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Social eCommerce: Increasing Sales and Extending Brand Reach
by Stephan Spencer Jennifer Sheahan Jimmy HardingWant to make money online? Then ignore social media at your own risk. Social media is vital if you want to your business to thrive, and though you can’t control the conversations, you can influence them. This book will teach you how.If mismanaged, social media can create more noise than signal. It can be a time and energy suck—for you and your audience. Or worse still, it can become an echo chamber for negative PR.If done well, guerrilla social media marketing can help you persuade, command attention, establish dialogue, differentiate yourself, capture new markets, and outmaneuver the competition—all on a shoestring budget. Whether you’re selling digital goods and services, physical goods, or local services, this book has the answers.Strategize and optimize your social presence in ways you didn’t know were possibleDrive more clicks and sales with better-performing Facebook adsDevelop remarkable content with viral potentialManage your online reputation, instead of letting it manage youIntegrate social media into your SEO strategy, and vice versaLeverage online influencers to promote your brand, and become an influencer yourself
Social interaction, Social Context, and Language: Essays in Honor of Susan Ervin-tripp
by Dan Isaac Slobin Jiansheng Guo Julie Gerhardt Amy KyratzisThis collection of essays is a representative sample of the current research and researchers in the fields of language and social interactions and social context. The opening chapter, entitled "Context in Language," is written by Susan Ervin-Tripp, whose diverse and innovative research inspired the editors to dedicate this book to her honor. Ervin-Tripp is known for her work in the fields of linguistics, psychology, child development, sociology, anthropology, rhetoric, and women's studies. She has played a central role in the definition and establishment of psycholinguistics, child language development, and sociolinguistics, and has been an innovator in terms of approaches and methods of study. This book covers a wide range of research interests in the field, from linguistically oriented approaches to social and ethnography oriented approaches. The issue of the relationships between forms and structures of language and social interactions is examined in studies of both adult and child speech. It is a useful anthology for graduate students studying language and social interaction, as well as for researchers in this field.
Social, Political, and Economic Contexts in Public Relations: Theory and Cases (Routledge Communication Series)
by Hugh M. Culbertson Martin Terrell Dennis W. Jeffers Donna Besser StoneTwo commissions within the Public Relations Society of America have recently defined courses in case-study analysis, research methods, and behavioral-science theory as central to an acceptable public relations curriculum. To date, these three "streams" within PR education have run independently of each other. The authors produced this volume because they believe that there is a growing demand for an integrative "applied theory" approach to the study of public relations cases. The need for PR professionals to study the social, political, and economic contexts of public relations carefully had been apparent for some time as issues management and environment scanning emerged as focal points of modern public relations. Yet there was no systematic framework for such study. This volume, however, with its strong foundation in theory, provides just that framework and is highly suitable for graduate-level courses in public relations.
Social-Media-Strategien für B2B-Unternehmen: Von der Konzeption bis zur Umsetzung in den verschiedenen Netzwerken (essentials)
by Constanze WolffStark praxisorientiert und mit konkreten Beispielen zeigt dieses Buch auf, wie B2B-Unternehmen von sozialen Netzwerken profitieren können. Die Lesenden erfahren das Wichtigste über die Social-Media-Landschaft in Deutschland und lernen, wie sie eine individuelle Social-Media-Strategie aufsetzen und diese in den verschiedenen Netzwerken umsetzen. Denn die Suche nach neuen Lieferant*innen, Mitarbeitenden und Kund*innen spielt sich auf Social Media ab – und auch im Service, bei der Verbreitung von Fachinformationen und der Generierung von Website-Traffic geht kein Weg mehr an LinkedIn, Instagram, X und Co. vorbei.
Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China: Voices from Below (Routledge Research in Art and Politics)
by Meiqin WangThis book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China’s top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations. It focuses on the socially conscious practices of eight art professionals who assume the role of artist, critic, curator, educator, cultural entrepreneur, and social activist, among others, as they strive to expose the injustice and inequality many Chinese people have suffered, raise public awareness of pressing social and environmental problems, and invent new ways and infrastructures to support various underprivileged social groups.
