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Politics in Software Development: Navigating Stakeholder Power and Conflict in Organizations
By Peter Wendorff. 2022
Equip yourself to navigate organizational politics in the world of software development. This book will help you understand the power…
dynamics at work between competing stakeholders with conflicting goals in projects and organizations. Politics in Software Development consists of three main parts. Author Peter Wendorff begins by defining key concepts in organizational politics. He then moves on to software development processes and investigates how their design reflects stakeholder interests. In the final part, he highlights the role of political skill in software development and provides an overview of tactics that stakeholders frequently use. There is widespread competition within organizations for rewards, recognition, status, and power. It gives rise to political behavior of stakeholders, which is generally seen as a problem. This negative view of organizational politics tends to overlook its positive functions. For example, it can also be thought of as an arena where stakeholders with conflicting goals can argue, persuade, negotiate, bargain, and cooperate to address conflicts. Political conflict resolution regularly happens in organizations in an entirely civilized manner. It helps find agreements that reconcile differences in a constructive way, and it is needed because stakeholder conflicts are simply a natural aspect of organizations. While there is much literature about organizational politics, very few authors consider the specifics of software development. This book addresses both subjects and is written for an audience interested in a political perspective on software development. What You'll LearnRecognize and understand political activities in organizationsUnderstand what software processes have to do with stakeholder power and interestsAcquire fundamental political skills for dealing with politics in software development Who This Book Is For Project managers, lead developers, team leaders, team coaches, product owners, business analysts, developers, and other software professionals. This book is also suitable for students in software engineering.Machine Learning and Autonomous Systems: Proceedings of ICMLAS 2021 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #269)
By Ke-Lin Du, Joy Iong-Zong Chen, Haoxiang Wang, V. Suma. 2022
This book involves a collection of selected papers presented at International Conference on Machine Learning and Autonomous Systems (ICMLAS 2021),…
held in Tamil Nadu, India, during 24–25 September 2021. It includes novel and innovative work from experts, practitioners, scientists and decision-makers from academia and industry. It covers selected papers in the area of emerging modern mobile robotic systems and intelligent information systems and autonomous systems in agriculture, health care, education, military and industries.Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering: 16th International Conference, ENASE 2021, Virtual Event, April 26-27, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1556)
By Leszek A. Maciaszek, Raian Ali, Hermann Kaindl. 2022
The present book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 16th International Conference on…
Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2021), held as an online event from April 26 to 27, 2021.The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers included in this book contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on novel approaches to software engineering for the development and maintenance of systems and applications, specically with relation to: model-driven software engineering, requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, service-oriented software engineering, business process management and engineering, knowledge management and engineering, reverse software engineering, software process improvement, software change and configuration management, software metrics, software patterns and refactoring, application integration, software architecture, cloud computing, and formal methods.Architecting A Knowledge-Based Platform for Design Engineering 4.0
By Janet K. Allen, Farrokh Mistree, Anand Balu Nellippallil, Yan Yan, Zhenjun Ming, Ru Wang, Guoxin Wang. 2022
"Design Engineering for Industry 4.0 (DE4.0) represents the 'human-cyber-physical view of the systems realization ecosystem “that is necessary to accommodate…
