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• Chapter 1: Everything Electric.-
• Chapter 2: Homes as Factories.-
• Chapter 3: Pleasure and Convenience.-
• Chapter 4: Digital Everything.-
• Chapter 5: Cheaper, Embedded and Invisible.-
• Chapter 6: Emerging Themes and What's Next?.-
• Chapter 7: Conclusion.
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Examine the history of smart homes, how technology shapes our lives, and ways you can think about the home when developing new products. This book presents the opportunities in the homespace that will come from understanding the history and multiple players that have contributed to the development of the home in general. You'll start by breaking down the historical, societal and political context for the changes in focus of that `smartness' from affordability, efficiency, convenience to recently experimentation. The second half of the book then reviews what current developments tell us about what our homes will look like in the next 10 years through the lens of spaces, services, appliances and behaviours in our homes. Over the past 100 years, the home has been a battleground for ideas of future living. Fueled by the electrification of cities, the move from the country to cities, post-war recovery and the development of the internet, the way we live at home (alone or with others) has changed beyond recognition. Science fiction writing, the entertainment industry, art, and modern interior design and architecture movements have also contributed to defining our aspirations around a future and now more present and possible `smart' home. Smarter Homes looks at the many new and innovative products that are being developed in the consumer and industrial spaces with a copy-paste mindset based on following larger businesses, such as Amazon, Google and Apple. What You'll Learn Understand the historical context for current smart home products Review the social aspect of home product development Discover new home technologies being developed and which ones are available now Track the industry behaviors being leveraged and how they may affect longer term market trends for consumer products Who This Book Is For Everyone working in product design and development, in R&D or in trends research, as well as those interested in the IoT for the home. This book will also give product business owners ideas about what has been done before and and avenues for future development.
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• Part 1: Hosting a Static Website in Amazon Web Services.-
• Chapter 1: Static Content Scenario.-
• Chapter 2: Introduction to AWS Free Tier.-
• Chapter 3: Your Content Solution: An Introduction to AWS S3.-
• Chapter 4: Setting Up Your Website Content and Domain.-
• Chapter 5: Next Level Static Content Hosting.-
• Chapter 6: Logging and Monitoring.-
• Part 2: Hosting a Platform / CMS Website in Amazon Web Services.-
• Chapter 7: Platform / CMS Website Scenario.-
• Chapter 8: Architecture of a CMS Website.-
• Chapter 9: Static and Dynamic Storage Options in AWS.-
• Chapter 10: Database Services in AWS.-
• Chapter 11: Building the Infrastructure.-
• Chapter 12: Updating the Stack.-
• Part 3: Hosting a Platform / CMS Website in Amazon Web Services.-
• Chapter 13: Building Upon Your Foundation.-
• Chapter 14: Enterprise Website Scenario.-
• Chapter 15: EC2 Resources at Scale.-
• Chapter 16: Content Lifecycles, Management and Backup.-
• Chapter 17: Extending Your Reach with Workflow Services and Development Tools.-
• Chapter 18: AWS Security and Securing Website Communication.-
• Chapter 19: AWS Enterprise Applications.-
• Chapter 20: Appendix: Additional Resources.-.
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Understand the steps necessary to host your website using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. You will be able to set up your website for the first time or migrate your existing website. Explore scenarios, considerations, and steps for three types of websites, including hosting a static website, a content management system (CMS) based website, and a full-featured enterprise level website. Topic areas such as content storage in S3, compute resources in EC2, Route53 DNS Management, email services setup using Simple Email Service as well as strategies for high availability, fault tolerance, and website maintenance are covered. Website Hosting and Migration with Amazon Web Services is organized in a way that allows you to start with simple concepts using AWS core services that allow you to build knowledge and confidence using AWS services while exploring the latest technology on this ever-updating platform. Using AWS to host your website offers you more control over your infrastructure, content delivery, and ability to scale to fit your website needs. It's time to take control and take your website to the next level. This engaging resource: Explains how to use the Amazon Web Services Free Tier to evaluate the platform for hosting your website Walks you through the setup and migration steps for three unique and popular web hosting scenarios Delivers hands-on experience with base concepts that can be built upon to grow and improve your website infrastructure Provides sample resources to test and understand the setup process fully What You'll Learn Evaluate Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered on the platform that may benefit your website Set up and maintain three unique types of websites using AWS core services, enabling you to gain a deeper understanding of what is capable for your website or future projects Select AWS services that can improve performance and control of your website Use AWS RDS to deliver a redundant database solution for your website Manage DNS, domain registration, and transfers in AWS Use CloudFront to deliver content efficiently on a global scale Who This Book Is For Small business owners, webmasters, freelance web designers, and others looking to have more control over their web content, save money by using a platform that charges for just the services you use, or grow the stability of their website by making it highly available, fault tolerant, and easily deployed; those looking to learn more about AWS Web Hosting options in general.
