Software engineering for embedded systems : methods, practical techniques, and applications

Expert guide

Intelligent distributed computing VII : proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing-- IDC 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013

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Intelligent distributed computing 7

IDC 2013

Studies in Computational Intelligence,

Studies in computational intelligence ;

Integration Computing and Collective Intelligence / Evolution of a Relational Schema and Its Impact on SQL Queries / Context-Aware Regression from Distributed Sources / Incremental Patterns in Text Search / REBECCA: A Trust-Based Filtering to Improve Recommendations for B2C e-Commerce / Exploration of Document Classification with Linked Data and PageRank / Matching Users with Groups in Social Networks / Semantically Partitioned Peer to Peer Complex Event Processing / A Heuristic to Explore Trust Networks Dynamics / Resource Scaling Performance for Cache Intensive Algorithms in Windows Azure / Distributed Event-Driven Model for Intelligent Monitoring of Cloud Datacenters / Programming Self-organizing Pervasive Applications with SAPERE / Somewhere2 -- A Robust Package for Collaborative Decentralized Consequence-Finding / Heuristic Co-allocation Strategies in Distributed Computing with Non-dedicated Resources / Distributed Version of Algorithm for Generalized One-Sided Concept Lattices / Scalable Spatio-temporal Analysis on Distributed Camera Networks / Service-Wide Adaptations in Distributed Embedded Component-Based Systems / Distributed/Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Road Traffic Network Division for Distributed Traffic Simulation / Environmental Influence in Bio-inspired Game Level Solver Algorithms / The Impact of the "Nogood Processor" Technique in Scale-Free Networks / Knowledge-Based Agent for Efficient Allocation of Distributed Resources / A New Proof System to Verify GDT Agents / Using Trusted Communities to Improve the Speedup of Agents in a Desktop Grid System / High-Volume Data Streaming with Agents / Strategic Behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems Able to Perform Temporal Reasoning / Control of a Mobile Robot by Human Gestures / Improving Noise Robustness of Speech Emotion Recognition System / Developing an Avatar Model for Driving Simulators / Interconnection of Federated Clouds / Effective QoS Monitoring in Large Scale Social Networks / Personalized Recommendation of Semantically Annotated Media Contents / Supporting Cloud Governance through Technologies and Standards / Exploiting Cloud Technologies and Context Information for Recommending Touristic Paths / An FPGA-Based Smart Classifier for Decision Support Systems / Agents Modeling under Fairness Assumption in Event-B / A Survey of Adaptive Game AI: Considerations for Cloud Deployment / From Agent-Oriented Models to Profile Driven Military Training Scenarios / An Agent-Based Solution for the Problem of Designing Complex Ambient Intelligence Systems / Agent-Based System for Affective Intelligent Environment / An Argumentation Framework for BDI Agents / Using Emotion as Motivation in the Newtonian Emotion System / Distributed Reputation Mechanism Using Semantic Repositories

Multivariate generalized linear mixed models using R

Introduction Continuous/interval scale data Simple and multiple linear regression models -- Checking assumptions in linear regression models -- Likelihood: multiple linear regression -- Comparing model likelihoods -- Application of a multiple linear regression model -- Exercises on linear models -- Binary data -- Introduction -- Logistic regression -- Logit and probit transformations -- General logistic regression -- Likelihood -- Example with binary data -- Ordinal data -- Introduction -- The ordered logit model -- Dichotomization of ordered categories -- Likelihood -- Example with ordered data -- Count data -- Introduction -- Poisson regression models -- Likelihood -- Example with count data -- Exercises -- Introduction -- The linear model.

The binary response model -- The Poisson model -- Likelihood -- Introduction -- Linear mixed model -- The intraclass correlation coefficient -- Parameter estimation by maximum likelihood -- Regression with level-two effects -- Two-level random intercept models -- General two-level models including random intercepts -- Likelihood -- Residuals -- Checking assumptions in mixed models -- Comparing model likelihoods -- Application of a two-level linear model -- Two-level growth models -- A two-level repeated measures model -- A linear growth model -- A quadratic growth model -- Likelihood -- Example using linear growth models -- Exercises using mixed models for continuous/interval scale data -- Introduction -- The two-level logistic model -- General two-level logistic models -- Intraclass correlation coefficient -- Likelihood -- Example using binary data -- Exercises using mixed models for binary data.

Introduction -- The two-level ordered logit model -- Likelihood -- Example using mixed models for ordered data -- Exercises using mixed models for ordinal data -- Introduction -- The two-level Poisson model -- Likelihood -- Example using mixed models for count data -- Exercises using mixed models for count data -- Introduction -- The mixed linear model -- The mixed binary response model -- The mixed Poisson model -- Likelihood -- Introduction -- Three-level random intercept models -- Three-level generalized linear models -- Linear models -- Binary response models -- Likelihood -- Example using three-level generalized linear models -- Exercises using three-level generalized linear mixed models -- Introduction -- Multivariate two-level generalized linear model -- Bivariate Poisson model: example -- Bivariate ordered response model: example -- Bivariate linear-probit model: example -- Multivariate two-level generalized linear model likelihood.

Exercises using multivariate generalized linear mixed models -- Introduction -- Left censoring -- Right censoring -- Time-varying explanatory variables -- Competing risks -- Duration data in discrete time -- Single-level models for duration data -- Two-level models for duration data -- Three-level models for duration data -- Renewal data -- Introduction -- Example: renewal models -- Competing risk data -- Introduction -- Likelihood -- Example: competing risk data -- Exercises using renewal and competing risks models -- Introduction -- Mover-stayer model -- Likelihood incorporating the mover-stayer model -- Example 1: stayers within count data -- Example 2: stayers within binary data -- Exercises: stayers -- Introduction to key issues: heterogeneity, state dependence and non-stationarity -- Example -- Random effects models -- Initial conditions problem -- Initial treatment.

Example: depression data -- Classical conditional analysis -- Classical conditional model: example -- Conditioning on initial response but allowing random effect uol to be dependent on z3 -- Wooldridge conditional model: example -- Modelling the initial conditions -- Same random effect in the initial response and subsequent response models with a common scale parameter -- Joint analysis with a common random effect: example -- Same random effect in models of the initial response and subsequent responses but with different scale parameters -- Joint analysis with a common random effect (different scale parameters): example -- Different random effects in models of the initial response and subsequent responses -- Different random effects: example -- Embedding the Wooldridge approach in joint models for the initial response and subsequent responses -- Joint model incorporating the Wooldridge approach: example -- Other link functions -- Exercises using models incorporating initial conditions/state dependence in binary data.

Introduction -- Fixed effects treatment of the two-level linear model -- Dummy variable specification of the fixed effects model -- Empirical comparison of two-level fixed effects and random effects estimators -- Implicit fixed effects estimator -- Random effects models -- Comparing two-level fixed effects and random effects models -- Fixed effects treatment of the three-level linear model -- Exercises comparing fixed effects and random effects -- SabreR installation -- SabreR commands -- The arguments of the SabreR object -- The anatomy of a SabreR command file -- Quadrature -- Standard Gaussian quadrature -- Performance of Gaussian quadrature -- Adaptive quadrature -- Estimation -- Maximizing the log likelihood of random effects models -- Fixed effects linear models -- Endogenous and exogenous variables -- Getting started with R -- Preliminaries -- Working with R in interactive mode -- Basic functions -- Getting help.

