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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• About Packt
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
• Technical requirements
• Train-test-splitting your data
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Standardizing your data
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Summarizing large data using principal component analysis
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Generating text using Markov chains
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...

• Performing clustering using scikit-learn
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Training an XGBoost classifier
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Analyzing time series using statsmodels
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Anomaly detection with Isolation Forest
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Natural language processing using a hashing vectorizer and tf-idf with scikit-learn
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Hyperparameter tuning with scikit-optimize
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...

• How it works ...
• Chapter 2: Machine Learning-Based Malware Detection
• Technical requirements
• Malware static analysis
• Computing the hash of a sample
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• YARA
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Examining the PE header
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Featurizing the PE header
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Malware dynamic analysis
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Using machine learning to detect the file type

• Scraping GitHub for files of a specific type
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Classifying files by type
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Measuring the similarity between two strings
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Measuring the similarity between two files
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Extracting N-grams
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Selecting the best N-grams
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Building a static malware detector
• Getting ready

• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Tackling class imbalance
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Handling type I and type II errors
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Chapter 3: Advanced Malware Detection
• Technical requirements
• Detecting obfuscated JavaScript
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Featurizing PDF files
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• Extracting N-grams quickly using the hash-gram algorithm
• Getting ready
• How to do it ...
• How it works ...
• See also
• Building a dynamic malware classifier

This book helps data scientists and cybersecurity experts on implementing the latest AI techniques in cybersecurity. Concrete and clear steps for implementing ML security systems are provided, saving you months in research and development. By the end of this book, you will be able to build defensive systems to curb cybersecurity threats.

• PowerOnt: An Ontology-based Approach for Power Consumption Estimation in Smart Homes
• A Learning Approach for Energy Efficiency Optimization by Occupancy Detection
• Intelligent Multi-platform Middleware for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
• Sense-Deliberate-Act Cognitive Agents for Sense-Compute-Control Applications in the Internet of Things & amp Services
• A novel Term-Term similarity score based information foraging assessment
• A Cloud-Based Bayesian Smart Agent Architecture for Internet-of-Things Applications
• Design and Implementation of IoT-based Intelligent Condition Management System for the Industrial Facilities
• A Cognitive Approach to Affordance Learning in Robotic Ecologies
• Resource Constrained Devices
• A Reputation-based Distributed District Scheduling Algorithm for Smart Grids
• Eliciting Affordances for Smart Objects in IoT Era
• The Role of Affordance in Cyber-Physical Systems for Behavioral Change
• Cognitive Load Detection on Commercial EEG Devices: An Optimized Signal Processing Chain
• From Language to Action: Extraction and Disambiguation of Affordances in ModelAct
• Understanding Stroke Patients' Motivation for Motivation-driven Rehabilitative Game Design
• A Game-Based Solution for In-Home Rehabilitation
• Evaluation of Pervasive Games: Recruitment of Qualified Participants through Preparatory Game Phases
• Internet of Things based Multiplayer Pervasive Games: An architectural analysis 20 PacMap: Transferring PacMan to the Physical Realm
• Exergames for Elderly in Ambient Assisted Living Environments
• Determinants for performance and technology Acceptance
• IoT Meets Caregivers: a Healthcare Support System in Assisted Living Facilities
• Development of a Remote Monitoring System for Respiratory Analysis
• HeartSense: Estimating Heart Rate from Smartphone Photoplethysmogram using Adaptive Filter and Interpolation
• A Trustworthy Mobile Solution for Healthcare based on Internet of Things
• Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare
• Multilingual Voice Control for Endoscopic Procedures
• Recognition of Low Amplitude Body Vibrations via Inertial Sensors for Wearable Computing
• Preventing health emergencies in an unobtrusive way
• Web-Enabled Intelligent Gateways for eHealth.

The two-volume set LNICST 150 and 151 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Internet of Things Summit, IoT360 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014. This volume contains 74 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions at the following four conferences: the First International Conference on Cognitive Internet of Things Technologies, COIOTE 2014; the First International Conference on Pervasive Games, PERGAMES 2014; the First International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare, HealthyIoT 2014; and the First International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2014. The papers cover the following topics: user-centric IoT; artificial intelligence techniques for the IoT; the design and deployment of pervasive games for various sectors, such as health and wellbeing, ambient assisted living, smart cities and societies, education, cultural heritage, and tourism; delivery of electronic healthcare; patient care and medical data management; smart objects; networking considerations for IoT; platforms for IoTaaS; adapting to the IoT environment; modeling IoTaaS; machine to machine support in IoT.

