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Flex Mobile in Action
by Jonathan CamposWith constant innovation on the iOS, Android, and BlackBerry platforms, the mobile device landscape is complicated and changing rapidly. Adobe leads the way with Flex Mobile, a new technology that provides a single development environment that exports applications to any mobile platform, eliminating the need to write and re-write code.Flex Mobile in Action teaches how to use the powerful Flex Platform to create compelling mobile applications that can stretch across Apple iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices. It contains practical application development techniques such as accessing native device capabilities, choosing the right architectural patterns, and building data access models. It also covers the new Flex 4.6 with Flash Builder which builds on Flex 4.5 for the creation of outstanding mobile applications.
Flex on Java
by Bernerd Allmon Jeremy AndersonUnlike many Flex books that presume readers want to develop applications from scratch, Flex on Java is for developers in the real world-where Flex is one more technology being added to existing systems developed in Java, and where integration is the key indicator of success.Written for Java developers beginning to use Flex, Flex on Java shows how to use Flex alongside existing Java applications, and how to integrate Flex using familiar server-side technologies such as Spring, EJBs, JMS, and more. The authors, both Agile development experts, focus on Agile and test-driven development to enable readers to redesign applications that deliver more value and with zero defects. Throughout the book, readers will apply these techniques to refactoring a single application into a rich internet application using Flex and the BlazeDS framework. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Flexbox in CSS
by Estelle WeylLayout designers rejoice: CSS finally has an update that will make your lives easier. Flexible box layout, often called Flexbox, frees you from the challenges of creating layouts with floats and padding? and lets you specify containers and their contents instead. The new model means you can specify the directions in which material flows, how content wraps, and the ways components can expand to fill a space. Whether you've been creating large sites or small, fixed sites or responsive sites, flexbox will simplify your work.
FlexCAR: Eine Forschungsplattform für das autonome Fahren (ARENA2036)
by Ansgar Gerlicher Michael LahresDas Buch "FlexCAR: Die Forschungsplattform von morgen" beschreibt ein innovatives Forschungsprojekt, das sich mit flexiblen Produkt- und Produktionskonzepten für modulare Fahrzeuge beschäftigt. Nach einer Einführung und Motivation des Projekts wird das Vorgehensmodell vorgestellt. Anschließend werden die Struktur des Verbundprojekts und die verschiedenen Themenbereiche, wie Rolling Chassis, Interieur und Cyberphysischer Einstieg, Flexible Produkt- und Produktionskonzepte und Offener Entwicklungprozess modularer Fahrzeuge, behandelt. Im Hauptteil des Buchs werden ausgewählte Themenbereiche detailliert beschrieben. Hierbei werden u.a. Antrieb und Wechselspeichersysteme, Aufbau Bodenmodul und Interieur Set-Up, Exterieur- und Interieurkonzeptentwicklungen, Cyberphysische Visualisierungstechnik und Sensorintegrationen am FlexCAR erörtert. Zudem werden auch weitere Themen wie die Implementierung gedruckter Bedienelemente mit integrierter RFID-Bauteilerkennung, die Architektur des onboard- und offboard-Netzwerks sowie die externe Sensorik und offene Entwicklungsplattform behandelt. Das Buch schließt mit einem Fazit und Ausblick, einer Danksagung, einer Auflistung der Autoren und Referenzen ab. Die detaillierten Beschreibungen und Einblicke in die Forschung des FlexCAR-Projekts machen das Buch zu einem wertvollen Beitrag für die Forschung im Bereich der modularen Fahrzeuge und der flexiblen Produktion.
