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High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications

Selected Results of the COST Action IC1406 cHiPSet

Edited by Joanna Kołodziej, Horacio González-Vélez ...

Series Book 11400 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1406 “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet)“ project.Long considered important pillars of the scientific method, Modelling and Simulation have evolved from traditional discrete numerical methods to complex data-intensive continuous analytical optimisations. Resolution, scale, and ... Read more

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This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1406 “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet)“ project.Long considered important pillars of the scientific method, Modelling and Simulation have evolved from traditional discrete numerical methods to complex data-intensive continuous analytical optimisations. Resolution, scale, and
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Hypergraph Computation

by Qionghai Dai, Yue Gao ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This open access book discusses the theory and methods of hypergraph computation.Many underlying relationships among data can be represented using graphs, for example in the areas including computer vision, molecular chemistry, molecular biology, etc. In the last decade, methods like graph-based learning and neural network methods have been developed to process such data, they are particularly ... Read more

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This open access book discusses the theory and methods of hypergraph computation.Many underlying relationships among data can be represented using graphs, for example in the areas including computer vision, molecular chemistry, molecular biology, etc. In the last decade, methods like graph-based learning and neural network methods have been developed to process such data, they are particularly
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AIGC设计创意新未来

by Nolibox计算美学 ...

我们在当下不得不面对的问题是，在不可抗的AIGC极速进化趋势下，我们应该做什么？怎么做？我们是否可以寻找到AIGC冲击下自身行业的机会？AI 绘画为设计师、艺术家和设计创意从业者们提供了颠覆式的设计创作工具，同时也能让普通人跨越专业软件的技能门槛，打破设计创意的技能垄断，实现真正意义上的创作自由和设计普惠。本书重点聚焦AIGC技术在设计创意领域的发展和应用，系统讲解了人工智能在视觉创意（绘画）领域的巨大潜力，以及它如何改变我们对设计创作方式的认知，同时也结合产业实际情况，真实而客观地揭露AI绘画的能力局限及发展风险。让我们一起用充满想象力的姿态，迎接充满无限可能的未来。 ... Read more

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我们在当下不得不面对的问题是，在不可抗的AIGC极速进化趋势下，我们应该做什么？怎么做？我们是否可以寻找到AIGC冲击下自身行业的机会？AI 绘画为设计师、艺术家和设计创意从业者们提供了颠覆式的设计创作工具，同时也能让普通人跨越专业软件的技能门槛，打破设计创意的技能垄断，实现真正意义上的创作自由和设计普惠。本书重点聚焦AIGC技术在设计创意领域的发展和应用，系统讲解了人工智能在视觉创意（绘画）领域的巨大潜力，以及它如何改变我们对设计创作方式的认知，同时也结合产业实际情况，真实而客观地揭露AI绘画的能力局限及发展风险。让我们一起用充满想象力的姿态，迎接充满无限可能的未来。
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New Mechanism

Explanation, Emergence and Reduction

Edited by João L. Cordovil, Gil Santos, Davide Vecchi ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of other modelling strategies as well as the possibility of mechanistic explanation to accommodate a non ... Read more

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This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of other modelling strategies as well as the possibility of mechanistic explanation to accommodate a non
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Machine Learning and Deep Learning With Python

Use Python Jupyter To Implement Mathematical Concepts, Machine Learning Algorithms and Deep Learning Neural Networks

by James Chen ...

This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning techniques using Python programming language. Written with both beginners and experienced developers in mind, this book provides a thorough overview of the foundations of machine learning and deep learning, including mathematical fundamentals, optimization algorithms, and neural ... Read more

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This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning techniques using Python programming language. Written with both beginners and experienced developers in mind, this book provides a thorough overview of the foundations of machine learning and deep learning, including mathematical fundamentals, optimization algorithms, and neural
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The EXODUS Incident

A Scientific Novel

by Peter Schattschneider ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism. A global nuclear war is imminent. Interstellar probes from the Breakthrough Starshot project initiated by J. Milner and S. Hawking have discovered a habitable planet in the stellar system Proxima Centauri, just in time for the exodus of the elites. On board the EXODUS starship, the crew starts to experience ... Read more

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In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism. A global nuclear war is imminent. Interstellar probes from the Breakthrough Starshot project initiated by J. Milner and S. Hawking have discovered a habitable planet in the stellar system Proxima Centauri, just in time for the exodus of the elites. On board the EXODUS starship, the crew starts to experience
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Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio

For Composers, Sound Designers, Musicians, and Game Developers

by Aaron Marks ...

