Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Some of the largest quantities of data produced today occur as the result of experiments taking place at Big Science facilities. This book tells the story of a unique research journey following the people responsible for designing and implementing data manag...

You’ll find inside: * A structured collection of architectural patterns featuring hundreds of hand-crafted diagrams. * Technology-agnostic knowledge distilled from a multitude of sources. * Deconstruction of software architecture into basic principles.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'The best book on football I have ever read' Daniel Finkelstein 'Fascinating and educational. An enjoyable and informative read' Sir Kenny Dalglish 'Deserves a place among the great modern books on football' Sam Walla...

This open access book outlines how the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence. It presents theory and research methods to enable students and scholars to investigate the changes that platformization has brought to the routines ...

There is currently no comprehensive scientific study that addresses the problem of financing projects using Distributed Ledger (blockchain) Technology (DLT) that are not themselves embedded in the blockchain ecosystem, particularly in the context of long-term and capital-intensive investments. This book fills this g...

This book focuses on a subtopic of explainable AI (XAI) called explainable agency (EA), which involves producing records of decisions made during an agent’s reasoning, summarizing its behavior in human-accessible terms, and providing answers to questions about specific choices and the reasons for them. We distinguis...

An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives. “Written by three experts in the field, Deep Learning is the only comprehensive book on the subject.” ーElon Musk, cochair of OpenAI; cof...

Prepare for Microsoft Exam PL-900. Demonstrate your real-world knowledge of the fundamentals of Microsoft Power Platform, including its business value, core components, and the capabilities and advantages of Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents. Designed for business users, functional consu...

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human societyーand what this technology means for us all. Generative AI is filling the internet with false information. Artists, writers, and many other professionals are in f...

In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental findings in language acquisition. The book places language acquisition phenomena in a richly linguistic and comparative context, highlighting the link between linguistic theory, language development...

Smarter, faster prep for the SSCP exam The (ISC)2 SSCP Official Practice Tests, 2nd Edition is the only (ISC)2-endorsed set of practice questions for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP). This book's first seven chapters cover each of the seven domains on the SSCP exam with sixty or more questions per ...

The open access book set LNCS 14933 + 14934 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy, in September 2024. The 51 full and 4 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions....

Following with this series this book explains how to build basic functionality common to most software and products, trying to simplify the concepts to display them as clear as possible for the readers, this book shouldn't be used to get specialized, but to get good foundation, you'll find concepts related to Site R...

Power up your Python with object-oriented programming and learn how to write powerful, efficient, and re-usable code. Object-Oriented Python is an intuitive and thorough guide to mastering object-oriented programming from the ground up. You’ll cover the basics of building classes and creating objects, and put theory...

Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth is a book about the potential and capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for studying the Earth. It aims to serve as an eye-opener on new avenues of scientific research that can be enabled by AI/ML. This is not meant to be a ‘how to’ bo...

This open access book provides a framework to describe why digitalization of the medical provision services is needed and which level of digitalization is possible in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). These countries have traditionally been economically and technologically not ready for digitalization, but wi...