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Pro Perl Programming

From Professional to Advanced

by William "Bo" Rothwell ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Master intermediate to advanced techniques of the Perl programming language starting with a focus on regular expressions and some of their advanced features. This book then covers other pro-level features, including formatted output, file handling, and more.Additionally, you'll learn and explore the most useful built-in variables, pragmas, and modules available in the Perl language. Furthermore, ... Read more

$62.99 USD

Master intermediate to advanced techniques of the Perl programming language starting with a focus on regular expressions and some of their advanced features. This book then covers other pro-level features, including formatted output, file handling, and more.Additionally, you'll learn and explore the most useful built-in variables, pragmas, and modules available in the Perl language. Furthermore,
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Introducing Jakarta EE CDI

Contexts and Dependency Injection for Enterprise Java Development

by Luqman Saeed ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Discover the Jakarta EE Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI 2.0) framework which helps you write better code through the use of well-defined enterprise Java-based components and beans (EJBs). If you have ever wanted to write clean Java EE code, this short book is your best guide for doing so: you will pick up valuable tips along the way from your author's years of experience teaching and coding ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Discover the Jakarta EE Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI 2.0) framework which helps you write better code through the use of well-defined enterprise Java-based components and beans (EJBs). If you have ever wanted to write clean Java EE code, this short book is your best guide for doing so: you will pick up valuable tips along the way from your author's years of experience teaching and coding
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Programming Languages and Systems

18th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2020, Fukuoka, Japan, November 30 – December 2, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2020, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in December 2020.*The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Invited Papers, Types, Program Analysis, Semantics, Language Design and Implementation, ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2020, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in December 2020.*The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Invited Papers, Types, Program Analysis, Semantics, Language Design and Implementation,
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User Experience Design

Guida completa per imparare da zero

by Luca Longo ...

Questo volume presenta le conoscenze e gli strumenti di base che permettono di integrare le migliori pratiche di UX Design nel contesto di un progetto digitale. Il testo non fa riferimento a una metodologia specifica per organizzare un processo di progettazione, ma si concentra su criteri operativi proponendo le prassi migliori a seconda della tipologia di progetto attraverso un percorso che ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Questo volume presenta le conoscenze e gli strumenti di base che permettono di integrare le migliori pratiche di UX Design nel contesto di un progetto digitale. Il testo non fa riferimento a una metodologia specifica per organizzare un processo di progettazione, ma si concentra su criteri operativi proponendo le prassi migliori a seconda della tipologia di progetto attraverso un percorso che
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Unreal Engine 5 For Beginners

Build High-Quality Games, Immersive Virtual Worlds, And Advanced Interactive Contents

by Calren Dovale ...

This book is a comprehensive guide designed to take readers through the powerful tools and capabilities of Unreal Engine 2025. Aimed at developers, creatives, and industry professionals, this book covers everything from the basics to advanced techniques in game development, virtual production, and simulation.The book kicks off with an overview of Unreal Engine in its chapter one, highlighting its ... Read more

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This book is a comprehensive guide designed to take readers through the powerful tools and capabilities of Unreal Engine 2025. Aimed at developers, creatives, and industry professionals, this book covers everything from the basics to advanced techniques in game development, virtual production, and simulation.The book kicks off with an overview of Unreal Engine in its chapter one, highlighting its
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Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)

by Péter Baranyi, Adam Csapo, Gyula Sallai ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book describes the theoretical foundations of cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom), and provides a survey on state-of-the-art solutions and applications within the field. The book covers aspects of cognitive infocommunications in research fields such as affective computing, BCI, future internet, HCI, HRI, sensory substitution, and virtual/augmented interactions, and also introduces newly ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book describes the theoretical foundations of cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom), and provides a survey on state-of-the-art solutions and applications within the field. The book covers aspects of cognitive infocommunications in research fields such as affective computing, BCI, future internet, HCI, HRI, sensory substitution, and virtual/augmented interactions, and also introduces newly
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Smart Graphics

13th International Symposium, SG 2015, Chengdu, China, August 26-28, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Yaxi Chen, Marc Christie, Wenrong Tan ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2015, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2015.The 17 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: graphics, sketching and visualization, automation and evaluation, image processing, and posters and ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2015, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2015.The 17 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: graphics, sketching and visualization, automation and evaluation, image processing, and posters and
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Building an Intuitive Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home

Hunting the SNARK

by John N.A Brown, Gerhard Leitner, Anton Josef Fercher ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book describes an innovative approach to the interaction between humans and a smart environment; an attempt to get a smart home to understand intuitive, multi-modal, human-centred communication. State of the art smart homes, like other “smart” technology, tend to demand that the human user must adapt herself to the needs of the system. The hunt for a truly user-centred, truly intuitive system ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book describes an innovative approach to the interaction between humans and a smart environment; an attempt to get a smart home to understand intuitive, multi-modal, human-centred communication. State of the art smart homes, like other “smart” technology, tend to demand that the human user must adapt herself to the needs of the system. The hunt for a truly user-centred, truly intuitive system
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UX Writing Essentials: A Simple Guide for All

by Atila Velo ...

