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Speech and Computer: 21st International Conference, SPECOM 2019, Istanbul, Turkey, August 20–25, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11658)
by Albert Ali Salah Rodmonga Potapova Alexey KarpovThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 2019.The 57 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing including audio signal processing, automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition, computational paralinguistics, speech synthesis, sign language and multimodal processing, and speech and language resources.
Spline and Spline Wavelet Methods with Applications to Signal and Image Processing: Volume III: Selected Topics
by Pekka Neittaanmäki Amir Z. Averbuch Valery A. ZheludevThis book provides a practical guide, complete with accompanying Matlab software, to many different types of polynomial and discrete splines and spline-based wavelets, multiwavelets and wavelet frames in signal and image processing applications. In self-contained form, it briefly outlines a broad range of polynomial and discrete splines with equidistant nodes and their signal-processing-relevant properties. In particular, interpolating, smoothing, and shift-orthogonal splines are presented.
Spring 5.0 Blueprints
by Nilang PatelThis book is for competent Spring developers who wish to understand how to develop complex yet flexible applications with Spring. You must have a good knowledge of Java programming and be familiar with the basics of Spring.
Spring in Action
by Craig WallsSummarySpring in Action, 5th Edition is the fully updated revision of Manning's bestselling Spring in Action. This new edition includes all Spring 5.0 updates, along with new examples on reactive programming, Spring WebFlux, and microservices. You'll also find the latest Spring best practices, including Spring Boot for application setup and configuration.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologySpring Framework makes life easier for Java developers. New features in Spring 5 bring its productivity-focused approach to microservices, reactive development, and other modern application designs. With Spring Boot now fully integrated, you can start even complex projects with minimal configuration code. And the upgraded WebFlux framework supports reactive apps right out of the box!About the BookSpring in Action, 5th Edition guides you through Spring's core features, explained in Craig Walls' famously clear style. You'll roll up your sleeves and build a secure database-backed web app step by step. Along the way, you'll explore reactive programming, microservices, service discovery, RESTful APIs, deployment, and expert best practices. Whether you're just discovering Spring or leveling up to Spring 5.0, this Manning classic is your ticket!What's insideBuilding reactive applicationsSpring MVC for web apps and RESTful web servicesSecuring applications with Spring SecurityCovers Spring 5.0Over 100,000 copies sold!About the ReaderFor intermediate Java developers.About the AuthorCraig Walls is a principal software engineer at Pivotal, a popular author, an enthusiastic supporter of Spring Framework, and a frequent conference speaker.Table of ContentsPART 1 - FOUNDATIONAL SPRING Getting started with Spring Developing web applications Working with data Securing Spring Working with configuration properties PART 2 - INTEGRATED SPRINGCreating REST services Consuming REST services Sending messages asynchronously Integrating Spring PART 3 - REACTIVE SPRING Introducing Reactor Developing reactive APIs Persisting data reactivelyPART 4 CLOUD-NATIVE SPRINGDiscovering services Managing configuration Handling failure and latency PART 5 - DEPLOYED SPRING Working with Spring Boot Actuator Administering Spring Monitoring Spring with JMX Deploying Spring
Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Indicators (Springer Handbooks)
by Ulrich Schmoch Henk F. Moed Mike Thelwall Wolfgang GlänzelThis handbook presents the state of the art of quantitative methods and models to understand and assess the science and technology system. Focusing on various aspects of the development and application of indicators derived from data on scholarly publications, patents and electronic communications, the individual chapters, written by leading experts, discuss theoretical and methodological issues, illustrate applications, highlight their policy context and relevance, and point to future research directions.A substantial portion of the book is dedicated to detailed descriptions and analyses of data sources, presenting both traditional and advanced approaches. It addresses the main bibliographic metrics and indexes, such as the journal impact factor and the h-index, as well as altmetric and webometric indicators and science mapping techniques on different levels of aggregation and in the context of their value for the assessment of research performance as well as their impact on research policy and society. It also presents and critically discusses various national research evaluation systems.Complementing the sections reflecting on the science system, the technology section includes multiple chapters that explain different aspects of patent statistics, patent classification and database search methods to retrieve patent-related information. In addition, it examines the relevance of trademarks and standards as additional technological indicators.The Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Indicators is an invaluable resource for practitioners, scientists and policy makers wanting a systematic and thorough analysis of the potential and limitations of the various approaches to assess research and research performance.
Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 21st International Symposium, SSS 2019, Pisa, Italy, October 22–25, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11914)
by Mohsen Ghaffari Mikhail Nesterenko Sébastien Tixeuil Sara Tucci Yukiko YamauchiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2019, held in Pisa, Italy, in October 2019.The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers deal with the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment.
Stable Mutations for Evolutionary Algorithms (Studies in Computational Intelligence #797)
by Andrzej ObuchowiczThis book presents a set of theoretical and experimental results that describe the features of the wide family of α-stable distributions (the normal distribution also belongs to this class) and their various applications in the mutation operator of evolutionary algorithms based on real-number representation of the individuals, and, above all, equip these algorithms with features that enrich their effectiveness in solving multi-modal, multi-dimensional global optimization problems. The overall conclusion of the research presented is that the appropriate choice of probabilistic model of the mutation operator for an optimization problem is crucial. Mutation is one of the most important operations in stochastic global optimization algorithms in the n-dimensional real space. It determines the method of search space exploration and exploitation. Most applications of these algorithms employ the normal mutation as a mutation operator. This choice is justified by the central limit theorem but is associated with a set of important limitations. Application of α-stable distributions allows more flexible evolutionary models to be obtained than those with the normal distribution. The book presents theoretical analysis and simulation experiments, which were selected and constructed to expose the most important features of the examined mutation techniques based on α-stable distributions. It allows readers to develop a deeper understanding of evolutionary processes with stable mutations and encourages them to apply these techniques to real-world engineering problems.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Boss Fight Books)
by Alex KaneSet an even longer time ago in a galaxy far, far away, BioWare's 2003 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic wowed players with its compelling characters, lightsaber customization, complex morality choices, and one of the greatest plot twists in both video game and Star Wars history. But even for veteran studios like LucasArts and BioWare, the responsibility of making both a great game and a lasting contribution to the Star Wars canon was no easy task. Featuring extensive new interviews with a host of KotOR's producers, writers, designers, and actors, journalist Alex Kane weaves together an epic oral history of this classic game, from its roots in tabletop role-playing and comic books, to its continued influence on big-screen Star Wars films. Whether you align with the light or the dark side, you're invited to dive into this in-depth journey through one of the most beloved Star Wars titles of all time.
Starting Out With Java: From Control Structures Through Objects (What's New In Computer Science Ser.)
by Tony GaddisIn Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects , Gaddis covers procedural programming-control structures and methods-before introducing object-oriented programming. As with all Gaddis texts, clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises appear in every chapter.
Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures (What's New in Computer Science)
by Tony Gaddis Godfrey MugandaProvide a step-by-step introduction to programming in Java Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures provides a step-by-step introduction to programming in Java. This text is designed to be used in a 2 or 3 semester sequence and covers everything from the fundamentals of Java programming to algorithms and data structures. As with all Gaddis texts, every chapter contains clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises. With the 4th Edition, JavaFX has replaced Swing as the standard GUI library for Java in chapters that focus on GUI development. The Swing and Applet material from the previous edition is available online.
Static Analysis: 26th International Symposium, SAS 2019, Porto, Portugal, October 8–11, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11822)
by Bor-Yuh Evan ChangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS 2019, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2019. The 20 regular papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on pointers and dataflow; languages and decidability; numerical; trends: assuring machine learning; synthesis and security; and temporal properties and termination.
Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart. Atrial Segmentation and LV Quantification Challenges: 9th International Workshop, STACOM 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Granada, Spain, September 16, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11395)
by Shuo Li Tommaso Mansi Mihaela Pop Kawal Rhode Maxime Sermesant Alistair Young Kristin McLeod Jichao ZhaoThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart: Atrial Segmentation and LV Quantification Challenges, STACOM 2018, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018. The 52 revised full workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The topics of the workshop included: cardiac imaging and image processing, machine learning applied to cardiac imaging and image analysis, atlas construction, statistical modelling of cardiac function across different patient populations, cardiac computational physiology, model customization, atlas based functional analysis, ontological schemata for data and results, integrated functional and structural analyses, as well as the pre-clinical and clinical applicability of these methods.
