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Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research:Second International Conference, M…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Multidisciplinary Social Networks Conference, MISNC 2015, held in Matsuyama, Japan, in September 2015. The 49 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: multidisciplinary research on social networks; ethical issues related to SNS; informati…
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- 978-3-662-48318-3
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- XV, 584
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- Communications in Computer and Information Science
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The Value of Social Media for Predicting Stock Returns Preconditions, Instru…
Michael Nofer examines whether and to what extent Social Media can be used to predict stock returns. Market-relevant information is available on various platforms on the Internet, which largely consist of user generated content. For instance, emotions can be extracted in order to identify the investors' risk appetite and in turn the willingness to invest in stocks. Discussion forums also provid…
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- 978-3-658-09508-6
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Empirical Modeling and Data Analysis for Engineers and Applied Scientists
This textbook teaches advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students in Engineering and Applied Sciences to gather and analyze empirical observations (data) in order to aid in making design decisions. While science is about discovery, the primary paradigm of engineering and "applied science" is design. Scientists are in the discovery business and want, in general, to understand the …
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- 978-3-319-32768-6
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- 40 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
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Emotional Feedback for Mobile Devices
This book investigates the functional adequacy as well as the affective impression made by feedback messages on mobile devices. It presents an easily adoptable experimental setup to examine context effects on various feedback messages and applies it to auditory, tactile and auditory-tactile feedback messages. This approach provides insights into the relationship between the affective impression…
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- 978-3-319-17193-7
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- 16 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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Emotional Engineering Volume 4
This book describes the important role of emotion in a hyper-connected society and how product development and manufacture change. It explores how our work and lifestyle may be affected by forthcoming technologies and presents key research on multisensory informatics, one of the most important tools for making the most of emotion. This fourth volume of the Emotional Engineering Series focuse…
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- 978-3-319-29433-9
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- 40 b/w illustrations, 85 illustrations in colour
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Emotional Engineering (Vol. 3)
This book examines how theories of human emotion can be applied to engineering in order to improve product design and value. ‘Emotional Engineering Vol. 3’ establishes the idea that customer satisfaction can be maximised by using knowledge and experience in a more flexible manner to respond to a fast-changing world. This integration of emotion and knowledge introduces the reader to the conc…
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- 978-3-319-11555-9
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- 19 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
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Multilingual Lexical Recognition in the Mental Lexicon of Third Language Users
The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate that trilinguals should be considered as learners and speakers in their own right as opposed to L2 learners with a view to enumerating consequences this would bring to third or additional language teaching. Its theoretical part offers an insight into the structure of the multilingual mental lexicon which is a product of the interplay of a whol…
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- 978-3-642-32193-1
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- XVI, 211
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Natural Computing Algorithms
The field of natural computing has been the focus of a substantial research effort in recent decades. One particular strand of this research concerns the development of computational algorithms using metaphorical inspiration from systems and phenomena that occur in the natural world. These naturally inspired computing algorithms have proven to be successful problem-solvers across domains as div…
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- 978-3-662-43630-1
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- XX, 554
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- Natural Computing Series
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Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human Interaction, MA3HMI 2014, held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, in Singapore, Singapore, on September 14th, 2014. The 9 revised papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submission…
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- 978-3-319-15556-2
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- XII, 109
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2015, held in Rome, Italy, in August 2015. The 17 full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as mobile services and applications; usability and visu…
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- 978-3-319-23143-3
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- XVI, 229
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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