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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition
by Unmesh GundechaThis is a cookbook packed with code examples and step-by-step instructions to ease your learning curve. This book is intended for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers with prior experience in using Selenium and Java for testing web-based applications. This book also provides examples for C#, Python, and Ruby users.
Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide: End-to-end automation testing for web and mobile browsers with Selenium WebDriver, 2nd Edition
by Unmesh Gundecha Satya AvasaralaReal-world examples of cross-browser, mobile, and data-driven testing with all the latest features of Selenium WebDriver 3Key FeaturesUnlock the full potential of Selenium to test your web applicationsUse Selenium Grid for faster, parallel running, and cross-browser testingTest iOS and Android Apps with AppiumBook DescriptionSelenium WebDriver is an open source automation tool implemented through a browser-specific driver, which sends commands to a browser and retrieves results. The latest version of Selenium 3 brings with it a lot of new features that change the way you use and setup Selenium WebDriver. This book covers all those features along with the source code, including a demo website that allows you to work with an HMTL5 application and other examples throughout the book.Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide will walk you through the various APIs of Selenium WebDriver, which are used in automation tests, followed by a discussion of the various WebDriver implementations available. You will learn to strategize and handle rich web UI using advanced WebDriver API along with real-time challenges faced in WebDriver and solutions to handle them. You will discover different types and domains of testing such as cross-browser testing, load testing, and mobile testing with Selenium. Finally, you will also be introduced to data-driven testing using TestNG to create your own automation framework.By the end of this book, you will be able to select any web application and automate it the way you want.What you will learnUnderstand what Selenium 3 is and how is has been improved than its predecessorUse different mobile and desktop browser platforms with Selenium 3Perform advanced actions, such as drag-and-drop and action builders on web pageLearn to use Java 8 API and Selenium 3 togetherExplore remote WebDriver and discover how to use itPerform cross browser and distributed testing with Selenium GridUse Actions API for performing various keyboard and mouse actionsWho this book is forSelenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide is for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers interested in using Selenium for testing their applications. Prior programming experience in Java is necessary.
Selenium WebDriver Practical Guide
by Satya AvasaralaAn easy- to- follow guide, featuring step-by-step practical tutorials to help you understand how to automate web applications for testing purposes. If you are a quality assurance / testing professional, a software developer, or a web application developer looking to create automation test scripts for your web applications, this is the perfect guide for you! As a pre-requisite, this book expects you to have a basic knowledge of Core Java, although any previous knowledge of WebDriver or Selenium-1 is not needed. By the end of this book, you will have acquired a comprehensive knowledge of WebDriver, which will help you in writing your automation tests.
Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide: Write clear, readable, and reliable tests with Selenium WebDriver 3
by Pinakin ChaubalGet writing tests and learn to design your own testing framework with Selenium WebDriver APIKey FeaturesLearn Selenium from the ground upDesign your own testing frameworkCreate reusable functionality in your frameworkBook DescriptionSelenium WebDriver is a platform-independent API for automating the testing of both browser and mobile applications. It is also a core technology in many other browser automation tools, APIs, and frameworks. This book will guide you through the WebDriver APIs that are used in automation tests.Chapter by chapter, we will construct the building blocks of a page object model framework as you learn about the required Java and Selenium methods and terminology.The book starts with an introduction to the same-origin policy, cross-site scripting dangers, and the Document Object Model (DOM). Moving ahead, we'll learn about XPath, which allows us to select items on a page, and how to design a customized XPath. After that, we will be creating singleton patterns and drivers. Then you will learn about synchronization and handling pop-up windows. You will see how to create a factory for browsers and understand command design patterns applicable to this area.At the end of the book, we tie all this together by creating a framework and implementing multi-browser testing with Selenium Grid.What you will learnUnderstand what an XPath is and how to design a customized XPathLearn how to create a Maven project and buildCreate a Singleton driverGet to grips with Jenkins integrationCreate a factory for browsersImplement multi-browser testing with Selenium GridCreate a sample pop-up window and JavaScript alertReport using Extent ReportsWho this book is forThis book is for software testers or developers.
Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#: Practical Testing Solutions for Selenium WebDriver
by Courtney ZhanSolve your Selenium WebDriver problems with this quick guide to automated testing of web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#. This third edition contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects. Updated to Selenium version 4, this revision includes Visual Studio Code set up, additional recipes, and new chapters on Selenium DevTools and continuous testing. You'll see how to use Selenium WebDriver for select lists, navigation, assertions, frames, file upload and pop-up dialogs. You'll also learn how to locate web elements and test functions for hyperlinks, buttons, TextFields and TextAreas, radio buttons, CheckBoxes, and more. What You'll Learn Debug test scripts and test data Work with Selenium Remote Control Server Manage and deal with browser profiles and capabilities Monitor tests for advanced user interactions and experiences (UX) Who This Book Is For Experienced .NET and C# Windows application programmers/developers.
Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#
by Zhimin ZhanSolve your Selenium WebDriver problems with this quick guide to automated testing of web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#. Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#, Second Edition contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects. What you'll learn How to locate web elements and test functions for hyperlinks, buttons, TextFields and TextAreas, radio buttons, CheckBoxes, and more How to use Selenium WebDriver for select lists, navigation, assertions, frames, file upload and pop-up dialogs How to debug test scripts and test data How to manage and deal with browser profiles and capabilities How to manage tests for advanced user interactions and experiences (UX) How to work with and manage tests and testing using Selenium Remote Control and Selenium Server Who this book is for This book is for experienced Windows application developers working with . NET and especially C#. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Locating Web Elements 3. Hyperlink 4. Button 5. TestField and TextArea 6. Radio Button 7. CheckBox 8. Select List 9. Navigation and Browser 10. Assertion 11. Frames 12. Testing Ajax 13. File Upload and Pop-up Dialogs 14. Debugging Test Scripts 15. Test Data 16. Browser Profile and Capabilities 17. Advanced User Interactions 18. HTML5 and Dynamic Web Sites 19. WYSIWYG HTML Editors 20. Advanced Topics 21. Selenium Remote Control Server 22. Afterword A. Resources
Self-Adaptive Systems for Machine Intelligence
by Haibo HeThis book will advance the understanding and application of self-adaptive intelligent systems; therefore it will potentially benefit the long-term goal of replicating certain levels of brain-like intelligence in complex and networked engineering systems. It will provide new approaches for adaptive systems within uncertain environments. This will provide an opportunity to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the current state-of-the-art of knowledge, give rise to new research directions, and educate future professionals in this domain.Self-adaptive intelligent systems have wide applications from military security systems to civilian daily life. In this book, different application problems, including pattern recognition, classification, image recovery, and sequence learning, will be presented to show the capability of the proposed systems in learning, memory, and prediction. Therefore, this book will also provide potential new solutions to many real-world applications.
Self- and Co-regulation in Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and National Security
by Tatiana Tropina Cormac CallananThe ever increasing use of computers, networks and the Internet has led to the need for regulation in the fields of cybercrime, cybersecurity and national security. This SpringerBrief provides insights into the development of self- and co-regulatory approaches to cybercrime and cybersecurity in the multi-stakeholder environment. It highlights the differences concerning the ecosystem of stakeholders involved in each area and covers government supported initiatives to motivate industry to adopt self-regulation. Including a review of the drawbacks of existing forms of public-private collaboration, which can be attributed to a specific area (cybercrime, cybersecurity and national security), it provides some suggestions with regard to the way forward in self- and co-regulation in securing cyberspace.
Self-* and P2P for Network Management
by Clarissa Cassales Marquezan Lisandro Zambenedetti GranvilleThe network management community has been pushed towards the design of alternative management approaches able to support heterogeneity, scalability, reliability, and minor human intervention. The employment of self-* properties and Peer-To-Peer (P2P) are seen as promising alternatives, able to provide the sophisticated solutions required. Despite being developed in parallel, and with minor direct connections perceived between them, self-* properties and P2P can be used concurrently. In Self-* and P2P for Network Management: Design Principles and Case Studies, the authors explore the issues behind the joint use of self-* properties and P2P, and present: a survey relating autonomic computing and self-* properties, P2P, and network and service management; the design of solutions that explore parallel and cooperative behavior of management peers; the change in angle of network management solution development from APIs, protocols, architectures, and frameworks to the design of management algorithms.