Statistical Language and Speech Processing: 7th International Conference, SLSP 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 14–16, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11816)
by Carlos Martín-Vide Matthew Purver Senja PollakThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2019, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in October 2019. The 25 full papers presented together with one invited paper in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Dialogue and Spoken Language Understanding; Language Analysis and Generation; Speech Analysis and Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Text Analysis and Classification.
Statistical Learning of Complex Data (Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization)
by Maurizio Vichi Francesca Greselin Laura Deldossi Luca BagnatoThis book of peer-reviewed contributions presents the latest findings in classification, statistical learning, data analysis and related areas, including supervised and unsupervised classification, clustering, statistical analysis of mixed-type data, big data analysis, statistical modeling, graphical models and social networks. It covers both methodological aspects as well as applications to a wide range of fields such as economics, architecture, medicine, data management, consumer behavior and the gender gap. In addition, it describes the basic features of the software behind the data analysis results, and provides links to the corresponding codes and data sets where necessary. This book is intended for researchers and practitioners who are interested in the latest developments and applications in the field of data analysis and classification. It gathers selected and peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 11th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (CLADAG 2017), held in Milan, Italy, on September 13–15, 2017.
Statistics and Data Science: Research School on Statistics and Data Science, RSSDS 2019, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, July 24–26, 2019, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1150)
by Hien NguyenThis book constitutes the proceedings of the Research School on Statistics and Data Science, RSSDS 2019, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in July 2019. The 11 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The volume also contains 7 invited talks. The workshop brought together academics, researchers, and industry practitioners of statistics and data science, to discuss numerous advances in the disciplines and their impact on the sciences and society. The topics covered are data analysis, data science, data mining, data visualization, bioinformatics, machine learning, neural networks, statistics, and probability.
Statistisches und maschinelles Lernen: Gängige Verfahren im Überblick
by Stefan RichterDieses Buch verschafft Ihnen einen Überblick über einige der bekanntesten Verfahren des maschinellen Lernens aus der Perspektive der mathematischen Statistik. Nach der Lektüre kennen Sie die jeweils gestellten Forderungen an die Daten sowie deren Vor- und Nachteile und sind daher in der Lage, für ein gegebenes Problem ein geeignetes Verfahren vorzuschlagen. Beweise werden nur dort ausführlich dargestellt oder skizziert, wo sie einen didaktischen Mehrwert bieten – ansonsten wird auf die entsprechenden Fachartikel verwiesen. Für die praktische Anwendung ist ein genaueres Studium des jeweiligen Verfahrens und der entsprechenden Fachliteratur nötig, zu der Sie auf Basis dieses Buchs aber schnell Zugang finden. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende der Mathematik höheren Semesters, die bereits Vorkenntnisse in Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie besitzen. Behandelt werden sowohl Methoden des Supervised Learning und Reinforcement Learning als auch des Unsupervised Learning. Der Umfang entspricht einer einsemestrigen vierstündigen Vorlesung. Die einzelnen Kapitel sind weitestgehend unabhängig voneinander lesbar, am Ende jedes Kapitels kann das erworbene Wissen anhand von Übungsaufgaben und durch Implementierung der Verfahren überprüft werden. Quelltexte in der Programmiersprache R stehen auf der Springer-Produktseite zum Buch zur Verfügung.
