This open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the basic theory needed to understand the progress of LUCC mapping/modeling validation practice. It makes accessible to any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques to validate LUC maps …
This open access book introduces the modern tontine and its applications in retirement and decumulation. Personal financial management in the later stages of life presents unique challenges, and renowned retirement planning expert Dr. Milevsky proposes the modern tontine as a solution. With the goal of guiding professionals and retirees in more efficient decumulation, the book demonstrates how …
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This open access book presents how cutting-edge digital technologies like Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain are set to disrupt the financial sector. The book illustrates how recent advances in these technologies facilitate banks, FinTech, and financial institutions to collect, process, analyze, and fully leverage the very large amounts of data that are now…
Preface Editors Biography List of Figures List of Tables 1 IoT EU Strategy, State of Play and Future Perspectives 2 Future Trends in IoT 3 The Next Generation Internet of Things ⁰́₃ Hyperconnectivity and Embedded Intelligence at the Edge 4 End-to-end Security and Privacy by Design for AHA-IoT Applications and Services 5 Use Cases, Applications and Implementation Aspects for IoT Interoperab…
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1 Introduction 2 WISDOM Concept and Challenges 3 SMNAT as Enabler of Device-to-Device Communication 4 Dynamic Spectrum Management and mm-WAVES 5 CYBER Security and Threats 6 BEYOND 2020
This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the latter still lacking orchestration and agility to effectively address the dynamicity of the former. This book provides a comprehensive review of the main concepts, architecture…