the drivers of Industry 4.0 (IoX) and provide an open ecosystem for the realization of complex systems. Seamless integration of digital threads and digital twins throughout the product design, the development and fulfillment lifecycle; the ability to accommodate diverse and rapidly changing technologies; and the mechanisms to facilitate the creation of new opportunities for the design of products, processes, services, and systems are some of the desired characteristics of DE4.0."Jiao, R., Commuri, S. Panchal, J., Milisavljevic-Syed, J, Allen, J.K., Mistree, F. and Schaefer, D., "Design Engineering in the Age of Industry 4.0," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 143(7), 070801, 25 pages.In keeping with the Design Engineering 4.0 construct the authors describe architecting a computer platform to support human designers make decisions associated with the realization of complex engineered systems. The platform is designed to facilitate end-to-end digital integration, customization and personalization, agile collaboration networks, open innovation, co-creation and crowdsourcing, product servitization and anything-as-a-service.Recognizing that simulation models are abstractions of reality the authors opt for a satisficing strategy instead of an optimization strategy. They include fundamentals and then describe tools for architecting a knowledge-based platforms for decision support. Challenges associated with developing a computational platform for decision support for the realization of complex engineered systems in the context of Design Engineering 4.0 are identified. Constructs for formulating design decisions (e.g., selection, compromise, and coupled decisions), knowledge modelling schemes (e.g., ontologies and modular templates), diagrams for designing decision workflows (e.g., the PEI-X diagram), and some analytical methods for robust design under uncertainty are presented. The authors describe integrating the knowledge-based platform to architect a cloud-based platform for decision support promoting co-design and cloud-based design communication essential for mass collaboration and open innovation for Design Engineering 4.0.This book is a valuable resource for researchers, design engineers, and others working on pushing the boundary of digitized manufacturing to include Design Engineering 4.0 principles in designing products, processes, and services.Cartography from Pole to Pole: Selected Contributions to the XXVIth International Conference of the ICA, Dresden 2013 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography #8)
By Dirk Burghardt, Manfred Buchroithner, Nikolas Prechtel. 2013
This volume comprehends a selection of papers presented during the 26th International Cartographic Conference held in Dresden from the 26th…
to the 30th of August 2013 It covers many fields of relevant Mapping and GIS research subjects such as cartographic applications cartographic tools generalisation and update Propagation higher dimensional visualisation and augmented reality planetary mapping issues cartography and environmental modelling user generated content and spatial data infrastructure use and usability as well as cartography and GIS in educationAdvanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2015: Smart Systems for Green and Automated Driving (Lecture Notes in Mobility)
By Gereon Meyer, Beate M ller, Tim Schulze. 2016
This edited volume presents the proceedings of the AMAA 2015 conference Berlin Germany The topical focus…
of the 2015 conference lies on smart systems for green and automated driving The automobile of the future has to respond to two major trends the electrification of the drivetrain and the automation of the transportation system These trends will not only lead to greener and safer driving but re-define the concept of the car completely particularly if they interact with each other in a synergetic way as for autonomous parking and charging self-driving shuttles or mobile robots Key functionalities like environment perception are enabled by electronic components and systems sensors and actuators communication nodes cognitive systems and smart systems integration The book will be a valuable read for research experts and professionals in the automotive industry but the book may also be beneficial for graduate studentsGet hands-on with deploying and managing your database services to provide scalable and high-speed data access on CockroachDBKey FeaturesGain insights…
into CockroachDB and build highly reliable cloud-native applicationsExplore the power of a scalable and highly available cloud-native SQL database to distribute data and workloads automaticallyBuild high-speed database services using CockroachDB and troubleshoot performance issuesBook DescriptionGetting Started with CockroachDB will introduce you to the inner workings of CockroachDB and help you to understand how it provides faster access to distributed data through a SQL interface. The book will also uncover how you can use the database to provide solutions where the data is highly available.Starting with CockroachDB's installation, setup, and configuration, this SQL book will familiarize you with the database architecture and database design principles. You'll then discover several options that CockroachDB provides to store multiple copies of your data to ensure fast data access. The book covers the internals of CockroachDB, how to deploy and manage it on the cloud, performance tuning to get the best out of CockroachDB, and how to scale data across continents and serve it locally. In addition to this, you'll get to grips with fault tolerance and auto-rebalancing, how indexes work, and the CockroachDB Admin UI. The book will guide you in building scalable cloud services on top of CockroachDB, covering administrative and security aspects and tips for troubleshooting, performance enhancements, and a brief guideline on migrating from traditional