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Designing Digital Musical Instruments Using Probatio: A Physical Prototyping Toolkit (Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems)
by Filipe CalegarioThe author presents Probatio, a toolkit for building functional DMI (digital musical instruments) prototypes, artifacts in which gestural control and sound production are physically decoupled but digitally mapped. He uses the concept of instrumental inheritance, the application of gestural and/or structural components of existing instruments to generate ideas for new instruments. To support analysis and combination, he then leverages a traditional design method, the morphological chart, in which existing artifacts are split into parts, presented in a visual form and then recombined to produce new ideas. And finally he integrates the concept and the method in a concrete object, a physical prototyping toolkit for building functional DMI prototypes: Probatio. The author's evaluation of this modular system shows it reduces the time required to develop functional prototypes. The book is useful for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the areas of musical creativity and human-computer interaction, in particular those engaged in generating, communicating, and testing ideas in complex design spaces.
Automatic Speech Recognition of Arabic Phonemes with Neural Networks: A Contrastive Study of Arabic and English (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Mohammed DibThis book presents a contrastive linguistics study of Arabic and English for the dual purposes of improved language teaching and speech processing of Arabic via spectral analysis and neural networks. Contrastive linguistics is a field of linguistics which aims to compare the linguistic systems of two or more languages in order to ease the tasks of teaching, learning, and translation. The main focus of the present study is to treat the Arabic minimal syllable automatically to facilitate automatic speech processing in Arabic. It represents important reading for language learners and for linguists with an interest in Arabic and computational approaches.
Praxishandbuch IT-Kommunikation
by Sandra Aengenheyster Kim Miriam DörrDigitalisierung ist mittlerweile fester Bestandteil der Unternehmensstrategie, um im internationalen Wettbewerb mithalten zu können. Dementsprechend werden auch die IT-Abteilungen in Unternehmen in die Pflicht genommen. Das IT-Projektvolumen steigt stetig und damit auch der Druck, innovative Projekte erfolgreich auf- und umzusetzen.Das Buch zeigt anschaulich, welche Rolle Kommunikation für den Erfolg von IT-Projekten spielt, beschreibt die Grundlagen von interner und externer IT-Kommunikation und gibt konkrete, praxisrelevante Handlungsempfehlungen. Damit richtet es sich an IT-Führungskräfte, IT-Manager und IT-Kommunikationsspezialisten.
Emerging Champions in the Digital Economy: New Theories and Cases on Evolving Technologies and Business Models (Management for Professionals)
by Xiaoming ZhuThis book presents a list of emerging and established companies which have a strong belief in the digital economy and elaborate their unique digital innovations. The companies selected for this book are from a variety of industries, including both Chinese and international leading technology companies such as iflytek, JD.com, IBM and Amazon. A wide range of commercial fields are covered ensuring a comprehensive research on the topic of digital economy, for example Shanghai Center (Construction Management), PPDai(Finance), 3Dmed(Precision Medicine), Children’s Hospital of Shanghai(Medical Service), First Respond (First Aid Service) etc. All cases are presented based on field studies as well as in-depth interviews and are followed by thought-provoking case analysis, which can help readers to better understand the cases from different perspectives. Readers can use this book as a good reference to address challenges and capture opportunities in the context of ever growing digital economy.
Python Programming: An Introduction To Computer Science
by John M. ZelleThis third edition of John Zelle's Python Programming continues the tradition of updating the text to reflect new technologies while maintaining a time-tested approach to teaching introductory computer science. An important change to this edition is the removal of most uses of eval and the addition of a discussion of its dangers. In our increasingly connected world, it's never too early to begin considering computer security issues.
Configuring Advanced Windows Server® 2012 R2: Services Exam 70-412 (Microsoft Official Academic Course)
by Microsoft Official Academic Course StaffThis 70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services textbook covers the third of three exams required for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows Server 2012 certification. This course will help validate the skills and knowledge necessary to administer a Windows Server 2012 Infrastructure in an enterprise environment. The three MCSA exams collectively validate the skills and knowledge necessary for implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment. This Microsoft Official Academic Course is mapped to the 70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services exam skills, including the recent R2 objectives. This textbook focuses on real skills for real jobs and prepares students to prove mastery of Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services such as advanced configuring tasks necessary to deploy, manage, and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure.
Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Guide To Building A Better World
by Satya Nadella Nicholas Davis Klaus SchwabWorld Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab offers a practical companion and field guide to his previous book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution.Today, technology is changing everything--how we relate to one another, the way we work, how our economies and goverments function, and even what it means to be human. One need not look hard to see how the incredible advances in artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, biotechnologies, and the internet of things are transforming society in unprecedented ways. But the Fourth Industrial Revolution is just beginning, says Schwab. And at a time of such tremendous uncertainty and such rapid change, he argues it's our actions as individuals and leaders that will determine the trajectory our future will take. We all have a responsibility - as citizens, businesses, and institutions - to work with the current of progress, not against it, to build a future that is ethical, inclusive, sustainable and prosperous. Drawing on contributions from 200 top experts in fields ranging from machine learning to geoengineering to nanotechnology, to data ethics, Schwab equips readers with the practical tools to leverage the technologies of the future to leave the world better, safer, and more resilient than we found it.
Risks, Relationships and Success Factors in IT Outsourcing: A Study in Large Companies (SpringerBriefs in Information Systems)
by Georg Hodosi Lazar RusuThis book addresses the buying organizations' perspective on risks, relationships and success factors for accomplishing a successful IT Outsourcing (ITO). Today’s landscape in ITO is complex and these perspectives are important in ITO and therefore there is still a need for it to be further explored. Furthermore the studies concerned the risks, relationships and success factors in ITO need to be extended in more large companies from different countries to better understand how we could improve the ITO in these companies. In order to address this issue the authors of this book have performed different studies that span about 10 years concerning the risks, relationships and success factors in ITO in large companies in Sweden. The authors have focused on both theoretical and practical aspects concerning risks, relationships and success factors in ITO and they have used transaction cost theory, agency theory and core competency theory as main theories to support their research. The data concerning this study has been collected at two different times during the last 10 years with about five years' difference between them. In this way the performed research has enabled a comparison of the data collected on two different periods in time including of the related changes. The book will help researchers in ITO as well as practitioners like ITO decision makers in large companies to understand how to mitigate the ITO risks, improve their ITO relationships and identify the ITO success factors.
Enhanced Living Environments: Algorithms, Architectures, Platforms, and Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11369)
by Rossitza Goleva Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis Ciprian Dobre Nuno M. Garcia Ivan GanchevThis open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)”. The concept of Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) refers to the area of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) that is more related with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Effective ELE solutions require appropriate ICT algorithms, architectures, platforms, and systems, having in view the advance of science and technology in this area and the development of new and innovative solutions that can provide improvements in the quality of life for people in their homes and can reduce the financial burden on the budgets of the healthcare providers.The aim of this book is to become a state-of-the-art reference, discussing progress made, as well as prompting future directions on theories, practices, standards, and strategies related to the ELE area. The book contains 12 chapters and can serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate students, post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers, medical doctors, healthcare organizations, insurance companies, and research strategists working in this area.
Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: 8th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2016, Porto, Portugal, November 9–11, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #914)
by Joaquim Filipe Jorge Bernardino Kecheng Liu David Aveiro Jan Dietz Ana FredThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in November 2016.The 18 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 186 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; and knowledge management and information sharing.
Business Development: Customer-oriented Business Development for successful companies
by Andreas KohneThe book provides a compact overview of the increasingly important topic of Business Development (BD). The author not only describes the role of the Business Development Manager and its tasks, but also shows how Business Development can be integrated organizationally into a company. In addition, a prototypical Business Development Process is presented in concrete terms and explained using a case study. The book shows why enterprises fail, deals with new creative techniques such as Hackthons and dedicates itself more comprehensively than so far to the topic of communication in the course of changes.The book helps all, which want to introduce and/or optimize Business Development in the enterprise as responsible ones or work in the future in this range.
The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital
by Kenneth SteiglitzThe genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio; we communicated using our analog telephones; and we even computed with analog computers. Today our world is digital, built with zeros and ones. Why did this revolution occur? The Discrete Charm of the Machine explains, in an engaging and accessible manner, the varied physical and logical reasons behind this radical transformation.The spark of individual genius shines through this story of innovation: the stored program of Jacquard’s loom; Charles Babbage’s logical branching; Alan Turing’s brilliant abstraction of the discrete machine; Harry Nyquist’s foundation for digital signal processing; Claude Shannon’s breakthrough insights into the meaning of information and bandwidth; and Richard Feynman’s prescient proposals for nanotechnology and quantum computing. Ken Steiglitz follows the progression of these ideas in the building of our digital world, from the internet and artificial intelligence to the edge of the unknown. Are questions like the famous traveling salesman problem truly beyond the reach of ordinary digital computers? Can quantum computers transcend these barriers? Does a mysterious magical power reside in the analog mechanisms of the brain? Steiglitz concludes by confronting the moral and aesthetic questions raised by the development of artificial intelligence and autonomous robots.The Discrete Charm of the Machine examines why our information technology, the lifeblood of our civilization, became digital, and challenges us to think about where its future trajectory may lead.
MATLAB Machine Learning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
by Michael Paluszek Stephanie ThomasHarness the power of MATLAB to resolve a wide range of machine learning challenges. This book provides a series of examples of technologies critical to machine learning. Each example solves a real-world problem. All code in MATLAB Machine Learning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is executable. The toolbox that the code uses provides a complete set of functions needed to implement all aspects of machine learning. Authors Michael Paluszek and Stephanie Thomas show how all of these technologies allow the reader to build sophisticated applications to solve problems with pattern recognition, autonomous driving, expert systems, and much more.What you'll learn:How to write code for machine learning, adaptive control and estimation using MATLABHow these three areas complement each otherHow these three areas are needed for robust machine learning applicationsHow to use MATLAB graphics and visualization tools for machine learningHow to code real world examples in MATLAB for major applications of machine learning in big data Who is this book for: The primary audiences are engineers, data scientists and students wanting a comprehensive and code cookbook rich in examples on machine learning using MATLAB.
Innovative Approaches and Applications for Sustainable Rural Development: 8th International Conference, HAICTA 2017, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 21-24, 2017, Selected Papers (Springer Earth System Sciences)
by Alexandros Theodoridis Athanasios Ragkos Michail SalampasisThis book presents selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2017) which examine sustainable rural development in the context of environmental, economic, and the socio-cultural dimension. This book raises awareness of the importance of sustainable management in agriculture using examples of actual industry cases, sustainable management practices, new forms of rural cooperation and entrepreneurship.
Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17
by Maya PoschIf you want to start developing effective embedded programs in C++, then this book is for you. Good knowledge of C++ language constructs is required to understand the topics covered in the book. No knowledge of embedded systems is assumed.
Installing and configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide
by Bekim DautiThis book is for IT professionals who perform installation, configuration, general local management and maintenance of Windows 10 core services. Also, this book may mention some enterprise scenarios or cloud-integrated services.
Minecrafter Engineer: Contraptions for Getting the Loot (Engineering for Minecrafters)
by Megan MillerYou have your farms of cactus, wheat, melons, and sugarcane. You have some decent armor and a nice base. Now you need more. More blaze rods, more iron, more wither skeleton skulls, more gunpowder, more enchanted books, more everything! <P><P>Minecrafter Engineer: Incredible Mob Grinders teaches kids how to build the incredible mob farms the experts use to increase their wealth and loot, from the witch farm to the iron golem trap. <P><P>The Minecraft Engineer series is designed to encourage creativity and problem-solving skills in kids who love building in Minecraft. <P><P>Each book helps players work within the physics of the game to build clever contraptions that add to their gaming experience. Guided by hundreds of in-game, step-by-step photos and simple instructions, kids will learn how to engineer one of many incredible mob grinders to yield resources and goodies beyond their wildest dreams. (Hundreds of chests to hold your booty not included.) <P><P>Perfect for beginner to advanced Minecrafters who want to learn more <P><P>Includes hundreds of step-by-step, full-color photos to guide readers of all ages <P><P>Helps encourage creativity and problem-solving skills <P><P>You’re not an expert gamer until you learn the tricks and tips in this book! <P><P>Minecrafter Engineer holds the valuable secrets to becoming the Minecrafter engineer you’ve always wanted to be.
