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The Construction Industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of 11th Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Postgraduate Research Conference

by Clinton Aigbavboa Wellington Thwala

This book gathers papers from the 11th Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) Postgraduate Research Conference, held on 28–30 July 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference provided an essential forum for reviewing and generating knowledge on Construction 4.0 and, consequently, highlighted processes and practices that allow us to deliver and operate built environment assets more effectively and efficiently by focusing on physical-to-digital and digital-to-physical transformation. The event addressed three broad themes: Industrial production (prefabrication, 3-D printing and assembly, offsite and advanced manufacturing);Cyber-physical systems (actuators, sensors, IoT, robots and cobots for repetitive and dangerous tasks, and drones for mapping, progress monitoring, safety and quality inspections, lifting, moving and positioning); and Technologies (digital ecosystems, digital platforms, BIM, video and laser scanning, AI and cloud computing, big data and data analytics, reality capture, blockchain, simulation, virtual and augmented reality, data standards and interoperability, and vertical and horizontal integration). Given its scope, the book will be of interest to all construction industry and architectural professionals who want to learn about cutting-edge technologies applied to construction

Construction Management JumpStart Second Edition

by Barbara J. Jackson

Launch your career in construction management with this one-of-a-kind book The construction management industry is expected to increase employment by 16 percent over the next decade. This second edition of a bestselling introduction to construction management walks you through each stage of the construction management process. Written from the constructor's perspective, this book will familiarize you with all the construction management fundamentals and how Building Information Modeling (BIM) is impacting the construction management profession. Covers interoperability of technology advances in the construction industry Explains how BIM is challenging the traditional approach to project delivery and how this affects the constructor's role Elaborates each stage of the design and construction process and the tasks associated with each of them Shows step-by-step how to estimate project costs, administer contracts, manage job site and construction operations, plan and schedule a project, monitor project performance, manage project quality and safety, and assess project risks Provides review questions at the end of each chapter to help enforce understanding The tried-and-true project management principles presented in this book will help ensure you a successful start to your career.

Construction of Fundamental Data Structures for Strings (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

by Felipe A. Louza Simon Gog Guilherme P. Telles

This books reviews recent theoretical and practical advances on suffix sorting and introduces algorithmic solutions to problems of wide interest for the construction of fundamental data structures that operate efficiently on strings namely, constructing the suffix array, the longest common prefix (LCP) array, the document array and the Lyndon array. These data structures are the cornerstone of many algorithmic solutions in Bioiformatics, Information Retrieval and Data Compression. This book introduces the relevant problem areas, their importance, the notation and related algorithms and then presents the algorithmic solutions for indexing data structure constructions.This book is intended for graduate students, researchers and practitioners from Computer Science and Bioinformatics with a strong interest in algorithmic aspects.

Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Network System(Junior Level)

by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

This open access book follows the development rules of network technical talents, simultaneously placing its focus on the transfer of network knowledge, the accumulation of network skills, and the improvement of professionalism. Through the complete process from the elaboration of the theories of network technology to the analysis of application scenarios then to the design and implementation of case projects, readers are enabled to accumulate project experience and eventually acquire knowledge and cultivate their ability so as to lay a solid foundation for adapting to their future positions. This book comprises six chapters, which include “General Operation Safety of Network System,” “Cabling Project,” “Hardware Installation of Network System,” “Basic Knowledge of Network System,” “Basic Operation of Network System,” and “Basic Operation and Maintenance of Network System.” This book can be used for teaching and training for the vocational skills certification of network system construction, operation, and maintenance in the pilot work of Huawei’s “1+X” Certification System, and it is also suitable as a textbook for application-oriented universities, vocational colleges, and technical colleges. In the meantime, it can also serve as a reference book for technicians engaged in network technology development, network management and maintenance, and network system integration. As the world’s leading ICT (information and communications technology) infrastructure and intelligent terminal provider, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has covered many fields such as data communication, security, wireless, storage, cloud computing, intelligent computing, and artificial intelligence. Taking Huawei network equipment (routers, switches, wireless controllers, and wireless access points) as the platform, and based on network engineering projects, this book organizes all the contents according to the actual needs of the industry.

Construction Program Management (Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management)

by Joseph Delaney

Although the construction industry is one of the largest enterprises in the United States, widely accepted management principles, such as those contained in PMI's Standard for Program Management are still not widely implemented. This book explores how an improved understanding of these principles could boost construction program success rates. It outlines a process-based approach to construction program management that leverages structure to bring order to what can otherwise feel like an overwhelming challenge. The book includes case studies that illustrate the proper implementation of the steps outlined in the book.