Whether trying to land that first big gig or working to perfect the necessary skills to fill a game world with sound, Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio 3rd edition will teach the reader everything they need to know about the audio side of the multi-million dollar video game industry.This book builds upon the success of the second edition with even more expert advice from masters in the ... Read more

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Whether trying to land that first big gig or working to perfect the necessary skills to fill a game world with sound, Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio 3rd edition will teach the reader everything they need to know about the audio side of the multi-million dollar video game industry.This book builds upon the success of the second edition with even more expert advice from masters in the
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The Cultural Life of Machine Learning

An Incursion into Critical AI Studies

Edited by Jonathan Roberge, Michael Castelle ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning. From its foundations in 1950s and 1960s pattern recognition and neural network research to the modern-day social and technological dramas of ... Read more

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This book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning. From its foundations in 1950s and 1960s pattern recognition and neural network research to the modern-day social and technological dramas of
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Max/MSP/Jitter for Music

A Practical Guide to Developing Interactive Music Systems for Education and More

by V. J. Manzo ...

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated with numerous examples of working systems, the book equips you with everything you need to know in order to design and complete ... Read more

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In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated with numerous examples of working systems, the book equips you with everything you need to know in order to design and complete
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Text Mining with R

A Tidy Approach

by Julia Silge, David Robinson ...

Much of the data available today is unstructured and text-heavy, making it challenging for analysts to apply their usual data wrangling and visualization tools. With this practical book, you’ll explore text-mining techniques with tidytext, a package that authors Julia Silge and David Robinson developed using the tidy principles behind R packages like ggraph and dplyr. You’ll learn how tidytext and ... Read more

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Much of the data available today is unstructured and text-heavy, making it challenging for analysts to apply their usual data wrangling and visualization tools. With this practical book, you’ll explore text-mining techniques with tidytext, a package that authors Julia Silge and David Robinson developed using the tidy principles behind R packages like ggraph and dplyr. You’ll learn how tidytext and
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Multimedia Forensics

Edited by Husrev Taha Sencar, Luisa Verdoliva, Nasir Memon ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book is open access. Media forensics has never been more relevant to societal life. Not only media content represents an ever-increasing share of the data traveling on the net and the preferred communications means for most users, it has also become integral part of most innovative applications in the digital information ecosystem that serves various sectors of society, from the entertainment ... Read more

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This book is open access. Media forensics has never been more relevant to societal life. Not only media content represents an ever-increasing share of the data traveling on the net and the preferred communications means for most users, it has also become integral part of most innovative applications in the digital information ecosystem that serves various sectors of society, from the entertainment
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Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: A Beginner's Guide - Volume I: Fundamentals

Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: A Beginner's Guide, #1

by Daniel Voigt Godoy ...

Series Book 1 - Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: A Beginner's Guide
Revised for PyTorch 2.x!Why this book?Are you looking for a book where you can learn about deep learning and PyTorch without having to spend hours deciphering cryptic text and code? A technical book that's also easy and enjoyable to read?This is it!How is this book different?First, this book presents an easy-to-follow, ... ... Read more

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Revised for PyTorch 2.x!Why this book?Are you looking for a book where you can learn about deep learning and PyTorch without having to spend hours deciphering cryptic text and code? A technical book that's also easy and enjoyable to read?This is it!How is this book different?First, this book presents an easy-to-follow, ...
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Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group ...

Series series Evolution and Cognition
Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions in the real world, ... Read more

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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions in the real world,
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Architects of Memory

Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

by Nathan R. Johnson ...

Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
Understanding the systems that shape what societies remember, archive, and forget.We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a click away. Even so, the methods and technologies created by scientists, espionage agencies, and information management coders and programmers have ... Read more

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Understanding the systems that shape what societies remember, archive, and forget.We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a click away. Even so, the methods and technologies created by scientists, espionage agencies, and information management coders and programmers have
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A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python

by Hans Petter Langtangen ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
The book serves as a first introduction to computer programming of scientific applications, using the high-level Python language. The exposition is example and problem-oriented, where the applications are taken from mathematics, numerical calculus, statistics, physics, biology and finance. The book teaches "Matlab-style" and procedural programming as well as object-oriented programming. High ... Read more

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The book serves as a first introduction to computer programming of scientific applications, using the high-level Python language. The exposition is example and problem-oriented, where the applications are taken from mathematics, numerical calculus, statistics, physics, biology and finance. The book teaches "Matlab-style" and procedural programming as well as object-oriented programming. High
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Infoglut

How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know

by Mark Andrejevic ...

Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts," and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for themselves"—making ... Read more

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Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts," and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for themselves"—making
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

Building extensions in Oracle E-Business Suite is greatly simplified when you follow the step-by-step instructions in this book. Whether novice or pro, this is a great tutorial with over 60 recipes and stacks of screenshots.

by Andy Penver ...