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• Networking Evolution towards Cloud Networking.- Background Introduction.- Fundamental Concepts.- Cloud Networking.- Cost Efficient Big Data Processing in Cloud Networking enabled Data Centers.- Cost Minimization for Big Data Processing in Geo-Distributed Data Centers.- A General Communication Cost Optimization Framework for Big Data Stream Processing in Geo-distributed Data Centers.- Conclusion and Future Work.
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This book introduces two basic big data processing paradigms for batch data and streaming data. Representative programming frameworks are also presented, as well as software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) technologies as key cloud networking technologies. The authors illustrate that SDN and NFV can be applied to benefit the big data processing by proposing a cloud networking framework. Based on the framework, two case studies examine how to improve the cost efficiency of big data processing. Cloud Networking for Big Data targets professionals and researchers working in big data, networks, wireless communications and information technology. Advanced-level students studying computer science and electrical engineering will also find this book valuable as a study guide.
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• Design of a Novel Adaptive Indoor Air Quality Control for Co-learning Smart House
• A Design-led, materials based approach to human centered applications using modified dielectric electroactive polymer sensors
• How to ruin Sensor Network Performance using Duplicate Suppression
• A Open Hardware Wireless Sensor Monitoring System for Human Wellbeing Research in Ambient Assisted Living
• Artificial Immune System
• A New Approach For The Long-Term Data Monitoring in Ambient Assisted Living
• An Authentication and Key Management Scheme for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
• HUMsim: A Privacy-Oriented Human Mobility Simulator
• Mobile Health Applications: a Comparative Analysis and a Novel Mobile Health Platform
• Overview of Mobile Sensing for Special Needs: Lessons learned from I Can workshop
• A User-Centric Approach to building experience platforms for capturing lifestyle and wellbeing information
• From Silos to the IoT via oneM2M, a Standardized M2M Service Platform
• Decentralising Internet Of Things aware BPMN business processes.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software, S-Cube 2014, held in Coventry, UK, in October 2014. The 12 revised full papers presented were selected from 16 submissions and cover technologies for wireless sensor networks, including security protocols, middleware, analysis tools and frameworks.

• Flow-Oriented Approaches Flow-Aware Networking Flow-Aware Networking for Net Neutrality Congestion Control in Flow-Aware Networks Fairness in Flow-Aware Networks FAN in Case of Failure Service Differentiation in FAN Service Degradation in FAN Implementation of Cross-Protect Router Summary Answers.
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This book provides a practical guide to flow-aware networking (FAN), one of the most promising new quality-of-service architectures for the Future Internet. The latest concepts are examined in detail, including coverage of approximate flow-aware networking. The scope and evolution of the debate on network neutrality is also discussed. Topics and features: provides a broad survey of flow-oriented approaches and solutions based on the concept of flows; presents a range of mechanisms for improving transmission performance of streaming flows under congestion; illustrates how problems caused by congestion may be solved in a multilayer environment, proposing new methods for enhancing transmission in wired-wireless FAN; analyzes aspects of fair transmission in FAN, reviewing algorithms that improve transmission of streaming flows during network failures; describes the implementation aspects of the cross-protect router; concludes each chapter with review questions, with answers provided at the end of the book.
