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The Art of Scrum
by Dave MckennaLearn the nuts and bolts of scrum--its framework, roles, team structures, ceremonies, and artifacts--from the scrum master's perspective. The Art of Scrum details the scum master's responsibilities and core functions in planning and facilitating the ceremonies and artifacts of a scrum team: sprint planning, sprint execution, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. It analyzes the scrum master's interactions with other scrum roles, including the product owner, development team members, other scrum masters, and the agile coach. Scrum Master Dave McKenna catalogs the three skill sets that you must master to be successful at binding teams and unleashing agility: soft skills, technical skills, and contingency skills. You'll benefit from the author's examination of these skill sets with insights and anecdotes drawn from his own experience as an engineer, agile coach, and scrum master. He illustrates common mistakes scrum masters make, as well as modeling successful strategies, adaptations to changes, and solutions to tricky problems. What You'll Learn: How scrum masters facilitate the agile ceremonies How scrum masters align scrum teams to sprint goals and shield them from interference How scrum masters coach product owners to build a backlog and refine user stories How scrum masters manage contingencies such as intra-team conflicts, organizational impediments, technical debt, emergent architecture, personnel changes, scope creep, and learning from failure. Who This Book Is For: The primary readership is scrum masters, product owners, and dev team members. The secondary readership is scrum stakeholders, including executive sponsors, project managers, functional and line managers, administrative personnel, expert consultants, testers, vendors, and end users. The tertiary readership is anybody who wants to know how build an agile team that consistently delivers value and continuous improvement.
The Art of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
by VariousJourney alongside Nathan Drake once again, as Naughty Dog and Dark Horse Books team up to bring you this comprehensive and breathtaking exploration into Uncharted 4: A Thief's End! Numerous never-before-seen designs and concept art accompanied by commentary from the developers give you behind-the-scenes access to the creation of this gaming masterwork. This beautiful oversized hardcover is a must-have for any fan of the Uncharted franchise and high quality video game art.The Art of Unchartend 4 will be released by Dark Horse simultaneoulsy with the new game, Uncharted 4.
The Art of War in the Network Age: Back to the Future
by Joseph HenrotinExamining the influence of information technology on the art of war theoretical structure and, beyond, the concrete effects of those technologies on the conduct of war (thus, not warfare) itself. What could be the influence of information technology on the art of war theoretical structure and, beyond, what are the concrete effects of those technologies on the conduct of war itself? "Art build upon a science", strategy is often forgotten by publications dealing with the impacts of technology on warfare, but are network-centric warfare and all those technological artefacts really a revolution for war? The interaction of theoretical strategy and information networks has not really been systematically treated before this book.
Art With An Iphone: A Photographer's Guide To Creating Altered Realities
by Kat SlomaiPhone boasts a powerful and highly capable camera that is always at the ready, allowing you to document the people, places, and things that surround you. Kat Sloma teaches you how to harness natural light, both indoors and out, to create high-quality images--and then she details some of the amazing, inexpensive, and powerful apps that can be used to finesse every aspect of the image--from capture to output. You’ll learn how to choose and use apps that mimic the controls offered on professional-level cameras to take control over focus and exposure. You’ll also discover apps that boost your camera’s resolution, improve stability, and more. Of course, you’ll also delve into the myriad apps on the market that will allow you to manipulate color and contrast, add special effects, and implement image-editing strategies that were once the exclusive domain of professional editing programs aimed at serious professional photographers and graphic designers.
Art With An Iphone: A Photographer's Guide To Creating Altered Realities
by Kat SlomaiPhone boasts a powerful and highly capable camera that is always at the ready, allowing you to document the people, places, and things that surround you. Kat Sloma teaches you how to harness natural light, both indoors and out, to create high-quality images--and then she details some of the amazing, inexpensive, and powerful apps that can be used to finesse every aspect of the image--from capture to output. You’ll learn how to choose and use apps that mimic the controls offered on professional-level cameras to take control over focus and exposure. You’ll also discover apps that boost your camera’s resolution, improve stability, and more. Of course, you’ll also delve into the myriad apps on the market that will allow you to manipulate color and contrast, add special effects, and implement image-editing strategies that were once the exclusive domain of professional editing programs aimed at serious professional photographers and graphic designers.
Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 9th International Conference, AMDO 2016, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9756)
by Josef Kittler Francisco José PeralesThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO 2016, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in July 2016. The 20 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The conference dealt with the following topics: advanced computer graphics and immersive videogames; human modeling and animation; human motion analysis and tracking; 3D human reconstruction and recognition; multimodal user interaction and applications; ubiquitous and social computing; design tools; input technology; programming user interfaces; 3D medical deformable models and visualization; deep learning methods for computer vision and graphics; multibiometric.
