Creating an inclusive environment where different software developers can feel welcome and leverage their talents is an ethical imperative no company can ignore. Indeed, software organizations have in the last decade been trying to make changes for a more diverse and inclusive software development environment. The p...

This is the first-ever research book to advocate for unified global governance in AI addressing today’s most pressing AI challenges with practical solutions. It serves as a groundbreaking call to action for shaping a safer, AI-driven future through unified global governance. What makes this book unique is its versat...

In this book, for the first time, the complexity of assessing fit and using fittings in the product design process is addressed from a scientific and systems engineering perspective. It includes methods to represent the anthropometry of the target market, good practices to develop protocols for more reliable and con...

This open access book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held in London, on February 19–22, 2024. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and communication technology (ICT) for managerial applications...

Continuing with this collection, this book explains and simplified the basic programming concepts of both high level and low-level programming languages to help readers increase their comprehension of programming logic.

George Orwell, author of 1984, worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation for two years. Reflecting on his experience at the BBC, Orwell said, “Its atmosphere is something halfway between a girls’ school and a lunatic asylum and all we are doing at present is useless, or slightly worse than useless.” Many decad...

The go-to glow up handbook, this book is the one-stop shop for everything you need or want to know about makeup, and how to look good while caring for your skin. YouTube sensation and the ‘queen of radiant skin and smoky eye tutorials’, brings us the ultimate guide to flawless makeup. Hannah Martin has created amazi...

How the Government Hacks You is a review of the technological and social engineering hacks that governments around the world use on their own citizens and on foreign populations. What the reader will quickly find is that most intelligence organizations do not follow the rules and laws set forward by their own countr...

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....

This edition offers updated content covering Python 3.9 to 3.12, new chapters on type hinting and CLI applications, and expanded practical examples, making it the ideal resource for both new and experienced Python programmersKey FeaturesCreate and deploy APIs and CLI applications, leveraging Python’s strengths in sc...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chanceーfrom a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI “A fasci...

SimDec is a revolution in decision-making support. SimDec “teases out” inherent cause-and-effect relationships and reveals the intricacy of relationships between sets of input and output variables. At its core, SimDec is an amalgamation of uncertainty and global sensitivity analysis with an innovative visualization ...

Are you ready to transform your project management? Unlock Agile's full potential with The Agile Edge: Master Agile for Faster Project Success. This essential guide is perfect for project managers, team leaders, and anyone eager to master Agile. It distils Agile principles, offering clear insights into its transform...

This open Access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on AI in Drug Discovery, AIDD 2024, held as a part of the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2024, in Lugano, Switzerland, on September 19, 2024. The 12 papers presented here were carefully ...

This comprehensive guide explores how AI is revolutionizing every aspect of space missionsーfrom mission planning and autonomous navigation to enhancing operations aboard space stations and exploring distant planets. Through detailed case studies, including the successful Mars Rover missions, and insights into futur...

This open access 3-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, CAV 2024, which took place in Montreal, Canada, during July 24–27, 2024. The primary focus of CAV is to extend the frontiers of verification techniques by expanding to new domains such as se...