Learn IT - Books tags pervasive

Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge and Learning Management: Semantics, Social Networking and New Media to Their Full Potential

IGI Global, 2007

The importance of semantics has been recognized in different areas of data and information management, including better access, exchange, interoperability, integration, and analysis of data. Semantics of data is about associating meaning to data, understanding what data represents, and improving the value of data. Ubiquitous and Pervasive...

Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing

Auerbach Publications, 2007

Despite recent dramatic advances in computer security regarding the proliferation of services and applications, security threats are still major impediments in the deployment of these services. Paying serious attention to these issues, Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing focuses on the increasing demand to guarantee...

Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide

Oxford University Press, 2009

Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? Why do groups of teenagers, investors, and corporations take unnecessary risks? What leads groups to engage in such destructive acts as terrorism and ethic cleansing?

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A First Course in Digital Communications

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Communication technology has become pervasive in the modern world, and ever more complex. Focusing on the most basic ideas, this carefully paced, logically structured textbook is packed with insights and illustrative examples, making this an ideal introduction to modern digital communication. Examples with step-by-step solutions help with the...

Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future

Harvard University Press, 2013

Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on...

The Customer Trap: How to Avoid the Biggest Mistake in Business

Apress, 2015

American business is dysfunctional. Companies of all sizes follow the mistaken belief that their products and services are best sold through organizations with pervasive market reach. Far too many business leaders fail to realize - until it is too late - that the relentless pursuit of volume at all cost is not the key to long-term profits and...

Advances in Ambient Intelligence: Volume 164 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

IOS Press, 2007

Ambient Intelligence lies at the confluence of several trends: the continued decrease in cost and size of computing technology; the increasing availability of networking and communication infrastructure; the growing public familiarity/comfort with computing artifacts; and practical advances in artificial intelligence. These developments make...

Marketing Across Cultures (Culture for Business Series)

Capstone, 2004

The authors of this text show how we can understand different markets and customer needs in a wide range of cultural contexts. They also show that culture is the dominant factor that pervades all relationships and behaviors.

The marketing process is beset by dilemmas. Traditional theories about marketing break down when organizations are...

Fundamentals of Pervasive Information Management Systems

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

A comprehensive new edition on mobile computing—covering both mobile and sensor data

The new paradigm of pervasive computing was born from the needs of highly mobile workers to access and transfer data while on the go. Significant advances in the technology have lent and will continue to lend prevalence to its...

Computer Vision

Prentice Hall, 2001

Scientists and science fiction writers have long been fascinated by the possibility of building intelligent machines and the capability of understanding the visual world is a prerequisite for such a machine. This book speaks to the notable research progress being conducted and brings together the important problem areas where computer vision is...

A Practical Guide to Testing Wireless Smartphone Applications (Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2009

Testing applications for mobile phones is difficult, time-consuming, and hard to do effectively. Many people have limited their testing efforts to hands-on testing of an application on a few physical handsets, and they have to repeat the process every time a new version of the software is ready to test. They may miss many of the permutations of...

Robust Intelligent Systems

Springer, 2008

Using artificial intelligence and robustness as a unifying theme, this book comments on the fundamental strategies found in nature (such as redundancy, granularity, adaptation, repair, self-healing, etc.), and how an understanding of these can be used to further research into general design principles for artificial intelligence in the context of a...

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