The Unofficial Encyclopedia of Ultimate Challenges for Minecrafters: New Adventures and Thrilling Dares to Take Your Game to the Next Level (Encyclopedia For Minecrafters Series)
by Megan MillerThe Minecraft universe is limitless. <P><P>You can explore as far as you like, build neverending castles, and battle hordes of monsters. But once you have your base, farms, weapons, and armor, what’s next? <P><P>When you're tired of the same old moves and you're hungry for new gameplay, The Unofficial Encyclopedia of Ultimate Challenges for Minecrafters will keep you busy with advanced maneuvers, thrilling new adventures, and extreme dares. You're not a true champion Minecrafter until you've . . . <P><P>Collected every mob in your own zoo Played the game King of the Ladder Completed every in-game advancement Defeated the Ender Dragon in hardcore mode Survived Survival Island Bested Ultra Hardcore PVE/PVP competitions And more! With hundreds of screenshots for easy visual reference and definitions of every term that might trip a player up, this exciting book covers the A to Z of exploring the infinite possibilities of Minecraft gameplay.
Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing: International Conference on Advances in Mathematical Sciences, Vellore, India, December 2017 - Volume II (Trends in Mathematics)
by B. Rushi Kumar R. Sivaraj B. S. R. V. Prasad M. Nalliah A. Subramanyam Reddy<p>This volume is the first of two containing selected papers from the International Conference on Advances in Mathematical Sciences (ICAMS), held at the Vellore Institute of Technology in December 2017. This meeting brought together researchers from around the world to share their work, with the aim of promoting collaboration as a means of solving various problems in modern science and engineering. The authors of each chapter present a research problem, techniques suitable for solving it, and a discussion of the results obtained. These volumes will be of interest to both theoretical- and application-oriented individuals in academia and industry. <p>Papers in Volume I are dedicated to active and open areas of research in algebra, analysis, operations research, and statistics, and those of Volume II consider differential equations, fluid mechanics, and graph theory. </p>
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation XI (ERCOFTAC #25)
by Maria Vittoria Salvetti Vincenzo Armenio Jochen Fröhlich Bernard J. Geurts Hans Kuerten<p>This book gathers the proceedings of the 11th workshop on Direct and Large Eddy Simulation (DLES), which was held in Pisa, Italy in May 2017. The event focused on modern techniques for simulating turbulent flows based on the partial or full resolution of the instantaneous turbulent flow structures, as Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS), Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) or hybrid models based on a combination of LES and RANS approaches. In light of the growing capacities of modern computers, these approaches have been gaining more and more interest over the years and will undoubtedly be developed and applied further. The workshop offered a unique opportunity to establish a state-of-the-art of DNS, LES and related techniques for the computation and modeling of turbulent and transitional flows and to discuss about recent advances and applications. <p>This volume contains most of the contributed papers, which were submitted and further reviewed for publication. They cover advances in computational techniques, SGS modeling, boundary conditions, post-processing and data analysis, and applications in several fields, namely multiphase and reactive flows, convection and heat transfer, compressible flows, aerodynamics of airfoils and wings, bluff-body and separated flows, internal flows and wall turbulence and other complex flows. </p>
Adversarial Machine Learning
by Anthony D. Joseph Blaine Nelson Benjamin I. Rubinstein J. D. TygarWritten by leading researchers, this complete introduction brings together all the theory and tools needed for building robust machine learning in adversarial environments. Discover how machine learning systems can adapt when an adversary actively poisons data to manipulate statistical inference, learn the latest practical techniques for investigating system security and performing robust data analysis, and gain insight into new approaches for designing effective countermeasures against the latest wave of cyber-attacks. Privacy-preserving mechanisms and the near-optimal evasion of classifiers are discussed in detail, and in-depth case studies on email spam and network security highlight successful attacks on traditional machine learning algorithms. Providing a thorough overview of the current state of the art in the field, and possible future directions, this groundbreaking work is essential reading for researchers, practitioners and students in computer security and machine learning, and those wanting to learn about the next stage of the cybersecurity arms race.
