Post under Geographic Information System (GIS)

Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps us understand change processes in society, the wider context and the ecological consequences of human actions. This book brings together international time-geographic research from a range of disciplines.

Post under Computer, Networks, and Information Security

This open access book review challenges from their respective fields that arise from the processes of social and technological transformation taking place worldwide. Algorithms and Machine Learning

Post under Computer, Networks, and Information Security

A classification scheme to organize and represent ransomware threat knowledge through the implementation of an innovative methodology centered around the semantic annotation of domain-specific source documentation.

Post under Robotics and Robot Programming

Developing robots to interact with humans is a complex interdisciplinary effort. This fills an important resource gap in the human–robot interactions (HRI) community, and acts as a guide to navigating design-specific methods, tools, and techniques.

Post under Computational Simulations and Modeling

This open book looks at the fundamental nature of integration, exposes the subtle premises to achieve integration, and posits a substantial theoretical framework that is both simple and clear.

Post under Physics and General Science

Explores the interplay of science and the humanities to convey the wonder and excitement of scientific development throughout the ages. Beautifully illustrated, accurate in its scientific content and broad in its historical and cultural perspective.

Post under Physics and General Science

This is a very well illustrated book, with most of the illustrations in color, and is a compilation of articles written by authorities in the relevant area(s) that is meant for the generally educated public. Reader will find a virtual cornucopia of optical subject matter!

Post under Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning

The Practical, Step-by-Step Guide to Using Large Language Models (LLM) at Scale in Projects and Products. Clears away those obstacles and provides a guide to working with, integrating, and deploying LLMs to solve practical problems.

Post under Reatime Systems and Embedded Systems

Real-time and networked embedded systems are important bidirectional bridges between the physical and the information worlds. Solutions to the specific open problems of cyber-physical and real-time embedded systems to application domains.

Post under Miscellaneous Books and Popular Science

This open access book gives a depth and breadth of scientific overview that goes well beyond any single disciplinary training and explains the beautiful sensory and motor mechanisms that make our hands capable of such extraordinary things.

Post under Reatime Systems and Embedded Systems

Understand essential hardware details * Walk through an embedded system startup * Build an extensible development platform. Traditional system firmware is often complex and closed sourced whereas modern firmware is still a kind of hybrid.

Post under Gaming, Gameplay, and Gamers, etc.

This open access book explores the rapidly changing gaming landscape and discusses the ludic, methodological, theoretical, economic, social and cultural challenges that these changes invoke.

Post under Computer and Video Game Design and Programming

Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives. Describes twenty essential principles for designing games that offer deeper learning experience.

Post under Miscellaneous Books and Information Security

Where does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an email provider? What's an 'identity theft' in the digital age if not the unauthorized use of a password?

Post under Electrical Engineering and Information Security

This open access book explains Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Servers, its purpose, application, advantages, and limitations. This book guides the server administrator / datacenter manager in enabling the technology.

Post under Electrical Engineering and Parallel Computing

Provides developers a comprehensive introduction and in-depth look at the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor architecture and the corresponding parallel data structure tools and algorithms used in the various technical computing applications.

Post under Computational Simulations and Modeling, Control Systems

This open access book offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Digital Twin (DT), which is a very promising technology for achieving digital intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications and computing networks.

Post under Computational Simulations and Modeling, Control Systems

This open access book explores the transformative potential of Local Digital Twin (LDTs) in urban governance, emphasises the importance of openness, interoperability, and ethical use in LDT development, offering practical guidance.

Post under Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning

This practical book offers clear, example-rich explanations of how Large Language Models (LLM) work, how you can interact with them, and how to integrate LLMs into your own applications.

Post under Machine Learning

This open access book presents the concept of Informed Machine Learning and demonstrates its practical use with a compelling collection of applications of this paradigm in industrial and business use cases.

Post under Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning

This open access book explores a novel approach to the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities, proposing that instead of merely writing about AI, scholars should think with AI.

Post under Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Healthcare IT

Comprehensively introduces biocomputing, focusing on its foundational theories, experimental operations, and computational models. Leverages biomolecules as a carrier for processing and storing information.

Post under Computer Vision, Machine Vision, and Image Processing

An accessible, authoritative, and up-to-date computer vision textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of the field that incorporates the latest deep learning advances.

Post under C++ Programming and Parallel Programming

Serves as a comprehensive guide for C++ programmers looking to master Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Distills decades of collective experience in developing and teaching parallel programming concepts, presenting insights in a clear and accessible manner.

Post under Computer, Networks, and Information Security

A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key apps of Differential Privacy - the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection. Protect confidential data by introducing carefully calibrated random numbers, called statistical noise.

Post under Computer, Networks, and Information Security

Motivate and discuss the meaning of Differential Privacy. Explore the fundamental techniques for achieving differential privacy, and the application of the techniques in creative combinations, using the query-release problem as an example.

Post under Miscellaneous Books and Financial Technologies (FinTech)

Presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches.

Post under Computer and Information Security on Sat Jan 13, 2024

This handbook provides assistance in securing computer-based resources (including hardware, software, and information) by explaining important concepts, cost considerations, and interrelationships of security controls.

Post under Telecommunications and Computer Networks on Sat Jan 13, 2024

This book reviews key technical issues facing engineers as they extend fibre into new applications and markets. It presents an up-to-the-minute status report on WDM for LANs and MANs, including a rare glimpse at IBM's latest experimental systems.

Post under Mathematical Logic and Miscellaneous Books on Sat Jan 20, 2024

This book takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history; the author uses examples from important and celebrated arguments in philosophy to illustrate logical principles.

Post under Network Programming and Web Programming on Sat Jan 20, 2024

This is a detailed document describing HTTP/3 (RFC 9114), the background, concepts, protocol and something about existing implementations and what the future might hold. Background, the protocol, the implementations and the future.

Post under Machine Learning and Financial Engineering on Sat Jan 20, 2024

This book is designed for both financial economists interested in grasping machine learning tools, as well as for statisticians and machine learners seeking interesting financial contexts where advanced methods may be deployed.

Post under Discrete and Finite Mathematics on Sat Jan 20, 2024

This book explains complex, abstract concepts with clarity and precision and provides a strong foundation for computer science and upper-level mathematics courses of the computer age.

Post under Combinatorics and Number Theory on Sat Jan 20, 2024

This book serves as a gentle introduction to Ramsey Theory for readers interested in becoming familiar with a dynamic segment of contemporary mathematics that combines ideas from number theory and combinatorics.

Post under Mathematical Logic - Set Theory, Model Theory, Computability, etc on Sat Jan 27, 2024

Deals with the mathematical background of the application to computer science of aspects of logic on typed lambda calculus (namely the correspondence between propositions and types). Treats both the traditional logic and its applications to computer science.

Post under Lua Programming and Video Game Programming on Sat Jan 27, 2024

Create mods using the popular game Farming Simulator with Lua. This open access book is best suited for programmers who want to learn how to use Lua to write scripts that can enhance and extend the gameplay experience.