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Dive Into Algorithms: A Pythonic Adventure for the Intrepid Beginner
by Bradford TuckfieldDive Into Algorithms is a broad introduction to algorithms using the Python Programming Language.Dive Into Algorithms is a wide-ranging, Pythonic tour of many of the world's most interesting algorithms. With little more than a bit of computer programming experience and basic high-school math, you'll explore standard computer science algorithms for searching, sorting, and optimization; human-based algorithms that help us determine how to catch a baseball or eat the right amount at a buffet; and advanced algorithms like ones used in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You'll even explore how ancient Egyptians and Russian peasants used algorithms to multiply numbers, how the ancient Greeks used them to find greatest common divisors, and how Japanese scholars in the age of samurai designed algorithms capable of generating magic squares.You'll explore algorithms that are useful in pure mathematics and learn how mathematical ideas can improve algorithms. You'll learn about an algorithm for generating continued fractions, one for quick calculations of square roots, and another for generating seemingly random sets of numbers.You'll also learn how to: • Use algorithms to debug code, maximize revenue, schedule tasks, and create decision trees • Measure the efficiency and speed of algorithms • Generate Voronoi diagrams for use in various geometric applications • Use algorithms to build a simple chatbot, win at board games, or solve sudoku puzzles • Write code for gradient ascent and descent algorithms that can find the maxima and minima of functions • Use simulated annealing to perform global optimization • Build a decision tree to predict happiness based on a person's characteristicsOnce you've finished this book you'll understand how to code and implement important algorithms as well as how to measure and optimize their performance, all while learning the nitty-gritty details of today's most powerful algorithms.
Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue: 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, Beijing, China, March 17–31, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12646)
by Katharina Toeppe Hui Yan Samuel Kai Wah ChuThis two-volume set LNCS 12645-12646 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue, iConference 2021, held in Beijing, China, in March 2021. The 32 full papers and the 59 short papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 225 submissions. They cover topics such as: AI and machine learning; data science; human-computer interaction; social media; digital humanities; education and information literacy; information behavior; information governance and ethics; archives and records; research methods; and institutional management.
Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue: 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, Beijing, China, March 17–31, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12645)
by Katharina Toeppe Hui Yan Samuel Kai Wah ChuThis two-volume set LNCS 12645-12646 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue, iConference 2021, held in Beijing, China, in March 2021. The 32 full papers and the 59 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 225 submissions. They cover topics such as: AI and machine learning; data science; human-computer interaction; social media; digital humanities; education and information literacy; information behavior; information governance and ethics; archives and records; research methods; and institutional management.
A Divided Union: Structural Challenges to Bipartisanship in America
by Dario Moreno, Eduardo Gamarra, Rep. Patrick E. Murphy, and Rep. David JollyA Divided Union delves deep into ten pressing political challenges that former US Representatives Patrick Murphy (D) and David Jolly (R) have identified over their multiple terms in Congress and that continue to plague the American electorate today. In an introduction describing their unique paths to Congress, Murphy and Jolly focus in detail on key institutional barriers they faced in Washington in attempting to do the job voters elected them to do. They introduce us to geographic challenges, demographic change, a polarized media, gerrymandering, the role of money in politics, the structure of primary elections, and several other aspects of political life on Capitol Hill. The core of the book is original analysis by experts who tackle these topics in a manner relevant to both the seasoned political science student as well as the general reader. From the commercials we see on TV to the city council districts in which we live, these concerns shape every facet of our public lives and are distilled here in a careful synthesis of years of experience and research. Contributors include former federal elected officials, political science professors, members of the press, and scholars immersed in their fields of study. While other textbooks may examine similar issues, few have been edited by former members of the U.S. House who have walked the halls of Congress and directly experienced political dysfunction at so many levels – and are willing to address it. A Divided Union is appropriate for all political science students as well as the general public frustrated and alarmed by political gridlock.
DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists: The ultimate project-based guide to building real-world embedded applications in C and C++ programming
by Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz Pedro Cesar MancillaA practical guide to building PIC and STM32 microcontroller board applications with C and C++ programmingKey FeaturesDiscover how to apply microcontroller boards in real life to create interesting IoT projectsCreate innovative solutions to help improve the lives of people affected by the COVID-19 pandemicDesign, build, program, and test microcontroller-based projects with the C and C++ programming languageBook DescriptionWe live in a world surrounded by electronic devices, and microcontrollers are the brains of these devices. Microcontroller programming is an essential skill in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), and this book helps you to get up to speed with it by working through projects for designing and developing embedded apps with microcontroller boards. DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists are filled with microcontroller programming C and C++ language constructs. You'll discover how to use the Blue Pill (containing a type of STM32 microcontroller) and Curiosity Nano (containing a type of PIC microcontroller) boards for executing your projects as PIC is a beginner-level board and STM-32 is an ARM Cortex-based board. Later, you'll explore the fundamentals of digital electronics and microcontroller board programming. The book uses examples such as measuring humidity and temperature in an environment to help you gain hands-on project experience. You'll build on your knowledge as you create IoT projects by applying more complex sensors. Finally, you'll find out how to plan for a microcontroller-based project and troubleshoot it. By the end of this book, you'll have developed a firm foundation in electronics and practical PIC and STM32 microcontroller programming and interfacing, adding valuable skills to your professional portfolio.What you will learnGet to grips with the basics of digital and analog electronicsDesign, build, program, and test a microcontroller-based systemUnderstand the importance and applications of STM32 and PIC microcontrollersDiscover how to connect sensors to microcontroller boardsFind out how to obtain sensor data via codingUse microcontroller boards in real life and practical projects Who this book is forThis STM32 PIC microcontroller book is for students, hobbyists, and engineers who want to explore the world of embedded systems and microcontroller programming. Beginners, as well as more experienced users of digital electronics and microcontrollers, will also find this book useful. Basic knowledge of digital circuits and C and C++ programming will be helpful but not necessary.
Do No Harm: Protecting Connected Medical Devices, Healthcare, and Data from Hackers and Adversarial Nation States
by Matthew WebsterDiscover the security risks that accompany the widespread adoption of new medical devices and how to mitigate them In Do No Harm: Protecting Connected Medical Devices, Healthcare, and Data from Hackers and Adversarial Nation States, cybersecurity expert Matthew Webster delivers an insightful synthesis of the health benefits of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), the evolution of security risks that have accompanied the growth of those devices, and practical steps we can take to protect ourselves, our data, and our hospitals from harm. You’ll learn how the high barriers to entry for innovation in the field of healthcare are impeding necessary change and how innovation accessibility must be balanced against regulatory compliance and privacy to ensure safety. In this important book, the author describes: The increasing expansion of medical devices and the dark side of the high demand for medical devices The medical device regulatory landscape and the dilemmas hospitals find themselves in with respect medical devices Practical steps that individuals and businesses can take to encourage the adoption of safe and helpful medical devices or mitigate the risk of having insecure medical devices How to help individuals determine the difference between protected health information and the information from health devices--and protecting your data How to protect your health information from cell phones and applications that may push the boundaries of personal privacy Why cybercriminals can act with relative impunity against hospitals and other organizations Perfect for healthcare professionals, system administrators, and medical device researchers and developers, Do No Harm is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the intersection of patient privacy, cybersecurity, and the world of Internet of Medical Things.
Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing
by Jared Bhatti Zachary Sarah Corleissen Jen Lambourne David Nunez Heidi WaterhouseLearn to integrate programming with good documentation. This book teaches you the craft of documentation for each step in the software development lifecycle, from understanding your users’ needs to publishing, measuring, and maintaining useful developer documentation.Well-documented projects save time for both developers on the project and users of the software. Projects without adequate documentation suffer from poor developer productivity, project scalability, user adoption, and accessibility. In short: bad documentation kills projects. Docs for Developers demystifies the process of creating great developer documentation, following a team of software developers as they work to launch a new product. At each step along the way, you learn through examples, templates, and principles how to create, measure, and maintain documentation—tools you can adapt to the needs of your own organization. What You'll Learn Create friction logs and perform user research to understand your users’ frustrationsResearch, draft, and write different kinds of documentation, including READMEs, API documentation, tutorials, conceptual content, and release notesPublish and maintain documentation alongside regular code releasesMeasure the success of the content you create through analytics and user feedbackOrganize larger sets of documentation to help users find the right information at the right time Who This Book Is For Ideal for software developers who need to create documentation alongside code, or for technical writers, developer advocates, product managers, and other technical roles that create and contribute to documentation for their products and services.
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021: 16th International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5–10, 2021, Proceedings, Part IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12824)
by Josep Lladós Daniel Lopresti Seiichi UchidaThis four-volume set of LNCS 12821, LNCS 12822, LNCS 12823 and LNCS 12824, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2021. The 182 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 340 submissions, and are presented with 13 competition reports.The papers are organized into the following topical sections: scene text detection and recognition, document classification, gold-standard benchmarks and data sets, historical document analysis, and handwriting recognition. In addition, the volume contains results of 13 scientific competitions held during ICDAR 2021.
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021: 16th International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5–10, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12822)
by Josep Lladós Daniel Lopresti Seiichi UchidaThis four-volume set of LNCS 12821, LNCS 12822, LNCS 12823 and LNCS 12824, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2021. The 182 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 340 submissions, and are presented with 13 competition reports.The papers are organized into the following topical sections: document analysis for literature search, document summarization and translation, multimedia document analysis, mobile text recognition, document analysis for social good, indexing and retrieval of documents, physical and logical layout analysis, recognition of tables and formulas, and natural language processing (NLP) for document understanding.
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021: 16th International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5–10, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12821)
by Josep Lladós Daniel Lopresti Seiichi UchidaThis four-volume set of LNCS 12821, LNCS 12822, LNCS 12823 and LNCS 12824, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2021. The 182 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 340 submissions, and are presented with 13 competition reports.The papers are organized into the following topical sections: historical document analysis, document analysis systems, handwriting recognition, scene text detection and recognition, document image processing, natural language processing (NLP) for document understanding, and graphics, diagram and math recognition.
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021: 16th International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5–10, 2021, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12823)
by Josep Lladós Daniel Lopresti Seiichi UchidaThis four-volume set of LNCS 12821, LNCS 12822, LNCS 12823 and LNCS 12824, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2021. The 182 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 340 submissions, and are presented with 13 competition reports.The papers are organized into the following topical sections: extracting document semantics, text and symbol recognition, document analysis systems, office automation, signature verification, document forensics and provenance analysis, pen-based document analysis, human document interaction, document synthesis, and graphs recognition.
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops: Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5–10, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12917)
by Elisa H. Barney Smith Umapada PalThis book constitutes the proceedings of the international workshops co-located with the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in September 2021.The total of 59 full and 12 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected from 96 submissions and divided into two volumes. Part II contains 30 full and 8 short papers that stem from the following meetings: Workshop on Machine Learning (WML); Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis (OST); Workshop on Industrial Applications of Document Analysis and Recognition (WIADAR); Workshop on Computational Paleography (IWCP); Workshop on Document Images and Language (DIL); Workshop on Graph Representation Learning for Scanned Document Analysis (GLESDO).
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops: Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5–10, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12916)
by Elisa H. Barney Smith Umapada PalThis book constitutes the proceedings of the international workshops co-located with the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in September 2021.The total of 59 full and 12 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected from 96 contributions and divided into two volumes. Part I contains 29 full and 4 short papers that stem from the following meetings: ICDAR 2021 Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC); ICDAR 2021 Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR); ICDAR 2021 Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR 2021); ICDAR 2021 Workshop on Computational Document Forensics (IWCDF). The main topics of the contributions are document processing; physical and logical layout analysis; text and symbol recognition; handwriting recognition; signature verification and document forensics, and others.
Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, and Affordable Healthcare and AI for Resource Diverse Global Health: Third MICCAI Workshop, DART 2021, and First MICCAI Workshop, FAIR 2021, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2021, Strasbourg, France, September 27 and October 1, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12968)
by M. Jorge Cardoso Shadi Albarqouni Islem Rekik Nicola Rieke Ziyue Xu Konstantinos Kamnitsas Daguang Xu Qi Dou Bishesh Khanal Debdoot Sheet Sotirios TsaftarisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third MICCAI Workshop on Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, DART 2021, and the First MICCAI Workshop on Affordable Healthcare and AI for Resource Diverse Global Health, FAIR 2021, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2021, in September/October 2021. The workshops were planned to take place in Strasbourg, France, but were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.DART 2021 accepted 13 papers from the 21 submissions received. The workshop aims at creating a discussion forum to compare, evaluate, and discuss methodological advancements and ideas that can improve the applicability of machine learning (ML)/deep learning (DL) approaches to clinical setting by making them robust and consistent across different domains. For FAIR 2021, 10 papers from 17 submissions were accepted for publication. They focus on Image-to-Image Translation particularly for low-dose or low-resolution settings; Model Compactness and Compression; Domain Adaptation and Transfer Learning; Active, Continual and Meta-Learning.
Domain-Driven Laravel: Learn to Implement Domain-Driven Design Using Laravel
by Jesse GriffinMap concepts and ideas in domain-driven design (DDD) and transpose them into clean, testable, and quality code that is effective alongside the Laravel framework. This book teaches you how to implement the concepts and patterns present in DDD in the real world as a complete web application. With these tactics and concepts in place, you'll engage in a variety of example applications, built from the ground up, and taken directly from real-world domains. Begin by reviewing foundational stepping stones (with small, manageable examples to show proof of concepts as well as illustrations to conceptualize the more complex topics) of both DDD and Laravel. Specifically, such topics as entities, value objects, developing an ubiquitous language, DTOs, and knowledge discovery. Next, you will dive into some more advanced topics of DDD and use these concepts as a guide to make customizations to the default Laravel installation, giving you an understanding of why these alterations are vital to the DDD and Laravel platform. Finally, you will cover the very powerful Eloquent ORM that comes stock with Laravel and understand how it can be utilized to represent entities, handle repositories, and support domain events. Although there is a basic coverage chapter and a setup tutorial for Laravel (along with a high level intro about the components used within it), Domain-Driven Laravel is best suited to readers who have been at least exposed to the framework and have had the opportunity to tinker around with it.What You'll Learn Utilize a blazing-fast rapid development pipeline built from DDD building blocks and facilitated with LaravelImplement value objects, repositories, entities, anti-corruption layers and others using Laravel as a web frameworkApply enhanced techniques for quick prototyping of complex requirements and quality results using an iterative and focused approach Create a base framework (Laravel) that can serve as a template to start off any projectGain insight on which details are important to a project’s success and how to acquire the necessary knowledge Who This Book Is ForIdeal for for frontend/backend web developers, devops engineers, Laravel framework lovers and PHP developers hoping to learn more about either Domain Driven Design or the possibilities with the Laravel framework. Those with a working knowledge of plain PHP can also gain value from reading this book.
