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Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019: Proceedings of the 11th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT 2019), Volume 2 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #143)
by Ireneusz Czarnowski Robert J. Howlett Lakhmi C. JainThe book presents a collection of peer-reviewed articles from the 11th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT-19), held Malta on 17–19 June 2019. The conference provided opportunities for the presentation of new research results and discussion about them. It was also an opportunity to generation of new ideas in the field of intelligent decision making. The range of topics explored is wide, and covers methods of classification, prediction, data analysis, decision support, modelling and many more in such areas as finance, cybersecurity, economy, health, management and transportation. The topics cover also problems of data science, signal processing and knowledge engineering.
Intelligent Spectrum Handovers in Cognitive Radio Networks (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
by Anandakumar Haldorai Umamaheswari KandaswamyThis book highlights the need for an efficient Handover Decision (HD) mechanism to perform switches from one network to another and to provide unified and continuous mobile services that include seamless connectivity and ubiquitous service access. The author shows how the HD involves efficiently combining handover initiation and network selection process. The author describes how the network selection decision is a challenging task that is a central component to making HD for any mobile user in a heterogeneous environment that involves a number of static and dynamic parameters. The author also discusses prevailing technical challenges like Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (DSA) methods, spectrum sensing, cooperative communications, cognitive network architecture protocol design, cognitive network security challenges and dynamic adaptation algorithms for cognitive system and the evolving behavior of systems in general. The book allows the reader to optimize the sensing time for maximizing the spectrum utilization, improve the lifetime of the cognitive radio network (CRN) using active scan spectrum sensing techniques, analyze energy efficiency of CRN, find a secondary user spectrum allocation, perform dynamic handovers, and use efficient data communication in the cognitive networks.Identifies energy efficient spectrum sensing techniques for Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN);Shows how to maximize the energy capacity by minimizing the outage probability;Features end-of-chapter summaries, performance measures, and case studies.
Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca: Context, Practice, and Perception
by Weihua ZhuInteraction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca: Context, Practice, and Perception proposes a model of context, practice, and perception and raises awareness of the importance of understanding language use and perception in context in order to avoid intercultural communication misunderstandings. This book provides an overview of previous research on the pragmatics of Chinese and English as a multilingua franca in multilingual contexts. It argues that context is socioculturally shaped, interactionally constructed, and personally related. Context can influence and be established by the practice and perception of communicative acts. This book also combines the proposed model with the discursive-interactional approach to uncover the interplay of context, practice, and perception of extended concurrent speech for strong disagreement by native Chinese speakers in spontaneous conversations in Mandarin and English as a multilingua franca.
Intercultural Collaboration by Design: Drawing from Differences, Distances, and Disciplines Through Visual Thinking
by Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt Denielle J. EmansIntercultural Collaboration by Design introduces a framework for collaborating across cultures and learning to use multicultural perspectives to address pressing global issues. This handbook helps people work, learn, and teach across cultures. Through the activities highlighted in this book, virtual and intercultural teams will find a practical route for initiating and sustaining productive work across disciplinary and social barriers. Teams can craft a plan to achieve their goals by selecting the activities that best meet their needs and interests. First-person anecdotes from the authors demonstrate how the activities encourage teams to embrace diverse perspectives in order to create innovative solutions. With over 30 hands-on activities, this book will be of great interest to diverse teams from a variety of disciplines who want to enhance intercultural learning and co-working. Whether in the classroom or workplace, the activities are appropriate for a variety of collaboration contexts, without a need for background in art or design.
Intercultural Studies in Higher Education: Policy and Practice (Intercultural Studies in Education)
by Ana Maria de Albuquerque Moreira Jean-Jacques Paul Nigel BagnallThis book explores the study of policies and practices in Higher Education by comparing systems, institutions, programs, innovations, results and cultures. In a rapidly changing global and international marketplace, the growth of higher education has occurred within distinct cultural contexts, meaning that change is reflected within local, regional, national and global perspectives. Using a single data methodology across countries and continents, the editors and contributors explore higher education reforms between global and local dimensions, the expansion of access and democratisation, and relevant aspects in the organisation and management of higher education. In doing so, this book arrives at an understanding of higher education at a truly intercultural level, which can lead to a deeper and more holistic understanding of policies and practices in higher education. This innovative book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of higher education across the world as well as the study of interculturality.
