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See Yourself in Cyber: Security Careers Beyond Hacking
by Ed AdamsA one-of-a-kind discussion of how to integrate cybersecurity into every facet of your organization In See Yourself in Cyber: Security Careers Beyond Hacking, information security strategist and educator Ed Adams delivers a unique and insightful discussion of the many different ways the people in your organization—inhabiting a variety of roles not traditionally associated with cybersecurity—can contribute to improving its cybersecurity backbone. You’ll discover how developers, DevOps professionals, managers, and others can strengthen your cybersecurity. You’ll also find out how improving your firm’s diversity and inclusion can have dramatically positive effects on your team’s talent. Using the familiar analogy of the color wheel, the author explains the modern roles and responsibilities of practitioners who operate within each “slice.” He also includes: Real-world examples and case studies that demonstrate the application of the ideas discussed in the book Many interviews with established industry leaders in a variety of disciplines explaining what non-security professionals can do to improve cybersecurity Actionable strategies and specific methodologies for professionals working in several different fields interested in meeting their cybersecurity obligationsPerfect for managers, directors, executives, and other business leaders, See Yourself in Cyber: Security Careers Beyond Hacking is also an ideal resource for policymakers, regulators, and compliance professionals.
Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy (Platform Studies)
by Jose P. Zagal Benj EdwardsThe curious history, technology, and technocultural context of Nintendo&’s short-lived stereoscopic gaming console, the Virtual Boy.With glowing red stereoscopic 3D graphics, the Virtual Boy cast a prophetic hue: Shortly after its release in 1995, Nintendo's balance sheet for the product was "in the red" as well. Of all the innovative long shots the game industry has witnessed over the years, perhaps the most infamous and least understood was the Virtual Boy. Why the Virtual Boy failed, and where it succeeded, are questions that video game experts José Zagal and Benj Edwards explore in Seeing Red, but even more interesting to the authors is what the platform actually was: what it promised, how it worked, and where it fit into the story of gaming.Nintendo released the Virtual Boy as a standalone table-top device in 1995—and quickly discontinued it after lackluster sales and a lukewarm critical reception. In Seeing Red, Zagal and Edwards examine the device's technical capabilities, its games, and the cultural context in the US in the 1990s when Nintendo developed and released the unusual console. The Virtual Boy, in their account, built upon and extended an often-forgotten historical tradition of immersive layered dioramas going back 100 years that was largely unexplored in video games at the time. The authors also show how the platform's library of games conveyed a distinct visual aesthetic style that has not been significantly explored since the Virtual Boy's release, having been superseded by polygonal 3D graphics. The platform's meaning, they contend, lies as much in its design and technical capabilities and affordances as it does in an audience's perception of those capabilities. Offering rare insight into how we think about video game platforms, Seeing Red illustrates where perception and context come, quite literally, into play.
Segmentation of the Aorta. Towards the Automatic Segmentation, Modeling, and Meshing of the Aortic Vessel Tree from Multicenter Acquisition: First Challenge, SEG.A. 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 8, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14539)
by Antonio Pepe Gian Marco Melito Jan EggerThis book constitutes the First Segmentation of the Aorta Challenge, SEG.A. 2023, which was held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023, on October 8, 2023. The 8 full and 3 short papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They focus specifically on robustness, visual quality and meshing of automatically generated segmentations of aortic vessel trees from CT imaging. The challenge was organized as a ”container submission” challenge, where participants had to upload their algorithms to Grand Challenge in the form of Docker containers. Three tasks were created for SEG.A. 2023.
Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2023: 30th International Conference, Fredericton, Canada, August 14–18, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14201)
by Claude Carlet Kalikinkar Mandal Vincent RijmenThis book contains revised selected papers from the 30th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2023, held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, in August 2023.The 21full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Cryptanalysis of Lightweight Ciphers; Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures; Post-Quantum Constructions; Symmetric cryptography and fault attacks; Post-Quantum Analysis and Implementations; Homomorphic encryption; Public-Key Cryptography; and Differential Cryptanalysis.