This is a practical, hands-on book providing in depth tutorials on each topic. It is full of step by step examples of the key points for each subject to give a core understanding. The examples are designed to be worked through, and start right from scratch. Each topic will cover the development, configuration and testing of working examples. The book provides clear illustrations and tips each step ... Read more

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This is a practical, hands-on book providing in depth tutorials on each topic. It is full of step by step examples of the key points for each subject to give a core understanding. The examples are designed to be worked through, and start right from scratch. Each topic will cover the development, configuration and testing of working examples. The book provides clear illustrations and tips each step
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Cloud Computing

Principles, Systems and Applications

Edited by Nikos Antonopoulos, Lee Gillam ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Cloud computing continues to emerge as a subject of substantial industrial and academic interest. Although the meaning and scope of “cloud computing” continues to be debated, the current notion of clouds blurs the distinctions between grid services, web services, and data centers, among other areas. Clouds also bring considerations of lowering the cost for relatively bursty applications to the ... Read more

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Cloud computing continues to emerge as a subject of substantial industrial and academic interest. Although the meaning and scope of “cloud computing” continues to be debated, the current notion of clouds blurs the distinctions between grid services, web services, and data centers, among other areas. Clouds also bring considerations of lowering the cost for relatively bursty applications to the
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AI, Automation, and War

The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex

by Anthony King ...

Why AI will not replace human strategic judgement in warIs AI about to automate war? Will autonomous drone swarms and killer robots controlled by AI dominate the battlespace and determine the winner? In AI, Automation, and War, Anthony King debunks this science fiction–tinged narrative of AI’s military potential, exploring instead the actual applications of AI by the armed forces over the last ... Read more

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Why AI will not replace human strategic judgement in warIs AI about to automate war? Will autonomous drone swarms and killer robots controlled by AI dominate the battlespace and determine the winner? In AI, Automation, and War, Anthony King debunks this science fiction–tinged narrative of AI’s military potential, exploring instead the actual applications of AI by the armed forces over the last
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Microservices From Day One

Build robust and scalable software from the start

by Tim Schmelmer, Cloves Carneiro Jr. ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn what a microservices architecture is, its advantages, and why you should consider using one when starting a new application. The book describes how taking a microservices approach from the start helps avoid the complexity and expense of moving to a service-oriented approach after applications reach a critical code base size or traffic load.Microservices from Day One discusses many of the ... Read more

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Learn what a microservices architecture is, its advantages, and why you should consider using one when starting a new application. The book describes how taking a microservices approach from the start helps avoid the complexity and expense of moving to a service-oriented approach after applications reach a critical code base size or traffic load.Microservices from Day One discusses many of the
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Dance Music Manual

by Rick Snoman ...

Dance Music Manual – a comprehensive guidebook for novice and seasoned professionals alike – walks readers through the tools and techniques required to create original, captivating and professional-sounding electronic dance music.Key features of the Dance Music Manual include the following:Learn to navigate the complex world of electronic music production.Unleash your creativity with practical ... Read more

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Dance Music Manual – a comprehensive guidebook for novice and seasoned professionals alike – walks readers through the tools and techniques required to create original, captivating and professional-sounding electronic dance music.Key features of the Dance Music Manual include the following:Learn to navigate the complex world of electronic music production.Unleash your creativity with practical
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The Inner World of Artificial Intelligence

Edited by Elham Bahmanteymouri, Mohsen Mohammadzadeh, Fabio Morreale ...

The Inner World of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Elham Bahmanteymouri, Mohsen Mohammadzadeh, and Fabio Morreale, offers a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the contemporary world. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars from planning, engineering, economics, philosophy, computer science, and media studies, the book examines the ... Read more

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The Inner World of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Elham Bahmanteymouri, Mohsen Mohammadzadeh, and Fabio Morreale, offers a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the contemporary world. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars from planning, engineering, economics, philosophy, computer science, and media studies, the book examines the
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Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks

by Norman Fenton, Martin Neil ...

Since the first edition of this book published, Bayesian networks have become even more important for applications in a vast array of fields. This second edition includes new material on influence diagrams, learning from data, value of information, cybersecurity, debunking bad statistics, and much more. Focusing on practical real-world problem-solving and model building, as opposed to algorithms ... Read more

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Since the first edition of this book published, Bayesian networks have become even more important for applications in a vast array of fields. This second edition includes new material on influence diagrams, learning from data, value of information, cybersecurity, debunking bad statistics, and much more. Focusing on practical real-world problem-solving and model building, as opposed to algorithms
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The Innovation Mode

How to Transform Your Organization into an Innovation Powerhouse

by George Krasadakis ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book presents unique insights and advice on defining and managing the innovation transformation journey. Using novel ideas, examples and best practices, it empowers management executives at all levels to drive cultural, technological and organizational changes toward innovation.Covering modern innovation techniques, tools, programs and strategies, it focuses on the role of the latest ... Read more

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This book presents unique insights and advice on defining and managing the innovation transformation journey. Using novel ideas, examples and best practices, it empowers management executives at all levels to drive cultural, technological and organizational changes toward innovation.Covering modern innovation techniques, tools, programs and strategies, it focuses on the role of the latest
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