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Serverless Machine Learning with Amazon Redshift ML

Create, train, and deploy machine learning models using familiar SQL commands

by Debu Panda, Phil Bates, Bhanu Pittampally, Sumeet Joshi ...

Supercharge and deploy Amazon Redshift Serverless, train and deploy machine learning models using Amazon Redshift ML, and run inference queries at scaleKey FeaturesLeverage supervised learning to build binary classification, multi-class classification, and regression modelsLearn to use unsupervised learning using the K-means clustering methodMaster the art of time series forecasting using Redshift ... Read more

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Supercharge and deploy Amazon Redshift Serverless, train and deploy machine learning models using Amazon Redshift ML, and run inference queries at scaleKey FeaturesLeverage supervised learning to build binary classification, multi-class classification, and regression modelsLearn to use unsupervised learning using the K-means clustering methodMaster the art of time series forecasting using Redshift
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Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation

Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Aspects of Transportation, July 25-29, 2021, USA

Edited by Neville Stanton ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book discusses the latest advances in the research and development, design, operation, and analysis of transportation systems, including road, rail, aviation, aerospace and maritime as well as their supporting systems and infrastructure. Focusing specifically on the contributions made by human factors and ergonomics, it analyses a wealth of topics, methods and technologies associated to ... Read more

$242.99 USD

This book discusses the latest advances in the research and development, design, operation, and analysis of transportation systems, including road, rail, aviation, aerospace and maritime as well as their supporting systems and infrastructure. Focusing specifically on the contributions made by human factors and ergonomics, it analyses a wealth of topics, methods and technologies associated to
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Inclusive Robotics for a Better Society

Selected Papers from INBOTS Conference 2018, 16-18 October, 2018, Pisa, Italy

Edited by José L. Pons ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
The book reports on advanced topics in interactive robotics research and practice; in particular, it addresses non-technical obstacles to the broadest uptake of these technologies. It focuses on new technologies that can physically and cognitively interact with humans, including neural interfaces, soft wearable robots, and sensor and actuator technologies; further, it discusses important ... Read more

$188.99 USD

The book reports on advanced topics in interactive robotics research and practice; in particular, it addresses non-technical obstacles to the broadest uptake of these technologies. It focuses on new technologies that can physically and cognitively interact with humans, including neural interfaces, soft wearable robots, and sensor and actuator technologies; further, it discusses important
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UI5 User Guide

How to develop responsive data-centric client web applications

by Carsten Heinrigs ...

The UI5 User Guide gets the reader started quickly with OpenUI5/SAPUI5 development. Step by step, it shows how to develop a basic client web application, introducing concepts and flow of developing with UI5 along the way. You can reuse the resulting code as a template for any serious UI5 application.After getting started, the main content of the book is divided into three parts:The first part of ... Read more

$28.99 USD

The UI5 User Guide gets the reader started quickly with OpenUI5/SAPUI5 development. Step by step, it shows how to develop a basic client web application, introducing concepts and flow of developing with UI5 along the way. You can reuse the resulting code as a template for any serious UI5 application.After getting started, the main content of the book is divided into three parts:The first part of
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Building an Intuitive Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home

Hunting the SNARK

by John N.A Brown, Gerhard Leitner, Anton Josef Fercher ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book describes an innovative approach to the interaction between humans and a smart environment; an attempt to get a smart home to understand intuitive, multi-modal, human-centred communication. State of the art smart homes, like other “smart” technology, tend to demand that the human user must adapt herself to the needs of the system. The hunt for a truly user-centred, truly intuitive system ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book describes an innovative approach to the interaction between humans and a smart environment; an attempt to get a smart home to understand intuitive, multi-modal, human-centred communication. State of the art smart homes, like other “smart” technology, tend to demand that the human user must adapt herself to the needs of the system. The hunt for a truly user-centred, truly intuitive system
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Automated Web Site Evaluation

Researchers’ and Practioners’ Perspectives

by M.Y. Ivory ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Among all information systems that are nowadays available, web sites are definitely the ones having the widest potential audience and the most significant impact on the everyday life of people. Web sites contribute largely to the information society: they provide visitors with a large array of services and information and allow them to perform various tasks without prior assumptions about their ... Read more

$89.99 USD

Among all information systems that are nowadays available, web sites are definitely the ones having the widest potential audience and the most significant impact on the everyday life of people. Web sites contribute largely to the information society: they provide visitors with a large array of services and information and allow them to perform various tasks without prior assumptions about their
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精通Spark数据科学

Chinese Edition

by Posts & Telecom Press, Andrew Morgan, Antoine Amend, David George, Matthew Hallett ...

