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Eco-Driving: From Strategies to Interfaces (Transportation Human Factors)
by Rich C. Mcllroy Neville A. StantonEco-driving has the potential to save fuel and reduce emissions without having to make any changes to vehicles or road infrastructure. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the contemporary issues in the human factors aspects of eco-driving strategies and interfaces and the effects on driver behaviour. A review of the literature concerning design, behaviour, and energy use led to an exploration of Ecological Interface Design, and the Skills, Rules, and Knowledge (SRK) taxonomy of human behaviour, particularly with regard to haptic information presented through the accelerator pedal. This book explains that eco-driving can be performed by anyone in control of a vehicle.
Ecologies of Faith: Spiritual Growth through Online Education
by Stephen D. Lowe Mary E. LoweMany Christian institutions have embraced new technologies, especially online education. But is it possible for us to grow spiritually through our digital communities? Steve Lowe and Mary Lowe, longtime proponents of online education, trace the motif of spiritual growth through Scripture and consider how students and professors alike might foster digital ecologies in which spiritual transformation can take place.
Ecologies of Internet Video: Beyond YouTube (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by John HondrosThis book explores the complex, dynamic, and contested webs of relationships in which three different groups of video makers found themselves when distributing their work on the Internet. It draws upon both the Deleuzian notion of "assemblage" and Actor-Network Theory, which together provide a rich conceptual framework for characterizing and analysing these webs. The groups examined are a UK video activist project, a community of film and television fans originating in the US, and an association of US community television producers. Rather than taking YouTube as its point of departure, this book centres on the groups themselves, contextualizing their contemporary distribution practices within their pre-Internet histories. It then follows the groups as they drew upon various Internet technologies beyond YouTube to create their often-complex video distribution assemblages, a process that entangled them in these webs of relationships. Through the analysis of detailed ethnographic fieldwork conducted across a period of several years, this book demonstrates that while the groups found some success in achieving their various goals as video makers, their situations were often problematic and their agency limited, with their practices contested by both human and technological actors within their distribution assemblages.
An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety
by Rita Yi LiThis book addresses information technologies recently applied in the field of construction safety. Combining case studies, literature reviews and interviews to study the issue, it presents cutting-edge applications of various information technologies (ITs) in construction in different parts of the world, together with a wealth of figures, tables and examples. Though primarily intended for researchers and experts in the field, the book will also benefit graduate students.
Economic Models for Managing Cloud Services
by Hai Dong Athman Bouguettaya Sajib MistryThe authors introduce both the quantitative and qualitative economic models as optimization tools for the selection of long-term cloud service requests. The economic models fit almost intuitively in the way business is usually done and maximize the profit of a cloud provider for a long-term period. The authors propose a new multivariate Hidden Markov and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (HMM-ARIMA) model to predict various patterns of runtime resource utilization. A heuristic-based Integer Linear Programming (ILP) optimization approach is developed to maximize the runtime resource utilization. It deploys a Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) to model the dynamic pricing and long-term operating cost. A new Hybrid Adaptive Genetic Algorithm (HAGA) is proposed that optimizes a non-linear profit function periodically to address the stochastic arrival of requests. Next, the authors explore the Temporal Conditional Preference Network (TempCP-Net) as the qualitative economic model to represent the high-level IaaS business strategies. The temporal qualitative preferences are indexed in a multidimensional k-d tree to efficiently compute the preference ranking at runtime. A three-dimensional Q-learning approach is developed to find an optimal qualitative composition using statistical analysis on historical request patterns. Finally, the authors propose a new multivariate approach to predict future Quality of Service (QoS) performances of peer service providers to efficiently configure a TempCP-Net. It discusses the experimental results and evaluates the efficiency of the proposed composition framework using Google Cluster data, real-world QoS data, and synthetic data. It also explores the significance of the proposed approach in creating an economically viable and stable cloud market. This book can be utilized as a useful reference to anyone who is interested in theory, practice, and application of economic models in cloud computing. This book will be an invaluable guide for small and medium entrepreneurs who have invested or plan to invest in cloud infrastructures and services. Overall, this book is suitable for a wide audience that includes students, researchers, and practitioners studying or working in service-oriented computing and cloud computing.
