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The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives
This book provides practical information about web archives, offers inspiring examples for web archivists, raises new challenges, and shares recent research results about access methods to explore information from the past preserved by web archives. The book is structured in six parts. Part 1 advocates for the importance of web archives to preserve our collective memory in the digital era, demonstrates the problem of web ephemera and shows how web archiving activities have been trying to address this challenge. Part 2 then focuses on different strategies for selecting web content to be preserved and on the media types that different web archives host. It provides an overview of efforts to address the preservation of web content as well as smaller-scale but high-quality collections of social media or audiovisual content. Next, Part 3 presents examples of initiatives to improve access to archived web information and provides an overview of access mechanisms for web archives designed to be used by humans or automatically accessed by machines. Part 4 presents research use cases for web archives. It also discusses how to engage more researchers in exploiting web archives and provides inspiring research studies performed using the exploration of web archives. Subsequently, Part 5 demonstrates that web archives should become crucial infrastructures for modern connected societies. It makes the case for developing web archives as research infrastructures and presents several inspiring examples of added-value services built on web archives. Lastly, Part 6 reflects on the evolution of the web and the sustainability of web archiving activities. It debates the requirements and challenges for web archives if they are to assume the responsibility of being societal infrastructures that enable the preservation of memory. This book targets academics and advanced professionals in a broad range of research areas such as digital humanities, social sciences, history, media studies and information or computer science. It also aims to fill the need for a scholarly overview to support lecturers who would like to introduce web archiving into their courses by offering an initial reference for students.
Physical Layer Security in Wireless Communications
Physical layer security has recently become an emerging technique to complement and significantly improve the communication security of wireless networks. Compared to cryptographic approaches, physical layer security is a fundamentally different paradigm where secrecy is achieved by exploiting the physical layer properties of the communication syst
Pioneers and Their Contributions to Software Engineering: sd&m Conference on Software Pioneers, Bonn, June 28/29, 2001, Original Historic Contributions
The Piracy Years: Internet File Sharing in a Global Context
The Piracy Years: Internet File Sharing in a Global Context is the first collection to provide an overview of digital piracy’s recent past and its potential futures. Combining research essays, interviews, and overviews, the volume brings together leading scholars and infamous digital pirates from China, Germany, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In June 1999, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing website Napster transformed the availability of online content, but the site was quickly sued into oblivion. Despite the highly publicised shutdowns of a number of P2P websites, many continue to thrive, and digital piracy has become a global phenomenon. This book argues that any future media theory and research will have to contend with such web practices remaining an integral and politically formative part of the Internet. Offline and online piracies thrive on technological affordances in opposition to corporate efforts – in music, film, publishing, and academia – to label them as threatening to the economy and society. Therefore, this book explores piracy as a phenomenon navigating the conventions, norms, and boundaries of legality in digital cultures. Pirate networked sociabilities work within and outside the fringes of market economy through the lens of institutional and discursive power. By creating new ways that keep society moving and from stagnation, they ensure its continued existence - including the survival of the very areas they attack. The Piracy Years is an essential resource for researchers, post-graduate students, and anyone interested in the global spread and ever-increasing importance of digital piracy.
Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games (New Directions in Medieval Studies)
The Middle Ages have provided rich source material for physical and digital games from Dungeons and Dragons to Assassin's Creed. This volume addresses the many ways in which different formats and genre of games represent the period. It considers the restrictions placed on these representations by the mechanical and gameplay requirements of the medium and by audience expectations of these products and the period, highlighting innovative attempts to overcome these limitations through game design and play. Playing the Middle Ages considers a number of important and timely issues within the field including: one, the connection between medieval games and political nationalistic rhetoric; two, trends in the presentation of religion, warfare and other aspects of medieval society and their connection to modern culture; three, the problematic representations of race; and four, the place of gender and sexuality within these games and the broader gaming community. The book draws on the experience of a wide-ranging and international group of academics across disciplines and from games designers. Through this combination of expertise, it provides a unique perspective on the representation of the Middle Ages in modern games and drives key discussions in the fields of history and game design.
Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences (Routledge Communication Series)
From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory. Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences integrates communication, psychology, and technology to examine the psychological and mediated aspects of playing video games. It is the first volume to delve deeply into these aspects of computer game play. It fits squarely into the media psychology arm of entertainment studies, the next big wave in media studies. The book targets one of the most popular and pervasive media in modern times, and it will serve to define the area of study and provide a theoretical spine for future research.This unique and timely volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in media studies and mass communication, psychology, and marketing.
