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The VES Handbook of Visual Effects: Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures
by Jeffrey A. Okun Susan ZwermanWisdom from the best and the brightest in the industry, this visual effects bible belongs on the shelf of anyone working in or aspiring to work in VFX. The book covers techniques and solutions all VFX artists/producers/supervisors need to know, from breaking down a script and initial bidding, to digital character creation and compositing of both live-action and CG elements. In-depth lessons on stereoscopic moviemaking, color management and digital intermediates are included, as well as chapters on interactive games and full animation authored by artists from EA and Dreamworks respectively. From predproduction to acquisition to postproduction, every aspect of the VFX production workflow is given prominent coverage. VFX legends such as John Knoll, Mike Fink, and John Erland provide you with invaluable insight and lessons from the set, equipping you with everything you need to know about the entire visual effects workflow. Simply a must-have book for anyone working in or wanting to work in the VFX industry.
The VES Handbook of Visual Effects: Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures
by Jeffrey A. Okun Susan Zwerman Christopher McKittrick Lisa Sepp-WilsonThe award-winning VES Handbook of Visual Effects remains the most complete guide to visual effects techniques and best practices available today. This new edition has been updated to include the latest, industry-standard techniques, technologies, and workflows for the ever-evolving fast paced world of visual effects. The Visual Effects Society (VES) tasked the original authors to update their areas of expertise, such as AR/VR Moviemaking, Color Management, Cameras, VFX Editorial, Stereoscopic and the Digital Intermediate, as well as provide detailed chapters on interactive games and full animation. Additionally, 56 contributors share their best methods, tips, tricks, and shortcuts developed through decades of trial and error and real-world, hands-on experience.This third edition has been expanded to feature lessons on 2.5D/3D Compositing; 3D Scanning; Digital Cinematography; Editorial Workflow in Animated and Visual Effects Features; Gaming updates; General Geometry Instancing; Lens Mapping for VFX; Native Stereo; Real-Time VFX and Camera Tracking; Shot/Element Pulls and Delivery to VFX; Techvis; VFX Elements and Stereo; Virtual Production; and VR/AR (Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality).A must-have for anyone working in or aspiring to work in visual effects, The VES Handbook of Visual Effects, Third Edition covers essential techniques and solutions for all VFX artists, producers, and supervisors, from pre-production to digital character creation, compositing of both live-action and CG elements, photorealistic techniques, and much more. With subjects and techniques clearly and definitively presented in beautiful four-color, this handbook is a vital resource for any serious VFX artist.
Analytics for Retail: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Statistics Behind a Successful Retail Business
by Rhoda OkunevExamine select retail business scenarios to learn basic mathematics, as well as probability and statistics required to analyze big data. This book focuses on useful and imperative applied analytics needed to build a retail business and explains mathematical concepts essential for decision making and communication in retail business environments. Everyone is a buyer or seller of products these days whether through a physical department store, Amazon, or their own business website. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding and managing the mechanics of markups, markdowns, and basic statistics, math and computers that will help in your retail business. You'll tackle what to do with data once it is has accumulated and see how to arrange the data using descriptive statistics, primarily means, median, and mode, and then how to read the corresponding charts and graphs. Analytics for Retail is your path to creating visual representations that powerfully communicate information and drive decisions. What You'll LearnReview standard statistical concepts to enhance your understanding of retail dataUnderstand the concepts of markups, markdowns and profit margins, and probability Conduct an A/B testing email campaign with all the relevant analytics calculated and explainedWho This Book Is ForThis is a primer book for anyone in the field of retail that needs to learn or refresh their skills or for a reader who wants to move in their company to a more analytical position.