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• A Fast Handover Procedure based on Smart Association Decision for Mobile IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks.- Building Efficient Multi-level Wireless Sensor Networks with Clustering.- Delay Accounting Optimization Procedure to Enhance End-to-End Delay Estimation in WSNs.- Effects of cooperation on wireless ad hoc network Performance.- Revisiting IEEE 802.11 Backoff Process Modeling through Information Entropy Estimation.- Transmission Window Optimization for Caching-based Transport Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Improved p-norm Energy Detector in AWGN Channel for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio.- Middleware Solution for HealthCare IoT Applications.- A Survey on Short-Term Electricity Price Prediction Models for Smart Grid Applications.- Analysis of RF-based Indoor Localization with Multiple Channels and Signal Strengths.- Can we apply clustering in fast moving objects?.- Product Network Codes for Reliable Communications in Diamond Networks.- Analysis of the Impact of Denial of Service Attacks on Centralized Control in Smart Cities.- Quadratic Programming for Demand-Side Management in the Smart Grid.- Towards an Advanced PKI-based Security Solution for Next Generation e-Passport and Associated Applications: The NewP@ss Approach.- UTTB FDSOI Back-Gate Biasing for Low Power and High-Speed Chip Design.- An architectural framework for delivering SIP-AS multimedia services based on JADE/OSGi Technology.- Easily Guiding of Blind: providing information and navigation - SmartNav.- Intelligent and Efficient Car Management Application for Advanced Green Routing.- Artificial Neural Networks for Traffic Prediction in 4G Networks.- Pros and Cons of Software Standards Use.- Storm: Rateless MDS Erasure Codes.- A framework for object classication in fareld videos.- Positioning-Protocol-Based Digital Signature.- Verification of various attack approaches against CSI-based secret key in different types of LOS channels.- A method for localization of computational node and proxy server in educational data synchronization.- Social Networks and Internet of Things, an overview of the SITAC project.
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Wireless Internet, WICON 2014, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2014. The 45 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover topics such as 5G mobile communications, Internet of Things (IoT), super Wi-Fi and V2V/V21.
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• Technology
• Communications
• Systems and security aspects of relevance to future networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Future Network Systems and Security, FNSS 2015, held in Paris, France, in June 2015. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers focus on the technology, communications, systems and security aspects of relevance to the network of the future.

• Localization of Bone Surfaces from Ultrasound Data Using Local Phase Information and Signal Transmission Maps.- Shape-aware Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Vertebrae Segmentation.- Automated Characterization of Body Composition and Frailty with Clinically Acquired CT.- Unfolded cylindrical projection for rib fracture diagnosis.- 3D Cobb Angle Measurements from Scoliotic Mesh Models with Varying Face-Vertex Density.- Automatic Localization of the Lumbar Vertebral Landmarks in CT Images with Context Features.- Joint Multimodal Segmentation of Clinical CT and MR from Hip Arthroplasty Patients.- Reconstruction of 3D muscle fiber structure using high resolution cryosectioned volume.- Segmentation of Pathological Spines in CT Images Using a Two-Way CNN and a Collision-Based Model.- Attention-driven deep learning for pathological spine segmentation.- Automatic Full Femur Segmentation from Computed Tomography Datasets using an Atlas-Based Approach.- Classification of Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures using Shape and Appearance Modelling.- DSMS-FCN: A Deeply Supervised Multi-Scale Fully Convolutional Network for Automatic Segmentation of Intervertebral Disc in 3D MR Images.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop and Challenge on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Musculoskeletal Imaging, MSKI 2017, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2017, in Quebec City, QC, Canada, in September 2017. The 13 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. Topics of interest include all major aspects of musculoskeletal imaging, for example: clinical applications of musculoskeletal computational imaging; computer-aided detection and diagnosis of conditions of the bones, muscles and joints; image-guided musculoskeletal surgery and interventions; image-based assessment and monitoring of surgical and pharmacological treatment; segmentation, registration, detection, localization and visualization of the musculoskeletal anatomy; statistical and geometrical modeling of the musculoskeletal shape and appearance; image-based microstructural characterization of musculoskeletal tissue; novel techniques for musculoskeletal imaging.