Construction Robots: Elementary Technologies and Single-Task Construction Robots ( Cambridge handbooks in construction robotics vol. #3)

by Thomas Bock Thomas Linner

Learn how Single-Task Construction Robots (STCRs) can improve productivity in the construction industry with this cross-disciplinary text. This third volume in the Cambridge Handbooks in Construction Robotics series discusses the STCRs employed on construction sites since the development of the approach in the 1980s, presents current applications, and highlights upcoming trends in the construction automation and robotics field. Two hundred different types of STCR are presented, from the simplest models comprising simple manipulators and mobile platforms, to those utilizing more sophisticated technologies such as aerial robotics, swarm robotics, exoskeletons, additive manufacturing technologies, self-assembling building structures, and humanoid robotics. Real-world case studies demonstrate the different application scenarios for each approach, and highlight the key implementation and management issues. With an easy-to-follow structure, and including hundreds of color illustrations, it provides an excellent toolkit for professional engineers, researchers, and students. Provides a new interpretation of architecture and construction as a manufacturing industry that deals with product rather than with buildings - from building 'construction' to building 'production' Follows a cross-disciplinary approach that relates traditional architectural and construction knowledge the with latest knowledge from manufacturing, automation and robot technology Oriented towards technology application, using real-world case studies to show application scenarios for each presented approach or technology

Construction Supply Chain Economics (Spon Research)

by Kerry London

This is the first comprehensive investigation of the industrial sourcing and procurement practices throughout sixty-eight construction industry supply channels across seven major commodity sectors at all levels. London presents real-world case studies to combine theory and practice to describe the economic structural and behavioural characteristics of sectors integral to the construction industry performance. Construction Supply Chain Economics details 'everyday' experiences and procurement decisions made by people in firms in the industry related to projects as they seek out other firms to work with during the tendering stage. London creates a language that enables us to classify and understand behaviour and recognise the impact of our decisions on firms and projects within the industry. Construction Supply Chain Economics introduces a new model for mapping the construction sector of particular interest to construction management and economic researchers and to procurement decision makers, including policymakers and clients, as well as industry practitioners, such as contractors, consultants and materials suppliers.

The Construction Technology Handbook

by Hugh Seaton

Tired of new software that doesn’t seem to work in the field? Ready to get your teams up to speed and productive with the latest tools? The Construction Technology Handbook takes a ground up, no jargon look at technology in the construction industry. From clear, quickly grasped explanations of how popular software actually works to how companies both large and small can efficiently try out and onboard new tools, this book unlocks new ways for construction field teams, firm owners, managers, leaders, and employees to do business. You’ll learn about: Simple frameworks for making sense of all the new options cropping up How software and data work and how they work together to make your job easier and safer What artificial intelligence really is and how it can help real companies today Tools that are just over the horizon that will, one day, make your job just a little bit easier New and practical resources to help you incorporate an attitude of innovation and technology adoption into your workplace Perfect for general contractors and subcontractors, The Construction Technology Handbook also belongs on the bookshelves of construction technology vendors and construction workers who want to better understand the needs of the construction industry and the inner workings of construction technology, respectively.

Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in A Digital World

by Yasmin Kafai Mitchel Resnick

The digital revolution necessitates, but also makes possible, radical changes in how and what we learn. This book describes a set of innovative educational research projects at the MIT Media Laboratory, illustrating how new computational technologies can transform our conceptions of learning, education, and knowledge. The book draws on real-world education experiments conducted in formal and informal contexts: from inner-city schools and university labs to neighborhoods and after-school clubhouses. The papers in this book are divided in four interrelated sections as follows: * Perspectives in Constructionism further develops the intellectual underpinnings of constructionist theory. This section looks closely at the role of perspective-taking in learning and discusses how both cognitive and affective processes play a central role in building connections between old and new knowledge. * Learning through Design analyzes the relationship between designing and learning, and discusses ways that design activities can provide personally meaningful contexts for learning. This section investigates how and why children can learn through the processes of constructing artifacts such as games, textile patterns, robots and interactive devices. * Learning in Communities focuses on the social aspects of constructionist learning, recognizing that how people learn is deeply influenced by the communities and cultures with which they interact. It examines the nature of learning in classroom, inner-city, and virtual communities. * Learning about Systems examines how students make sense of biological, technological, and mathematical systems. This section explores the conceptual and epistemological barriers to learning about feedback, self-organization, and probability, and it discusses new technological tools and activities that can help people develop new ways of thinking about these phenomena.

