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Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science : An Application-D…
This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, c…
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- 9783030499952
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- xxi, 380 p.
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- 519.2 PRO J
Knowledge resistance in high-choice information environments
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that inf…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003111474
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- 308 p.
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- -
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- 507.105 KNO k
Everyday automation : experiencing and anticipating emerging technologies
This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automa…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003170884
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- 250 p.
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- -
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- 303.483 EVE e
Robots and AI : a new economic era
Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size, direction, and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots, automation, and AI affect international growth, trade, productivity, employment, wages, and welfare. The book explains new approaches on how robots and artificial intelligence affect the w…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003275534
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- 370 p.
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- -
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- 338.064 ROB r
The philosophy of online manipulation
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The contributions explore the ramifications of our in…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003205425
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- 424 p.
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- -
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- 302.231 PHI p
The law of global digitality
The Internet is not an unchartered territory. On the Internet, norms matter. They interact, regulate, are contested and legitimated by multiple actors. But are they diverse and unstructured, or are they part of a recognizable order? And if the latter, what does this order look like? This collected volume explores these key questions while providing new perspectives on the role of law in time…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003283881
- Collation
- 272 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 343.0999 LAW l
Videogames and agency
Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003298786
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- 226 p.
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- -
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- 794.8 BOD v
Real-life decision-making
Have you ever experienced a decision situation that was hard to come to grips with? Did you ever feel a need to improve your decision-making skills? Is this something where you feel that you have not learned enough practical and useful methods? In that case, you are not alone! Even though decision-making is both considered and actually is a very important skill in modern work-life as well as in…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003406709
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- 140 p.
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- -
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- 658.403 DAN r
Technology and sustainable development : the promise and pitfalls of techno-s…
Technological change is at the core of all major disruptions in human history, and revolutions, wars, and general development are regularly connected to some sort of technological change. However, not all development is beneficial. While technology has fueled great innovations and rapid development, the notion of sustainable development has gained prominence as we now experience serious social,…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003325086
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- 286 p.
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- -
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- 628 TEC t
Young people as agents of sustainable society : reclaiming the future
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003345114
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- 258 p.
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- -
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- 304.2 YOU y
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