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Data Analytics for Management, Banking and Finance: Theories and Application
Par Yichuan Zhao, Foued Saâdaoui, Hana Rabbouch. 2023
This book is a practical guide on the use of various data analytics and visualization techniques and tools in the…
banking and financial sectors. It focuses on how combining expertise from interdisciplinary areas, such as machine learning and business analytics, can bring forward a shared vision on the benefits of data science from the research point of view to the evaluation of policies. It highlights how data science is reshaping the business sector. It includes examples of novel big data sources and some successful applications on the use of advanced machine learning, natural language processing, networks analysis, and time series analysis and forecasting, among others, in the banking and finance.It includes several case studies where innovative data science models is used to analyse, test or model some crucial phenomena in banking and finance. At the same time, the book is making an appeal for a further adoption of these novel applications in the field of economics and finance so that they can reach their full potential and support policy-makers and the related stakeholders in the transformational recovery of our societies.The book is for stakeholders involved in research and innovation in the banking and financial sectors, but also those in the fields of computing, IT and managerial information systems, helping through this new theory to better specify the new opportunities and challenges. The many real cases addressed in this book also provide a detailed guide allowing the reader to realize the latest methodological discoveries and the use of the different Machine Learning approaches (supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement, deep, etc.) and to learn how to use and evaluate performance of new data science tools and frameworksC# 12 Pocket Reference
Par Ben Albahari, Joseph Albahari. 2024
Looking for quick answers for using C# 12? This tightly focused and practical guide tells you exactly what you need…
to know without long intros or bloated samples. Succinct and easy to browse, this pocket reference is an ideal quick source of information. If you know Java, C++, or an earlier C# version, this guide will help you get rapidly up to speed.All programs and code snippets are available as interactive samples in LINQPad. You can edit these samples and instantly see the results without needing to set up projects in Visual Studio.Job Interviewing For Dummies
Par Pamela Skillings. 2024
Boost your confidence, ace your interview, and get the job Job Interviewing For Dummies will teach you how to prepare…
for your next job interview, deal with tough questions, and gain the tools and skills to interview with confidence and poise. This book offers a structured, step-by-step approach for succeeding in virtual and in-person interviews. You’ll find information, strategies, and examples to empower you to present your best self to potential employers. Learn how to anticipate and prepare for the most likely questions, regardless of your level or industry, and be prepared for anything—an interview on short notice, explaining gaps on your resume, changing careers, and beyond. With examples and stories from the interview trenches, this friendly Dummies guide will help you breathe new life into your job search. Gain the poise you need to own the interview room (or the video chat) Brush up on your interview skills if you haven’t done this in a while Come prepared with impressive answers and questions to ask Overcome common challenges like resume gaps This book is for anyone interested in finding a new job or helping others in their job search. With Job Interviewing For Dummies, be prepared to hear “yes” more often!Algorithmic and Geometric Aspects of Robotics (Routledge Revivals)
Par Jacob T. Schwartz, Chee-Keng Yap. 1987
First published in 1987, the seven chapters that comprise this book review contemporary work on the geometric side of robotics.…
The first chapter defines the fundamental goal of robotics in very broad terms and outlines a research agenda each of whose items constitutes a substantial area for further research. The second chapter presents recently developed techniques that have begun to address the geometric side of this research agenda and the third reviews several applied geometric ideas central to contemporary work on the problem of motion planning. The use of Voronoi diagrams, a theme opened in these chapters, is explored further later in the book. The fourth chapter develops a theme in computational geometry having obvious significance for the simplification of practical robotics problems — the approximation or decomposition of complex geometric objects into simple ones. The final chapters treat two examples of a class of geometric ‘reconstruction’ problem that have immediate application to computer-aided geometric design systems.Web-Based Education in the Human Services: Models, Methods, and Best Practices
Par Richard Schoech, Brenda Moore, Robert James Macfadden, Marilyn Herie. 2005
A much-needed look at innovative and effective methods for creating virtual learning environments for human servicesWeb-Based Education in the Human…