• A New Approach for Learning User Preferences for a Ridesharing Application.- An Altruistic-based Utility Function for Group Recommendation.- Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Quick Cooperation in Repeated Games.- Recursive Reductions of Action Dependencies for Coordination-based Multiagent Planning.- Controlling a single transport robot in a flexible job shop environment by hybrid metaheuristics.- Can Evolution Strategies Benefit from Shrinkage Estimators?.- An Emotional Multi-Personality Architecture for Intelligent Conversational Agents.- Towards General Cooperative Game Playing.- Comparing the Effects of Disturbances in Self-Adaptive Systems - A Generalised Approach for the Quantification of Robustness.- Analysis of Perceived Helpfulness in Adaptive Autonomous Agent Populations.- Evaluating Task-Allocation Strategies for Emergency Repair in MAS.
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These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the semantic Web, social networks, and multi-agent systems. TCCI strives to cover new methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of CCI understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The application of multiple computational intelligence technologies, such as fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc., aims to support human and other collective intelligence and to create new forms of CCI in natural and/or artificial systems. This twenty-eight issue is a special issue with 11 selected papers from the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2016 and 2017 editions.
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• 1. Introduction to API
• s2. Concepts and Technologies for API Managemen
• t3. Designing RESTful API Interface
• s4. API Documentatio
• n5. API Pattern
• s6. API Version Managemen
• t7. API Securit
• y8. API Monetizatio
• n9. API Testing Strateg
• y10. API Analytic
• s11. API Developer Porta
• l12. API Governance.
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Maximize the impact of your assets and business services by providing APIs for developers and other users. The journey described in this book starts with identifying business assets. As part of the API team, you then need to identify and define the requirements of traffic management, security, mediation, and orchestration. You also must define metrics for the analytics to measure the success of the overall API program. API documentation and the ease of developer onboarding also determine the success of the APIs. Finally, monetization of these APIs leads to revenue generation for the enterprise. Author De - an expert in building and managing API solutions - provides enterprise architects, designers, and technologists with insight into the world of APIs and the various technical aspects of building and managing an effective API management solution. API Management: Developing and Managing APIs for your Organization: Introduces the basics of APIs and highlights their value Provides an overview of technologies for building an API management solution and defines the requirements, including how to build a RESTful API Offers design principles for building developer-friendly APIs Explains how to secure your APIs Shows how to use API analytics to measure the success of your APIs Demonstrates how to monetize APIs Finally, API Management touches on various technical nuances of creating, distributing, and managing an API. This book will not only help you learn how to design, build, deploy, and manage an API for an enterprise scale, but also generate revenue for your organization. What You'll Learn Discover the API life cycle Design and develop APIs Implement API security Test your APIs Deploy and monitor your APIs Who This Book Is ForEnterprise architects, technology enthusiasts, security architects, and operations specialists.
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• Intro; Foreword by Prof. Andrea Omicini; Foreword by Prof. John T. Cacioppo; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Synopsis; 2 Towards Wave-like Approach; 3 Oscillation-Based Social Simulation Paradigm: The Conceptual Premises; 4 From Baseline Individual to Social Neurodynamics: Experimental Framework; 5 Oscillations-Based Simulation of Human Brain EEG Signal Dynamics Using Coupled Oscillators Energy Exchange Model (COEEM); 6 Mind-Field States and Transitions: Quantum Approach; 7 OAM Simulation Setup and Results Using Entropy and Free Energy Terms.

