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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: First International Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAIC 2023, Nanjing, China, November 25–27, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2058)
by Hai Jin Yi Pan Jianfeng LuThis 3-volume set, CCIS 2058-2060 constitutes the First International Conference, on Artificial Intelligence, IAIC 2023, held in Nanjing, China, in November 2023. The 85 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 428 submissions. The papers are clustered in parts on: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Data Security and information Security; Computer Networks and IoT. The papers present recent research and developments in artificial intelligence and its applications in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, and ethical considerations.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Health Care and Medical Sciences: Best Practices and Pitfalls (Health Informatics)
by Gyorgy J. Simon Constantin AliferisThis open access book provides a detailed review of the latest methods and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in medicine. With chapters focusing on enabling the reader to develop a thorough understanding of the key concepts in these subject areas along with a range of methods and resulting models that can be utilized to solve healthcare problems, the use of causal and predictive models are comprehensively discussed. Care is taken to systematically describe the concepts to facilitate the reader in developing a thorough conceptual understanding of how different methods and resulting models function and how these relate to their applicability to various issues in health care and medical sciences. Guidance is also given on how to avoid pitfalls that can be encountered on a day-to-day basis and stratify potential clinical risks. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Health Care and Medical Sciences: Best Practices and Pitfallsis a comprehensive guide to how AI and ML techniques can best be applied in health care. The emphasis placed on how to avoid a variety of pitfalls that can be encountered makes it an indispensable guide for all medical informatics professionals and physicians who utilize these methodologies on a day-to-day basis. Furthermore, this work will be of significant interest to health data scientists, administrators and to students in the health sciences seeking an up-to-date resource on the topic.
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Computing and Security Volume 1: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Computing and Security (ICABCS 2023), Gr. Noida, UP, India, 24 - 25 February 2023
by Arvind Dagur Karan Singh Pawan Singh Mehra Dhirendra Kumar ShuklaThis book contains the conference proceedings of ICABCS 2023, a non-profit conference with the objective to provide a platform that allows academicians, researchers, scholars and students from various institutions, universities and industries in India and abroad to exchange their research and innovative ideas in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Computing and Security. It explores the recent advancement in field of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Communication and Security in this digital era for novice to profound knowledge about cutting edges in artificial intelligence, financial, secure transaction, monitoring, real time assistance and security for advanced stage learners/ researchers/ academicians. The key features of this book are: Broad knowledge and research trends in artificial intelligence and blockchain with security and their role in smart living assistance Depiction of system model and architecture for clear picture of AI in real life Discussion on the role of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in various real-life problems across sectors including banking, healthcare, navigation, communication, security Explanation of the challenges and opportunities in AI and Blockchain based healthcare, education, banking, and related industries This book will be of great interest to researchers, academicians, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, research scholars, industry professionals, technologists, and entrepreneurs.
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Computing and Security Volume 2: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Computing and Security (ICABCS 2023), Gr. Noida, UP, India, 24 - 25 February 2023
by Arvind Dagur Karan Singh Pawan Singh Mehra Dhirendra Kumar ShuklaThis book contains the conference proceedings of ICABCS 2023, a non-profit conference with the objective to provide a platform that allows academicians, researchers, scholars and students from various institutions, universities and industries in India and abroad to exchange their research and innovative ideas in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Computing and Security. It explores the recent advancement in field of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Communication and Security in this digital era for novice to profound knowledge about cutting edges in artificial intelligence, financial, secure transaction, monitoring, real time assistance and security for advanced stage learners/ researchers/ academicians. The key features of this book are: Broad knowledge and research trends in artificial intelligence and blockchain with security and their role in smart living assistance Depiction of system model and architecture for clear picture of AI in real life Discussion on the role of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in various real-life problems across sectors including banking, healthcare, navigation, communication, security Explanation of the challenges and opportunities in AI and Blockchain based healthcare, education, banking, and related industries This book will be of great interest to researchers, academicians, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, research scholars, industry professionals, technologists, and entrepreneurs.
Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design: 13th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2024, Held as Part of EvoStar 2024, Aberystwyth, UK, April 3–5, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14633)
by Colin Johnson Sérgio M. Rebelo Iria SantosThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2024, held as part of EvoStar 2024, in Aberystwyth, UK, April 3–5, 2024. The 17 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The main purpose of this conference proceedings was to bring together practitioners who are using Artificial Intelligence techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present, and discuss ongoing work in the area.
Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of AITA 2023, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #843)
by Harish Sharma Antorweep Chakravorty Shahid Hussain Rajani KumariThis book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications (AITA 2023), held during 11–12 August 2023 in Bengaluru, India. The book is divided into two volumes and presents original research and review papers related to artificial intelligence and its applications in various domains including health care, finance, transportation, education, and many more.
Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation: 17th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2023, Venice, Italy, September 6–8, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1977)
by Marco Villani Stefano Cagnoni Roberto SerraThis book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 17th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2023, held in Venice, Italy, during September 6–8, 2023.The 30 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Algorithms for complex systems, Biologically inspired models, Complex chemical systems, Adaptation and swarms, Learning, Medicine and Social systems.
Asia-Afria- Multifaceted Engagement in the Contemporary World (Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries)
by Ute Fendler Yongkyu ChangThis book provides an insight into the complex entanglements between African countries and India, China, and South Korea from multidisciplinary perspectives connecting approaches from cultural, anthropological, literary, and music studies and art history. The three parts present a regional focus, namely Africa-India, Africa-South Korea, and Africa-China while the single contributions speak to each other and offer complementary insights. At the same time, the chapters also link across the regional realms as they deal with similar topics, such as travelling music genres. In part I, for Pombo material culture is the starting point to investigate the connections between the islands of the Indian Ocean and India by questioning the construction of memory. It highlights various aspects of the multilayered history of connections between Africa, the islands, and India. Part II gathers contributions that are complimentary to each other and therefore contribute to the understanding of the complex entanglements in area studies. Part III (Africa-South Korea) explores the impact of African-American arts and artists on South Korea's popular culture as well as the changing perception of artists of African descent in visual popular culture. It shows the impact of Korean content in South Africa.
Aspects of Integration: Novel Approaches to the Riemann and Lebesgue Integrals (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs and Research Notes in Mathematics)
by Ronald B. Guenther John W. LeeAspects of Integration: Novel Approaches to the Riemann and Lebesgue Integrals is comprised of two parts. The first part is devoted to the Riemann integral, and provides not only a novel approach, but also includes several neat examples that are rarely found in other treatments of Riemann integration. Historical remarks trace the development of integration from the method of exhaustion of Eudoxus and Archimedes, used to evaluate areas related to circles and parabolas, to Riemann’s careful definition of the definite integral, which is a powerful expansion of the method of exhaustion and makes it clear what a definite integral really is.The second part follows the approach of Riesz and Nagy in which the Lebesgue integral is developed without the need for any measure theory. Our approach is novel in part because it uses integrals of continuous functions rather than integrals of step functions as its starting point. This is natural because Riemann integrals of continuous functions occur much more frequently than do integrals of step functions as a precursor to Lebesgue integration. In addition, the approach used here is natural because step functions play no role in the novel development of the Riemann integral in the first part of the book. Our presentation of the Riesz-Nagy approach is significantly more accessible, especially in its discussion of the two key lemmas upon which the approach critically depends, and is more concise than other treatments.Features Presents novel approaches designed to be more accessible than classical presentations A welcome alternative approach to the Riemann integral in undergraduate analysis courses Makes the Lebesgue integral accessible to upper division undergraduate students How completion of the Riemann integral leads to the Lebesgue integral Contains a number of historical insights Gives added perspective to researchers and postgraduates interested in the Riemann and Lebesgue integrals
Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe
by Agustín UdíasAthanasius Kircher, the eminent 17th-century German Jesuit professor of mathematics at the Roman College emerges as a captivating figure within the pages of this monograph by Agustín Udías. Aptly deemed 'the man who knew everything,' Kircher's thirty-two comprehensive works, spanning an array of subjects, provide a unique lens into his visionary perspectives. This book delves into three selected works where Kircher unveils his conceptualization of the Earth, termed the 'Geocosmos,' treated magnetism as a cosmic and spiritual force, and embarks on a cosmic exploration from Earth to the stars. From his groundbreaking speculations on the Earth's interior, attributing earthquakes and volcanoes to intricate channels of air, water, and fire, to his cosmic journey accompanied by the ethereal spirit Cosmiel, Kircher's enduring allure persists. Despite variance from contemporary knowledge, situated at the beginning of modern science, Kircher's proposals of the structure of the Earth’s interior, cosmic magnetic theories, and space journey to the stars offer a compelling glimpse into the intellectual landscape of a bygone era, making this book an essential exploration for scholars seeking a nuanced understanding of Kircher's profound influence.