Society 5.0: Industry of the Future, Technologies, Methods and Tools
by Bruno SalguesFollowing the rapid development of connected technologies, which are now highly sophisticated and spread across the globe, Society 5.0 has emerged and brought with it a dramatic societal shift. In 1998, Kodak, the world leader in photographic film, had 170,000 employees. It thus seemed unthinkable that just 3 years later, the majority of people would stop taking photographs to paper film and that Kodak would have disappeared. These are the stakes of this new society that is taking shape. This book, which does not seek to critique current politics, management or marketing literature, aims to fight against the excesses of this often-misunderstood Society 5.0 and to present the ideas and associated technologies that comprise it, all working towards societal improvement. Among these technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics, digital platforms and 3D printing are undoubtedly the most important, and thus receive the greatest focus.
Society in Language, Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan
by Wendy L. Bowcher Jennifer Yameng LiangThis collection of original articles covers a range of research connecting with the work of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan. It contains contributions from M.A.K. Halliday, G. Williams, D. Butt, D. Miller and M. Berry among others, an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan, and notes from the contributors about their connection with Ruqaiya Hasan's work.
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)
by Eva Núñez-MéndezSocial processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the current state of Spanish sibilants and their dialectal variations. Focusing on different processes undergone by sibilants in Spanish (e.g., voicing, devoicing, weakening, aspiration, elision) in various geographical areas and language contact situations, each chapter offers an analysis on a unique sociolinguistic case from different formal, experimental, and data-based approaches. The opening chapter orients the reader with an overview of sibilant system’s evolution, which serves as an anchor to the other chapters and facilitates understanding for readers new to the topic. The volume is organized around three thematic sections: part one, Spain; part two, United States; and part three, Central and South America. The collection includes research on dialects in both Peninsular and Trans-Atlantic Spanish such as Jerezano, Caribbean Spanish in Boston and New York City, Cuban Spanish in Miami, Colombia-Barranquilla Spanish, northern Buenos Aires Argentine Spanish, and USA heritage Spanish, among other case studies. This volume offers an original and concise approach to one of the most studied variables in Spanish phonetics, taking into account geographically-based phonetic variation, sociolinguistic factors, and various Spanish language contact situations. Written in English, this detailed synthesis of the wide-ranging geolinguistic features of Spanish sibilants provides a valuable resource for scholars in Hispanic studies, linguistics, Spanish dialectology and sociolinguistics.
Sociolinguistics and Business Talk: A Role-Playing Approach
by Yeonkwon JungThis book delivers essential skills in “spoken” professional communications, presenting theoretical and applied frameworks for business talk using English as a lingua franca. Adopting a role-playing approach mimicking various professional settings, it assesses the strength of the well-reasoned argument, the logical links that convince the audience of the coherence of the speaker’s argument and the necessary linguistics competencies. This book centers on a variety of situations that commonly take place in business organizations (such as relational talk; call center talk; job application talk) and addresses key skills such as conflict resolution and collaborative problem solving through communication, which are key for both students and practitioners. In addition it analyses spoken business discourse data with the four main sources of communicative competence: grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence in order to highlight how they are used in business speaking practices.
Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave: Hallyu and Soft Power
by Lionel Wee Nora SamosirSamosir and Wee examine how the immensely popular Korean Wave ("K-wave") also known as Hallyu is wielded as soft power through the use of communication for persuasion and attraction on the global stage. The Korean Wave refers to the global spread and popularity of South Korean culture, particularly its pop music ("K-pop"), serialised dramas ("K-dramas") and films ("K-films"). Given the South Korean government’s involvement in providing funding and publicity, the Korean Wave raises interesting sociolinguistic questions about the relationship between artistry and citizenship, the use of social media in facilitating the consumption of cultural products, and, ultimately, the nature of soft power itself. Studies of soft power have tended to come from the field of international relations. This book shows that sociolinguistics actually has a number of tools in its conceptual arsenal – such as indexicality, stance taking, affect, and styling – that can shed light on the Korean Wave as a form of soft power. As the first book-length sociolinguistic analysis of the Korean Wave and soft power, this book demonstrates how K-pop, K-dramas, and K-films have been able to encourage in consumers an anthropological stance towards all things Korean. This volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, political science, cultural studies, and Korean studies.
