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Missions of Universities

provides an analysis of university missions over time and space. It starts out by presenting a governance framework focusing ...

Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy : Geographic Knowledge Discovery

This book assesses this research frontier from a computer science perspective, investigating the various scientific and technological ...

Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans : Second ZiF Research Group International Workshop on Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines, Bielefeld, Germany, April 5-8, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

The 17 articles in this state-of-the-art survey address artificial intelligence research on communicative agents and also ...

Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy

This book provides researchers and professionals with a foundational understanding of online privacy as well as insight into ...

Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book brings together research findings and experiences from science, ...

New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence : JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops, Miyazaki, Japan, June 18-22, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

The technology of artifcial intelligence is increasing its importance thanks to the rapid growth of the Internet and computer ...

New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy : A Roadmap for Usage and Exploitation of Big Data in Europe

The book is structured in four parts: Part I “The Big Data Opportunity” explores the value potential of big data with ...

New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society

This book dispels those myths by bringing together an international group of both well-established scholars and accredited ...

New Vision 2050

This book presents the "New Vision 2050," which adds the concept of the “platinum society” to the “Vision 2050”.The ...

Official Statistics 4.0

Explores official statistics and their social function in modern societies. Digitisation and globalisation are creating completely ...

Open Science: the Very Idea

The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and ...

Open Source Development, Communities and Quality : IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The ...

Opening Science : The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing

Modern information and communication technologies, together with a cultural upheaval within the research community, have ...

P5 eHealth: An Agenda for the Health Technologies of the Future

This volume focuses on the development of a P5 eHealth, or better, a methodological resource for developing the health technologies ...

Parenting and Work in Poland A Gender Studies Perspective

The book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers ...

Past, Present & Future of Research in the Information Society

Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society examines the role of research and the production of knowledge ...

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of ...

Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems : 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, PIT 2008, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 16-18, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive ...

Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society

The intent of this book is to address these issues and to serve as a handbook of IFIP's TC9 "Computers and Society" committee. ...

Perspectives on Digital Humanism

This book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by ...

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