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Reversible Computation

9th International Conference, RC 2017, Kolkata, India, July 6-7, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Hafizur Rahaman, Iain Phillips ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Reversible Computation, RC 2017, held in Kolkata, India, in July 2017.The 13 full and 5 short papers included in this volume together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: foundations; reversible circuit ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Reversible Computation, RC 2017, held in Kolkata, India, in July 2017.The 13 full and 5 short papers included in this volume together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: foundations; reversible circuit
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Intelligent Human Computer Interaction

8th International Conference, IHCI 2016, Pilani, India, December 12-13, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Anupam Basu, Sukhendu Das, Patrick Horain, Samit Bhattacharya ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2016, held in Pilani, India, in December 2016. The 22 regular papers and 3 abstracts of invited talks included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 initial submissions. They deal with intelligent interfaces; brain machine interaction; HCI applications ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2016, held in Pilani, India, in December 2016. The 22 regular papers and 3 abstracts of invited talks included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 initial submissions. They deal with intelligent interfaces; brain machine interaction; HCI applications
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Aerospike: Up and Running

Developing on a Modern Operational Database for Globally Distributed Apps

by V. Srinivasan, Tim Faulkes, Albert Autin, Paige Roberts ...

If you're a developer looking to build a distributed, resilient, scalable, high-performance application, you may be evaluating distributed SQL and NoSQL solutions. Perhaps you're considering the Aerospike database.This practical book shows developers, architects, and engineers how to get the highly scalable and extremely low-latency Aerospike database up and running. You will learn how to power ... Read more

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If you're a developer looking to build a distributed, resilient, scalable, high-performance application, you may be evaluating distributed SQL and NoSQL solutions. Perhaps you're considering the Aerospike database.This practical book shows developers, architects, and engineers how to get the highly scalable and extremely low-latency Aerospike database up and running. You will learn how to power
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Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#

Practical Testing Solutions for Selenium WebDriver

by Courtney Zhan ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Solve your Selenium WebDriver problems with this quick guide to automated testing of web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#. This third editioncontains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects.Updated to Selenium version 4, this revision includes Visual Studio Code set up, additional ... Read more

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Solve your Selenium WebDriver problems with this quick guide to automated testing of web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#. This third editioncontains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects.Updated to Selenium version 4, this revision includes Visual Studio Code set up, additional
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Human Perception of Visual Information

Psychological and Computational Perspectives

Edited by Bogdan Ionescu, Wilma A. Bainbridge, Naila Murray ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Recent years have witnessed important advancements in our understanding of the psychological underpinnings of subjective properties of visual information, such as aesthetics, memorability, or induced emotions. Concurrently, computational models of objective visual properties such as semantic labelling and geometric relationships have made significant breakthroughs using the latest achievements in ... Read more

$179.99 USD

Recent years have witnessed important advancements in our understanding of the psychological underpinnings of subjective properties of visual information, such as aesthetics, memorability, or induced emotions. Concurrently, computational models of objective visual properties such as semantic labelling and geometric relationships have made significant breakthroughs using the latest achievements in
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225 AI Powered Prompts : Boost Your Business with Digital Products, Landing Pages, and Social Media Ideas

by Prabhakar Veeraraghavan ...

225 AI-Powered Prompts Boost Your Business with Digital Products, Landing Pages, and Social Media Ideas!!Unlock the Power of AI to Transform Your Business!Are you ready to supercharge your business with the limitless potential of AI? "225 AI Powered Prompts: Boost Your Business with Digital Products, Landing Pages, and Social Media Ideas" is your ultimate guide to unlocking creativity, boosting ... Read more

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225 AI-Powered Prompts Boost Your Business with Digital Products, Landing Pages, and Social Media Ideas!!Unlock the Power of AI to Transform Your Business!Are you ready to supercharge your business with the limitless potential of AI? "225 AI Powered Prompts: Boost Your Business with Digital Products, Landing Pages, and Social Media Ideas" is your ultimate guide to unlocking creativity, boosting
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Data-driven BIM for Energy Efficient Building Design

by Saeed Banihashemi, Hamed Golizadeh, Farzad Pour Rahimian ...