The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies are Altering Society
by Rhoda OkunevTechnological innovations have advanced at an incredible speed since the introduction of the computer that it has altered the fabric of our society. The possession of computers, smart-devices, along with social media, texting and video games, is now an intimate part of the structure of our culture. This book is a framework to start a conversation on how technology is changing our lifestyles and transforming our world. There is now an entire generation that has been using technology through the most delicate developmental time in their lives. This book presents how to look at the cognitive and psychosocial developmental stages and what are the age-appropriate milestones and factsheet of behaviors at different ages. It provides insight into the strength and vulnerable characteristics at each stage and the prevalence of some negative conditions in our society. You will gain a perspective of the encouraging and challenging aspects of computer learning, smart devices, and how to start and keep the conversation going from infancy to adulthood in order to keep and maintain your virtues and ways to circumvent unfavorable consequences. In short, The Psychology of Evolving Technology looks at how cutting-edge and revolutionary high technologies have disrupted our society through its many luxuries and conveniences and how it has altered the outlook of our values, privileges, and expectations. What You'll LearnDetermine what adjustments should be made to regulate new innovations to allow them to succeed See how development stages in a child now interact with technologyReview how social media and influencer culture are changing the way we see ourselves in society Who This Book Is For All readers curious about the effect of technology on individuals, growing children, and the fabric of society
Asset Accounting Configuration in SAP ERP: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Andrew OkungbowaIn this book, noted expert Andrew Okungbowa explains SAP Asset Accounting (FI-AA) in SAP-ERP, including its associated business benefits, and guides you through the considerable complexities of SAP-ERP configuration. Using FI-AA for fixed asset management enables you to manage assets in multinational companies across a broad range of industries and produce reports to meet various needs in line with legal requirements. Configuring SAP-ERP can be a daunting exercise, however, and there are few resources that address these issues. Asset Accounting Configuration in SAP ERP fills that resource gap by covering the major aspects of SAP FI-AA for anyone with SAP experience and the basic accounting knowledge and bookkeeping skills necessary to apply configuration. It provides configuration explanations in the simplest forms possible and provides step-by-step guidance with illustrations and practical examples. What you'll learn The details of the FI-AA syllabus How to configure FI-AA accounting in SAP How to integrate FI-AA accounting with other SAP modules How to transfer asset data How to prepare for startup and perform periodic processing Who this book is for The key target audience for this book includes SAP consultants, developers, accountants, support organizations and beginners. It is also a resourceful learning manual for universities and institutions whose curricula covers SAP-ERP Asset Accounting. Table of Contents Chapter 1 - Customizing Organizational Structures in SAP Asset Accounting (FI-AA) Chapter 2 - Integrating Asset Accounting with the General Ledger (FI-GL) Chapter 3 - Valuation of Fixed Assets Chapter 4 - Depreciation Chapter 5 - Special Valuation Chapter 6 - Customizing Master Data Chapter 7 - Customizing Transactions Chapter 8 - Customizing Validation and Substitution Chapter 9 - Reporting with Asset Accounting Chapter 10 - Transferring Asset Data Chapter 11 - Preparing for Production Startup Chapter 12 - Processing Periodic Programs Appendix A - Useful General Ledger Accounts Appendix B - Useful Transaction Codes
SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting Configuration: Learn Configuration and Development on an S/4 System
by Andrew OkungbowaUpgrade your knowledge to learn S/4HANA, the latest version of the SAP ERP system, with its built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics.Since the first edition of this book published as SAP ERP Financial and Controlling: Configuration and Use Management, the perspective has changed significantly as S/4HANA now comes with new features, such as FIORI (new GUI), which focuses on flexible app style development and interactivity with mobile phones. It also has a universal journal, which helps in data integration in a single location, such as centralized processing, and is faster than ECC S/3. It merges FI & CO efficiently, which enables document posting in the Controlling area setup. General Ledger Accounts (FI) and Cost Element (CO) are mapped together in a way that cost elements (both primary and secondary) are part of G/L accounts. And a mandatory setup of customer-vendor integration with business partners is included vs the earlier ECC creation with separate vendor master and customer master.This updated edition presents new features in SAP S/4HANA, with in-depth coverage of the FI syllabus in SAP S/4HANA. A practical and hands-on approach includes scenarios with real-life examples and practical illustrations. There is no unnecessary jargon in this configuration and end-user manual.What You Will LearnConfigure SAP FI as a pro in S/4Master core aspects of Financial Accounting and ControllingIntegrate SAP Financial with other SAP modulesGain a thorough hands-on experience with IMG (Implementation Guide)Understand and explain the functionalities of SAP FIWho This Book Is ForFI consultants, trainers, developers, accountants, and SAP FI support organizations will find the book an excellent reference guide. Beginners without prior FI configuration experience will find the step-by-step illustrations to be practical and great hands-on experience.
