Author: Stefano Ceri
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642342132
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Search computing, which has evolved from service computing, focuses on building the answers to complex search queries by interacting with a constellation of cooperating search services, using the ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for service composition. The field is multi-disciplinary in nature and takes advantage of contributions from other research areas such as knowledge representation, human-computer interfaces, psychology, sociology, economics, and legal sciences. This book is the third in the Search Computing series and contains a collection of 16 papers, which in most cases were contributed to several workshops during 2011 organized by members of the Search Computing project in the context of major international conferences: ExploreWeb at ICWE 2011, Very Large Data Search and DBRank at VLDB 2011, DATAVIEW at ECOWS 2011, and OrdRing at ISWC 2011. The papers provide very useful insights on search computing problems and issues. The book has been divided into four parts focussing on: extraction and integration; query and visualization paradigms; exploring linked data; and games, social search and economics.
Search Computing
Author: Stefano Ceri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642123090
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Containing detailed papers on search computing, this book includes some visionary contributions on the latest trends and explores the background and related technologies. The papers are written by leading scientists and contain the latest results in the field.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642123090
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Containing detailed papers on search computing, this book includes some visionary contributions on the latest trends and explores the background and related technologies. The papers are written by leading scientists and contain the latest results in the field.
Computing the News
Author: Sylvain Parasie
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553277
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Faced with a full-blown crisis, a growing number of journalists are engaging in seemingly unjournalistic practices such as creating and maintaining databases, handling algorithms, or designing online applications. “Data journalists” claim that these approaches help the profession demonstrate greater objectivity and fulfill its democratic mission. In their view, computational methods enable journalists to better inform their readers, more closely monitor those in power, and offer deeper analysis. In Computing the News, Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. He traces the history of journalistic hopes for computing technology and contextualizes the surge of data journalism in the twenty-first century. By importing computational techniques and ways of knowing new to journalism, news organizations have come to depend on a broader array of human and nonhuman actors. Parasie draws on extensive fieldwork in the United States and France, including interviews with journalists and data scientists as well as a behind-the-scenes look at several acclaimed projects in both countries. Ultimately, he argues, fulfilling the promise of data journalism requires the renewal of journalistic standards and ethics. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journalism to evolve in order to serve democratic societies.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553277
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Faced with a full-blown crisis, a growing number of journalists are engaging in seemingly unjournalistic practices such as creating and maintaining databases, handling algorithms, or designing online applications. “Data journalists” claim that these approaches help the profession demonstrate greater objectivity and fulfill its democratic mission. In their view, computational methods enable journalists to better inform their readers, more closely monitor those in power, and offer deeper analysis. In Computing the News, Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. He traces the history of journalistic hopes for computing technology and contextualizes the surge of data journalism in the twenty-first century. By importing computational techniques and ways of knowing new to journalism, news organizations have come to depend on a broader array of human and nonhuman actors. Parasie draws on extensive fieldwork in the United States and France, including interviews with journalists and data scientists as well as a behind-the-scenes look at several acclaimed projects in both countries. Ultimately, he argues, fulfilling the promise of data journalism requires the renewal of journalistic standards and ethics. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journalism to evolve in order to serve democratic societies.
Similarity Search and Applications
Author: Gonzalo Navarro
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642321534
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2012, held in Toronto, Canada, in August 2012. The 14 full papers presented in this volume, together with 2 demo papers and 2 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers deal with many of the most relevant aspects of similarity searching and are organized in topical sections named: new scenarios and approaches; improving metric data structures; facing scalability issues; searching in specific spaces; and new similarity spaces.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642321534
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2012, held in Toronto, Canada, in August 2012. The 14 full papers presented in this volume, together with 2 demo papers and 2 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers deal with many of the most relevant aspects of similarity searching and are organized in topical sections named: new scenarios and approaches; improving metric data structures; facing scalability issues; searching in specific spaces; and new similarity spaces.
The Information Specialist's Guide to Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web
Author: Ernest Ackermann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135966982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Written by a professor of computer science and a reference librarian, this guide covers basic browser usage, e-mail, and discussion groups; discusses such Internet staples as FTP and Usenet newsgroups; presents and compares numerous search engines; and includes models for acquiring, evaluating, and citing resources within the context of a research project. The emphasis of the book is on learning how to create search strategies and search expressions, how to evaluate information critically, and how to cite resources. All of these skills are presented as within the context of step-by-step activities designed to teach basic Internet research skills to the beginner and to hone the skills of the seasoned practitioner.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135966982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Written by a professor of computer science and a reference librarian, this guide covers basic browser usage, e-mail, and discussion groups; discusses such Internet staples as FTP and Usenet newsgroups; presents and compares numerous search engines; and includes models for acquiring, evaluating, and citing resources within the context of a research project. The emphasis of the book is on learning how to create search strategies and search expressions, how to evaluate information critically, and how to cite resources. All of these skills are presented as within the context of step-by-step activities designed to teach basic Internet research skills to the beginner and to hone the skills of the seasoned practitioner.