Flexibilitätspotenziale heben - IT-Wertbeitrag steigern: HMD Best Paper Award 2013 (essentials)
by André WiedenhoferIn den vergangenen Jahren nahm die Veränderungsgeschwindigkeit in den Unternehmen stetig zu. Die wachsende Globalisierung, die Auswirkungen der Krise und die rasch wandelnden Technologien haben bewährte Geschäftsmodelle grundlegend in Frage gestellt. Die ständige Anpassung wird ,,business as usual". Dadurch bedingt ändern sich die Anforderungen an die betriebliche Informationstechnologie (IT). Um einen wesentlichen Wertbeitrag zu generieren, muss die IT der marktinduzierten Unsicherheit mit einem angemessenen Grad an Flexibilität begegnen. In Anlehnung an die ressourcenorientierte Theorie stellt André Wiedenhofer die IT als wesentliche Kernkompetenz dar. Da Unsicherheit in der Literatur bisher kaum Beachtung gefunden hat und Flexibilitätspotenziale scheinbar noch nicht ausgeschöpft sind, soll der Beitrag Handlungsempfehlungen geben, wie die IT langfristig ihren Wertbeitrag organisatorisch verbessern kann.
Flexibility and Lifelong Learning: Policy, Discourse, Politics
by Katherine NicollWhat can the politics of discourse tell us about the discourse of politics? How are flexibility and lifelong learning positioned within policy? Flexibility and lifelong learning have become key aspects of education policy in nation states and bodies such as the European Union and Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development in recent years. They are positioned as necessary for the knowledge economy and social inclusion. The failure to adapt through becoming more flexible and participating in lifelong learning is held up as a failure at individual, organisational and national levels. But how has that narrative come to be constructed? In what ways is it persuasive? And what forms of political action are possible and necessary? These are the questions addressed in this text. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault and on the notion of rhetoric, this book forensically explores examples of the work of policy texts in the discourses of education, lifelong learning and flexibility that they construct. In so doing, it argues for the need to take policy discourse seriously and not simply dismiss it as ‘spin’. Through a detailed examination of policy texts from primarily Australia, the UK and European Union, this text provides insights into the strategies through which flexibility and lifelong learning become realized and realizable as part of the common sense of educational discourse. Rather than simply rejecting these ideas, or suggesting they are merely the window dressing for the more malign interests of the knowledge economy or globalization, it suggests a politics of the wedge and possibilities for the insertion of different meanings. Central to the claims of this text are that we need to engage closely with the discursive and rhetorical strategies of policy, in order that we understand both how it is constructed and thus how it can be deconstructed.
Flexibility, Innovation, and Sustainable Business (Flexible Systems Management)
by Ramesh Anbanandam Santosh RangnekarThis book contains practical experiences, knowledge, and insights in the evolution, formulation, and implementation of strategies and models for flexibility, innovation, and sustainable business. The book discussed the increasing significance of a flexible approach by businesses as much as possible in every area of their work—from employment policies to supply chain management (SCM). It further links this flexible approach to a sustainability strategy, which is necessary to be competitive today and in the future. This business approach is necessary to create long-term value by considering how a given organization operates in the ecological, social, and economic environment. This is linked to the next theme of the book—innovation—which is fundamental for a business to improve its processes, develop new and improved products and services for the market, increase its efficiency, and, most importantly, get better profitability. The book also delves into another buzz word in business—analytics. Companies have widely embraced the use of analytics to streamline operations and improve processes. The book explores all these critical emerging areas through the chapters in its five sections and is invaluable for management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, professional institutions, and government and corporate organizations.
Flexibility Measurement in Production Systems
by Sven RogalskiThe requirements for production systems are constantly changing as a result of changing competitive conditions. This poses a challenge for manufacturers in the various branches of industry and creates an ever-increasing need for flexibility. With this as a background, this book explores the current developments and trends as well as their impact on today's production systems. It also compares known strategies, concepts and methods used to achieve production flexibility. Similarly, the practical knowledge and current research will be drawn upon and subjected to a sound scientific analysis, through which the technical and organizational flexibility ranges can be measured in their application in a production system. The convenience and usefulness of this concept for manufacturers is substantiated by its implementation in a software tool called ecoFLEX and its practical application, based on extensive examples. This illustrates how flexibility flaws can be quickly identified, classified and properly disposed of using ecoFLEX. This tool helps to close the gap between ERP / PPS systems and digital factory planning tools.