The Economic Philosophy of the Internet of Things (Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation)
by James JuniperTo properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "ubiquitous computing system" (UCS). As defined by Robin Milner, this notion implies the following characteristics: (i) it will continually make decisions hitherto made by us; (ii) it will be vast, maybe 100 times today’s systems; (iii) it must continually adapt, on-line, to new requirements; and, (iv) individual UCSs will interact with one another. This book argues that neoclassical approaches to modelling economic behaviour based on optimal control by "representative-agents" are ill-suited to a world typified by concurrency, decentralized control, and interaction. To this end, it argues for the development of new, process-based approaches to analysis, modelling, and simulation. The book provides the context—both philosophical and mathematical—for the construction and application of new, rigorous, and meaningful analytical tools. In terms of social theory, it adopts a Post-Cognitivist approach, the elements of which include the nature philosophy of Schelling, Marx’s critique of political economy, Peircean Pragmatism, Whitehead’s process philosophy, and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the flesh, along with cognitive scientific notions of embodied cognition and neural Darwinism, as well as more questionable notions of artificial intelligence that are encompassed by the rubric of "perception-and-action-without-intelligence".
Ecosystems Knowledge: Modeling and Analysis Method for Information and Communication
by Samuel SzonieckyTo analyze complex situations we use everyday analogies that allow us to invest in an unknown domain knowledge we have acquired in a known field. In this work the author proposes a modeling and analysis method that uses the analogy of the ecosystem to embrace the complexity of an area of knowledge. After a history of the ecosystem concept and these derivatives (nature, ecology, environment ) from antiquity to the present, the analysis method based on the modeling of socio-semantic ontologies is presented, followed by practical examples of this approach in the areas of software development, digital humanities, Big Data, and more generally in the area of complex analysis.
Edge Computing: A Primer (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Jie Cao Quan Zhang Weisong ShiThe success of the Internet of Things and rich cloud services have helped create the need for edge computing, in which data processing occurs in part at the network edge, rather than completely in the cloud. In Edge Computing: A Primer the vision and definition of Edge computing is introduced, as well as several key techniques that enable Edge computing. Then, four applications that benefit from Edge computing are presented as case studies, ranging from smart homes and public safety to medical services, followed by a discussion of several open challenges and opportunities in Edge computing. Finally, several key tools for edge computing such as virtualization and resource management are explained.
Edge Computing – EDGE 2018: Second International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2018, Seattle, WA, USA, June 25-30, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10973)
by Shijun Liu Bedir Tekinerdogan Mikio Aoyama Liang-Jie ZhangThis book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2018, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018. The 9 full papers and 3 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: Research Track; Application and Industry Track; and Short Paper Track. They deal with the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of edge computing.
Educating for Creativity within Higher Education: Integration of Research into Media Practice (Creativity, Education and the Arts)
by Phillip McIntyre Janet Fulton Elizabeth Paton Susan Kerrigan Michael MeanyThis book provides innovative insights into how creativity can be taught within higher education. Preparing students for employment in a dynamic set of global creative industries requires those students to not only be resilient and entrepreneurial, but also to be locally focused while being globally aware. Therefore it is imperative that they acquire a thorough understanding of creative processes and practice as they try to keep pace with worldwide digital trends. As the creation of media messages is a fundamental aspect of global creative industries, and that numerous concerns practitioners face are based upon a certain understanding of creativity, the authors propose an exploration of what creativity is in terms of research, and then apply it pedagogically. Drawing on extensive empirical research, the authors pose the thought-provoking question of whether creativity can be taught. This volume will be of interest to both students and scholars of creativity and higher education as well as to creatively-based practitioners more widely.
Education, Narrative Technologies and Digital Learning: Designing Storytelling for Creativity with Computing (Digital Education and Learning)
by Tony HallThis book examines and illustrates the potential of narrative technology, the integration and synthesis of storytelling and digital media in education. Storytelling is a foundational and powerful process in all learning and teaching, and technology is becoming ever more ubiquitous and sophisticated, particularly in its capabilities to mediate and augment creative storytelling. The book begins with a foundational analysis of narrative use in education today, and provides a history of the emergence of narrative technology. It explores how the convergence of high-potential computing and storytelling practices and techniques can be used to enhance education, in particular the design of bespoke, interactive physical learning environments. The contemporary importance of educational design is highlighted throughout the book, which concludes with the SCÉAL design-based research framework as a proposed systematic approach to the design of narrative technology in education. The book will be a valuable resource for educational designers, technologists, teachers and policymakers, especially those with an interest in the design and use of narrative technology in education.
