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Digital Health: A Primer (Analytics and AI for Healthcare)
By Nilmini Wickramasinghe. 2024
Healthcare systems globally are grappling with how best to implement effective and efficient patient-centred care while simultaneously trying to contain…
runaway costs and provide high quality. This book explores the essential enabling role of digital health, taking a socio-technical perspective and looking at the key facets of technology, people and process in turn.This book examines the opportunities of key digital health components, demystifying digital health and demonstrating how to use its key precepts effectively. The book presents evidence and anecdotes from stakeholders around the world, demonstrating the global relevance and the ability of digital health to uplift and upskill care delivery as it is applied commercially. Bridging academic theory and practice, this is a functional and accessible text for all digital health stakeholders.The text introduces critical issues and is suitable reading for students, practitioners and researchers in digital health and all healthcare-related domains.Python Programming in Context
By Julie Anderson, Jon Anderson. 2025
Python Programming in Context, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Python fundamentals. Updated with Python 3.10, the…
Fourth Edition offers a thorough overview of multiple applied areas, including image processing, cryptography, astronomy, the Internet, and bioinformatics. Taking an active learning approach, each chapter starts with a comprehensive real-world project that teaches core design techniques and Python programming to immediately engage students. An ideal first language for learners entering the rapidly expanding fields of computer science, data science, and scientific programing, Python gives students a solid platform of key problem-solving skills that translate easily across programming languages. This text is designed to be a first course in computer science that focuses on problem-solving, with language features being introduced as needed to solve the problem at hand.Identity Attack Vectors: Strategically Designing and Implementing Identity Security, Second Edition
By Morey J. Haber, Darran Rolls. 2024
Today, it’s easier for threat actors to simply log in versus hack in. As cyberattacks continue to increase in volume…
and sophistication, it’s not a matter of if, but when, your organization will have an incident. Threat actors target accounts, users, and their associated identities—whether human or machine, to initiate or progress their attack. Detecting and defending against these malicious activities should be the basis of all modern cybersecurity initiatives.This book details the risks associated with poor identity security hygiene, the techniques that external and internal threat actors leverage, and the operational best practices that organizations should adopt to protect against identity theft, account compromises, and to develop an effective identity and access security strategy. As a solution to these challenges, Identity Security has emerged as a cornerstone of modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) initiatives. Managing accounts, credentials, roles, entitlements, certifications, and attestation reporting for all identities is now a security and regulatory compliance requirement. In this book, you will discover how inadequate identity and privileged access controls can be exploited to compromise accounts and credentials within an organization. You will understand the modern identity threat landscape and learn how role-based identity assignments, entitlements, and auditing strategies can be used to mitigate the threats across an organization’s entire Identity Fabric. What You Will Learn Understand the concepts behind an identity and how its associated credentials and accounts can be leveraged as an attack vectorImplement an effective identity security strategy to manage identities and accounts based on roles and entitlements, including the most sensitive privileged accountsKnow the role that identity security controls play in the cyber kill chain and how privileges should be managed as a potential weak linkBuild upon industry standards and strategies such as Zero Trust to integrate key identity security technologies into a corporate ecosystemPlan for a successful identity and access security deployment; create an implementation scope and measurable risk reduction; design auditing, discovery, and regulatory reporting; and develop oversight based on real-world strategies to prevent identity attack vectors Who This Book Is For Management and implementers in IT operations, security, and auditing looking to understand and implement an Identity and Access Management (IAM) program and manage privileges in these environmentsGeometric Tolerancing Standard to Machine Design: A Design-for-Fit Approach
By Faryar Etesami. 2024
This book is for students enrolled in undergraduate mechanical engineering, or similar, programs. The material presented is based on nearly…
