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Advanced Analytics with Spark
by Sean Owen Sandy Ryza Josh Wills Uri LasersonIn this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together to teach you how to approach analytics problems by example.You'll start with an introduction to Spark and its ecosystem, and then dive into patterns that apply common techniques--classification, collaborative filtering, and anomaly detection among others--to fields such as genomics, security, and finance. If you have an entry-level understanding of machine learning and statistics, and you program in Java, Python, or Scala, you'll find these patterns useful for working on your own data applications.Patterns include:Recommending music and the Audioscrobbler data setPredicting forest cover with decision treesAnomaly detection in network traffic with K-means clusteringUnderstanding Wikipedia with Latent Semantic AnalysisAnalyzing co-occurrence networks with GraphXGeospatial and temporal data analysis on the New York City Taxi Trips dataEstimating financial risk through Monte Carlo simulationAnalyzing genomics data and the BDG projectAnalyzing neuroimaging data with PySpark and Thunder
Advanced Analytics with Spark: Patterns for Learning from Data at Scale
by Josh Wills Sandy Ryza Sean Owen Uri LasersonIn the second edition of this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together to teach you how to approach analytics problems by example. Updated for Spark 2.1, this edition acts as an introduction to these techniques and other best practices in Spark programming.You’ll start with an introduction to Spark and its ecosystem, and then dive into patterns that apply common techniques—including classification, clustering, collaborative filtering, and anomaly detection—to fields such as genomics, security, and finance.If you have an entry-level understanding of machine learning and statistics, and you program in Java, Python, or Scala, you’ll find the book’s patterns useful for working on your own data applications.With this book, you will:Familiarize yourself with the Spark programming modelBecome comfortable within the Spark ecosystemLearn general approaches in data scienceExamine complete implementations that analyze large public data setsDiscover which machine learning tools make sense for particular problemsAcquire code that can be adapted to many uses
Advanced Applications of Natural Language Processing for Performing Information Extraction (SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology)
by António Teixeira Mário RodriguesThis book explains how can be created information extraction (IE) applications that are able to tap the vast amount of relevant information available in natural language sources: Internet pages, official documents such as laws and regulations, books and newspapers, and social web. Readers are introduced to the problem of IE and its current challenges and limitations, supported with examples. The book discusses the need to fill the gap between documents, data, and people, and provides a broad overview of the technology supporting IE. The authors present a generic architecture for developing systems that are able to learn how to extract relevant information from natural language documents, and illustrate how to implement working systems using state-of-the-art and freely available software tools. The book also discusses concrete applications illustrating IE uses. · Provides an overview of state-of-the-art technology in information extraction (IE), discussing achievements and limitations for the software developer and providing references for specialized literature in the area · Presents a comprehensive list of freely available, high quality software for several subtasks of IE and for several natural languages · Describes a generic architecture that can learn how to extract information for a given application domain
Advanced Business Analytics
by Fausto Pedro García Márquez Benjamin LevThe book describes advanced business analytics and shows how to apply them to many different professional areas of engineering and management. Each chapter of the book is contributed by a different author and covers a different area of business analytics. The book connects the analytic principles with business practice and provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering/technology and the organizational, administrative and planning abilities of management. It also refers to other disciplines such as economy, finance, marketing, behavioral economics and risk analysis. This book is of special interest to engineers, economists and researchers who are developing new advances in engineering management but also to practitioners working on this subject.
Advanced Computer and Communication Engineering Technology: Proceedings of ICOCOE 2015 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #362)
by Hamzah Asyrani Sulaiman Mohd Azlishah Othman Mohd Fairuz Iskandar Othman Yahaya Abd Rahim Naim Che PeeThis book covers diverse aspects of advanced computer and communication engineering, focusing specifically on industrial and manufacturing theory and applications of electronics, communications, computing and information technology. Experts in research, industry, and academia present the latest developments in technology, describe applications involving cutting-edge communication and computer systems and explore likely future directions. In addition, access is offered to numerous new algorithms that assist in solving computer and communication engineering problems. The book is based on presentations delivered at ICOCOE 2014, the 1st International Conference on Communication and Computer Engineering. It will appeal to a wide range of professionals in the field, including telecommunication engineers, computer engineers and scientists, researchers, academics and students.
Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript
by Rex SpuyHow do you make a video game? Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript is a down to earth education in how to make video games from scratch, using the powerful HTML5 and JavaScript technologies. This book is a point-by-point round up of all the essential techniques that every game designer needs to know. You'll discover how to create and render game graphics, add interactivity, sound, and animation. You'll learn how to build your own custom game engine with reusable components so that you can quickly develop games with maximum impact and minimum code. You'll also learn the secrets of vector math and advanced collision detection techniques, all of which are covered in a friendly and non-technical manner. You'll find detailed working examples, with hundreds of illustrations and thousands of lines of source code that you can freely adapt for your own projects. All the math and programming techniques are elaborately explained and examples are open-ended to encourage you to think of original ways to use these techniques in your own games. You can use what you learn in this book to make games for desktops, mobile phones, tablets or the Web. Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript is a great next step for experienced programmers or ambitious beginners who already have some JavaScript experience, and want to jump head first into the world of video game development. It's also great follow-up book for readers of Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript (by the same author) who want to add depth and precision to their skills. The game examples in this book use pure JavaScript, so you can code as close to the metal as possible without having to be dependent on any limiting frameworks or game engines. No libraries, no dependencies, no third-party plugins: just you, your computer, and the code. If you're looking for a book to take your game design skills into the stratosphere and beyond, this is it! What you'll learn The latest JavaScript ES6, HTML and Canvas Drawing API skills you need to know to make games. Make game sprites, compose a scene graph, load and manage game assets, and how to use a texture atlas. Control the geometry and physics of the game world using vector math, the Separating Axis Theory (SAT), and advanced collision detection strategies. Build a custom music and sound effects player for games using the WebAudio API. Keyframe animation and how to implement precise control over the frame rate and game loop. Learn how to make interactive sprites and buttons for the keyboard, mouse and touch. Create and manage game scenes, and learn how to make particle explosions and screen shake effects. Manage complexity to build games of any size that scale seamlessly. Who this book is for Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript is for video game developers with some experience who want to learn the essential techniques they need to know to take their skills to the next level. It's for readers who want to understand and fine-tune every line of code they write, without resorting to quick fixes. All the techniques covered in this book are core game design skills that can be applied to many other programming technologies. Table of Contents 1. Level-up: New JavaScript Tricks 2. The Canvas Drawing API 3. Working with Game Assets 4. Making Sprites and a Scene Graph 5. Making Things Move 6. Interactivity 7. Collision Detection 8. Juice It Up: Keyframe Animation and Particles Effects 9. Sound with the WebAudio API 10. Tweening 11. Make Your Own Game Engine Appendix A: Vectors for Movement and Collision Detection
Advanced Hardware Design for Error Correcting Codes
by Cyrille Chavet Philippe CoussyThis book provides thorough coverage of error correcting techniques. It includes essential basic concepts and the latest advances on key topics in design, implementation, and optimization of hardware/software systems for error correction. The book's chapters are written by internationally recognized experts in this field. Topics include evolution of error correction techniques, industrial user needs, architectures, and design approaches for the most advanced error correcting codes (Polar Codes, Non-Binary LDPC, Product Codes, etc). This book provides access to recent results, and is suitable for graduate students and researchers of mathematics, computer science, and engineering. * Examines how to optimize the architecture of hardware design for error correcting codes; * Presents error correction codes from theory to optimized architecture for the current and the next generation standards; * Provides coverage of industrial user needs advanced error correcting techniques. Advanced Hardware Design for Error Correcting Codes includes a foreword by Claude Berrou.
Advanced Java® EE Development with WildFly®
by Deepak VohraThis book is for professional WildFly developers. If you are already using JBoss or WildFly but don't use the Eclipse IDE and Maven for development, this book will show you how the Eclipse IDE and Maven facilitate the development of Java EE applications with WildFly 8.1. This book does not provide a beginner-level introduction to Java EE as it is written as an intermediate/advanced course in Java EE development with WildFly 8.1.