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• Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Latency in Cloud-Based Applications.- 3 HTTP for Globally Distributed Applications.- 4 Systems for Scalable Data Management.- 5 Caching in Research & Industry.- 6 Transactional Semantics.-7 Polyglot Persistence in Data Management.- 8 The NoSQL Toolbox: The NoSQL Landscape in a Nutshell.- 9 Summary & Future Trends.
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The unprecedented scale at which data is both produced and consumed today has generated a large demand for scalable data management solutions facilitating fast access from all over the world. As one consequence, a plethora of non-relational, distributed NoSQL database systems have risen in recent years and today's data management system landscape has thus become somewhat hard to overlook. As another consequence, complex polyglot designs and elaborate schemes for data distribution and delivery have become the norm for building applications that connect users and organizations across the globe - but choosing the right combination of systems for a given use case has become increasingly difficult as well. To help practitioners stay on top of that challenge, this book presents a comprehensive overview and classification of the current system landscape in cloud data management as well as a survey of the state-of-the-art approaches for efficient data distribution and delivery to end-user devices. The topics covered thus range from NoSQL storage systems and polyglot architectures (backend) over distributed transactions and Web caching (network) to data access and rendering performance in the client (end-user). By distinguishing popular data management systems by data model, consistency guarantees, and other dimensions of interest, this book provides an abstract framework for reasoning about the overall design space and the individual positions claimed by each of the systems therein. Building on this classification, this book further presents an application-driven decision guidance tool that breaks the process of choosing a set of viable system candidates for a given application scenario down into a straightforward decision tree. .
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• Introduction
• Full-duplex Cognitive Radio Networks
• Extensions of the LAT Protocol
• Full-duplex WiFi
• Conclusions and Future Works.

This brief focuses on the use of full-duplex radio in cognitive radio networks, presenting a novel spectrum sharing protocol that allows the secondary users to simultaneously sense and access the vacant spectrum. This protocol, called "Listen-and-talk" (LAT), is evaluated by both mathematical analysis and computer simulations in comparison with other existing protocols, including the listen-before-talk protocol. In addition to LAT-based signal processing and resource allocation, the brief discusses techniques such as spectrum sensing and dynamic spectrum access. The brief proposes LAT as a suitable access scheme for cognitive radio networks, which can support the quality-of-service requirements of these high priority applications. Fundamental theories and key techniques of cognitive radio networks are also covered. Listen and Talk: Full-duplex Cognitive Radio Networks is designed for researchers, developers, and professionals involved in cognitive radio networks. Advanced-level students studying signal processing or simulations will also find the content helpful since it moves beyond traditional cognitive radio networks into future applications for the technology.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Persistent Memory Programming
• Chapter 2: Persistent Memory Architecture
• Chapter 3: Operating System Support for Persistent Memory
• Chapter 4: Fundamental Concepts of Persistent Memory Programming
• Chapter 5: Introducing the Persistent Memory Development Kit
• Chapter 6: libpmem: Low-Level Persistent Memory Support
• Chapter 7: libpmemobj
• A Native Transactional Object Store
• Chapter 8: libpmemobj-cpp: The adaptable language C++ and Persistent Memory
• Chapter 9: pmemkv
• A Persistent In-Memory Key-Value Store
• Chapter 10: Volatile Use of Persistent Memory
• Chapter 11: Designing Data Structures for Persistent Memory
• Chapter 12: Debugging Persistent Memory Applications
• Chapter 13: Enabling Persistence in a Real World Application
• Chapter 14: Concurrency and Persistent Memory
• Chapter 15: Profiling and Performance
• Chapter 16: PMDK Internals
• Important Algorithms and Data Structures
• Chapter 17: Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
• Chapter 18: Remote Persistent Memory
• Chapter 19: Advanced Topics
• Appendix A: Installing NDCTL and DAXCTL on Linux
• Appendix B: Installing PMDK on Linux & Windows
• Appendix C: Installing IPMCTL on Linux and Windows
• Appendix D: Java for Persistent Memory
• Appendix E: The Future of Remote Persistent Memory Replocation.