Political Geometry: Rethinking Redistricting in the US with Math, Law, and Everything In Between
“Why does my congressional district look like a salamander?” Politically engaged citizens have been asking this question for far too long. This volume collects perspectives from a wide cross-section of disciplines to explain what drives gerrymandering, why it can be hard to stamp out, and how we might go about fixing it. With topics ranging from the Voting Rights Act to Markov chains to the geography of communities, this book serves as a 21st century toolkit for how we can better approach this corrosive phenomenon.The volume editors gather experts from a variety of fields to provide as many different perspectives on gerrymandering as possible. Thanks to the breadth of expertise found across these chapters, ranging from lawyers to mathematicians to civil rights activists, readers will discover new ways of thinking about redistricting in the United States. Illustrations and helpful walkthroughs appear throughout to clearly explain otherwise complex ideas from these areas. Political Geometry is a must-have for anybody interested in political representation in the United States elections, and for anyone who’s ever thought, “There must be a better way to do this.”
Potenziale Künstlicher Intelligenz für die Qualitätswissenschaft: Bericht zur GQW-Jahrestagung 2018 in Nürnberg
Die Gesellschaft für Qualitätswissenschaft e.V. GQW hat sich seit ihrer Gründung im Dezember 1994 dem Ziel verschrieben, die Qualitätswissenschaft in Lehre und Forschung zu fördern und den Wissenstransfer in die industrielle Anwendung zu unterstützen. Seit 1998 werden hierzu im Rahmen von Jahrestagungen Forschungs- und Entwicklungsergebnisse vorgestellt, die für die Qualitätswissenschaft aktuelle und relevante Themen aufgreifen. Die Jahrestagung 2018 der GQW fand unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert H. Schmitt parallel zum DGQ-Qualitätstag auf der Nürnberger Messe statt. Der Themenschwerpunkt fokussierte auf das Potenzial der Methoden der Künstlichen Intelligenz für die Qualitätswissenschaft sowie daran angeknüpfter Themen mit Blick auf die voranschreitende Digitalisierung und Vernetzung in produzierenden Unternehmen. Es eröffnen sich u.a. Potenziale im Bereich der kontextbezogenen Extraktion von Daten zur Gestaltung intelligenter Assistenzsysteme und Infrastrukturen zur Unterstützung des modernen Qualitätsmanagements in Unternehmen.
Powers of Two: The Information Universe — Information as the Building Block of Everything
Is everything Information? This is a tantalizing question which emerges in modern physics, life sciences, astronomy and in today’s information and technology-driven society. In Powers of Two expert authors undertake a unique expedition - in words and images - throughout the world (and scales) of information. The story resembles, in a way, the classic Powers of Ten journeys through space: from us to the macro and the micro worlds . However, by following Powers of Two through the world of information, a completely different and timely paradigm unfolds. Every power of two, 1, 2, 4, 8…. tells us a different story: starting from the creation of the very first bit at the Big Bang and the evolution of life, through 50 years of computational science, and finally into deep space, describing the information in black holes and even in the entire universe and beyond…. All this to address one question: Is our universe made of information? In this book, we experience the Information Universe in nature and in our society and how information lies at the very foundation of our understanding of the Universe.From the Foreword by Robbert Dijkgraaf: This book is in many ways a vastly extended version of Shannon’s one-page blueprint. It carries us all the way to the total information content of the Universe. And it bears testimony of how widespread the use of data has become in all aspects of life. Information is the connective tissue of the modern sciences. […] Undoubtedly, future generations will look back at this time, so much enthralled by Big Data and quantum computers, as beholden to the information metaphor. But that is exactly the value of this book. With its crisp descriptions and evocative illustrations, it brings the reader into the here and now, at the very frontier of scientific research, including the excitement and promise of all the outstanding questions and future discoveries.
Practical Applications of Computational Intelligence Techniques (International Series in Intelligent Technologies #16)
Computational intelligence paradigms have attracted the growing interest of researchers, scientists, engineers and application engineers in a number of everyday applications. These applications are not limited to any particular field and include engineering, business, banking and consumer electronics. Computational intelligence paradigms include artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing. Artificial neural networks can mimic the biological information processing mechanism in a very limited sense. Evolutionary computing algorithms are used for optimisation applications, and fuzzy logic provides a basis for representing uncertain and imprecise knowledge. Practical Applications of Computational Intelligence Techniques contains twelve chapters providing actual application of these techniques in the real world. Such examples include, but are not limited to, intelligent household appliances, aerial spray models, industrial applications and medical diagnostics and practice. This book will be useful to researchers, practicing engineers/scientists and students, who are interested in developing practical applications in a computational intelligence environment.