Advanced Metaprogramming in Classic C++
by Davide Di GennaroTake a detailed and intense look into template metaprogramming (TMP) using classic C++. Tackle language aspects, design patterns, examples and applications, with special emphasis on small reusable techniques that will improve the quality of daily work. Advanced Metaprogramming in Classic C++: Third Edition is a book to sit with and learn from. Users of its prior editions point out that they come back to it over and over. This edition enhances the readability and clarity of the discussion. The two newer standards are not used in the code so that the examples can be rich, illustrate the point, and be run with confidence. The code can be readily adapted to include the elements of the Modern C++ standards. The gain for the reader is that TMP is presented in the book as a set of techniques that will enable a new style to your C++ coding while making it exceptionally clear and efficient. The approach in the book is used to maximize compatibility and clearly illustrate the techniques, enabling the reader to comprehend difficult material without the burdens of compiler errors, and other unnecessary complexities and enabling a much more intense treatment of the subject. For those interested in Modern C++, all subsequent additions to the C++ language are fully compatible with the code in this book and users familiar with them can leverage the techniques introduced in C++XX to make the patterns in this book even more powerful. There is a chapter that discusses issues regarding the two newer standards and the basics needed to program for the newer standards are readily available online. What makes the book exceptional is the level of understanding of the concepts involved imparted by the author. This is not just a rote overview of metaprogramming. You will truly understand difficult topics like static assertions, how to write metafunctions, overload resolution, lambda expressions, and many others. More than that, you will work through them with practical examples guided by the author's frank explanations. This book requires you to think and to learn and to understand the language so that you can program at a higher level. What you'll learn What templates and the small object toolkit are, and how to use them How to do overload resolution How to do metaprogramming with interfaces, algorithms, functors and refactoring How to work with code generators What is opaque type principle and how to use it How to work with debugging templates and more A chapter devoted to issues surrounding C++0x and C++14 Who this book is for This book is for experienced C++ programmers who want to learn more. Table of Contents Part I 1. Templates 2. Small Object Toolkit Part II 3. Static Programming 4. Overload Resolution 5. Interfaces 6. Algorithms 7. Code Generators 8. Functors 9. Opaque Type Principle Part III 10. Refactoring 11. Debugging Templates 12. C++0X 13. Appendix A: Exercises 14. Appendix B: Bibliography
Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks: Second International Workshop, AMBN 2015, Yokohama, Japan, November 16-18, 2015. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9505)
by Joe Suzuki Maomi UenoThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks, AMBN 2015, held in Yokohama, Japan, in November 2015. The 18 revised full papers and 6 invited abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. In the International Workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks (AMBN), the researchers explore methodologies for enhancing the effectiveness of graphical models including modeling, reasoning, model selection, logic-probability relations, and causality. The exploration of methodologies is complemented discussions of practical considerations for applying graphical models in real world settings, covering concerns like scalability, incremental learning, parallelization, and so on.
Advanced Models of Neural Networks: Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochasticity in Biological Neurons
by Gerasimos G. RigatosThis book provides a complete study on neural structures exhibiting nonlinear and stochastic dynamics, elaborating on neural dynamics by introducing advanced models of neural networks. It overviews the main findings in the modelling of neural dynamics in terms of electrical circuits and examines their stability properties with the use of dynamical systems theory. It is suitable for researchers and postgraduate students engaged with neural networks and dynamical systems theory.
Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies: 11th International Symposium, APPT 2015, Jinan, China, August 20-21, 2015, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9231)
by Yunji Chen Paolo Ienne Qing JiThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, APPT 2015, held in Jinan, China, in August 2015. The 8 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They deal with the recent advances in big data processing; parallel architectures and systems; parallel software; parallel algorithms and applications; and distributed and cloud computing.
Advanced Research in Data Privacy (Studies in Computational Intelligence #567)
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas Vicenç TorraThis book provides an overview of the research work on data privacy and privacy enhancing technologies carried by the participants of the ARES project. ARES (Advanced Research in Privacy an Security, CSD2007-00004) has been one of the most important research projects funded by the Spanish Government in the fields of computer security and privacy. It is part of the now extinct CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 program, a highly competitive program which aimed to advance knowledge and open new research lines among top Spanish research groups. The project started in 2007 and will finish this 2014. Composed by 6 research groups from 6 different institutions, it has gathered an important number of researchers during its lifetime. Among the work produced by the ARES project, one specific work package has been related to privacy. This books gathers works produced by members of the project related to data privacy and privacy enhancing technologies. The presented works not only summarize important research carried in the project but also serve as an overview of the state of the art in current research on data privacy and privacy enhancing technologies.
Advanced Software Testing - Vol. 3, 2nd Edition
by Rex Black Jamie L MitchellThis book is written for the technical test analyst who wants to achieve advanced skills in test analysis, design, and execution. With a hands-on, exercise-rich approach, this book teaches you how to define and carry out the tasks required to implement a test strategy. You will be able to analyze, design, implement, and execute tests using risk considerations to determine the appropriate effort and priority for tests. This book will help you prepare for the ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst exam. Included are sample exam questions for most of the learning objectives covered by the latest (2012) ISTQB Advanced Level syllabus. The ISTQB certification program is the leading software tester certification program in the world. You can be confident in the value and international stature that the Advanced Technical Test Analyst certificate will offer you.With over thirty years of software and systems engineering experience, author Rex Black is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing, and the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. Previously, he served as President of both the International and American Software Testing Qualifications Boards (ISTQB and ASTQB).Jamie Mitchell is a consultant who has been working in software testing, test automation, and development for over 20 years. He was a member of the Technical Advisory Group for ASTQB, and one of the primary authors for the ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst 2012 syllabus.
