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Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and the Emerging Powers
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines changing international dynamics through the lens of some of the leading think tanks from the emerging powers in the world. Through twelve case studies, the authors explore how security and international ... -
China’s state enterprises: changing role in a rapidly transforming economy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book focuses on the nature and significance of China’s state enterprises which have undergone substantial changes since China’s economic liberalization in 1978. It argues that much of the criticism is based on mistaken ... -
Risking Antimicrobial Resistance: A collection of one-health studies of antibiotics and its social and health consequences
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century. In this context, understanding the reasons why perceptions of antibiotic risk differ between ... -
Independent Television Production in the UK: From Cottage Industry to Big Business
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is the first authoritative account of the UK’s independent television production sector, following the creation of Channel 4 in 1982. It examines the rise of a global industry, increasingly interconnected through ... -
Posthuman Pedagogies in Practice: Arts based Approaches for Developing Participatory Futures
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book investigates transdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to developing innovative and pertinent higher education pedagogy. Introducing timely critical thinking strategies, the author addresses some of the key issues ... -
Corruption and Norms: Why Informal Rules Matter
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption. It conceives corruption as a ubiquitous problem, constructed by specific traditions, values, norms and institutions. ... -
Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things: International Workshop, FP7 OpenIoT Project, Held in Conjunction with SoftCOM 2014, Split, Croatia, September 18, 2014, Invited Papers
(Springer International Publishing, 2015)This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things, FP7 OpenIot Project, held in Conjunction ... -
Advances onto the Internet of Things: How Ontologies Make the Internet of Things Meaningful
(Springer International Publishing, 2014)The title of this book is a pun on the use of the preposition “onto” with the aim of recalling “Ontology”, the term commonly adopted in the computer science community to indicate the study of the formal specification for ... -
SemProM: Foundations of Semantic Product Memories for the Internet of Things
(Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)The development of low-cost, compact digital storage, sensors and radio modules allows us to embed digital memories into products to record key events. Such computationally enhanced products can perceive and control their ... -
Architecting the Internet of Things
(Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011)Many of the initial developments towards the Internet of Things have focused on the combination of Auto-ID and networked infrastructures in business-to-business logistics and product lifecycle applications. However, the ... -
Smart Cities: The Internet of Things, People and Systems
(Springer International Publishing, 2017)This book presents a coherent, novel vision of Smart Cities, built around a value-driven architecture. It describes the limitations of the contemporary notion of the Smart City and argues that the next developmental step ... -
Program the Internet of Things with Swift for iOS: Learn How to Program Apps for the Internet of Things
(Apress, 2018)With this book, you will learn how to build apps and hardware for the Internet of Things, using Apple's native APIs and industry standard protocols like Bluetooth and HTTPS. You'll start out learning how to access the ... -
Artificial Intelligence Methods And Tools For Systems Biology
(Springer Netherlands, 2004)This book provides simultaneously a design blueprint, user guide, research agenda, and communication platform for current and future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to systems biology. It places an ... -
Python Programming for Arduino: Develop practical Internet of Things prototypes and applications with Arduino and Python
(Packt Publishing, 2015)The future belongs to applications and services that involve connected devices, requiring physical components to communicate with web-level applications. Arduino combined with the popular open source software platform ... -
Artificial Intelligence Illuminated
(Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2004)Intended for computer science students, this textbook explains current efforts to use algorithms, heuristics, and methodologies based on the ways in which the human brain solves problems in the fields of machine learning, ... -
The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma
(Oxford University Press, USA, 2004)Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal ... -
Handbook of Constraint Programming
(Elsevier, 2006)Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations ... -
Data Mining In Time Series Databases
(World Scientific, 2004)Adding the time dimension to real-world databases produces TimeSeries Databases (TSDB) and introduces new aspects and difficultiesto data mining and knowledge discovery. This book covers thestate-of-the-art methodology for ... -
Robust Range Image Registration Using Genetic Algorithms And The Surface Interpenetration Measure
(World Scientific Publishing Company, 2004)This book addresses the range image registration problem for automatic 3D model construction. The focus is on obtaining highly precise alignments between different view pairs of the same object to avoid 3D model distortions ... -
Machine Learning and Its Applications: Advanced Lectures
(Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2001)In recent years machine learning has made its way from artificial intelligence into areas of administration, commerce, and industry. Data mining is perhaps the most widely known demonstration of this migration, complemented ...