Dominar Apple TV 4K: Guía de usuario definitiva para Apple TV con Siri
by Adidas WilsonCuando usted escucha hablar de Apple TV inmediatamente piensa que lo que usted está comprando es una TV Real. Pero no es el caso. La Apple TV es un dispositivo que usted utilizará realmente para que le transmita algo y que es parecido al Fire de Amazon o al Roku. Es una pequeña caja negra de alrededor de una pulgada y media de alto, y sólo un poco menos que cuatro pulgadas, que funciona en una plataforma muy similar al iPad y los populares iPhones. Usted puede descargar una lista de apps y además juegos más allá de la transmisión standard de video que usted podría obtener desde Hulu, Netflix y Amazon por solamente nombrar algunos. La Apple TV ha sido centrada en varias apps, y todavía es capaz de transmitir múltiples shows de TV, y películas directamente en su HDTV, pero esto es solamente la punta del iceberg de las características con las que esta caja ha sido fabricada. La caja le permite a usted ver y transmitir podcasts, jugar a su juego favorito, transmitir su lista de ejercicios, y mucho más. Pero lo que es importante notar, para disfrutar de todos estos beneficios con los que esta caja está lista para proveerle es que todo dependerá de las apps que usted haya instalado. Algunas de las apps que usted utilizará son gratis, y algunas le costarán. Piénselo de esta manera; la Apple TV es capaz de transformar a su TV en una Smart TV. Incluso puede rentar sus películas favoritas o solamente transmitir su colección desde su cuenta de iTunes. Además puede transmitir shows de películas desde apps como Hulu Plus o Netflix; transmitir su música desde las apps de Pandora o Apple Music. Quiero decir que la lista es interminable en aquello que la Apple TV puede hacer por usted. La Apple TV 4K ha sido diseñada con algunos de los procesadores más rápidos que usted pueda encontrar, los mismos que alimentan al iPad Pro. La caja de Apple TV ha sido hecho para ser tan poderosa como la mayoría de las laptops que utilizamos. Además posee un procesador g
Dominar la SEO: La guía de usuario definitiva para la optimización de motores de búsqueda
by Adidas WilsonComo verá pronto, los motores de búsqueda son una de las principales formas en que los usuarios de Internet encontrarán un sitio web. Por eso, es probable que un sitio bien posicionado en las listas de los motores de búsqueda experimente un aumento dramático en el tráfico que recibe. Aunque todo el mundo quiere estar bien posicionado en los listados, lamentablemente hay muchos sitios donde no aparecen o aparecen mal en los rankings de los motores de búsqueda. Esto se debe a que no han considerado exactamente cómo funciona un motor de búsqueda. Olvidan que presentarse a los motores de búsqueda es solamente una parte de la ecuación en la intención de que su sitio obtenga una buena clasificación en los motores de búsqueda. Por lo tanto, es importante que prepare su sitio mediante la optimización de motores de búsqueda.
Dorothy Vaughan: NASA's Leading Human Computer (Movers, Shakers, and History Makers)
by Deirdre R. HeadIn 1949, Dorothy Vaughan became the first African American woman to lead a team at NASA's Langley Research Center. Her work as a mathematician was an important part of helping the United States explore space. Learn more about Vaughan's life as a famous mathematician!
Double Hierarchy Linguistic Term Set and Its Extensions: Theory and Applications (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing #396)
by Xunjie Gou Zeshui XuThis book presents the concept of the double hierarchy linguistic term set and its extensions, which can deal with dynamic and complex decision-making problems. With the rapid development of science and technology and the acceleration of information updating, the complexity of decision-making problems has become increasingly obvious. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the latest research in the field, including measurement methods, consistency methods, group consensus and large-scale group consensus decision-making methods, as well as their practical applications. Intended for engineers, technicians, and researchers in the fields of computer linguistics, operations research, information science, management science and engineering, it also serves as a textbook for postgraduate and senior undergraduate university students.
