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Neuro-Robotics

From Brain Machine Interfaces to Rehabilitation Robotics

Edited by Panagiotis Artemiadis ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Neuro-robotics is one of the most multidisciplinary fields of the last decades, fusing information and knowledge from neuroscience, engineering and computer science. This book focuses on the results from the strategic alliance between Neuroscience and Robotics that help the scientific community to better understand the brain as well as design robotic devices and algorithms for interfacing humans ... Read more

$143.99 USD

Neuro-robotics is one of the most multidisciplinary fields of the last decades, fusing information and knowledge from neuroscience, engineering and computer science. This book focuses on the results from the strategic alliance between Neuroscience and Robotics that help the scientific community to better understand the brain as well as design robotic devices and algorithms for interfacing humans
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Handbook of Research on Trends and Future Directions in Big Data and Web Intelligence

Edited by Noor Zaman, Mohamed Elhassan Seliaman, Mohd Fadzil Hassan, Fausto Pedro Garcia Marquez ...

Big data is a well-trafficked subject in recent IT discourse and does not lack for current research. In fact, there is such a surfeit of material related to big data—and so much of it of questionably reliability, thanks to the high-gloss efforts of savvy tech-marketing gurus—that it can, at times, be difficult for a serious academician to navigate. The Handbook of Research on Trends and Future ... Read more

$242.99 USD

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Big data is a well-trafficked subject in recent IT discourse and does not lack for current research. In fact, there is such a surfeit of material related to big data—and so much of it of questionably reliability, thanks to the high-gloss efforts of savvy tech-marketing gurus—that it can, at times, be difficult for a serious academician to navigate. The Handbook of Research on Trends and Future
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Die Macht der Ambivalenz

Personal Knowledge Graphs im digitalen Zeitalter

by Tassilo Weller ...

Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
Beim Umgang mit persönlichem Wissen stellt sich die Frage, wie Gedanken und persönliche Zusammenhänge mit Hilfe von Medien langfristig abgelegt, wiederverwendet, kommuniziert und maschinell weiterverarbeitet werden können. Dabei zeigt sich ein ambivalentes Spannungsfeld zwischen intuitiver Arbeit mit persönlichen Gedanken auf der einen Seite und strukturierter Ordnung zur Wiederverwendung und ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Beim Umgang mit persönlichem Wissen stellt sich die Frage, wie Gedanken und persönliche Zusammenhänge mit Hilfe von Medien langfristig abgelegt, wiederverwendet, kommuniziert und maschinell weiterverarbeitet werden können. Dabei zeigt sich ein ambivalentes Spannungsfeld zwischen intuitiver Arbeit mit persönlichen Gedanken auf der einen Seite und strukturierter Ordnung zur Wiederverwendung und
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Computer Vision – ECCV 2026

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

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

Series series 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

$80.99 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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Computer Vision – ECCV 2026

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

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

Series series 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

$49.99 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
... Read more
Data Envelopment Analysis and Effective Performance Assessment

Edited by Farhad Hossein Zadeh Lotfi, Seyed Esmaeil Najafi, Hamed Nozari ...

For any organization, analysis of performance and effectiveness through available data allows for informed decision making. Data envelopment analysis, or DEA, is a popular, effective method that can be used to measure productive efficiency in operations management assessment. Data Envelopment Analysis and Effective Performance Assessment addresses the myriad of practical uses and innovative ... Read more

$134.99 USD

For any organization, analysis of performance and effectiveness through available data allows for informed decision making. Data envelopment analysis, or DEA, is a popular, effective method that can be used to measure productive efficiency in operations management assessment. Data Envelopment Analysis and Effective Performance Assessment addresses the myriad of practical uses and innovative
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Bad Programming Practices 101

Become a Better Coder by Learning How (Not) to Program

by Karl Beecher ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
This book takes a humorous slant on the programming practice manual by reversing the usual approach: under the pretence of teaching you how to become the world’s worst programmer who generally causes chaos, the book teaches you how to avoid the kind of bad habits that introduce bugs or cause code contributions to be rejected.Why be a code monkey when you can be a chaos monkey? OK, so you want to ... Read more

