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Managing Competences: Research, Practice, and Contemporary Issues
By Benoît Grasser, Sabrina Loufrani-Fedida, and Ewan Oiry. 2021
Managing Competences: Research, Practice, and Contemporary Issues draws together theoretical and practical research in competence management. It provides a wealth…
of knowledge concerning emerging and contemporary issues, such as the multilevel approach to competence, the development of collective competence, the strategies of competence management, and the tools for managing competences as well as the organizational dynamics of competences. Moreover, the book provides a critical approach to research and practitioners’ continued engagement in competence management research and practice. Research in competence management has more recently entered an era more open to doubt and questioning: Is there a solid theoretical foundation that supports the concept of competence? What is the contribution of research on employees’ competences to human resources management in particular, and more generally to management? Is there not a risk of diluting the concept of competence by considering it at the individual, collective, organizational, and strategic levels? Today, is it still possible to manage competences in a world where the boundaries of the organizations are more and more porous? These questions, and many others, probably explain why a field that seemed well-identified and well-structured yesterday, has given way today to new, highly diverse analyses of competences by researchers and practitioners. This contributed volume seeks to answer these pressing issues and is a collective means for responding to them. The book brings together multiple streams of research in the field about emerging and contemporary issues, including multidimensional HRM systems, the rise of forms of collaborative management, the intensification of the use of digital and robotic technologies, the rise of the regime of remote and networked operations, the increasing heterogeneity of the status of workers, and changes in regulations concerning work and its recognition.Digital Audio Theory: A Practical Guide
By Christopher L. Bennett. 2021
Digital Audio Theory: A Practical Guide bridges the fundamental concepts and equations of digital audio with their real-world implementation in…
an accessible introduction, with dozens of programming examples and projects. Starting with digital audio conversion, then segueing into filtering, and finally real-time spectral processing, Digital Audio Theory introduces the uninitiated reader to signal processing principles and techniques used in audio effects and virtual instruments that are found in digital audio workstations. Every chapter includes programming snippets for the reader to hear, explore, and experiment with digital audio concepts. Practical projects challenge the reader, providing hands-on experience in designing real-time audio effects, building FIR and IIR filters, applying noise reduction and feedback control, measuring impulse responses, software synthesis, and much more. Music technologists, recording engineers, and students of these fields will welcome Bennett’s approach, which targets readers with a background in music, sound, and recording. This guide is suitable for all levels of knowledge in mathematics, signals and systems, and linear circuits. Code for the programming examples and accompanying videos made by the author can be found on the companion website, DigitalAudioTheory.com.Data Analytics for Cultural Heritage: Current Trends and Concepts
By Abdelaziz Bouras, Abdul Hamid Sadka, Abdelhak Belhi, Abdulaziz Khalid Al-Ali. 2021
This book considers the challenges related to the effective implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to…
the cultural heritage digitization process. Particular focus is placed on improvements to the data acquisition stage, as well as the data enrichment and curation stages, using advanced artificial intelligence techniques and tools. An emphasis is placed on recent applications related to deep learning for visual recognition, generative models, natural language processing, and super resolution. The book is a valuable reference for researchers working in the multidisciplinary field of cultural heritage and AI, as well as professional experts in the art and culture domains, such as museums, libraries, and historic sites and buildings. Reports on techniques and methods that leverage AI and machine learning and their impact on the digitization of cultural heritage; Addresses challenges of improving data acquisition, enrichment and management processes;Highlights contributions from international researchers from diverse fields and subject areas.Cyber-Physical Systems: Design and Application for Industry 4.0 (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #342)
By Maxim Shcherbakov, Alla G. Kravets, Alexander A. Bolshakov. 2021
This book consists of chapters dedicated to the questions of cyber-physical system design and its usage for the chemical industry…
and new material design. Also, the contribution of the book covers scientific research and their results for cyber-physical systems design and application in the energy domain and solutions regarding engineering education for cyber-physical systems design. The book offers unique content for researchers and practitioners who are looking for new knowledge and skills in the framework of Industry 4.0 solutions. The book also benefits researchers and practitioners in chemistry and new material design and manufacturing to understand how cyber-physical systems can be applied to increase efficiency and performance. The target audience of the book are practitioners, enterprises representatives, scientists, Ph.D. and master students who perform scientific research or applications of cyber-physical systems in the concept of Industry 4.0.Computer Vision and Image Processing: 5th International Conference, CVIP 2020, Prayagraj, India, December 4-6, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Part III (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1378)
By Balasubramanian Raman, P. Nagabhushan, Satish Kumar Singh, Partha Roy. 2021
This three-volume set (CCIS 1367-1368) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2020, held…
in Prayagraj, India, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partially held online. The 134 papers papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 352 submissions. The papers present recent research on such topics as biometrics, forensics, content protection, image enhancement/super-resolution/restoration, motion and tracking, image or video retrieval, image, image/video processing for autonomous vehicles, video scene understanding, human-computer interaction, document image analysis, face, iris, emotion, sign language and gesture recognition, 3D image/video processing, action and event detection/recognition, medical image and video analysis, vision-based human GAIT analysis, remote sensing, and more.This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing,…