Flexibility, Resilience and Sustainability (Flexible Systems Management)
by Sushil Neelam Rani Rohit JoshiThis book discusses initiatives intended to promote strategic flexibility, resilience, sustainability, and information system flexibility and analytics, through AI, HR analytics, employee attrition using perspectives from machine learning, agile competencies, agile organization, digital recruitment, e-governance, cyber security controls, and cyber security risk management. It explores areas such as banking system, medical tourism, pharmaceutical industry, defense sector, online shopping, to name some. It brings different perspectives on how to improve the resilience of human resources in organizations through employee engagement, exploration, experimentation, and so on, to create sustainable organizations. There is also some focus on innovation and environmental sustainability concerns, co-worker support, exploring the linkages, and in one case, culture essentials for Industry 5.0. Divided into three parts, covering a range of topics, contexts, and methods used to understand the relevant issues in flexibility, resilience, and sustainability, thes book is a useful addition to the literature on the topic as well as a practical resource for practitioners. It will be a useful resource for a variety of audiences such as management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, and professional institutions.
Flexible Approaches in Data, Information and Knowledge Management
by Olivier Pivert Sławomir ZadrożnyThis volume showcases contributions from internationally-known researchers in the field of information management. Most of the approaches presented here make use of fuzzy logic, introduced by L. A. Zadeh almost 50 years ago, which constitute a powerful tool to model and handle gradual concepts. What all of these contributions have in common is placing the user at the center of the information system, be it for helping him/her to query a data set, to handle imperfect information, or to discover useful knowledge from a massive collection of data. Researchers working in data and knowledge management will greatly benefit from this collection of up-to-date studies. This may be also an invaluable source of information for postgraduate students interested in advanced information management techniques.
Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Proceedings of FAIM 2022, June 19–23, 2022, Detroit, Michigan, USA (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Kyoung-Yun Kim Leslie Monplaisir Jeremy RickliThis is an open access book. It gathers the first volume of the proceedings of the 31st edition of the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2022, held on June 19 – 23, 2022, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Covering four thematic areas including Manufacturing Processes, Machine Tools, Manufacturing Systems, and Enabling Technologies, it reports on advanced manufacturing processes, and innovative materials for 3D printing, applications of machine learning, artificial intelligence and mixed reality in various production sectors, as well as important issues in human-robot collaboration, including methods for improving safety. Contributions also cover strategies to improve quality control, supply chain management and training in the manufacturing industry, and methods supporting circular supply chain and sustainable manufacturing. All in all, this book provides academicians, engineers and professionals with extensive information on both scientific and industrial advances in the converging fields of manufacturing, production, and automation.
Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Proceedings of FAIM 2022, June 19–23, 2022, Detroit, Michigan, USA, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Kyoung-Yun Kim Leslie Monplaisir Jeremy RickliThis book gathers the second volume of the proceedings of the 31st edition of the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2022, held on June 19 – 23, 2022, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Covering four thematic areas including Manufacturing Processes, Machine Tools, Manufacturing Systems, and Enabling Technologies, it highlights advances in micro- and nanoscales processes, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence and robotic applications, human-robot collaboration, as well as quality control, supply chain, industrial monitoring and management strategies. It also discusses important issues related to sustainability, waste management and remanufacturing. All in all, this book provides academicians, engineers and professionals with extensive information on both scientific and industrial advances in the converging fields of manufacturing, production, and automation.
The Flexible Enterprise
by Sushil Edward A. StohrThe need for enterprise flexibility in an era of rapidly advancing technology, increasing competition, and globalization, is apparent. Flexibility can be thought of as an ability of the enterprise to quickly and efficiently respond to market changes and to bring new products and services quickly to the market place. Beyond this definition, a truly flexible enterprise should proactively change the market through its ability to create new and innovative products and services. The proposed book is intended to provide a conceptual framework of 'Flexible Enterprise' supported by researches/case applications in various types of flexibilities exhibited by a flexible enterprise. The selected papers from a variety of issues concerning the planning and operation of a flexible enterprise are organized into following four parts: I Enterprise and Strategic Flexibility II Organizational Flexibility III Business Process and Information Systems Flexibility IV Operations Flexibility
Flexible Learning in a Digital World: Experiences and Expectations (Open and Flexible Learning Series)
by Collis, Betty Moonen, JefBetty Collis and Jef Moonen present a series of proven and practical guidelines, based on their balanced experience of using technology in education. Together, these give readers an overview of how technological applications in education can be developed and harnessed.