The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter
by Peter Robin HiesingerWhat neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in artificial intelligence strive to achieve this through technology. The Self-Assembling Brain tells the stories of both fields, exploring the historical and modern approaches taken by the scientists pursuing answers to the quandary: What information is necessary to make an intelligent neural network?As Peter Robin Hiesinger argues, “the information problem” underlies both fields, motivating the questions driving forward the frontiers of research. How does genetic information unfold during the years-long process of human brain development—and is there a quicker path to creating human-level artificial intelligence? Is the biological brain just messy hardware, which scientists can improve upon by running learning algorithms on computers? Can AI bypass the evolutionary programming of “grown” networks? Through a series of fictional discussions between researchers across disciplines, complemented by in-depth seminars, Hiesinger explores these tightly linked questions, highlighting the challenges facing scientists, their different disciplinary perspectives and approaches, as well as the common ground shared by those interested in the development of biological brains and AI systems. In the end, Hiesinger contends that the information content of biological and artificial neural networks must unfold in an algorithmic process requiring time and energy. There is no genome and no blueprint that depicts the final product. The self-assembling brain knows no shortcuts.Written for readers interested in advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence, The Self-Assembling Brain looks at how neural networks grow smarter.
Self Aware Security for Real Time Task Schedules in Reconfigurable Hardware Platforms
by Amlan Chakrabarti Krishnendu Guha Sangeet SahaThis book focuses on how real-time task schedules for reconfigurable hardware-based embedded platforms may be affected due to the vulnerability of hardware and proposes self-aware security strategies to counteract the various threats. The emergence of Industry 4.0 has witnessed the deployment of reconfigurable hardware or field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in diverse embedded applications. These are associated with the execution of several real-time tasks arranged in schedules. However, they are associated with several issues. Development of fully and partially reconfigurable task schedules are discussed that eradicates the existing problems. However, such real-time task schedules may be jeopardized due to hardware threats. Analysis of such threats is discussed and self-aware security techniques are proposed that can detect and mitigate such threats at runtime.
Self-Efficacy in Instructional Technology Contexts
by Charles B. HodgesThis edited volume contains reports of current research, and literature reviews of research, involving self-efficacy in various instructional technology contexts. The chapters represent international perspectives across the broad areas of K- 12 education, higher education, teacher self-efficacy, and learner self-efficacy to capture a diverse cross section of research on these topics. The book includes reviews of existing literature and reports of new research, thus creating a comprehensive resource for researchers and designers interested in this general topic. The book is especially relevant to students and researchers in educational technology, instructional technology, instructional design, learning sciences, and educational psychology.
Self Engineering: Learning From Failures (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Shuichi FukudaThis book demonstrates how the creation of emotional satisfaction will change in tomorrow’s connected, IoT world. The importance of emotional satisfaction will increase in the IoT Connected Society of World 2.0, in which humans and machines work together as members of the same team with no walls between the two, and where production is also team-based. Developing emotional satisfaction in such a diverse team and in a very different environment is a major challenge and needs to be studied from a broad perspective. This book describes the emerging issues and how they can be to tackled, introducing paths for moving beyond static value toward developing dynamic value.
Self-Healing Systems and Wireless Networks Management
by Junaid Ahsenali ChaudhryDo you believe in open-source development? Would you like to see your security system grow and learn by itself? Are you sick of paying for software license fees every year that produce little return on investment? And, would you prefer to invest in something you could sell later on to other IT security departments? If you answered yes to these ques
Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (No Limits)
by Mark CoeckelberghWe are obsessed with self-improvement; it’s a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happier. Obsessed with the endless task of perfecting ourselves, we have become restless, anxious, and desperate. We are improving ourselves to death. The culture of self-improvement stems from philosophical classics, perfectionist religions, and a ruthless strain of capitalism—but today, new technologies shape what it means to improve the self. The old humanist culture has given way to artificial intelligence, social media, and big data: powerful tools that do not only inform us but also measure, compare, and perhaps change us forever.This book shows how self-improvement culture became so toxic—and why we need both a new concept of the self and a mission of social change in order to escape it. Mark Coeckelbergh delves into the history of the ideas that shaped this culture, critically analyzes the role of technology, and explores surprising paths out of the self-improvement trap. Digital detox is no longer a viable option and advice based on ancient wisdom sounds like yet more self-help memes: The only way out is to transform our social and technological environment. Coeckelbergh advocates new “narrative technologies” that help us tell different and better stories about ourselves. However, he cautions, there is no shortcut that avoids the ancient philosophical quest to know yourself, or the obligation to cultivate the good life and the good society.
