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Media, knowledge & education : exploring new spaces, relations and dynamics i…
In recent years, new and established media have penetrated, challenged, and often surpassed in significance traditional institutions of socialization and education. Moreover, the social organization of knowledge production and distribution has become highly mediated through increasingly complex combinations of information and communication technologies. The papers in this volume are exploring i…
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- 9783902571670
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- 319 p.
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- 025.5 HUG m
Security in computer and information sciences : first International ISCIS Sec…
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International ISCIS Security Workshop 2018, Euro-CYBERSEC 2018, held in London, UK, in February 2018. The 12 full papers presented together with an overview paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. Security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, and the Internet of Things…
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- 9783319951898
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- xii, 157p. : ill.
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- 005.8 SEC s
CyberParks : the interface between people, places and technology : new approa…
This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outco…
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- 9783030134174
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- xv, 321p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 CYB c
Network neutrality: from policy to law to regulation
"This study explains the concept of network neutrality and its history as an extension of the rights and duties of common carriers, as well as its policy history as examined in US and European regulatory proceedings from 1999. The book compares national and regional legislation and regulation of net neutrality from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. It also examines the future …
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- 9781526105479
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- 304 p.; 22 cm.
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- 340 CHR n
Fundamentals of clinical data science
This open access book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of clinical data science, focusing on data collection, modelling and clinical applications. Topics covered in the first section on data collection include: data sources, data at scale (big data), data stewardship (FAIR data) and related privacy concerns. Aspects of predictive modelling using techniques such as classification, reg…
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- 9783319997131
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- viii, 219p. : ill.
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- 610.285 FUN f
High-performance modelling and simulation for big data applications : selecte…
This open access book is the final compendium of case studies emanated from the 4-year COST Action IC1406 “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications” (cHiPSet). Funded by the European Commission from 2015, cHiPSet has created a sustainable reference network linking applied research in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Modelling & Simulation to tangibly address B…
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- 9783030162726
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- xiv, 352p. : ill.
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- 004.11 HIG h
Enhanced living environments : algorithms, architectures, platforms, and systems
This open access book is the final publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)” project. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an area of research based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), medical research, and sociological research. AAL is based on the notion that technology and science can provide im…
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- 9783030107529
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- xx, 322p. : ill.
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- 004.019 ENH e
Exploring resilience : a scientific journey from practice to theory
Resilience has become an important topic on the safety research agenda and in organizational practice. Most empirical work on resilience has been descriptive, identifying characteristics of work and organizing activity which allow organizations to cope with unexpected situations. Fewer studies have developed testable models and theories that can be used to support interventions aiming to increa…
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- 9783030031893
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- vi, 128p. : ill.
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- 363.11 EXP e
Data and text processing for health and life sciences
This open access book is a step-by-step introduction on how shell scripting can help solve many of the data processing tasks that Health and Life specialists face everyday with minimal software dependencies. The examples presented in the book show how simple command line tools can be used and combined to retrieve data and text from web resources, to filter and mine literature, and to explore t…
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- 9783030138455
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- xv, 98p. : ill.
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- 006.312 COU d
Disrupting finance : finTech and strategy in the 21st century
This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention. Technolog…
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- 9783030023300
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- xxv, 175p. : ill.
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- 332.10285 DIS d
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