$40.99 USD

This book takes a humorous slant on the programming practice manual by reversing the usual approach: under the pretence of teaching you how to become the world’s worst programmer who generally causes chaos, the book teaches you how to avoid the kind of bad habits that introduce bugs or cause code contributions to be rejected.Why be a code monkey when you can be a chaos monkey? OK, so you want to
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Introduction to Text Visualization

by Nan Cao, Weiwei Cui ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book provides a systematic review of many advanced techniques to support the analysis of large collections of documents, ranging from the elementary to the profound, covering all the aspects of the visualization of text documents. Particularly, we start by introducing the fundamental concept of information visualization and visual analysis, followed by a brief survey of the field of text ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This book provides a systematic review of many advanced techniques to support the analysis of large collections of documents, ranging from the elementary to the profound, covering all the aspects of the visualization of text documents. Particularly, we start by introducing the fundamental concept of information visualization and visual analysis, followed by a brief survey of the field of text
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Brain-Computer Interface Research

A State-of-the-Art Summary 6

Edited by Christoph Guger, Brendan Allison, Mikhail Lebedev ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book presents compact and informative descriptions of the most promising new projects in brain-computer interface (BCI) research. As in earlier volumes in this series, the contributions come from many of the best-known groups in BCI research. Each of these chapters provides an overview of a project that was nominated for the most prestigious award in the BCI community: the Annual BCI Research ... Read more

$53.99 USD

This book presents compact and informative descriptions of the most promising new projects in brain-computer interface (BCI) research. As in earlier volumes in this series, the contributions come from many of the best-known groups in BCI research. Each of these chapters provides an overview of a project that was nominated for the most prestigious award in the BCI community: the Annual BCI Research
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Practical Concurrent Haskell

With Big Data Applications

by Marius Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn to use the APIs and frameworks for parallel and concurrent applications in Haskell. This book will show you how to exploit multicore processors with the help of parallelism in order to increase the performance of your applications.Practical Concurrent Haskell teaches you how concurrency enables you to write programs using threads for multiple interactions. After accomplishing this, you will ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Learn to use the APIs and frameworks for parallel and concurrent applications in Haskell. This book will show you how to exploit multicore processors with the help of parallelism in order to increase the performance of your applications.Practical Concurrent Haskell teaches you how concurrency enables you to write programs using threads for multiple interactions. After accomplishing this, you will
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Computer Vision – ACCV 2016

13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Taipei, Taiwan, November 20-24, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

Edited by Shang-Hong Lai, Vincent Lepetit, Ko Nishino, Yoichi Sato ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The five-volume set LNCS 10111-10115 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2016.The total of 143 contributions presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 479 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Segmentation and Classification; ... Read more

$49.99 USD

The five-volume set LNCS 10111-10115 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2016.The total of 143 contributions presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 479 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Segmentation and Classification;
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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

Over 80 step-by-step recipes to get you up to speed with building your own wxPython applications

by Cody Precord ...

Over 80 step-by-step recipes to get you up to speed with building your own wxPython applicationsKey FeaturesThis book empowers you to create rich cross-platform graphical user interfaces using PythonIt helps you develop applications that can be deployed on Windows, OSX, and LinuxThe recipes in the book involve real-world applications, giving you a first-hand experience of the practical ... Read more

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Over 80 step-by-step recipes to get you up to speed with building your own wxPython applicationsKey FeaturesThis book empowers you to create rich cross-platform graphical user interfaces using PythonIt helps you develop applications that can be deployed on Windows, OSX, and LinuxThe recipes in the book involve real-world applications, giving you a first-hand experience of the practical
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Funktionale Programmierung und Metaprogrammierung

Interaktiv in Common Lisp

by Patrick M. Krusenotto ...

Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
Dieses Buch vermittelt die einzigartige Idee hinter der Programmiersprache Lisp. Aus der Verbindung von interaktiver und funktionaler Programmierung entsteht eine Arbeitsstrategie in der Software-Entwicklung, mit der ein Programmierer schneller als mit konventionellen Verfahren einen korrekten, verständlichen und leicht anpassbaren Code entwickeln kann.Durch die Anwendung algebraischer Methoden ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Dieses Buch vermittelt die einzigartige Idee hinter der Programmiersprache Lisp. Aus der Verbindung von interaktiver und funktionaler Programmierung entsteht eine Arbeitsstrategie in der Software-Entwicklung, mit der ein Programmierer schneller als mit konventionellen Verfahren einen korrekten, verständlichen und leicht anpassbaren Code entwickeln kann.Durch die Anwendung algebraischer Methoden
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Practical Hadoop Migration

How to Integrate Your RDBMS with the Hadoop Ecosystem and Re-Architect Relational Applications to NoSQL

by Bhushan Lakhe ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Re-architect relational applications to NoSQL, integrate relational database management systems with the Hadoop ecosystem, and transform and migrate relational data to and from Hadoop components. This book covers the best-practice design approaches to re-architecting your relational applications and transforming your relational data to optimize concurrency, security, denormalization, and ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Re-architect relational applications to NoSQL, integrate relational database management systems with the Hadoop ecosystem, and transform and migrate relational data to and from Hadoop components. This book covers the best-practice design approaches to re-architecting your relational applications and transforming your relational data to optimize concurrency, security, denormalization, and
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Internet of Things: Novel Advances and Envisioned Applications

Edited by D. P. Acharjya, M. Kalaiselvi Geetha ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book focuses on a combination of theoretical advances in the Internet of Things, cloud computing and its real-life applications to serve society. The book discusses technological innovations, authentication, mobility support and security, group rekeying schemes and a range of concrete applications.The Internet has restructured not only global interrelations, but also an unbelievable number of ... Read more

$143.99 USD

This book focuses on a combination of theoretical advances in the Internet of Things, cloud computing and its real-life applications to serve society. The book discusses technological innovations, authentication, mobility support and security, group rekeying schemes and a range of concrete applications.The Internet has restructured not only global interrelations, but also an unbelievable number of
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Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn

Apply effective learning algorithms to real-world problems using scikit-learn

by Gavin Hackeling ...

Use scikit-learn to apply machine learning to real-world problemsKey Features\[\*\] Master popular machine learning models including k-nearest neighbors, random forests, logistic regression, k-means, naive Bayes, and artificial neural networks\[\*\] Learn how to build and evaluate performance of efficient models using scikit-learn\[\*\] Practical guide to master your basics and learn from real ... Read more

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Use scikit-learn to apply machine learning to real-world problemsKey Features\[\*\] Master popular machine learning models including k-nearest neighbors, random forests, logistic regression, k-means, naive Bayes, and artificial neural networks\[\*\] Learn how to build and evaluate performance of efficient models using scikit-learn\[\*\] Practical guide to master your basics and learn from real
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Eye Tracking and Visualization

Foundations, Techniques, and Applications. ETVIS 2015

Edited by Michael Burch, Lewis Chuang, Brian Fisher, Albrecht Schmidt, Daniel Weiskopf ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book discusses research, methods, and recent developments in the interdisciplinary field that spans research in visualization, eye tracking, human-computer interaction, and psychology. It presents extended versions of papers from the First Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS), which was organized as a workshop of the IEEE VIS Conference 2015. Topics include visualization and ... Read more

$107.99 USD

This book discusses research, methods, and recent developments in the interdisciplinary field that spans research in visualization, eye tracking, human-computer interaction, and psychology. It presents extended versions of papers from the First Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS), which was organized as a workshop of the IEEE VIS Conference 2015. Topics include visualization and
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Still Room for Humans

Career Planning in an AI World

by Stan Schatt ...

Don’t let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need in order to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to:make yourself indispensable to your company,develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match,collaborate with robots,retool your skills without going back to school.You will also learn which tradi... ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Don’t let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need in order to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to:make yourself indispensable to your company,develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match,collaborate with robots,retool your skills without going back to school.You will also learn which tradi...
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The Universal Access Handbook

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis ...