Stopping R -- Creating and manipulating data -- Vectors and lists -- Vectors -- Vector operations -- Lists -- Data frames -- Session management -- Managing objects -- Attaching and detaching objects -- Serialization -- R scripts -- Batch processing -- R packages -- Loading a package into R -- Installing a package for use in R -- R and Statistics -- Data preparation for SabreR -- Creation of dummy variables -- Missing values -- Creating lagged response covariate data.

Theories of ideology : the powers of alienation and subjection

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ;

Twisted Preliminaries: The `Ideologistes' and Napoleon -- Ideology as a `natural science' of ideas -- A post-Jacobin state-ideology -- Napoleon's pejorative concept of ideology -- Ideology-Critique and Ideology-Theory According to Marx and Engels -- From `inverted consciousness' to `idealistic superstructures' -- The camera obscura and its critics -- A `naive sensuous empiricism'? -- Excursus to the young Marx's critique of religion -- Camera obscura as metaphor for `idealistic superstructure' -- `Ruling ideas' and `conceptive ideologists' -- The critique of fetishism in the Critique of Political Economy -- From the critique of religion to the critique of fetishism -- From ideology-critique to the critique of `objective thought-forms' -- The wage-form and the `true Eden' of human rights -- Capital-fetishism, the `trinity formula' and the `religion of everyday life' -- The `silent compulsion' of economic rule as ideology? -- `Science' between ideology and ideology-critique -- Did Marx develop a `neutral' concept of ideology? -- Engels's concept of `ideological powers' -- The Concept of Ideology from the Second International to `Marxism-Leninism' -- The repression of a critical concept of ideology -- Lenin: bourgeois or socialist ideology? -- Lenin's `operative' approach: self-determination and hegemony -- Ideology in `Marxist-Leninist' state-philosophy -- `Ideological relationships' in the philosophy of East Germany -- The Concept of Ideology from Lukacs to the Frankfurt School -- Gyorgy Lukacs: ideology as reification -- Horkheimer's and Adorno's critique of the `culture-industry' -- Abandoning the concept of ideology? -- The `gears of an irresistible praxis' -- Ideology as `instrumental reason' and `identitarian thought' -- From Marcuse to Habermas -- and back to Max Weber? -- Taking the sting out of critical theory -- `Commodity-aesthetics' as ideological promise of happiness -- The Concept of Ideology in Gramsci's Theory of Hegemony -- A significant shift in translation -- Gramsci's critical concept of ideology -- The critique of common sense as ideology-critique -- Gramsci's concept of `organic ideology' -- `Ideology' as a category of transition toward a theory of hegemony -- The critique of corporatism and Fordism -- A new type of ideology-critique on the basis of a theory of hegemony -- Louis Althusser: Ideological State-Apparatuses and Subjection -- The relationship to Gramsci -- The theory of ideological state-apparatuses (ISA) -- A debate on `functionalism' -- `Ideology in general' and subject-constitution -- The derivation of the `imaginary' from Spinoza and Lacan -- Lacan's universalisation of subjection and alienation -- Can subjects talk back at interpellations? -- From the Collapse of the Althusser School to Poststructuralism and Postmodernism -- Michel Pecheux's discourse-theoretical development of Althusser's ideology-theory -- The post-Marxist turn of Ernest Laclau and Chantal Mouffe -- Stuart Hall: bridging the theory of hegemony and discourse-analysis -- Michel Foucault's neo-Nietzschean trajectory from ideology to discourse to power -- A peculiar Nietzschean-Heideggerian strand of `anti-humanism' -- The dissolution of Althusser's concept of ideology into `knowledge' -- The substitution of ideology-critique by `fictionalism' -- The introduction of a neo-Nietzschean concept of power -- `Relational power' or `phagocytic essence'? -- Foucault's `dispositif' and the `technologies' of power -- a re-interpretation -- Poststructuralism and postmodernism -- Questions of definition -- Postmodernism's essentialist definition of modernity -- A component of neoliberal ideology? -- Theoretical loss: the dematerialisation of social life -- Pierre Bourdieu: `Field', `Habitus' and `Symbolic Violence' -- The development of the concept of field from the German Ideology -- Field against apparatus? -- Ideology, symbolic violence, habitus -- disentangling a confused arrangement -- Bourdieu's contribution to the development of Althusser's model of interpellation -- A new determinism? -- Ideology-Critique with the Hinterland of a Theory of the Ideological: The `Projekt Ideologietheorie' (PIT) -- The resumption of Marx and Engels's critical concept of ideology -- The ideological at the crossroads of class-domination, state and patriarchy -- `Vergesellschaftung' -- vertical, horizontal, and proto-ideological -- The dialectics of the ideological: compromise-formation, complementarity and antagonistic reclamation of the common -- Fascistic modifications of the ideological -- Policies of extermination and church-struggle in Nazi Germany -- Further ideology-theoretical studies -- Friedrich Hayek and the Ideological Dispositif of Neoliberalism -- The formation of neoliberal hegemony -- Hayek's frontal attack on `social justice' -- Overcoming `economy' by the game of `catallaxy' -- Hayek's construct of `negative' justice -- The religious structure of Hayek's market-radicalism -- A symptomatic contradiction between market-destiny and subject-mobilisation -- State and liberty: neoliberal discourse is permeated by its opposite -- The road to `disciplinary neoliberalism' -- Is the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism exhausted? -- The Unfulfilled Promises of the Late Foucault and Foucauldian `Governmentality-Studies' -- Foucault's mediation of the techniques of domination and of the self -- The enigmatic content of the concept of governmentality -- Eliminating the inner contradictions of neoliberal ideology -- A problematic equation of subjectivation and subjection -- Towards an ideology-theoretical re-interpretation of `governmentality-studies'.

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation 2011 : combined with, the 5th International Conference on Geotechnical and Highway Engineering : practical applications, challenges and opportunities

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5th International Conference on Geotechnical and Highway Engineering : practical applications, challenges and opportunities

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Handbook of organizational consultation

Public administration and public policy ;

