Applied computing

We may consider technology as the set of tools, both hardware and software, that help us improve our performance in di?

viii As we look for such a strategy, technological development races on with new technologies that make our efforts and existing technologies on which they are based obsolete in shorter and shorter periods.

In any software design project, the analysis stage - documenting and designing technical requirements for the needs of users - is vital to the success of the project.

This book brings together for the first time two important features of a computer system to be embedded in an organisational context: responsibility, meaning whether the computer system properly supports the organisational responsibilities that people are allocated; and dependability, which means whether it does so in a way that people can justifiably trust it to perform its operation correctly.

A mobile agent is a software program which can suspend its execution and resume it on another computer.

Despite the availability of cheap, fast, accurate and usable eye trackers, there is little information available on how to develop, implement and use these systems.

Musicians, perhaps more than any other class of artists, have always been acutely aware of the scientific developments of their time.

The book supports the developers of services and applications for mobile phones, PDAs and smart phones.

When you first hear the term information assurance you tend to conjure up an image of a balanced set of reasonable measures that have been taken to protect the information after an assessment has been made of risks that are posed to it.

focussed on the key steps in soft sensor design: data selection; model structure selection and model validation, respectively.

The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from government agencies, industry and the general public.

Computer graphics comprises the creation and representation of simple graphical elements and images as well as modern techniques for virtual reality.

I have been teaching web development for ten years.

eProcurement in Healthcare is a book that aggregates 5 years of experience of three successive R and D projects (ELCH, GetTogether, GROPIS) covering technical and organizational issues of eProcurement.

This book is about the ontology of anatomy.

Nowadays in the knowledge society, each member deals with a number of tasks related to knowledge management.

This book covers the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and communities - both physical and virtual.

"e;Maturing Usability"e; provides an understanding of how current research and practice has contributed towards improving quality issues in software, interaction and value.

This book contains the First European Conference on Computer Network Defence to take place in December 2005 at the School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, in the UK.

Grid Computing requires the use of software that can divide and farm out pieces of a program to as many as several thousand computers.

Mathematical and Computer Programming Techniques for Computer Graphics introduces the mathematics and related computer programming techniques used in Computer Graphics.

The Semantic Web is a vision that has sparked a wide-ranging enthusiasm for a new generation of the Web.

"e;Machine Learning and Data Mining for Computer Security"e; provides an overview of the current state of research in machine learning and data mining as it applies to problems in computer security.

As a new medium for questionnaire delivery, the Internet has the potential to revolutionize the survey process.

Decision-making Support Systems (DMSS) are computer-based systems that support individual or organisational decision-making processes.

Probabilistic Modelling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics has been written for researchers and students in statistics, machine learning, and the biological sciences.

"e;Implementing an Electronic Health Record System"e; addresses the range of issues and opportunities that implementing an electronic health records system (EHR) poses for any size of medical organization - from the small one-man operation to a large healthcare system.

Computer-based systems are now essential to everyday life.

Focussing on the manipulation and representation of geometrical objects, this book explores the application of geometry to computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD).

Enterprise Modelling (EM) methods are frequently used by entrepreneurs as an analysis tool for describing and redesigning their businesses.

This book is written based upon VEE Pro Version 6.

In 1969 Herbert Simon wrote a book, The Science of the Artificial, in which he argued that cognitive science should have its area of application in the design of devices.

Remote web-based experimentation, enabling students and researchers to access the laboratory anytime via the Internet, is becoming an increasingly attractive way to complement or even replace traditional laboratory sessions.

Correcting the Great Mistake People often mistake one thing for another.

Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue.

The eighteenth annual British HCI Conference chose as its theme Design for Life.

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Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications provides comprehensive treatment on the design of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms and their applications in domains covering areas such as control and scheduling.

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization is a rare collection of the latest state-of-the-art theoretical research, design challenges and applications in the field of multiobjective optimization paradigms using evolutionary algorithms.

Many of the changes occurring within medicine are being catalyzed by the proliferation of professional and social activity with the internet and mobile technology.

Data mining and knowledge discovery (DMKD) is a rapidly expanding field in computer science.

This book brings together the perspectives of key researchers to explore lessons on social shaping, examining what can be learned from the adoption of mobile devices that can be applied to other, newer, digital technologies.

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Advances in the miniaturization of microelectromechanical systems have led to battery-powered sensor nodes that have sensing, communication and p- cessingcapabilities.

This book objectively represents the achievements, status quo, and trends of China Internet development in 2021, systematically summarizes the main experience of China Internet development, and deeply analyzes the strategic planning, policies and measures, and development achievements, level, and trends in China in terms of eight aspects, i.

The 10-volume set LNAI 15201-15210 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2024, which took place in Xi'an, China, during July 31-August 2, 2024.

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are manifesting in increasingly sophisticated technologies and systems contributing to the digital transformation of organizations.

This textbook provides introductory concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT) in a concise and clear format.

The 8-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 13801 until 13809, constitutes the refereed proceedings of 38 out of the 60 workshops held at the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022.