• 8 OAM-Based MAS: Collective Circadian Rhythms' Simulation Setup and Results9 Agent-Based Modeling of Excitable Social Media Fluctuations; 10 Agent-Based Modeling of Fluctuations in Automated Trading Systems; 11 Epilogue; Appendix A: Autopoietic Systems1; Appendix B: Global Workspace Theory7; Appendix C: Embodied and Distributed Cognition11; Appendix D: Cognition, Categorization, and Adaptive Resonance12; References; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Evolving Economic Systems; 2.3 Methodological Framework; 2.4 Pervasive Information Field (PIF) Concept; 2.5 Wave-like Interaction Mechanism (WIM)

• 3.1 General Outlines3.2 The OSIMAS Paradigm: Basic Hypothesis, Assumptions, and Postulates; 3.3 The Pervasive Information Field (PIF): Extended Conceptual Framework; 3.4 Information Versus Order in the Case of Coherent Oscillations; 3.5 Related Other Approaches; 4.1 Overview of the Related Research Scope; 4.2 The OSIMAS Paradigm: Conceptual and Experimental Framework; 4.3 EEG Experimental Setup: Cross-Correlation of Individual Mind States; 4.4 Further Prospects; 5.1 Neuroscience Context; 5.2 The COEEM Setup and Phase-Locking Mechanism.

• 5.3 COEEM Refind with Narrow Spectral Bands Superposition Approach5.4 The Results of the COEEM Simulation for Short and Long Periods; 5.5 Concluding Remarks; 6.1 Stylized Quantum States Model; 6.2 Constraints and Conditions; 7.1 OAM in Terms of Free Energy and Negentropy; 7.2 Bridging the Gap: Quantum Beats Approach; 7.3 OAM Construction Framework; 7.4 BMS as Dynamic Processes; 7.5 Simulation Setup: Circadian Cycles Case; 7.6 Simulation Results; 8.1 OAM-Based MAS Construction Principles; 8.2 Simulation Setup: Coherent Collective Circadian Cycles; 8.3 Simulation Results; 9.1 Overview.

• 9.2 The Basic Model9.3 Social Media Model Composed of Several Agent Groups; 9.4 Propagation of Two Competing Signals in Populations of Agents; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Mimicking of Financial Times Series by Excitable Agent Media; 10.3 Portfolio Management Rules in High-Dimensional Situations; 10.4 Data Used and Its Preliminary Analysis; 2.5.1 The Latent (Involuntary) Emission and Absorption Process; 2.5.2 The Active (Voluntary) Emission and Absorption Process.

• Full Papers.- Short Papers.- Extended Abstracts.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2018, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2018. The 24 full papers and 12 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They are devoted to the field of swarm intelligence as a whole, without any bias towards specific research directions.
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• Mobile web data analytics.- Big data analytics for healthcare.- Knowledge graph management and analysis.- Data management and mining on MOOCs.- Data science. .
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First APWeb-WAIM 2018 Workshops, held jointly with the Second International Joint Conference APWeb-WAIM 2018 in Macau, China, in July 2018. The 31 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers originating from five workshops present cutting-edge ideas, results, experiences, techniques, and tools from all aspects of web data management with the focus on mobile web data analytics; knowledge graph management and analysis; data management and mining on MOOCs; Big data analytics for healthcare; data science.
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• Stage 1: Terminology and Technical Foundations.-
• Step 1: Thinking in Layers and Aspects.-
• Step 2: Seeing the Big Picture.-
• Step 3: Recognizing the Potential.-
• Stage 2: Why the Blockchain Is Needed.-
• Step 4: Discovering the Core Problem.-
• Step 5: Disambiguating the Term.-
• Step 6: Understanding the Nature of Ownership.-
• Step 7: Spending Money Twice.-
• Stage 3: How the Blockchain Works.-
• Step 8: Planning the Blockchain.-
• Step 9: Documenting Ownership.-
• Step 10: Hashing Data.-
• Step 11: Hashing in the Real World.-
• Step 12: Identifying and Protecting User Accounts.-
• Step 13: Authorizing Transactions.-
• Step 14: Storing Transaction Data.-
• Step 15: Using the Data Store.-
• Step 16: Protecting the Data Store.-
• Step 17: Distributing the Data Store Among Peers.-
• Step 18: Verifying and Adding Transactions.-
• Step 19: Choosing a Transaction History.-
• Step 20: Paying for Integrity.-
• Step 21: Bringing the Pieces Together.-
• Stage 4: Limitations and Their Solutions.-
• Step 22: Seeing the Limitations.-
• Step 23: Reinventing the Blockchain.-
• Stage 5: Using the Blockchain, Summary, and Outlook
• Step 24: Using the Blockchain.- Step 25: Summarizing and Going Further.-
• Bibliography.-.
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In 25 concise steps, you will learn the basics of blockchain technology. No mathematical formulas, program code, or computer science jargon are used. No previous knowledge in computer science, mathematics, programming, or cryptography is required. Terminology is explained through pictures, analogies, and metaphors. This book bridges the gap that exists between purely technical books about the blockchain and purely business-focused books. It does so by explaining both the technical concepts that make up the blockchain and their role in business-relevant applications. What You'll Learn What the blockchain is Why it is needed and what problem it solves Why there is so much excitement about the blockchain and its potential Major components and their purpose How various components of the blockchain work and interact Limitations, why they exist, and what has been done to overcome them Major application scenarios Who This Book Is For Everyone who wants to get a general idea of what blockchain technology is, how it works, and how it will potentially change the financial system as we know it.
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• Automotive Safety Standards and Cross-domain Reuse Potential.- Autonomous Driving and Safety Analysis.- Verification.- Multi-concern Assurance.- Fault Tolerance.- Safety and Security Risk.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2018, held in Vasteras, Sweden, in September 2018. The 19 revised full papers and 1 short paper presented together with three abstracts of keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Automotive Safety Standards and Cross-domain Reuse Potential; Autonomous Driving and Safety Analysis; Verification; Multi-concern Assurance; Fault Tolerance; and Safety and Security Risk.
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• Introduction and Overview
• What You Need to Know About AI
• AI for Innovation
• AI for Efficiency
• The Bionic Customer Service Agent at Siemens Global Business Services
• Retaining the Human Touch at Calderdale Council
• Artificial Intelligence Improving Stroke Care at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
• AI in Sales Optimization at Wärtsilä
• The Autonomous Enterprise
• Automation and Society