Beginning and experienced programmers will use this comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming. You will understand how persistent memory brings together several new software/hardware requirements, and offers great promise for better performance and faster application startup times--a huge leap forward in byte-addressable capacity compared with current DRAM offerings. This revolutionary new technology gives applications significant performance and capacity improvements over existing technologies. It requires a new way of thinking and developing, which makes this highly disruptive to the IT/computing industry. The full spectrum of industry sectors that will benefit from this technology include, but are not limited to, in-memory and traditional databases, AI, analytics, HPC, virtualization, and big data. Programming Persistent Memory describes the technology and why it is exciting the industry. It covers the operating system and hardware requirements as well as how to create development environments using emulated or real persistent memory hardware. The book explains fundamental concepts; provides an introduction to persistent memory programming APIs for C, C++, JavaScript, and other languages; discusses RMDA with persistent memory; reviews security features; and presents many examples. Source code and examples that you can run on your own systems are included. You will: Understand what persistent memory is, what it does, and the value it brings to the industry Become familiar with the operating system and hardware requirements to use persistent memory Know the fundamentals of persistent memory programming: why it is different from current programming methods, and what developers need to keep in mind when programming for persistence Look at persistent memory application development by example using the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK) Design and optimize data structures for persistent memory Study how real-world applications are modified to leverage persistent memory Utilize the tools available for persistent memory programming, application performance profiling, and debugging.

• Introduction
• Application Scenarios
• Background and Related Work
• Social Context Modelling
• Social Context Reasoning
• Social Context Management
• SocioPlatform Architecture and Implementation
• Case Studies: Social Context-Aware Mobile Applications
• Experimental Evaluations
• Conclusion.

This book presents a review of traditional context-aware computing research, identifies its limitations in developing social context-aware pervasive systems, and introduces a new technology framework to address these limitations. Thus, this book provides a good reference for developments in context-aware computing and pervasive social computing. It examines the emerging area of pervasive social computing, which is a novel collective paradigm derived from pervasive computing, social media, social networking, social signal processing and multimodal human-computer interaction. This book offers a novel approach to model, represent, reason about and manage different types of social context. It shows how users' social context information can be acquired from different online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Calendar. It further presents the use of social context information in developing innovative smart mobile applications to assist users in their daily life. The mix of both theoretical and applied research results makes this book attractive to a variety of readers from both academia and industry. This book provides a new platform for implementing different types of socially-aware mobile applications. The platform hides the complexity of managing social context, and thus provides essential support to application developers for the development of socially-aware applications. The book contains detailed descriptions of how the underlying platform has been implemented using available technologies such as ontology and rule engines, and how this platform can be used to develop socially-aware mobile applications using two exemplar applications. The book also presents evaluations of the proposed platform and applications using real-world data from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Therefore, this book is a syndication of scientific research with practical industrial applications, making it useful to researchers as well as to software engineers.

• 1. Blockchains - The Complete Picturea. Introductionb. Historical Chain of Events - Distributed Computingc. Terminology - what is a distributed ledger?d. How a blockchain works?e. Consensus algorithmsf. Hidden Distributed Networks we never knew
• 2. Foundation of Blockchain Elementsa. Decentralization - Let's decentralise content (Use Case)b. Digital signature - Teaches you to encrypt & decrypt with Digital Signatures (usecase)c. Mining & Token Models (Mathematical deductions - example of creating value)d. Integrity & the proof of concept (Confluence of Biometrics, AI, DocumentVerification)e. Setting up of Blockchain Elements on Azure (Environment Setup)
• 3. Aspects of Blockchain Transactionsa. Encryption, Validationb. Distribution, Securityc. Practical Example of Transactions
• 4. Permissioned Blockchains - Mutual distributed ledgers - Use Case of FinancialInstitutions for Letter of Credits
• 5. Smart Contracts
• 6. Blockchain Points of Integrationa. Compliance & Regulatory requirement to create & run a nodeb. Enterprise integration to existing systems & data repositoriesc. Access control & security accessd. Automated process (auto-trigger/ alerts) of Smart Contracts [Use Case -Automated Billing for Power & Utility Bills]e. Life cycle events / maintenancef. Governance & Monitoring
• 7. Technological Tools
• 8. Technical Architecturesa. Designing a solution architecture - Trade Financeb. Designing a content distribution blockchain architecture - Gaming, Marketingc. Converting Legal contracts to Smart Contracts - AI, NLP
• 9. Use Casesa. Decentralized Customer Engagementb. Decentralized Trade Financec. Document Signing and Records Management.