Chapter 1 Six Orientations for the Reader -- chapter 2 Development, Transition, or Transformation -- chapter 3 Selecting and Energizing a Team -- chapter 4 Managers and Project Leaders Conducting Their Own Action Research Interventions -- chapter 5 Linking Measurement to Motivation -- chapter 6 The Consulcube -- chapter 7 Values, People, and Organizations / chapter 8 Five Stages for Self-Evaluating Organizations -- chapter 9 Preventing Regression in Team Building -- chapter 10 The Psychological Contract -- chapter 11 Models of Development and Issues They Raise for Consultants -- chapter 12 Operating Systems Interventions -- chapter 13 American Quality -- chapter 14 Team Building and its Risks -- chapter 15 Using the Search Conference Technique for Team Socialization and Strategies Planning -- chapter 16 Conceptual and Consulting Aspects of Stakeholder Theory, Thinking, and Management -- chapter 17 Preentry Issues Revisited -- chapter 18 Applying Action Research to Public Sector Problems -- chapter 19 Using Large System Designs and Action Research to Develop Interorganizational Networks -- chapter 20 Perceiving, Evaluating, and Responding to Change -- chapter 21 Making Team Work -- chapter 22 Sociotechnical Systems Consultation -- chapter 23 Performance Appraisal Techniques and Applications -- chapter 24 Managing Organizational Conflict -- chapter 25 A Two-Phase Planning Process for Managing Change in Organizations -- chapter 26 Micro and Macro Perspectives on Gain Sharing -- chapter 27 Goal-Setting Programs -- chapter 28 Enlivening Developmental Relationships -- chapter 29 Strategies for Organizational Transition -- chapter 30 Organizational Effectiveness and Development at Different Stages of Growth -- chapter 31 Sexual Harassment -- chapter 32 A Statement of Values and Ethics by Professionals in Organization and Human Systems Development -- chapter 33 Issues in Ending Consultancies -- chapter 34 Alternative Models for Structuring Work -- chapter 35 Aspects of -- chapter 36 Balance as a Useful Metaphor for Consultation and Fly-Fishing, Too -- chapter 37 Burnout as a Focus for Consultants -- chapter 38 Career-Planning Design -- chapter 39 Competence via Regenerative Systems -- chapter 40 Contexual Soecificity in Consultation -- chapter 41 Continued Employability -- chapter 42 Demotion Design -- chapter 43 Diversity as Shining Goal or Sham? -- chapter 44 Easing the Rigors of Mergers -- chapter 45 Features of Energizing Data -- chapter 46 Fine-Tuning Appreciative Inquiry -- chapter 47 Flexi Time and Employee Control Over Work -- chapter 48 Giving Effective Feedback -- chapter 49 Group Norms as Levers for Consultants -- chapter 50 Humans as Need-Fulfilling -- chapter 51 Lessons From Downsizing -- chapter 52 Managerial Responses to Transitions in Adult Development -- chapter 53 Managing Transitions -- chapter 54 Model This, Model That -- chapter 55 Musings About Transformation -- chapter 56 Organization Cultures via Distinguising Assumptions -- chapter 57 Organizational Development in the Family -- chapter 58 Organization Stages and Consultant Choice Making -- chapter 59 Perspectives on My Consulting Practice -- chapter 60 Process and Structure as Central in Total Quality Management -- chapter 61 -- chapter 62 Psychological Contracts at Work -- chapter 63 Resilience and Change at Three Levels -- chapter 64 Risking Consultative Relationships to Stay Really Alive -- chapter 65 Role Analysis Technique -- chapter 66 Role Negotiation as a Controlling Design.

Chapter 67 Sensing Groups in Consultation -- chapter 68 Sociopathology in Today's Organizations -- chapter 69 Stakeholders in Consultation -- chapter 70 Success Rates in Planned Change -- chapter 71 The Dominant Intervention Theory and Its Selected Shortfalls / chapter 72 The Intervenor's World -- chapter 73 Three Models of Learning -- chapter 74 Toward a Process Orientation -- chapter 75 Town Meeting as a Super-Optimum Solution in a Cutback Mode -- chapter 76 Vision or Core Mission -- chapter 77 Voluntary Organizations -- chapter 78 Confrontation Design -- chapter 79 Third-Party Consultation -- chapter 80 High-Performing Teams -- chapter 81 Quality of Work Life for Consultants -- chapter 82 The Interview as a Consulting Tool -- chapter 83 The Perils of Intensive Management Training and How to Avoid Them -- chapter 84 Facilitating Organizational Change Through Survey/Feedback and Implementation -- chapter 85 Approaches to Organizational Needs Assessment -- chapter 86 How Consultants can Anticipate and Trigger Group Development -- chapter 87 Productivity and the Quality of Work Life -- chapter 88 Forecasting the Future -- chapter 89 Project Management for Organizational Consulting -- chapter 90 How to Give Meaningful Praise -- chapter 91 Managing the Older Worker -- chapter 92 Emotions and Consultancy -- chapter 93 Knowing and Surfacing Organizational Culture -- chapter 94 Cross-Culture Perspectives -- chapter 95 A Model for Negotiation -- chapter 96 Organizational Innovation as the Management of Interdependence in Networks -- chapter 97 Downsizing as Mode of Organizational Change -- chapter 98 Ethical Issues in Organizational Consultation -- chapter 99 Essential Competencies for Internal and External OD Consultants -- chapter 100 Organizing in the Knowledge Age -- chapter 101 An Intersection -- chapter 102 A Typology of Change Programs -- chapter 103 Group Support Systems -- chapter 104 Privacy -- chapter 105 Organizational Change as Applied Art -- chapter 106 Process Consulting Guidelines for Development Assistance, With Case Study -- chapter 107 Techniques for the Management of Organizational Change -- chapter 108 The Production of Usable Knowledge -- chapter 109 Process Consulting in a Content Field -- chapter 110 A Burnout Workshop -- chapter 111 Burnout in Organizational Consultation -- chapter 112 Managing Organizational Change -- chapter 113 Employee Assistance Programs and Workplace Consultation -- chapter 114 Tailored Management Development as a Vehicle for Strategy Implementation -- chapter 115 Models of Consultation -- chapter 116 Time Management Hints -- chapter 117 Creating the Learning Organization -- chapter 118 Creating Work Cultures With Competitive Advantage -- chapter 119 Essential Differences Between Traditional Approaches to Consulting and a Collaborative Approach -- chapter 120 Self-Awareness -- chapter 121 Values, People, and Organizations -- chapter 122 Defective Group Decisions -- chapter 123 Roles in Group Development -- chapter 124 Strategic Planning -- chapter 125 Culture-Focused T Group -- chapter 126 Consulting as Empowerment -- chapter 127 Critical Factors in Team Success -- chapter 128 Rethinking Organization Development for the learning Organization -- chapter 129 Developing Effective Community Groups -- chapter 130 Using Success as a Framework for Community-Based Needs Assessment.

Knowledge engineering and management : proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, China, Dec 2012 (ISKE 2012)

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ISKE 2012

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ;

Advances in intelligent systems and computing.