Flexible Load Control for Enhancing Renewable Power System Operation (Power Systems)
by Yuanzheng Li Yang Li Zhigang ZengThis book addresses the pressing challenges faced by renewable power system operation (RPSO) due to the increasing penetration of renewable energy and flexible load. These challenges can be divided into two categories. Firstly, the inherent uncertainties associated with renewable energy sources pose significant difficulties in RPSO. Secondly, the presence of various types of flexible load, along with their complex constraint relationships, adds to the operational complexities. Recognizing the growing emphasis on the economic and low-carbon aspects of RPSO, this book focuses on the key issues of flexible load control. It mainly consists of following categories: (1) The control of data centers, a booming flexible load, to enhance RPSO through renewable energy integration and advanced robust multi-objective optimization. (2) The introduction of flexible industrial load control, employing effective demand-supply cooperative responding strategies for RPSO. (3) The exploration of electricvehicle flexible charging load control and centralized electric vehicle charging system control in the context of RPSO. The book also covers the emerging field of flexible integrated load control for renewable energy-based comprehensive energy system operation. Aimed at researchers, engineers, and graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science, this book provides a valuable resource for understanding and implementing flexible load control in the context of RPSO.
Flexible Network Architectures Security: Principles and Issues
by Bhawana RudraThe future of Internet security doesn’t lie in doing more of the same. It requires not only a new architecture, but the means of securing that architecture. Two trends have come together to make the topic of this book of vital interest. First, the explosive growth of the Internet connections for the exchange of information via networks increased the dependence of both organizations and individuals on the systems stored and communicated. This, in turn, has increased the awareness for the need to protect the data and add security as chief ingredient in the newly emerged architectures. Second, the disciplines of cryptography and network security have matured and are leading to the development of new techniques and protocols to enforce the network security in Future Internet. This book examines the new security architectures from organizations such as FIArch, GENI, and IETF and how they’ll contribute to a more secure Internet.
Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education
by Elizabeth Burge Chère Campbell Gibson Terry GibsonFlexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions that inform daily practice and examines the institutional dynamics that help and hinder efforts toward flexibility. The collection in international in scope, drawing on the experience of specialists in distance education from North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, and Japan. Contributors to the volume were asked to reflect candidly and critically on a series of questions, including: What precisely is flexible learning? Who or what is driving the flexibility agenda, and for whose benefit? And who or what is resisting it? What challenges must be overcome in order to achieve flexibility, and what are some of the compromises it can entail?
Flexible Query Answering Systems: 14th International Conference, FQAS 2021, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 19–24, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12871)
by Troels Andreasen Guy De Tré Janusz Kacprzyk Henrik Legind Larsen Gloria Bordogna Sławomir ZadrożnyThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2021, held virtually and in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021.The 16 full papers and 1 perspective papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: model-based flexible query answering approaches and data-driven approaches.
Flexible Query Answering Systems
by Henning Christiansen Hélène Jaudoin Panagiotis Chountas Troels Andreasen Henrik Legind LarsenThisvolumeconstitutestheproceedingsoftheFifthInternationalConferenceon Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2002, held in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 27-29, 2002. FQAS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with the vital task of providing easy, ?exible, and intuitive access to information for every type of need. This multidisciplinary conference draws on several re- arch areas, including databases, information retrieval, knowledge representation, soft computing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. Previous FQAS events were held in 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000. The overall theme of the FQAS conferences is innovative query systems - medatprovidingeasy,?exible,andintuitiveaccesstoinformation. Suchsystems are intended to facilitate retrieval from information repositories such as data- ses,libraries,andtheWorld-WideWeb. Theserepositoriesaretypicallyequipped with standard query systems which are often inadequate, and the focus of FQAS is the development of query systems that are more expressive, informative, c- perative, and productive. These proceedings contain 29 original papers that relate to the topic of users posing queries and systems producing answers. The papers cover the ?elds: - tabase Management, Information Retrieval, Domain Modeling, Knowledge - presentation and Ontologies, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Arti?cial Intelligence, Classical and Non-classical Logics, Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Multimedia Information Systems, and Human- Computer Interaction. We wish to thank the contributors for their excellent papers and the referees, publisher, and sponsors for their e?ort. Special thanks also to the invited sp- kers, members of the Advisory Board, and members of the Program Committee. They made the success of FQAS 2002 possible.
