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Reframing Information Architecture

Edited by Andrea Resmini ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Information architecture has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s and earlier conceptions of the world and the internet being different and separate have given way to a much more complex scenario in the present day. In the post-digital world that we now inhabit the digital and the physical blend easily and our activities and usage of information takes place through multiple contexts and via ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Information architecture has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s and earlier conceptions of the world and the internet being different and separate have given way to a much more complex scenario in the present day. In the post-digital world that we now inhabit the digital and the physical blend easily and our activities and usage of information takes place through multiple contexts and via
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Stripes by Example

by Brent Watson ...

In this 100-page book, you will find that Stripes provides a very simple learning path, where you do not need to understand the entire framework in order to use it. The concept of this book is exactly that – to get you using the framework and writing code immediately. You will be off and running in no time, and adding to your skill set as we progress.This book is written with exactly that learning ... Read more

$23.99 USD

In this 100-page book, you will find that Stripes provides a very simple learning path, where you do not need to understand the entire framework in order to use it. The concept of this book is exactly that – to get you using the framework and writing code immediately. You will be off and running in no time, and adding to your skill set as we progress.This book is written with exactly that learning
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Practice-based Design Research

Edited by Laurene Vaughan ...

Practice-Based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice. The contributors address a range of models and approaches to practice-based research, consider relationships between industry and academia, researchers and designers, discuss initiatives to support students and faculty during the research process, and explore how students' ... Read more

$33.99 USD

Practice-Based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice. The contributors address a range of models and approaches to practice-based research, consider relationships between industry and academia, researchers and designers, discuss initiatives to support students and faculty during the research process, and explore how students'
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Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming

by John Hunt ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming 2nd Edition delves deeply into a host of subjects that you need to understand if you are to develop sophisticated real-world programs. Each topic is preceded by an introduction followed by more advanced topics, along with numerous examples, that take you to an advanced level.This second edition has been significantly updated with two new sections on advanced ... Read more

$76.99 USD

Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming 2nd Edition delves deeply into a host of subjects that you need to understand if you are to develop sophisticated real-world programs. Each topic is preceded by an introduction followed by more advanced topics, along with numerous examples, that take you to an advanced level.This second edition has been significantly updated with two new sections on advanced
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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

22nd International Conference, TACAS 2016, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-8, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Marsha Chechik, Jean-François Raskin ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 44 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 44 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
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Concurrency, Security, and Puzzles

Essays Dedicated to Andrew William Roscoe on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

Edited by Thomas Gibson-Robinson, Philippa Hopcroft, Ranko Lazić ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This festschrift was written in honor of Andrew William (Bill) Roscoe on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and features tributes by Sir Tony Hoare, Stephen Brookes, and Michael Wooldridge. Bill Roscoe is an international authority in process algebra, and has been the driving force behind the development of the FDR refinement checker for CSP. He is also world renowned for his pioneering work in ... Read more

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This festschrift was written in honor of Andrew William (Bill) Roscoe on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and features tributes by Sir Tony Hoare, Stephen Brookes, and Michael Wooldridge. Bill Roscoe is an international authority in process algebra, and has been the driving force behind the development of the FDR refinement checker for CSP. He is also world renowned for his pioneering work in
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Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems

Communicational Foundations, Theories and Methodologies

Translated by Virginie Bucco ...

by Pierre-Léonard Harvey ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book introduces a Digital Social System Praxis Framework (DSSPF) integrating Computational Media, Evolutionary Systems Thinking and Design Thinking approaches to E-transformation practice, also called Community Informatics Design (CID). The DSSPF framework is intended to create communication spaces dedicated to knowledge production and sharing for social and organizational change. It allows ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book introduces a Digital Social System Praxis Framework (DSSPF) integrating Computational Media, Evolutionary Systems Thinking and Design Thinking approaches to E-transformation practice, also called Community Informatics Design (CID). The DSSPF framework is intended to create communication spaces dedicated to knowledge production and sharing for social and organizational change. It allows
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Transactions on Computational Science XXX

Special Issue on Cyberworlds and Cybersecurity

Edited by Marina L. Gavrilova, C.J. Kenneth Tan, Alexei Sourin ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This, the 30th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal, is comprised of extended versions of selected papers from the International Conference on Cyberworlds, held in Chongqing, China, in September 2016. The first paper is a position paper giving an outline of current research at the intersection of cybersecurity and cyberworlds, and specifically focusing on mining behavioral ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This, the 30th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal, is comprised of extended versions of selected papers from the International Conference on Cyberworlds, held in Chongqing, China, in September 2016. The first paper is a position paper giving an outline of current research at the intersection of cybersecurity and cyberworlds, and specifically focusing on mining behavioral
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Data Mashups in R

A Case Study in Real-World Data Analysis

by Jeremy Leipzig, Xiao-Yi Li ...