Series series Spon Research
This research book aims to conceptualise the scale and spectrum of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches in energy efficient building design and to develop its functional solutions with a focus on four crucial aspects of building envelop, building layout, occupant behaviour and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. Drawn from ... Read more

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This research book aims to conceptualise the scale and spectrum of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches in energy efficient building design and to develop its functional solutions with a focus on four crucial aspects of building envelop, building layout, occupant behaviour and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. Drawn from
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Fast and Slow

Methods for Timely HCI and Interaction Design Research

by Mikael Wiberg ...

Fast and Slow: Methods for Timely HCI and Interaction Design Research explores the dynamic interplay between rapid and reflective, or long-term vs. short-term research in human–computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design research. In an era where fast approaches to technical research are foregrounded, this book provides a critical examination of the temporalities at play in various research ... Read more

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Fast and Slow: Methods for Timely HCI and Interaction Design Research explores the dynamic interplay between rapid and reflective, or long-term vs. short-term research in human–computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design research. In an era where fast approaches to technical research are foregrounded, this book provides a critical examination of the temporalities at play in various research
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Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Information Retrieval

Edited by Richard Chbeir, Youakim Badr, Ajith Abraham, Aboul-Ella Hassanien ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Richard Chbeir received his Ph. D in Computer Science from the INSA DE Lyon-France in 2001. He has been a member of IEEE and ACM since 1999. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the Bourgogne University, Dijon-France. His research interests are in the areas of distributed multimedia database management, XML similarity and rewriting, spatio-temporal ... Read more

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Richard Chbeir received his Ph. D in Computer Science from the INSA DE Lyon-France in 2001. He has been a member of IEEE and ACM since 1999. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the Bourgogne University, Dijon-France. His research interests are in the areas of distributed multimedia database management, XML similarity and rewriting, spatio-temporal
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Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies

Edited by Youakim Badr, Richard Chbeir, Ajith Abraham, Aboul-Ella Hassanien ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The success of the World Wide Web depends on the ability of users to store, p- cess and retrieve digital information regardless of distance boundaries, languages and domains of knowledge. The universality and ?exibility of the World Wide Web have also enabled the rapid growth of a variety of new services and applications based on human–machine interaction. The semantics of exchanged information ... Read more

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The success of the World Wide Web depends on the ability of users to store, p- cess and retrieve digital information regardless of distance boundaries, languages and domains of knowledge. The universality and ?exibility of the World Wide Web have also enabled the rapid growth of a variety of new services and applications based on human–machine interaction. The semantics of exchanged information
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Human Emotion Recognition from Face Images

by Paramartha Dutta, Asit Barman ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book discusses human emotion recognition from face images using different modalities, highlighting key topics in facial expression recognition, such as the grid formation, distance signature, shape signature, texture signature, feature selection, classifier design, and the combination of signatures to improve emotion recognition.The book explains how six basic human emotions can be recognized ... Read more

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This book discusses human emotion recognition from face images using different modalities, highlighting key topics in facial expression recognition, such as the grid formation, distance signature, shape signature, texture signature, feature selection, classifier design, and the combination of signatures to improve emotion recognition.The book explains how six basic human emotions can be recognized
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Software Technologies

10th International Joint Conference, ICSOFT 2015, Colmar, France, July 20-22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Jorge Cardoso, Pascal Lorenz, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marten van Sinderen ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2015, held in Colmar, France, in July 2015.The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The papers are organized around the following conference tracks: enterprise software technologies; software project management; ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2015, held in Colmar, France, in July 2015.The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The papers are organized around the following conference tracks: enterprise software technologies; software project management;
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ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus

Edited by Olav W. Bertelsen, Luigina Ciolfi, Maria Antonietta Grasso, George Angelos Papadopoulos ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2013, the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Each conference offers an occasion to critically review our research field, which has been multidisciplinary and committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological, from its beginning. The papers this year focus on work and the enterprise as well as on ... Read more