Magnetic Dynamics in Antiferromagnetically-Coupled Ferrimagnets: The Role of Angular Momentum (Springer Theses)
by Takaya OkunoThis book presents the theoretical and experimental investigations on antiferromagnetically coupled ferrimagnets and reveals new aspects of ferrimagnetic dynamics in terms of the role of angular momentum. The purpose of this book is to show readers that antiferromagnets/ferrimagnets are useful in spintronic devices in that (1) The nonadiabatic spintransfer torque in antiferromagnets acts as a staggered magnetic field, which can drive the magnetic domain walls, and (2) The Gilbert damping parameter α, the energy dissipation rate associated with the magnetic dynamics of ferrimagnets, is insensitive to temperature in contrast to the conventional understanding that the effective α of ferrimagnets diverges at the angular momentum compensation temperature. This book provides readers with a scientific platform of ferrimagnetic dynamics, which serves as a useful basis for realizing the next generation of spintronic devices.
Metaheuristic Optimization: Nature-Inspired Algorithms Swarm and Computational Intelligence, Theory and Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence #927)
by Modestus O. Okwu Lagouge K. TartibuThis book exemplifies how algorithms are developed by mimicking nature. Classical techniques for solving day-to-day problems is time-consuming and cannot address complex problems. Metaheuristic algorithms are nature-inspired optimization techniques for solving real-life complex problems. This book emphasizes the social behaviour of insects, animals and other natural entities, in terms of converging power and benefits. Major nature-inspired algorithms discussed in this book include the bee colony algorithm, ant colony algorithm, grey wolf optimization algorithm, whale optimization algorithm, firefly algorithm, bat algorithm, ant lion optimization algorithm, grasshopper optimization algorithm, butterfly optimization algorithm and others. The algorithms have been arranged in chapters to help readers gain better insight into nature-inspired systems and swarm intelligence. All the MATLAB codes have been provided in the appendices of the book to enable readers practice how to solve examples included in all sections. This book is for experts in Engineering and Applied Sciences, Natural and Formal Sciences, Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Beginning DevOps on AWS for iOS Development: Xcode, Jenkins, and Fastlane Integration on the Cloud
by Abdullahi OlaoyeApply the principles of DevOps in software development—automated builds, automated tests, and continuous deployment and delivery—to iOS application development on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. This book provides detailed walkthroughs and example source code is provided for the concepts discussed so you can put theory into practical application.You'll start by building a basic iOS application and then dive deep into key AWS Developer tools and services to see how they can be used in iOS application development. Then review the details of the integration of these fully managed AWS services with open-source tools such as Jenkins and Fastlane that allow developers to get the best of both worlds and further help to enhance and increase agility in the development lifecycle of iOS apps. You'll also investigate the Amazon EC2 Mac instance, which allows you to run XCode in a cloud environment for the first time to leverage the flexibility, elasticity, and scale of AWS. It also allows for seamless integration of XCode with fully managed AWS Services from source code control to application deployment. Finally, the book covers how a fully managed Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipeline can be used to orchestrate all the different components of iOS application development to achieve a fully automated development lifecycle. Get started building your iOS applications using a fully automated process on the AWS Cloud today!What You'll LearnBuild an iOS application using AWS DevOps tools Incorporate continuous deployment in your iOS application development Integrate AWS tooling with Xcode and open source tools such as Jenkins and FastlaneWho This Book Is ForiOS application developers wanting to incorporate DevOps and Cloud Architecture into their development process.