Intergenerational Connections in Digital Families
by Sakari TaipaleThis book provides a comprehensive review of how digital communication technology can help families network and communicate across generations, despite differences in family composition, residential location, cultural values and orientations. Covering the full spectrum of intergenerational relations (including child to parent, and parent to grandparent), it offers a positive view of the value of digital technology usage within families.The author focuses on three European countries: Finland, Italy and Slovenia, but also touches on other European countries and parts of the United States, revealing evidence that challenges ideas of universal adoption of information communication technology (ICT) and consistency in the social effects of such adoption in different regions and cultures. Further, the book discusses numerous other challenges and issues, such as:• the social transformations and technological developments that have made digital families possible;• the resulting changes in family roles, responsibilities, and practices; and• the theoretical and conceptual implications of digital communication-technology use in families.The author illustrates how ICT can facilitate family solidarity and how it helps to provide new ways of being together, and they discuss how social media, particularly instant messaging applications, helps develop affinity between family members better than traditional one-to-one personal communication tools. Combining highly nuanced material with fresh sociological thinking, it enhances readers’ theoretical understanding of the meaning of the ‘digital family’, making it a powerful resource for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as academics. Thanks to its structured format with easy-to-understand explanations, it appeals to practitioners and researchers alike.
Interkulturelle Wirtschaftspsychologie (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Petia GenkovaDieses Lehrbuch befasst sich mit den kulturellen Unterschieden in der Wirtschaftspsychologie. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Wechselwirkung zwischen Kultur und ihrem Einfluss auf Denken und Verhalten im wirtschaftlichen Kontext. Mit Lernzielen, Praxistipps, Definitionen, Verständnisfragen und Zusammenfassungen ist dieses Werk didaktisch klar strukturiert und leicht verständlich aufgebaut. Eindrücklich zeigt es auf, welche Phänomene eher universell, d.h. in allen Kulturen gültig sind, und welche der affektiven, kognitiven und verhaltensbezogenen Phänomene eher kulturspezifischen Regeln und Normen unterliegen. Zum besseren Verständnis sind die Zusammenhänge praxisnah mit Fallbeispielen veranschaulicht. Aktuelle Studien runden die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen mit interessanten Erkenntnissen und Beispielen ab. Direkte Handlungsimplikationen regen zum Nachdenken an und laden zur praktischen Umsetzung ein.
Intermediate Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)
by Ian Hinchliffe Philip HolmesIntermediate Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible intermediate reference grammar and related exercises in one volume that covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their second year of learning Swedish. The book follows on naturally from and complements its companion volume, Basic Swedish. Each of the 26 units discusses one or more grammar topics, with examples that are subsequently practised in the exercises that follow. The book presents the contemporary language against a backdrop of Swedish culture, society, geography, customs and history. Each unit ends with a cultural text which outlines an aspect of Swedish culture and, in nearly all cases, exemplifies and consolidates the grammar topic examined in the unit. Features include: • clear grammatical explanations with examples in Swedish and English • vocabulary based on a major corpus of written Swedish in order to guarantee authenticity and relevance • cross-references to other units • over 100 exercises with a key to all the correct answers. The book is suitable both for independent study and for class use. It can be used by intermediate students and those who have grasped the basics of grammar and vocabulary.
International Communication: Continuity and Change
by Daya Kishan ThussuThe third edition of International Communication examines the profound changes that have taken place, and are continuing to take place at an astonishing speed, in international media and communication. Building on the success of previous editions, this book maps out the expansion of media and telecommunications corporations within the macro-economic context of liberalisation, deregulation and privitisation. It then goes on to explore the impact of such growth on audiences in different cultural contexts and from regional, national and international perspectives. Each chapter contains engaging case studies which exemplify the main concepts and arguments.
International Conference on Advanced Computing Networking and Informatics: ICANI-2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #870)
by Raj Kamal Michael Henshaw Pramod S. NairThe book comprises selected papers presented at the International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics (ICANI 2018), organized by Medi-Caps University, India. It includes novel and original research work on advanced computing, networking and informatics, and discusses a wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques in the field of computing and networking.
International Conference on Computer Networks and Communication Technologies: Iccnct 2018 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #15)
by Ivan Kotuliak Joy Iong-Zong Chen Robert Bestak S. SmysThe book features research papers presented at the International Conference on Computer Networks and Inventive Communication Technologies (ICCNCT 2018), offering significant contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. The topics covered include computer networks, network protocols and wireless networks, data communication technologies, and network security. Covering the main core and specialized issues in the areas of next-generation wireless network design, control, and management, as well as in the areas of protection, assurance, and trust in information security practices, these proceedings are a valuable resource, for researchers, instructors, students, scientists, engineers, managers, and industry practitioners.