databases.By the end of this book, you'll have gained sufficient knowledge to manage your data on CockroachDB and interact with it from your application layer.What you will learnBecome well-versed with the overall architecture and design concepts of CockroachDBUnderstand how auto-rebalancing of data can avoid performance bottlenecksGet to know how CockroachDB achieves atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durabilityPartition your data across multiple geolocations to ensure very low latency when serving dataFind out how indexes are stored and the optimizations used to serve query results fasterDiscover the key concepts of deploying and managing CockroachDB clustersWho this book is forSoftware engineers, database developers, database administrators, and anyone who wishes to learn about the features of CockroachDB and how to build database solutions that are fast, highly available, and cater to business-critical applications, will find this book useful. Although no prior exposure to CockroachDB is required, familiarity with database concepts will help you to get the most out of this book.Psychobabble: The Failure of Modern Psychology -- and the Biblical Alternative
By Richard Ganz. 1993
Why is it many evangelical preachers shout from the pulpit about God's power, but they shuffle their emotionally troubled members…
off to the closest therapist? Both church leaders and laypersons seem to believe that the psychological "experts" have the answers for the wounded hearts and souls of God's people. And when churches do offer counseling, it often is tinged with the secular psychology and psychotherapy that have infiltrated the church. Psychobabble explains the dichotomy between secular and Biblical counseling and shows the danger of incorporating secular techniques into a Christian approach. This book will arm believers looking for Scriptural answers to the hurts of a broken world. As anti-Christian bias becomes increasingly pervasive in secular psychology, the church must look to the true source of all healing. This book will point the way.Growing With God: Student Manual
By Positive Action for Christ. 2021
Intelligent Internet of Things for Healthcare and Industry (Internet of Things)
By Chinmay Chakraborty, Lalit Garg, Uttam Ghosh, Gautam Srivastava. 2022
This book promotes and facilitates exchanges of research knowledge and findings across different disciplines on the design and investigation of…
machine learning-based data analytics of IoT infrastructures. This book is focused on the emerging trends, strategies, and applications of IoT in both healthcare and industry data analytics perspectives. The data analytics discussed are relevant for healthcare and industry to meet many technical challenges and issues that need to be addressed to realize this potential. The IoT discussed helps to design and develop the intelligent medical and industry solutions assisted by data analytics and machine learning. At the end of every chapter readers are encouraged to check their understanding by means of brainstorming summary, discussion, exercises and solutions.Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Sustainable Technologies: ICoCIST 2021 (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)
By Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Kedar Nath Das, Debasish Das, Anjan Kumar Ray. 2022
This book presents the collection of the accepted research papers presented in the 1st ‘International Conference on Computational Intelligence and…
Sustainable Technologies (ICoCIST-2021)’. This edited book contains the articles related to the themes on artificial intelligence in machine learning, big data analysis, soft computing techniques, pattern recognitions, sustainable infrastructural development, sustainable grid computing and innovative technology for societal development, renewable energy, and innovations in Internet of Things (IoT).Modelling of Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in Nanofluids with and without Boiling and Condensation (Mathematical Engineering)
By Igor V. Shevchuk, Andriy A. Avramenko. 2022
This book presents step-by-step description of the use of Lie group analysis to find symmetry forms and similarity solutions for…
single- and two-phase laminar and turbulent flows of nanofluids. It outlines novel and unique analytical solutions validated via comparisons with experimental data. The main part of the book is devoted to analytical modeling of film condensation of still and moving vapor with nanoparticles, stable film boiling of nanofluids, instantaneous unsteady boiling and condensation of nano- and ordinary fluids and clarification and quantification of instability conditions in the vapor layer, as well as centrifugal and Dean instability in nanofluids. It was demonstrated that such complex phenomena can be successfully simulated using the proposed approaches validated via reliable experiments. The book is intended for scientists, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students specializing in the area of engineering thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer and energy systems.This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2021, held as part of the…