UX Writing Essentials - A Simple Guide for All was created for both newcomers and experienced professionals in design, product design, user experience, app development, and user interface. Whether you're deeply involved in digital products or exploring this field for the first time, this book offers clear, practical guidance to improve your UX Writing and Content Design skills.Through ... Read more

$9.97 USD

UX Writing Essentials - A Simple Guide for All was created for both newcomers and experienced professionals in design, product design, user experience, app development, and user interface. Whether you're deeply involved in digital products or exploring this field for the first time, this book offers clear, practical guidance to improve your UX Writing and Content Design skills.Through
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AI Innovations in Oil and Gas

Transforming Exploration and Production

by DHIVAKAR POOSAPADI ...

Discover how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the oil and gas industry. This concise guide explores AI-driven innovations in predictive maintenance, drilling optimization, and enhanced oil recovery, showing how engineers and scientists can boost efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Unlock the potential of AI to transform operations and drive the industry toward a more profitable and ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Discover how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the oil and gas industry. This concise guide explores AI-driven innovations in predictive maintenance, drilling optimization, and enhanced oil recovery, showing how engineers and scientists can boost efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Unlock the potential of AI to transform operations and drive the industry toward a more profitable and
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

by Ronald Brachman, Hector Levesque ...

Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated ... Read more

$88.99 USD

Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated
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From ThinThread to AI-Driven Surveillance State: A Sad Psychological Dilemma

Past Based Present, #1

by A ONE ...

Series Book 1 - Past Based Present
From ThinThread to AI-Driven Surveillance State: A Sad Psychological Dilemma:WHITE PAPERThis white paper is an unflinching, deeply researched exposé on the evolution of surveillance—from the whistleblowing of NSA veteran William Binney to the rise of artificial intelligence as the new engine of mass data capture. It lays out the architecture of modern intelligence systems with surgical precision, ... Read more

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From ThinThread to AI-Driven Surveillance State: A Sad Psychological Dilemma:WHITE PAPERThis white paper is an unflinching, deeply researched exposé on the evolution of surveillance—from the whistleblowing of NSA veteran William Binney to the rise of artificial intelligence as the new engine of mass data capture. It lays out the architecture of modern intelligence systems with surgical precision,
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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust

7th International Conference, HCI-CPT 2025, Held as Part of the 27th HCI International Conference, HCII 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 22–27, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Abbas Moallem ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 27th International Conference, HCI International 2025, in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.Two volumes of the HCII 2025 proceedings are dedicated to this year’s edition of the HCI-CPT conference. The first volume focuses on topics related to Human ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 27th International Conference, HCI International 2025, in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.Two volumes of the HCII 2025 proceedings are dedicated to this year’s edition of the HCI-CPT conference. The first volume focuses on topics related to Human
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Intelligent Robotics and Applications

15th International Conference, ICIRA 2022, Harbin, China, August 1–3, 2022, Proceedings, Part IV

Edited by Honghai Liu, Zhouping Yin, Lianqing Liu, Li Jiang, Guoying Gu, Xinyu Wu, Weihong Ren ...

Series Book 4 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The 4-volume set LNAI 13455 - 13458 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022, which took place in Harbin China, during August 2022.The 284 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 442 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Robotics, Mechatronics, Applications ... Read more

$107.99 USD

The 4-volume set LNAI 13455 - 13458 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022, which took place in Harbin China, during August 2022.The 284 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 442 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Robotics, Mechatronics, Applications
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Java 17 Recipes

A Problem-Solution Approach

by Josh Juneau, Luciano Manelli ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Quickly find solutions to dozens of common programming problems encountered while building Java applications, with recipes presented in the popular problem-solution format. Look up the programming problem that you want to resolve. Read the solution. Apply the solution directly in your own code. Problem solved!Java 17 Recipes is updated to reflect changes in specification and implementation since ... Read more

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Quickly find solutions to dozens of common programming problems encountered while building Java applications, with recipes presented in the popular problem-solution format. Look up the programming problem that you want to resolve. Read the solution. Apply the solution directly in your own code. Problem solved!Java 17 Recipes is updated to reflect changes in specification and implementation since
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Discoverability in Digital Repositories

Systems, Perspectives, and User Studies

Edited by Liz Woolcott, Ali Shiri ...

Series series Routledge Guides to Practice in Libraries, Archives and Information Science
While most discoverability evaluation studies in the Library and Information Science field discuss the intersection of discovery layers and library systems, this book looks specifically at digital repositories, examining discoverability from the lenses of system structure, user searches, and external discovery avenues.Discoverability, the ease with which information can be found by a user, is the ... Read more

$49.99 USD

While most discoverability evaluation studies in the Library and Information Science field discuss the intersection of discovery layers and library systems, this book looks specifically at digital repositories, examining discoverability from the lenses of system structure, user searches, and external discovery avenues.Discoverability, the ease with which information can be found by a user, is the
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries

18th International Conference, ICOST 2020, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 24–26, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Mohamed Jmaiel, Mounir Mokhtari, Bessam Abdulrazak, Hamdi Aloulou, Slim Kallel ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.*The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover topics such as: IoT and AI solutions for e-health; biomedical and ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.*The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover topics such as: IoT and AI solutions for e-health; biomedical and
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Interactive Data Processing and 3D Visualization of the Solid Earth

Edited by Daniel Patel ...