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Design, architect, and build Blockchain applications with Azure in industrial scenarios to revolutionize conventional processes and data security. This book will empower you to build better decentralized applications that have stronger encryption, better architectures, and effective deployment structures over the cloud. You'll start with an overview of Blockchain, distributed networks, Azure components in Blockchain, such as Azure Workbench, and independent Blockchain-as-a-service solutions. Next, you'll move on to aspects of Blockchain transactions where the author discusses encryption and distribution along with practical examples. You'll cover permissioned Blockchains and distributed ledgers with the help of use cases of financial institutions, followed by code and development aspects of smart contracts. Here, you will learn how to utilise the templates provided by Azure Resource Manager to quickly develop an Ethereum-based smart contract. Further, you will go through Blockchain points of integration, where the author demonstrates enterprise integration, automated processing of smart contracts, and lifecycle events. Finally, you will go through every deployment of HyperLedger, Ethereum, and other decentralized ledger examples over Azure, thus understanding the elements of creation, design, development, security, and deployment. After reading Unlocking Blockchain on Azure you will be able to design and develop Blockchain applications in Azure to decentralize social networks, financial organisations, and data. You'll be able to implement encryption over a Blockchain and have full control over shared instances digitally. You will be able to program smart contracts to digitize rules and trigger timely transactions. What You Will Learn Build decentralized applications Program, design, and deploy dynamic smart contracts Model Blockchains in the form of token economics, hybrid networks, and infrastructure Develop end-to-end encryption and distributed systems Who This Book Is For Developers and solutions architects who want to develop Blockchain applications in Azure and decentralize applications in different scenarios.
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• Chapter 1: Understanding the Importance of Software Delivery Automation
• Chapter 2: Overview of Azure Pipelines
• Chapter 3: Setting Up Pools, Deployment Groups and Agents
• Chapter 4: Creating Build Pipelines
• Classic
• Source Control, Templates, Jobs and Tasks
• Chapter 5: Creating Build Pipelines
• Classic
• Variables, Triggers, Filters, Options and Retaining
• Chapter 6: Creating Build Pipelines
• Classic
• Queuing, Debugging, Task Groups, Artifacts and Import/Export
• Chapter 7: Using Artifacts
• Chapter 8: Creating and using YAML build pipelines
• Chapter 9: Azure Release Pipelines
• Service Connections, Templates, Artifacts, Stages and Environments
• Chapter 10: Azure Release Pipelines
• Jobs, Deployment Groups, Variable and Other Options
• Chapter 11: REST API, Command Line and Extension Development
• Chapter 12: Integrating Tests to Pipelines.

Build, package, and deploy software projects, developed with any language targeting any platform, using Azure pipelines. The book starts with an overview of CI/CD and the need for software delivery automation. It further delves into the basic concepts of Azure pipelines followed by a hands-on guide to setting up agents on all platforms enabling software development in any language. Moving forward, you will learn to set up a pipeline using the classic Visual Editor using PowerShell scripts, a REST API, building edit history, retention, and much more. You'll work with artifact feeds to store deployment packages and consume them in a build. As part of the discussion you'll see the implementation and usage of YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) build pipelines. You will then create Azure release pipelines in DevOps and develop extensions for Azure pipelines. Finally, you will learn various strategies and patterns for developing pipelines and go through some sample lessons on building and deploying pipelines. After reading Hands-on Azure Pipelines, you will be able to combine CI and CD to constantly and consistently test and build your code and ship it to any target. What You Will Learn Work with Azure build-and-release pipelines Extend the capabilities and features of Azure pipelines Understand build, package, and deployment strategies, and versioning and patterns with Azure pipelines Create infrastructure and deployment that targets commonly used Azure platform services Build and deploy mobile applications Use quick-start Azure DevOps projects Who This Book Is For Software developers and test automation engineers who are involved in the software delivery process.
