Morgan Claypool Publishers imprint: 107 books
by David Báez-López, Félix E. Guerrero-Castro, Ofelia Delfina Cervantes-Villagómez
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Multisim is now the de facto standard for circuit simulation. It is a SPICE-based circuit simulator which combines analog, discrete-time, and mixed-mode circuits. In addition, it is the only simulator which incorporates microcontroller simulation in the same environment. It also includes a tool for...
Provenance
An Introduction to PROV
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The World Wide Web is now deeply intertwined with our lives, and has become a catalyst for a data deluge, making vast amounts of data available online, at a click of a button. With Web 2.0, users are no longer passive consumers, but active publishers and curators of data. Hence, from science to food...
Experience Design
Technology for All the Right Reasons
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
In his book "In the blink of an eye" Walter Murch, the Oscar-awarded editor of The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, and many other outstanding movies, devises the Rule of Six -- six criteria for what makes a good cut. On top of his list is "to be true to the emotion of the moment,"...
by Charles Lessard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This lecture book is an introduction to project management. It will be of use for engineering students working on project design in all engineering disciplines and will also be of high value to practicing engineers in the work force. Few engineering programs prepare students in methods of project...
Crafting your Research Future
A Guide to Successful Master's and PhD Degrees in Science & Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
What is it like to be a researcher or a scientist? For young people, including graduate students and junior faculty members in universities, how can they identify good ideas for research? How do they conduct solid research to verify and realize their new ideas? How can they formulate their ideas and...
Activity Theory in HCI: Fundamentals and Reflections
Fundamentals and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Activity theory -- a conceptual framework originally developed by Aleksei Leontiev -- has its roots in the socio-cultural tradition in Russian psychology. The foundational concept of the theory is human activity, which is understood as purposeful, mediated, and transformative interaction between human...
by Gustavo Camps-Valls, Devis Tuia, Luis Gómez-Chova
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Earth observation is the field of science concerned with the problem of monitoring and modeling the processes on the Earth surface and their interaction with the atmosphere. The Earth is continuously monitored with advanced optical and radar sensors. The images are analyzed and processed to deliver...
by Brandon Reagen, Robert Adolf, Paul Whatmough
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Machine learning, and specifically deep learning, has been hugely disruptive in many fields of computer science. The success of deep learning techniques in solving notoriously difficult classification and regression problems has resulted in their rapid adoption in solving real-world problems. The...
Markov Logic
An Interface Layer for Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Most subfields of computer science have an interface layer via which applications communicate with the infrastructure, and this is key to their success (e.g., the Internet in networking, the relational model in databases, etc.). So far this interface layer has been missing in AI. First-order logic...
Essentials of Game Theory
A Concise Multidisciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Game theory is the mathematical study of interaction among independent, self-interested agents. The audience for game theory has grown dramatically in recent years, and now spans disciplines as diverse as political science, biology, psychology, economics, linguistics, sociology, and computer science,...
Social Media and Civic Engagement
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Social media platforms are the latest manifestation in a series of sociotechnical innovations designed to enhance civic engagement, political participation, and global activism. While many researchers started out as optimists about the promise of social media for broadening participation and enhancing...
Ensemble Methods in Data Mining
Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Ensemble methods have been called the most influential development in Data Mining and Machine Learning in the past decade. They combine multiple models into one usually more accurate than the best of its components. Ensembles can provide a critical boost to industrial challenges -- from investment...
by Elena Zheleva, Evimaria Terzi, Lise Getoor
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This synthesis lecture provides a survey of work on privacy in online social networks (OSNs). This work encompasses concerns of users as well as service providers and third parties. Our goal is to approach such concerns from a computer-science perspective, and building upon existing work on privacy,...
Search-Based Applications
At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
We are poised at a major turning point in the history of information management via computers. Recent evolutions in computing, communications, and commerce are fundamentally reshaping the ways in which we humans interact with information, and generating enormous volumes of electronic data along the...