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Stochastic Processes with R An Introduction

Introduction to Machine Learning and Bioinformatics

Stock Market Volatility

Discrete Mathematics with Ducks

Smart City Blueprint Policy Community Futures

Smart City Blueprint Policy Community Futures

The smart city movement during the last decade and a half advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support. The commitment of a significant number of local governments across the globe in terms of official smart city policies and initiatives along with the constant push of global technology giants has reinforced the popularity of this movement. This two-volume treatment on smart cities thoroughly explores and sheds light on the prominent elements of the smart city phenomenon and generates a smart city blueprint. The first volume with its 12 chapters provides a sound understanding on the key foundations and growth directions of smart city frameworks technologies and platforms with theoretical expansions practical implications and real-world case study lessons. The second companion volume offers sophisticated perspectives on the key foundations and directions of smart city policies communities and urban futures with theoretical expansions practical implications and real-world case study lessons. These volumes offer an invaluable reference source for urban policymakers managers planners practitioners and many others particularly to benefit from it when tackling key urban and societal issues and planning for and delivering smart city solutions. Moreover the book is also a rich and important repository for scholars and research and undergraduate students. | Smart City Blueprint Policy Community Futures

GBP 44.99
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Smart City Blueprint Framework Technology Platform

Smart City Blueprint Framework Technology Platform

The smart city movement during the last decade and a half advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support. The commitment of a significant number of local governments across the globe in terms of official smart city policies and initiatives along with the constant push of global technology giants has reinforced the popularity of this movement. This two-volume treatment on smart cities thoroughly explores and sheds light on the prominent elements of the smart city phenomenon and generates a smart city blueprint. This first volume with its 12 chapters provides a sound understanding on the key foundations and growth directions of smart city frameworks technologies and platforms with theoretical expansions practical implications and real-world case study lessons. The second companion volume offers sophisticated perspectives on the key foundations and directions of smart city policies communities and urban futures with theoretical expansions practical implications and real-world case study lessons. This book is an invaluable reference source for urban policymakers managers planners practitioners and many others particularly to benefit from it when tackling key urban and societal issues and planning for and delivering smart city solutions. Moreover the book is also a rich and important repository for scholars and research and undergraduate students as it communicates the complex smart city phenomenon in an easy to digest form by providing both the big picture view and specifics of each component of that view. It also appeals to local government agencies and smart city practitioners. | Smart City Blueprint Framework Technology Platform

GBP 44.99
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Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

The programming language Fortran dates back to 1957 when a team of IBM engineers released the first Fortran Compiler. During the past 60 years the language had been revised and updated several times to incorporate more features to enable writing clean and structured computer programs. The present version is Fortran 2018. Since the dawn of the computer era there had been a constant demand for a “larger” and “faster” machine. To increase the speed there are three hurdles. The density of the active components on a VLSI chip cannot be increased indefinitely and with the increase of the density heat dissipation becomes a major problem. Finally the speed of any signal cannot exceed the velocity of the light. However by using several inexpensive processors in parallel coupled with specialized software and hardware programmers can achieve computing speed similar to a supercomputer. This book can be used to learn the modern Fortran from the beginning and the technique of developing parallel programs using Fortran. It is for anyone who wants to learn Fortran. Knowledge beyond high school mathematics is not required. There is not another book on the market yet which deals with Fortran 2018 as well as parallel programming. FEATURES Descriptions of majority of Fortran 2018 instructions Numerical Model String with Variable Length IEEE Arithmetic and Exceptions Dynamic Memory Management Pointers Bit handling C-Fortran Interoperability Object Oriented Programming Parallel Programming using Coarray Parallel Programming using OpenMP Parallel Programming using Message Passing Interface (MPI) THE AUTHOR Dr Subrata Ray is a retired Professor Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata. | Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

GBP 140.00
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Healthcare Data Analytics