Sodoma: Poder y escándalo en el Vaticano
by Frédéric MartelSodoma expone la decadencia y la corrupción en el corazón del Vaticano y de la actual Iglesia católica. Es un libro con un claro mensaje al Vaticano de parte de todos los que anhelan una Iglesia inspirada en el Evangelio, una Iglesia para los pobres, los marginados y los desposeídos. Este brillante y perturbador trabajo, basado en cinco años de investigación rigurosa, incluye extensas entrevistas a los más altos cargos que ostentan el poder en el Vaticano.El libro revela la existencia de una camarilla gay en el Vaticano, en la que Frédéric Martel argumenta que sus orígenes vienen del papado de Pablo VI (1963 – 1978). Martel describe al Vaticano como «el mayor armario de la ciudad» y da pruebas de que un alto número de cardenales son homosexuales. Aun cuando estos mismos cardenales están entre la gente proponiendo decretos en contra del matrimonio homosexual y muchos otros temas relacionados con la moralidad sexual.Pero este libro también habla sobre corrupción en otras esferas del clero: el choque entre oficiales de la iglesia con regímenes fascistas que persiguen y torturan a gente inocente; turbios negocios inmobiliarios; la hipocresía al defender y proteger a curas pederastas; y, por encima de todo, la predominante cultura del clericalismo, a través del cual muchos escándalos son ignorados y dejados de lado. La crítica ha dicho...«La originalidad de su investigación es que establece la homosexualidad — una homosexualidad callada y mezclada de homofobia— como núcleo del sistema eclesiástico. [...] Es la llave que permite entender muchos de sus problemas.»El País «Un colosal ensayo fruto de cuatro años de investigación que revela la presencia mayoritaria de homosexuales en el clero, la jerarquía de la Iglesiacatólica y, sobre todo, en el Vaticano, hasta el punto de estructurar esa institución y de definirla.»El Mundo «Una bomba periodística que promete sacudir los cimientos de la Iglesia Católica y a la gran mayoría de sus representantes.»El Confidencial «Lo que era meramente anecdóticoadquiere por fin una visibilidad sociológica. Ya era hora.»Artículo de James Alison, uno de los sacerdotes entrevistados por Martel, en Jot Down «Cambiar la estructura es, honestamente, muy complejo. El papa no tiene realmente la capacidad para hacerlo solo.»Entrevista a Frédéric Martel a elDiario.es a través de EFE«No tengan miedo a su extensión porque estas páginas valen mucho la pena.»JNSP «Sexo, secretos y mentiras en el armario del Vaticano.»The Times «En Sodoma, Frédéric Martel describe un verdadero "sistema gay" en las altas esferas de la Iglesia. Su investigación será un hito.»Le Point
Soft Computing for Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of ICSCIS 2020 (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)
by Shruti Jain Nikhil Marriwala C. C Tripathi Shivakumar MathapathiThis book presents high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Soft Computing for Intelligent Systems (SCIS 2020), held during 18–20 December 2020 at University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. The book encompasses all branches of artificial intelligence, computational sciences and machine learning which is based on computation at some level such as AI-based Internet of things, sensor networks, robotics, intelligent diabetic retinopathy, intelligent cancer genes analysis using computer vision, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, medical automatic identification intelligence system and applications in agriculture, health care, smart grid and instrumentation systems. The book is helpful for educators, researchers and developers working in the area of recent advances and upcoming technologies utilizing computational sciences in signal processing, imaging, computing, instrumentation, artificial intelligence and their applications.
Soft Computing: Proceedings of SoCTA 2017 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #742)
by Kanad Ray Tarun K. Sharma Sanyog Rawat Anirban Bandyopadhyay R. K. SainiThe book focuses on soft computing and its applications to solve real-world problems occurring in different domains ranging from medicine and healthcare, and supply chain management to image processing and cryptanalysis. It includes high-quality papers presented in the International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2017), organized by Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India. Offering significant insights into soft computing for teachers and researchers alike, the book inspires more researchers to work in the field of soft computing.