Constructive Fractional Analysis with Applications (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #362)

by George A. Anastassiou

This book includes constructive approximation theory; it presents ordinary and fractional approximations by positive sublinear operators, and high order approximation by multivariate generalized Picard, Gauss–Weierstrass, Poisson–Cauchy and trigonometric singular integrals. Constructive and Computational Fractional Analysis recently is more and more in the center of mathematics because of their great applications in the real world. In this book, all presented is original work by the author given at a very general level to cover a maximum number of cases in various applications. The author applies generalized fractional differentiation techniques of Riemann–Liouville, Caputo and Canavati types and of fractional variable order to various kinds of inequalities such as of Opial, Hardy, Hilbert–Pachpatte and on the spherical shell. He continues with E. R. Love left- and right-side fractional integral inequalities. They follow fractional Landau inequalities, of left and right sides, univariate and multivariate, including ones for Semigroups. These are developed to all possible directions, and right-side multivariate fractional Taylor formulae are proven for the purpose. It continues with several Gronwall fractional inequalities of variable order. This book results are expected to find applications in many areas of pure and applied mathematics. As such this book is suitable for researchers, graduate students and seminars of the above disciplines, also to be in all science and engineering libraries.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 13th International Workshop, COSADE 2022, Leuven, Belgium, April 11-12, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13211)

by Josep Balasch Colin O’Flynn

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2022, held in Leuven, Belgium, in April 2022. The 12 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers cover the following subjects: implementation attacks, secure implementation, implementation attack-resilient architectures and schemes, secure design and evaluation, practical attacks, test platforms, and open benchmarks.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 11th International Workshop, COSADE 2020, Lugano, Switzerland, April 1–3, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12244)

by Guido Marco Bertoni Francesco Regazzoni

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2020, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in April 2020. Due to COVID-19, the workshop was held online. The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The workshop covers subjects from wide ranges such as secure design, side channel attacks and countermeasures, and architectures and protocols.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 12th International Workshop, COSADE 2021, Lugano, Switzerland, October 25–27, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12910)

by Shivam Bhasin Fabrizio De Santis

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2021, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in October 2021.The 14 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions are presented in this volume together with the 4 extended keynote abstracts. The workshop covers the following subjects: cryptography, side-channel analysis, cryptographic implementations, fault attacks, implementation attacks, post-quantum cryptography, hardware accelerators, etc.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 9th International Workshop, COSADE 2018, Singapore, April 23–24, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10815)

by Junfeng Fan Benedikt Gierlichs

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2018, held in Singapore, in April 2018.The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: countermeasures against side-channel attacks; tools for side-channel analysis; fault attacks and hardware trojans; and side-channel analysis attacks.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 8th International Workshop, COSADE 2017, Paris, France, April 13-14, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10348)

by Sylvain Guilley

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2017, held in Paris, France, in April 2017. The 17 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Side-Channel Attacks and Technological Effects; Side-Channel Countermeasures; Algorithmic Aspects in Side-Channel Attacks; Side-Channel Attacks; Fault Attacks; Embedded Security; and Side-Channel Tools.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 14th International Workshop, COSADE 2023, Munich, Germany, April 3–4, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13979)

by Elif Bilge Kavun Michael Pehl

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2023, held in Munich, Germany, during April 3–4, 2023. The 12 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: fault-injection analyses and countermeasures; side-channel analyses and countermeasures; attacks on PQC and countermeasure; and analyses and tools.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 6th International Workshop, COSADE 2015, Berlin, Germany, April 13-14, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9064)

by Stefan Mangard Axel Y. Poschmann

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop, COSADE 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in April 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 48 submissions. the focus of this workshop was on following topics: side-channel attacks, FPGA countermeasures, timing attacks and countermeasures, fault attacks, countermeasures, and Hands-on Side-channel analysis.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 10th International Workshop, COSADE 2019, Darmstadt, Germany, April 3–5, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11421)

by Ilia Polian Marc Stöttinger

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2019, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in April 2019. The 14 papers presented together with one keynote and one invited talk in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Side-Channel Attacks; Fault-Injection Attacks; White-Box Attacks; Side-Channel Analysis Methodologies; Security Aspects of Post-Quantum Schemes; and Countermeasures Against Implementation Attacks.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 5th International Workshop, COSADE 2014, Paris, France, April 13-15, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #8622)

by Emmanuel Prouff

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, COSADE 2014, held in Paris, France, in April 2014. The 20 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully selected from 51 submissions and collect truly existing results in cryptographic engineering, from concepts to artifacts, from software to hardware, from attack to countermeasure.

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 7th International Workshop, COSADE 2016, Graz, Austria, April 14-15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9689)

by François-Xavier Standaert Elisabeth Oswald

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2016, held in Graz, Austria, in April 2016. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: security and physical attacks; side-channel analysis (case studies); fault analysis; and side-channel analysis (tools).

Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design: 15th International Workshop, COSADE 2024, Gardanne, France, April 9–10, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14595)

by Romain Wacquez

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2024, held in Gardanne, France, during April 9–10, 2024. The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Analyses and Tools; Attack Methods; Deep-Learning-Based Side-Channel Attacks; PUF/RNG; and Cryptographic Implementations.

Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction: A Conversation

by David H. Jonassen Thomas M. Duffy

This book is about the implications of constructivism for instructional design practices, and more importantly, it is about a dialogue between instructional developers and learning theorists. Working with colleagues in each discipline, the editors were amazed to find a general lack of familiarity with each others' work. From an instructional design perspective, it seems that the practice of instructional design must be based on some conception of how people learn and what it means to learn. From a learning theory perspective, it seems obvious that the value of learning theory rests in the ability to predict the impact of alternative learning environments or instructional practices on what is learned. Thus the interchange of ideas between these disciplines is essential. As a consequence of both the information rich environment and the technological capability, business is seen moving away from a fixed curriculum and toward providing information and instruction when it is needed. These changes bring about a window of opportunity establishing a dialogue that will provide for a richer understanding of learning and the instructional environment required to achieve that learning. The editors hope that this book is the beginning of the conversation and that it will serve to spur continued conversation between those involved in learning theory and those involved in the design of instruction.

Consul: Service Mesh for Any Runtime or Cloud

by Luke Kysow

With the advent of microservices, Kubernetes, public cloud, and hybrid computing, site reliability and DevOps engineers are facing more complexity than ever before. Service mesh is an exciting new technology that promises to help tackle this complexity. A service mesh provides you with a unified control plane to manage application networking across these distinct platforms. With this definitive guide, you'll learn how to automate networking for simple and secure application delivery with Consul. Author Luke Kysow, Consul engineer at HashiCorp, demonstrates how this service mesh solution provides a software-driven approach to security, observability, reliability, and traffic management. Once you learn how to deploy Consul on multiple platforms, you'll be able to take control of application traffic, prevent outages, view metrics, integrate with legacy systems, and more. Dive into the characteristics of service meshes, zero trust networking, and traffic-shaping patternsDeploy Consul on Kubernetes and virtual machinesLearn how to secure, monitor, and manage your application traffic with ConsulUse this guide to deploy and operate applications as a platform operator, DevOps engineer, or developer

Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance

by Eleftheria J Lekakis

"A crucial intervention to both critical studies of consumption and research into activism. It authoritatively explores the complex and multiplying links between branding and neoliberal culture, consumer practices and social justice." – Professor Mehita Iqani, Stellenbosch University "Eleftheria Lekakis reminds us that as consumers, we can do much more than just buy our way out of social or political problems." – Professor Melissa Aronczyk, Rutgers University Consumption and resistance are entwined. From buying fair-trade, to celebrity advocates for social causes, to subvertising and anti-consumerist grassroots movements, consumer activism is now a key part of our fight for social and environmental justice. This book is a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and dilemmas of using the marketplace as an arena for politics. It goes beyond simply buying or boycotting to critically explore how individuals, collectives, corporations and governments do politics with and through consumption. Impassioned and always accessible, Eleftheria Lekakis explores: The media and economic logics which privilege elite activists. The real opportunities to resist and redirect promotional culture. Consumer activism as collective and community-building. The politicisation of celebrity influencers. The centrality of digital media technology. A range of transnational case studies pushing the field beyond the Global North. Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance covers the full breadth of theory and practice you need to know. It is an essential resource for understanding, researching and engaging with the global phenomenon of consumer activism. Dr Eleftheria Lekakis is senior lecturer in Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex.

Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance

by Eleftheria J Lekakis

"A crucial intervention to both critical studies of consumption and research into activism. It authoritatively explores the complex and multiplying links between branding and neoliberal culture, consumer practices and social justice." – Professor Mehita Iqani, Stellenbosch University "Eleftheria Lekakis reminds us that as consumers, we can do much more than just buy our way out of social or political problems." – Professor Melissa Aronczyk, Rutgers University Consumption and resistance are entwined. From buying fair-trade, to celebrity advocates for social causes, to subvertising and anti-consumerist grassroots movements, consumer activism is now a key part of our fight for social and environmental justice. This book is a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and dilemmas of using the marketplace as an arena for politics. It goes beyond simply buying or boycotting to critically explore how individuals, collectives, corporations and governments do politics with and through consumption. Impassioned and always accessible, Eleftheria Lekakis explores: The media and economic logics which privilege elite activists. The real opportunities to resist and redirect promotional culture. Consumer activism as collective and community-building. The politicisation of celebrity influencers. The centrality of digital media technology. A range of transnational case studies pushing the field beyond the Global North. Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance covers the full breadth of theory and practice you need to know. It is an essential resource for understanding, researching and engaging with the global phenomenon of consumer activism. Dr Eleftheria Lekakis is senior lecturer in Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex.

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