用Spark构建商业级数据科学解决方案Key Features通过一系列典型的案例讲解，由浅入深使用Spark构建商业级数据科学解决方案Book DescriptionApache Spark是专为大规模数据处理而设计的快速通用的计算引擎。这是一本专门介绍Spark的图书，旨在教会读者利用Spark构建实用的数据科学解决方案。本书内容包括14章，由浅入深地介绍了数据科学生态系统、数据获取、输入格式与模式、探索性数据分析、利用Spark进行地理分析、采集基于链接的外部数据、构建社区、构建推荐系统、新闻词典和实时标记系统、故事除重和变迁、情感分析中的异常检测、趋势演算、数据保护和可扩展算法。本书适合数据科学家以及对数据科学、机器学习感兴趣的读者阅读，需要读者具备数据科学相关的基础知识，并通过阅读本书进一步提升Spark运用能力，从而创建出高效且实用的数据科学解决方案。What you ... Read more

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用Spark构建商业级数据科学解决方案Key Features通过一系列典型的案例讲解，由浅入深使用Spark构建商业级数据科学解决方案Book DescriptionApache Spark是专为大规模数据处理而设计的快速通用的计算引擎。这是一本专门介绍Spark的图书，旨在教会读者利用Spark构建实用的数据科学解决方案。本书内容包括14章，由浅入深地介绍了数据科学生态系统、数据获取、输入格式与模式、探索性数据分析、利用Spark进行地理分析、采集基于链接的外部数据、构建社区、构建推荐系统、新闻词典和实时标记系统、故事除重和变迁、情感分析中的异常检测、趋势演算、数据保护和可扩展算法。本书适合数据科学家以及对数据科学、机器学习感兴趣的读者阅读，需要读者具备数据科学相关的基础知识，并通过阅读本书进一步提升Spark运用能力，从而创建出高效且实用的数据科学解决方案。What you
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HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems

6th International Conference, MobiTAS 2024, Held as Part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024, Washington, DC, USA, June 29–July 4, 2024, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Heidi Krömker ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2024, held as part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024, which took place in Washington, DC, USA, during June 29-July 4, 2024.The total of 1271 papers and 309 posters included in the HCII 2024 proceedings was carefully reviewed and ... Read more

$170.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2024, held as part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024, which took place in Washington, DC, USA, during June 29-July 4, 2024.The total of 1271 papers and 309 posters included in the HCII 2024 proceedings was carefully reviewed and
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Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction

10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems

Edited by Erik Marchi, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Sandro Cumani, Valerio Mario Salerno, Haizhou Li ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to language and context understanding, and dialogue management, as well as human–robot interaction, conversational agents, question answering and lifelong learning for dialogue systems. ... Read more

$170.99 USD

This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to language and context understanding, and dialogue management, as well as human–robot interaction, conversational agents, question answering and lifelong learning for dialogue systems.
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Concurrency, Security, and Puzzles

Essays Dedicated to Andrew William Roscoe on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

Edited by Thomas Gibson-Robinson, Philippa Hopcroft, Ranko Lazić ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This festschrift was written in honor of Andrew William (Bill) Roscoe on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and features tributes by Sir Tony Hoare, Stephen Brookes, and Michael Wooldridge. Bill Roscoe is an international authority in process algebra, and has been the driving force behind the development of the FDR refinement checker for CSP. He is also world renowned for his pioneering work in ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This festschrift was written in honor of Andrew William (Bill) Roscoe on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and features tributes by Sir Tony Hoare, Stephen Brookes, and Michael Wooldridge. Bill Roscoe is an international authority in process algebra, and has been the driving force behind the development of the FDR refinement checker for CSP. He is also world renowned for his pioneering work in
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R Data Science Quick Reference

A Pocket Guide to APIs, Libraries, and Packages

by Thomas Mailund ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
In this handy, practical book you will cover each concept concisely, with many illustrative examples. You'll be introduced to several R data science packages, with examples of how to use each of them.In this book, you’ll learn about the following APIs and packages that deal specifically with data science applications: readr, dibble, forecasts, lubridate, stringr, tidyr, magnittr, dplyr, purrr, ... Read more

$40.99 USD

In this handy, practical book you will cover each concept concisely, with many illustrative examples. You'll be introduced to several R data science packages, with examples of how to use each of them.In this book, you’ll learn about the following APIs and packages that deal specifically with data science applications: readr, dibble, forecasts, lubridate, stringr, tidyr, magnittr, dplyr, purrr,
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Design for Ergonomics

by Francesca Tosi ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book focuses on the global quality of the design of systems that people interact with during their work activities and daily lives; a quality that involves the globality of people’s experience – physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional. It presents a concise and structured overview of the ergonomic approach to planning, and of methodological and operational tools from ergonomic research ... Read more

$58.99 USD

This book focuses on the global quality of the design of systems that people interact with during their work activities and daily lives; a quality that involves the globality of people’s experience – physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional. It presents a concise and structured overview of the ergonomic approach to planning, and of methodological and operational tools from ergonomic research
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Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

by Sergey Kosarevsky, Viktor Latypov ...