Kung Fu Hero and The Forbidden City: A ComedyShortsGamer Graphic Novel
by Deji Olatunji aka ComedyShortsGamerIT WAS ONLY MEANT TO BE A PRANK VIDEO...But now DEJI (AKA ComedyShortsGamer) has unleashed the forces of evil in Beijing's Forbidden City.Armed with nothing more than bravado and a talking dog, Deji must return a stolen dragon goblet to the tomb of the mighty Emperor before dawn, or face the end of the world!Standing in his way are gangs of triads, wild dog statues brought to life and skeleton ghosts, not to mention his startling ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.But if Deji is going to survive the night he must triumph over his greatest foe of all, his brother, KSI.Can Deji overcome years of being a slacker and become a kung fu hero to save a world? Join him on his hilarious quest to prove to his parents that a lifetime playing Tekken wasn't a waste of time.
Pro Team Foundation Service
by Mathias Olausson Joachim Rossberg Jakob Ehn Mattias SköldPro Team Foundation Service gives you a jump-start into Microsoft's cloud-based Application Lifecycle Management platform, taking you through the different stages of software development. Every project needs to plan, develop, test and release software and with agile practices often at a higher pace than ever before. Microsoft's Team Foundation Service is a cloud-based platform that gives you tools for agile planning and work tracking. It has a code repository that can be used not only from Visual Studio but from Java platforms and Mac OS X. The testing tools allow testers to start testing at the same time as developers start developing. The book also covers how to set up automated practices such as build, deploy and test workflows. This book: Takes you through the major stages in a software development project. Gives practical development guidance for the whole team. Enables you to quickly get started with modern development practices. With Microsoft Team Foundation Service comes a collaboration platform that gives you and your team the tools to better perform your tasks in a fully integrated way. What you'll learn What ALM is and what it can do for you. Leverage a cloud-based ALM platform for quick improvements in your development process. Improve your agile development process using integrated tools and practices. Develop automated build, deployment and testing processes. Integrate different development tools with one collaboration platform. Get started with ALM best-practices first time round. Who this book is for Pro Team Foundation Service is for any development team that wants to take their development practices to the next level. Microsoft Team Foundation Service is an excellent platform for managing the entire application development lifecycle and being a cloud-based offering it is very easy to get started. Pro Team Foundation Service is a great guide for anyone in a team who wants to get started with the service and wants to get expert guidance to do it right. Table of Contents Introduction to Application Lifecycle Management Introduction to Agile Planning, Development, and Testing Deciding on a Hosted Service Getting Started Working with the Initial Product Backlog Managing Team and Alerts Initial Sprint Planning Running the Sprint Kanban Engaging the Customer Choosing Source Control Options Working with Team Foundation Version Control in Visual Studio Working with Git in Visual Studio Working in Heterogeneous Environments Configuring Build Services Working with Builds Customizing Builds Continuous Deployment Agile Testing Test Management Lab Management
Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles
by Cristina Olaverri-Monreal Fernando García-Fernández Rosaldo J. F. RossettiHuman Factors in Intelligent Vehicles addresses issues related to the analysis of human factors in the design and evaluation of intelligent vehicles for a wide spectrum of applications and over different dimensions. To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the IEEE ITS Workshop on Human Factors (http://hfiv.net) some recent works of authors active in the automotive human factors community have been collected in this book.Enclosed here are extended versions of papers and tutorials that were presented at the IEEE ITSS Workshop on “Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles” and also included is additional deeper analysis along with detailed experimental and simulation results.The contributors cover autonomous vehicles as well as the frameworks for analyzing automation, modelling and methods for road users’ interaction such as intelligent user interfaces, including brain-computer interfaces and simulation and analysis tools related to human factors.