The journey towards the autonomous enterprise has begun; there are already companies operating in a highly automated way, and with intelligent solutions offering compelling returns on investment, more organisations will be joining their ranks. With a workforce of machines that are augmented by humans, the autonomous enterprise will turn the current organisational model on its head. Every corporate decision-maker will need to understand the new model, learn about the possibilities and the opportunities it presents, the risks, the shifting competitive landscape, and how to navigate the journey of change. This book is your guide to this innovation, presenting the concepts in real world contexts by covering the art of the possible today and providing glimpses into the future of business.

• Introduction and Overview What You Need to Know About AI AI for Innovation AI for Efficiency The Bionic Customer Service Agent at Siemens Global Business Services Retaining the Human Touch at Calderdale Council Artificial Intelligence Improving Stroke Care at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust AI in Sales Optimization at Wartsila The Autonomous Enterprise Automation and Society.
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The journey towards the autonomous enterprise has begun; there are already companies operating in a highly automated way. Every corporate decision-maker will need to understand the opportunities and risks that the autonomous enterprise presents, to learn how best to navigate the shifting competitive landscape on their journey of change. This book is your guide to this innovation, presenting the concepts in real world contexts by covering the art of the possible today and providing glimpses into the future of business.
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• Intro; Foreword; Preface; Donation for Life; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction to the Microsatellite Platform; 2 The FLP Platform Operability; 3 Data Handling and Control Concept; 4 Core Data Handling Subsystem; 5 Power Supply Subsystem; 6 Platform Communication Subsystem; 7 Attitude Control Subsystem; 8 Thermal Control Subsystem; 9 Payload Control Subsystem ; 10 Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery Concept; 11 Satellite Mission Phases and Planning; 12 Stuttgart Mission Control Infrastructure ; 13 Stuttgart/DLR Infrastructure for LEOP.

• 14 Earth Observation Mission Planning15 Flight Procedures; 16 FLP Mission Information Database; 17 Annexes and Data Sheets; References; Index; Abstract; 1.1 The University Small Satellite Program; 1.2 Satellite Orbit; 1.3 Mechanical Design and Launcher Interface; 1.4 Technology and Payloads; 1.5 Platform Re-usability; 1.6 Platform Redundancy Concept; 1.7 Power Subsystem and Electrical Block Diagram; 1.8 Core Data Handling Subsystem; 1.9 FLP Payload Control Computer; 1.10 Attitude Control Subsystem; 1.11 Reaction Control Subsystem; 1.12 Communication Subsystem; 1.13 Thermal Control Subsystem.