The Self-Made Program Leader: Taking Charge in Matrix Organizations (Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management #21)
by Steve TkalcevichAlmost all leadership books assume that the leader has authority over their team members. The challenge of project management in a matrix-structured environment is that this is not always the case. A whole new plan of attack has to be executed for the project manager to deliver in an organization where they do not have formal authority. This book t
Self-organising Software
by Marie-Pierre Gleizes Anthony Karageorgos Giovanna Di Marzo SerugendoSelf-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed interactive software and information-handling systems. Self-organising applications dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention, responding to changes in requirements and the environment. This is the first book to offer an integrated view of self-organisation technologies applied to distributed systems, particularly focusing on multiagent systems. The editors developed this integrated book with three aims: to explain self-organisation concepts and principles, using clear definitions and a strong theoretical background; to examine how self-organising behaviour can be modelled, analysed and systematically engineered into agent behaviour; and to assess the types of problems that can be solved using self-organising multiagent systems. The book comprises chapters covering all three dimensions, synthesising up-to-date research work and the latest technologies and applications. The book offers dedicated chapters on concepts such as self-organisation, emergence in natural systems, software agents, stigmergy, gossip, cooperation and immune systems. The book then explains how to engineer artificial self-organising software, in particular it examines methodologies and middleware infrastructures. Finally, the book presents diverse applications of self-organising software, such as constraint satisfaction, trust management, image recognition and networking. The book will be of interest to researchers working on emergent phenomena and adaptive systems. It will also be suitable for use as a graduate textbook, with chapter summaries and exercises, and an accompanying website that includes teaching slides, exercise solutions and research project outlines. Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed interactive software and information-handling systems. Self-organising applications dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention, responding to changes in requirements and the environment. This is the first book to offer an integrated view of self-organisation technologies applied to distributed systems, particularly focusing on multiagent systems. The editors developed this integrated book with three aims: to explain self-organisation concepts and principles, using clear definitions and a strong theoretical background; to examine how self-organising behaviour can be modelled, analysed and systematically engineered into agent behaviour; and to assess the types of problems that can be solved using self-organising multiagent systems. The book comprises chapters covering all three dimensions, synthesising up-to-date research work and the latest technologies and applications. The book offers dedicated chapters on concepts such as self-organisation, emergence in natural systems, software agents, stigmergy, gossip, cooperation and immune systems. The book then explains how to engineer artificial self-organising software, in particular it examines methodologies and middleware infrastructures. Finally, the book presents diverse applications of self-organising software, such as constraint satisfaction, trust management, image recognition and networking. The book will be of interest to researchers working on emergent phenomena and adaptive systems. It will also be suitable for use as a graduate textbook, with chapter summaries and exercises, and an accompanying website that includes teaching slides, exercise solutions and research project outlines.
Self-Organization in Continuous Adaptive Networks (River Publishers Series In Information Science And Technology Ser.)
by Anne-Ly Do Thilo GrossIn the last years, adaptive networks have been discovered simultaneously in different fields as a universal framework for the study of self-organization phenomena. Understanding the mechanisms behind these phenomena is hoped to bring forward not only empirical disciplines such as biology, sociology, ecology, and economy, but also engineering disciplines seeking to employ controlled emergence in future technologies. This volume presents new analytical approaches, which combine tools from dynamical systems theory and statistical physics with tools from graph theory to address the principles behind adaptive self-organization. It is the first class of approaches that is applicable to continuous networks. The volume discusses the mechanisms behind three emergent phenomena that are prominently discussed in the context of biological and social sciences:• synchronization,• spontaneous diversification, and• self-organized criticality.Self-organization in continuous adaptive networks contains extended research papers. It can serve as both, a review of recent results on adaptive self-organization as well as a tutorial of new analytical methodsSelf-organization in continuous adaptive networks is ideal for academic staff and master/research students in complexity and network sciences, in engineering, physics and maths.