A systematic guide consisting of over 70 recipes which focus on helping you build portable mobile games and aims to enhance your game development skills with clear instructions.If you are a C++ developer who wants to jump into the world of Android game development and who wants to use the power of existing C++ libraries in your existing Android Java applications, then this book is for you. You ... Read more

$27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A systematic guide consisting of over 70 recipes which focus on helping you build portable mobile games and aims to enhance your game development skills with clear instructions.If you are a C++ developer who wants to jump into the world of Android game development and who wants to use the power of existing C++ libraries in your existing Android Java applications, then this book is for you. You
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Design Thinking und Scrum im Einklang

Die Kraft der Kombination

by Franka S. Hofer ...

Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt von Design Thinking und Scrum und lernen Sie, wie Sie diese beiden leistungsstarken Methoden erfolgreich kombinieren können. Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen ein umfassendes Verständnis der Grundprinzipien, Modelle und Methoden und zeigt auf, wie Sie die Stärken beider Ansätze optimal nutzen können. Anhand von Fallstudien werden die Theorien in den praktischen Kontext gestellt, ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt von Design Thinking und Scrum und lernen Sie, wie Sie diese beiden leistungsstarken Methoden erfolgreich kombinieren können. Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen ein umfassendes Verständnis der Grundprinzipien, Modelle und Methoden und zeigt auf, wie Sie die Stärken beider Ansätze optimal nutzen können. Anhand von Fallstudien werden die Theorien in den praktischen Kontext gestellt,
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Emotional Design in Human-Robot Interaction

Theory, Methods and Applications

Edited by Hande Ayanoğlu, Emília Duarte ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
While social robots participation increases in everyday human life, their presence in diverse contexts and situations is expected. At the same point, users tend to become more demanding regarding their roles, abilities, behaviour and appearance. Thus, designers and developers are confronted with the need to design more sophisticated robots that can produce such a positive reaction from users so as ... Read more

$152.99 USD

While social robots participation increases in everyday human life, their presence in diverse contexts and situations is expected. At the same point, users tend to become more demanding regarding their roles, abilities, behaviour and appearance. Thus, designers and developers are confronted with the need to design more sophisticated robots that can produce such a positive reaction from users so as
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Next Generation Internet

The Merging of Reality and Virtuality in the Metaverse

by Peter Hoffmann ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The development of the internet, particularly the World Wide Web, is currently hitting its limits—both technically and socio-culturally, as well as economically. A new internet is promised as a solution, one that aims to overcome the boundaries between the real and the virtual world, merging reality and digitality—the metaverse. Technical, semantic, and organizational details are closely ... Read more

$58.99 USD

The development of the internet, particularly the World Wide Web, is currently hitting its limits—both technically and socio-culturally, as well as economically. A new internet is promised as a solution, one that aims to overcome the boundaries between the real and the virtual world, merging reality and digitality—the metaverse. Technical, semantic, and organizational details are closely
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Simulating Crowds in Egress Scenarios

by Soraia R. Musse, Vinícius J. Cassol, Norman I Badler, Cláudio R. Jung ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book describes, from a computer science viewpoint the software, methods of simulating and analysing crowds with a particular focus on the effects of panic in emergency situations.The power of modern technology impacts on modern life in multiple ways every day. A variety of scientific models and computational tools have been developed to improve human safety and comfort in built environments. ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book describes, from a computer science viewpoint the software, methods of simulating and analysing crowds with a particular focus on the effects of panic in emergency situations.The power of modern technology impacts on modern life in multiple ways every day. A variety of scientific models and computational tools have been developed to improve human safety and comfort in built environments.
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NASA Formal Methods

8th International Symposium, NFM 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 7-9, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Sanjai Rayadurgam, Oksana Tkachuk ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2016, held in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in June 2016.The 19 full and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: requirements and architectures; testing and run-time enforcement; theorem proving ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2016, held in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in June 2016.The 19 full and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: requirements and architectures; testing and run-time enforcement; theorem proving
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Tests and Proofs