Services Conference Federation, SCF 2021, in December 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 7 full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers cover topics in the field of Advertising Services, Banking Services, Broadcasting & Cable TV Service, Business Services, Communications Services, Government Services, Real Estate Operations Services, Schools and Education Services, Healthcare Services, and much more.The 2x2 Matrix: Contingency, Confusion and the Metrics of Binary Classification
By A. J. Larner. 2021
This book presents and discusses the numerous measures of test performance that can be derived from 2x2 tables. Worked examples…
based on pragmatic test accuracy study data are used in chapters to illustrate relevance to day-to-day clinical practice. Readers will gain a good understanding of sensitivity and specificity and predictive values along with many other parameters.The contents are highly structured and the use of worked examples facilitates understanding and interpretation. This book is a resource for clinicians in any discipline who are involved in the performance or assessment of test accuracy studies, and professionals in the disciplines of machine learning or informatics wishing to gain insight into clinical applications of 2x2 tables.Recent Advances in Internet of Things and Machine Learning: Real-World Applications (Intelligent Systems Reference Library #215)
By Raghvendra Kumar, Valentina E. Balas, Vijender Kumar Solanki. 2022
This book covers a domain that is significantly impacted by the growth of soft computing. Internet of Things (IoT)-related applications…
are gaining much attention with more and more devices which are getting connected, and they become the potential components of some smart applications. Thus, a global enthusiasm has sparked over various domains such as health, agriculture, energy, security, and retail. So, in this book, the main objective is to capture this multifaceted nature of IoT and machine learning in one single place. According to the contribution of each chapter, the book also provides a future direction for IoT and machine learning research. The objectives of this book are to identify different issues, suggest feasible solutions to those identified issues, and enable researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to interact with each other regarding emerging technologies related to IoT and machine learning. In this book, we look for novel chapters that recommend new methodologies, recent advancement, system architectures, and other solutions to prevail over the limitations of IoT and machine learning.This book first details a proposed Stationary Bionic Wavelet Transform (SBWT) for use in speech processing. The author then details…
the proposed techniques based on SBWT. These techniques are relevant to speech enhancement, speech recognition, and ECG de-noising. The techniques are then evaluated by comparing them to a number of methods existing in literature. For evaluating the proposed techniques, results are applied to different speech and ECG signals and their performances are justified from the results obtained from using objective criterion such as SNR, SSNR, PSNR, PESQ , MAE, MSE and more.The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10: Building Java-Based Enterprise Web Applications
By Bauke Scholtz, Arjan Tijms. 2022
Learn and master the new features in the new Eclipse Jakarta Faces (formerly JavaServer Faces or JSF) web framework in…
this definitive guide written by two of the driving forces of the Faces project and the co-creators of the OmniFaces library. Authors Bauke Scholtz and Arjan Tijms take you through real-world examples that demonstrate how these new features are used with other APIs in Jakarta EE. You’ll see the new and exciting ways Jakarta Faces applications can use to communicate between a client and a server, such as using WebSockets, invoking bean methods directly from Ajax, executing client-side JavaScript when Ajax calls complete, and moreAlong the way you’ll broaden your knowledge of Faces components and web APIs best practices, and learn a great deal about the internals of Faces and the design decisions that have been made when building the Faces API. For example, you’ll see what artefacts are now CDI injectable, how CDI changed Faces internally, and what some of the caveats are when working with the CDI versions of a Faces artefact.Furthermore, you'll build an example application from scratch. After reading The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10, you'll be ready to build your own efficient and secure web applications. What You Will LearnLeverage the new features in Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE in your existing applicationsIntegrate Faces and CDIUse the brand new Component Search Expression framework, which enables you to more easily locate components from your templateExtend the Component Search Expression framework with your own search operatorsWork with the different ways of mapping requests to Faces, make your application use extension-less URLs, and programmatically inspect which resources are present in your applicationMaster the best practices for web application development and see which are obsoleteWho This Book Is ForExisting JSF or Java developers who need to create a web UI. No prior knowledge of Faces is required, but the book does skew towards the more experienced developer. Concepts such as dependency injection and MVC are assumed to be known, as is a general knowledge about HTML, HTTP and other web standards.Why is there suffering? Doesn&’t science disprove miracles? What about hell—and the millions who&’ve never heard of Jesus? Is heaven…