Services reflects the vitality and diversity of Web-based courses currently delivered within human services. Unlike previous texts that have combined technologies such as Interactive Television (ITV) and two-way audio where Web involvement was minimal, this unique book focuses on Web-based models, tools, and techniques used in courses where the majority of the content is delivered online. The book&’s contributors emphasize the social aspects of learning, examining topical areas not usually associated with Web-based education as they remind us of the need to move beyond the similarities between WBE and face-to-face (FTF) approaches.Web-Based Education in the Human Services documents a course delivery method coming of age in its desire to create virtual learning environments that incorporate a variety of techniques and strategies. These environments use concepts and tools beyond what packages such as WebCT currently offer, highlighting the power of designing a complete Web-based curriculum, rather than viewing each course separately. Many of the most successful approaches presented in this invaluable book don&’t involve sophisticated tools or programming, but the creative design of interactive scenarios, emotional content, and feedback mechanisms that reinforce the instructor&’s role as the crucial ingredient for success. Web-Based Education in the Human Services examines: adult learning theories teaching practice skills through Web-based technology how to bridge the gap between theory and practice faculty perceptions of the effectiveness of Web-based instruction compared to face-to-face instruction the accessibility of Web-based education the significance of emotion in learning Web-based delivery of a graduate professional training program the creation, delivery, and evaluation of a pilot course using Blackboard 6 the development of a Web-based undergraduate child welfare course the use of Web-based video clips for counselor skills training the design, development, pilot, and revision of a Web-based social work practice course an online format for agency-based field instruction the design of a Web-based graduate program in counseling psychology and much more!Web-Based Education in the Human Services is an invaluable resource for social work and human services educators, including education, nursing, and psychology, Web-course developers, and college and university administrators.Rigging for Games: A Primer for Technical Artists Using Maya and Python
Par Eyal Assaf. 2016
Rigging for Games: A Primer for Technical Artists Using Maya and Python is not just another step-by-step manual of loosely…
related tutorials. Using characters from the video game Tin, it takes you through the real-world creative and technical process of rigging characters for video games and cinematics, allowing readers a complete inside look at a single project. You’ll explore new ways to write scripts and create modular rigs using Maya and Python, and automate and speed up the rigging process in your creative pipeline. Finally, you’ll learn the most efficient ways of exporting your rigs into the popular game engine Unity. This is the practical, start-to-finish rigging primer you’ve been waiting for! Enhance your skillset by learning how to efficiently rig characters using techniques applicable to both games and cinematics Keep up with all the action with behind-the-scenes images and code scripts Refine your rigging skills with tutorials and project files available on the companion websiteMost project managers would agree that every project is unique. But not all project managers would agree that the best…
way to manage a unique project is unique. Many still cling to the old practice of having a methodology that is applied to all projects. "One size fits all" is still in common use, and this approach has proven to lead to project failure. Flexibility, situational intelligence, and creativity are essential to deliver project success. The need to recognize and master ever-changing requirements and environmental conditions is a tough challenge for professional project managers. The same practices that led to success yesterday may cause failure today. Selecting favorable responses to a given situation is often the most critical factor of the dynamics of success and failure. This book is designed to help project professionals assess a situation, predict the appropriate approach, methodology and achieving styles, and then apply them in a situational fashion. To guide project managers in selecting the appropriate responses, Situational Project Management (SitPM) shows how to assess a given project, determine its unique characteristics, and select the appropriate methods to complete the project. With this book, projects managers can use SitPM to develop profiles of their projects on the basis of the projects’ physical characteristics, the project teams’ behavioral characteristics, the enterprise environment, and the market environments receiving project deliverables. These profiles help project managers to determine the appropriate project life cycle approach and leadership style. The book also explores various ways to engage stakeholders on the basis of a project’s SitPM profile. The book’s author, Oliver F. Lehmann, has developed a set of templates to apply SitPM in practice. It can be downloaded from www.oliverlehmann.com/SitPM/Templates.zip.In introducing new students to video game development, there are two crucial components to consider: design and implementation. Unity 3D…
and PlayMaker Essentials: Game Development from Concept to Publishing provides theoretical background on topics such as characters, stories, level design, interface design, audio, game mechanics, and tools and skills needed. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, with topics building upon each other so that by the end of the book you will have looked into all the subjects relevant to creating your own game. The book transitions from discussion to demonstrations of how to implement techniques and concepts into practice by using Unity3D and PlayMaker. Download boxes are included throughout the book where you can get the version of the game project under discussion or other content to add to the project, as well as any supplementary video tutorials that have been developed. Addressing both theoretical and practical aspects, Unity 3D and PlayMaker Essentials enables you to understand how to create a game by having you make a game. By gradually completing your own design document through the course of the book, you will become familiar with core design principles while learning the practical skills needed to bring your unique game to life.A User's Guide to Business Analytics