Steganography Techniques for Digital Images
by Abid YahyaThis book covers newly developed and novel Steganography techniques and algorithms. The book outlines techniques to provide security to a variety of applications using Steganography, with the goal of both hindering an adversary from decoding a hidden message, and also preventing an adversary from suspecting the existence of covert communications. The book looks into applying these newly designed and improved algorithms to provide a new and efficient Steganographic system, called Characteristic Region-Based Image Steganography (CR-BIS). The algorithms combine both the robustness of the Speeded-Up Robust Features technique (SURF) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to achieve characteristic region Steganography synchronization. The book also touches on how to avoid hiding data in the whole image by dynamically selecting characteristic regions for the process of embedding. Applies and discusses innovative techniques for hiding text in a digital image file or even using it as a key to the encryption;Provides a variety of methods to achieve characteristic region Steganography synchronization;Shows how Steganography improves upon cryptography by using obscurity features.
Stochastic Control and Filtering over Constrained Communication Networks (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #178)
by Zidong Wang Qinyuan Liu Xiao HeStochastic Control and Filtering over Constrained Communication Networks presents up-to-date research developments and novel methodologies on stochastic control and filtering for networked systems under constrained communication networks. It provides a framework of optimal controller/filter design, resilient filter design, stability and performance analysis for the systems considered, subject to various kinds of communication constraints, including signal-to-noise constraints, bandwidth constraints, and packet drops. Several techniques are employed to develop the controllers and filters desired, including:recursive Riccati equations;matrix decomposition;optimal estimation theory; andmathematical optimization methods.Readers will benefit from the book’s new concepts, models and methodologies that have practical significance in control engineering and signal processing. Stochastic Control and Filtering over Constrained Communication Networks is a practical research reference for engineers dealing with networked control and filtering problems. It is also of interest to academics and students working in control and communication networks.
Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Multi-Antenna Wireless Networks
by Jun Zhang Xianghao Yu Chang Li Khaled B. LetaiefThis book presents a unified framework for the tractable analysis of large-scale, multi-antenna wireless networks using stochastic geometry. This mathematical analysis is essential for assessing and understanding the performance of complicated multi-antenna networks, which are one of the foundations of 5G and beyond networks to meet the ever-increasing demands for network capacity. Describing the salient properties of the framework, which makes the analysis of multi-antenna networks comparable to that of their single-antenna counterparts, the book discusses effective design approaches that do not require complex system-level simulations. It also includes various application examples with different multi-antenna network models to illustrate the framework’s effectiveness.
Stochastic Geometry: Modern Research Frontiers (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #2237)
by David CoupierThis volume offers a unique and accessible overview of the most active fields in Stochastic Geometry, up to the frontiers of recent research. Since 2014, the yearly meeting of the French research structure GDR GeoSto has been preceded by two introductory courses. This book contains five of these introductory lectures. The first chapter is a historically motivated introduction to Stochastic Geometry which relates four classical problems (the Buffon needle problem, the Bertrand paradox, the Sylvester four-point problem and the bicycle wheel problem) to current topics. The remaining chapters give an application motivated introduction to contemporary Stochastic Geometry, each one devoted to a particular branch of the subject: understanding spatial point patterns through intensity and conditional intensities; stochastic methods for image analysis; random fields and scale invariance; and the theory of Gibbs point processes. Exposing readers to a rich theory, this book will encourage further exploration of the subject and its wide applications.
Stochastic Models in Reliability, Network Security and System Safety: Essays Dedicated to Professor Jinhua Cao on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1102)
by Quan-Lin Li Jinting Wang Hai-Bo YuThis book is dedicated to Jinhua Cao on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Jinhua Cao is one of the most famous reliability theorists. His main contributions include: published over 100 influential scientific papers; published an interesting reliability book in Chinese in 1986, which has greatly influenced the reliability of education, academic research and engineering applications in China; initiated and organized Reliability Professional Society of China (the first part of Operations Research Society of China) since 1981. The high admiration that Professor Cao enjoys in the reliability community all over the world was witnessed by the enthusiastic response of each contributor in this book. The contributors are leading researchers with diverse research perspectives. The research areas of the book iclude a broad range of topics related to reliability models, queueing theory, manufacturing systems, supply chain finance, risk management, Markov decision processes, blockchain and so forth.The book consists of a brief Preface describing the main achievements of Professor Cao; followed by congratulations from Professors Way Kuo and Wei Wayne Li, and by Operations Research Society of China, and Reliability Professional Society of China; and further followed by 25 articles roughly grouped together. Most of the articles are written in a style understandable to a wide audience. This book is useful to anyone interested in recent developments in reliability, network security, system safety, and their stochastic modeling and analysis.
Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications: Dresden, Germany, March 2019 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #294)
by Ansgar Steland Ewaryst Rafajłowicz Ostap OkhrinThis volume presents selected and peer-reviewed contributions from the 14th Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications, held in Dresden, Germany, on March 6-8, 2019. Addressing the needs of theoretical and applied researchers alike, the contributions provide an overview of the latest advances and trends in the areas of mathematical statistics and applied probability, and their applications to high-dimensional statistics, econometrics and time series analysis, statistics for stochastic processes, statistical machine learning, big data and data science, random matrix theory, quality control, change-point analysis and detection, finance, copulas, survival analysis and reliability, sequential experiments, empirical processes, and microsimulations. As the book demonstrates, stochastic models and related statistical procedures and algorithms are essential to more comprehensively understanding and solving present-day problems arising in e.g. the natural sciences, machine learning, data science, engineering, image analysis, genetics, econometrics and finance.
Stolen Girl (Scholastic Press Novels Ser.)
by Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchNadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces and flashes she can't control. Though her adoptive mother says they are safe now, Nadia's flashbacks keep coming.Sometimes she remembers running, hunger, and isolation. But other times she remembers living with a German family, and attending big rallies where she was praised for her light hair and blue eyes. The puzzle pieces don't quite fit together, and Nadia is scared by what might be true. Could she have been raised by Nazis? Were they her real family? What part did she play in the war?What Nadia finally discovers about her own history will shock her. But only when she understands the past can she truly face her future.Inspired by startling true events, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch delivers a gripping and poignant story of one girl's determination to uncover her truth.
Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism: 7th ICSIMAT, Athenian Riviera, Greece, 2018 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Androniki Kavoura Efstathios Kefallonitis Apostolos GiovanisThis book covers a very broad range of topics in marketing, communication, and tourism, focusing especially on new perspectives and technologies that promise to influence the future direction of marketing research and practice in a digital and innovational era. Among the areas covered are product and brand management, strategic marketing, B2B marketing and sales management, international marketing, business communication and advertising, digital and social marketing, tourism and hospitality marketing and management, destination branding and cultural management, and event marketing. The book comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism (ICSIMAT) 2018, where researchers, academics, and government and industry practitioners from around the world came together to discuss best practices, the latest research, new paradigms, and advances in theory. It will be of interest to a wide audience, including members of the academic community, MSc and PhD students, and marketing and tourism professionals.
Strategic Innovative Marketing: 6th IC-SIM, Pafos, Cyprus 2017 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Damianos P. Sakas Dimitrios K. NasiopoulosThis proceedings volume highlights cutting-edge approaches for contemporary issues evolved in strategic marketing and the integration of theory and practice. It focuses on strategic research and innovative activities in marketing that can be used in everyday operations. The contributions have been divided into eight sections, grouping emerging marketing technologies together in a close examination of practices, problems and trends. The first section examines management challenges which influence societies, cultures, networks, organizations, teams, and individuals. It emphasizes ways business processes foster innovation and facilitate management transitions from dominant structures to more evolutionary, developmental paradigms. The second section discusses the benefits and guidelines to implementation of green marketing strategies. The following section pursues new perspectives of the role of location in marketing and its impact on consumer well-being. The next section explores the impacts of user generated content (UGC) on marketing theories and practice, which is followed by a section identifying how market-based assets can contribute to a sustainable competitive advantage. The sixth section covers understanding consumer perception to make marketing decisions. The final sections promote the use of business informatics and modeling in marketing and also the development of integrating information management in ways that change how people use information to engage in knowledge focused activities. The papers from the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing (IC-SIM 2017) have been written by scientists, researchers, practitioners and students that demonstrate a special orientation in strategic marketing, all of whom aspire to be ahead of the curve based on the pillars of innovation. This proceedings volume shares their recent contributions to the field and showcases their exchange of insights on strategic issues in the science of innovation marketing.