Auf dem Weg zu Netto-Null-Zielen: Nutzung von Data Science für Langzeit-Nachhaltigkeitswege
by Neha Sharma Prithwis Kumar DeDieses Buch diskutiert die Verwendung von Technologie, Data Science und Open Data, um das Netto-Null-Emissionsziel des Pariser Abkommens zum Klimawandel zu erreichen. Es gibt viele Diskussionen über Nachhaltigkeit und Lösungen für den Klimawandel, um die negativen Auswirkungen zu mildern. Die Verwendung von Technologiehebeln zur Bewältigung von Klimaherausforderungen wird jedoch selten als der bedeutendste Katalysator betrachtet. Die verfügbare Forschung in diesem Bereich ist im Allgemeinen qualitativer Natur, bei der Technologie und Daten noch nicht genutzt wurden. Durch den Einsatz von KI/ML sagt das Buch die Klimawandelfolgen aufgrund von Investitionen in den fossilen Brennstoffsektor voraus, schätzt die CO2-Emissionen des Verkehrssektors, prognostiziert die durch nicht erneuerbare Energiequellen verursachte durchschnittliche Landtemperatur und segmentiert indische Bundesstaaten auf der Grundlage von Haushalts-CO2-Emissionen. Die Forscher, Entscheidungsträger, Studenten, Lehrer, Bildungseinrichtungen, Regierungen, Regulierungsbehörden, Unternehmen, internationale Organisationen usw. werden immens von diesem Buch profitieren. Darüber hinaus soll dieses Buch dazu dienen, den nächsten Generationen eine dekarbonisierte Umgebung und eine bessere Zukunft zu bieten.
Automatic Language Identification in Texts (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)
by Tommi Jauhiainen Marcos Zampieri Timothy Baldwin Krister LindénThis book provides readers with a brief account of the history of Language Identification (LI) research and a survey of the features and methods most used in LI literature. LI is the problem of determining the language in which a document is written and is a crucial part of many text processing pipelines. The authors use a unified notation to clarify the relationships between common LI methods. The book introduces LI performance evaluation methods and takes a detailed look at LI-related shared tasks. The authors identify open issues and discuss the applications of LI and related tasks and proposes future directions for research in LI.
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Best and Visionary Papers: AAMAS 2023 Workshops, London, UK, May 29 –June 2, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14456)
by Francesco Amigoni Arunesh SinhaThis book contains visionary and best papers from the workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023, held in London, UK, during May 29–June 2, 2023.The 12 regular papers, 5 best papers and 7 visionary papers, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of more than 110 contributions to the workshops. They focus on emerging topics and new trends in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems and stem from the following workshops:- Workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS)- Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA)- Workshop on Interdisciplinary Design of Emotion Sensitive Agents (IDEA)- Workshop on Rebellion and Disobedience in Artificial Intelligence (RaD-AI)- Workshop on Neuro-symbolic AI for Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (NeSyMAS)- Workshop on Multiagent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty (MSDM)- Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multi-Agent Systems (C-MAS)
Banach Function Algebras, Arens Regularity, and BSE Norms (CMS/CAIMS Books in Mathematics #12)
by Harold Garth Dales Ali ÜlgerThis book is about semisimple Banach algebras with a focus on those that are commutative. After laying out the necessary background material from functional analysis, geometry of Banach spaces and measure theory, we introduce many specific Banach algebras from operator theory, harmonic analysis, and function theory and study their basic properties. Some of the questions dealt with in the book are: Whether the introduced Banach algebras are BSE-algebras, whether they have BSE norms, whether they have the separating ball property or some variant of it, and whether they are Arens regular. The book contains quite a few new results, as well as new proofs of a good many known results.The book is intended for those who are preparing to work in Banach algebras or who have been doing research in related areas.
Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon, Second Edition (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series)
by Mark BollmanBasic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon, Second Edition explains the mathematics involved in analyzing games of chance, including casino games, horse racing and other sports, and lotteries. The book helps readers understand the mathematical reasons why some gambling games are better for the player than others. It is also suitable as a textbook for an introductory course on probability. Along with discussing the mathematics of well-known casino games, the author examines game variations that have been proposed or used in actual casinos. Numerous examples illustrate the mathematical ideas in a range of casino games while end-of-chapter exercises go beyond routine calculations to give readers hands-on experience with casino-related computations. New to the Second Edition Thorough revision of content throughout, including new sections on the birthday problem (for informal gamblers) and the Monty Hall problem, as well as an abundance of fresh material on sports gambling Brand new exercises and problems A more accessible level of mathematical complexity, to appeal to a wider audience.
Basic Immunology and Its Clinical Application (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology #1444)
by Mitsuru MatsumotoThis book overviews ongoing and upcoming clinical applications of basic immunology. Recent advances in our knowledge of immunology coupled with new technologies have aided in the development of efficient cancer immunotherapy, as well as the control of emerging microorganisms such as SARS-CoV-2. However, knowledge of basic immunology has not been fully utilized even after the discoveries of immune checkpoint inhibition for cancer immunotherapy and the development of mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. There is still room for improving the clinical application of basic immunology. The book summarizes the achievements in clinical applications of basic immunology and highlights what can be further extended to make immunology a more practical human science. Basic immunology and its clinical applications are two wheels of the same cart in the immunology field, which aids in the development of more efficient cancer immunotherapy and rapid control of infectious diseases against microorganisms, including new viruses and classical toxoplasmosis. The exploration of ongoing and upcoming applications of basic immunology in this book makes it a useful resource for immunologists, physicians, molecular and genome biologists, bioinformaticians, and students in these fields.
Bayesian Nonparametrics for Causal Inference and Missing Data (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability #124)
by Michael J. Daniels Antonio Linero Jason RoyBayesian Nonparametrics for Causal Inference and Missing Data provides an overview of flexible Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) methods for modeling joint or conditional distributions and functional relationships, and their interplay with causal inference and missing data. This book emphasizes the importance of making untestable assumptions to identify estimands of interest, such as missing at random assumption for missing data and unconfoundedness for causal inference in observational studies. Unlike parametric methods, the BNP approach can account for possible violations of assumptions and minimize concerns about model misspecification. The overall strategy is to first specify BNP models for observed data and then to specify additional uncheckable assumptions to identify estimands of interest. The book is divided into three parts. Part I develops the key concepts in causal inference and missing data and reviews relevant concepts in Bayesian inference. Part II introduces the fundamental BNP tools required to address causal inference and missing data problems. Part III shows how the BNP approach can be applied in a variety of case studies. The datasets in the case studies come from electronic health records data, survey data, cohort studies, and randomized clinical trials. Features • Thorough discussion of both BNP and its interplay with causal inference and missing data • How to use BNP and g-computation for causal inference and non-ignorable missingness • How to derive and calibrate sensitivity parameters to assess sensitivity to deviations from uncheckable causal and/or missingness assumptions • Detailed case studies illustrating the application of BNP methods to causal inference and missing data • R code and/or packages to implement BNP in causal inference and missing data problems The book is primarily aimed at researchers and graduate students from statistics and biostatistics. It will also serve as a useful practical reference for mathematically sophisticated epidemiologists and medical researchers.
Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
by Jonathan VigliottiFrom CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti, a &“vivid&” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) and &“stunning&” (Booklist) character-driven call to action on our climate, told through the stories of the pioneering Americans working to persevere as leadership inaction risks the very survival of our heartland and hometowns.Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive, and unnecessary. And many politicians, cloistered by status and focused always on their next election, do not yet see climate as a winning issue in the short run, so they don&’t take any action at all. But climate change, and its devastating consequences, has kept apace whether we want to pay attention or not. CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti has seen that crisis unfold for himself, spending nearly two decades reporting across the United States (and the world) documenting the people, communities, landmarks, and traditions we&’ve already surrendered. Vigliotti shares with urgency and personal touch the story of an America on the brink. Before It&’s Gone traces Vigliotti&’s travels across the country, taking him to the frontlines of climate disaster and revealing the genuine impacts of climate change that countless Americans have already been forced to confront. From massive forest fires in California to hurricanes in Louisiana, receding coastlines in Massachusetts and devastated fisheries in Alaska, we learn that warnings of a future impacted by climate are no more; the climate catastrophe is already here. This is the story of America, and Americans, on the edge, and a powerful argument that radical action on climate change with a respect for its people and traditions is not only possible, but also the only way to preserve what we love.
The Bergman Kernel and Related Topics: Hayama Symposium on SCV XXIII, Kanagawa, Japan, July 2022 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #447)
by Kengo Hirachi Takeo Ohsawa Shigeharu Takayama Joe KamimotoThis volume consists of 15 papers contributing to the Hayama Symposium on Complex Analysis in Several Variables XXIII, which was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Bergman kernel. The symposium took place in Hayama and Tokyo in July 2022. Each article is closely related to the Bergman kernel, covering topics in complex analysis, differential geometry, representation theory, PDE, operator theory, and complex algebraic geometry. Specifically, some papers address the L2 extension operators from a newly opened viewpoint after solving Suita's conjecture for the logarithmic capacity. They are also continuations of quantitative solutions to the openness conjecture for the multiplier ideal sheaves. The study involves estimates for the solutions of the d-bar equations, focusing on the existence of compact Levi-flat hypersurfaces in complex manifolds. The collection also reports progress on various topics, including the existence of extremal Kähler metrics on compact manifolds, Lp variants of the Bergman kernel, Wehrl-type inequalities, homogeneous Kähler metrics on bounded homogeneous domains, asymptotics of the Bergman kernels, and harmonic Szegő kernels and operators on the Bergman spaces and Segal-Bargmann spaces. Some of the papers are written in an easily accessible way for beginners. Overall, this collection updates how a basic notion provides strong insights into the internal relationships between independently found phenomena.
Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle (History of Analytic Philosophy)
by Landon D. C. Elkind Alexander Mugar KleinThis book examines Bertrand Russell’s complicated relationships to the women around him, and to feminism more generally. The essays in this volume offer scholarly reassessments of these relationships and their import for the history of feminism and of analytic philosophy.Russell is a founder of analytic philosophy. He has also been called a feminist due to his public, decades-long advocacy for women’s rights and equality of the sexes. But his private behavior towards wives and sexual partners, and his apparently dismissive (occasionally public) responses to some women philosophers, raises the question of what sort of feminist (or chauvinist) Russell actually was.Focusing on women in Russell’s circle of acquaintance, including feminist activists and his philosophical interlocutors, this book casts new light on a timeless thinker’s feminism and the women who played critical roles in the making of analytic philosophy.