Selected Reflections in Language, Logic, and Information: ESSLLI 2019, ESSLLI 2020 and ESSLLI 2021 Student Sessions, Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14354)
by Alexandra Pavlova Mina Young Pedersen Raffaella BernardiThe European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The papers cover vastly dierent topics, but each fall in the intersection of the three primary topics of ESSLLI: Logic, Language and Computation. The 13 papers presented in this volume have been selected among 81 submitted papers over the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. The ESSLLI Student Session is an excellent venue for students to present their work and receive valuable feedback from renowned experts in their respective fields. The Student Session accepts submissions for three different tracks: Language and Computation (LaCo), Logic and Computation (LoCo), and Logic and Language (LoLa).
Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#: Practical Testing Solutions for Selenium WebDriver
by Courtney ZhanSolve your Selenium WebDriver problems with this quick guide to automated testing of web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#. This third edition contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects. Updated to Selenium version 4, this revision includes Visual Studio Code set up, additional recipes, and new chapters on Selenium DevTools and continuous testing. You'll see how to use Selenium WebDriver for select lists, navigation, assertions, frames, file upload and pop-up dialogs. You'll also learn how to locate web elements and test functions for hyperlinks, buttons, TextFields and TextAreas, radio buttons, CheckBoxes, and more. What You'll Learn Debug test scripts and test data Work with Selenium Remote Control Server Manage and deal with browser profiles and capabilities Monitor tests for advanced user interactions and experiences (UX) Who This Book Is For Experienced .NET and C# Windows application programmers/developers.
Semantic AI in Knowledge Graphs
by Sanju Tiwari Fernando Ortíz-Rodriguez Sarra Ben Abbés Patience Usoro Usip Rim HantachRecent combinations of semantic technology and artificial intelligence (AI) present new techniques to build intelligent systems that identify more precise results. Semantic AI in Knowledge Graphs locates itself at the forefront of this novel development, uncovering the role of machine learning to extend the knowledge graphs by graph mapping or corpus-based ontology learning. Securing efficient results via the combination of symbolic AI and statistical AI such as entity extraction based on machine learning, text mining methods, semantic knowledge graphs, and related reasoning power, this book is the first of its kind to explore semantic AI and knowledge graphs. A range of topics are covered, from neuro-symbolic AI, explainable AI and deep learning to knowledge discovery and mining, and knowledge representation and reasoning. A trailblazing exploration of semantic AI in knowledge graphs, this book is a significant contribution to both researchers in the field of AI and data mining as well as beginner academicians.
The Sensory Accommodation Framework for Technology: Bridging Sensory Processing to Social Cognition (Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health)
by LouAnne BoydThis book provides a thorough introduction to the many facets of designing technologies for autism, with a particular focus on optimizing visual attention frameworks. This book is designed to provide a detailed overview of several aspects of technology for autism. Each Chapter illustrates different parts of the Sensory Accommodation Framework and provides examples of relevant available technologies. The books first discusses a variety of skills that make up human development as well as a history of autism as a diagnosis and the birth of the neurodiversity movement. It goes on to detail individual types of therapy and how they interact with autism. The systems involved in sensory processing and their specific relation to autism are then explored, including through technologies that have addressed these areas and applications for designers. Readers will learn about designing sensory environments and sensory interactions, such as through virtual reality. This book places a needed emphasis on the hierarchy of information in technology development by exploring visual attention in neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. It also delves into the relationship between sensory perception and nonverbal communication, the bridge between sensory input and social behavior, and dynamic information. The discussion is rounded out with examinations of temporal processing as and multisensory integration as complicating factors that have existing technological solutions. Finally, the book closes with a summary of the sensory accommodation framework in respect to how each layer offers different user experience goals and specific mechanisms to promote those goals. Readers from a variety of research backgrounds will find this book informative and useful, while designers will learn essential skills for effectively designing autism technologies.