Artificial Evolution: 12th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2015, Lyon, France, October 26-28, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9554)
by Stéphane Bonnevay Pierrick Legrand Nicolas Monmarché Evelyne Lutton Marc SchoenauerThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on ArtificialEvolution, EA 2015, held in Lyon, France, in October 2015. The 18 revised papers were carefully reviewed andselected from 31 submissions. The focus of the conference is on followingtopics: Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Optimization, Co-evolution,Artificial Life, Population Dynamics, Theory, Algorithmics and Modeling,Implementations, Application of Evolutionary Paradigms to the Real World,Dynamic Optimization, Machine Learning and hybridization with other softcomputing techniques.
Artificial General Intelligence: 9th International Conference, AGI 2016, New York, NY, USA, July 16-19, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9782)
by Ben Goertzel Bas Steunebrink Pei WangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2016, held in New York City, NY, USA, in July 2016 as part of HLAI 2016, the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence 2016. The 24 full papers, 2 short papers, and 10 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. AGI research differs from the ordinary AI research by stressing on the versatility and wholeness of intelligence, and by carrying out the engineering practice according to an outline of a system comparable to the human mind inSelf a certain sense.
Artificial Immune System: Applications in Computer Security
by Ying TanThis book deals with malware detection in terms of Artificial Immune System (AIS), and presents a number of AIS models and immune-based feature extraction approaches as well as their applications in computer security. Covers all of the current achievements in computer security based on immune principles, which were obtained by the Computational Intelligence Laboratory of Peking University, China. Includes state-of-the-art information on designing and developing artificial immune systems (AIS) and AIS-based solutions to computer security issues. Presents new concepts such as immune danger theory, immune concentration, and class-wise information gain (CIG).
Artificial Intelligence: 17th International Conference, AIMSA 2016, Varna, Bulgaria, September 7-10, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9883)
by Christo Dichev Gennady AgreThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2016, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2015. The 32 revised full papers 6 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics in AI: from machine learning to natural language systems, from information extraction to text mining, from knowledge representation to soft computing; from theoretical issues to real-world applications.
Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Jerry KaplanOver the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans. Whether we regard them as conscious or unwitting, revere them as a new form of life or dismiss them as mere clever appliances, is beside the point. They are likely to play an increasingly critical and intimate role in many aspects of our lives. The emergence of systems capable of independent reasoning and action raises serious questions about just whose interests they are permitted to serve, and what limits our society should place on their creation and use. Deep ethical questions that have bedeviled philosophers for ages will suddenly arrive on the steps of our courthouses. Can a machine be held accountable for its actions? Should intelligent systems enjoy independent rights and responsibilities, or are they simple property? Who should be held responsible when a self-driving car kills a pedestrian? Can your personal robot hold your place in line, or be compelled to testify against you? If it turns out to be possible to upload your mind into a machine, is that still you? The answers may surprise you.
Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings Of 7th Computer Science On-line Conference 2018, Volume 2 (Advances In Intelligent Systems And Computing #764)
by Radek SilhavyThis book presents the latest trends and approaches in artificial intelligence research and its application to intelligent systems. It discusses hybridization of algorithms, new trends in neural networks, optimisation algorithms and real-life issues related to the application of artificial methods.The book constitutes the second volume of the refereed proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms in Intelligent Systems of the 7th Computer Science On-line Conference 2018 (CSOC 2018), held online in April 2018.
Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems: Proceedings of ICAIECES 2015 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #394)
by Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi Swagatam Das Subhransu Sekhar Dash M. Arun BhaskarThe book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the first International Conference on International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems (ICAIECES -2015) held at Velammal Engineering College (VEC), Chennai, India during 22 - 23 April 2015. The book discusses wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. Researchers from academic and industry present their original work and exchange ideas, information, techniques and applications in the field of Communication, Computing and Power Technologies.
Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management: Third IFIP WG 12.6 International Workshop, AI4KM 2015, Held at IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #497)
by Eunika Mercier-Laurent and Danielle BoulangerThis book features a selection of papers presented at the Third IFIP WG 12.6 International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, AI4KM 2015, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 2015, in the framework of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015. The 9 revised and extended papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They present new research and innovative aspects in the field of knowledge management such as knowledge models, KM and Web, knowledge capturing and learning, and KM and AI intersections.
