Applied computing Books

With a focus on project managers (PMs) in the construction industry, this book addresses the impact of smart technology applications on project management and examines how technologically competent...

The book provides a comprehensive examination of the integration of IoT technology into various industries and its impact on daily life, with a focus on the most recent advancements in the field. The...

AIoT and Smart Sensing: A Comprehensive Guide to the Next Generation of Smart Devices offers an in‑depth exploration of the intersection of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and smart sensing...

Computational Approaches in Bioengineering, Volume 2—Computational Approaches in Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering Applications is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that provides a broad...

Healthcare-Driven Intelligent Computing Paradigms to Secure Futuristic Smart Cities presents the applications of the healthcare sector in the context of futuristic smart cities. It explores various...

The use of intelligence in manufacturing has emerged as a fascinating subject for academics and businesses everywhere. This book focuses on various manufacturing operations and services which are...

This book provides an illustration of the various methods and structures that are utilized in machine learning to make use of data that is generated by IoT devices. Numerous industries utilize...

Nowadays, the latest technologies can be found not only in healthcare and space application but also in hybrid supercars. Supercars and hypercars require high-performance materials with high...

This research volume aims at outlining the substantial role of information asymmetry in agri-food chains and how building trust and mitigating this problem could enhance the performance of these...

The field of translation and interpreting (T&I) training has been undergoing rapid and far-reaching transformation in recent years, as a result of technological advances and sweeping shifts in the...

Future Memory Work addresses a crucial challenge in contemporary pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, participatory and socially inclusive memory practices in digital media ecologies. It...

Blockchain, a technology originally developed for cryptocurrency, has evolved into a versatile tool capable of driving significant change across industries and communities. Its decentralised, secure,...

Future Memory Work addresses a crucial challenge in contemporary pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, participatory and socially inclusive memory practices in digital media ecologies. It...

This timely volume highlights the novel ways in which cutting-edge virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) technology is being used in STEM education.Today, there are many exciting advances...

The field of translation and interpreting (T&I) training has been undergoing rapid and far-reaching transformation in recent years, as a result of technological advances and sweeping shifts in the...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has deeply impacted our understanding of creativity and the human ability to generate creative outputs. New applications for creative tasks are rapidly evolving, and new...

The advancement of technology, such as data analytics and AI, has led to the birth of Industry 4.0, in which technology seems to be at the centre of development. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic...

Businesses have faced a variety of difficulties as a result of the global pandemic, and how they responded to this disruption has affected both their resilience and their ability to get through this...

Computer-aided figured graph designing (CAFGD) has become essential for the electronic jacquard weaving sector. This book explains the common principles of CAFGD for jacquard weaving, including...

Edge AI is the seamless and spontaneous combination of Edge or Fog computing and AI. It enables acquiring real-time insights, which, in turn, leads to the realization of real-time, people-centric,...

The rise of cloud computing and Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized data analytics pipelines. Analysts can collect, store, and process vast datasets in the cloud with high...

Over the last two decades, Digital Twins (DTs) have become the intelligent representation of future development in industrial production and daily life. Consisting of over 50 chapters by more than...

This book is a theoretical work on data journalism production that drills down the models, narratives, and ethics.From idea to concept and then to a widespread innovative trend, data journalism has...

This text presents a comprehensive analysis of mathematical formulations for proving the effectiveness of artificial intelligence in education and investigates the possibilities for integrating...

Museums and the History of Computing examines the critical role that cultural organizations, such as museums and galleries, play in shaping ‘digital heritage’: the cultural heritage surrounding...

Intelligent systems are technologically advanced machines that perceive and respond to the world around them. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Smart Community: Concepts and...

IRTM 2023We live in an inter-connected world. In the era of Industry 5.0, technology is getting embedded more and more in the way ‘we learn, live, work and play’.This progression is accelerating at a...

The text presents the latest research and development, technical challenges, and future directions in the field of hybrid metal additive manufacturing. It further discusses the modeling of hybrid...

Global Literature and the Digital analyses the continued impact of the digital revolution upon contemporary literature. From the vantage of the 2020s, global literature possesses a digital...

This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional language of tourism, and how this connection raises...

This volume fills a gap in the literature on digital humanities (DH) in the Hispanic context by gathering a heterogeneous group of specialists who, from different standpoints in the humanities,...

Information and communication technology and the Internet of Things play key roles in smart city projects. It is challenging to handle the large amount of data generated by the different processes...

This multidisciplinary, edited volume examines higher educations’ ICT integration in Africa, contributing a new and inclusive change readiness framework to better understand how to manage ICT or...

Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a...

This textbook provides an excellent focus on the advanced topics of the power system protection philosophy and gives exciting analysis methods and a cover of the important applications in the power...

While many financial engineering books are available, the statistical aspects behind the implementation of stochastic models used in the field are often overlooked or restricted to a few well-known...

Classroom tested and the result of over 30 years of teaching and research, this textbook is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and graduate data analysis courses in environmental sciences and...

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers 24 case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and...

This book presents a timely and original study of the meaning, uses, and impact of cultural data today. Working across critical and creative strands of inquiry, the book situates cultural data in the...

Devising tests that evaluate a nation’s educational standing and implement efficacious educational reforms requires a careful balance among the contributions of technology, psychometrics, test...

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers 24 case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and...

In the context of continuing technological innovation, the field of technology-mediated foreign language learning is expanding rapidly. Advances in digital technologies are providing researchers with...

This book aims to curate a collection of articles to showcase the latest work and biggest trends shaping the global tourism industry in the past two decades - new technology and the Chinese tourists...

This is the first book to conceptualise and develop a roadmap for the adoption of cyber-physical systems (CPS) for facilities management (FM) in developing countries. It is argued that effective use...

This is the first book to conceptualise and develop a roadmap for the adoption of cyber-physical systems (CPS) for facilities management (FM) in developing countries. It is argued that effective use...

This book provides a reference point for the development of Building Information Modelling (BIM) maturity in the developing country context. Developing countries have been observed to have low BIM...

Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction Industry examines current and futuristic developments in the construction industry hinged on the construction industrial fourth...

With recent technological developments, touted also as Industry 4.0, numerous articles published over the years have emphasized the need to investigate the role of technology across all sectors...