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Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications Tanwar, Sudeep; Tyagi, Sudhanshu; Kumar, Neeraj With an exponential increase in the provisioning of multimedia devices over the Internet of Things (IoT), a significant amount of multimedia big data has been generated from different devices located across the globe. Current proposals in the literature mainly focus on scalar sensor data with less emphasis on the streaming multimedia big data generated from different devices. This textbook examines the unique nature and complexity of MMBD computing for IoT applications and provides unique characteristics and applications divided into different chapters for MMBD over IoT. A number of research challenges are associated with MMBD, such as scalability, accessibility, reliability, heterogeneity, and quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. This textbook is the first-ever “how-to” guide addressing one of the most overlooked practical, methodological, and moral questions in any nations’ journeys to handle the massive amount of multimedia big data being generated from IoT devices’ interactions: For example, how to handle the complexity of facilitating MMBD over IoT? How to organize the unstructured and heterogeneous data? How to deal with cognition and understand complexity associated with MMBD? How to address the real-time and quality-of-service requirements for MMBD applications? How to ensure scalability and computing efficiency. The book is organized into four parts. Part I is focused on technological development, which includes five chapters. Part II discussed the multimedia big data analytics, which has five chapters. Part III illustrates the societal impact of multimedia big data with well-structured four chapters. Finally, Part IV highlights the application environments for multimedia big data analytics with four chapters.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Paz, Mario Kim, Young Hoon http://ir.mksu.ac.ke/handle/123456780/6377 2021-07-08T10:27:03Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Structural Dynamics Paz, Mario; Kim, Young Hoon The basic structure of the five previous editions is still maintained in this Sixth Edition. After the release of the Fifth Edition in 2004, academic and industrial environments have been changed, although the fundamentals have not changed over 15 years. When the author started to teach structural dynamics since 2011, the most challenging part as an instructor has been to present how students can solve and simulate the structural dynamics using the computer program. There is a limited information available to show how we can solve structural dynamics in finite element method–based commercial software. When understanding the background of undergraduate and graduate students who are first exposed to structural dynamics, the fundamentals are mainly considered as core content. The author believes that a line-by-line computer language is a helpful learning and teaching tool for its application of fundamentals. This is the major motivation of the revision of this textbook. This revised textbook intends to provide enhanced learning materials for students to learn structural dynamics, ranging from basics to advanced topics, including their application. When a line-by-line programming language is included with solved problems, students can learn course materials easily and visualize the solved problems using a program. Among several programming languages, MATLAB® has been adopted by many academic institutions across several disciplines. Many educators and students in the USA and many international institutions can readily access MATLAB®, which has an appropriate programming language to solve and simulate problems in the textbook. It effectively allows matrix manipulations and plotting of data. Therefore, multi-degree-of-freedom problems can be solved in conjunction with the finite element method using MATLAB®. As of 2018, SAP2000 presented in the Fifth Edition is currently outdated, at least regarding user interface procedure. The revision author Young Hoon Kim still believes that SAP2000 includes routines for the analysis and design of structures with linear or nonlinear behavior subjected to static or dynamics loads. However, in this edition exclusion of SAP2000 is necessary to minimize the learner’s confusion to link between contents and solving with the aid of computer programming language. The author still believes that SAP2000 can be one of the best tools to solve structural analysis and structural dynamics in complex systems. Practical engineers who are eager to use commercial software can learn from many other textbooks available in the market.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Bacciotti, Andrea http://ir.mksu.ac.ke/handle/123456780/6376 2021-07-08T09:43:49Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stability and Control of Linear Systems Bacciotti, Andrea This book is the natural outcome of a course I taught for many years at the Technical University of Torino, first for students enrolled in the aerospace engineering curriculum, and later for students enrolled in the applied mathematics curriculum. The aim of the course was to provide an introduction to the main notions of system theory and automatic control, with a rigorous theoretical framework and a solid mathematical background. Throughout the book, the reference model is a finite-dimensional, time-invariant, multivariable linear system. The exposition is basically concerned with the time-domain approach, but also the frequency-domain approach is taken into consideration. In fact, the relationship between the two approaches is discussed, especially for the case of single-input–single-output systems. Of course, there are many other excellent handbooks on the same subject (just to quote a few of them, [3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 23, 25, 27, 28, 32]). The distinguishing feature of the present book is the treatment of some specific topics which are rare to find elsewhere at a graduate level. For instance, bounded-input–bounded-output stability (including a characterization in terms of canonical decompositions), static output feedback stabilization (for which a simple criterion in terms of generalized inverse matrices is proposed), controllability under constrained controls. The mathematical theories of stability and controllability of linear systems are essentially based on linear algebra, and it has reached today a high level of advancement. During the last three decades of the past century, a great effort was done, in order to develop an analogous theory for nonlinear systems, based on differential geometry (see [7] for a historical overview). For this development, usually referred to as geometric control theory, we have today a rich literature ([2, 5, 13, 18–20, 26, 30]). However, I believe that the starting point for a successful approach to nonlinear systems is a wide and deep knowledge of the linear case. For this reason, while this book is limited to the linear context, in the presentation and organization of the material, as well as in the selection of topics, the final goal I had in mind is to prepare the reader for such a nonlinear extension.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Wong, Benjamin Hairon, Salleh Ng, Pak Tee http://ir.mksu.ac.ke/handle/123456780/6375 2021-07-08T10:19:26Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

School Leadership and Educational Change in Singapore Wong, Benjamin; Hairon, Salleh; Ng, Pak Tee There is great interest internationally to understand the success of the Singapore education system in the light of its strong and consistent results in international tests, such as PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS. Singapore ranks consistently among the top few countries for Reading, Mathematics and Science (OECD 2014). Interestingly, while some might have previously attributed the good results to rote learning and memorisation, the results of PISA 2012 have offered a different complexion to the issue. When students were assessed on twenty-first-century skills such as problem-solving and flexibility in thinking, Singapore once again performed well (MOE 2014). Notwithstanding its success, the Singapore education system is changing to help prepare its students for the more complex and demanding socio-economic environment of the twenty-first century. It continuously evolves to ensure that their students are well placed and well prepared to meet the emerging demands of a knowledge-driven global economy (MOE 2010; 2013). Under the 1997 umbrella vision of Thinking Schools, Learning Nation (TSLN), many initiatives were subsequently launched. These included National Education (NE), a four-phased ICT Masterplan and the Teach Less Learn More (TLLM) reform. These, and many other initiatives, reflected the system’s transformation to shift the focus of learning from quantity to quality (Ng 2008). Today, the Singapore education system continues its evolutionary path of change by adopting a student-centric, value-driven education paradigm. It aspires to achieve (Heng 2012a):

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