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Markets: Cutting Edge Applications for Risk Management, Portfolio Optimization and Economics (New Developments in Quantitative Trading and Investment)
by Christian L. Dunis, Peter W. Middleton, Andreas Karathanasopolous and Konstantinos TheofilatosAs technology advancement has increased, so to have computational applications for forecasting, modelling and trading financial markets and information, and practitioners are finding ever more complex solutions to financial challenges. Neural networking is a highly effective, trainable algorithmic approach which emulates certain aspects of human brain functions, and is used extensively in financial forecasting allowing for quick investment decision making. This book presents the most cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI)/neural networking applications for markets, assets and other areas of finance. Split into four sections, the book first explores time series analysis for forecasting and trading across a range of assets, including derivatives, exchange traded funds, debt and equity instruments. This section will focus on pattern recognition, market timing models, forecasting and trading of financial time series. Section II provides insights into macro and microeconomics and how AI techniques could be used to better understand and predict economic variables. Section III focuses on corporate finance and credit analysis providing an insight into corporate structures and credit, and establishing a relationship between financial statement analysis and the influence of various financial scenarios. Section IV focuses on portfolio management, exploring applications for portfolio theory, asset allocation and optimization. This book also provides some of the latest research in the field of artificial intelligence and finance, and provides in-depth analysis and highly applicable tools and techniques for practitioners and researchers in this field.
Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the 5th Computer Science On-line Conference 2016 (CSOC2016), Vol 1 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #464)
by Radek Silhavy Roman Senkerik Zuzana Kominkova Oplatkova Petr Silhavy Zdenka ProkopovaThis volume is based on the research papers presented in the 5th Computer Science On-line Conference. The volume Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems presents modern trends and methodsto real-world problems, and in particular, exploratory research that describes novel approaches in the field of artificial intelligence. New algorithms in a variety of fields are also presented. The Computer Science On-line Conference (CSOC 2016) is intended to provide an international forum for discussions on the latest research results in all areas related to ComputerScience. The addressed topics are the theoretical aspects and applications of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligences, Cybernetics, Automation Control Theory and Software Engineering.
Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence: Second Australasian Conference, ACALCI 2016, Canberra, ACT, Australia, February 2-5, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9592)
by Tapabrata Ray Ruhul Sarker Xiaodong LiThis bookconstitutes the proceedings of the Second Australasian Conference on ArtificialLife and Computational Intelligence, ACALCI 2016, held in Canberra, ACT,Australia, in February 2016. The 30 fullpapers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: mathematicalmodeling and theory; learning and optimization; planning and scheduling;feature selection; and applications and games.
Artificial Neural Network Modelling (Studies in Computational Intelligence #628)
by Subana Shanmuganathan Sandhya SamarasingheThis book covers theoretical aspects as well as recent innovativeapplications of Artificial Neural networks (ANNs) in natural, environmental,biological, social, industrial and automated systems. It presents recent results of ANNs in modelling small, largeand complex systems under three categories, namely, 1) Networks, Structure Optimisation, Robustness and Stochasticity 2) Advances in Modelling Biological andEnvironmental Systems and 3) Advancesin Modelling Social and Economic Systems. The book aims at serving undergraduates, postgraduates and researchersin ANN computational modelling.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2016: 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Barcelona, Spain, September 6-9, 2016, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9886)
by Alessandro E.P. Villa Paolo Masulli Antonio Javier Pons RiveroThe two volume set, LNCS 9886 + 9887, constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2016, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2016. The 121 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 227 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: from neurons to networks; networks and dynamics; higher nervous functions; neuronal hardware; learning foundations; deep learning; classifications and forecasting; and recognition and navigation. There are 47 short paper abstracts that are included in the back matter of the volume.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2016: 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Barcelona, Spain, September 6-9, 2016, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9887)
by Alessandro E.P. Villa Paolo Masulli Antonio Javier Pons RiveroThe two volume set, LNCS 9886 + 9887, constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2016, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2016. The 121 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 227 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: from neurons to networks; networks and dynamics; higher nervous functions; neuronal hardware; learning foundations; deep learning; classifications and forecasting; and recognition and navigation. There are 47 short paper abstracts that are included in the back matter of the volume.
Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach
by Roman V. YampolskiyA day does not go by without a news article reporting some amazing breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI). Many philosophers, futurists, and AI researchers have conjectured that human-level AI will be developed in the next 20 to 200 years. If these predictions are correct, it raises new and sinister issues related to our future in the age of
Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies)
by Sun Sun Lim Cheryll SorianoIn Asia, amidst its varied levels of economic development and diverse cultural traditions and political regimes, the Internet and mobile communications are increasingly used in every aspect of life. Yet the analytical frames used to understand the impact of digital media on Asia predominantly originate from the Global North, neither rooted in Asia’s rich philosophical traditions, nor reflective of the sociocultural practices of this dynamic region. This volume examines digital phenomena and its impact on Asia by drawing on specifically Asian perspectives. Contributors apply a variety of Asian theoretical frameworks including guanxi, face, qing, dharma and karma. With chapters focusing on emerging digital trends in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan, the book presents compelling and diverse research on identity and selfhood, spirituality, social networking, corporate image, and national identity as shaped by and articulated through digital communication platforms.