International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications: Proceedings Of Icicc 2018, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #56)
by Siddhartha Bhattacharyya Aboul Ella Hassanien Deepak Gupta Ashish Khanna Indrajit PanThe book includes high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication (ICICC 2018), which was held at the Guru Nanak Institute of Management (GNIM), Delhi, India on 5–6 May 2018. Introducing the innovative works of scientists, professors, research scholars, students and industrial experts in the field of computing and communication, the book promotes the transformation of fundamental research into institutional and industrialized research and the conversion of applied exploration into real-time applications.
International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications: Proceedings of ICICC 2018, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #56)
by Siddhartha Bhattacharyya Aboul Ella Hassanien Deepak Gupta Ashish Khanna Indrajit PanThe book includes high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication (ICICC 2018), which was held at the Guru Nanak Institute of Management (GNIM), Delhi, India on 5–6 May 2018. Introducing the innovative works of scientists, professors, research scholars, students and industrial experts in the field of computing and communication, the book promotes the transformation of fundamental research into institutional and industrialized research and the conversion of applied exploration into real-time applications.
International News Agencies: A History
by Michael B. PalmerInternational news-agencies, such as Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, have long been ‘unsung heroes’ of the media sphere. From the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, the US, France and, to a lesser extent, Germany, a small number of agencies have fed their respective countries with international news reports. They informed governments, businesses, media and, indirectly, the general public. They helped define ‘news’. Drawing on years of archival research and first-hand experience of major news agencies, this book provides a comprehensive history of the leading news agencies based in the UK, France and the USA, from the early 1800s to the present day. It retraces their relations with one another, with competitors and clients, and the types of news, information and data they collected, edited and transmitted, via a variety of means, from carrier-pigeons to artificial intelligence. It examines the sometimes colourful biographies of agency newsmen, and the rise and fall of news agencies as markets and methods shifted, concluding by looking to the future of the organisations.
International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City: Branch of ISADS (The International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems) (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #127)
by Xiaoqing Zeng Xiongyao Xie Jian Sun Limin Ma Yinong ChenThis book presents research advances in intelligent transportation and smart cities in detail, mainly focusing on green traffic and urban utility tunnels, presented at the 4th International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City (ITASC) held at Tongji University, Shanghai, on May 8–10, 2019. It discusses a number of hot topics, such as the 2BMW system (Bus, Bike, Metro and Walking), transportation safety and environmental protection, urban utility design and application, as well as the application of BIM (Building Information Modeling) in city design. By connecting the theory and applications of intelligent transportation in smart cities, it enhances traffic efficiency and quality. The book gathers numerous selected papers and lectures, including contributions from respected scholars and the latest engineering advances, to provide guidance to researchers in the field of transportation and urban planning at universities and in related industries.The first conference in the ITASC series was held in 2013 as a workshop of the International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized System (ISADS) in Mexico City. The second and third were held in May 2015 and May 2017, respectively, in Tongji University, Shanghai.
International Telecommunications Conference: Proceedings of the ITelCon 2017, Istanbul (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #504)
by Ali Boyaci Ali Riza Ekti Muhammed Ali Aydin Serhan YarkanThis book collects one of the global premier scientific gatherings on telecommunications, signal processing, data networks, security, and optimization. It presents the proceedings of the International Telecommunications Conference 2017 (ITelCon 2017), held in Istanbul, Turkey from December 28 to 29, 2017. The proceedings include state-of-the-art studies that highlight major advances in the field of telecommunications and related branches. In addition, some of the contributions form the basis for 5G and beyond studies and standardization processes. The ITelCon conference brings together industry and academia participants from around the globe and promotes research, development, and applications in the field of telecommunications. It includes a far-reaching program supported by a variety of technical tracks on research, development, technology, design, services, and applications. The primary audience of ITelCon includes academics, experts and professionals from industry, as well as researchers in the field of telecommunications and relevant subfields.
Interne Kommunikation und Unternehmensführung
by Ulrike Buchholz Susanne KnorreDieses Buch zur Unternehmensführung vereint theoretisches Wissen mit PraxisbeispielenAgilität und interne Kommunikation sind zwei wichtige Kompetenzen für die moderne Unternehmensführung. Sie sollten bereits während des Studiums vermittelt werden, damit kommende Führungskräfte frühzeitig auf die Herausforderungen der Managementaufgaben vorbereitet werden. Dieses Buch über die Unternehmensführung stellt ein hervorragendes Instrument zur Vermittlung aktueller Führungskonzepte dar. Besonders die Verbindung von theoretischem Wissen mit praktischen Fallbeispielen macht es nicht nur als Prüfungsgrundlage für Studenten, sondern auch als Nachschlagewerk für Führungskräfte in Unternehmen interessant.Theoretisches Wissen, praktisch vermitteltEine große Stärke dieses Buchs über die Unternehmensführung ist seine Brücke zwischen theoretischem Wissen und den Tipps zur Umsetzung von praktischen Konzepten in Unternehmen. So profitieren nicht nur Studenten von dem vermittelten Wissen dieses Buchs, sondern auch Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter aus den folgenden Abteilungen:UnternehmensentwicklungStrategisches ControllingRecht und ComplianceChange ManagementHuman RessourcesKommunikationsmanagementDabei werden aktuelle wissenschaftliche Diskussionen zur internen Kommunikation und der agilen Unternehmensführung aufgegriffen und anhand von praktischen Beispielen anschaulich erklärt. Dabei werden jüngste Entwicklungen dieses Berufsfeldes miteinbezogen.Diese Inhalte thematisiert das BuchDie Autorinnen beschäftigen sich in ihrem Buch über die Unternehmensführung unter anderem mit den folgenden Thematiken:Grundlagen der UnternehmensführungEinführung in die kommunikationsbasierte ManagementlehrePerspektiven der internen Kommunikation im Kontext agiler UnternehmensführungAufgabenfelder der UnternehmensführungFaktoren der Führungskommunikation, darunter normative Führung, strategisches Controlling und InnovationsmanagementAusblick auf künftige Entwicklungen der internen Kommunikation
Internet Internals: Vermittlungsschicht, Aufbau und Protokolle
by Peter MandlLernen Sie in diesem Buch alles über Vermittlungsschicht und Aufbau des Internets und die Übertragung von InformationenSie haben sich schon immer gefragt, wie das World Wide Web aufgebaut ist? Sie suchen eine Einführung in die „Internet Internals“? Dieses Buch über die Vermittlungsschicht des Internets gibt Ihnen Antworten. Es führt Sie in die Grundlagen der Übertragung von Daten im Netz ein und vermittelt Ihnen dabei einen Überblick über den Aufbau des Internets. Die große Stärke dieses Buchs über die Vermittlungsschicht des Internets liegt darin, dass es komplexe Sachverhalte wie Protokolle und Algorithmen im Detail beschreibt, dabei jedoch stets verständlich und übersichtlich bleibt.Die Inhalte von „Internet Internals“Autor Peter Mandl gewährt dem Leser einen möglichst tiefen wie breiten Einblick in die Kommunikationsstrukturen des World Wide Webs. Der Fokus des Buch über die Vermittlungsschicht im Internet liegt auf folgenden Themengebieten:• Aufbau des Internts• Internetprotokolle IPv4 und IPv6• Routing und Forwarding• Internet-Kommunikation• Konfigurations- und SteuerprotokolleMit all seiner Expertise ist Mandl dazu in der Lage, komplexe Sachverhalte des Internets einfach und verständlich darzulegen. Auch die zahlreiche Abbildungen helfen dabei, seine Ausführungen leicht nachzuvollziehen. Damit das Gelernte im Gedächtnis bleibt, finden Sie am Ende des Buchs Übungsaufgaben zu jedem Kapitel. Da die Lösungen direkt mitgeliefert werden, können Sie Nicht-Verstandenes noch einmal nachprüfen.
Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies)
by Anastasia BertazzoliThis book provides a solid, encompassing definition of Internet memes, exploring both the common features of memes around the globe and their particular regional traits. It identifies and explains the roles that these viral texts play in Internet communication: cultural, social and political implications; significance for self-representation and identity formation; promotion of alternative opinion or trending interpretation; and subversive and resistant power in relation to professional media, propaganda, and traditional and digital political campaigning. It also offers unique comparative case studies of Internet memes in Russia and the United States.
Internet of Things for Smart Cities: Technologies, Big Data and Security (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering)
by Waleed Ejaz Alagan AnpalaganThis book introduces the concept of smart city as the potential solution to the challenges created by urbanization. The Internet of Things (IoT) offers novel features with minimum human intervention in smart cities. This book describes different components of Internet of Things (IoT) for smart cities including sensor technologies, communication technologies, big data analytics and security.
Internet of Things From Hype to Reality: The Road to Digitization
by Ammar Rayes Samer SalamThis textbook presents an end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) architecture that comprises of devices, network, compute, storage, platform, applications along with management and security components with focus on the missing functionality in the current state of the art. As with the first edition, it is organized into six main parts: an IoT reference model; Fog computing and the drivers; IoT management and applications ranging from smart homes to manufacturing and energy conservation solutions; Smart Services in IoT; IoT standards; and case studies. The textbook edition features a new chapter entitled The Blockchain in IoT, updates based on latest standards and technologies, and new slide ware for professors. It features a full suite of classroom material for easy adoption.