Model Checking, Synthesis, and Learning: Essays Dedicated to Bengt Jonsson on The Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13030)
by Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog Bernhard Steffen Wang YiThis Festschrift, dedicated to Bengt Jonsson on the occasion of his 60th birthday, contains papers written by many of his friends and collaborators.Bengt has made major contributions covering a wide range of topics including verification and learning. His works on verification, in finite state systems, learning, testing, probabilistic systems, timed systems, and distributed systems reflect both the diversity and the depth of his research. Besides being an excellent scientist, Bengt is also a leader who has greatly influenced the careers of both his students and his colleagues. His main focus throughout his career has been in the area of formal methods, and the research papers dedicated to him in this volume address related topics, particularly related to model checking, temporal logic, and automata learning.
An Atlas of Functions: with Equator, the Atlas Function Calculator
by Keith B. Oldham Jerome Spanier Jan MylandThis second edition of An Atlas of Functions, with Equator, the Atlas Function Calculator, provides comprehensive information on several hundred functions or function families, of interest to all those scientists, engineers and mathematicians who are concerned with the quantitative aspects of their field. Beginning with simple integer-valued functions, the book progresses to polynomials, exponential, trigonometric, Bessel, and hypergeometric functions, as well as many more. The 65 chapters are arranged roughly in order of increasing complexity, mathematical sophistication being kept to a minimum while utility is stressed throughout. In addition to providing definitions and simple properties for every function, each chapter catalogs more complex interrelationships as well as the derivatives, integrals, Laplace transforms and other characteristics of the function. Numerous color figures in 2 or 3 dimensions depict their shape and qualitative features and flesh out the reader's familiarity with the functions. In many instances, the chapter concludes with a concise exposition on a topic in applied mathematics associated with the particular function or function family. Features that make the Atlas an invaluable reference tool, yet simple to use, include: full coverage of those functions--elementary and "special"--that meet everyday needsa standardized chapter format, making it easy to locate needed information on such aspects as: nomenclature, general behavior, definitions, intrarelationships, expansions, approximations, limits, and response to operations of the calculusextensive cross-referencing and comprehensive indexing, with useful appendicesthe inclusion of innovative software--Equator, the Atlas Function Calculatorthe inclusion of new material dealing with interesting applications of many of the function families, building upon the favorable responses to similar material in the first edition.
Impact of P2P and Free Distribution on Book Sales
by Brian O'LearyBook publishers have long used free content as part of their marketing and selling efforts, with the vast majority of free content distributed in printed form. Digital distribution of free material, either intentional or via unauthorized availability through peer-to-peer sites and other Web outlets, offers a fast and expansive connection to consumers, but content can also be copied and disseminated without publishers' control. Some publishers are torn between the efficiencies digital distribution provides and concerns over piracy and print-sale cannibalization. This research report is part of an ongoing effort by O'Reilly Media Inc. and Random House to test assumptions about free distribution, P2P availability and their potential impact on book sales.
Cyber Operations
by Mike O'LearyCyber Operations walks you through all the processes to set up, defend, and attack computer networks. This book focuses on networks and real attacks, offers extensive coverage of offensive and defensive techniques, and is supported by a rich collection of exercises and resources.You'll learn how to configure your network from the ground up, starting by setting up your virtual test environment with basics like DNS and active directory, through common network services, and ending with complex web applications involving web servers and backend databases.Key defensive techniques are integrated throughout the exposition. You will develop situational awareness of your network and will build a complete defensive infrastructure—including log servers, network firewalls, web application firewalls, and intrusion detection systems.Of course, you cannot truly understand how to defend a network if you do not know how to attack it, so you will attack your test systems in a variety of ways beginning with elementary attacks against browsers and culminating with a case study of the compromise of a defended e-commerce site.The author, who has coached his university’s cyber defense team three times to the finals of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, provides a practical, hands-on approach to cyber security.
Computing Essentials 2013 Introductory Edition: Make IT Work for You
by Timothy J. O'Leary Linda I. O'LearyComputing Essentials 2013 allows you to Make IT Work for You through relevant Explorations, Ethics and Environment themes throughout each chapter.