thirty years of class-tested lecture notes for courses on the applications of geometric tolerancing for designers. The book’s emphasis is on fit requirements for machine components, as fit assurance makes up the majority of challenging applications in tolerancing. For design engineers, knowing how to apply geometric tolerances has been a challenge even for engineers who have practiced geometric tolerancing for a long time. The syntax and meaning of geometric tolerancing statements can be learned easily and quickly, but knowing how to use them correctly is much more difficult. In the Design-for-Fit approach, the presentation starts with the geometric requirements for various kinds of fit and then presents the geometric tolerance statements necessary to achieve those fits.Advanced Mathematical Science for Mobility Society
By Kazushi Ikeda, Yoshiumi Kawamura, Kazuhisa Makino, Satoshi Tsujimoto, Nobuo Yamashita, Shintaro Yoshizawa, Hanna Sumita. 2024
This open access book presents the mathematical methods for huge data and network analysis.The automotive industry has made steady progress…
in technological innovations under the names of Connected Autonomous-Shared-Electric (CASE) and Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Needless to say, mathematics and informatics are important to support such innovations. As the concept of cars and movement itself is diversifying, they are indispensable for grasping the essence of the future mobility society and building the foundation for the next generation. Based on this idea, Research unit named "Advanced Mathematical Science for Mobility Society" was established at Kyoto University as a base for envisioning a future mobility society in collaboration with researchers led by Toyota Motor Corporation and Kyoto University.This book contains three main contents.1. Mathematical models of flow2. Mathematical methodsfor huge data and network analysis3. Algorithm for mobility societyThe first one discusses mathematical models of pedestrian and traffic flow, as they are important for preventing accidents and achieving efficient transportation. The authors mainly focus on global dynamics caused by the interaction of particles. The authors discuss many-body particle systems in terms of geometry and box-ball systems. The second one consists of four chapters and deals with mathematical technologies for handling huge data related to mobility from the viewpoints of machine learning, numerical analysis, and statistical physics, which also includes blockchain techniques. Finally, the authors discuss algorithmic issues on mobility society. By making use of car-sharing service as an example of mobility systems, the authors consider how to construct and analyze algorithms for mobility system from viewpoints of control, optimization, and AI.This book covers the III International Scientific and Practical Conference "Digital and Information Technologies in Economics and Management" (DITEM2023) which…
was held on November 21–23, 2023. The conference addressed issues of networks and systems related to the use of information technologies in economics and management of various sectors. A distinctive feature of the conference is that it featured presentations by authors from China, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Oman, Kazakhstan and Russia. Researchers from different countries presented the process of transition to new information technologies of various network and system structures and sectors. The conference made it possible to develop new scientific recommendations on the use of information, computer, digital and intellectual technologies and networks in industry and fields of activity that can be useful to state and regional authorities, international and supranational organizations, the scientific and professional community.The Emergence of Mind: Where Technology Ends and We Begin
By Jeffrey Kane. 2024
While it may appear that generative AI has mastered the mystery of the human mind and released its full power, The…
Emergence of Mind: Where Technology Ends and We Begin demonstrates the profound and fundamental limitations of the technology and its use as a model of human thinking. In response, the book offers an emergent model of the human mind rooted in our experiences as living, sentient, social and conscious beings. The text explores the nature of meaning in human cognition and the critical importance of the experience of ideas. In so doing, it offers insights into the cultivation of specific generative capacities of the human mind.This book is a collection of thoroughly well-researched studies presented at the Eighth Future Technologies Conference. This annual conference aims…
to seek submissions from the wide arena of studies like Computing, Communication, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence, Security, and e-Learning. With an impressive 490 paper submissions, FTC emerged as a hybrid event of unparalleled success, where visionary minds explored groundbreaking solutions to the most pressing challenges across diverse fields. These groundbreaking findings open a window for vital conversation on information technologies in our community especially to foster future collaboration with one another. We hope that the readers find this book interesting and inspiring and render their enthusiastic support toward it.Euro-Par 2023: Euro-Par 2023 International Workshops, Limassol, Cyprus, August 28 – September 1, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14352)