Developing Games on the Raspberry Pi: App Programming with Lua and LÖVE
by Seth KenlonLearn to set up a Pi-based game development environment, and then develop a game with Lua, a popular scripting language used in major game frameworks like Unreal Engine (BioShock Infinite), CryEngine (Far Cry series), Diesel (Payday: The Heist), Silent Storm Engine (Heroes of Might and Magic V) and many others. More importantly, learn how to dig deeper into programming languages to find and understand new functions, frameworks, and languages to utilize in your games.You’ll start by learning your way around the Raspberry Pi. Then you’ll quickly dive into learning game development with an industry-standard and scalable language. After reading this book, you'll have the ability to write your own games on a Raspberry Pi, and deliver those games to Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. And you’ll learn how to publish your games to popular marketplaces for those desktop and mobile platforms.Whether you're new to programming or whether you've already published to markets like Itch.io or Steam, this book showcases compelling reasons to use the Raspberry Pi for game development. Use Developing Games on the Raspberry Pi as your guide to ensure that your game plays on computers both old and new, desktop or mobile.What You'll Learn Confidently write programs in Lua and the LOVE game engine on the Raspberry PiResearch and learn new libraries, methods, and frameworks for more advanced programmingWrite, package, and sell apps for mobile platformsDeliver your games on multiple platformsWho This Book Is ForSoftware engineers, teachers, hobbyists, and development professionals looking to up-skill and develop games for mobile platforms, this book eases them into a parallel universe of lightweight, POSIX, ARM-based development.
Intelligent Automation in Renewable Energy (Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications)
by Tetyana Baydyk Ernst Kussul Donald C. Wunsch IIAfter an introduction to renewable energy technologies, the authors present computational intelligence techniques for optimizing the manufacture of related technologies, including solar concentrators. In particular the authors present new applications for their neural classifiers for image and pattern recognition.The book will be of interest to researchers in computational intelligence, in particular in the domain of neural networks, and engineers engaged with renewable energy technologies.
ICT for Agriculture and Environment: Second International Conference, CITAMA 2019, Guayaquil, Ecuador, January 22-25, 2019, Proceedings (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #901)
by Rafael Valencia-García Gema Alcaraz-Mármol Javier del Cioppo-Morstadt Néstor Vera-Lucio Martha Bucaram-LeveroneThis book offers a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wide range of topics related to ICT applications in agriculture and the environment. It gathers the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on ICTs in Agronomy and Environment (CITAMA 2019), held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on January 22–25, 2019. The conference attracted a total of 27 papers, submitted by pioneering researchers from countries around the globe. Following a thorough peer-review by leading experts, only 14 papers were ultimately selected for publication. They cover a diverse range of topics, including: intelligent and knowledge-based systems; the Internet of things and monitoring systems; image processing; and social and collaborative systems. The book offers a valuable resource for a broad readership, including researchers, educators, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals from the areas of ICT, Agriculture and Environment.
Advances in Internet, Data and Web Technologies: The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2019) (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #29)
by Leonard Barolli Fatos Xhafa Zahoor Ali Khan Hamad OdhabiThis book presents original contributions on the theories and practices of emerging Internet, Data and Web technologies and their applications in businesses, engineering and academia. As a key feature, it addresses advances in the life-cycle exploitation of data generated by digital ecosystem technologies. The Internet has become the most proliferative platform for emerging large-scale computing paradigms. Among these, Data and Web technologies are two of the most prominent paradigms, manifesting in a variety of forms such as Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Mobile Cloud, Mobile Web Services, and so on. These technologies altogether create a digital ecosystem whose cornerstone is the data cycle, from capturing to processing, analysis and visualization. The need to investigate various research and development issues in this digital ecosystem has been made even more pressing by the ever-increasing demands of real-life applications, which are based on storing and processing large amounts of data. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable asset for all researchers, software developers, practitioners and students interested in the field of Data and Web technologies.