This book presents works detailing the application of processing and visualization techniques for analyzing the Earth’s subsurface. The topic of the book is interactive data processing and interactive 3D visualization techniques used on subsurface data. Interactive processing of data together with interactive visualization is a powerful combination which has in the recent years become possible due ... Read more

$125.99 USD

This book presents works detailing the application of processing and visualization techniques for analyzing the Earth’s subsurface. The topic of the book is interactive data processing and interactive 3D visualization techniques used on subsurface data. Interactive processing of data together with interactive visualization is a powerful combination which has in the recent years become possible due
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Thinking about Digital Accessibility

From Ally to Advocate

by H ROBERT KING ...

It is sometimes difficult to remember, but most digital resources have not really been around that long. What we affectionately call “the Internet”, more accurately known as “the Word Wide Web,” is younger than the 30 year-old Americans with Disabilities Act, and digital accessibility is younger than that. With the rise in demand for access, and the massive migration to online resources in 2020, ... Read more

$8.99 USD

It is sometimes difficult to remember, but most digital resources have not really been around that long. What we affectionately call “the Internet”, more accurately known as “the Word Wide Web,” is younger than the 30 year-old Americans with Disabilities Act, and digital accessibility is younger than that. With the rise in demand for access, and the massive migration to online resources in 2020,
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Quality of Information and Communications Technology

12th International Conference, QUATIC 2019, Ciudad Real, Spain, September 11–13, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Mario Piattini, Paulo Rupino da Cunha, Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán, Ricardo Pérez-Castillo ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2019, held in Ciudad Real, Spain, in September 2019.The 19 full papers and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: security & privacy, requirements engineering, business ... Read more

$76.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2019, held in Ciudad Real, Spain, in September 2019.The 19 full papers and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: security & privacy, requirements engineering, business
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Energy-Efficient Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Body Sensor Networks

by Rongrong Zhang, Jihong Yu ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book provides a systematic treatment of the theoretical foundation and algorithmic tools necessary in the design of energy-efficient algorithms and protocols in wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs). These problems addressed in the book are of both fundamental and practical importance. Specifically, the book delivers a comprehensive treatment on the following problems ranging from theoretical ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This book provides a systematic treatment of the theoretical foundation and algorithmic tools necessary in the design of energy-efficient algorithms and protocols in wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs). These problems addressed in the book are of both fundamental and practical importance. Specifically, the book delivers a comprehensive treatment on the following problems ranging from theoretical
... Read more
Blockchain Gold Rush: Surviving The Wild Wild West of Decentralization

by Michael Ferguson ...

"From the Wild West of the blockchain to the futuristic Metaverse, this book is your ultimate guide to mastering the world of decentralized technology. Explore the basics of blockchain, learn how to protect your assets from hackers, manage your digital identity, secure your wallet, and stay safe while using blockchain-based apps and platforms. With a focus on practical advice and real-world ... Read more

$9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"From the Wild West of the blockchain to the futuristic Metaverse, this book is your ultimate guide to mastering the world of decentralized technology. Explore the basics of blockchain, learn how to protect your assets from hackers, manage your digital identity, secure your wallet, and stay safe while using blockchain-based apps and platforms. With a focus on practical advice and real-world
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Shaping Automated Driving to Achieve Societal Mobility Needs

A Human-Systems Integration Approach

Edited by Peter Moertl, Bernhard Brandstaetter ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This edited book describes novel human-systems integration approaches to improve acceptance, safety, and comfort of automated vehicles. Each chapter analyses different aspects in the development of automated driving systems such as: assessing needs and opportunities of specific user populations i.e. elderly drivers and truck drivers; creating fluid human-systems interactions in the vehicle to ... Read more

$98.99 USD

This edited book describes novel human-systems integration approaches to improve acceptance, safety, and comfort of automated vehicles. Each chapter analyses different aspects in the development of automated driving systems such as: assessing needs and opportunities of specific user populations i.e. elderly drivers and truck drivers; creating fluid human-systems interactions in the vehicle to
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Natural Language Processing

Unveiling the Language of Machines. Exploring Natural Language Processing (NLP)

by Chuck Sherman ...

Language—the fundamental bridge connecting humanity's thoughts, emotions, and stories—has embarked on an extraordinary journey. In "Unveiling the Language of Machines: Exploring Natural Language Processing (NLP)," readers are invited to traverse the intricate landscapes where words and algorithms converge, reshaping the boundaries of communication and creativity.This immersive exploration delves ... Read more

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Language—the fundamental bridge connecting humanity's thoughts, emotions, and stories—has embarked on an extraordinary journey. In "Unveiling the Language of Machines: Exploring Natural Language Processing (NLP)," readers are invited to traverse the intricate landscapes where words and algorithms converge, reshaping the boundaries of communication and creativity.This immersive exploration delves
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