Practical Data Mining Techniques and Applications
Data mining techniques and algorithms are extensively used to build real-world applications. A practical approach can be applied to data mining techniques to build applications. Once deployed, an application enables the developers to work on the users’ goals and mold the algorithms with respect to users’ perspectives. Practical Data Mining Techniques and Applications focuses on various concepts related to data mining and how these techniques can be used to develop and deploy applications. The book provides a systematic composition of fundamental concepts of data mining blended with practical applications. The aim of this book is to provide access to practical data mining applications and techniques to help readers gain an understanding of data mining in practice. Readers also learn how relevant techniques and algorithms are applied to solve problems and to provide solutions to real-world applications in different domains. This book can help academicians to extend their knowledge of the field as well as their understanding of applications based on different techniques to gain greater insight. It can also help researchers with real-world applications by diving deeper into the domain. Computing science students, application developers, and business professionals may also benefit from this examination of applied data science techniques. By highlighting an overall picture of the field, introducing various mining techniques, and focusing on different applications and research directions using these methods, this book can motivate discussions among academics, researchers, professionals, and students to exchange and develop their views regarding the dynamic field that is data mining.
Predicting the Dynamics of Research Impact
This book provides its readers with an introduction to interesting prediction and science dynamics problems in the field of Science of Science. Prediction focuses on the forecasting of future performance (or impact) of an entity, either a research article or a scientist, and also the prediction of future links in collaboration networks or identifying missing links in citation networks. The single chapters are written in a way that help the reader gain a detailed technical understanding of the corresponding subjects, the strength and weaknesses of the state-of-the-art approaches for each described problem, and the currently open challenges. While chapter 1 provides a useful contribution in the theoretical foundations of the fields of scientometrics and science of science, chapters 2-4 turn the focal point to the study of factors that affect research impact and its dynamics. Chapters 5-7 then focus on article-level measures that quantify the current and future impact of scientific articles. Next, chapters 8-10 investigate subjects relevant to predicting the future impact of individual researchers. Finally, chapters 11-13 focus on science evolution and dynamics, leveraging heterogeneous and interconnected data, where the analysis of research topic trends and their evolution has always played a key role in impact prediction approaches and quantitative analyses in the field of bibliometrics. Each chapter can be read independently, since it includes a detailed description of the problem being investigated along with a thorough discussion and study of the respective state-of-the-art. Due to the cross-disciplinary character of the Science of Science field, the book may be useful to interested readers from a variety of disciplines like information science, information retrieval, network science, informetrics, scientometrics, and machine learning, to name a few. The profiles of the readers may also be diverse ranging from researchers and professors in the respective fields to students and developers being curious about the covered subjects.
Principles of Visual Information Retrieval (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
This text introduces the basic concepts and techniques in VIR. In doing so, it develops a foundation for further research and study. Divided into two parts, the first part describes the fundamental principles. A chapter is devoted to each of the main features of VIR, such as colour, texture and shape-based search. There is coverage of search techniques for time-based image sequences or videos, and an overview of how to combine all the basic features described and integrate them into the search process. The second part looks at advanced topics such as multimedia query. This book is essential reading for researchers in VIR, and final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses such as Multimedia Information Retrieval, Multimedia Databases, and others.
Privacy, Technology, and the Criminal Process (New Advances in Crime and Social Harm)
This collection considers the implications for privacy of the utilisation of new technologies in the criminal process. In most modern liberal democratic states, privacy is considered a basic right. Many national constitutions, and almost all international human rights instruments, include some guarantee of privacy. Yet privacy interests appear to have had relatively little influence on criminal justice policy making. The threat that technology poses to these interests demands critical re-evaluation of current law, policy, and practice. This is provided by the contributions to this volume. They offer legal, criminological, philosophical and comparative perspectives. The book will be of interest to legal and criminological scholars and postgraduate students. Its interdisciplinary methodology and focus on the intersection between law and technology make it also relevant for philosophers, and those interested in science and technology studies.
Probabilistic Extensions of Various Logical Systems
The contributions in this book survey results on combinations of probabilistic and various other classical, temporal and justification logical systems. Formal languages of these logics are extended with probabilistic operators. The aim is to provide a systematic overview and an accessible presentation of mathematical techniques used to obtain results on formalization, completeness, compactness and decidability. The book will be of value to researchers in logic and it can be used as a supplementary text in graduate courses on non-classical logics.