Microsoft Office 2010: A Case Approach (Introductory Edition)
by Timothy J. O'Leary Linda I. O'Leary"Timothy and Linda O'Leary and the Computer Information Technology Team at McGraw-Hill Higher Education offer your students a fully integrated learning program with time-tested quality and reliability. Office 2010: A Case Approach offers running case study throughout the text to help students understand the material in a consistent, relevant environment. Through this theme of "Making Office Relevant," this text helps students understand why they need this course and these skills. Updated for Office 2010, student success is assured through clear step-by-step instruction, plentiful screen captures and conceptual explanations. Each Lab, designed to be covered in 1 hour of class time, combines conceptual coverage with detailed software-specific instructions. Each Lab opens with a running case study that highlights real-world applications of each software program and leads students from problem to solution. Moreover, 25-50% of all end of chapter exercises are completely new. The O'Leary Series helps students learn specific applications skills along with those that cross all Office applications, which is especially important in mastering this version of Office. The O'Leary Series also correlates with SimNet Online, our online training and assessment program for Office 2010"-- "As we begin the 21st century, computer literacy is undoubtedly becoming a prerequisite in whatever career you choose. The goal of the O'Leary Series is to provide you with the necessary skills to efficiently use these applications. Equally important is the goal to provide a foundation for students to readily and easily learn to use future versions of this software. This series does this by providing detailed step-by-step instructions combined with careful selection and presentation of essential concepts. Times are changing, technology is changing, and this text is changing too. As students of today, you are different from those of yesterday. You put much effort toward the things that interest you and the things that are relevant to you. Your efforts directed at learning application programs and exploring the Web seem, at times, limitless. On the other hand, students often can be shortsighted, thinking that learning the skills to use the application is the only objective. The mission of the series is to build upon and extend this interest by not only teaching the specific application skills but by introducing the concepts that are common to all applications, providing students with the confidence, knowledge, and ability to easily learn the next generation of applications.
Computing Essentials 2019
by Timothy O'Leary Linda O'Leary Daniel O'LearyThe rate of change in the digital information age is clearly increasing, and computer literacy is becoming a prerequisite. The goal of the 27th edition of Computing Essentials is to provide students with an introductory understanding of the concepts necessary for success and to instill an appreciation for the effect of information technology on people, privacy, ethics, and our environment. Today's students put much effort toward the things that are relevant to them, yet it is sometimes difficult to engage them in other equally important topics like personal privacy and technological advances. <p><p> Each chapter highlights a most promising career in IT—including webmaster, software engineer, and database administrator—by presenting job titles, responsibilities, educational requirements, and salary ranges. Students see the material relate directly to potential career paths. <p> Each chapter describes how its content is relevant to students' lives today and critical to their future. Each chapter presents practical tips related to key concepts through the demonstration of interesting and relevant applications. Topics presented focus first on outputs rather than processes and then dive into the concepts and processes.
Dynamic Management of Sustainable Development
by Irina Oleinikova Anna Mutule Yuri Merkuryev Zigurds KrishansDynamic management of systems development is a precondition for the realization of sustainable system development. This approach allows for the usage of systems theory methods that take into consideration the interaction of decisions made over time and space. A characteristic feature of this kind of method is that the process of sophisticated object development over time is examined for optimal decision selection. This requires the application of modelling methods that represent properties of the developing objects, high speed calculation methods for the estimation of technical and economic characteristics, as well as effective optimization methods. Dynamic Management of Sustainable Development presents a concise summary of the authors' research in the area of dynamic methods analysis of technical systems development. Along with systematic illustration of mathematical methods, considerable attention is drawn to practical realization and applications. Dynamic Management of Sustainable Development will be helpful for scientists involved in the mathematical modelling of large technical systems development and for engineers working in the area of large technical systems planning.