Function set-valued information systems / Neutrality in bipolar structures / Multirate multisensor data fusion algorithm for state estimation with cross-correlated noises / Task based system load balancing approach in cloud environments / Accurate computation of fingerprint intrinsic images with PDE-based regularization / A context ontology modeling and uncertain reasoning approach based on certainty factor for context-aware computing / Research on mental coefficient of a multi-agent negotiation model / A novel radar detection approach based on hybrid time-frequency analysis and adaptive threshold selection / A signed trust-based recommender approach for personalized government-to-business e-services / Aspects of coordinating the bidding strategy in concurrent one-to-many negotiation / Relevance in preference structures / Segregation and the evolution of cooperation / Characteristic analysis and fast inversion of array lateral-logging responses / A model of selecting expert in sensory evaluation / Software development method based on structured management of code / A collaborative filtering recommender approach by investigating interactions of interest and trust / Probabilistic composite rough set and attribute reduction / AM-FM signal modulation recognition based on the power spectrum / Model-based approach for reporting system development / A time dependent model via non-local operator for image restoration / CBM : free, automatic malware analysis framework using API call sequences / Shop & Go : the routing problem applied to the shopping list on smartphones / A node importance based label propagation approach for community detection

An object-oriented and aspect-oriented task management toolkit on mobile device / The heuristic methods of dynamic facility layout problem / Attitude-based consensus model for heterogeneous group decision making / An application of soft computing techniques to track moving objects in video sequences / Key technologies and prospects of individual combat exoskeleton / Adapting real-time path planning to threat information sharing / A femtocell self-configuration deployment scheme in hierarchical networks / Programming global and local sequence alignment by using R / Reliability and quality in the area of statistical thinking in engineering / A novel fast approach to eye location and face geometric correction / a-generalized lock resolution with deleting strategies in LnF(X) / Multivariate time series prediction based on multi-output support vector regression / Classification probability estimation based multi-class image retrieval / A first approach of a new learning strategy : learning by confirmation / Quantitative evaluation of interictal high frequency oscillations in scalp EEGs for epileptogenic region localization / Expert system of ischemia classification based on wavelet MLP / Chinese named entity recognition using improved bi-gram model based on dynamic programming / Improving group recommendations by identifying homogenous subgroups / Knowledge-based decision system for sizing grid-connected photovoltaic arrays / Feature-based matrix factorization via long- and short-term interaction / Lee's theorem extension for IVFRs similarities

Use of idempotent functions in the aggregation of different filters for noise removal / Benchmarking for stability evaluation of computer systems / Relationships between average depth and number of nodes for decision trees / On the use of LTSs to analyze software product line products composed of features / A human perception-based fashion design support system for mass customization / An approach of knowledge representation based on LTV-LIA / Designing a client application with information extraction for mobile phone users / Real-time road detection using lidar data / Design and analysis of a two-axis-magnetic bearing with permanent magnet bias for magnetically suspended reaction wheel / Vibration control of a high-speed manipulator using input shaper and positive position feedback / Recognition of human head movement trajectory based on three-dimensional somatosensory technology / Study on wideband array processing algorithms based on single vector hydrophone / Kernel principal component analysis-based method for fault diagnosis of SINS / Design of insulator resistance tester for multi-core cables / A flight-test information reasoning system combining textual CBR and RBR approaches / Vehicle trajectory collection using on-board multi-lidars for driving behavior analysis / A further discussion on cores for interval-valued cooperative game / Current status, challenges, and outlook of e-health record systems in Australia / Information fusion : popular approaches and applications / SSE composite index prediction and simulation system

The sociology book

Big ideas simply explained

Big ideas simply explained.

A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation / Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies / Science can be used to build a better world / The Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race / The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable / Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft / Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions / The iron cage of rationality / Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues / Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events / Where there is power there is resistance / Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original / Social inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder / The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line / The poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life / There ain't no black in the Union Jack / A sense of one's place / The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined / The ghetto is where the black people live / The tools of freedom become the sources of indignity / Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity / White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy / The concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality / Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type / The freedom to remake our cities and ourselves / There must be eyes on the street / Only communication can communicate / Society should articulate what is good / McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society / The bonds of our communities have withered / Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences / Living in a loft is like living in a showcase / Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity / The modern world-system / Global issues, local perspective / Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue / No social justice without global cognitive justice / The unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind / We are living in a world that is beyond controllability / It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move / Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw / Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations / Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently / Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities / The "I" and the "me" / The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned / The civilizing process is constantly moving "forward" / Mass culture reinforces political repression / The danger of the future is that men may become robots / Culture is ordinary / Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning / Modern identities are being decentered / All communities are imagined / Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage / Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure / The Puritan wanted to work in a calling-- we are forced to do so / Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination / The more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has / Automation increases the worker's control over his work process / The Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism / In processing people, the product is a state of mind / Spontaneous consent combines with coercion / Things make us just as much as we make things / Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities / Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature / The iron law of oligarchy / Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die / Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation / Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self / Government is the right disposition of things / Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance / Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified / Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis / Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor / Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic / The time of the tribes / How working-class kids get working-class jobs / Differences between the sexes are cultural creations / Families are factories that produce human personalities / Western man has become a confessing animal / Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution / Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved / The marriage contract is a work contract / Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization / When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat / Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body / Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity

Man-machine interactions 3

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing,

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Advances in intelligent systems and computing ;

Invited Papers. Pattern Recognition with Non-Euclidean Similarities / Case-Based Reasoning and the Statistical Challenges II / Robust Adaptive Predictive Modeling and Data Deluge (Extended Abstract) / A Visual Excursion into Parallel Coordinates (Extended Abstract)

Human-Computer Interactions. SOM Based Segmentation of Visual Stimuli in Diagnosis and Therapy of Neuropsychological Disorders / Independent Interactive Testing of Interactive Relational Systems / Hypothesis-Driven Interactive Classification Based on AVO / Wrist Localization in Color Images for Hand Gesture Recognition / Bimodal Speech Recognition for Robot Applications

Robot Control, Embedded and Navigation Systems. Developing and Implementation of the Walking Robot Control System / Programming of Industrial Object Simulators in Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX System / KUKA Robot Motion Planning Using the 1742 NI Smart Camera / Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Direct Orientation Change Measurements / Managing System Architecture for Multi-Rotor Autonomous Flying Platform-Practical Aspects / Calculation of the Location Coordinates of an Object Observed by a Camera / SMAC-GPS and Radar Data Integration to Set the Status of the Objects in Secure Areas

Bio-Data Analysis and Mining. Comparison of Connectionist and Rough Set Based Knowledge Discovery Methods in Search for Selection in Genes Implicated in Human Familial Cancer / Bit-Parallel Algorithm for the Block Variant of the Merged Longest Common Subsequence Problem / Improvement of FP-Growth Algorithm for Mining Description-Oriented Rules / Comparison of Algorithms for Profile-Based Alignment of Low Resolution MALDI-ToF Spectra / Stochastic Fluctuations in the Mathematical-Simulation Approach to the Protocell Model of RNA World / Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms on Protein-Protein Interactions / Investigation for Genetic Signature of Radiosensitivity -- Data Analysis

Biomedical Signal Processing. Fuzzy Approach to Saccades Detection in Optokinetic Nystagmus / Design of Linear-Phase FIR Filters with Time and Frequency Domains Constraints by Means of AI Based Method / Identification of Slow Wave Propagation in the Multichannel (EGG) Electrogastrographical Signal / An Application of Fuzzy C-Regression Models to Characteristic Point Detection in Biomedical Signals / An Application of Myriad M-Estimator for Robust Weighted Averaging / Evolutionary Computation for Design of Preprocessing Filters in QRS Detection Algorithm

Image and Sound Processing. InFeST -- ImageJ Plugin for Rapid Development of Image Segmentation Pipelines / Visualization of Heterogenic Images of 3D Scene / Application of the Cellular Automata for Obtaining Pitting Images during Simulation Process of Their Growth / Metaheuristic Optimization of Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation / Implementation of Registration Algorithms for Multiple Views / Multimodal Speech Synthesis for Polish Language