#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness
by Gary VaynerchukThe New York Times bestselling author draws from his popular show #AskGaryVee to offer surprising, often outrageous, and imminently useful and honest answers to everything you’ve ever wanted to know—and more—about navigating the new world.Gary Vaynerchuk—the inspiring and unconventional entrepreneur who introduced us to the concept of crush it—knows how to get things done, have fun, and be massively successful. A marketing and business genius, Gary had the foresight to go beyond traditional methods and use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to reach an untapped audience that continues to grow.#AskGaryVee showcases the most useful and interesting questions Gary has addressed on his popular show. Distilling and expanding on the podcast’s most urgent and evergreen themes, Gary presents practical, timely, and timeless advice on marketing, social media, entrepreneurship, and everything else you’ve been afraid to ask but are dying to know. Gary gives you the insights and information you need on everything from effectively using Twitter to launching a small business, hiring superstars to creating a personal brand, launching products effectively to staying healthy—and even buying wine.Whether you’re planning to start your own company, working in digital media, or have landed your first job in a traditional company, #AskGaryVee is your essential guide to making things happen in a big way.
Asking For It
by Louise O'NeillEmma O'Donovan is eighteen, beautiful, and fearless. It's the beginning of summer in a quiet Irish town and tonight she and her friends have dressed to impress. Everyone is at the party, and all eyes are on Emma. The next morning Emma's parents discover her collapsed on the doorstop of their home, unconscious. She is disheveled, bleeding, and disoriented, looking as if she had been dumped there.To her distress, Emma can't remember what happened the night before. All she knows is that none of her friends will respond to her texts. At school, people turn away from her and whisper under their breath. Her mind may be a blank as far as the events of the previous evening, but someone has posted photos of it on Facebook under a fake account, "Easy Emma"--photos she will never be able to forget.As the photos go viral and a criminal investigation is launched, the community is thrown into tumult. The media descends, neighbors chose sides, and people from all over the world want to talk about her story. Everyone has something to say about Emma. Asking For It is a powerful story about the devastating effects of rape and public shaming, told through the awful experience of a young woman whose life is changed forever by an act of violence.
ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance
by James SingletonCreate fast, scalable, and high performance applications with C#, ASP.NET Core 1.0, and MVC 6 About This Book * Learn the importance of measuring, profiling, and locating the most impactful problems * Discover the common areas you might encounter performance problems and areas you don't need to worry about * Understand the differences between development workstations and production infrastructure and how these can amplify problems * Design workflows that run asynchronously and are resilient to transient performance issues Who This Book Is For This book is for ASP.NET and C# developers who have experience with the MVC framework for web application development and are looking to deploy applications that will perform well in live production environments. These could be virtual machines or hosted by a cloud service provider such as AWS or Azure. What You Will Learn * Why performance matters and when it should be considered * Use different tools to measure performance * Spot common performance issues, their root causes, and how to easily mitigate them * Improve performance at the network level and I/O level, and how to optimize the application as a whole * Work with caching and message queuing tools, including patterns and strategies * Discover the dark side of performance improvement and find out how to manage complexity * Monitor performance as part of continuous integration and regression testing * Assess and solve performance issues with other advanced technologies In Detail ASP.NET Core is the new, open source, and cross-platform, web-application framework from Microsoft. It's a stripped down version of ASP.NET that's lightweight and fast. This book will show you how to make your web apps deliver high performance when using it. We'll address many performance improvement techniques from both a general web standpoint and from a C#, ASP.NET Core, and .NET Core perspective. This includes delving into the latest frameworks and demonstrating software design patterns that improve performance. We will highlight common performance pitfalls, which can often occur unnoticed on developer workstations, along with strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. By understanding and addressing challenges upfront, you can avoid nasty surprises when it comes to deployment time. We will introduce performance improvements along with the trade-offs that they entail. We will strike a balance between premature optimization and inefficient code by taking a scientific- and evidence-based approach. We'll remain pragmatic by focusing on the big problems. By reading this book, you'll learn what problems can occur when web applications are deployed at scale and know how to avoid or mitigate these issues. You'll gain experience of how to write high-performance applications without having to learn about issues the hard way. You'll see what's new in ASP.NET Core, why it's been rebuilt from the ground up, and what this means for performance. You will understand how you can now develop on and deploy to Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux using cross-platform tools, such as Visual Studio Code. Style and approach Starting with a drill down into the nuts and bolts of various performance parameters, you will get an understanding of the ASP.NET MVC 6 framework with the help of rich code-based examples that will equip you to build highly scalable and optimized applications.