• 1.14 Satellite Deorbiting at End of Life1.15 Possible Mechanical Platform Configurations; Abstract; 2.1 Spacecraft Configuration Handling Concept; 2.2 Spacecraft Telecommand and Telemetry Structure; 2.3 Application Process ID Definitions (APIDs); 2.4 PUS Tailoring Concept; 2.5 Spacecraft Commandability and Observability; 2.6 Spacecraft On-board Time Management; Abstract; 3.1 Onboard Software Architecture; 3.2 OBSW Object Types; 3.3 Observability Functions Provided by the OBSW; 3.4 FLP Software Dynamic Architecture; 3.5 Onboard Software Death Report; Abstract.

• 4.1 On-Board Data Handling Subsystem4.2 Combined Data and Power Management Infrastructure; 4.3 Data Management; 4.4 System Boot at Launcher Separation; 4.5 OBSW Controlled Functions; 4.6 Core DHS Subsystem Control; Abstract; 5.1 Subsystem Overview; 5.2 Solar Panels; 5.3 Solar Array Deployment Mechanism; 5.4 Battery; 5.5 Power Control and Distribution Unit; 5.6 Power Subsystem Control; Abstract; 6.1 TTC Subsystem Overview; 6.2 Signal Acquisition Procedure; 6.3 TTC Subsystem Control; Abstract; 7.1 Subsystem Overview; 7.2 Mission Objectives and ACS Subsystem Modes; 7.3 Magnetometers.

• 7.4 Sun Sensor Unit7.5 GPS Receiver System; 7.6 Fiberoptic Gyroscopes; 7.7 Star Tracker; 7.8 Reaction Wheels; 7.9 Magnetotorquers; 7.10 Extensions for FLP Generation 2; 7.11 ACS Subsystem Control; Abstract; 8.1 Thermal Subsystem Overview; 8.2 Sensors, Calibration, Limits; 8.3 TCS Subsystem Control; Abstract; 9.1 Aspects of Payload Control and Data Handling; 9.2 Payload Control on the First FLP Based Satellite; 9.3 Payload Control in Network-Centric Architectures; Abstract; 10.1 General Principles; 10.2 Core DHS FDIR; 10.3 Power FDIR; 10.4 Equipment FDIR; 10.5 TTC FDIR; 10.6 ACS FDIR.

This book represents the Flight Operations Manual for a reusable microsatellite platform - the "Future Low-cost Platform" (FLP), developed at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. It provides a basic insight on the onboard software functions, the core data handling system and on the power, communications, attitude control and thermal subsystem of the platform. Onboard failure detection, isolation and recovery functions are treated in detail. The platform is suited for satellites in the 50-150 kg class and is baseline of the microsatellite "Flying Laptop" from the University. The book covers the essential information for ground operators to controls an FLP-based satellite applying international command and control standards (CCSDS and ECSS PUS). Furthermore it provides an overview on the Flight Control Center in Stuttgart and on the link to the German Space Agency DLR Ground Station which is used for early mission phases. Flight procedure and mission planning chapters complement the book

• Chapter 1. Global Navigation Satellite Systems
• Chapter 2. Doppler Satellite Positioning, Telemetry and Data Systems
• Chapter 3. Precision and Navigational PNT Systems
• Chapter 4. Aided and Augmentation Systems, and Differential GPS
• Chapter 5. Applications of PNT Systems
• Chapter 6. National and International Governmental Policy Issues
• Chapter 7. Conclusions and Future Directions
• 8. Top Ten Things to Know About GNSS
• Appendix 1. Key Terms and Acronyms
• Appendix 2. Selected Bibliography
• Appendix 3. Selected Websites.

Dr. Madry, one of the world's leading experts in the field, provides in a condensed form a quick yet comprehensive overview of satellite navigation. This book concisely addresses the latest technology, the applications, the regulatory issues, and the strategic implications of satellite navigation systems. This assesses the strengths and weaknesses of satellite navigation networks and review of all the various national systems now being deployed and the motivation behind the proliferation of these systems.