How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more. Rather than use canned sample data, you'll plot and analyze current home foreclosure auctions in Philadelphia.This ... Read more

$10.99 USD

How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more. Rather than use canned sample data, you'll plot and analyze current home foreclosure auctions in Philadelphia.This
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New Perspectives on Computational and Cognitive Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation

by Oi Yee Kwong ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
Cognitive and Computational Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation examines cognitive strategies by humans and computational strategies by machines, for WSD in parallel.Focusing on a psychologically valid property of words and senses, author Oi Yee Kwong discusses their concreteness or abstractness and draws on psycholinguistic data to examine the extent to which existing lexical resources ... Read more

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Cognitive and Computational Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation examines cognitive strategies by humans and computational strategies by machines, for WSD in parallel.Focusing on a psychologically valid property of words and senses, author Oi Yee Kwong discusses their concreteness or abstractness and draws on psycholinguistic data to examine the extent to which existing lexical resources
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Design of Experiments for Reinforcement Learning

by Christopher Gatti ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This thesis takes an empirical approach to understanding of the behavior and interactions between the two main components of reinforcement learning: the learning algorithm and the functional representation of learned knowledge. The author approaches these entities using design of experiments not commonly employed to study machine learning methods. The results outlined in this work provide insight ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This thesis takes an empirical approach to understanding of the behavior and interactions between the two main components of reinforcement learning: the learning algorithm and the functional representation of learned knowledge. The author approaches these entities using design of experiments not commonly employed to study machine learning methods. The results outlined in this work provide insight
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Computer Architecture and Organization

Fundamentals and Architecture Security

by Shuangbao Paul Wang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
In today’s workplace, computer and cybersecurity professionals must understand both hardware and software to deploy effective security solutions. This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of computer architecture and organization for security, and provides them with both theoretical and practical solutions to design and implement secure computer systems. Offering an in-depth and innovative ... Read more

$53.99 USD

In today’s workplace, computer and cybersecurity professionals must understand both hardware and software to deploy effective security solutions. This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of computer architecture and organization for security, and provides them with both theoretical and practical solutions to design and implement secure computer systems. Offering an in-depth and innovative
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Technological Innovations in Education

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Academia

by Varun Gupta, Chetna Gupta ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book presents the first practice-based account of Generative AI (GenAI) integration in postgraduate courses, structured across three approaches: course redesign and delivery, assessment redesign, and evaluation adaptations. The book introduces GenAI as a knowledge collaborator and reports the practical approaches, such as redesigning group activities into applied, research-driven tasks, ... Read more

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This book presents the first practice-based account of Generative AI (GenAI) integration in postgraduate courses, structured across three approaches: course redesign and delivery, assessment redesign, and evaluation adaptations. The book introduces GenAI as a knowledge collaborator and reports the practical approaches, such as redesigning group activities into applied, research-driven tasks,
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A Journey Through Cultures

Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems

by Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Luciana Cardoso de Castro Salgado, Carla Faria Leitão ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users. For a number of years the HCI community has been investigating alternatives to enhance the design of cross-cultural systems. Most contributions to date have followed either a ‘design for each’ or a ‘design for all’ strategy.A Journey Through Cultures takes a very different approach ... Read more

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A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users. For a number of years the HCI community has been investigating alternatives to enhance the design of cross-cultural systems. Most contributions to date have followed either a ‘design for each’ or a ‘design for all’ strategy.A Journey Through Cultures takes a very different approach
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Python Programming Fundamentals

by Kent D. Lee ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This easy-to-follow and classroom-tested textbook guides the reader through the fundamentals of programming with Python, an accessible language which can be learned incrementally.Features: incudes numerous examples and practice exercises throughout the text, with additional exercises, solutions and review questions at the end of each chapter; highlights the patterns which frequently appear when ... Read more

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This easy-to-follow and classroom-tested textbook guides the reader through the fundamentals of programming with Python, an accessible language which can be learned incrementally.Features: incudes numerous examples and practice exercises throughout the text, with additional exercises, solutions and review questions at the end of each chapter; highlights the patterns which frequently appear when
... Read more
Social Collective Intelligence

Combining the Powers of Humans and Machines to Build a Smarter Society

Edited by Daniele Miorandi, Michael Rovatsos, Anton Nijholt, James Stewart, Vincenzo Maltese ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The book focuses on Social Collective Intelligence, a term used to denote a class of socio-technical systems that combine, in a coordinated way, the strengths of humans, machines and collectives in terms of competences, knowledge and problem solving capabilities with the communication, computing and storage capabilities of advanced ICT.Social Collective Intelligence opens a number of challenges ... Read more