Serverless Development on AWS
by Sheen Brisals Luke HedgerThe adoption of serverless is on the rise, but until now, little guidance has been available for development teams that want to apply this technology on AWS. This definitive guide is packed with architectural, security, and data best practices and patterns for architects and engineers who want to build reliable enterprise-scale serverless solutions.Sheen Brisals, an AWS Serverless Hero, and Luke Hedger, an AWS Community Builder, outline the serverless adoption requirements for an enterprise, examine the development tools your team needs, and explain in depth the nuances of testing event-driven and distributed serverless services. You'll gain practical guidance for keeping up with change and learn how to build serverless solutions with sustainability in mind.Examine the serverless technology ecosystem and AWS services needed to develop serverless applicationsLearn the approach and preparation required for a successful serverless adoption in an enterpriseLearn serverless architectures and implementation patternsDesign, develop, and test distributed serverless microservices on AWS cloudApply security best practices while building serverless solutionsIdentify and adapt the implementation patterns for your particular use caseIncorporate the necessary measures for observable serverless applicationsImplement sustainable serverless applications in the cloud
Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2023 Workshops: AI-PA, ASOCA, SAPD, SQS, SSCOPE, WESOACS and Satellite Events, Rome, Italy, November 28-December 1, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14518)
by Flavia Monti Pierluigi Plebani Naouel Moha Hye-Young Paik Johanna Barzen Gowri Ramachandran Devis Bianchini Damian A. Tamburri Massimo MecellaThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the scientific satellite events held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2023. The conference was held in Rome, Italy, during November 28 – December 1, 2023.This year, these satellite events were organized around four main tracks, including a workshop track, a demonstration track, a Ph.D. symposium, and an invited tutorial track.The ICSOC 2023 workshop track consisted of the following six workshops covering a wide range of topics that fall into the general area of service computing:Third International Workshop on AI-Enabled Process Automation (AI-PA 2023)7th Workshop on Adaptive Service-Oriented and Cloud Applications (ASOCA2023)First International Workshop on Secure, Accountable and Privacy-Preserving Data-Driven Service-Oriented Computing (SAPD 2023)First Services and Quantum Software Workshop (SQS 2023)First International Workshop on Sustainable Service-Oriented Computing: Addressing Environmental, Social, and Economic Dimensions (SSCOPE 2023) 19th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services (WESOACS 2023)
Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future: Proceedings of SOHOMA 2023 (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1136)
by Theodor Borangiu Damien Trentesaux Paulo Leitão Lamia Berrah Jose-Fernando JimenezThe scientific theme of the book is “Sustainability for the digital manufacturing era” which is focused on how the technological enablers of digital systems drive the sustainability for products, processes, manufacturing, and logistics systems in the industry of the future. The book’s chapters describe sustainability drivers specific to the technological advances that motivate, encourage, and engage the economic, social, and environmental aspects within intelligent manufacturing and logistics systems. The novelty of this approach consists in extending the economic sustainability of digital manufacturing with the ethical perspective at human social scale. The general scope of the book is to foster innovation in smart and sustainable manufacturing and logistics systems and in this context to promote concepts, methods, and solutions for the digital transformation of manufacturing through service orientation in holonic and agent-based control with distributed intelligence. The book’s readership is comprised of researchers and engineers working in the value chain of products and processes, who develop digital control solutions in the “Industry of the Future” vision. The book is also addressed to master’s and Ph.D. students enrolled in Engineering Sciences programs.
Services Computing – SCC 2023: 20th International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2023, Shenzhen, China, December 17–18, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14211)
by Min Luo Liang-Jie ZhangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2023, held in Shenzhen, China, during December 17–18, 2023.The 6 full papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development, and deployment.
Seven Deadly Sins of Organizational Culture: Lessons From Some of The Most Infamous Corporate Failures (Security, Audit and Leadership Series)
by L. T. SanThis book is about the primary symptoms present in a dysfunctional culture that could have devastating outcomes for any organization. The book outlines each of the seven sins in each chapter. Each of the first seven chapters (Chapters 1–7) starts with a famous quote related to each of the sins and then immediately recounts stories ripped from the headlines describing well-known corporate failures but with a personal touch from former employees who experienced those stories from inside the company. (The sources for these stories are all cited in their Bibliographies.) The seven sins of organizational culture are linked with seven different corporate scandals that serve as a "lesson learned" as well as seven stories of organizations that have been successful with each respective organizational attribute as follows: Flawed Mission and Misaligned Values uses WorldCom as the lesson learned and Patagonia as the success case. Flawed Incentives uses Wells Fargo as the lesson learned and Bridgeport Financial as the success case. Lack of Accountability uses HSBC as the lesson learned and McDonald’s as the success case. Ineffective Talent Management uses Enron as the lesson learned and Southwest Airlines as the success case. Lack of Transparency uses Theranos as the lesson learned and Zappos as the success case. Ineffective Risk Management uses the 2008 mortgage industry collapse as the lesson learned and Michael Burry as the success case. Ineffective Leadership summarizes all of the foregoing sins as failures of Leadership. In each chapter and for each organizational sin, the author offers seven attributes of a healthy culture to counter the cultural dysfunction. The seven healthy attributes for each of the seven sins are all original content. In Chapter 8, the author offers an approach for assessing an organization’s culture by providing seven ways to measure the different drivers of organizational culture. The ideas for how to measure corporate culture is original content, with some references to existing frameworks (all cited in the Bibliography.) Finally, in Chapter 9, the author offers a step-by-step outline for transforming the culture. The chapter starts with a story about how Korean Air suffered multiple crashes due to their corporate culture but were able to successfully transform their culture. (The source for the Korean Air story is cited in the Bibliography.) There are seven appendices, most of which are by the author except for the maturity of risk management, which references an OECD (government entity) risk management maturity framework.