• Learning for vision
• Computational photography
• Human analysis
• Human sensing
• Stereo and reconstruction
• Optimization
• Matching and recognition
• Video attention
• Poster sessions.

The sixteen-volume set comprising the LNCS volumes 11205-11220 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2018, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2018. The 776 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 2439 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning for vision; computational photography; human analysis; human sensing; stereo and reconstruction; optimization; matching and recognition; video attention; and poster sessions.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Contributing Disciplines.- 3 Design of Serious Games.- 4 Authoring Processes and Tools.- 5 Content and Content Production.- 6 Game Engines.- 7 Personalization and Adaptation.- 8 Multiplayer Serious Games.- 9 Player Experience.- 10 Performance Assessment in Serious Games.- 11 Serious Games - Economic and Legal Issues.- 12 Serious Games Application Examples.- About the Authors.- Index.
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This textbook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of serious games, which differ considerably from computer games that are meant for pure entertainment. Undergraduate and graduate students from various disciplines who want to learn about serious games are one target group of this book. Prospective developers of serious games are another, as they can use the book for self-study in order to learn about the distinctive features of serious game design and development. And ultimately, the book also addresses prospective users of serious game technologies by providing them with a solid basis for judging the advantages and limitations of serious games in different application areas such as game-based learning, training and simulation or games for health. To cater to this heterogeneous readership and wide range of interests, every effort was made to make the book flexible to use. All readers are expected to study Chapter 1, as it provides the necessary basics and terminology that will be used in all subsequent chapters. The eleven chapters that follow cover the creation of serious games (design, authoring processes and tools, content production), the runtime context of serious games (game engines, adaptation mechanisms, game balancing, game mastering, multi-player serious games), the effects of serious games and their evaluation (player experience, assessment techniques, performance indicators), and serious games in practice (economic aspects, cost-benefit analysis, serious game distribution). To familiarize the readers with best practice in this field, the final chapter presents more than 30 selected examples of serious games illustrating their characteristics and showcasing their practical use. Lecturers can select chapters in a sequence that is most suitable for their specific course or seminar. The book includes specific suggestions for courses such as "Introduction to Serious Games", "Entertainment Technology", "Serious Game Design", "Game-based Learning", and "Applications of Serious Games".
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• Part 1 User-centric IoT.

• Part 2 IoT infrastructures.

The two-volume set LNICST 150 and 151 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Internet of Things Summit, IoT360 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014. This volume contains 30 revised full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions at the following three conferences: the First International Conference on Mobility and Smart Cities, Mobility IoT 2014; the First International Conference on Software-Defined and Virtualized Future Wireless Networks, SDWN 2014; and the First International Conference on Safety and Security in Internet of Things, SaSeIot 2014. This volume also includes 13 special contributions from recognized experts. The papers in this volume are dedicated to infrastructure-based solutions that will support the deployment of IoT services and applications in the future. They cover the following topics: sustainable solutions to the mobility and smart cities agenda; software defined techniques for supporting more flexible use of wireless and wireless sensor networks; opportunities and risks related to the safety and security in the IoT domain.