Healthcare Data Analytics

At the intersection of computer science and healthcare data analytics has emerged as a promising tool for solving problems across many healthcare-related disciplines. Supplying a comprehensive overview of recent healthcare analytics research Healthcare Data Analytics provides a clear understanding of the analytical techniques currently available to solve healthcare problems. The book details novel techniques for acquiring handling retrieving and making best use of healthcare data. It analyzes recent developments in healthcare computing and discusses emerging technologies that can help improve the health and well-being of patients. Written by prominent researchers and experts working in the healthcare domain the book sheds light on many of the computational challenges in the field of medical informatics. Each chapter in the book is structured as a survey-style article discussing the prominent research issues and the advances made on that research topic. The book is divided into three major categories:Healthcare Data Sources and Basic Analytics - details the various healthcare data sources and analytical techniques used in the processing and analysis of such dataAdvanced Data Analytics for Healthcare - covers advanced analytical methods including clinical prediction models temporal pattern mining methods and visual analyticsApplications and Practical Systems for Healthcare - covers the applications of data analytics to pervasive healthcare fraud detection and drug discovery along with systems for medical imaging and decision supportComputer scientists are usually not trained in domain-specific medical concepts whereas medical practitioners and researchers have limited exposure to the data analytics area. The contents of this book will help to bring together these diverse communities by carefully and comprehensively discussing the most relevant contributions from each domain.

GBP 46.99
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Random Circulant Matrices

Random Circulant Matrices

Circulant matrices have been around for a long time and have been extensively used in many scientific areas. This book studies the properties of the eigenvalues for various types of circulant matrices such as the usual circulant the reverse circulant and the k-circulant when the dimension of the matrices grow and the entries are random. In particular the behavior of the spectral distribution of the spectral radius and of the appropriate point processes are developed systematically using the method of moments and the various powerful normal approximation results. This behavior varies according as the entries are independent are from a linear process and are light- or heavy-tailed. Arup Bose obtained his B. Stat. M. Stat. and Ph. D. degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute. He has been on its faculty at the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit Kolkata India since 1991. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of all three national science academies of India. He is a recipient of the S. S. Bhatnagar Prize and the C. R. Rao Award. He is the author of three books: Patterned Random Matrices Large Covariance and Autocovariance Matrices (with Monika Bhattacharjee) and U-Statistics M_m-Estimators and Resampling (with Snigdhansu Chatterjee). Koushik Saha obtained a B. Sc. in Mathematics from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandiara Belur and an M. Sc. in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He obtained his Ph. D. degree from the Indian Statistical Institute under the supervision of Arup Bose. His thesis on circulant matrices received high praise from the reviewers. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since 2014. | Random Circulant Matrices

GBP 44.99
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Image Processing and Acquisition using Python

Image Processing and Acquisition using Python

Image Processing and Acquisition using Python provides readers with a sound foundation in both image acquisition and image processing—one of the first books to integrate these topics together. By improving readers’ knowledge of image acquisition techniques and corresponding image processing the book will help them perform experiments more effectively and cost efficiently as well as analyze and measure more accurately. Long recognized as one of the easiest languages for non-programmers to learn Python is used in a variety of practical examples. A refresher for more experienced readers the first part of the book presents an introduction to Python Python modules reading and writing images using Python and an introduction to images. The second part discusses the basics of image processing including pre/post processing using filters segmentation morphological operations and measurements. The second part describes image acquisition using various modalities such as x-ray CT MRI light microscopy and electron microscopy. These modalities encompass most of the common image acquisition methods currently used by researchers in academia and industry. Features Covers both the physical methods of obtaining images and the analytical processing methods required to understand the science behind the images. Contains many examples detailed derivations and working Python examples of the techniques. Offers practical tips on image acquisition and processing. Includes numerous exercises to test the reader’s skills in Python programming and image processing with solutions to selected problems example programs and images available on the book’s web page. New to this edition Machine learning has become an indispensable part of image processing and computer vision so in this new edition two new chapters are included: one on neural networks and the other on convolutional neural networks. A new chapter on affine transform and many new algorithms. Updated Python code aligned to the latest version of modules.