The Seventh International Conference on Safety and Security with IoT: SaSeIoT 2023 (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
by Kim Phuc Tran Shujun Li Cédric Heuchenne Thu Huong TruongThis book presents the Fifth International Conference on Safety and Security with IoT (SaSeIoT 2023), which took place Bratislava, Slovakia, October 24-26, 2023. The conference aims to explore not only IoT and its related critical applications but also IoT towards Security and Safety. The conference solicits original and inspiring research contributions from experts, researchers, designers, and practitioners in academia, industry and related fields and provides a common platform to share knowledge, experience and best practices in various domains of IoT.
Shaping Automated Driving to Achieve Societal Mobility Needs: A Human-Systems Integration Approach (Lecture Notes in Mobility)
by Peter Moertl Bernhard BrandstaetterThis edited book describes novel human-systems integration approaches to improve acceptance, safety, and comfort of automated vehicles. Each chapter analyses different aspects in the development of automated driving systems such as: assessing needs and opportunities of specific user populations i.e. elderly drivers and truck drivers; creating fluid human-systems interactions in the vehicle to answer specific driver needs; developing an automated driving tutoring application; and identifying benefits of including road infrastructure sensors to support automated driving predictability. A detailed description of the assessment of the above-described solutions in real-world situations is also included. Written by both researchers and professionals, this book offers timely and practice-oriented information concerning the development of automated driving systems that better adapt to the users’ needs.
Shared-Memory Synchronization (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture)
by Michael L. Scott Trevor BrownThis book offers a comprehensive survey of shared-memory synchronization, with an emphasis on “systems-level” issues. It includes sufficient coverage of architectural details to understand correctness and performance on modern multicore machines, and sufficient coverage of higher-level issues to understand how synchronization is embedded in modern programming languages.The primary intended audience for this book is “systems programmers”—the authors of operating systems, library packages, language run-time systems, concurrent data structures, and server and utility programs. Much of the discussion should also be of interest to application programmers who want to make good use of the synchronization mechanisms available to them, and to computer architects who want to understand the ramifications of their design decisions on systems-level code.
Shifting Mobility: Part 1: Transforming Planning and Design for New Human Mobility Code
by Dewan Masud KarimIn the face of resource depletion, environmental changes, lifestyle changes, demographic and digital adaptation, old ideologies of city building and expensive and complex automobility solutions are in freefall. These changes are creating severe friction between the old and new paradigms. This book provides new perspectives through the process of ideological disassociation and concepts of human mobility code. The basic premise of the book, human mobility is an essential component of our creativity that comes from our unconscious desire to become a part of a community. Several new concepts in the book starts with the hallmark of new discovery of human mobility code and its implications of urban mobility boundary systems to stay within safe planetary zone. A new discovery of human mobility code from comprehensive research finding prove that each individual develops a unique mobility footprint and become our mobility identity. Beyond individual hallmarks, human develops collective mobility codes through interaction with the third space on which entire mobility systems lie and are created by the fundamentals of city planning and the design process. Readers are introduced to an innovative mobility planning process and reinvention of multimodal mobility approaches based on new mobility code while formulating new concepts, practical solutions and implementation techniques, tools, policies, and processes to reinforce low-carbon mobility options while addressing social equity, environmental, and health benefits. Finally, the book arms us with knowledge to prevent the disaster of full technological enlightenment against our natural human mobility code.