• Part I: APEX Overview
• 1. About APEX Part II: Architectur
• e2. APEX in the Databas
• e3. Middle-tie
• r4. Database Advanced Securit
• y5. APEX and Oracle E-Business Suit
• e6. High Availabilit
• y7. APEX in Multitenant Deployment Part III: Configuratio
• n8. Installin
• g9. Upgrading and Patchin
• g10. Configurin
• g11. Administer APEX in Runtime Only Mode
• 12. Database and APEX Backup
• s13. Self-Provisioning Workspaces Part IV: Tuning
• 14. Monitorin
• g15. Performance and Tunin
• g16. Resource Manager and APEX.
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Succeed in managing Oracle Application Express (APEX) environments. This book focuses on creating the right combination of scalability, high-availability, backup and recovery, integrity, and resource control. The book covers everything from simple to enterprise-class deployments, with emphasis on enterprise-level requirements and coverage of cloud and hybrid-cloud scenarios. Many books cover how to develop applications in Oracle APEX. It's a tool with a fast-growing user-base as developers come to know how quick and easy it is to create new applications that run in a browser. However, just getting an application off the ground is only a small part of a bigger picture. Applications must be supported. They must be available when users need them. They must be robust against disaster and secure against malicious attack. These are the issues addressed in Oracle Application Express Administration. These are the issues that when tackled successfully lead to long term success in using Oracle APEX as a rapid application-development toolset. Readers of this book learn how to install the Oracle APEX engine in support of small-scale projects such as at the departmental level, and in support of enterprise-level projects accessed by thousands of users across dozens of time zones. Readers learn to take advantage of Oracle Database's underlying feature set in regards to application scalability and performance, integrity, security, high-availability, and robustness against failure and data loss. Oracle Application Express Administration also describes different cloud solutions, integration with Oracle E-Business Suite, and helps in taking advantage of multitenancy in Oracle Database 12c and beyond. Covers important enterprise considerations such as scalability, robustness, high-availability. Describes cloud-based application deployment scenarios Focuses on creating the right deployment environment for long-term success What You Will Learn Install, upgrade, and configure robust APEX environments Back up and recover APEX applications and their data Monitor and tune the APEX engine and its applications Benefit from new administration features in APEX 5.0 Run under multi-tenant architecture in Oracle Database 12c Manage the use of scarce resources with Resource Manager Secure your data with advanced security features Build high-availability into your APEX deployments Integrate APEX with Oracle E-Business Suite Who This Book Is For Architects, administrators, and developers who want to better understand how APEX works in a corporate environment. Readers will use this book to design deployment architectures around Oracle Database strengths like multi-tenancy, resource management, and high availability. The book is also useful to administrators responsible for installation and upgrade, backup and recovery, and the ongoing monitoring of the APEX engine and the applications built upon it.
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• Part I: APEX Overview
• 1. About APEX Part II: Architectur
• e2. APEX in the Databas
• e3. Middle-tie
• r4. Database Advanced Securit
• y5. APEX and Oracle E-Business Suit
• e6. High Availabilit
• y7. APEX in Multitenant Deployment Part III: Configuratio
• n8. Installin
• g9. Upgrading and Patchin
• g10. Configurin
• g11. Administer APEX in Runtime Only Mode
• 12. Database and APEX Backup
• s13. Self-Provisioning Workspaces Part IV: Tuning
• 14. Monitorin
• g15. Performance and Tunin
• g16. Resource Manager and APEX.
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Succeed in managing Oracle Application Express (APEX) environments. This book focuses on creating the right combination of scalability, high-availability, backup and recovery, integrity, and resource control. The book covers everything from simple to enterprise-class deployments, with emphasis on enterprise-level requirements and coverage of cloud and hybrid-cloud scenarios. Many books cover how to develop applications in Oracle APEX. It's a tool with a fast-growing user-base as developers come to know how quick and easy it is to create new applications that run in a browser. However, just getting an application off the ground is only a small part of a bigger picture. Applications must be supported. They must be available when users need them. They must be robust against disaster and secure against malicious attack. These are the issues addressed in Oracle Application Express Administration. These are the issues that when tackled successfully lead to long term success in using Oracle APEX as a rapid application-development toolset. Readers of this book learn how to install the Oracle APEX engine in support of small-scale projects such as at the departmental level, and in support of enterprise-level projects accessed by thousands of users across dozens of time zones. Readers learn to take advantage of Oracle Database's underlying feature set in regards to application scalability and performance, integrity, security, high-availability, and robustness against failure and data loss. Oracle Application Express Administration also describes different cloud solutions, integration with Oracle E-Business Suite, and helps in taking advantage