14th International Conference, TAP 2020, Held as Part of STAF 2020, Bergen, Norway, June 22–23, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Wolfgang Ahrendt, Heike Wehrheim ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Tests and Proofs, TAP 2020, held as part of the 4th World Congress on Formal Methods 2020, Bergen, Norway, in June 2020.The 7 regular papers, 1 short paper and 2 demonstration papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 209 submissions. The TAP conference promotes research in ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Tests and Proofs, TAP 2020, held as part of the 4th World Congress on Formal Methods 2020, Bergen, Norway, in June 2020.The 7 regular papers, 1 short paper and 2 demonstration papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 209 submissions. The TAP conference promotes research in
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Still Room for Humans

Career Planning in an AI World

by Stan Schatt ...

Don’t let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need in order to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to:make yourself indispensable to your company,develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match,collaborate with robots,retool your skills without going back to school.You will also learn which tradi... ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Don’t let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need in order to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to:make yourself indispensable to your company,develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match,collaborate with robots,retool your skills without going back to school.You will also learn which tradi...
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The Overrated Machine An Inquiry Into Human Genius and Artificial Imitation

by Jawanna Dean ...

Artificial intelligence has been marketed as the next great evolutionary leap, a force capable of outthinking and eventually replacing the human mind. But when placed under sustained creative and intellectual pressure, its limits become undeniable. Jawanna Dean, one of the most prolific writers of the modern era, entered the world of AI with an extraordinary goal—to produce one thousand books in ... Read more

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Artificial intelligence has been marketed as the next great evolutionary leap, a force capable of outthinking and eventually replacing the human mind. But when placed under sustained creative and intellectual pressure, its limits become undeniable. Jawanna Dean, one of the most prolific writers of the modern era, entered the world of AI with an extraordinary goal—to produce one thousand books in
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Socially Aware and Responsible AI Applications

Edited by Anna Esposito, Antonietta Maria Esposito, Antonio Perna, Lakhmi C. Jain ...

Series series Artificial Intelligence (R0)
This book will cover theoretical and practical applications of socially engaging interactive systems either as virtual agents, or chatbots (intended as conversational voice interfaces), or robots physically occupying user’s space. Theoretical determinants affecting user’s intentions to use and accepts such systems will be considered such as user’s social influence, accomplishments of important ... Read more

$197.99 USD

This book will cover theoretical and practical applications of socially engaging interactive systems either as virtual agents, or chatbots (intended as conversational voice interfaces), or robots physically occupying user’s space. Theoretical determinants affecting user’s intentions to use and accepts such systems will be considered such as user’s social influence, accomplishments of important
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Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack

Expert techniques to integrate machine learning with distributed search and analytics

by Rich Collier, Bahaaldine Azarmi ...

Leverage Elastic Stack's machine learning features to gain valuable insight from your dataKey FeaturesCombine machine learning with the analytic capabilities of Elastic StackAnalyze large volumes of search data and gain actionable insight from themUse external analytical tools with your Elastic Stack to improve its performanceBook DescriptionMachine Learning with the Elastic Stack is a ... Read more

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Leverage Elastic Stack's machine learning features to gain valuable insight from your dataKey FeaturesCombine machine learning with the analytic capabilities of Elastic StackAnalyze large volumes of search data and gain actionable insight from themUse external analytical tools with your Elastic Stack to improve its performanceBook DescriptionMachine Learning with the Elastic Stack is a
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Java üben mit dem Plotter

Ein Überblick für Studierende und Einsteiger

by Stephan Euler ...

Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
Dieses essential zeigt, wie man in Java-Anwendungen mit dem Plotter grafische Darstellungen erzeugen kann. Mit dem Plotter-Objekt – angelehnt an den Stiftplotter, der sich mit Steuerbefehlen über Papier bewegt – wird eine einfache Schnittstelle zur grafischen Programmierung angeboten. Bereits beim Einstieg in die Programmierung entstehen so erste grafische Darstellungen wie z.B. Funktionsverläufe ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Dieses essential zeigt, wie man in Java-Anwendungen mit dem Plotter grafische Darstellungen erzeugen kann. Mit dem Plotter-Objekt – angelehnt an den Stiftplotter, der sich mit Steuerbefehlen über Papier bewegt – wird eine einfache Schnittstelle zur grafischen Programmierung angeboten. Bereits beim Einstieg in die Programmierung entstehen so erste grafische Darstellungen wie z.B. Funktionsverläufe
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