Decision Support and Expert Systems. Intuitionistic Notice Boards for Expert Systems / Multi-Domain Data Integration for Criminal Intelligence / Preference Models and Their Elicitation and Analysis for Context-Aware Applications / Deduction-Based Modelling and Verification of Agent-Based Systems for Data Integration / Relevance Prevails: Missing Data Treatment in Intelligent Lighting / Some Remarks on Complex Information Systems over Ontological Graphs / Generic Framework for Simulation of Cognitive Systems: A Case Study of Color Category Boundaries

Rough and Fuzzy Systems. Application of the Conditional Fuzzy Clustering with Prototypes Pairs to Classification / Environmental Modelling Based on Rough-Fuzzy Approach / Neuro-Fuzzy System Based Kernel for Classification with Support Vector Machines / Transformation of Input Domain for SVM in Regression Task / Video Event Recognition with Fuzzy Semantic Petri Nets

Pattern Recognition. Application of Multidimensional Data Visualization in Creation of Pattern Recognition Systems / Recognition of Emotion Intensity Basing on Neutral Speech Model / Exploiting Co-Occurrence of Low Frequent Terms in Patents / Influence of Low-Level Features Extracted from Rhythmic and Harmonic Sections on Music Genre Classification / Weighting of Attributes in an Embedded Rough Approach

Algorithms and Optimization. Agent-Based Approach to Continuous Optimisation / Kalign-LCS -- A More Accurate and Faster Variant of Kalign2 Algorithm for the Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem / Subcubic Algorithms for the Sequence Excluded LCS Problem / Clonal Selection Algorithm in Identification of Boundary Condition in the Inverse Stefan Problem / Application of General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units for Acceleration of Basic Linear Algebra Operations and Principal Components Analysis Method / Multiobjective Differential Evolution: A Comparative Study on Benchmark Problems / Fast and Simple Circular Pattern Matching

Computer Networks and Mobile Technologies. Remote Video Verification and Video Surveillance on Android-Based Mobile Devices / Designing Frame Relay WAN Networks with Trade-Off between Link Cost and Performance / Review of Mobility Models for Performance Evaluation of Wireless Networks / An Energy-Efficient Approach to the Design of Two-Tier Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks / Data Management Systems -- Applying Task-Aggregating Wrapper to CUDA-Based Method of Query Selectivity Calculation Using Multidimensional Kernel Estimator / The Method of Query Selectivity Estimation for Selection Conditions Based on Sum of Sub-Independent Attributes / The Storage Organisation Influence on Database Operations Performance / Spatial Query Optimization Based on Transformation of Constraints / Database Under Pressure -- Testing Performance of Database Systems Using Universal Multi-Agent Platform / Using Graph Database in Spatial Data Generation / A Performance Comparison of Several Common Computation Tasks Used in Social Network Analysis Performed on Graph and Relational Databases / Erratum: Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms on Protein-Protein Interactions

Real-world solutions for developing high-quality PHP frameworks and applications

Wrox guides

Wrox guides.

Software Quality -- External Quality -- Internal Quality -- Technical Debt -- Constructive Quality Assurance -- Clean Code -- Explicit and Minimal Dependencies -- Clear Responsibilities -- No Duplication -- Short Methods with Few Execution Branches -- Software Metrics -- Cyclomatic Complexity and npath Complexity -- Change Risk Anti-Patterns (CRAP) Index -- Non-Mockable Total Recursive Cyclomatic Complexity -- Global Mutable State -- Cohesion and Coupling -- Tools -- PHPUnit -- phploc -- PHP Copy-Paste-Detector (phpcpd) -- PHP Dead Code Detector (phpdcd) -- PHP Depend (pdepend) -- PHP Mess Detector (phpmd) -- PHP CodeSniffer (phpcs) -- bytekit-cli -- PHP CodeBrowser (phpcb) -- CruiseControl and phpUnderControl -- Hudson -- Arbit -- Conclusion -- Software Testing -- Black Box and White Box Tests -- How Many Tests Are Needed? -- System Tests -- Browser Testing -- Automated Tests -- Test Isolation -- Acceptance Tests.

Limits of System Tests -- Unit Tests -- Return Values -- Dependencies -- Side Effects -- Real-Life Example -- Analyzing the Code to Test -- Setting Up a Test Environment -- Avoid Global Dependencies -- Test Independently from Data Sources -- Testing Asynchronous Events -- Storing Changes in the Database -- Unpredictable Results -- Encapsulating Input Data -- Further Reflections -- Conclusion -- TYPO3: The Agile Future Of A Ponderous Project -- Introduction -- The History of TYPO3: Thirteen Years in Thirteen Paragraphs -- Daring to Start Over! -- Our Experience with Testing -- Policies and Techniques -- Bittersweet Elephant Pieces -- Test-Driven Development -- Tests as Documentation -- Continuous Integration -- Clean Code -- Refactoring -- Programming Guidelines -- Domain-Driven Design -- Course of Action in Development -- Developing New Code -- Extending and Modifying Code -- Optimizing Code -- Speed -- Readability -- Finding and Fixing Bugs -- Disposing of Old Code -- Test Recipes -- Inadvertently Functional Unit Test.

Access to the File System -- Constructors in Interfaces -- Testing Abstract Classes -- Testing Protected Methods -- Use of Callbacks -- Into the Future -- Unit Testing Bad Practices -- Why Test Quality Matters -- Bad Practices and Test Smells -- Duplication in Test Code -- Assertion Roulette and Eager Test -- Fragile Test -- Obscure Test -- Problems with Global State -- Indirect Testing -- Obscure Test Names -- Lying Test -- Slow Test -- Conditional Logic in Tests -- Self-validating Tests -- Web-surfing Tests -- Mock Overkill -- Skip Epidemic -- Conclusion -- Quality Assurance At Digg Inc -- Problems We Are Facing -- Legacy Code Base -- How Do We Solve These Problems? -- Size Does Matter -- Team Size -- Project Size -- Code Size -- Unit Testing and You -- Choosing a Testing Framework -- Working with an Expert -- One Week in a Room -- Training Our Team -- Writing Testable Code -- Avoid Static Methods -- Dependency Injection -- Mock Objects -- Overview -- Database -- Loosely Coupled Dependencies -- Subject/Observer for Testing Class Internals.

Memcached -- Mocking a Service-Oriented Architecture -- Model -- Service Query -- Service Endpoint -- The Base Classes -- Digg's Quality Assurance Process -- Testing -- Planning the Testing Effort -- Tasks -- Automation -- Benefits -- Testing Early -- Testing Often -- Challenges -- Conclusion -- Testing Service-Oriented APIS -- The Problems -- Solutions -- API Credentials -- API Limits -- Offline Testing of Service Protocols -- Offline Testing of Concrete Services -- Conclusion -- Testing A Webdav Server -- About the eZ WebDAV Component -- WebDAV -- Architecture -- Development Challenges -- Requirements Analysis -- TDD after RFC -- Testing a Server -- Automated Acceptance Tests with PHPUnit -- Capturing Test Trails -- Test Recipe -- Integration into PHPUnit -- A Custom Test Case -- The Acceptance Test Suite -- Acceptance Tests by Example -- Conclusion -- Testing Symfony And Symfony Projects -- Testing a Framework -- The symfony Release Management Process -- Long-term Support -- Code Coverage -- Tests versus Real Code.