Shipping Go: Develop, deliver, discuss, design, and go again
by Joel HolmesBuild and upgrade an automated software delivery pipeline that supports containerization, integration testing, semantic versioning, automated deployment, and more.In Shipping Go you will learn how to: Develop better software based on feedback from customers Create a development pipeline that turns feedback into features Reduce bugs with pipeline automation that validates code before it is deployed Establish continuous testing for exceptional code quality Serverless, container-based, and server-based deployments Scale your deployment in a cost-effective way Deliver a culture of continuous improvement Shipping Go is a hands-on guide to shipping Go-based software. Author Joel Holmes shows you the easy way to set up development pipelines, fully illustrated with practical examples in the powerful Go language. You&’ll put continuous delivery and continuous integration into action, and discover instantly useful guidance on automating your team&’s build and reacting with agility to customer demands. Your new pipelines will ferry your projects through production and deployment, and also improve your testing, code quality, and production applications. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology An effective software delivery pipeline automates all stages, from initial design, through development, deployment, and ultimately the usage experience that feeds back into new features and releases. Go embraces the best practices of Continuous Delivery, and adds a few language-specific tools and twists of its own. About the Book Shipping Go shows you how to build Go-specific software development pipelines. You&’ll have a basic CI/CD process up and running by the time you finish Chapter 3, along with an iterative process for designing, releasing, and revising your applications. Then, you&’ll systematically upgrade your pipeline to support containerization, integration testing, semantic versioning, and automated deployment. A set of handy appendices help you translate these valuable practices to Kotlin, Python, and JavaScript applications. What&’s Inside Create a development pipeline that turns feedback into features Automatically validate code before it is deployed Serverless, container-based, and server-based deployments Scale your deployment in a cost-effective way About the Reader For Go developers. About the Author Joel Holmes builds cloud native applications, helping to architect, design, and develop them. A Golang tech lead, Aliénor Latour was the technical editor for this book. Table of Contents PART 1 - STARTUP 1 Delivering value 2 Introducing continuous integration 3 Introducing continuous testing 4 Introducing continuous deployment PART 2 - SCALING 5 Code quality enforcement 6 Testing frameworks, mocking, and dependencies 7 Containerized deployment PART 3 - GOING PUBLIC 8 Configuration management and stable releases 9 Integration testing 10 Advanced deployment 11 The loop
Shopify für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Adrian PiegsaIn kürzester Zeit erfolgreich auf Shopify Mit Shopify bauen Sie Ihren eigenen Online-Shop, der perfekt zu Ihren Bedürfnissen passt. Adrian Piegsa gibt Ihnen einen Überblick über die Shop-Plattform, zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie sich zurechtfinden und worauf Sie achten müssen. Sie lernen Schritt für Schritt, wie Sie Ihren Webshop mit Kategorien und Produkten anlegen, Bestellungen abwickeln und Ihren Erfolg optimieren. Darüber hinaus erfahren Sie alles über Vertriebs- und Werbemöglichkeiten von Shopify und erhalten Tipps und Tricks im Umgang mit der Software ? speziell für den deutschsprachigen Raum. Sie erfahren Wie Sie sich auf Shopify zurechtfinden Was eine gute Shop-Struktur ausmacht Wie Sie Shopify-Apps sinnvoll nutzen Wie Sie Ihre Statistiken einsehen und auswerten
SIAM International Meshing Roundtable 2023 (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering #147)
by Eloi Ruiz-Gironés Rubén Sevilla David MoxeyThis volume comprises selected papers from the SIAM International Meshing Roundtable Workshop 2023, SIAM IMR 2023, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 6-9, 2023. The IMR was started by Sandia National Laboratories in 1992 and, since 2021, it has been held under the umbrella of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The SIAM IMR 2023 was the first in-situ conference to be held since 2019, after two online conferences. It consisted of short courses, technical presentations from keynotes, contributed talks and research notes, a poster session and meshing contest, and discussion panels. The papers in these proceedings present novel contributions that range from theoretical advances to technical applications in engineering, geometric modeling, computer graphics, visualization, and machine learning.
The Silicon Valley Model: Management for Entrepreneurship (Management for Professionals)
by Annika Steiber Sverker AlängeThe first edition of The Silicon Valley Model, published in 2016, addresses the need for a fundamentally new approach to managing and developing large firms with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. This second edition validates, extends, and updates these original findings. While still encompassing the observations and analysis featured in the first edition, this new edition addresses new developments in management and in the global business environment. Further, it presents Dr. Steiber’s research identifying more companies in Asia, Europe, and the USA that are implementing management approaches that parallels the Silicon Valley Model, and in some respects, advanced upon it. New material, appearing mainly in the “Recent Developments” sections in each chapter, includes both real-life events and new research findings related to the management principles for entrepreneurship. In some cases, elements of innovation and development of the Silicon Valley Model have taken new forms in response to changing times or the desires of the companies involved. The Silicon Valley Model, Second Edition is beneficial to executives from the board and CEO level on down, consultants, researchers, and others who study or work with new developments in management.