Par Ayanendranath Basu, Srabashi Basu. 2016
A User's Guide to Business Analytics provides a comprehensive discussion of statistical methods useful to the business analyst. Methods are…
developed from a fairly basic level to accommodate readers who have limited training in the theory of statistics. A substantial number of case studies and numerical illustrations using the R-software package are provided for the benefit of motivated beginners who want to get a head start in analytics as well as for experts on the job who will benefit by using this text as a reference book. The book is comprised of 12 chapters. The first chapter focuses on business analytics, along with its emergence and application, and sets up a context for the whole book. The next three chapters introduce R and provide a comprehensive discussion on descriptive analytics, including numerical data summarization and visual analytics. Chapters five through seven discuss set theory, definitions and counting rules, probability, random variables, and probability distributions, with a number of business scenario examples. These chapters lay down the foundation for predictive analytics and model building. Chapter eight deals with statistical inference and discusses the most common testing procedures. Chapters nine through twelve deal entirely with predictive analytics. The chapter on regression is quite extensive, dealing with model development and model complexity from a user’s perspective. A short chapter on tree-based methods puts forth the main application areas succinctly. The chapter on data mining is a good introduction to the most common machine learning algorithms. The last chapter highlights the role of different time series models in analytics. In all the chapters, the authors showcase a number of examples and case studies and provide guidelines to users in the analytics field.High-Performance IT Services
Par Terry Critchley. 2017
This book on performance fundamentals covers UNIX, OpenVMS, Linux, Windows, and MVS. Most of the theory and systems design principles…
can be applied to other operating systems, as can some of the benchmarks. The book equips professionals with the ability to assess performance characteristics in unfamiliar environments. It is suitable for practitioners, especially those whose responsibilities include performance management, tuning, and capacity planning. IT managers with a technical outlook also benefit from the book as well as consultants and students in the world of systems for the first time in a professional capacity.Process Control Techniques for High-Volume Production
Par M. Kemal Atesmen. 2017
This book details most common statistical process control tools with many examples for high-volume production. It aims to make elements…
of high-volume production process control simple and easy to understand. It lets you thoroughly understand process controls instead of blindly trusting software tools that operate as black boxes. If you are dealing with high-volume production as an operator, line supervisor, inspector, process engineer, quality engineer, manufacturing manager, plant manager, or president of the company, you have to understand the statistical process control basics explained in this book in order to be successful.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2023, held in…
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in October 2023. The 20 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers cover a wide application spectrum including architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), apace craft building, heavy industry, robotics, tourism, education, community building, medical supply industry, commerce.Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2023, Turin, Italy, September 18–22, 2023, Proceedings, Part V (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14173)
Par Elena Baralis, Francesco Bonchi, Danai Koutra, Claudia Plant, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez. 2023
The multi-volume set LNAI 14169 until 14175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge…
Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, which took place in Turin, Italy, in September 2023.The 196 papers were selected from the 829 submissions for the Research Track, and 58 papers were selected from the 239 submissions for the Applied Data Science Track. The volumes are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Active Learning; Adversarial Machine Learning; Anomaly Detection; Applications; Bayesian Methods; Causality; Clustering.Part II: Computer Vision; Deep Learning; Fairness; Federated Learning; Few-shot learning; Generative Models; Graph Contrastive Learning.Part III: Graph Neural Networks; Graphs; Interpretability; Knowledge Graphs; Large-scale Learning.Part IV: Natural Language Processing; Neuro/Symbolic Learning; Optimization; Recommender Systems; Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning.Part V: Robustness; Time Series; Transfer and Multitask Learning.Part VI: Applied Machine Learning; Computational Social Sciences; Finance; Hardware and Systems; Healthcare & Bioinformatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Recommendation and Information Retrieval.Part VII: Sustainability, Climate, and Environment.- Transportation & Urban Planning.- Demo.Proceedings of the Seventh International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry”: Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #777)
Par Sergey Kovalev, Igor Kotenko, Andrey Sukhanov. 2023
This book contains the works connected with the key advances in Industrial Artificial Intelligence presented at IITI 2023, the Seventh…