Running the Test Suite -- Main Lessons Learned -- Never Use the Singleton Design Pattern in PHP -- Decouple Your Code with Dependency Injection -- Lower the Number of Dependencies between Objects with an Event Dispatcher -- Testing Web Applications -- Lowering the Barrier of Entry of Testing -- Unit Tests -- Easy to Install -- Easy to Learn -- Fun to Use -- Functional Tests -- The Browser Simulator -- The Fixtures -- The CSS3 Selectors -- Testing Forms -- Debugging -- Conclusion -- Testing The EZCgraph Component -- Development Philosophy -- Graph Component -- Architecture -- Test Requirements -- Driver Mocking -- Mock the Driver -- Multiple Assertions -- Structs -- Expectation Generation -- Conclusion -- Testing Binary Data -- The Drivers -- Expectation Generation -- SVG -- XML Comparison -- Floating-point Problems -- Bitmap Creation -- Bitmap Comparison -- GD Version Differences -- Flash -- The Assertion -- Conclusion -- Testing Database Interaction -- Introduction -- Reasons Not to Write Database Tests.

Why We Should Write Database Tests -- What We Should Test -- Writing Tests: Mocking Database Connections -- Writing Tests: PHPUnit Database Extension -- The Database Test Case Class -- Establishing the Test Database Connection -- Creating Data Sets -- XML Data Sets -- Flat XML Data Sets -- CSV Data Sets -- YAML Data Sets -- Database Data Sets -- Data Set Decorators -- Generating Data Sets -- Data Operations -- Creating Tests -- Testing the Loading of Data -- Testing the Modification of Data -- Using the Database Tester -- Applying Test-Driven Design to Database Testing -- Using Database Tests for Regression Testing -- Testing Problems with Data -- Testing Problems Revealed by Data -- Conclusion -- Quality Assurance At studiVZ -- Introduction -- About studiVZ -- Acceptance Tests -- Acceptance Tests in Agile Environments -- Selenium -- The Selenium Extension of PHPUnit -- The Technical Setup of studiVZ -- Development Environment -- Test Environment -- Best Practices -- Sins of Our Youth -- Monolithic Tests -- Static Users.

Strategy Change -- Atomic Tests with Dynamic Test Data -- Robust Selenium Tests -- Test Scope Must Be Clear -- Common Functionality or Browser Compatibility as Well? -- Fix Tests Right Away! -- Stabilize Locators, and Use IDs -- Speed, the Sore Subject -- Recipes for Last-Minute Features -- Tests Are Software Too -- Capture and Replay versus Programming Tests -- The Team: A Good Mix -- We Need a DSL -- Internal DSL -- Testing_SeleniumDSL 1.0 -- Problem: Context Sensitivity -- Testing_SeleniumDSL 2.0, A Draft -- State and Outlook on Version 2.0 -- Conclusion -- Continuous Integration -- Introduction -- Continuous Integration -- Configuration -- Build Management and Automated Tests -- Version Management -- Continuous Integration -- Static Analysis -- Code Clones -- Refactoring -- Software Metrics -- Classic Metrics -- Object-Oriented Metrics -- RATS -- Installation -- Configuration -- Static Tests -- Programming Conventions -- Coding Guidelines -- Gradual Introduction into Legacy Projects -- Coding Standards in the Daily Work.

Syntax Analysis -- Dynamic Tests -- Reporting -- Notification in the Case of Errors -- Statistics -- PHP CodeBrowser -- Deliverables -- Operations -- Advanced Topics -- Continuous Deployment -- Using a Reverse Proxy -- Continuous Integration and Agile Paradigms -- Conclusion -- Swoodoo: A True Agile Story -- Introduction -- Evolution: Only the Strong Survive -- How We Reached the eXtreme Side -- And While We Are Working -- The Art of Evolution -- Lack of Experience -- The Java-developer-coding-in-PHP Phenomenon -- The Nobody-but-me-understands-my-code Developer -- Conclusion -- Usability -- Anything Goes, But What Is the Price? -- Design Aspects -- Accessibility -- Readability -- Labels for Form Elements -- Navigating by Keyboard -- Effective Contrast -- Logo Links to Home Page -- Alternative Texts for Images -- Background Image in Background Color -- Usable Print Version -- Visible Links -- Good Bookmarks -- No Frames -- Scalable Fonts -- Technical Aspects -- Performance -- Semantic Code -- Fewer Requests -- CSS Sprites.

JavaScript on Bottom, CSS on Top -- Link CSS Instead of Importing -- JavaScript -- User Guidance -- The "Fold" Myth -- Feedback on Interaction -- Navigation -- Pop-ups and Other Annoyances -- Habits and Expectations -- Fault Tolerance and Feedback -- Testing Usability -- Conclusion -- Performance Testing -- Introduction -- Tools -- Environmental Considerations -- Load Testing -- Apache Bench -- Pylot -- Other Load Testing Tools -- Profiling -- Callgrind -- KCachegrind -- APD -- Xdebug -- XHProf -- OProfile -- System Metrics -- strace -- Sysstat -- Custom Instrumentation -- Common Pitfalls -- Development versus Production Environments -- CPU Time -- Micro-Optimizations -- PHP as the Glue -- Priority of Optimization -- Conclusion -- Security -- What Is Security? -- Secure by Design -- Operations -- Physical Access.

Software Development -- No Security by Obscurity -- Separation of Concerns -- A Matter of Rights -- Error Handling -- Basic Settings -- What Does Security Cost? -- The Most Common Problems -- Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards -- Insufficient Transport Layer Protection -- Failure to Restrict URL Access -- Insecure Cryptographic Storage -- Security Misconfiguration -- Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF) -- Insecure Direct Object References -- Broken Authentication and Session Management -- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) -- Injection -- Conclusion -- Conclusion.

Great books of the Western World : Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago

Great books of the Western world.