of multitenancy in Oracle Database 12c and beyond. Covers important enterprise considerations such as scalability, robustness, high-availability. Describes cloud-based application deployment scenarios Focuses on creating the right deployment environment for long-term success What You Will Learn Install, upgrade, and configure robust APEX environments Back up and recover APEX applications and their data Monitor and tune the APEX engine and its applications Benefit from new administration features in APEX 5.0 Run under multi-tenant architecture in Oracle Database 12c Manage the use of scarce resources with Resource Manager Secure your data with advanced security features Build high-availability into your APEX deployments Integrate APEX with Oracle E-Business Suite Who This Book Is For Architects, administrators, and developers who want to better understand how APEX works in a corporate environment. Readers will use this book to design deployment architectures around Oracle Database strengths like multi-tenancy, resource management, and high availability. The book is also useful to administrators responsible for installation and upgrade, backup and recovery, and the ongoing monitoring of the APEX engine and the applications built upon it.
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• Keynote Talks.- Keynote: Session-based Recommendation - Challenges and Recent Advances.- Reasoning.- Model Checking for Coalition Announcement Logic.- Fusing First-order Knowledge Compilation and the Lifted Junction Tree Algorithm.- Towards Preventing Unnecessary Groundings in the Lifted Dynamic Junction Tree Algorithm.- Acquisition of Terminological Knowledge in Probabilistic Description Logic.- Multi-Agent Systems.- Group Envy Freeness and Group Pareto Efficiency in Fair Division with Indivisible Items.- Approximate Probabilistic Parallel Multiset Rewriting using MCMC.- Efficient Auction Based Coordination for Distributed Multi-Agent Planning in Temporal Domains Using Resource Abstraction.- Maximizing Expected Impact in an Agent Reputation Network.- Developing a Distributed Drone Delivery System with a Hybrid Behavior Planning System.- Robotics.- A Sequence-Based Neuronal Model for Mobile Robot Localization.- Acquiring knowledge of object arrangements from human examples for household robots.- Learning.- Solver Tuning and Model Configuration.- Condorcet's Jury Theorem for Consensus Clustering.- Sparse Transfer Classification for Text Documents.- Towards Hypervector Representations for Learning and Planning with Schemas.- LEARNDIAG: A Direct Diagnosis Algorithm Based On Learned Heuristics.- Planning.- Assembly Planning in Cluttered Environments through Heterogeneous Reasoning.- Extracting Planning Operators from Instructional Texts for Behaviour Interpretation.- Risk-Sensitivity in Simulation Based Online Planning.- Neural Networks.- Evolutionary Structure Minimization of Deep Neural Networks for Motion Sensor Data.- Knowledge Sharing For Population Based Neural Network Training.- Limited Evaluation Evolutionary Optimization of Large Neural Networks.- Understanding NLP Neural Networks by the Texts They Generate.- Visual Search Target Inference using Bag of Deep Visual Words.- Analysis and Optimization of Deep Counterfactual Value Networks.- Search. -A Variant of Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Referring Expression Generation.- Preference-Based Monte Carlo Tree Search.- Belief Revision.- Probabilistic Belief Revision via Similarity of Worlds Modulo Evidence.- Intentional Forgetting in Artificial Intelligence Systems: Perspectives and Challenges.- Kinds and Aspects of Forgetting in Common-Sense Knowledge and Belief Management.- Context Aware Systems.- Bounded-Memory Stream Processing.- An Implementation and Evaluation of User-centered Requirements for Smart In-House Mobility Services.- Cognitive Approach.- Predict the Individual Reasoner: A New Approach.- The Predictive Power of Heuristic Portfolios in Human Syllogistic Reasoning.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2018. The 20 full and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The book also contains one keynote talk in full paper length. The papers were organized in topical sections named: reasoning; multi-agent systems; robotics; learning; planning; neural networks; search; belief revision; context aware systems; and cognitive approach. .
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• Power control and management
• Network architecture and deployment
• Positioning and location-based services in wireless sensor networks
• Security and privacy
• Wireless communication systems and protocols
• Routing algorithm and transport protocols in wireless sensor networks
• Wireless communication protocols and sensor data quality, integrity and trustworthiness
• Internet of Things
• Wireless mobile network architecture, in-vehicle network
• Indoor positioning and location-based services
• Applications of wireless sensor networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference of Wireless Sensor Networks, held in Xi'an, China, in October/November 2014. The 64 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 365 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on power control and management; network architecture and deployment; positioning and location-based services in wireless sensor networks; security and privacy; wireless communication systems and protocols; routing algorithm and transport protocols in wireless sensor networks; wireless communication protocols and sensor data quality, integrity and trustworthiness; Internet of Things; wireless mobile network architecture, in-vehicle network; indoor positioning and location-based services; applications of wireless sensor networks.