Computers and Games
Author: H. Jaap van den Herik
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642179274
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2010, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in September 2010. The 24 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They cover a wide range of topics such as monte-carlo tree search, proof-number search, UCT algorithm, scalability, parallelization, opening books, knowledge abstraction, solving games, consultation of players, multi-player games, extraversion, and combinatorial game theory. In addition a wide range of computer games is dealt with, such as Chinese Checkers, Chinese Chess, Connect6, Go, Havannah, Lines of Action, Pckomino, Shogi, Surakarta, and Yahtzee.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642179274
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2010, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in September 2010. The 24 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They cover a wide range of topics such as monte-carlo tree search, proof-number search, UCT algorithm, scalability, parallelization, opening books, knowledge abstraction, solving games, consultation of players, multi-player games, extraversion, and combinatorial game theory. In addition a wide range of computer games is dealt with, such as Chinese Checkers, Chinese Chess, Connect6, Go, Havannah, Lines of Action, Pckomino, Shogi, Surakarta, and Yahtzee.
Handbook of Research on Driving Socioeconomic Development With Big Data
Author: Sun, Zhaohao
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1668459612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Socioeconomic development has drawn increasing attention in academia, industries, and governments. The relationship between big data and its technologies and socioeconomic development has drawn certain attention in academia. Socioeconomic development depends not only on big data, but also on big data technologies. However, the relationship between big data and socioeconomic development is not adequately covered in current research. The Handbook of Research on Driving Socioeconomic Development With Big Data provides an original and innovative understanding of and insight into how the proposed theories, technologies, and methodologies of big data can improve socioeconomic development and sustainable development in terms of business and services, healthcare, the internet of everything, sharing economy, and more. Covering topics such as corporate social responsibility, management applications, and process mining, this major reference work is an excellent resource for data scientists, business leaders and executives, IT professionals, government officials, economists, sociologists, librarians, students, researchers, and academicians.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1668459612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Socioeconomic development has drawn increasing attention in academia, industries, and governments. The relationship between big data and its technologies and socioeconomic development has drawn certain attention in academia. Socioeconomic development depends not only on big data, but also on big data technologies. However, the relationship between big data and socioeconomic development is not adequately covered in current research. The Handbook of Research on Driving Socioeconomic Development With Big Data provides an original and innovative understanding of and insight into how the proposed theories, technologies, and methodologies of big data can improve socioeconomic development and sustainable development in terms of business and services, healthcare, the internet of everything, sharing economy, and more. Covering topics such as corporate social responsibility, management applications, and process mining, this major reference work is an excellent resource for data scientists, business leaders and executives, IT professionals, government officials, economists, sociologists, librarians, students, researchers, and academicians.
Computer Programming in C for Beginners
Author: Avelino J. Gonzalez
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030507505
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This textbook is an ideal introduction in college courses or self-study for learning computer programming using the C language. Written for those with minimal or no programming experience, Computer Programming in C for Beginners offers a heavily guided, hands-on approach that enables the reader to quickly start programming, and then progresses to cover the major concepts of C programming that are critical for an early stage programmer to know and understand. While the progression of topics is conventional, their treatment is innovative and designed for rapid understanding of the many concepts in C that have traditionally proven difficult for beginners, such as variable typing and scope, function definition, passing by value, pointers, passing by reference, arrays, structures, basic memory management, dynamic memory allocation, and linked lists, as well as an introductory treatment of searching and sorting algorithms. Written in an informal but clear narrative, the book uses extensive examples throughout and provides detailed guidance on how to write the C code to achieve the objectives of the example problems. Derived from the author’s many years of teaching hands-on college courses, it encourages the reader to follow along by programming the progressively more complex exercise programs presented. In some sections, errors are purposely inserted into the code to teach the reader about the common pitfalls of programming in general, and the C language in particular.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030507505
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This textbook is an ideal introduction in college courses or self-study for learning computer programming using the C language. Written for those with minimal or no programming experience, Computer Programming in C for Beginners offers a heavily guided, hands-on approach that enables the reader to quickly start programming, and then progresses to cover the major concepts of C programming that are critical for an early stage programmer to know and understand. While the progression of topics is conventional, their treatment is innovative and designed for rapid understanding of the many concepts in C that have traditionally proven difficult for beginners, such as variable typing and scope, function definition, passing by value, pointers, passing by reference, arrays, structures, basic memory management, dynamic memory allocation, and linked lists, as well as an introductory treatment of searching and sorting algorithms. Written in an informal but clear narrative, the book uses extensive examples throughout and provides detailed guidance on how to write the C code to achieve the objectives of the example problems. Derived from the author’s many years of teaching hands-on college courses, it encourages the reader to follow along by programming the progressively more complex exercise programs presented. In some sections, errors are purposely inserted into the code to teach the reader about the common pitfalls of programming in general, and the C language in particular.