VoIP Deployment For Dummies
by Stephen P. OlejniczakSo you're in charge of implementing a VoIP phone system for your organization? VoIP Deployment For Dummies is a crash course in Voice over Internet Protocol implementation!Here's how to analyze your network and implement a VoIP phone system, manage and maintain it, keep it secure, and troubleshoot problems. You'll learn how to plan the rollout, work with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), handle fax issues, and keep your users happy.Understand how VoIP works, common misconceptions about it, and the pros and cons for your organizationCompare and comprehend hardware and software choicesDiscover the options for touch tones and faxing via VoIP systemsAnalyze network devices, IP addresses, connections to remote sites, and other aspects that will affect VoIP implementationDraw up a test plan, check out both voice and fax transmission, get a report, and schedule the installationInvestigate SIP call generation, identify the elements, understand cancelled calls, and re-INVITE callsTroubleshoot your system, identify call variables, trace the source of a problem, manage trouble tickets, and resolve failuresManage latency, jitter, and flap, and take advantage of WiresharkFind out what to expect when your system goes liveWritten by an expert with extensive real-world experience in VoIP implementation and management, VoIP Deployment For Dummies provides the know-how you need. You'll be able to implement your system and manage any issues proactively, which is sure to look good to your boss!
Philosophy of Cybersecurity
by Lukasz Olejnik Artur KurasińskiTechnology and digitization are a great social good. But they also involve risks and threats. Cybersecurity is not just a matter of data or computer security; cybersecurity is about the security of society. Why "Philosophy"? To understand how to reason and think about threats and cybersecurity in today’s and tomorrow’s world, this book is necessary to equip readers with awareness. Philosophy of Cybersecurity is about the user’s perspective, but also about system issues. This is a book for everyone—a wide audience. Experts, academic lecturers, as well as students of technical fields such as computer science and social sciences will find the content interesting. This includes areas like international relations, diplomacy, strategy, and security studies. Cybersecurity is also a matter of state strategy and policy. The clarity and selection of broad material presented here may make this book the first book on cybersecurity you’ll understand. It considers such detailed basics as, for example, what a good password is and, more importantly, why it is considered so today. But the book is also about systemic issues, such as healthcare cybersecurity (challenges, why is it so difficult to secure, could people die as a result of cyberattacks?), critical infrastructure (can a cyberattack destroy elements of a power system?), and States (have they already been hacked?). Cyberspace is not a "grey zone" without rules. This book logically explains what cyberwar is, whether it threatens us, and under what circumstances cyberattacks could lead to war. The chapter on cyberwar is relevant because of the war in Ukraine. The problem of cyberwar in the war in Ukraine is analytically and expertly explained. The rank and importance of these activities are explained, also against the background of broader military activities. The approach we propose treats cybersecurity very broadly. This book discusses technology, but also ranges to international law, diplomacy, military, and security matters, as they pertain to conflicts, geopolitics, political science, and international relations.
Advances in Optimization and Applications: 14th International Conference, OPTIMA 2023, Petrovac, Montenegro, September 18–22, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1913)
by Nicholas Olenev Yuri Evtushenko Milojica Jaćimović Michael Khachay Vlasta MalkovaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2023, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, during September 18–22, 2023.The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: mathematical programming; global optimization; continuous optimization; discrete and combinatorial optimization; optimal control; game theory and mathematical economics; optimization in economics and finance; and applications.
Optimization and Applications: 14th International Conference, OPTIMA 2023, Petrovac, Montenegro, September 18–22, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14395)
by Nicholas Olenev Yuri Evtushenko Milojica Jaćimović Michael Khachay Vlasta MalkovaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2023, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, during September 18–22, 2023.The 27 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: mathematical programming; global optimization; discrete and combinatorial optimization; game theory and mathematical economics; optimization in economics and finance; and applications.
Advances in Optimization and Applications: 11th International Conference, OPTIMA 2020, Moscow, Russia, September 28 – October 2, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1340)
by Nicholas Olenev Yuri Evtushenko Michael Khachay Vlasta MalkovaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2020, held in September – October 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized intopical sections on global optimization; combinatorial and discrete optimization; optimal control; optimization in economy, finance and social sciences; applications.