Self-Organized Lightwave Networks: Self-Aligned Coupling Optical Waveguides
by Tetsuzo YoshimuraThis book gives a solution to the problem of constructing lightwave paths in free spaces by proposing the concept of a Self-Organized Lightwave Network (SOLNET). This concept enables us to form self-aligned coupling optical waveguides automatically. SOLNETs are fabricated by self-focusing of lightwaves in photosensitive media, in which the refractive index increases upon light beam exposure, to realize the following functions: 1) Optical solder: Self-aligned optical couplings between misaligned devices with different core sizes 2) Three-dimensional optical wiring 3) Targeting lightwaves onto specific objects SOLNETs are expected to reduce the efforts to implement lightwaves into electronic systems and allow us to create new architectures, thus reducing costs and energy dissipation and improving overall system performance. SOLNETs are also expected to be applied to a wide range of fields where lightwaves are utilized, for example, solar energy conversion systems and biomedical technologies, especially photo-assisted cancer therapies. Readers will systematically learn concepts and features of SOLNETs, SOLNET performance predicted by computer simulations, experimental demonstrations for the proof of concepts, and expected applications. They will also be prepared for future challenges of the applications. This book is intended to be read by scientists, engineers, and graduate students who study advanced optoelectronic systems such as optical interconnects within computers and optical networking systems, and those who produce new ideas or strategies on lightwave-related subjects.
Self-Organizing Migrating Algorithm
by Donald Davendra Ivan ZelinkaThis book brings together the current stateof-the-art research in Self Organizing Migrating Algorithm (SOMA) as a novelpopulation-based evolutionary algorithm, modeled on the predator-preyrelationship, by its leading practitioners. As the first ever book on SOMA, this book isgeared towards graduate students, academics and researchers, who are looking fora good optimization algorithm for their applications. This book presents themethodology of SOMA, covering both the real and discrete domains, and itsvarious implementations in different research areas. The easy-to-follow andimplement methodology used in the book will make it easier for a reader toimplement, modify and utilize SOMA.
Self-Organizing Networks
by Jun Li Songlin SunThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International ICST Conference on Self-Organizing Networks, ICSON 2015, held in January 2015 in Beijing, China. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions and cover topics as resource allocation and management, signal processing and transmission, and multimedia service
Self-Powered Cyber Physical Systems
by Rathishchandra R. Gatti Chandra Singh Rajeev Agrawal Felcy Jyothi SerraoSELF-POWERED CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS This cutting-edge new volume provides a comprehensive exploration of emerging technologies and trends in energy management, self-powered devices, and cyber-physical systems, offering valuable insights into the future of autonomous systems and addressing the urgent need for energy-efficient solutions in a world that is increasingly data-driven and sensor-rich. This book is an attempt to aim at a very futuristic vision of achieving self-powered cyber-physical systems by applying a multitude of current technologies such as ULP electronics, thin film electronics, ULP transducers, autonomous wireless sensor networks using energy harvesters at the component level and energy efficient clean energy for powering data centers and machines at the system level. This is the need of the hour for cyber-physical systems since data requires energy when it is stored, transmitted, or converted to other forms. Cyber-physical systems will become energy hungry since the industry trend is towards ubiquitous computing with massive deployment of sensors and actuators. This is evident in using blockchain technologies such as Bitcoin or running epochs for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Hence, there is a need for research to understand energy patterns and distribution in cyber-physical systems and adopt new technologies to transcend to self-powered cyber-physical systems. This book explores the recent trends in energy management, self-powered devices, and methods in the cyber-physical world. Written and edited by a team of experts in the field, this book tackles a multitude of subjects related to cyber physical systems (CPSs), including self-powered sensory transducers, ambient energy harvesting for wireless sensor networks, actuator methods and non-contact sensing equipment for soft robots, alternative optimization strategies for DGDCs to improve task distribution and provider profits, wireless power transfer methods, machine learning algorithms for CPS and IoT applications, integration of renewables, electric vehicles (EVs), smart grids, RES micro-grid and EV systems for effective load matching, self-powered car cyber-physical systems, anonymous routing and intrusion detection systems for VANET security, data-driven pavement distress prediction methods, the impact of autonomous vehicles on industries and the auto insurance market, Intelligent transportation systems and associated security concerns, digital twin prototypes and their automotive applications, farming robotics for CPS farming, self-powered CPS in smart cities, self-powered CPS in healthcare and biomedical devices, cyber-security considerations, societal impact and ethical concerns, and advances in human-machine interfaces and explore the integration of self-powered CPS in industrial automation. Whether for the veteran engineer or student, this volume is a must-have for any library.
Self-Powered Internet of Things: How Energy Harvesters Can Enable Energy-Positive Sensing, Processing, and Communication (Green Energy and Technology)
by Muhammad Moid Sandhu Sara Khalifa Marius Portmann Raja JurdakThis book covers cutting edge advancements on self-powered Internet of Things, where sensing devices can be energy-positive while capturing context from the physical world. It provides new mechanisms for activity recognition without the need of conventional inertial sensors, which demand significant energy during their operation and thus quickly deplete the batteries of internet-of-things (IoT) devices. The book offers new solutions by employing energy harvesters as activity sensors as well as power sources to enable the autonomous and self-powered operation of IoT devices without the need of human intervention. It provides useful content for graduate students as well as researchers to understand the nascent technologies of human activity, fitness and health monitoring using autonomous sensors. In particular, this book is very useful for people working on pervasive computing, activity recognition, wearable IoT, fitness/healthcare and autonomous systems.This book covers a broad range of topics related to self-powered activity recognition. The main topics of this book include wearables, IoT, energy harvesting, energy harvesters as sensors, activity recognition and self-powered operation of IoT devices. This book starts with the introduction of wearable IoT devices and activity recognition and then highlights the conventional activity recognition mechanisms. After that, it describes the use of energy harvesters to power the IoT devices. Later, it explores the use of various energy harvesters as activity sensors. It also proposes the use of energy harvesters as simultaneous source of energy and context information and defines the emerging concept of energy-positive sensing compared to conventional energy-negative sensing. Finally, it explores sensor/signal fusion to enhance the performance using multiple energy harvesters and charts a way forward for future research in this area. This book covers all important and emerging topics that have significance in the design and implementation of autonomous wearable IoT devices. We believe that this book will lay the foundation for designing self-powered IoT devices which can ultimately replace the conventional wearable IoT devices which need regular recharging and replacement.
Self-Repair Networks
by Yoshiteru IshidaThisbook describes the struggle to introduce a mechanism that enablesnext-generation information systems to maintain themselves. Our generationobserved the birth and growth of information systems, and the Internet inparticular. Surprisingly information systems are quite different fromconventional (energy, material-intensive) artificial systems, and ratherresemble biological systems (information-intensive systems). Many artificialsystems are designed based on (Newtonian) physics assuming that every elementobeys simple and static rules; however, the experience of the Internet suggestsa different way of designing where growth cannot be controlled butself-organized with autonomous and selfish agents. This book suggests using gametheory, a mechanism design inparticular, for designing next-generation information systems which will beself-organized by collective acts with autonomous components. The challenge of mapping a probability to time appears repeatedly in many forms throughoutthis book. The book contains interdisciplinaryresearch encompassing game theory, complex systems, reliability theory andparticle physics. All devoted to its central theme: what happens ifsystems self-repair themselves?
Self-Representation and Digital Culture
by Nancy ThumimTaking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. Now available in paperback, Self-Representation and Digital Culture addresses the institutional contexts of production, technology and form of the texts, and the point of view of those who represent themselves. This highly original research examines how contradictory and widely different politics inform and shape examples of 'speaking for oneself'. In the book, Thumim argues that analysis and theorization of the activity of self-representation is vital for media, communication and cultural studies at a time when examples, of what should now be understood as a genre, both surround us and appear, at first glance, to all be alike.