International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry held on September 25-30, 2023 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The works were written by the experts in the field of applied artificial intelligence including topics such as Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Decision-Making, Fuzzy Logic, Multi-Agent and Bioinspired Systems. The following industrial application domains were touched: railway automation, cyber security, intelligent medical systems, navigation and energetic systems. The editors believe that this book will be helpful for all scientists and engineers interested in the modern state of applied artificial intelligence.Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2023 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #184)
Par Ashraf Darwish, Kuo-Chi Chang, Dragan Pamucar, Rawya Y. Rizk, AboulElla Hassanien. 2023
This proceedings book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics (AISI 2023),…
which took place in Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt, during September 20–22, 2023, Egypt, and is an international interdisciplinary conference that presents a spectrum of scientific research on all aspects of informatics and intelligent systems, technologies, and applications.Testing Software and Systems: 35th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2023, Bergamo, Italy, September 18–20, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14131)
Par Angelo Gargantini, Silvia Bonfanti, Paolo Salvaneschi. 2023
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2023,…
held in Bergamo, Italy, during September 18-20, 2023.The 13 full papers presented together with 6 short papers and one journal paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The conference focuses on Test Case Generation; Test Automation and Design; Model Based Testing; and AI and Smart Contracts Testing.Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2023, Turin, Italy, September 18–22, 2023, Proceedings, Part IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14172)
Par Elena Baralis, Francesco Bonchi, Danai Koutra, Claudia Plant, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez. 2023
The multi-volume set LNAI 14169 until 14175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge…
Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, which took place in Turin, Italy, in September 2023.The 196 papers were selected from the 829 submissions for the Research Track, and 58 papers were selected from the 239 submissions for the Applied Data Science Track. The volumes are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Active Learning; Adversarial Machine Learning; Anomaly Detection; Applications; Bayesian Methods; Causality; Clustering.Part II: Computer Vision; Deep Learning; Fairness; Federated Learning; Few-shot learning; Generative Models; Graph Contrastive Learning.Part III: Graph Neural Networks; Graphs; Interpretability; Knowledge Graphs; Large-scale Learning.Part IV: Natural Language Processing; Neuro/Symbolic Learning; Optimization; Recommender Systems; Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning.Part V: Robustness; Time Series; Transfer and Multitask Learning.Part VI: Applied Machine Learning; Computational Social Sciences; Finance; Hardware and Systems; Healthcare & Bioinformatics; Human-Computer Interaction; Recommendation and Information Retrieval.Part VII: Sustainability, Climate, and Environment.- Transportation & Urban Planning.- Demo.Governance in the Information Era: Theory and Practice of Policy Informatics
Par Erik W. Johnston. 2015
Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems…
and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of people to be full participants in their communities. This book approaches these challenges by applying a combination of the latest American and European approaches in applying complex systems modeling, crowdsourcing, participatory platforms and citizen science to explore complex governance challenges in domains that include education, environment, and health.Mixed Reality for Education (Gaming Media and Social Effects)
Par Yiyu Cai, Sui Lin Goei, Eleni Mangina. 2023
This book consists of chapters that present the state-of-the-art research on mixed reality, simulation and serious games with applications in…
four main educational topics: (1) K-12 STEAM Education; (2) Tertiary/Professional Education; (3) Special Needs Education; and (4) Cultural, Social & Museum Education. The chapters of the book present a multi-facet view on different approaches to deal with challenges that surround the uptake of educational applications of mixed reality, simulations and serious games in various practices. The different approaches highlight challenges and potential solutions and provide future directions for mixed reality, simulation and serious games research, for the design of learning material and for implementation. By doing so, the book is a useful resource for both students and scholars interested in research in this field, for designers of learning material and for practitioners that want to embrace mixed reality, simulation and/or serious games in their education.Chapter "Development of AR Interactive Components for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Digital Economy. Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation: 8th International Conference, ICDEc 2023, Braga, Portugal, May 2–4, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #485)
Par Rim Jallouli, Mohamed Anis Bach Tobji, Ana Maria Soares, Beatriz Casais, Meriam Belkhir. 2023
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2023, which took place in Braga,…
Portugal, in May 2023.The 26 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Digital transformation; e-learning and digital competencies; digital marketing and artificial intelligence; e-finance and digital assets; digital marketing and data analytics; digital economy; online session.