for real? Is God unjust? Lee Strobel decided to use his award-winning journalistic skills to investigate the idea of faith, and prove that placing our trust in things we cannot see is a solid bet. This updated The Case for Faith Student Edition adapts Strobel&’s bestselling The Case for Faith to present hard-hitting findings as well as interviews with believers and skeptics alike in an easy-to-follow manner so you can make a decision about Christian faith for yourself.The Case for Faith Student Edition:Is written for readers ages twelve and olderPresents the arguments for and against having faith that teens and young adults often ask and encounter so they can see the real evidence and factsUses logic and solid information to examine why Christians believe what they doCan also be used in the classroom, in group studies, or as part of a religious studies or comparisons classContains infographics and charts to make the facts clearPairs well with The Case for Christ Student Edition, The Case for a Creator Student Edition, The Case for the Real Jesus Student Edition, and The Case for Miracles Student EditionLee Strobel&’s research provides:Scientific data, expert testimonies, and interviewsCross-religious comparisonsHistorical and archeological proofs he discovered during his investigationPrepare yourself for an eye-opening, no-punches-pulled investigation into eight of the toughest objections to Christianity. The answers will prove whether or not Jesus is who he says he is and if heaven is for real, leading you to a life-changing decision in your current case for or against Christianity. Even if you&’re an atheist or just aren&’t sure about Jesus, these stories will turn your whole world upside down. If you&’re already a Christian, you&’ll gain powerful insights that will reshape your understanding of the Bible and affect your life of faith like never before.Heritage and the Sea: Volume 2: Maritime History and Archaeology of the Global Iberian World (15th–18th centuries)
By Ana Crespo Solana, Filipe Castro, Nigel Nayling. 2022
This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th),…
in confluence with an unprecedented extension of ocean navigation and seafaring and a greater demand for natural resources (especially timber), mostly oak (Quercus spp.) and Pine (Pinus spp.). The chapters are framed in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary line of research that integrates history, Geographic Information Sciences, underwater archaeology, dendrochronology and wood provenance techniques. This line of research was developed during the ForSEAdiscovery project, which had a great impact in the academic and scientific world and brought together experts from Europe and America. The volumes deliver a state-of-the-art review of the latest lines of research related to Iberian maritime history and archaeology and their developing interdisciplinary interaction with dendroarchaeology. This synthesis combines an analysis of historical sources, the systematic study of wreck-remains and material culture related to Iberian seafaring from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and the application of earth sciences, including dendrochronology. The set can be used as a manual or work guide for experts and students, and will also be an interesting read for non-experts interested in the subject. Volume 2 focuses on approaches to the study of shipwrecks including a synthesis of dendro-archaeological results, current interdisciplinary case studies and the specialist study of artillery and anchors.Interfaith Networks and Development: Case Studies from Africa (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
By Ezra Chitando, Ishanesu Sextus Gusha. 2022
Although there is growing interest in the role of religion in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda…
2030, very few studies have focused on the contributions of interfaith networks. Most of the contemporary publications on religion and development focus on single religions or faith-based organizations. This volume addresses the lacuna in the available scholarship by undertaking detailed analyses of how interfaith networks in diverse African contexts contribute to development. Chapters in this volume engage in theoretical debates on interfaith networks and development, while describing concrete, fresh case studies on how particular interfaith networks are contributing towards the meeting of the SDGs in specific contexts. Thus, the volume describes older and newer interfaith networks and analyses their achievements and challenges. Contributors focus on SDGs that include peacebuilding, gender, youth, the environment, as well as overviews of interfaith initiatives in different African contexts.