Objects and Databases
Author: Alan Dearle
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642160921
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
AccordingtoFrancoisBancillonandWonKim[SIGMODRECORD,Vol.19,No. 4, December 1990], object-oriented databases started in around 1983. Twen- seven years later this publication contains the proceedings of the Third Inter- tional Conference on Object-Oriented Databases (ICOODB 2010). Two questions arise from this – why only the third, and what is of interest in the ?eld of object-oriented databases in 2010? The ?rst question is easy – in the 1980s and 1990s there were a number of conferences supporting the c- munity – the International Workshops on Persistent Object Systems started by Malcolm Atkinson and Ron Morrison, the EDBT series, and the International Workshop on Database Programming Languages. These database-oriented c- ferences complimented other OO conferences including OOPSLA and ECOOP, but towards the end of the last century they dwindled in popularity and ev- tually died out. In 2008 the First International Conference on Object Databases was held in Berlin. In 2009 the second ICOODB conference was held at the ETH in Zurich as a scienti?c peer-reviewed conference. What is particular about ICOODB is that the conference series was est- lished to address the needs of both industry and researcherswho had an interest in object databases, in innovative ways to bring objects and databases together and in alternatives/extensions to relational databases. The ?rst conference set the mould for those to follow – a combination of theory and practice with one day focusing on the theory of object databases and the second focusing on their practical use and implementation.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642160921
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
AccordingtoFrancoisBancillonandWonKim[SIGMODRECORD,Vol.19,No. 4, December 1990], object-oriented databases started in around 1983. Twen- seven years later this publication contains the proceedings of the Third Inter- tional Conference on Object-Oriented Databases (ICOODB 2010). Two questions arise from this – why only the third, and what is of interest in the ?eld of object-oriented databases in 2010? The ?rst question is easy – in the 1980s and 1990s there were a number of conferences supporting the c- munity – the International Workshops on Persistent Object Systems started by Malcolm Atkinson and Ron Morrison, the EDBT series, and the International Workshop on Database Programming Languages. These database-oriented c- ferences complimented other OO conferences including OOPSLA and ECOOP, but towards the end of the last century they dwindled in popularity and ev- tually died out. In 2008 the First International Conference on Object Databases was held in Berlin. In 2009 the second ICOODB conference was held at the ETH in Zurich as a scienti?c peer-reviewed conference. What is particular about ICOODB is that the conference series was est- lished to address the needs of both industry and researcherswho had an interest in object databases, in innovative ways to bring objects and databases together and in alternatives/extensions to relational databases. The ?rst conference set the mould for those to follow – a combination of theory and practice with one day focusing on the theory of object databases and the second focusing on their practical use and implementation.
Encyclopedia of Optimization
Author: Christodoulos A. Floudas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387747583
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 4646
Book Description
The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field. The second edition builds on the success of the former edition with more than 150 completely new entries, designed to ensure that the reference addresses recent areas where optimization theories and techniques have advanced. Particularly heavy attention resulted in health science and transportation, with entries such as "Algorithms for Genomics", "Optimization and Radiotherapy Treatment Design", and "Crew Scheduling".
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387747583
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 4646
Book Description
The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field. The second edition builds on the success of the former edition with more than 150 completely new entries, designed to ensure that the reference addresses recent areas where optimization theories and techniques have advanced. Particularly heavy attention resulted in health science and transportation, with entries such as "Algorithms for Genomics", "Optimization and Radiotherapy Treatment Design", and "Crew Scheduling".
Web Engineering
Author: Sören Auer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642222331
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Engineering, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in June 2011. The 22 revised full papers and 15 revised poster papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers topics cover a broad range of areas, namely, the Semantic Web, Web Services, Mashups, Web 2.0, Web quality, Web development, etc.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642222331
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Engineering, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in June 2011. The 22 revised full papers and 15 revised poster papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers topics cover a broad range of areas, namely, the Semantic Web, Web Services, Mashups, Web 2.0, Web quality, Web development, etc.