$49.99 USD

The book focuses on Social Collective Intelligence, a term used to denote a class of socio-technical systems that combine, in a coordinated way, the strengths of humans, machines and collectives in terms of competences, knowledge and problem solving capabilities with the communication, computing and storage capabilities of advanced ICT.Social Collective Intelligence opens a number of challenges
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ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus

Edited by Olav W. Bertelsen, Luigina Ciolfi, Maria Antonietta Grasso, George Angelos Papadopoulos ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2013, the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Each conference offers an occasion to critically review our research field, which has been multidisciplinary and committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological, from its beginning. The papers this year focus on work and the enterprise as well as on ... Read more

$188.99 USD

This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2013, the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Each conference offers an occasion to critically review our research field, which has been multidisciplinary and committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological, from its beginning. The papers this year focus on work and the enterprise as well as on
... Read more
Sports Analytics

Third International Conference, ISACE 2026, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1–2, 2026, Proceedings

Edited by Zhaoyu Liu, Vishal Misra ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sports Analytics, ISACE 2026, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, during June 1-2, 2026.The 28 full papers, 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The book also contains two invited talks. The papers focus on the application of AI, data science, psychology, and ... Read more

$67.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sports Analytics, ISACE 2026, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, during June 1-2, 2026.The 28 full papers, 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The book also contains two invited talks. The papers focus on the application of AI, data science, psychology, and
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User-Centric Cybersecurity Implications for Sustainable Digital Transformation

Edited by Saqib Saeed, Shahzaib Tahir ...

User and organizational cybersecurity risks play a crucial role in shaping the success and sustainability of digital transformation initiatives. Digital transformation often involves the adoption of new technologies and processes, including cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and big data analytics, which have additional technical cybersecurity risks. Such concerns about cybersecurity risks ... Read more

$220.99 USD

User and organizational cybersecurity risks play a crucial role in shaping the success and sustainability of digital transformation initiatives. Digital transformation often involves the adoption of new technologies and processes, including cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and big data analytics, which have additional technical cybersecurity risks. Such concerns about cybersecurity risks
... Read more
Computer Vision – ECCV 2026

19th European Conference, Malmö, Sweden, September 8–12, 2026, Proceedings, Part X

Edited by Paolo Favaro, Zuzana Kukelova, Atsuto Maki, Anna Rohrbach, Konrad Schindler, Federico Tombari ...

Series Book 10 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 17001 up to 17078 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2026, held in Malmö, Sweden, during September 8–12, 2026.The 2834 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 10,473 submissions. They deal with topics such as computer vision; machine ... Read more

$98.99 USD

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 17001 up to 17078 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2026, held in Malmö, Sweden, during September 8–12, 2026.The 2834 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 10,473 submissions. They deal with topics such as computer vision; machine
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Graph Drawing and Network Visualization

28th International Symposium, GD 2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 16–18, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by David Auber, Pavel Valtr ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2020, which was held during September 16-18, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Vancouver, Canada, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 29 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2020, which was held during September 16-18, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Vancouver, Canada, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 29 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected
... Read more
Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2021

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2021): Integrating People and Intelligent Systems, February 22-24, 2021, Palermo, Italy

Edited by Dario Russo, Tareq Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski, Giuseppe Di Bucchianico, Redha Taiar ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book presents cutting-edge research on innovative human systems integration and human–machine interaction, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and automation, as well as computational modeling and simulation. It covers a wide range of applications in the area of design, construction and operation of products, systems and services. The book describes advanced methodologies and tools ... Read more

$188.99 USD

This book presents cutting-edge research on innovative human systems integration and human–machine interaction, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and automation, as well as computational modeling and simulation. It covers a wide range of applications in the area of design, construction and operation of products, systems and services. The book describes advanced methodologies and tools
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Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management

14th International Conference, DHM 2023, Held as Part of the 25th HCI International Conference, HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23–28, 2023, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Vincent G. Duffy ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Digital Human Modeling & Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics & Risk Management (DHM) Conference, held as part of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which was held virtually in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2023.The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed ... Read more

$98.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Digital Human Modeling & Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics & Risk Management (DHM) Conference, held as part of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which was held virtually in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2023.The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed
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Stepping into Virtual Reality

by Mario A. Gutiérrez A., Frédéric Vexo, Daniel Thalmann ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The 2nd edition of this book provides an updated and extended look into the advancements in Virtual Reality and the metaverse. The history and origins of Virtual Reality, crowd simulation and virtual surgery are thoroughly explored. Applications in the cultural heritage and sports domains are also examined and described in detail. There are new contributions on Senses and Sensors, Brain-Computer ... Read more

$71.99 USD

The 2nd edition of this book provides an updated and extended look into the advancements in Virtual Reality and the metaverse. The history and origins of Virtual Reality, crowd simulation and virtual surgery are thoroughly explored. Applications in the cultural heritage and sports domains are also examined and described in detail. There are new contributions on Senses and Sensors, Brain-Computer
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