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• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Key Concepts
• 1. Privacy, Compliance and the Cloud / Chris Mitchell
• 2. Cryptographic Tools for Cloud Environments / Keith M. Martin
• 3. Migrating to Public Clouds
• From a Security Perspective / Lu Liu
• 4. Virtualization Security in Cloud Computing / Shao Ying Zhu
• 5. Security of Cloud-Based Storage / Gaurav Somani
• 6. Cloud Computing Governance, Risk, and Compliance
• The Quintessential Globalization Challenge / Rhonda L. Farrell
• 7. Cloud Computing and Security in the Future / Kenneth Johnston
• pt. II Application and Approaches
• 8. Security Certification for the Cloud: The CUMULUS Approach / Hristo Koshutanski
• 9. Improving Cloud Assurance and Transparency Through Accountability Mechanisms / Christoph Reich
• 10. DDoS Protection and Security Assurance in Cloud / Dheeraj Sanghi
• 11. Cloud Data Auditing Using Proofs of Retrievability / Sushmita Ruj
• 12. Vehicular Cloud Networks: Architecture and Security / Asma Adnane.

This practical and didactic text/reference discusses the leading edge of secure cloud computing, exploring the essential concepts and principles, tools, techniques and deployment models in this field. Enlightening perspectives are presented by an international collection of pre-eminent authorities in cloud security assurance from both academia and industry. Topics and features: · Describes the important general concepts and principles of security assurance in cloud-based environments · Presents applications and approaches to cloud security that illustrate the current state of the art · Reviews pertinent issues in relation to challenges that prevent organizations moving to cloud architectures · Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings ·

• Security in cloud computing.- Authentication and access control Systems.- Cryptography and steganography.- System and network security.- Application security.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications, SSCC 2015, held in Kochi, India, in August 2015. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on security in cloud computing; authentication and access control systems; cryptography and steganography; system and network security; application security.
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• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and the Multi- temporal Mapping Results of the Dispilio Lakeside Prehistoric (Kastoria, Greece).- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and the Multi-temporal Mapping Results of the Dispilio Lakeside Prehistoric (Kastoria, Greece).- Digital Survey and Documentation of La Habana Vieja in Cuba.- Application of Multi-sensory Technologies for Resolution of Problems in the Field of Research and Preservation of Cultural Heritage.- Map Portal as a Tool to Share Information on Cultural Heritage Illustrated by the National Heritage Board Geoportal.- Knowledge based Recommendation of Spatial Technologies for Optimal Documentation of Buildings.- New Horizon of Digitization in Serbia. Improvement of Digitization Through Cooperation with World Leading Institutions and the In-house Development of Digital Tools.- An Application to Improve Smart Heritage City Experience.- Interactive Gallery: Enhance Social Interaction for Elders by Story Sharing.- PLUGGY: A Pluggable Social Platform for Cultural Heritage Awareness and Participation.- Interactive Lapidarium - Opportunities for Research and Training.- Ontologizing the Heritage Building Domain.- Designing Postdigital Curators: Establishing an Interdisciplinary Games and Mixed Reality Cultural Heritage Network.- 4D Modeling in Cultural Heritage.- Dissemination of Intangible Cultural Heritage Using a Multi-Agent Virtual World.- Dissemination of Intangible Cultural Heritage Using a Multi-Agent Virtual World.- A Tour in the Archaeological Site of Choirokoitia Using Virtual Reality: a Learning Performance and Interest Generation Assessment.- Preparing Student Mobility Through a VR Application for Cultural Education.