Dragon Age: The First Five Graphic Novels
by David Gaider Alexander Freed Greg Rucka Nunzio DeFilippis Christina WeirIn Bioware's dark fantasy world of Thedas there are those who are willing to sacrifice their humanity for wealth and power, and those who will die to protect innocent people from them.The heroes of Thedas are often from unlikely places, some are pulled in to save the day by an odd string of fate, others seek adventure out on their own. These are their stories. The lonely king Alistair seeks out his father who was "lost at sea" fifteen years prior, but now he has a reason to think the old king is still alive. With the help of his friends, Varric the silver tongued Dwarven rogue and Isabella the legendary pirate, Alistair just may find out what happened to his father. The small party will face down assassins, dragons, Qunari elites, corrupted mages and more in their epic quest. As a great cataclysm causes a rift in the sky to tear open, two mercenaries find themselves pulled into fighting alongside the Inquisition against eldritch horrors from the Fade and monstrous soldiers corrupted by red lyrium. Meanwhile, across the sea, in Kirkwall, a drunken knight and his deft squire stumble upon a nefarious plot to steal a priceless relic. Their best solution: steal it first. This will be a must have collection for Dragon Age fans everywhere.Collects Dragon Age: The Silent Grove #1-6, Dragon Age: Those Who Speak #1-3, Dragon Age: Until We Sleep #1-3, Dragon Age: Magekiller #1-5, and Dragon Age: Knight Errant #1-5.
The Dragonmaster's Revenge: An Unofficial Graphic Novel for Minecrafters (Unofficial Battle Station Prime Series #6)
by Cara J. StevensFor boys and girls who love Minecraft, a graphic novel adventure told through 750 images to transport young readers into the world of the game they love most. With the skeleton armies gone, trading is a breeze and life returns to somewhat normal for the kids who decided to stay at the outpost. Logan, Maddy, Brooklyn, Cloud, and Zoe should be enjoying the peace and quiet at Battle Station Prime, but there&’s one thing that keeps them up at night: The threat of the Dragonmaster&’s revenge. The Ender Dragon egg had been a carefully guarded secret until it hatched and the young, powerful, dragon inside imprinted on an evil sorcerer named Borin. They know that it&’s only a matter of time before this dangerous partnership threatens their existence. Even The Prime Knight knows that he can&’t stop the mighty forces that are about to be unleashed. He recruits the kids of Battle Station Prime to form a Dragon Alliance and help him save the world from the kind of destruction that could change the realm forever. The fierce, young warriors set out on a perilous journey to The End to fight for everything they love. As they follow The Prime Knight into the greatest quest of their lives, the ties that once bound them together in battle will be pushed to the limit and they&’ll be forced to make choices they never expected to make.
Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management: Improve IT value stream delivery with a proven VSM methodology to compete in the digital economy
by Cecil 'Gary' Rupp Helen BealA practical guide to implementing Value Stream Management to guide your strategic investments in DevOps capabilities and deliver customer-centric value quickly and economicallyKey FeaturesAddress DevOps implementation issues, including culture, toolchain costs, improving work and information flows, and product team alignmentImplement proven VSM methodology to improve IT value stream flowsLeverage VSM platforms to view, analyze, and improve end-to-end value deliveryBook DescriptionValue Stream Management (VSM) opens the door to maximizing your DevOps pipeline investments by improving flows and eliminating waste. VSM and DevOps together deliver value stream improvements across enterprises for a competitive advantage in the digital world. Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven VSM methods and tools to integrate, streamline, and orchestrate activities within a DevOps-oriented value stream.You'll start with an introduction to the concepts of delivering value and understand how VSM methods and tools support improved value delivery from a Lean production perspective. The book covers the complexities of implementing modern CI/CD and DevOps pipelines and then guides you through an eight-step VSM methodology with the help of a use case showing an Agile team's efforts to install a CI/CD pipeline. Free from marketing hype or vendor bias, this book presents the current VSM tool vendors and customer use cases that showcase their products' strengths. As you advance through the book, you'll learn four approaches to implementing a DevOps pipeline and get guidance on choosing the best fit.By the end of this VSM book, you'll be ready to develop and execute a plan to streamline your software delivery pipelines and improve your organization's value stream delivery.What you will learnIntegrate Agile, systems thinking, and lean development to deliver customer-centric valueFind out how to choose the most appropriate value stream for your initial and follow-on VSM projectsEstablish better flows with integrated, automated, and orchestrated DevOps and CI/CD pipelinesApply a proven eight-step VSM methodology to drive lean IT value stream improvementsDiscover the key strengths of modern VSM tools and their customer use case scenariosUnderstand how VSM drives DevOps pipeline improvements and value delivery transformations across enterprisesWho this book is forThis book will help corporate executives, managers, IT team members, and other stakeholders involved in digital business transformations to improve the flow of customer value through their IT-based value streams. It will provide you with the practical guidance you need while adopting Lean-Agile, Value Stream Management, and DevOps capabilities on an enterprise scale to enable business agility. A basic understanding of how CI/CD and DevOps pipelines improve software delivery capabilities via integrated and automated toolchains will help you to make the most of the book.