By Demetris Zeinalipour, Dora Blanco Heras, George Pallis, Herodotos Herodotou, Demetris Trihinas, Daniel Balouek, Patrick Diehl, Terry Cojean, Karl Fürlinger, Maja Hanne Kirkeby, Matteo Nardelli, Pierangelo Di Sanzo. 2024
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing,…
Euro-Par 2023, which took place in Limassol, Cyprus, during August 28–September 1, 2023. The 42 full papers presented in this book together with 11 symposium papers and 14 demo/poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers cover covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. LNCS 14351: First International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC 2023). First International Workshop on Tools for Data Locality, Power and Performance (TDLPP 2023). First International Workshop on Urgent Analytics for Distributed Computing (QuickPar 2023). 21st International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HETEROPAR 2023). LNCS 14352: Second International Workshop on Resource AWareness of Systems and Society (RAW 2023). Third International Workshop on Asynchronous Many-Task systems for Exascale (AMTE 2023). Third International Workshop on Performance and Energy-efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems (PECS 2023) First Minisymposium on Applications and Benefits of UPMEM commercial Massively Parallel Processing-In-Memory Platform (ABUMPIMP 2023). First Minsymposium on Adaptive High Performance Input / Output Systems (ADAPIO 2023).Solutions Architect's Handbook: Kick-start your career as a solutions architect by learning architecture design principles and strategies, 2nd Edition
By Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav, Rajesh Sheth, Rohan Karmarkar, Kamal Arora. 2022
From fundamentals and design patterns to the different strategies for creating secure and reliable architectures in AWS cloud, learn everything…
you need to become a successful solutions architect.Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.Endorsements"For new or existing solutions architects looking to keep their skills sharp in the cloud era, this book hits all the key areas."-Rajesh Sheth, GM, Messaging and Streaming, AWS"...the go-to guide for understanding various functions in the age of cloud computing."-Rohan Karmarkar, Director, Solutions Architecture, AWS"...you will find very important nuggets of knowledge that will help you be a successful solutions architect, and open up a new world of infinite possibilities!"-Kamal Arora, Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture, AWSBook DescriptionBecoming a solutions architect requires a hands-on approach, and this edition of the Solutions Architect's Handbook brings exactly that. This handbook will teach you how to create robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant solutions and next-generation architecture designs in a cloud environment. It will also help you build effective product strategies for your business and implement them from start to finish.This new edition features additional chapters on disruptive technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, data engineering, and machine learning. It also includes updated discussions on cloud-native architecture, blockchain data storage, and mainframe modernization with public cloud.The Solutions Architect's Handbook provides an understanding of solution architecture and how it fits into an agile enterprise environment. It will take you through the journey of solution architecture design by providing detailed knowledge of design pillars, advanced design patterns, anti-patterns, and the cloud-native aspects of modern software design.By the end of this handbook, you'll have learned the techniques needed to create efficient architecture designs that meet your business requirements.What you will learnExplore the various roles of a solutions architect in the enterprise landscapeImplement key design principles and patterns to build high-performance cost-effective solutionsChoose the best strategies to secure your architectures and increase their availabilityModernize legacy applications with the help of cloud integrationUnderstand how big data processing, machine learning, and IoT fit into modern architectureIntegrate a DevOps mindset to promote collaboration, increase operational efficiency, and streamline productionWho this book is forThis book is for software developers, system engineers, DevOps engineers, architects, and team leaders who already work in the IT industry and aspire to become solutions architect professionals.Existing solutions architects who want to expand their skillset or get a better understanding of new technologies will also learn valuable new skills.To get started, you'll need a good understanding of the real-world software development process and general programming experience in any language.Stay on top of the new Java features (up to JDK 21) and find efficient solutions for your programming woes.…
