control. The solution: data contracts. Data contracts enable high-quality, well
... Read more

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