Educational Technology and Narrative: Story And Instructional Design
by Karen Kaminski Brad Hokanson Gregory ClintonThis volume is the result of a 2016 research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) focused on the growing theoretical areas of integrating story and narrative into educational design. Narrative, or storytelling, is often used as a means for understanding, conveying, and remembering the events of our lives. Our lives become a series of stories as we use narrative to structure our thinking; stories that teach, train, socialize, and create value. The contributions in this volume examine stories and narrative in instructional design and offer a diverse exploration of instructional design and learning environments. Among the topics discussed: The narrative imperative: creating a story telling culture in the classroom. Narrative qualities of design argumentation. Scenario-based workplace training as storytelling. Designing for adult learners' metacognitive development & narrative identity. Using activity theory in designing science inquiry games . Changing the narrative of school: toward a neurocognitive redefinition of learning. Educational Technology and Narrative is an invaluable resource offering application-ready ideas to students of instructional design, instructional design practitioners, and teachers seeking to utilize theories of story and narrative to the ways that they convey and express ideas of instructional design and educational technology.
Educational Technology to Improve Quality and Access on a Global Scale
by Kay A. Persichitte Atwi Suparman Michael SpectorThis is an edited volume based on expanded versions of the best 30 papers presented at ETWC 2016 in Bali. Included are contributions from the keynote speakers of ETWC 2016: Robert Branch, Tian Belawati, Steve Harmon, Johannes Cronj#65533;, Marc Childress, Mike Spector, Chairul Tanjung, and Rudiantara. The work is organized into the following sections: (a) Effective Technology Integration in Teaching and Learning, (b) Quality Design, Development and Implementation, (c) Innovation and Creativity in Distance Education, and (d) Open Access, Courses and Resources.
The Educator's Guide to Producing New Media and Open Educational Resources
by Tim D. Green Abbie H. BrownDigital video, audio, and text have never been more popular, and educators need to know how to make new media work in all types of learning environments. The Educator’s Guide to Producing New Media and Open Educational Resources provides practical advice on how to produce and use open access resources to support student learning. This realistic "how-to" guide is written for education professionals in any discipline seeking to transform their instruction with technology.
Effective DevOps with AWS: Implement continuous delivery and integration in the AWS environment, 2nd Edition
by Nathaniel Felsen Giuseppe Borgese Yogesh RahejaScale and maintain outstanding performance in your AWS-based infrastructure using DevOps principlesKey FeaturesImplement continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines on AWSGain insight from an expert who has worked with Silicon Valley's most high-profile companiesImplement DevOps principles to take full advantage of the AWS stack and servicesBook DescriptionThe DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has been at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution, has also been a key contributor to the DevOps movement, creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement DevOps principles.Effective DevOps with AWS, Second Edition will help you to understand how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS, and will teach you how you can do the same. This book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline as easily as you control your software. You will also build a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to keep your app up to date. Once you have gotten to grips will all this, we'll move on to how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users even when traffic spikes, by using the latest technologies, such as containers. In addition to this, you'll get insights into monitoring and alerting, so you can make sure your users have the best experience when using your service. In the concluding chapters, we'll cover inbuilt AWS tools such as CodeDeploy and CloudFormation, which are used by many AWS administrators to perform DevOps. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to ensure the security of your platform and data, using the latest and most prominent AWS tools.What you will learnImplement automatic AWS instance provisioning using CloudFormationDeploy your application on a provisioned infrastructure with AnsibleManage infrastructure using TerraformBuild and deploy a CI/CD pipeline with Automated Testing on AWSUnderstand the container journey for a CI/CD pipeline using AWS ECSMonitor and secure your AWS environmentWho this book is forEffective DevOps with AWS is for you if you are a developer, DevOps engineer, or you work in a team which wants to build and use AWS for software infrastructure. Basic computer science knowledge is required to get the most out of this book.