With over 250 problems and solutions, you'll learn new ways to deal with real-world coding tasks and answers to common interview questions. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesSolve Java programming challenges and get interview-ready with the power of modern Java 21Test your Java skills using language features, algorithms, data structures, and design patternsExplore tons of examples, all fully refreshed for this edition, meant to help you accommodate JDK 12 to JDK 21Book DescriptionThe super-fast evolution of the JDK between versions 12 and 21 has made the learning curve of modern Java steeper, and increased the time needed to learn it. This book will make your learning journey quicker and increase your willingness to try Java’s new features by explaining the correct practices and decisions related to complexity, performance, readability, and more. Java Coding Problems takes you through Java’s latest features but doesn’t always advocate the use of new solutions — instead, it focuses on revealing the trade-offs involved in deciding what the best solution is for a certain problem. There are more than two hundred brand new and carefully selected problems in this second edition, chosen to highlight and cover the core everyday challenges of a Java programmer. Apart from providing a comprehensive compendium of problem solutions based on real-world examples, this book will also give you the confidence to answer questions relating to matching particular streams and methods to various problems. By the end of this book you will have gained a strong understanding of Java’s new features and have the confidence to develop and choose the right solutions to your problems.What you will learnAdopt the latest JDK 21 features in your applicationsExplore Records, Record Patterns, Record serialization and so onWork with Sealed Classes and Interfaces for increasing encapsulationLearn how to exploit Context-Specific Deserialization FiltersSolve problems relating to collections and esoteric data structuresLearn advanced techniques for extending the Java functional APIExplore the brand-new Socket API and Simple Web ServerTackle modern Garbage Collectors and Dynamic CDS ArchivesWho this book is forIf you are a Java developer who wants to level-up by solving real-world problems, then this book is for you. Working knowledge of the Java programming language is required to get the most out of this bookSystems, Smart Technologies and Innovation for Society: Proceedings of CITIS´2023, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #870)
By Juan Pablo Salgado-Guerrero, Hector Rene Vega-Carrillo, Gonzalo García-Fernández, Vladimir Robles-Bykbaev. 2024
This book is dedicated to exploring the practical applications and future perspectives of intelligent technologies. It delves into various domains,…
including industry, mobility, telecommunications, and environmental considerations.The innovative nature of this text enables us to draw connections between technical advancements and experiences aimed at enhancing the integration of emerging technologies on local, national, and regional scales. It showcases the strides made in diverse engineering domains, underlining the book’s multidisciplinary appeal. This book is intended for a wide readership, catering to master's and doctoral students, professors, and researchers in the field of cutting-edge technologies. It also extends its relevance to businesses engaged in engineering development. The contents offer insights into novel methodologies, real-world case studies, and innovative techniques designed to optimize systems, ultimately contributing to societal progress.Chatbot Research and Design: 7th International Workshop, CONVERSATIONS 2023, Oslo, Norway, November 22–23, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14524)
By Asbjørn Følstad, Theo Araujo, Symeon Papadopoulos, Effie L.-C. Law, Ewa Luger, Morten Goodwin, Sebastian Hobert, Petter Bae Brandtzaeg. 2024
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2023, which was held…
during November 2023.The 12 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They were organized in following topical sections: Understanding and Enhancing Conversational Interactions, LLM-driven Conversational Design and Analysis, Ethical Perspectives and Bias, Complementing Perspectives.The book focuses on modeling real-world crisis management in digital product development. This includes models and methods for forecasting, responding,…
and agile engineering/managing for sustainable product development. This book suggests an approach that contains principles, formal models, and semi-formal practice-oriented methods, patterns and techniques to efficiently manage these crises and provide sustainable development. The book also introduces a set of principles, models, and methods for sustainable management as a blend, the components of which have been carefully selected from a few domains adjacent to digital production such as IT-intensive operation, human resource management, and knowledge engineering, to name a few. The key ingredients of this crisis management framework include smart data modeling, trade-off optimizing, agile product controlling, and knowledge transferring.Dieses Buch stellt eine Einführung in das Programmieren und das Erstellen publikationsfertiger Grafiken oder interaktiver Animationen mit der Julia-Programmiersprache dar.…
Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf einer schrittweise Auseinandersetzung mit den verschiedenen Plot-Möglichkeiten. Im Buch werden aufeinander aufbauend alle wichtigen Programmierkonstrukte zum Erstellen von Grafiken ausgearbeitet. Durch zusätzliche Aufgaben mit Beispiellösungen kann der Leser sein gelerntes Wissen nochmals selbst in der Praxis anwenden.Der InhaltErste SchritteSchleifen in JuliaErstellen einfacher GrafikenDarstellungsoptionen von Plots und Schleifen mit FunktionenVektorfelder, 3d-Plots, Oberflächen und KonturenInteraktive Anwendungen und AnimationenDer AutorDr. Daniel Jaud studierte Mathematik und Physik mit anschließender Promotion. Er unterrichtet an einem Gymnasium und ist weiterhin als freier Wissenschaftler im Bereich der mathematischen Physik tätig.Application-Specific Arithmetic: Computing Just Right for the Reconfigurable Computer and the Dark Silicon Era
By Florent De Dinechin, Martin Kumm. 2024
Written by two experts of the domain, this book presents the most recent advances in computer arithmetic hardware, with a…
focus on application-specific arithmetic beyond the classic operators and the standard precisions. It targets silicon designers who have to do better with less in the post-Moore era, and FPGA developers who want to exploit the full possibilities of reconfigurable computing platforms.How to Think about Information
By Dan Schiller. 2006
It is common wisdom that the U.S. economy has adapted to losses in its manufacturing base because of the booming…
information sector, with high-paying jobs for everything from wireless networks to video games. We are told we live in the Information Age, in which communications networks and media and information services drive the larger economy. While the Information Age may have looked sunny in the beginning, as it has developed it looks increasingly ominous: its economy and benefits grow more and more centralized--and in the United States, it has become less and less subject to democratic oversight. Corporations around the world have identified the value of information and are now seeking to control its production, transmission, and consumption. In How to Think about Information, Dan Schiller explores the ways information has been increasingly commodified as a result and how it both resembles and differs from other commodities. Through a linked series of theoretical, historical, and contemporary studies, Schiller reveals this commodification as both dynamic and expansionary, but also deeply conflicted and uncertain. He examines the transformative political and economic changes occurring throughout the informational realm and analyzes key dimensions of the process, including the buildup of new technological platforms, the growth of a transnationalizing culture industry, and the role played by China as it reinserts itself into an informationalized capitalism.This book takes a data-first approach to framing the built environment sector’s unique challenges and how industry can address them…
through better use of data. It describes how the sector has failed to derive value from data, and the common causes underlying this failure. It then provides practical guidance on how to use data to construct and operate built environment assets in a manner that better meets society’s needs. The book examines how industry norms, organizational culture, and our personal behaviours contribute to the successful use of data. It sets out a philosophy and vision for the use of data in the built environment, and how this in turn might help the sector realise better outcomes in terms of cost, schedule, quality, and sustainability. Data is a valuable asset, one that the built environment sector must generate, protect, manage, and exploit. The book works as a holistic primer to data and the built environment, written both for those who are new to data or the built environment, and including deep-dive material that will provide insight to experienced professionals.Ubiquitous Security: Third International Conference, UbiSec 2023, Exeter, UK, November 1–3, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2034)
By Guojun Wang, Haozhe Wang, Geyong Min, Nektarios Georgalas, Weizhi Meng. 2024
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference, UbiSec 2023, held in Exeter, UK, during November 1–3, 2023.The…
29 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. They were organized in following topical sections: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, Cyberspace AnonymityThe 7-volume set LNCS 14487-14493 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP…
2023, which took place in Tianjin, China, during October 2023.The 145 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 439 submissions. ICA3PP covers many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures; encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches; practical experimental projects; and commercial components and systems.