GBP 44.99
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Questioning the Universe Concepts in Physics

Questioning the Universe Concepts in Physics

WINNER 2009 CHOICE AWARD OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE! The typical introduction to physics leaves readers with the impression that physics is about 30 different unconnected topics such as motion forces gravity electricity light heat energy and atoms. More often than not these readers are left to conclude that physics is mostly about boring lifeless numbers. Questioning the Universe: Concepts in Physics offers the nonscientist an alternative view: one that demonstrates how physics is perpetually evolving and shows how so many seemingly diverse concepts are intimately connected. In fact one could argue that the most important ideas in modern physics are all about unification and that these ideas are as fascinating as they are elegant. Physicists today believe that Mother Nature is remarkably efficient and requires only a relatively small number of laws to keep her universe in working order. We may not yet know all of these laws; but at the center of physics is a faith that she is indeed understandableand that someday we will see her full beauty. The purpose of this book is to tell readers the story of what we have learned about nature so far and how we have done it. Written to arouse curiosity this compelling and readable work: Delves into the most basic laws regarding motion and energy waves and particles Introduces modern theories including relativity quantum mechanics and particle physics Describes the key role played by that elemental building block the atom Discusses the evolution of the universe including the formation of stars and the mystery of dark matter and dark energy This book is not for those doing physics but is aimed at those who simply want to learn about physics so it requires only the most minimal math. What it | Questioning the Universe Concepts in Physics

GBP 175.00
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AI in and for Africa A Humanistic Perspective

AI in and for Africa A Humanistic Perspective

AI in and for Africa: A Humanistic Perspective explores the convoluted intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with Africa’s unique socio-economic realities. This book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of how AI is currently being deployed on the African continent. Given the existence of significant disparities in Africa related to gender race labour and power the book argues that the continent requires different AI solutions to its problems ones that are not founded on technological determinism or exclusively on the adoption of Eurocentric or Western-centric worldviews. It embraces a decolonial approach to exploring and addressing issues such as AI’s diversity crisis the absence of ethical policies around AI that are tailor-made for Africa the ever-widening digital divide and the ongoing practice of dismissing African knowledge systems in the contexts of AI research and education. Although the book suggests a number of humanistic strategies with the goal of ensuring that Africa does not appropriate AI in a manner that is skewed in favour of a privileged few it does not support the notion that the continent should simply opt for a one-size-fits-all solution either. Rather in light of Africa’s rich diversity the book embraces the need for plurality within different regions’ AI ecosystems. The book advocates that Africa-inclusive AI policies incorporate a relational ethics of care which explicitly addresses how Africa’s unique landscape is entwined in an AI ecosystem. The book also works to provide actionable AI tenets that can be incorporated into policy documents that suit Africa’s needs. This book will be of great interest to researchers students and readers who wish to critically appraise the different facets of AI in the context of Africa across many areas that run the gamut from education gender studies and linguistics to agriculture data science and economics. This book is of special appeal to scholars in disciplines including anthropology computer science philosophy and sociology to name a few. | AI in and for Africa A Humanistic Perspective

GBP 69.99
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Teaching Mathematics at a Technical College

Teaching Mathematics at a Technical College

Not much has been written about technical colleges especially teaching mathematics at one. Much had been written about community college mathematics. This book addresses this disparity. Mathematics is a beautiful subject worthy to be taught at the technical college level. The author sheds light on technical colleges and their importance in the higher education system. Technical colleges area more affordable for students and provide many career opportunities. These careers are becoming or have become as lucrative as careers requiring a four-year-degree. The interest in technical college education is likely to continue to grow. Mathematics like all other classes is a subject that needs time energy and dedication to learn. For an instructor it takes many years of hard work and dedication just to be able to teach the subject. Students should not be expected to learn the mathematics overnight. As instructors we need to be open honest and put forth our very best to our students so that they can see that they are able to succeed in whatever is placed in front of them. This book hopes to encourage such an effort. A notable percentage of students who are receiving associate degrees will go through at least one of more mathematics courses. These students should not be forgotten about—their needs are similar to any student who is required to take a mathematics course to earn a degree. This book offers insight into teaching mathematics at a technical college. It is also a source for students to turn toward when they are feeling dread in taking a mathematics course. Mathematics instructors want to help students succeed. If they put forth their best effort and us ours we can all work as one team to get the student through the course and onto chasing their dreams. Though this book focuses on teaching mathematics some chapters expand to focus on teaching in general. The overall hope is the reader will be inspired by the great work that is happening at technical colleges all around the country. Technical college can be should be and is the backbone of the American working class.

GBP 22.99
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