Einführung in die nichtparametrische Statistik mit SAS, R und SPSS: Ein anwendungsorientiertes Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch
by Christine DullerChristine Duller gibt in diesem Buch eine leicht verständliche Einführung in die nichtparametrische Statistik. Dabei beschreibt sie nicht nur die statistischen Verfahren, sondern setzt diese auch in SAS und R um. Beide Programmiersprachen stellt die Autorin kurz vor, sodass keine Vorkenntnisse notwendig sind. Das Buch eignet sich besonders für Studierende der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften und alle Interessierten, die (nur) über Grundkenntnisse der Statistik verfügen, aber auch als Nachschlagewerk für einfache statistische Analysen.
Einführung in die Optimierung: Konzepte, Methoden und Anwendungen
by Christian Grimme Jakob BossekDieses Lehrbuch vermittelt einen breiten und grundlegenden Einblick in die Methoden der mathematischen Optimierung. Im Fokus stehen Algorithmen, verschiedene Optimierungsprobleme und ihre Komplexität sowie nützliche Lösungsmethoden. Dabei haben die Autoren, Informatiker und Optimierungsexperten der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, die Konzepte ausführlich und leicht verständlich dargestellt und außerdem viel Wert auf die Anwendung der Problemstellungen und Lösungsverfahren auf Beispielfälle gelegt. Denn ob Bauteile passend gemacht, Personaleinsatz effizient geplant oder Transportnetzwerke effektiv gestaltet werden sollen – immer geht es um die Verbesserung von Systemen und die strukturierte Durchführung dieser Optimierung. Das Fachgebiet der mathematischen Optimierung wird daher auch häufig als Operations Research oder Unternehmensforschung bezeichnet.Das Buch beginnt mit einer Einführung in die Grundbegriffe der Optimierung und die Graphentheorie und erläutert zunächst lineare Problemformulierungen sowie den Simplex-Algorithmus als zentrales Lösungsverfahren. Anschließend werden nichtlineare Problemstellungen und zumeist heuristische Verfahren beschrieben. Hier liegt der Schwerpunkt auf Evolutionären Algorithmen, einer Klasse von randomisierten Optimierungsverfahren, die bei der Lösung komplizierter ingenieurtechnischer Probleme immer mehr an Bedeutung gewinnen.Am Schluss des Buchs betrachten die Autoren das Thema aus der Perspektive der Entscheidungs- und Spieltheorie. Denn die Optimierung, wie sie in den vorangehenden Kapiteln betrachtet wird, ist genau genommen ein Spezialfall der Entscheidungstheorie. Der Band enthält zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen, die die Autoren in ihren Vorlesungen erprobt haben. Alle praktischen Problemstellungen werden durch Lösungsimplementierungen in der Programmiersprache Python (ab Version 3) und, wo möglich, mit realen Datensätzen ergänzt. Zahlreiche praktische Beispiele und Anwendungsfälle, auch aus der aktuellen Forschung, stehen als vertiefendes Begleitmaterial online zur Verfügung.
Einführung in die Statistik: Theorie und Praxis mit R
by Andreas Handl Torben KuhlenkasperDieses Lehrbuch motiviert und erklärt die Inhalte der deskriptiven und induktiven Statistik, indem es die mathematischen Grundlagen der Statistik mit vielfältigen, leicht nachvollziehbaren Anwendungen und Beispielen verbindet: Durch überschaubare Beispiele, die mit Papier und Stift durchgerechnet werden können (und sollten!) gewinnt der Leser zunächst Verständnis und einen routinierten Umgang mit den zentralen Formeln. Für größere Beispiele kommt das frei verfügbare statistische Software R zum Einsatz, welches die Berechnungen schnell und verlässlich auch für große Datensätze umsetzt.
Einstieg in das Influencer Marketing: Grundlagen, Strategien und Erfolgsfaktoren (essentials)
by Marco Nirschl Laurina SteinbergDas vorliegende essential erl#65533;utert die Prinzipien des Influencer Marketing und liefert eine praxisorientierte und komprimierte Einf#65533;hrung in das Thema. Es stellt wirkungsvolle Strategien vor und beantwortet Fragen der Praktiker: Wie kann ich entscheiden, ob sich diese Marketing-Form f#65533;r mein Produkt eignet? Wie w#65533;hle ich die richtigen Kan#65533;le und schlie#65533;lich auch die richtigen Influencer aus? Wie wirkt Influencer Marketing in meinem Marketing-Mix? Klassische Marketing-Kampagnen schaffen es immer weniger, die Wahrnehmungsschwelle der Konsumenten zu durchdringen und somit deren Aufmerksamkeit zu erlangen. Sie schenken der klassischen Werbung immer weniger Vertrauen und holen sich Informationen nach dem Pull-Prinzip. Diese Entwicklung bedient den Trend des Influencer Marketing. Die Autoren geben Anwendungsbeispiele und Entscheidungshilfen.