Soft Computing: Proceedings of SoCTA 2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1053)
by Millie Pant Tarun K. Sharma Om Prakash Verma Rajesh Singla Afzal SikanderThe book focuses on soft computing and its applications to solve real-world problems in different domains, ranging from medicine and health care, to supply chain management, image processing and cryptanalysis. It includes high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2018), organized by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Offering significant insights into soft computing for teachers and researchers alike, the book inspires more researchers to work in the field of soft computing.
Soft Computing: Proceedings of SoCTA 2020, Volume 1 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1380)
by Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi Tarun K. Sharma Om Prakash Verma Chang Wook AhnThis book focuses on soft computing and how it can be applied to solve real-world problems arising in various domains, ranging from medicine and healthcare, to supply chain management, image processing and cryptanalysis. It gathers high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2020), organized online. The book is divided into two volumes and offers valuable insights into soft computing for teachers and researchers alike; the book will inspire further research in this dynamic field.
Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age
by Matthew A. BaumThe American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-Cold War era, even after 9/11, than at any time since World War II. How can it be, then, that public attentiveness to U.S. foreign policy crises has increased? This book represents the first systematic attempt to explain this apparent paradox. Matthew Baum argues that the answer lies in changes to television's presentation of political information. In so doing he develops a compelling "byproduct" theory of information consumption. The information revolution has fundamentally changed the way the mass media, especially television, covers foreign policy. Traditional news has been repackaged into numerous entertainment-oriented news programs and talk shows. By transforming political issues involving scandal or violence (especially attacks against America) into entertainment, the "soft news" media have actually captured more viewers who will now follow news about foreign crises, due to its entertainment value, even if they remain uninterested in foreign policy. Baum rigorously tests his theory through content analyses of traditional and soft news media coverage of various post-WWII U.S. foreign crises and statistical analyses of public opinion surveys. The results hold key implications for the future of American politics and foreign policy. For instance, watching soft news reinforces isolationism among many inattentive Americans. Scholars, political analysts, and even politicians have tended to ignore the soft news media and politically disengaged citizens. But, as this well-written book cogently demonstrates, soft news viewers represent a largely untapped reservoir of unusually persuadable voters.
Soft Skills For Dummies
by Cindi ReimanSoft skills make the hard skills work! Soft skills are the personal qualities that make you a great communicator, problem solver, and leader on the job—and in your personal life. Soft Skills For Dummies helps you hone in on the traits you already have—or fine tune the ones that may need some extra attention—to market yourself as a workplace leader who&’s in touch with what today&’s employers are looking for: people who can lead and inspire through interpersonal communication, cultural awareness, time management, teamwork, critical thinking, and problem solving. • Sharpen the skills you need for a successful career • Improve your ability to work with others • Become a more confident job seeker and leader • Grasp the concept of soft skills through real-world applications, inspirational stories, and industry spotlights With content based on a time-tested curriculum designed to prepare you for work and life success, this book is packed with everything you need to build your soft skills to make the strongest impact possible.
Soft Skills for the New Journalist: Cultivating the Inner Resources You Need to Succeed
by Colleen SteffenJournalism is a pool staffed by distracted lifeguards and no matter how fancy your school is, your first week in a real newsroom will feel like a shove in the small of the back into 15 feet of water. Most of us come up for air eventually, but if you’re like journalist and educator Colleen Steffen, you may still be left feeling like all that training in inverted pyramids and question lists left something important out: you! Journalism is people managing, wrestling truth and story out of the messy, confusing raw material that is a human being, and the messiest human involved can often be the reporter themselves. So it’s time to talk about it. Instead of nervously skirting the sizable EQ (emotional intelligence) portion of this IQ (intelligence intelligence) enterprise, Soft Skills for the New Journalist explores how it FEELS to do this strange, hard, amazing job—and how to use those feelings to better your work and yourself.