$188.09 USD

This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2013, the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Each conference offers an occasion to critically review our research field, which has been multidisciplinary and committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological, from its beginning. The papers this year focus on work and the enterprise as well as on
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The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems

Edited by Emmanuel Dubois, Philip Gray, Laurence Nigay ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
An increasing number of systems are exploiting mixed reality but to date there are no systematic methods, techniques or guidelines for the development of such systems. In bringing together contributions on a broad range of mixed reality development issues this book provides a sound theoretical foundation for a disciplined approach to mixed reality engineering.Divided into three parts: interaction ... Read more

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An increasing number of systems are exploiting mixed reality but to date there are no systematic methods, techniques or guidelines for the development of such systems. In bringing together contributions on a broad range of mixed reality development issues this book provides a sound theoretical foundation for a disciplined approach to mixed reality engineering.Divided into three parts: interaction
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Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays

Edited by Christian Müller-Tomfelde ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The objects displayed on a table can take multiple forms. In meetings, it is still very often printed paper although its content was originally created on a computer. The content can also be a “table”, but now in the mathematical sense, showing, e. g. , the budget of a project. Then, we have a “table” on the table. Most often, the computer-generated contents are subject of frequent changes or ... Read more

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The objects displayed on a table can take multiple forms. In meetings, it is still very often printed paper although its content was originally created on a computer. The content can also be a “table”, but now in the mathematical sense, showing, e. g. , the budget of a project. Then, we have a “table” on the table. Most often, the computer-generated contents are subject of frequent changes or
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Mobile Social Networking

An Innovative Approach

Edited by Alvin Chin, Daqing Zhang ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
The use of contextually aware, pervasive, distributed computing, and sensor networks to bridge the gap between the physical and online worlds is the basis of mobile social networking. This book shows how applications can be built to provide mobile social networking, the research issues that need to be solved to enable this vision, and how mobile social networking can be used to provide ... Read more

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The use of contextually aware, pervasive, distributed computing, and sensor networks to bridge the gap between the physical and online worlds is the basis of mobile social networking. This book shows how applications can be built to provide mobile social networking, the research issues that need to be solved to enable this vision, and how mobile social networking can be used to provide
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Effective MySQL Replication Techniques in Depth

by Chris Schneider, Ronald Bradford ...

The Essential Guide to Scaling Your Business SolutionWritten by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, with coauthor Chris Schneider, Effective MySQL: Replication Techniques in Depth describes what is needed to understand and implement MySQL replication to build scalable solutions. This book includes detailed syntax examples to demonstrate the features, options, and limitations of ... Read more

$23.09 USD

The Essential Guide to Scaling Your Business SolutionWritten by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, with coauthor Chris Schneider, Effective MySQL: Replication Techniques in Depth describes what is needed to understand and implement MySQL replication to build scalable solutions. This book includes detailed syntax examples to demonstrate the features, options, and limitations of
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Introduction to Compiler Design

by Torben Ægidius Mogensen ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The second edition of this textbook has been fully revised and adds material about loop optimisation, function call optimisation and dataflow analysis. It presents techniques for making realistic compilers for simple programming languages, using techniques that are close to those used in "real" compilers, albeit in places slightly simplified for presentation purposes. All phases required for ... Read more

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The second edition of this textbook has been fully revised and adds material about loop optimisation, function call optimisation and dataflow analysis. It presents techniques for making realistic compilers for simple programming languages, using techniques that are close to those used in "real" compilers, albeit in places slightly simplified for presentation purposes. All phases required for
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The Data Consultant's Handbook

Master stakeholder management and client delivery to drive business impact in data consulting

by Juan Manuel Perafan, Tony Zeljkovic ...