The great conversation / The great ideas -- The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey / The suppliant maidens. The Persians. Seven against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The Oresteia / Oedipus the king. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. Ajax. Electra. The Trachiniae. Philoctetes / Rhesus. Medea. Hippolytus. Alcestis. Heracleidae. The suppliants. Trojan women. Ion. Helen. Andromache. Electra. Bacchantes. Hecuba. Heracles mad. Pheonician women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Tauris. Iphigenia in Aulis Cyclops / The Acharnians. The knights. The clouds. The wasps. Peace. The birds. The frogs. Lysistrata. Thesmophoriazusae. Ecclesiazousae. Plutus / The history / History of the Peloponnesian War / Charmides. Lysis. Laches. Protagoras. Euthydemus. Cratylus. Phaedrus. Ion. Symposium. Meno. Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Gorgias. The Republic. Timaeus. Critias. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesmen. Philebus. Laws / The seventh letter / Categories. On interpretation. Prior analytics. Posterior analytics. Topics. 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The harmonies of the world (Book V) / The six Enneads / The confessions. The city of God. On Christian doctrine / Summa theologica / The divine comedy / Troilus and Criseyde. The Cantebury tales / The prince / Leviathan / Gargantua and Pantagruel / Essays / The first part of King Henry the Sixth. The second part of King Henry the Sixth. The third part of King Henry the Sixth. The tragedy of Richard the Third. The comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. The taming of the shrew. The two gentlemen of Verona. Love's labour's lost. Romeo and Juliet. The tragedy of King Richard the Second. A midsummer night's dream. The life and death of King John. The merchant of Venice. The first part of King Henry the Fourth. The second part of King Henry the Fourth. Much ado about nothing. The life of King Henry the Fifth. Julius Caesar. As you like it / Twelfth night; or, What you will. The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The merry wives of Windsor. Troilus and Cressida. All's well the ends well. Measure for measure. Othello, the Moor of Venice. King Lear. Macbeth. Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus. Timon of Athens. Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Cymbeline. The winter's tale. The tempest. The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eighth. Sonnets / On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / Dialogues concerning the two new sciences / On the motion of the heart and blood in animals. On the circulation of blood. On the generation of animals / The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha / The adventure of learning. Novum organum. New Atlantis / Rules for the direction of the mind. Discourse on the method. Meditations on first philosophy. Objections against the meditations and replies. The geometry / Ethics / English minor poems. Paradise lost. Samson agonistes. Areopagitica / The provincial letters. Pensées. Scientific and mathematical essays / Mathematical principles of natural philosophy. Optics / Treatise on light / A letter concerning toleration. Concerning civil government, second essay. An essay concerning human understanding / The principles of human knowledge / An enquiry concerning human understanding / Gulliver's travels / The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / The history of Tom Jones, a foundling / The spirit of the laws / A disourse on the origin of inequality. A disourse on political economy. The social contract / An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Critique of pure reason. Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals. Critique of practical reason. Excerpts from The metaphysics of morals / American state papers. The Federalist / On liberty. Considerations on representive government. Utilitarianism / The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. / Elements of chemistry / Analytical theory of heat / Experiment researches in electricity / The philosophy of right. The philosophy of history / Faust / Moby Dick; or, The whale / The origin of species by means of natural selection. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex / Capital / Manifesto of the Communist Party / War and peace / The brothers Karamazov / The principles of psychology / The origin and development of psycho-analysis. Selected papers on hysteria. The sexual enlightenment of children. The future prospects of psycho-analytic therapy. Observations on "wild" psycho-analysis. The interpretation of dreams. On narcissism. Instincts and their vicissitudes. Repression. The unconscious. A general introduction to psycho-analysis. Beyond the pleasure principle. Group psychology and the analysis of the ego. The Ego and the Id. Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety. Thoughts for the times on war and death. Civilization and its discontents. New introductory lectures on pscyho-analysis

Multimedia and ubiquitous engineering

Lecture notes in electrical engineering,

Lecture notes in electrical engineering ;

Multimedia Modeling and Processing. Multiwedgelets in Image Denoising -- A Novel Video Compression Method Based on Underdetermined Blind Source Separation -- Grid Service Matching Process Based on Ontology Semantic -- Enhancements on the Loss of Beacon Frames in LR-WPANs -- Case Studies on Distribution Environmental Monitoring and Quality Measurement of Exporting Agricultural Products -- Vision Based Approach for Driver Drowsiness Detection Based on 3D Head Orientation -- Potentiality for Executing Hadoop Map Tasks on GPGPU via JNI -- An Adaptive Intelligent Recommendation Scheme for Smart Learning Contents Management Systems.

Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing -- An Evolutionary Path-Based Analysis of Social Experience Design -- Block IO Request Handling for DRAM-SSD in Linux Systems -- Implementation of the Closed Plant Factory System Based on Crop Growth Model.

Ubiquitous Networks and Mobile Communications. An Energy Efficient Layer for Event-Based Communications in Web-of-Things Frameworks -- A Secure Registration Scheme for Femtocell Embedded Networks.

Intelligent Computing. Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction Based Ranking Algorithm for Opinion Articles -- A Frequent Pattern Mining Technique for Ranking Webpages Based on Topics -- Trimming Prototypes of Handwritten Digit Images with Subset Infinite Relational Model -- Ranking Book Reviews Based on User Influence -- Speaker Verification System Using LLR-Based Multiple Kernel Learning -- Edit Distance Comparison Confidence Measure for Speech Recognition -- Weighted Pooling of Image Code with Saliency Map for Object Recognition -- Calibration of Urine Biomarkers for Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis -- An Iterative Algorithm for Selecting the Parameters in Kernel Methods -- A Fast Self-Organizing Map Algorithm for Handwritten Digit Recognition -- Frequent Graph Pattern Mining with Length-Decreasing Support Constraints -- An Improved Ranking Aggregation Method for Meta-Search Engine.

Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing Security. Identity-Based Privacy Preservation Framework over u-Healthcare System -- A Webmail Reconstructing Method from Windows XP Memory Dumps -- On Privacy Preserving Encrypted Data Stores -- Mobile User Authentication Scheme Based on Minesweeper Game -- Design and Evaluation of a Diffusion Tracing Function for Classified Information Among Multiple Computers -- DroidTrack: Tracking Information Diffusion and Preventing Information Leakage on Android -- Three Factor Authentication Protocol Based on Bilinear Pairing -- A LBP-Based Method for Detecting Copy-Move Forgery with Rotation -- Attack on Recent Homomorphic Encryption Scheme over Integers -- A New Sensitive Data Aggregation Scheme for Protecting Data Integrity in Wireless Sensor Network -- Reversible Image Watermarking Based on Neural Network and Parity Property -- A Based on Single Image Authentication System in Aviation Security.

Multimedia and Ubiquitous Services. A Development of Android Based Debate-Learning System for Cultivating Divergent Thinking -- Development of a Lever Learning Webapp for an HTML5-Based Cross-Platform -- Looking for Better Combination of Biomarker Selection and Classification Algorithm for Early Screening of Ovarian Cancer -- A Remote Control and Media Sharing System Based on DLNA/UPnP Technology for Smart Home -- A New Distributed Grid Structure for k-NN Query Processing Algorithm Based on Incremental Cell Expansion in LBSs -- A New Grid-Based Cloaking Scheme for Continuous Queries in Centralized LBS Systems -- New Database Mapping Schema for XML Document in Electronic Commerce -- A Study on the Location-Based Reservation Management Service Model Using a Smart Phone -- A Real-time Object Detection System Using Selected Principal Components -- Trajectory Calculation Based on Position and Speed for Effective Air Traffic Flow Management.

Multimedia Entertainment. Design and Implementation of a Geometric Origami Edutainment Application -- Gamification Literacy: Emerging Needs for Identifying Bad Gamification -- Automatic Fixing of Foot Skating of Human Motions from Depth Sensor.

IT and Multimedia Applications. A Study on the Development and Application of Programming Language Education for Creativity Enhancement: Based on LOGO and Scratch -- Design and Implementation of Learning Content Authoring Framework for Android-Based Three-Dimensional Shape -- A Study on GUI Development of Memo Function for the E-Book: A Comparative Study Using iBooks -- Relaxed Stability Technology Approach in Organization Management: Implications from Configured-Control Vehicle Technology -- Mapping and Optimizing 2-D Scientific sApplications on a Stream Processor -- Development of an Android Field Trip Support Application Using Augmented Reality and Google Maps -- Implementation of Automotive Media Streaming Service Adapted to Vehicular Environment -- The Evaluation of the Transmission Power Consumption Laxity-Based (TPCLB) Algorithm -- The Methodology for Hardening SCADA Security Using Countermeasure Ordering -- Development and Application of STEAM Based Education Program Using Scratch: Focus on 6th Graders' Science in Elementary School.