LCPC 2019, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in October 2019.The 8 revised full papers and 3 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The scope of the workshop includes advances in programming systems for current domains and platforms, e.g., scientific computing, batch/ streaming/ real-time data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, heterogeneous/ reconfigurable computing, mobile computing, cloud computing, IoT, as well as forward-looking computing domains such as analog and quantum computing.Telemetry Theory and Methods in Flight Test
By Tingwu Yang. 2021
This book describes systematically telemetry theory and methods for aircraft in flight test. Test targets of telemetry in flight test…
include airplanes, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, aerostatics, carrier-based aircraft, airborne equipment (systems), weapon systems, (powered) aircraft scale models, aircraft external stores (e.g., nacelle, auxiliary tanks), and ejection seats and so on. The book collects the author's telemetry research work and presents methods that have been verified in real-world tests. The book has eight chapters: the first three discuss the theoretical basis of telemetry, while the other five focus on the methods used in flight tests.Unlike other professional textbooks, this book describes the practical telemetry theory and combines theory and engineering practice to offer a comprehensive and systematic overview of telemetry in flight test for readers.International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems: Proceedings of ICCCES 2020 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #733)
By João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Chandrasekar Vuppalapati, V. Bindhu, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos. 2021
This book includes high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems 2020, held at the…
PPG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, on 21–22 October 2020. The book covers topics such as automation, VLSI, embedded systems, integrated device technology, satellite communication, optical communication, RF communication, microwave engineering, artificial intelligence, deep learning, pattern recognition, Internet of Things, precision models, bioinformatics, and healthcare informatics.Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems in the Frequency Domain (Springer Theses)
By Yunpeng Zhu. 2021
This book focuses on the development of three novel approaches to build up a framework for the frequency domain analysis…
and design of nonlinear systems. The concepts are derived from Volterra series representation of nonlinear systems which are described by nonlinear difference or differential equations. Occupying the middle ground between traditional linear approaches and more complex nonlinear system theories, the book will help readers to have a good start to analyse and exploit the nonlinearities. Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems in the Frequency Domain provides clear illustrations and examples at the beginning and the end of each chapter, respectively, making it of interest to both academics and practicing engineers.Transactions on Computational Science XXXVIII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12620)
By Marina L. Gavrilova, C. J. Kenneth Tan. 2021
The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not…
as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journal focuses on original high-quality research in the realm of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and the applications of large-scale computations and massive data processing. It addresses researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from aerospace to biochemistry, from electronics to geosciences, from mathematics to software architecture, presenting verifiable computational methods, findings, and solutions, and enabling industrial users to apply techniques of leading-edge, large-scale, high performance computational methods.This, the 38th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science, is devoted to research on modelling, optimization, and graphs, with applications in 3D and sketch modelling, engineering design, evolutionary computing, and networks.Cybergefahr: Wie wir uns gegen Cyber-Crime und Online-Terror wehren können
By Eddy Willems. 2015
Man kann online wählen, Rechnungen bezahlen und Tickets kaufen - aber wie sicher ist das? Überall lauern Viren, Spam, Hackerangriffe…
und sogar Cyber-Spione. Wie kann man sich schützen und wie sollte man dem Phänomen Cyber-Crime begegnen? Der bekannte Security-Experte Eddy Willems gibt einen Überblick über Online-Gefahren und Möglichkeiten, sich vor ihnen zu schützen. Er erläutert spannend die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Cyber-Crime.Proceedings of the 8th International Ergonomics Conference: ERGONOMICS 2020 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1313)
By Davor Sumpor, Kristian Jambrošić, Tanja Jurčević Lulić, Diana Milčić, Ivana Salopek Čubrić, Irena Šabarić. 2021
This book presents the proceedings of the 8th International Ergonomics Conference (ERGONOMICS), held in Zagreb, Croatia on December 2-5, 2020.…
By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, robotics, healthcare, management, computer science, human biology and behavioral science, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, timely guide on human factors and ergonomics. It also offers an excellent source of innovative ideas to stimulate future discussions and developments aimed at applying knowledge and techniques to optimize system performance, while at the same time promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of individuals. The proceedings include papers from researchers and practitioners, scientists and physicians, institutional leaders, managers and policy makers that contribute to constructing the Human Factors and Ergonomics approach across a variety of methodologies, domains and productive sectors.Advances in Information Retrieval: 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 – April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12657)
By Marie-Francine Moens, Josiane Mothe, Djoerd Hiemstra, Raffaele Perego, Martin Potthast, Fabrizio Sebastiani. 2021
This two-volume set LNCS 12656 and 12657 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR…
2021, held virtually in March/April 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 50 full papers presented together with 11 reproducibility papers, 39 short papers, 15 demonstration papers, 12 CLEF lab descriptions papers, 5 doctoral consortium papers, 5 workshop abstracts, and 8 tutorials abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 436 submissions. The accepted contributions cover the state of the art in IR: deep learning-based information retrieval techniques, use of entities and knowledge graphs, recommender systems, retrieval methods, information extraction, question answering, topic and prediction models, multimedia retrieval, and much more.Optinformatics in Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization #25)