Learn to navigate client relationships, deliver impactful data projects, and translate technical work into business results. Covers presales, stakeholder management, execution, and handover with templates and real-world strategiesKey FeaturesData-specific strategies and advice for the consultancy lifecycleCommunication frameworks tailored for executives, technical teams, and diverse ... Read more

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Learn to navigate client relationships, deliver impactful data projects, and translate technical work into business results. Covers presales, stakeholder management, execution, and handover with templates and real-world strategiesKey FeaturesData-specific strategies and advice for the consultancy lifecycleCommunication frameworks tailored for executives, technical teams, and diverse
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Usability Success Stories

How Organizations Improve By Making Easier-To-Use Software and Web Sites

Edited by Paul Sherman ...

People spend increasing amounts of time and effort interacting with complex hardware and software products. Some of the products we interact with are easy to learn and easy to remember. Some are even a pleasure to use. Others are hard to learn, hard to use, and frustrate us at every turn. But it is not just the user that pays the cost in such cases. Poor usability also imposes significant costs on ... Read more

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People spend increasing amounts of time and effort interacting with complex hardware and software products. Some of the products we interact with are easy to learn and easy to remember. Some are even a pleasure to use. Others are hard to learn, hard to use, and frustrate us at every turn. But it is not just the user that pays the cost in such cases. Poor usability also imposes significant costs on
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Machine Learning for Healthcare Analytics Projects

Build smart AI applications using neural network methodologies across the healthcare vertical market

by Eduonix Learning Solutions ...

Create real-world machine learning solutions using NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and scikit-learnKey FeaturesDevelop a range of healthcare analytics projects using real-world datasetsImplement key machine learning algorithms using a range of libraries from the Python ecosystemAccomplish intermediate-to-complex tasks by building smart AI applications using neural network methodologiesBook ... Read more

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Create real-world machine learning solutions using NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and scikit-learnKey FeaturesDevelop a range of healthcare analytics projects using real-world datasetsImplement key machine learning algorithms using a range of libraries from the Python ecosystemAccomplish intermediate-to-complex tasks by building smart AI applications using neural network methodologiesBook
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AI for Games and Animation

A Cognitive Modeling Approach

by John David Funge ...

John Funge introduces a new approach to creating autonomous characters. Cognitive modeling provides computer-animated characters with logic, reasoning, and planning skills. Individual chapters in the book provide concrete examples of advanced character animation, automated cinematography, and a real-time computer game. Source code, animations, images, and other resources are available at the book ... Read more

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John Funge introduces a new approach to creating autonomous characters. Cognitive modeling provides computer-animated characters with logic, reasoning, and planning skills. Individual chapters in the book provide concrete examples of advanced character animation, automated cinematography, and a real-time computer game. Source code, animations, images, and other resources are available at the book
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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2025

20th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 8–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Carmelo Ardito, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Tayana Conte, André Freire, Isabela Gasparini, Philippe Palanque, Raquel Prates ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This four-volume set LNCS 16108-16111 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2025, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, during September 8–12, 2025.The 69 full papers, 34 short papers and 79 papers of other types included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 330 submissions. They were organized in topical ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This four-volume set LNCS 16108-16111 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2025, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, during September 8–12, 2025.The 69 full papers, 34 short papers and 79 papers of other types included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 330 submissions. They were organized in topical
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The Mirror Problem

The Algorithmic Mind, #1

by Gari Johnson ...

Series Book 1 - The Algorithmic Mind
The Algorithmic Mind: Book 1 - The Mirror ProblemHow AI Reflects Human BiasWhen machines learn to discriminate with mathematical precision, who's really to blame?A facial recognition system mistakes a Black politician for a criminal. Amazon's recruiting algorithm downgrades CVs containing "women's." Predictive policing perpetuates racial profiling with algorithmic efficiency.Welcome to the mirror ... Read more

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The Algorithmic Mind: Book 1 - The Mirror ProblemHow AI Reflects Human BiasWhen machines learn to discriminate with mathematical precision, who's really to blame?A facial recognition system mistakes a Black politician for a criminal. Amazon's recruiting algorithm downgrades CVs containing "women's." Predictive policing perpetuates racial profiling with algorithmic efficiency.Welcome to the mirror
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