Soft Skills for the Professional Services Industry: Principles, Tasks, and Tools for Success
by Andreas CreutzmannSoft Skills for the Professional Services Industry Auditors, accountants, lawyers, consultants, and other highly educated and trained professionals frequently hold impressive credentials and offer clients specialized expertise in complex areas. At the same time, these professionals understandably focus on the analytical and technical components of their jobs, sometimes to the point of excluding or ignoring important soft skills critical to the success of their careers and practices. In Soft Skills for the Professional Services Industry: Principles, Tasks, and Tools for Success, veteran auditor and entrepreneur Andreas Creutzmann delivers an essential discussion of often overlooked professional competencies that can mean the difference between career, engagement, and business success or failure. In the book, you’ll find accessible guidance on critical soft skills that can make a difference between fulfilment and success and failure on a professional and personal level. You’ll learn to handle the blending of home and the home office, how to effectively manage staff, how to market yourself and your firm, practical strategies for client and colleague communication, and how to find happiness in your day-to-day work. Each chapter stands alone and can be read in any order. They provide professionals with invaluable skills for navigating the modern—and digital—reality of work, showing you how to combine your professional education with the latest research and common sense on everything from client management to firm marketing. Soft Skills for the Professional Services Industry uses the field of auditing as a template and guide, but it is highly relevant to all skilled professionals – including lawyers, consultants, medical professionals, and others. The book is a must-read for any knowledge worker trying to add to their toolbox of practical skills. Critical guidance for practicing professionals on how to build often overlooked soft skills Most highly educated and trained professionals aren’t lacking in analytical or technical skills. Lawyers know the law, accountants understand double entry bookkeeping, and doctors know anatomy. However, many of us are less familiar with often overlooked—and equally essential—soft skills: client management, communication, staff and employee management, and others. In Soft Skills for the Professional Services Industry, accomplished auditor, entrepreneur, and consultant Andreas Creutzmann walks you through how to build critical competencies, from self-marketing to balancing work and life when your office is in your house. The book is made up of numerous, self-contained chapters that can be read in any order, and it demonstrates how to navigate increasingly digital and insistent professional demands on your time, effectively manage client and colleague relationships, and sell new clients on the services your firm offers. An essential roadmap to achieving personal and career success, Soft Skills for the Professional Services Industry is an indispensable resource for lawyers, doctors, accountants, auditors, and any other extensively skilled professional. It offers practical tools in functional areas that are frequently neglected in formal professional training.
Software Architecture for Business
by Lina KhalidThis book illustrates the role of software architecture and its application in business. The author describes enterprise architecture along with business architecture to show the role of software architecture in both areas. The place of software architecture in business is outlined from many perspectives in this context. The book outlines quality attributes and how managers can use software architecture to build high quality products. Topics include business software architecture, dealing with qualities, achieving quality attributes, managing business qualities, software product line, Internet of Things (IOT), and Service Oriented Business Architecture. The book is intended to benefit students, researchers, software architects, and business architects. Provides quick and easy access to all the important aspects of software architecture in business;Highlights a wide variety of concepts of software architecture in a straightforward manner, for students, practitioners, or architects;Presents different applications of software architecture in business.
Software Defined Internet of Everything (Internet of Things)
by Gagangeet Singh Aujla Sahil Garg Kuljeet Kaur Biplab SikdarThis book provides comprehensive discussion on key topics related to the usage and deployment of software defined networks (SDN) in Internet of Everything applications like, healthcare systems, data centers, edge/fog computing, vehicular networks, intelligent transportation systems, smart grids, smart cities and more. The authors provide diverse solutions to overcome challenges of conventional network binding in various Internet of Everything applications where there is need of an adaptive, agile, and flexible network backbone. The book showcases different deployment models, algorithms and implementations related to the usage of SDN in Internet of Everything applications along with the pros and cons of the same. Even more, this book provides deep insights into the architecture of software defined networking specifically about the layered architecture and different network planes, logical interfaces, and programmable operations. The need of network virtualization and the deployment models for network function virtualization is also included with an aim towards the design of interoperable network architectures by researchers in future. Uniquely, the authors find hands on practical implementation, deployment scenarios and use cases for various software defined networking architectures in Internet of Everything applications like healthcare networks, Internet of Things, intelligent transportation systems, smart grid, underwater acoustic networks and many more. In the end, design and research challenges, open issues, and future research directions are provided in this book for a wide range of readers
Software Defined Networking for Ad Hoc Networks (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
by Sabyasachi Pramanik Mangesh M. Ghonge Amol D. PotgantwarThis book offers a comprehensive overview of Software-Defined Network (SDN) based ad-hoc network technologies and exploits recent developments in this domain, with a focus on emerging technologies in SDN based ad-hoc networks. The authors offer practical and innovative applications in Network Security, Smart Cities, e-health, and Intelligent Systems. This book also addresses several key issues in SDN energy-efficient systems, the Internet of Things, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Virtualization, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Cryptography. The book includes different ad hoc networks such as MANETs and VANETs, along with a focus on evaluating and comparing existing SDN-related research on various parameters. The book provides students, researchers, and practicing engineers with an expert guide to the fundamental concepts, challenges, architecture, applications, and state-of-the-art developments in the field.