The Internet of Things in the Industrial Sector: Security and Device Connectivity, Smart Environments, and Industry 4.0 (Computer Communications and Networks)
by Zaigham MahmoodThis book has a focus on the development and deployment of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm, discussing frameworks, methodologies, benefits and limitations, as well as providing case studies of employing the IoT vision in the industrial domain. IIoT is becoming an attractive business reality for many organisations such as manufacturing, logistics, oil and gas, energy and other utilities, mining, aviation, and many more. The opportunities for this paradigm are huge, and according to one report, the IIoT market is predicted to reach $125 billion by 2021. The driving philosophy behind the IIoT is that smart machines are better than humans at accurately capturing, analysing and communicating real-time data. The underlying technologies include distributed computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and machine-to-machine communication, with a typical IIoT system consisting of intelligent systems (applications, controllers, sensors, and security mechanisms), data communication infrastructure (cloud computing, edge computing, etc.), data analytics (to support business intelligence and corporate decision making), and most importantly the human element. The promised benefits of the IIoT include enhanced safety, better reliability, smart metering, inventory management, equipment tracking, and facilities management. There are, however, numerous issues that are also becoming the focus of active research, such as concerns regarding service availability, data security, and device communication. Lack of ubiquitous interoperability between heterogeneous devices is also a major concern. This book intends to fill a gap in the IIoT literature by providing the scientific contributions and latest developments from researchers and practitioners of international repute, focusing on frameworks, methodologies, benefits, and inherent issues/barriers to connected environments, especially in industrial settings.The intended audience includes network specialists, hardware engineers, and security experts who wish to adopt newer approaches for device connectivity, IoT security, and sensor-based devices design. University level students, researchers and practitioners will also find the latest innovation in technology and newer approaches relevant to the IIoT from a distributed computing perspective.
Internet of Things Security and Data Protection (Internet of Things)
by Sébastien ZieglerThis book provides an overview of the most recent developments in Internet of Things (IoT) security and data protection. It presents the results of several international research projects addressing this topic from complementary angles. It starts by analyzing the main privacy and security threats on IoT, as well as the evolution of data protection norms, such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and their impact on IoT. Through a comprehensive and systematic approach, the contributors present new perspectives on IoT & Cloud Computing security requirements. They discuss the most recent approach to support trusted IoT, including new models of privacy risk assessment, labeling and certification, and contractual tools (such as Privacy PACT). Practical implementations, such as in the European Large Scale Pilots on IoT for Smart Cities (Synchronicity), are presented, explaining how they address security, privacy and data protection. Finally, innovative models to secure IoT systems are presented for the network and end-nodes security, including network threats analysis.
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History
by Monica KimA groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle—not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. Upending conventional notions of what we think of as geographies of military conflict, Monica Kim demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and the individual human subject, forging the template for the US wars of intervention that would predominate during the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond.Kim looks at how, during the armistice negotiations, the United States and their allies proposed a new kind of interrogation room: one in which POWs could exercise their “free will” and choose which country they would go to after the ceasefire. The global controversy that erupted exposed how interrogation rooms had become a flashpoint for the struggles between the ambitions of empire and the demands for decolonization, as the aim of interrogation was to produce subjects who attested to a nation’s right to govern. The complex web of interrogators and prisoners—Japanese-American interrogators, Indian military personnel, Korean POWs and interrogators, and American POWs—that Kim uncovers contradicts the simple story in US popular memory of “brainwashing” during the Korean War.Bringing together a vast range of sources that track two generations of people moving between three continents, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War delves into an essential yet overlooked aspect of modern warfare in the twentieth century.
Intersemiotic Translation: Literary and Linguistic Multimodality
by Aba-Carina PârlogThis book explores the practical aspects of intersemiotic translation, examining how different signs and sign sets can be transposed into different kinds of semiotic forms of reference. Drawing on theories from translation studies, semiotics, philosophy and stylistics, the author seeks to understand what happens when texts are translated from one genre or modality to another, and makes use of examples ranging from written texts to advertising, images, music, painting, photography, and sculpture. She also analyses related topics such as the differences between Romance and Germanic languages, the difficulties that arise when attempts are made to translate figures of speech or elements of authorial style, and how this interdisciplinary field relates to traditional language-based translation. This book will be of interest to students, teachers, translators and researchers working in the fields of translation studies and multimodality in particular.