Computer applications in the arts and humanities

This book focuses on the almost entirely neglected treatment of empire and colonialism in videogames.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2015, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2015.

This book offers a compendium of best practices in game dynamics.

This edited volume explores different meanings of media convergence and deconvergence, and reconsiders them in critical and innovative ways.

This book broadens the scope and impact of digital storytelling in higher education.

This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics.

This pioneering text/reference explores how innovative new modes of computation may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry, guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging, interdisciplinary field.

This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IberSPEECH 2016 Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2016.

This book positions itself at the intersection of the key areas of the modern humanities.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2016, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in November 2016.

This project offers a critical overview of how online activities and platforms are becoming an important source for the production and promotion of women's films.

This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP).

This book presents a deep spectrum of musical, mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives that have emerged in this field at the intersection of music and mathematics.

This book explains music's comprehensive ontology, its way of existence and processing, as specified in its compact characterization: music embodies meaningful communication and mediates physically between its emotional and mental layers.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2015, held in Plymouth, UK, in  June 2015.

This book explains the state of the art in the use of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of musical structures such as rhythms or scales.

This rigorous book is a complete and up-to-date reference for the Csound system from the perspective of its main developers and power users.

This book is concerned with emergence, interaction, art and computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2013, held in Poznan, Poland, in December 2013.

Computational creativity is an emerging field of research within AI that focuses on the capacity of machines to both generate and evaluate novel outputs that would, if produced by a human, be considered creative.

This volume outlines two decades of reforms at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), British Council and BBC World Service - the so-called Public Diplomacy Partners.

This textbook is a first introduction to mathematics for music theorists, covering basic topics such as sets and functions, universal properties, numbers and recursion, graphs, groups, rings, matrices and modules, continuity, calculus, and gestures.

This book presents the most up-to-date coverage of procedural content generation (PCG) for games, specifically the procedural generation of levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests, or other types of content.

Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection of essays presents innovative and provocative arguments about the claims of universal knowledge schemes and the different aesthetic and material forms in which such claims have been made and executed.

This volume unpacks an intriguing challenge for the field of media research: combining media research with the study of complex networks.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the world of metadata, from its origins in the ancient cities of the Middle East, to the Semantic Web of today.

The case studies in this book illuminate how arts and humanities tropes can aid in contextualizing Digital Arts and Humanities, Neogeographic and Social Media activity and data through the creation interpretive schemas to study interactions between visualizations, language, human behaviour, time and place.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching human resource management statistics effectively.

This case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of datasets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide applicability.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo*2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoApplications.

This state-of-the-art book explores the implications of contemporary trends that are shaping the future of museum experiences.

This book shows how Microsoft Excel is able to teach human resource management statistics effectively.

This bookcombines work from curators, digital artists, human computer interactionresearchers and computer scientists to examine the mutual benefits andchallenges posed when working together to support digital art works in theirmany forms.

In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape,exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language, Music and Computing, LMAC 2015, held in St.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th InternationalConference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2015, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in November/December 2015.

This book provides an in-depth introduction and overview of current research in computational music analysis.

This book documents the creation of the Bichitra Online Tagore Variorum, a publicly accessible database of Rabindranath Tagore's complete works in Bengali and English totaling some 140,000 pages of primary material.

This textbook provides both profound technological knowledge and a comprehensive treatment of essential topics in music processing and music information retrieval.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, MCM 2015, held in London, UK, in June 2015.

This book contributes to illustrating the methodological and technological issues of data management in Pervasive Systems by using the DataBenc project as the running case study for a variety of research contributions: sensor data management, user-originated data operation and reasoning, multimedia data management, data analytics and reasoning for event detection and decision making, context modelling and control, automatic data and service tailoring for personalization and recommendation.

This book addresses the problems that are encountered, and solutions that have been proposed, when we aim to identify people and to reconstruct populations under conditions where information is scarce, ambiguous, fuzzy and sometimes erroneous.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Arts and Technology, ArtsIT 2014, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2014.

The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2015, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 2015, co-located with the Evo* 2015 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and Evo Applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Workshops held at the International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2014, which took place in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2014.

This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IberSPEECH 2014 Conference, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in November 19-21, 2014.