Driving Digital Transformation through Data and AI: A Practical Guide to Delivering Data Science and Machine Learning Products
by Alexander Borek Nadine PrillLeading tech companies such as Netflix, Amazon and Uber use data science and machine learning at scale in their core business processes, whereas most traditional companies struggle to expand their machine learning projects beyond a small pilot scope. This book enables organizations to truly embrace the benefits of digital transformation by anchoring data and AI products at the core of their business. It provides executives with the essential tools and concepts to establish a data and AI portfolio strategy as well as the organizational setup and agile processes that are required to deliver machine learning products at scale. Key consideration is given to advancing the data architecture and governance, balancing stakeholder needs and breaking organizational silos through new ways of working. Each chapter includes templates, common pitfalls and global case studies covering industries such as insurance, fashion, consumer goods, finance, manufacturing and automotive. Covering a holistic perspective on strategy, technology, product and company culture, Driving Digital Transformation through Data and AI guides the organizational transformation required to get ahead in the age of AI.
Drones to Go: A Crash Course for Scientists and Makers
by Julio Alberto Mendoza-Mendoza Victor Javier Gonzalez-Villela Carlos Fernando Aguilar-Ibañez Leonardo Fonseca-RuizLearn the five key skills needed to become a quadcopter developer: design, modeling, control, simulation, and implementation. This book provides a crash course on drone development for beginners and can also serve as a comprehensive reference for those who want a detailed guide for future projects. You'll review key features often missed in other books: a deeper review of controls, step by step modeling, and methods for simulating and designing drones. Although the quadcopter is used as the main example throughout the book, you'll also see how to apply the development knowledge to other aircrafts or aerial systems. Highly visual and easy to understand, this book features Simulink and Matlab tools, but the skills covered can be used in other environments such as Scilab or other programming languages. Drones To Go merges maker knowledge and technical information with scientific knowledge and design essentials.What You’ll LearnReview the main families of control: geometric, linear, and common dynamic feedback controlUnderstand the mathematics of a quadcopterFollow step-by-step instructions on modeling and control equationsFocus on pedagogical development to answer any doubts in the design processWho This Book Is ForMakers to scientists
Drop Heating and Evaporation: Analytical Solutions in Curvilinear Coordinate Systems (Mathematical Engineering)
by Gianpietro Elvio Cossali Simona ToniniThis book describes analytical methods for modelling drop evaporation, providing the mathematical tools needed in order to generalise transport and constitutive equations and to find analytical solutions in curvilinear coordinate systems. Transport phenomena in gas mixtures are treated in considerable detail, and the basics of differential geometry are introduced in order to describe interface-related transport phenomena. One chapter is solely devoted to the description of sixteen different orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems, reporting explicitly on the forms of their differential operators (gradient, divergent, curl, Laplacian) and transformation matrices. The book is intended to guide the reader from mathematics, to physical descriptions, and ultimately to engineering applications, in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of applied mathematics when properly adapted to the real world. Though the book primarily addresses the needs of engineering researchers, it will also benefit graduate students.