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Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications
(Springer, 2020)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. ... -
Structural Dynamics
(Springer, 2019)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 ... -
Stability and Control of Linear Systems
(Springer, 2019)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 ... -
School Leadership and Educational Change in Singapore
(Springer, 2019)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 ... -
Robotics
(Springer, 2019)is perhaps difficult to agree on what a robot is, but most people working in robotics would probably quote the “Father of Robotics”, Joseph F. Engelberger (1925–2015), a pioneer in industrial robotics, stating “I can’t ... -
Perceptual Organization
(Springer, 2019)The goal here is to describe some of the processes underlying how the auditory, tactual and visual modalities and their combinations convert sensory inputs into two- and three-dimensional objects. Those processes are a ... -
Optimization of Process Flowsheets through Metaheuristic Techniques
(Springer, 2019)This book presents a general framework to implement a link between process simulators and optimization through metaheuristic techniques. The book describes step-by- step the methodology to implement this link for ... -
Mapping Global Theatre Histories
(Springer, 2019)A. Initial Questions, Terms, and Goals 1. Why study theatre history today—when information about the past is readily available on the Web and we are often more concerned about the present and future in our current ... -
Internet of Things From Hype to Reality
(Springer, 2019)Technology is becoming embedded in nearly everything in our lives. Just look around you and you will see how the Internet has affected many aspects of our existence. Virtually anything you desire can be ordered instantly, ... -
International Business Management
(Springer, 2019)We are living in a world where the only certainty is the uncertainty in the human affairs. A few decades ago, it was common among the academicians to discuss a future where large multinational corporations would be in ... -
Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology
(Springer, 2019)Evolutionary archaeology has developed from a marginal discussion to a mainstream focus in modern archaeology. Archaeologists have become widely aware that the rigorous procedures developed in the guise of evolutionary ... -
Global Supply Chain and Operations Management
(Springer, 2019)In everyday life, all of us take supply chain and operations management (SCOM) decisions. If you move to a new flat, location planning is first necessary. Second, you need a plan of how to design the overall process. ... -
Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering
(Springer, 2019)Learning from Nature: Structure of Matter – Atoms Nature is the best innovator and teacher. Scientists know for a while now that all matter consists of atoms. The atom is the smallest part of any material element. So when ... -
Excel Data Analysis
(Springer, 2019)Why Does the World Need—Excel Data Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation? When spreadsheets first became widely available in the early 1980s, it spawned a revolution in teaching. What previously could only be done with ... -
Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work
(Springer, 2019)Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a major shaping influence in clinical social work practice, in relation to economic policies, and in professional education. The definition of EBP remains contested; professionals still ... -
Control Engineering: MATLAB Exercises
(Springer, 2019)This book is intended to aid students in their study of MATLAB™/SIMULINK™ for use in solving control problems. Specifically, 16 labs for an introductory control course have been developed at the Department of Automation ... -
An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558–1914
(Springer, 2019)This anthology brings together extracts from some of the finest writing in English on the subject of that ancient and fascinating city, chosen from the period in which the London we now know was mainly created: the ... -
Analyzing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA
(Springer, 2019)“To begin at the beginning” is the opening line of the play Under Milk Wood by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. So, we also want to start here at the beginning and start with some information about the history of the analysis ... -
A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory
(Springer, 2019)This book has arisen from two postgraduate level courses in Rasch measurement theory that have been taught both online and in intensive mode for over two decades at Murdoch University and The University of Western ... -
Witnessing Torture
(Springer, 2018)I became involved with human rights activism at the age of fourteen, but it would be twenty-five years before I met a person who had survived torture. Many human rights activists and academics never meet someone who has ...
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