Proceedings of the 1st International Congress on Engineering Technologies: EngiTek 2020, 16-18 June 2020, Irbid, Jordan (Mosharaka for Research and Studies International Conference Proceedings (P-MIC))
This first volume in the Mosharaka for Research and Studies International Conference Proceedings series (P-MIC) contains peer-reviewed papers presented at the 1st International Congress on Engineering Technologies (EngiTek 2020). This event was held remotely on 16-18 June 2020, and hosted by the Faculty of Engineering, Jordan University of Science & Technology (Irbid, Jordan). The conference represented a major forum for professors, students, and professionals from all over the world to present their latest research results, and to exchange new ideas and practical experiences in the most cutting-edge areas of the field of engineering technologies. Topics covered include electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences #9)
This is an open access book.The 2022 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education（ICAIE 2022） will be held in Chengdu, China during June 24-26, 2022. The meeting focused on the new trends in the development of "artificial intelligence" and "education" under the new situation, and jointly discussed how to empower and promote the high-quality development of "artificial intelligence" and "education". An ideal platform to share views and experiences with industry experts.The conference invites experts and scholars in the field to conduct wonderful exchanges based on their own research results based on the development of the times. The themes are around artificial intelligence technology and applications; intelligent and knowledge-based systems; information-based education; intelligent learning; advanced information theory and neural network technology ; software computing and algorithms; intelligent algorithms and computing and many other topics.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Mathematical Statistics and Economic Analysis (Advances in Computer Science Research #101)
This is an open access book.2022 International Conference on Mathematical Statistics and Economic Analysis(MSEA 2022) will be held in Dalian, China from May 27 to 29, 2022.Based on probability theory, mathematical statistics studies the statistical regularity of a large number of random phenomena, and infers and forecasts the whole. Economic development is very important to people's life and the country. Through data statistics and analysis, we can quickly understand the law of economic development. This conference combines mathematical statistics and economic analysis for the first time to explore the relationship between them, so as to provide a platform for experts and scholars in the field of mathematical statistics and economic analysis to exchange and discuss.
Proceedings of the 2023 1st International Conference on Advanced Informatics and Intelligent Information Systems (Advances in Intelligent Systems Research #181)
This is an open access book.We are delighted to invite you to participate in the 2023 1st International Conference on Advanced Informatics and Intelligent Information Systems (ICAI3S 2023), which will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from November 29 to 30, 2023. ICAI3S 2023 is an international seminar that carries the theme "Leveraging Intelligent Information System and Advanced Informatics in Empowering Society 5.0". This international seminar is organized by the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Yogyakarta with a technical sponsorship form IEEE Indonesia Section.Society 5.0 is a human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space. Society 5.0 achieves a high degree of convergence between cyberspace (virtual space) and physical space (real space). In Society 5.0, a huge amount of information from sensors in physical space is accumulated in cyberspace. In cyberspace, this big data is analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI), and the analysis results are fed back to humans in physical space in various forms. Interconnectivity is the key here, in order for this processes to brings new value to industry and society in ways not previously possible. New circumstances and lifestyles will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the development of global society in the future. In this seminar, participants are expected to gain an understanding of the concept and implementation of Advanced Informatics and Intelligent Information Systems in human-centered society, so that they can play a major role in the empowerement of human-centered society towards the Society 5.0.ICAI3S 2023 is expected to be attended by various stakeholders, including academics, practitioners, industry players, government officials, and end-users. Furthermore, this seminar is expected to serve as a platform for exchanging information and knowledge, particularly related to research conducted by academics. The issues discussed are related to the application of Advanced Informatics and Intelligent Information Systems in empowering Society 5.0. The diverse perspectives from various stakeholders are expected to stimulate comprehensive and intensive discussions to develop new concepts and discourses that support the Society 5.0 empowerment and future periods in relation to the implementation of new digital habits that offer various conveniences and challenges in various fields.ICAI3S 2023 will organize a series of plenary/main seminar sessions and parallel panel sessions for each track offered. Please join us for ICAI3S 2023 to create indelible memories for a lifetime!
Proceedings of the 2023 3rd International Conference on Business Administration and Data Science (Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences #19)
This is an open access book.In the current situation of rapid economic development, the competition in the market is increasingly fierce. The drawbacks of traditional enterprise management and the backward management concept have seriously hindered the normal development of enterprises.In order to improve their competitive advantages and market share, enterprises must optimize their management methods and build a modern business administration system. In this situation, enterprises can only promote their development process by improving their business management mode and formulating scientific business management policies.Data science is one of the most important tools for optimizing business administration.Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract value from data. Data scientists use a combination of skills (including statistics, computer science and business knowledge) to analyze data collected from the Web, smartphones, customers, sensors and other sources.Data is the cornerstone of innovation, and data scientists gather information from data, discovering hidden trends from raw data and generating insights that companies can use to transform business problems into research projects that can then be translated back into practical solutions.Based on this, BADS 2023 discusses the state of modern business administration and the corresponding improvement measures in the context of the current reality, and It also provides a platform for scholars in related fields to exchange and share information, discuss how the two affect each other, and promote the modernization of business administration by studying certain business administration issues.To open new perspectives, broaden horizons, and examine the issues being discussed by the participants.Create an international-level forum for sharing, research and exchange that will expose participants to the latest research directions, results and content in different fields, thus inspiring them to come up with new research ideas.
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Data Science, Advanced Algorithm and Intelligent Computing (Advances in Intelligent Systems Research #180)
This is an open access book.2023 International Conference on Data Science, Advanced Algorithm and Intelligent Computing (DAI 2023) will take place on November 24–26, 2023 in Shanghai, China. DAI 2023 will provide an insight into the unique world stemming from the interaction between the fields of data science, advanced algorithm and intelligent computing. DAI 2023 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in the areas of data science, advanced algorithm and intelligent computing.DAI 2023 focuses on high quality presentations and papers that address contemporary issues on fundamental research leading to new methods, or adaptation of existing methods for new applications related to the topics of data science, advanced algorithm and intelligent computing. It will feature keynote speeches given by renowned scholars, and oral/poster presentations with broad coverage and popular topics. Accepted papers will be included in the DAI 2023 Conference Proceedings, which will be subject to independent peer-review procedures for quality.
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Image, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (Advances in Computer Science Research #108)
This is an open access book.Scope of Conference 2023 International Conference on Image, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (ICIAAI2023), which will be held from August 11 to August 13 in Singapore provides a forum for researchers and experts in different but related fields to discuss research findings. The scope of ICIAAI 2023 covers research areas such as imaging, algorithms and artificial intelligence. Related fields of research include computer software, programming languages, software engineering, computer science applications, artificial intelligence, Intelligent data analysis, deep learning, high-performance computing, signal processing, information systems, computer graphics, computer-aided design, Computer vision, etc.The objectives of the conference are:The conference aims to provide a platform for experts, scholars, engineers and technicians engaged in the research of image, algorithm and artificial intelligence to share scientific research results and cutting-edge technologies.The conference will discuss the academic trends and development trends of the related research fields of image, algorithm and artificial intelligence together, carry out discussions on current hot issues, and broaden research ideas. It will be a perfect gathering to strengthen academic research and discussion, promote the development and progress of relevant research and application, and promote the development of disciplines and promote talent training.
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Information Technology and Engineering (Advances in Intelligent Systems Research #179)
This is an open access book.2023 International Conference on Information Technology and Engineering (ICITE)The international conference will address technology’s impact on modern society, covering social, economic, and environmental implications, along with mitigation efforts. It will serve as a forum for academics, practitioners, and researchers from diverse disciplines to share knowledge and deepen their understanding.
Proceedings of the 32nd International MATADOR Conference
The collected papers presented to delegates at the 32nd International MATADOR Conference (formerly known as the International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference) held at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) on 10-11 July 1997.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Digital Economy and Computer Application (Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences #17)
This is an open access book. The 3rd International Conference on Digital Economy and Computer Applications (DECA 2023) will be held on September 22–24, 2023 in Shanghai, China. Digital economy is the main economic form after agricultural economy and industrial economy. It takes data resources as the key element, modern information network as the main carrier, and the integration and application of information and communication technology and all-factor digital transformation as the important driving force to promote a new economic form that is more unified in fairness and efficiency. The essence of digital economy is informationization. Informatization is a social and economic process caused by the revolution of production tools, such as computer and Internet, from industrial economy to information economy. The theme of the conference mainly focuses on digital economy and computer applications and other related research fields, aiming to provide an international cooperation and exchange platform for experts and scholars in related research fields and enterprise development personnel to share research results, discuss existing problems and challenges, and explore cutting-edge technologies. We sincerely invite experts and scholars from universities and research institutions at home and abroad, entrepreneurs and other relevant personnel to contribute and participate in the conference.The DECA 2023 is accepting papers for proceeding publication. We accept contributions from those who care about exploring and enhancing the research and innovation in Digital Economy and Computer Applications in the world. The directions of the call for papers are as follows: Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain Technology, Service-Oriented and Cloud, Industry Track, Deliver the Intelligent Enterprise, Mobile business and Autonomous Computing and other papers in line with the direction of digital economy and computer applications. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, and practitioners across many disciplines that contribute to the study and practice of Digital Economy and Computer Applications.