Advanced Technologies and Applications for Cloud Computing and Sensor Networks. Performance Evaluation of Zigbee Sensor Network for Smart Grid AMI -- P2P-Based Home Monitoring System Architecture Using a Vacuum Robot with an IP Camera -- Design and Simulation of Access Router Discovery Process in Mobile Environments -- Integrated SDN and Non-SDN Network Management Approaches for Future Internet Environment -- Analysis and Design of a Half Hypercube Interconnection Network -- Aperiodic Event Communication Process for Wearable P2P Computing -- Broadcasting and Embedding Algorithms for a Half Hypercube Interconnection Network -- Obstacle Searching Method Using a Simultaneous Ultrasound Emission for Autonomous Wheelchairs.

Future Technology and its Application -- A Study on Smart Traffic Analysis and Smart Device Speed Measurement Platform -- Analysis and Study on RFID Tag Failure Phenomenon -- Administration Management System Design for Smart Phone Applications in use of QR Code -- Use of Genetic Algorithm for Robot-Posture -- Use of Flexible Network Framework for Various Service Components of Network Based Robot -- China's Shift in Culture Policy and Cultural Awareness -- China's Cultural Industry Policy -- Development of Mobile Games for Rehabilitation Training for the Hearing Impaired -- A Study to Prediction Modeling of the Number of Traffic Accidents.

Pervasive Services, Systems and Intelligence -- A Wiki-Based Assessment System Towards Social-Empowered Collaborative Learning Environment -- Universal User Pattern Discovery for Social Games: An Instance on Facebook -- Ubiquitous Geography Learning Smartphone System for 1st Year Junior High Students in Taiwan -- Housing Learning Game Using Web-Based Map Service -- Digital Publication Converter: From SCORM to EPUB -- An Intelligent Recommender System for Real-Time Information Navigation.

Advanced Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Control I. Modal Characteristics Analysis on Rotating Flexible Beam Considering the Effect from Rotation -- The Simulation Study on Harvested Power in Synchronized Switch Harvesting on Inductor -- An Approach for a Self-Growing Agricultural Knowledge Cloud in Smart Agriculture -- Determination of Water-Miscible Fluids Properties -- Influence of Technological Factors of Die Casting on Mechanical Properties of Castings from Silumin -- Active Ranging Sensors Based on Structured Light Image for Mobile Robot -- Improved Composite Order Bilinear Pairing on Graphics Hardware -- Deployment and Management of Multimedia Contents Distribution Networks Using an Autonomous Agent Service.

Advanced Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Control II. Design Optimization of the Assembly Process Structure Based on Complexity Criterion -- Kinematics Modelling for Omnidirectional Rolling Robot -- Design of Device Sociality Database for Zero-Configured Device Interaction -- Image Processing Based a Wireless Charging System with Two Mobile Robots -- Design of a Reliable In-Vehicle Network Using ZigBee Communication -- Wireless Positioning Techniques and Location-Based Services: A Literature Review.

Green and Human Information Technology. Performance Analysis of Digital Retrodirective Array Antenna System in Presence of Frequency Offset -- A Novel Low Profile Multi-Band Antenna for LTE Handset -- Digital Signature Schemes from Two Hard Problems.

Performance Improvements Using Upgrading Precedences in MIL-STD-188-220 Standard -- Blind Beamforming Using the MCMA and SAG-MCMA Algorithm with MUSIC Algorithm -- Performance Evaluation of EPON-Based Communication Network Architectures for Large-Scale Offshore Wind Power Farms -- A User-Data Division Multiple Access Scheme -- On Channel Capacity of Two-Way Multiple-hop MIMO Relay System with Specific Access Control -- Single-Feed Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna for UHF RFID Reader -- Experimental Evaluation of WBAN Antenna Performance for FCC Common Frequency Band with Human Body -- Performance Evaluation of UWB-BAN with Friis's Formula and CLEAN Algorithm -- A Study of Algorithm Comparison Simulator for Energy Consumption Prediction in Indoor Space.

Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Network Design and Simulation for Water Environment Monitoring -- An Energy Efficient Reliability Scheme for Event Driven Service in Wireless Sensor Actuator Networks -- Efficient and Reliable GPS-Based Wireless Ad Hoc for Marine Search Rescue System -- Improved Relay Selection for MIMO-SDM Cooperative Communications -- Freshness Preserving Hierarchical Key Agreement Protocol Over Hierarchical MANETs -- A Deployment of RFID for Manufacturing and Logistic -- Real Time Video Implementation on FPGA -- Recovery Algorithm for Compressive Image Sensing with Adaptive Hard Thresholding -- Estimation Value for Three Dimension Reconstruction -- Gesture Recognition Algorithm using Morphological Analysis -- Omnidirectional Object Recognition Based Mobile Robot Localization Gender Classification Using Faces and Gaits -- Implementation of Improved Census Transform Stereo Matching on a Multicore Processor -- A Filter Selection Method in Hard Thresholding Recovery for Compressed Image Sensing.

Facial Expression Recognition Using Extended Local Binary Patterns of 3D Curvature -- Overview of Three and Four-Dimensional GIS Data Models -- Modeling and Simulation of an Intelligent Traffic Light System Using Multiagent Technology -- A Numerical Approach to Solve Point Kinetic Equations Using Taylor-Lie Series and the Adomian Decomposition Method -- Regional CRL Distribution Based on the LBS for Vehicular Networks -- Study of Reinforcement Learning Based Dynamic Traffic Control Mechanism -- Understanding and Extending AUTOSAR BSW for Custom Functionality Implementation -- A Hybrid Intelligent Control Method in Application of Battery Management System -- Interpretation and Modeling of Change Patterns of Concentration Based on EEG Signals -- Design of Autonomic Nerve Measuring System Using Pulse Signal -- Semiconductor Monitoring System for Etching Process -- Enhancing the Robustness of Fault Isolation Estimator for Fault Diagnosis in Robotic Systems -- Software-Based Fault Detection and Recovery for Cyber-Physical Systems.

Sample Adaptive Offset Parallelism in HEVC -- Comparison Between SVM and Back Propagation Neural Network in Building IDS -- Anomaly Detection with Multinomial Logistic Regression and Naïve Bayesian -- Implementation of Miniaturized Automotive Media Platform with Vehicle Data Processing Design of Software-Based Receiver and Analyzer System for DVB-T2 Broadcast System -- Age-Group Classification for Family Members Using Multi-Layered Bayesian Classifier with Gaussian Mixture Model -- Enhancing Utilization of Integer Functional Units for High-Throughput Floating Point Operations on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture -- An Improved Double Delta Correlator for BOC Signal Tracking in GNSS Receivers -- Implementation of Automatic Failure Diagnosis for Wind Turbine Monitoring System Based on Neural Network -- Development of Compact Microphone Array for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation -- Design and Implementation of a SoPC System for Speech Recognition.