Filter by
The Global Digital Divides
This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world nations of China, India, the United States and Japan at the state and provincial levels. At the global lev…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-46602-5
- Collation
- XXIX, 386, 79 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- Progress in IS
- Call Number
- -
The Global Cyber-Vulnerability Report
This is the first book that uses cyber-vulnerability data to explore the vulnerability of over four million machines per year, covering a two-year period as reported by Symantec. Analyzing more than 20 billion telemetry reports comprising malware and binary reputation reports, this book quantifies the cyber-vulnerability of 44 countries for which at least 500 hosts were monitored. Chapters…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-25760-0
- Collation
- XII, 296, 1 b/w illustrations, 398 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- Terrorism, Security, and Computation
- Call Number
- -
Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining PAKDD 2015 Wo…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2015, held in conjunction with PAKDD, the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in May 2015. The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The workshops affiliated with PAKDD 2015 include: Pattern Mining and Application of Big …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-25660-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Future of Identity in the Information Society
What constitutes an identity, how do new technologies affect identity, how do we manage identities in a globally networked information society? The increasing div- sity of information and communication technologies and their equally wide range of usage in personal, professional and official capacities raise challenging questions of identity in a variety of contexts. The aim of the IFIP/FIDIS Su…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-642-03315-5
- Collation
- X, 283
- Series Title
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
- Call Number
- -
The Future Internet
Readers seeking to gain a handle on the internet's global expansion will find this book rich in scholarly foundations combined with cutting-edge discussion of emerging ICTs and services and the complex societal contexts in which they are embedded. To explore possibilities to the fullest extent, a sociotechnical systems approach is employed, focusing on the interplay of technical, social, cultur…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-22994-2
- Collation
- XIII, 232, 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- Public Administration and Information Technology
- Call Number
- -
A First Course in Statistical Programming with R
This is the only introduction you'll need to start programming in R, the open-source language that is free to download, and lets you adapt the source code for your own requirements. Co-written by one of the R Core Development Team, and by an established R author, this book comes with real R code that complies with the standards of the language. Unlike other introductory books on the ground-brea…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780511803642
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Enhancing Performance and Reducing Stress in Sports: Technological Advances
This book is designed to help athletes and individuals interested in high sports performance in their journey towards the perfection of human sports abilities and achievements. It has two main goals: accelerating the acquisition of motor skills and preparing and vigilantly reducing the recovery time after training and competition. The Diamond Sports Protocol (DSP) presents state-of-the-art tech…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-44096-4
- Collation
- 160 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Transparency in Social Media Tools, Methods and Algorithms for Mediating Onl…
The volume presents, in a synergistic manner, significant theoretical and practical contributions in the area of social media reputation and authorship measurement, visualization, and modeling. The book justifies and proposes contributions to a future agenda for understanding the requirements for making social media authorship more transparent. Building on work presented in a previous volume of…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-18552-1
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Information Systems: Development, Applications, Education: 8th SIGSAND/PLAIS …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2015 titled Information Systems: Development, Applications, Education, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 25. The objective of this symposium is to promote and develop high-quality research on all issues related to systems analysis and design (SAND). It provides a forum for SAND researchers and practitioners …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-24365-8
- Collation
- X, 171
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 004 INF
Transforming Learning and IT Management through Gamification
This book explains how gamification, specifically enterprise gamification, can help mangers in multiple areas within an enterprise to improve attrition. Employee Engagement is an important component to foster employee relations with the organization. Gamification by its inherent design helps to increase engagement within an enterprise. Several successful case studies in Gamification are present…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-18699-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography