Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

Does your startup rely on social network analysis?

Answers to your most pressing SOA development questions How do we start with service modeling?

When it comes to computer games, the numbers are astounding: the world's top professional gamer has won over half a million dollars shooting virtual monsters on-screen; online games claim literally millions of subscribers; while worldwide spending on computer gaming will top 24 billion by 2011.

What is artificial intelligence (AI)?

This book is a study of the causes of spam, the behaviors associated to the generation of and the exposure to spam, as well as the protection strategies.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.

A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publicationAdvances in information technology are transforming democratic governance.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2011, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in August/September 2011.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Trusted Systems, INTRUST 2011, held in Beijing, China, in November 2011.

This book extensively covers the use of graph-based algorithms for natural language processing and information retrieval.

Uncover the fascinating history of virtual communities and how we connect to each other online.

Make your computer a green machine and live greener at home and at work Get on board the green machine!

This book goes beyond the current hype of expectations generated by the news on artificial intelligence and machine learning by analyzing realistic expectations for society, its limitations, and possible future scenarios for the use of this technology in our current society.

This book examines the way complex systems affect interaction at work through video-based field studies.

This volume presents the refereed proceedings of the 8th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2012, held in Padua, Italy, in September 2012.

The Ubiquitous Computing conference series provides the premier forum in which to present original research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, app- cation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies.

Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting new paradigm that p- vides computing and communication services all the time, everywhere.

We are living in algorithmic times.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Energy Efficient Data Centers (E2DC 2012) held in Madrid, Spain, in May 2012.

Discussions around digital technologies, new media, platforms and information have long centred on the protection of personal data and privacy.

Theory Informing and Arising from Learning Analytics delves into the dynamic intersection of learning theory and educational data analysis within the field of Learning Analytics (LA).

Social media platforms are the latest manifestation in a series of sociotechnical innovations designed to enhance civic engagement, political participation, and global activism.

This engaging and thought-provoking textbook examines the ethical, social, and policy challenges arising from our rapidly and continuously evolving computing technology, ranging from the Internet to the ubiquitous portable devices we use to access it.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2018, held in Leuven, Belgium, in July 2018.

The motivation of this edited book is to generate an understanding about information, related concepts and the roles they play in the modern, technology permeated world.

Medizinmanagement befasst sich mit der Anwendung der Managementlehre in der institutionalisierten Medizin.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2012, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2012.

Big Data, gathered together and re-analysed, can be used to form endless variations of our persons - so-called 'data doubles'.

*MAKE VISUAL DETOXING YOUR NEW YEAR S RESOLUTION FOR 2025*'This book is the new Ways of Seeing' Sharmadean Reid | 'Necessary reading for everyone who uses the internet' Emma Dabiri |'Brilliant insights .

This is the third edition of the first ever book to explore the exciting field of augmented reality art and its enabling technologies.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on - operative Buildings (CoBuild'98) - Integrating Information, Organization, and Ar chitecture, held in Darmstadt, Germany, on February 25-26, 1998.

Interactive media are a human-machine interface that allows people to connect with each other by making them active participants in the media they consume through text, graphics, audio and video.

The sixth generation (6G) of wireless cellular networks is expected to incorporate the latest developments in network infrastructure and emerging advances in technology.

Es wird zunächst in die Analyse von Daten eingeführt.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2018, held in Soria, Spain, in May 2018.

This book seeks to understand emotions in the virtual world.

The use of digital information and communication technologies would be the traces of a social acceptability of the exploitation of all data, in the context of negotiations of uses.

A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.

It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies - from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics - seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier humanist paradigms.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2011, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in March 2011.

The first definitive account of one of Ireland's most controversial business storiesFounded in 2009 by the enigmatic Paddy Cosgrave, Web Summit started as a 150-person meet up in Dublin.

This book reflects the various dimensions of play.

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains.