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Innovative Tools and Methods Using BIM for an Efficient Renovation in Buildings
This open access book describes a BIM-based toolkit that has been developed according to the latest research activities on building information modelling and semantic interoperability to optimize the building process. It highlights the impacts of using such new tools to fast renovation activities starting from the decision-making and design stages to the construction site management with the po…
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- 978-3-031-04670-4
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- VII, 121
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 620 INN
New Business Models for the Reuse of Secondary Resources from WEEEs : The FEN…
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the FENIX project, funded by the EU community under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to design a new product service paradigm able to promote innovative business models, to open added value to the vessels and to create new market segments. It experiments and validates its approach on three new concepts of added-value specia…
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- 978-3-030-74886-9
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- VII, 153
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 620 NEW
Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System : A Participatory Fra…
This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this situation, could one boost smart human coordination, sustainability and resilience by tweaking society at its core: the monetary system? A Computational Social Science tea…
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- 978-3-030-71400-0
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- IX, 109
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 001 FIN
European Language Grid: A Language Technology Platform for Multilingual Europe
This open access book provides an in-depth description of the EU project European Language Grid (ELG). Its motivation lies in the fact that Europe is a multilingual society with 24 official European Union Member State languages and dozens of additional languages including regional and minority languages. The only meaningful way to enable multilingualism and to benefit from this rich linguistic …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-17258-8
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- Cognitive Technologies
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- XXX, 360
Vector Semantics
This open access book introduces Vector semantics, which links the formal theory of word vectors to the cognitive theory of linguistics. The computational linguists and deep learning researchers who developed word vectors have relied primarily on the ever-increasing availability of large corpora and of computers with highly parallel GPU and TPU compute engines, and their focus is with endow…
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- 9789811956072
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- XVI, 273
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From Opinion Mining to Financial Argument Mining
Opinion mining is a prevalent research issue in many domains. In the financial domain, however, it is still in the early stages. Most of the researches on this topic only focus on the coarse-grained market sentiment analysis, i.e., 2-way classification for bullish/bearish. Thanks to the recent financial technology (FinTech) development, some interdisciplinary researchers start to involve in the…
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- 978-981-16-2881-8
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- X, 95
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- SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (BRIEFSCOMPUTER)
- Call Number
- 001 CHE o
Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities
This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans, and discussing w…
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- 978-3-030-20024-4
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- IX, 87
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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- 570 GEN p
Mercury Pollution in Minamata
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It overviews the poisoning which occurred in the 1950s and 1960s among the residents in Minamata who ate seafood contaminated with methylmercury discharged from the chemical factory, Chisso Corporation. It describes the history, symptoms pathogenesis and research on the causal agent, and discusses the responses of Chisso and the national …
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- 978-981-10-7392-2
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- IX, 67
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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- 624 YOK m
Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms : Theory, Definitions, and Measurement
This open access book goes into the details of the characteristics of scale-ups, touching upon various theoretical perspectives (stages of growth models, the role of intangible capital, the tradeoffs between fixed costs and marginal costs) relating to firm growth, to provide a clear definition of this emerging concept. Given the disproportionately large economic contribution of a small number o…
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- 978-981-97-1379-0
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- XI, 61
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- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
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- 334 COA s
A Decade of Research Activities at the Department of Industrial Engineering (…
This open access book celebrates the decennial of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. It covers the main research achievements developed at the department in the fields of aerospace, marine, energy, statistical, mechanical and management engineering. Five pre-existing departments merged in 2013, and the research results are here summarized to ce…
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- 978-3-031-53397-6
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- XI, 161
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
- Call Number
- 620 DEC
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