Information Technology category: 2629 books
Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2016
15th Ibero-American Conference on AI, San José, Costa Rica, November 23-25, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15 Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2016, held in San José, Costa Rica, in November 2016. The 34 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in the following...
Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice
Thirty Case Studies from around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Every CEO in the world, if questioned, will always complain that there are a lot of ideas to implement, but, unfortunately, insufficient resources to accomplish them. This book provides a solution to this dilemma by supplying techniques to assess the value of projects, prioritize projects, and decide...
Emerging Wireless Networks
Concepts, Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
An authoritative collection of research papers and surveys, Emerging Wireless Networks: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications explores recent developments in next-generation wireless networks (NGWNs) and mobile broadband networks technologies, including 4G (LTE, WiMAX), 3G (UMTS, HSPA), WiFi, mobile ad hoc networks, mesh networks, and wireles
Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Aging, Design and User Experience
Third International Conference, ITAP 2017, Held as Part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9-14, 2017, Proceedings, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
The two-volume set LNCS 10297 + 10298 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2017, held as part of HCI International 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
HCII 2017 received a total of 4340 submissions, of which...
by John Walsh, Jane Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Exam Board: SQA
Level: National 5
Subject: Computing Science
First Teaching: August 2017
First Exam: June 2018
National 5 Computing Science provides complete coverage of the new SQA syllabus for the updated National 5 course
Ensures clear support throughout the course with a text built...
by Mike Browne
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Setting Up Your First Business Website
Section One: How to Determine What You Want to Sell
Section Two: Do You Really Need Your Own Business Website?
Section Three: Designing Your Business Website
Section Four – Part II: Designing Your Own Website
and much much more.....
by Seng W. Loke
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This SpringerBrief provides a synergistic overview of technology trends by emphasizing five linked perspectives: crowd+cloud machines, extreme cooperation with smart things, scalable context-awareness, drone services for mobile crowds and social links in mobile crowds. The authors also highlight issues...
Fostering Innovation in Community and Institutional Corrections
Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for the U.S. Corrections Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Given the challenges posed to the U.S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or approaches could improve performance. In this report, RAND researchers, with the...
Healthcare IT Transformation
Bridging Innovation, Integration, Interoperability, and Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book gives examples from healthcare institutions that are using IT automation and innovation to drive change and provides guidance on the strategic direction of HIT over the next five years. Improving the delivery of healthcare through HIT is vital for both the economic success of healthcare...
Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life
Pacific Traversals Online
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In this ground-breaking study M.I. Franklin explores the form and substance of everyday life online from a critical postcolonial perspective. With Internet access and social media uses accelerating in the Global South, in-depth studies of just how non-western communities, at home and living abroad,...
by Thomas Pavelko
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The U.S. economy thrives on the development of new products, new systems, and new processes. Usually, these advances start as a flash of inspiration by highly creative individuals. It is complex and difficult to go from initial inspiration to a final product, process, or system. So it is not surprising...
by Hakan Butuner
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The book shows how to use Planning by Design (PxD) for developing working models to any type of subject area. Section 1 describes the nature of planning in general, the formula of planning, the features that make it systematic, the essence of PxD, and developing and using the working model. Section...
by Babak Naderi
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book studies the motivation of crowdworkers to find out how to attract more people and reach a higher quality of outcomes. The book first proposes a taxonomy for studying the motivation of crowdworkers including the potential influencing factors, different types of motivation, and possible consequences...
Towards a Spin-Ensemble Quantum Memory for Superconducting Qubits
Design and Implementation of the Write, Read and Reset Steps
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This work describes theoretical and experimental advances towards the realization of a hybrid quantum processor in which the collective degrees of freedom of an ensemble of spins in a crystal are used as a multi-qubit register for superconducting qubits. A memory protocol made of write, read and...