Series series Human Factors and Ergonomics
In recent years, the field of Universal Access has made significant progress in consolidating theoretical approaches, scientific methods and technologies, as well as in exploring new application domains. Increasingly, professionals in this rapidly maturing area require a comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource that addresses current principles, methods, and tools. Written by leading ... Read more

$111.99 USD

In recent years, the field of Universal Access has made significant progress in consolidating theoretical approaches, scientific methods and technologies, as well as in exploring new application domains. Increasingly, professionals in this rapidly maturing area require a comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource that addresses current principles, methods, and tools. Written by leading
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Recent Advances in Machine Learning Techniques and Sensor Applications for Human Emotion, Activity Recognition and Support

Edited by Kyandoghere Kyamakya, Fadi Al Machot, Habib Ullah, Florenc Demrozi ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book explores integrating machine learning techniques and sensor applications for human emotion and activity recognition, creating personalized and effective support systems. It covers state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and large language models using multimodal sensors. Enhancing the quality of life for individuals with special needs, particularly the elderly, is a key focus in ... Read more

$197.99 USD

This book explores integrating machine learning techniques and sensor applications for human emotion and activity recognition, creating personalized and effective support systems. It covers state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and large language models using multimodal sensors. Enhancing the quality of life for individuals with special needs, particularly the elderly, is a key focus in
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Noise-Aware Quantum Circuit Simulation with Decision Diagrams

by Thomas Grurl, Jürgen Fuß, Robert Wille ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to quantum computing, as well the classical simulation of quantum circuits with common types of error effects. The authors showcase the enormous potential that can be unleashed when doing these simulations using decision diagrams–a data-structure common in the design automation community, often used in quantum computing design tasks. The algorithms ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to quantum computing, as well the classical simulation of quantum circuits with common types of error effects. The authors showcase the enormous potential that can be unleashed when doing these simulations using decision diagrams–a data-structure common in the design automation community, often used in quantum computing design tasks. The algorithms
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The AI Bifurcation

The Global Mindset Series

by Thorsten Meyer, Aiko Tanaka ...

Series series The Global Mindset Series
The AI Bifurcation: AI's Transformative Role in Work and SocietyAre you ready for the AI revolution that's already reshaping our world?Dive into this essential guide to understanding how artificial intelligence transforms how we work, live, and interact. Written by global business executive Thorsten Meyer and tech journalism veteran Aiko Tanaka, "The AI Bifurcation" offers unparalleled insights ... Read more

$27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The AI Bifurcation: AI's Transformative Role in Work and SocietyAre you ready for the AI revolution that's already reshaping our world?Dive into this essential guide to understanding how artificial intelligence transforms how we work, live, and interact. Written by global business executive Thorsten Meyer and tech journalism veteran Aiko Tanaka, "The AI Bifurcation" offers unparalleled insights
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Adaptive On- and Off-Earth Environments

Edited by Angelo Cervone, Henriette Bier, Advenit Makaya ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This volume investigates the challenges and opportunities for designing, manufacturing and operating off-Earth infrastructures in order to establish adaptive human habitats. The adaptive aspects are considered with respect to the development of adequate infrastructures designed to support human activities. Given the limitations in bringing materials from Earth, utilisation of in-situ resources is ... Read more

$170.99 USD

This volume investigates the challenges and opportunities for designing, manufacturing and operating off-Earth infrastructures in order to establish adaptive human habitats. The adaptive aspects are considered with respect to the development of adequate infrastructures designed to support human activities. Given the limitations in bringing materials from Earth, utilisation of in-situ resources is
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Machine Learning in Biotechnology and Life Sciences

Build machine learning models using Python and deploy them on the cloud

by Saleh Alkhalifa ...

Explore all the tools and templates needed for data scientists to drive success in their biotechnology careers with this comprehensive guide Key Features • Learn the applications of machine learning in biotechnology and life science sectors • Discover exciting real-world applications of deep learning and natural language processing • Understand the general process of deploying models to cloud ... Read more

$39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Explore all the tools and templates needed for data scientists to drive success in their biotechnology careers with this comprehensive guide Key Features • Learn the applications of machine learning in biotechnology and life science sectors • Discover exciting real-world applications of deep learning and natural language processing • Understand the general process of deploying models to cloud
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