By Liang Feng, Yaqing Hou, Zexuan Zhu. 2021
This book provides readers the recent algorithmic advances towards realizing the notion of optinformatics in evolutionary learning and optimization. The…
book also provides readers a variety of practical applications, including inter-domain learning in vehicle route planning, data-driven techniques for feature engineering in automated machine learning, as well as evolutionary transfer reinforcement learning. Through reading this book, the readers will understand the concept of optinformatics, recent research progresses in this direction, as well as particular algorithm designs and application of optinformatics. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are adaptive search approaches that take inspiration from the principles of natural selection and genetics. Due to their efficacy of global search and ease of usage, EAs have been widely deployed to address complex optimization problems occurring in a plethora of real-world domains, including image processing, automation of machine learning, neural architecture search, urban logistics planning, etc. Despite the success enjoyed by EAs, it is worth noting that most existing EA optimizers conduct the evolutionary search process from scratch, ignoring the data that may have been accumulated from different problems solved in the past. However, today, it is well established that real-world problems seldom exist in isolation, such that harnessing the available data from related problems could yield useful information for more efficient problem-solving. Therefore, in recent years, there is an increasing research trend in conducting knowledge learning and data processing along the course of an optimization process, with the goal of achieving accelerated search in conjunction with better solution quality. To this end, the term optinformatics has been coined in the literature as the incorporation of information processing and data mining (i.e., informatics) techniques into the optimization process. The primary market of this book is researchers from both academia and industry, who are working on computational intelligence methods and their applications. This book is also written to be used as a textbook for a postgraduate course in computational intelligence emphasizing methodologies at the intersection of optimization and machine learning.This book presents the proceedings of the 4th International Scientific Conference IC BCI 2021 Opole, Poland. The event was held…
at Opole University of Technology in Poland on 21 September 2021. Since 2014, the conference has taken place every two years at the University’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Informatics. The conference focused on the issues relating to new trends in modern brain–computer interfaces (BCI) and control engineering, including neurobiology–neurosurgery, cognitive science–bioethics, biophysics–biochemistry, modeling–neuroinformatics, BCI technology, biomedical engineering, control and robotics, computer engineering and neurorehabilitation–biofeedback.Passive and Active Measurement: 22nd International Conference, PAM 2021, Virtual Event, March 29 – April 1, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12671)
By Dave Levin, Oliver Hohlfeld, Andra Lutu. 2021
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2021, which was planned to…
be held in Cottbus, Germany, in March 2021. Due to the Corona pandemic, the conference was organized as a virtual meeting. The 33 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: COVID-19; web security; video streaming; TLS; staying connected; DoS; performance; network security; DNS; capacity; and exposing hidden behaviors. Due to the Corona pandemic, PAM 2021 was held as a virtual conference.Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 2 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1366)
By Hojjat Adeli, Álvaro Rocha, Gintautas Dzemyda, Fernando Moreira, Ana Maria Ramalho Correia. 2021
This book is composed of a selection of articles from The 2021 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'21),…
held online between 30 and 31 of March and 1 and 2 of April 2021 at Hangra de Heroismo, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal.WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications. The main topics covered are: A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 4 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1368)
By Hojjat Adeli, Álvaro Rocha, Gintautas Dzemyda, Fernando Moreira, Ana Maria Ramalho Correia. 2021
This book is composed of a selection of articles from The 2021 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'21),…
held online between 30 and 31 of March and 1 and 2 of April 2021 at Hangra de Heroismo, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal.WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications.The main topics covered are: A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 3 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1367)
By Hojjat Adeli, Álvaro Rocha, Gintautas Dzemyda, Fernando Moreira, Ana Maria Ramalho Correia. 2021
This book is composed of a selection of articles from The 2021 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'21),…
held online between 30 and 31 of March and 1 and 2 of April 2021 at Hangra de Heroismo, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal.WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications.The main topics covered are: A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.Introducing Blockchain with Lisp: Implement and Extend Blockchains with the Racket Language
By Boro Sitnikovski. 2021
Implement blockchain from scratch covering all the details with Racket, a general-purpose Lisp. You'll start by exploring what a blockchain…
is, so you have a solid foundation for the rest of the book. You'll then be ready to learn Racket before starting on your blockchain implementation. Once you have a working blockchain, you'll move onto extending it. The book's appendices provide supporting resources to help you in your blockchain projects. The recommended approach for the book is to follow along and write the code as it’s being explained instead of reading passively. This way you will get the most out of it. All of the source code is available for free download from GitHub. What You Will LearnDiscover the Racket programming language and how to use itImplement a blockchain from scratch using LispImplement smart contracts and peer-to-peer supportLearn how to use macros to employ more general abstractionsWho This Book Is For Novices that have at least some experience with programming, as well as some basic working experience with computers. The book also assumes some experience with high school mathematics, such as functions.