Advanced Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (Intelligent Systems Reference Library #139)
by Gianluigi Ferrari Marco Picone Stefano Busanelli Michele Amoretti Francesco ZanichelliThis book focuses on emerging technologies in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) namely efficient information dissemination between vehicles, infrastructures, pedestrians and public transportation systems. It covers the state-of-the-art of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), with centralized and decentralized (Peer-to-Peer) communication architectures, considering several application scenarios. With a detailed treatment of emerging communication paradigms, including cross networking and distributed algorithms. Unlike most of the existing books, this book presents a multi-layer overview of information dissemination systems, from lower layers (MAC) to high layers (applications). All those aspects are investigated considering the use of mobile devices, such as smartphones/tablets and embedded systems, i. e. technologies that during last years completely changed the current market, the user expectations, and communication networks. The presented networking paradigms are supported and validated by means of extensive simulative analysis and real field deployments in different application scenarios. This book represents a reference for professional technologist, postgraduates and researchers in the area of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs), wireless communication and distributed systems.
Advances and Applications in Sliding Mode Control systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence #576)
by Ahmad Taher Azar Quanmin ZhuThis book describes the advances and applications in Sliding mode control (SMC) which is widely used as a powerful method to tackle uncertain nonlinear systems. The book is organized into 21 chapters which have been organised by the editors to reflect the various themes of sliding mode control. The book provides the reader with a broad range of material from first principles up to the current state of the art in the area of SMC and observation presented in a clear, matter-of-fact style. As such it is appropriate for graduate students with a basic knowledge of classical control theory and some knowledge of state-space methods and nonlinear systems. The resulting design procedures are emphasized using Matlab/Simulink software.
Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 16th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2015 Albacete, Spain, November 9–12, 2015 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9422)
by José M. Puerta José A. Gámez Bernabe Dorronsoro Edurne Barrenechea Alicia Troncoso Bruno Baruque Mikel GalarThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2015, held in Albacete, Spain, in November 2015. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 175 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Bayesian networks and uncertainty modeling; fuzzy logic and soft computing; knowledge representation, reasoning, and logic; intelligent systems and environment; intelligent Web and recommender systems; machine learning and data mining; metaheuristics and evolutionary computation; and social robotics.
Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 17th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2016, Salamanca, Spain, September 14-16, 2016. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9868)
by José A. Gámez Edurne Barrenechea Alicia Troncoso Mikel Galar Héctor Quintián Emilio Corchado Oscar LuacesThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2015, held in Albacete, Spain, in November 2015. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 175 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Bayesian networks and uncertainty modeling; fuzzy logic and soft computing; knowledge representation, reasoning, and logic; intelligent systems and environment; intelligent Web and recommender systems; machine learning and data mining; metaheuristics and evolutionary computation; and social robotics.
Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications: 14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, October 25-31, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9414)
by Obdulia Pichardo Lagunas Oscar Herrera Alcántara Gustavo Arroyo FigueroaThe twovolume set LNAI 9413 + 9414 constitutes the proceedings of the 14thMexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015, heldin Cuernavaca,. Morelos, Mexico, in October 2015. The totalof 98 papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selectedfrom 297 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: naturallanguage processing; logic and multi-agent systems; bioinspired algorithms;neural networks; evolutionary algorithms; fuzzy logic; machine learning anddata mining; natural language processing applications; educationalapplications; biomedical applications; image processing and computer vision;search and optimization; forecasting; and intelligent applications.
Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: 14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, October 25-31, 2015, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9413)
by Grigori Sidorov Sofía N. Galicia-HaroThe two volume set LNAI 9413 + LNAI 9414 constitutes theproceedings of the 14th Mexican International Conference on ArtificialIntelligence, MICAI 2015, held in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, in October 2015. The total of 98 papers presented in these proceedings wascarefully reviewed and selected from 297 submissions. They were organized intopical sections named: natural language processing; logic and multi-agentsystems; bioinspired algorithms; neural networks; evolutionary algorithms;fuzzy logic; machine learning and data mining; natural language processingapplications; educational applications; biomedical applications; imageprocessing and computer vision; search and optimization; forecasting; andintelligent applications.