Electricity Markets with Increasing Levels of Renewable Generation: Structure, Operation, Agent-based Simulation, and Emerging Designs
by Fernando Lopes Helder CoelhoThis book describes the common ground between electricity markets (EMs) and software agents (or artificial intelligence generally). It presents an up-to-date introduction to EMs and intelligent agents, and offers a comprehensive description of the research advances and key achievements related to existing and emerging market designs to reliably and efficiently manage the potential challenges of variable generation (VG). Most EMs are unique in their complex relationships between economics and the physics of energy, but were created without the notion that large penetrations of variable generation (VG) would be part of the supply mix. An advanced multi-agent approach simulates the behavior of power markets over time, particularly markets with large-scale penetrations of renewable resources. It is intended as a reference book for researchers, academics and industry practitioners, but given the scope of the chapters and the highly accessible style, the book also provides a coherent foundation for several different graduate courses.
Electronic and Magnetic Excitations in Correlated and Topological Materials (Springer Theses)
by John S. Van DykeThis thesis reports a major breakthrough in discovering the superconducting mechanism in CeCoIn5, the “hydrogen atom” among heavy fermion compounds. By developing a novel theoretical formalism, the study described herein succeeded in extracting the crucial missing element of superconducting pairing interaction from scanning tunneling spectroscopy experiments. This breakthrough provides a theoretical explanation for a series of puzzling experimental observations, demonstrating that strong magnetic interactions provide the quantum glue for unconventional superconductivity. Additional insight into the complex properties of strongly correlated and topological materials was provided by investigating their non-equilibrium charge and spin transport properties. The findings demonstrate that the interplay of magnetism and disorder with strong correlations or topology leads to complex and novel behavior that can be exploited to create the next generation of spin electronics and quantum computing devices.
Electronic Engineering: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Electronic Engineering and Information Science (ICEEIS 2017), January 7-8, 2017, Haikou, P.R. China
by Dongxing WangThe 4th International Conference of Electronic Engineering and Information Science 2017 (ICEEIS2017) was held January 7-8, 2017 in Haikou, P.R. China. This conference was sponsored by the Harbin University of Science and Technology, China. The conference continued the tradition of gathering world-class researchers, engineers and educators engaged in the fields of electronic engineering and information science to meet and present their latest activities. The proceedings contains contributions in the fields of Electronic Engineering, Information Science and Information Technologies, Computational Mathematics and Data Mining, Mechatronics, Control and Automation and Material Science and Technologies of Processing.
Electronic Government: 17th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2018, Krems, Austria, September 3-5, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11020)
by Peter Parycek Olivier Glassey Marijn Janssen Hans Jochen Scholl Efthimios Tambouris Evangelos Kalampokis Shefali VirkarThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2018, held in Krems, Austria, in September 2018, in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2018.The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: General E-Government and Open Government; Open Data, Linked Data, and Semantic Web; Smart Governance (Government, Cities and Regions); and Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Automated Decision-Making.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 7th International Conference, EGOVIS 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3–5, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11032)
by Andrea Kő Enrico FrancesconiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: digitalization and transparency; challenges in e-government technology and e-voting; knowledge management in the context of e-government; semantic technologies and the legal aspects; open data and open innovation; and e-government cases - data and knowledge management.
The Electronic Health Record For The Physician's Office: For Simchart For The Medical Office
by Julie PepperThe Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office, 2nd Edition uses online simulations to walk you through each EHR task. Clear, step-by-step guidelines simplify the exercises in each simulation, so you learn all the EHR skills required of a medical office professional. This edition adds in-depth review and preparation for the Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist (CEHRS) examination. Written by Medical Assisting educator Julie Pepper, this how-to manual helps you master the administrative, clinical, and billing/coding skills you need to gain certification and succeed on the job. Access to SimChart for the Medical Office sold separately.