Software Defined Radio-Systeme für die Telemetrie: Aufbau und Funktionsweise von der Antenne bis zum Bit-Ausgang
by Albert Heuberger Eberhard GammDieses Buch behandelt alle für ein Software Defined Radio (SDR) relevanten Systemteile: Antenne, Antennenanpassung, analoges Frontend, A/D-Umsetzung, Digital Downconversion (DDC), Interpolation, Synchronisation, Demodulation. Zunächst werden die notwendigen Grundlagen für die Darstellung von Signalen vermittelt sowie der gesamte Aufbau eines Software Defined Radios beschrieben, um anschließend die einzelnen Komponenten näher zu betrachten.Der Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt auf dem Zusammenspiel der Komponenten und Signale innerhalb des Empfängers. Zur Veranschaulichung der Signale wird das Open-Source-Programm GNU Octave verwendet.
Software Defined Systems: Sensing, Communication and Computation (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Song Guo Deze Zeng Lin Gu Shengli PanThis book introduces the software defined system concept, architecture, and its enabling technologies such as software defined sensor networks (SDSN), software defined radio, cloud/fog radio access networks (C/F-RAN), software defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), software defined storage, virtualization and docker. The authors also discuss the resource allocation and task scheduling in software defined system, mainly focusing on sensing, communication, networking and computation. Related case studies on SDSN, C/F-RAN, SDN, NFV are included in this book, and the authors discuss how these technologies cooperate with each other to enable cross resource management and task scheduling in software defined system. Novel resource allocation and task scheduling algorithms are introduced and evaluated. This book targets researchers, computer scientists and engineers who are interested in the information system softwarization technologies, resource allocation and optimization algorithm design, performance evaluation and analysis, next-generation communication and networking technologies, edge computing, cloud computing and IoT. Advanced level students studying these topics will benefit from this book as well.
Software Design for Resilient Computer Systems
by Igor Schagaev Eugene Zouev Kaegi ThomasThis book addresses the question of how system software should be designed to account for faults, and which fault tolerance features it should provide for highest reliability. With this second edition of Software Design for Resilient Computer Systems the book is thoroughly updated to contain the newest advice regarding software resilience. With additional chapters on computer system performance and system resilience, as well as online resources, the new edition is ideal for researchers and industry professionals.The authors first show how the system software interacts with the hardware to tolerate faults. They analyze and further develop the theory of fault tolerance to understand the different ways to increase the reliability of a system, with special attention on the role of system software in this process. They further develop the general algorithm of fault tolerance (GAFT) with its three main processes: hardware checking, preparation for recovery, and the recovery procedure. For each of the three processes, they analyze the requirements and properties theoretically and give possible implementation scenarios and system software support required. Based on the theoretical results, the authors derive an Oberon-based programming language with direct support of the three processes of GAFT. In the last part of this book, they introduce a simulator, using it as a proof of concept implementation of a novel fault tolerant processor architecture (ERRIC) and its newly developed runtime system feature-wise and performance-wise. Due to the wide reaching nature of the content, this book applies to a host of industries and research areas, including military, aviation, intensive health care, industrial control, and space exploration.