Bertrand’s Paradox and the Principle of Indifference (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics)
by Nicholas ShackelEvents between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities. Bertrand’s chord paradox, however, appears to show this to be false, and thereby poses a general threat to probabilities for continuum sized state spaces. Articulating the nature of such spaces involves some deep mathematics and that is perhaps why the recent literature on Bertrand’s Paradox has been almost entirely from mathematicians and physicists, who have often deployed elegant mathematics of considerable sophistication. At the same time, the philosophy of probability has been left out. In particular, left out entirely are the philosophical ground of the principle of indifference, the nature of the principle itself, the stringent constraint this places on the mathematical representation of the principle needed for its application to continuum sized event spaces, and what these entail for rigour in developing the paradox itself. This book puts the philosophy and its entailments back in and in so doing casts a new light on the paradox, giving original analyses of the paradox, its possible solutions, the source of the paradox, the philosophical errors we make in attempting to solve it and what the paradox proves for the philosophy of probability. The book finishes with the author’s proposed solution—a solution in the spirit of Bertrand’s, indeed—in which an epistemic principle more general than the principle of indifference offers a principled restriction of the domain of the principle of indifference.Bertrand's Paradox and the Principle of Indifference will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of science, probability theory and mathematical physics.
Bidirectional Comparison of Nominal Sets: Asymmetry of Proximity (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1140)
by Grażyna Szkatuła Maciej KrawczakThe authors propose a novel measure of proximity between two sets of nominal elements. This measure describes the changes in the first set after adding the second set or changes in the second set after adding the first set.It is crucial to note that this measure is not symmetric, it means that the perturbation of the first set on the second set can be different than the perturbation of the opposition direction. The introduced set impact measure allows for the direct treatment of objects described by nominal-valued attributes. The ordinary sets, multisets, fuzzy sets, and the intuitionistic fuzzy sets are considered. The book is intended for data science professionals, philosophers as well as cognitive psychologists, who struggle with practical problems in which asymmetry of proximity of objects cannot be neglected. The use of the proposed measures of perturbation between compared objects can be very important in data mining or in exploration of Internetresources.
Big Data Analytics: A Guide to Data Science Practitioners Making the Transition to Big Data (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series)
by Ulrich MatterSuccessfully navigating the data-driven economy presupposes a certain understanding of the technologies and methods to gain insights from Big Data. This book aims to help data science practitioners to successfully manage the transition to Big Data. Building on familiar content from applied econometrics and business analytics, this book introduces the reader to the basic concepts of Big Data Analytics. The focus of the book is on how to productively apply econometric and machine learning techniques with large, complex data sets, as well as on all the steps involved before analysing the data (data storage, data import, data preparation). The book combines conceptual and theoretical material with the practical application of the concepts using R and SQL. The reader will thus acquire the skills to analyse large data sets, both locally and in the cloud. Various code examples and tutorials, focused on empirical economic and business research, illustrate practical techniques to handle and analyse Big Data. Key Features: - Includes many code examples in R and SQL, with R/SQL scripts freely provided online. - Extensive use of real datasets from empirical economic research and business analytics, with data files freely provided online. - Leads students and practitioners to think critically about where the bottlenecks are in practical data analysis tasks with large data sets, and how to address them. The book is a valuable resource for data science practitioners, graduate students and researchers who aim to gain insights from big data in the context of research questions in business, economics, and the social sciences.
Big Data Analytics in Intelligent IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems (Transactions on Computer Systems and Networks)
by Nonita Sharma Monika Mangla Subhash K. ShindeThis book explores the complete system perspective, underlying theories, modeling, and applications of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Considering the interest of researchers and academicians, the editors present this book in a multidimensional perspective covering CPS at breadth. It covers topics ranging from discussion of rudiments of the system and efficient management to recent research challenges and issues. This book is divided into four sections discussing the fundamentals of CPS, engineering-based solutions, its applications, and advanced research challenges. The contents highlight the concept map of CPS including the latest technological interventions, issues, challenges, and the integration of CPS with IoT and big data analytics, modeling solutions, distributed management, efficient energy management, cyber-physical systems research, and education with applications in industrial, agriculture, and medical domains. This book is of immense interest to those in academia and industry.
Big Data and Data Science Engineering: Volume 6 (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1139)
by Roger LeeThe book reports state-of-the-art results in Big Data and Data Science Engineering in both printed and electronic form. Studies in Computation Intelligence (SCI) has grown into the most comprehensive computational intelligence research forum available in the world. This book publishes original papers on both theory and practice that address foundations, state-of-the-art problems and solutions, and crucial challenges.