Simulation and Statistics with Excel: An Introduction to Business Students
by Luis Fernando IbarraThe use of simulation techniques has increased in importance in recent history, and simulation activities are an important resource for advanced preparation for the organization and execution of events. When formal mathematics is not enough, simulation may be the only option capable of approximating solutions. Simulation and Statistics with Excel: An Introduction to Business Students offers a non-rigorous and practical tour of the simulation procedure on computers, using a versatile and accessible resource, the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. This book covers the concepts essential to understanding the basic principles and approaches of statistical simulation, allowing for the study of complex systems. Aimed at students in business and operational research beginning to use simulation as an instrument for understanding existing or proposed processes, this book will lay solid foundations in understanding simulation experimentation.Key Features: Provides a basis to understand the approaches and principles of simulator experiments. Uses a universal and easily accessible resource. Introduces simple examples to teach the fundamentals of simulation.
Simulation on Hydration of Tricalcium Silicate in Cement Clinker
by Dejian Shen Xin WangThis book is written based on authors' research on cement hydration during the past decade. It establishes simulation model to evaluate the influence of crystal defects on the dissolution of tricalcium silicate and morphology change of particles and explores the hydration kinetics and microstructure development of tricalcium silicate under the mixed control of dissolution, diffusion, as well as boundary nucleation and growth. It also provides a theoretical basis for regulating the microstructure and performance of cement-based materials. It is designed as a reference work for professionals or practitioners and as a textbook for undergraduates or postgraduates. This book provides valuable knowledge and useful methods that can be applied in the field of cement hydration.
Situation Assessment in Aviation: Bayesian Network and Fuzzy Logic-based Approaches
by Jitendra R. Raol Sudesh K. Kashyap Lakshmi ShrinivasanSituation Assessment in Aviation focuses on new aspects of soft computing technologies for the evaluation and assessment of situations in aviation scenarios. It considers technologies emerging from multisensory data fusion (MSDF), Bayesian networks (BN), and fuzzy logic (FL) to assist pilots in their decision-making.Studying MSDF, BN, and FL from the perspective of their applications to the problem of situation assessment, the book discusses the development of certain soft technologies that can be further used for devising more sophisticated technologies for a pilot's decision-making when performing certain tasks: airplane monitoring, pair formation, attack, and threat. It explains the concepts of situation awareness, data fusion, decision fusion, Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic type 1, and interval type 2 fuzzy logic. The book also presents a hybrid technique by using BN and FL and a unique approach to the problem of situation assessment, beyond visual range and air-to-air combat, by utilizing building blocks of artificial intelligence (AI) for the future development of more advanced automated systems, especially using commercial software.The book is intended for aerospace R&D engineers, systems engineers, aeronautical engineers, and aviation training professionals. It will also be useful for aerospace and electrical engineering students taking courses in Air Traffic Management, Aviation Management, Aviation Operations, and Aviation Safety Systems.
Small Business For Dummies
by Eric Tyson Jim SchellEasy-to-follow advice on launching, managing, and growing your business, and making it pay off Small Business For Dummies is the essential guide you need to owning and operating a small business. You’re ready to add your name to the roster of business owners, and this book is here to give you the advice you’ll need at all stages of the game. Start off with insight on preparing to launch a small business, including picking the right business to pursue and getting all the paperwork in order. If you want to purchase an existing business, this book also has you covered. Plus, you’ll learn how to wear all the hats a small business owner must wear, including being your own HR manager, accountant, and marketer—and to make it all work. Create a business plan and learn how to fund your business idea Tackle the basics of small business bookkeeping so you can budget for success Explore the idea of purchasing a business, and hire excellent employees Avoid the most common mistakes that first-time business owners makeThis jargon-free book meets small business owners wherever they are on the road to business success. Small Business For Dummies is great for those just toying with the idea of opening a business, and for those who already call themselves “boss” but need a few extra pointers on making things run smoothly.