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This book constitutes the papers of the International Workshop on Analysis in Digital Cultural Heritage 2017, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in June 2017. The 16 full and 19 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The main objective of the Workshop was to present recent developments and applications of IT technologies for Cultural Heritage preservation, namely: Demonstration of the advantages of new generation of equipment for mapping, digital survey and documentation of heritage assets and sites; Presentation of technologies for digitalization, optimal documentation and information sharing on Cultural Heritage; Tools and procedures for social interaction enhancing, fostering awareness and participation; Rising of the knowledge level in domain of IT applications for Cultural Heritage preservation; Usage of virtual reality for better understanding and learning on Cultural Heritage.
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• Introduction
• Orthogonal Signaling Enabled Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networking
• Orthogonally Dull-polarized Antenna Based Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networking
• Optimal Communication Strategies in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networking
• Conclusions and Closing Remarks.

This SpringerBrief examines the active cooperation between users of Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networking (CCRN), exploring the system model, enabling techniques, and performance. The brief provides a systematic study on active cooperation between primary users and secondary users, i.e., (CCRN), followed by the discussions on research issues and challenges in designing spectrum-energy efficient CCRN. As an effort to shed light on the design of spectrum-energy efficient CCRN, they model the CCRN based on orthogonal modulation and orthogonally dual-polarized antenna (ODPA). The resource allocation issues are detailed with respect to both models, in terms of problem formulation, solution approach, and numerical results. Finally, the optimal communication strategies for both primary and secondary users to achieve spectrum-energy efficient CCRN are analyzed.

• Neural Networks for Electronics Hobbyists
• Chapter 1. Biological Neural Networks
• Chapter 2. Implementing Neural Networks
• Chapter 3. Electronic Components
• Chapter 4. Building the Network
• Chapter 5. Training with Back Propagation
• Chapter 6. Training on Other Functions
• Chapter 7. Where Do We Go from Here? Appendix A. Nueral Network Software Simbrain Appendix B. Resources.
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Learn how to implement and build a neural network with this non-technical, project-based book as your guide. As you work through the chapters, you'll build an electronics project, providing a hands-on experience in training a network. There are no prerequisites here and you won't see a single line of computer code in this book. Instead, it takes a hardware approach using very simple electronic components. You'll start off with an interesting non-technical introduction to neural networks, and then construct an electronics project. The project isn't complicated, but it illustrates how back propagation can be used to adjust connection strengths or "weights" and train a network. By the end of this book, you'll be able to take what you've learned and apply it to your own projects. If you like to tinker around with components and build circuits on a breadboard, Neural Networks for Electronics Hobbyists is the book for you. What You'll Learn Gain a practical introduction to neural networks Review techniques for training networks with electrical hardware and supervised learning Understand how parallel processing differs from standard sequential programming Who This Book Is For Anyone interest in neural networks, from electronic hobbyists looking for an interesting project to build, to a layperson with no experience. Programmers familiar with neural networks but have only implemented them using computer code will also benefit from this book.
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• The Network Architecture for Spectrum Trading
• Economic-Robust Transmission Opportunity Based Spectrum Trading
• A Session Based Spectrum Trading System under Uncertain Spectrum Supply
• Economic-Robust Session Based Spectrum Trading.

This SpringerBrief focuses on spectrum trading designs in multi-hop cognitive radio networks. It starts with the motivation for spectrum trading and the review of existing spectrum trading designs. Then, it presents a novel CRN architecture for spectrum trading considering spectrum trading?s economic features and wireless nature. Under this network architecture, it extends current single-hop per-user based spectrum trading design into a multi-hop transmission opportunity based one, and further into a session based one, while having economic properties guaranteed. This SpringerBrief not only provides a good review of current spectrum trading designs, it also touches on the cutting-edge interdisciplinary spectrum trading research on disparate fields of modeling, network architecture design, optimization theories, statistics, and economic theories. Advanced-level students studying computer science, electrical and computer engineering and economics, wireless network planners, and wireless spectrum engineers will find this book a useful tool.