Springer imprint: 58640 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The LNCS Transactions on Modularity and Composition are devoted to all aspects of software modularity and composition methods, tools, and techniques, covering requirement analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and evolution. The focus of the journal also includes modelling techniques, new...
Big Data Factories
Collaborative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The book proposes a systematic approach to big data collection, documentation and development of analytic procedures that foster collaboration on a large scale. This approach, designated as “data factoring” emphasizes the need to think of each individual dataset developed by an individual project...
Assessing Model-Based Reasoning using Evidence- Centered Design
A Suite of Research-Based Design Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This Springer Brief provides theory, practical guidance, and support tools to help designers create complex, valid assessment tasks for hard-to-measure, yet crucial, science education standards. Understanding, exploring, and interacting with the world through models characterizes science in all its...
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills. The major element of this new volume is the presentation of research information...
Social Responsibility and Sustainability
How Businesses and Organizations Can Operate in a Sustainable and Socially Responsible Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This book comprehensively describes social responsibility and sustainable development, with contributions from scientists and representatives from industry working in the field. The papers are innovative, cross-cutting and many share practice-based experiences, some of which may be replicable elsewhere....
by Shahab Araghinejad
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
“Data-Driven Modeling: Using MATLAB® in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering” provides a systematic account of major concepts and methodologies for data-driven models and presents a unified framework that makes the subject more accessible to and applicable for researchers and practitioners....
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Release Date: November 16, 2011
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Release Date: November 16, 2011
Reviews in Plasmonics 2010, the first volume of the new book serial from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of Plasmonics and closely related disciplines. It summarizes the year’s progress in surface plasmon phenomena and its applications,...
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Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed...
Information Sciences and Systems 2015
30th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The 30th Anniversary of the ISCIS (International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences) series of conferences, started by Professor Erol Gelenbe at Bilkent University, Turkey, in 1986, will be held at Imperial College London on September 22-24, 2015. The preceding two ISCIS conferences were...
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Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed...
Metaheuristics for Business Analytics
A Decision Modeling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This essential metaheuristics tutorial provides descriptions and practical applications in the area of business analytics. It addresses key problems in predictive and prescriptive analysis, while also illustrating how problems that arise in business analytics can be modelled and how metaheuristics...
Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB
Scientific and Engineering Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB shows the reader how to exploit a fuller array of numerical methods for the analysis of complex scientific and engineering systems than is conventionally employed. The book is dedicated to numerical simulation of distributed parameter systems...
The Heart of the Good Institution
Virtue Ethics as a Framework for Responsible Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
This book addresses the question: how can institutions develop and maintain a good purpose? And how can managers contribute to this endeavour? Twelve contributions explore this question, using MacIntyrean inquiry as a basis for exploring four main themes: Can management be considered a practice in...
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Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This practical and didactic text/reference discusses the leading edge of secure cloud computing, exploring the essential concepts and principles, tools, techniques and deployment models in this field. Enlightening perspectives are presented by an international collection of pre-eminent authorities...