Advances in Complex Data Modeling and Computational Methods in Statistics (Contributions to Statistics)
by Anna Maria Paganoni Piercesare SecchiThe book is addressed to statisticians working at the forefront of the statistical analysis of complex and high dimensional data and offers a wide variety of statistical models, computer intensive methods and applications: network inference from the analysis of high dimensional data; new developments for bootstrapping complex data; regression analysis for measuring the downsize reputational risk; statistical methods for research on the human genome dynamics; inference in non-euclidean settings and for shape data; Bayesian methods for reliability and the analysis of complex data; methodological issues in using administrative data for clinical and epidemiological research; regression models with differential regularization; geostatistical methods for mobility analysis through mobile phone data exploration. This volume is the result of a careful selection among the contributions presented at the conference "S. Co. 2013: Complex data modeling and computationally intensive methods for estimation and prediction" held at the Politecnico di Milano, 2013. All the papers published here have been rigorously peer-reviewed.
Advances in Computer Games: 14th International Conference, ACG 2015, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 1-3, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9525)
by Aske Plaat Jaap van den Herik Walter KostersThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Computer Games, ACG 2015, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in July 2015. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as Monte-Carlo Tree Search and its enhancements; theoretical aspects and complexity; analysis of game characteristics; search algorithms; and machine learning.
Advances in Computer Science and Ubiquitous Computing: CSA-CUTE2016 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #421)
by Yi Pan James J. Jong Hyuk Park Gangman Yi Vincenzo LoiaThis book presents the combined proceedings of the 7th International Conference onComputer Science and its Applications (CSA-15) and the International Conference onUbiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE 2015), both held in Cebu, Philippines, December 15 - 17, 2015. The aim of these two meetings was to promote discussion andinteraction among academics, researchers and professionals in the field ofcomputer science covering topics including mobile computing, security and trustmanagement, multimedia systems and devices, networks and communications,databases and data mining, and ubiquitous computing technologies such as ubiquitous communication and networking, ubiquitous software technology, ubiquitous systems and applications, security and privacy. These proceedings reflect the state-of-the-art in the development of computationalmethods, numerical simulations, error anduncertainty analysis and novel applications of new processing techniques inengineering, science, and other disciplines related to computer science.
Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2015 Workshops AHA, CMS, EMoV, MoBID, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, and SCME, Stockholm, Sweden, October 19-22, 2015, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9382)
by Manfred A. Jeusfeld Kamalakar KarlapalemThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of sevenworkshops and a symposium, held at the 34th International Conference onConceptual Modeling, ER 2015, in Stockholm, Sweden. The 26 revised full and 8 invited papers werecarefully reviewed and selected out of 52 submissions to the following events:Conceptual Modelling for Ambient Assistance and Healthy Ageing, AHA-2015;Conceptual Modelling of Services, CMS-2015; Event Modelling and Processing inBusiness Process Management, EMoV-2015; Modelling and Management of Big Data,MoBID-2015; Modelling and Reasoning for Business Intelligence, MORE-BI-2015;Conceptual Modelling in Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis,MREBA-2015; Quality of Modelling and Modelling of Quality, QMMQ-2015; and theSymposium on Conceptual Modelling Education, SCME-2015.
Advances in Crowdsourcing
by Ignacio Gil-Pechuán Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon Sofia Estelles-MiguelThis book attempts to link some of the recent advances in crowdsourcing with advances in innovation and management. It contributes to the literature in several ways. First, it provides a global definition, insights and examples of this managerial perspective resulting in a theoretical framework. Second, it explores the relationship between crowdsourcing and technological innovation, the development of social networks and new behaviors of Internet users. Third, it explores different crowdsourcing applications in various sectors such as medicine, tourism, information and communication technology (ICT), and marketing. Fourth, it observes the ways in which crowdsourcing can improve production, finance, management and overall managerial performance. Crowdsourcing, also known as "massive outsourcing" or "voluntary outsourcing," is the act of taking a job or a specific task usually performed by an employee of a company or contractors, and outsourcing it to a large group of people or a community (crowd or mass) via the Internet, through an open call. The term was coined by Jeff Howe in a 2006 issue of Wired magazine. It is being developed in different sciences (i. e. , medicine, engineering, ICT, management) and is used in the most successful companies of the modern era (i. e. , Apple, Facebook, Inditex, Starbucks). The developments in crowdsourcing has theoretical and practical implications, which will be explored in this book. Including contributions from international academics, scholars and professionals within the field, this book provides a global, multidimensional perspective on crowdsourcing.