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Das Herausgeberwerk zeigt Chancen und Risiken des Cloud Computings auf, bringt Lesern das Thema durch anschauliche Beispiele aus Forschung und Praxis näher und zeigt die Implikationen auf, die aus dieser neuen Infrastruktur resultieren. Die Beitragsautoren präsentieren technische Lösungen, Geschäftsmodelle und Visionen, die einerseits die Herausforderungen und Hürden des Cloud Computing au…
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- 978-3-658-20967-4
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- XVI, 216
Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to modernize effectively and produce sustained economic growth is highlighted. Particular attention is…
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- 978-3-031-37049-6
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- XVI, 331
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Performance Engineering
This open access book improves the users' skills needed to implement models for performance evaluation of digital infrastructures. Building a model is usually a relatively easy task, but making it an accurate representation of the phenomenon to be reproduced is a completely different matter. It is well-known that to increase the ability to build reliable models it is necessary to accumulate exp…
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- 978-3-031-36762-5
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- XII, 146
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Electronic Voting
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting held in Luxemburg in October 2023. The conference collected the most relevant debates on the development of Electronic Voting, from aspects relating to security and usability through to practical experiences and applications of voting systems, also including legal, social, or politic…
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- 978-3-031-43755-7
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- XI, 157
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Elektromobilität
Dieses Buch ist eine „Open Access“-Publikation zum Stand der Entwicklung der Elektromobilität. Ohne Zweifel: Die Automobilindustrie befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Mit der Elektromobilität verändern sich bisherige Fahrzeug- und Antriebskonzepte grundlegend. Bestimmt durch neue Fahrzeugkomponenten wie die Batterie, die Leistungselektronik, der Elektromotor und die Brennstoff…
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- 978-3-662-65811-6
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- XXVIII, 724
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5G and Beyond
This open-access book aims to highlight the coming surge of 5G network-based applications and predicts that the centralized networks and their current capacity will be incapable of meeting the demands. The book emphasizes the benefits and challenges associated with the integration of 5G networks with varied applications. Further, the book gathers and investigates the most recent 5G-based resear…
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- 978-981-99-3667-0
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- XIII, 305
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Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
This open access book reviews the importance of ecological functioning within rangelands considering the complex inter-relationships of production agriculture, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat. More than half of all lands worldwide, and up to 70% of the western USA, are classified as rangelands—uncultivated lands that often support grazing by domestic livestock. Th…
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- 978-3-031-34036-9
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- XI, 1023
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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. By doing so, they effect social change both in places of origin and destination. However, their power to improve individ…
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- 978-3-030-81503-5
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- XVII, 465
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Vulnerable Households in the Energy Transition
This open access book explores the energy transition / energy poverty nexus in the European Union, including the implications of the transition and related policies for the household sector. Written by experts on energy economics, energy studies and related fields, it examines the impacts and costs of the energy transition (including those caused by carbon pricing) for the economy and for famil…
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- 978-3-031-35683-4
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Chaos and Organization in Health Care
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading ph…
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- 9780262259033
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- 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) :illustrations
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