Flexible Query Answering Systems: 13th International Conference, FQAS 2019, Amantea, Italy, July 2–5, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11529)
by Alfredo Cuzzocrea Sergio Greco Henrik Legind Larsen Domenico Saccà Troels Andreasen Henning ChristiansenThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2019, held in Amantea, Italy, in July 2019.The 27 full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers present emerging research trends with a special focus on flexible querying and analytics for smart cities and smart societies in the age of big data. They are organized in the following topical sections: flexible database management and querying; ontologies and knowledge bases; social networks and social media; argumentation-based query answering; data mining and knowledge discovery; advanced flexible query answering methodologies and techniques; flexible query answering methods and techniques; flexible intelligent information-oriented and network-oriented approaches; big data veracity and soft computing; flexibility in tools; and systems and miscellanea.
Flexible Query Answering Systems: 15th International Conference, FQAS 2023, Mallorca, Spain, September 5–7, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14113)
by Henrik Legind Larsen Maria J. Martin-Bautista M. Dolores Ruiz Troels Andreasen Gloria Bordogna Guy De TréThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2023, held in September 2023 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The 24 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Flexible Queries over Semantic Systems; Advanced Methods and Applications in Natural Language; Processing (NLP); New Advances in Disinformation Detection; Data and Text Mining; Applying AI to Social Science and Social Science to AI; Artificial Intelligence Law and Regulation.
Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2
by Peter ArmstrongFlexible Rails is a unique, application-based guide for using Ruby on Rails 2 and Adobe Flex 3 to build rich Internet applications (RIAs). It is not an exhaustive Ruby on Rails or Flex reference. Instead, it is an extensive tutorial in which the reader builds multiple iterations of an interesting RIA using Flex and Rails together.Author Peter Armstrong walks readers through eleven iterations in which the sample application—pomodo—is variously built, refactored, debugged, sliced, diced and otherwise explored from every conceivable angle with respect to Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex. The book unfolds both the application and the Flex-on-Rails approach side-by-side. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Flexible, Reliable Software: Using Patterns and Agile Development (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing)
by Henrik B. ChristensenFlexible, Reliable Software: Using Patterns and Agile Development guides students through the software development process. By describing practical stories, explaining the design and programming process in detail, and using projects as a learning context, the text helps readers understand why a given technique is required and why techniqu
Flexible Resources for Smart Cities
by Miadreza Shafie-Khah M. Hadi AminiThis book paves the road for researchers from various areas of engineering working in the realm of smart cities to discuss the intersections in these areas when it comes to infrastructure and its flexibility. The authors lay out models, algorithms and frameworks related to the ‘smartness’ in the future smart cities. In particular, manufacturing firms, electric generation, transmission and distribution utilities, hardware and software computer companies, automation and control manufacturing firms, and other industries will be able to use this book to enhance their energy operations, improve their comfort and privacy, as well as to increase the benefit from the electrical system. The book pertains to researchers, professionals, and R&D in an array of industries.
Flexible Software Design: Systems Development for Changing Requirements
by Bruce Johnson Walter W. Woolfolk Robert Miller Cindy JohnsonA developer's knowledge of a computing system's requirements is necessarily imperfect because organizations change. Many requirements lie in the future and are unknowable at the time the system is designed and built. To avoid burdensome maintenance costs developers must therefore rely on a system's ability to change gracefully-its flexibility. Flex