This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Colombian Conference on Computing, CCC 2018, held in Cartagena, Colombia, in September 2018. The 46 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: information and knowledge management, software engineering and IT architectures, educational informatics, intelligent systems and robotics, human-computer interaction, distributed systems and large-scale architectures, image processing, computer vision and multimedia, security of the information, formal methods, computational logic, and theory of computation.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Technology, MTYMEX 2017, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in May 2017. The 19 full papers were selected from 30 submissions and cover smart technologies for education, health, robotics, internet of things, virtual augmented and mixed reality technologies, artificial intelligence, gaming, software development, and digital arts.
A sus 24 años, la vida de Ignacio se ha convertido en una rutina difícil de soportar; sin emociones y atrapado por una soledad que no le da tregua, vive cada día como esperando a que algo cambie. «Tengo que hacer algo diferente con mi vida» piensa. Un día recibe un extraño mensaje de una desconocida, que intenta ganarse su confianza y su amistad. «¿Será una estafa?» se pregunta Ignacio. Varios mensajes después, la misteriosa mujer lo invita a un lugar secreto en internet, con la excusa de que se encontrarán en un espacio más íntimo en donde podrán conocerse mejor. «Es sólo un chat. ¿Qué podría salir mal?». Ignacio ingresa entonces a rusticmetaverse.com y se sorprende al encontrarse en el mundo virtual más increíble que haya visitado jamás. Un metaverso secreto, creado con una tecnología que desafía todo lo que conoce. A medida que se adentra en este mundo, va descubriendo el verdadero objetivo de Rustic Metaverse y de quienes lo habitan. Nada es como él cree. Y lo que sería una inocente cita, comienza a transformarse en una pesadilla que amenaza su vida en el mundo real. Sin quererlo, Ignacio se verá arrastrado a una aventura que lo llevará a lugares remotos del sur de Chile, en una misión que podría cambiar su destino y el de toda la humanidad para siempre. Esta es la primera novela del periodista y escritor chileno José Fourt. Después de casi dos años escribiendo e investigando en diversos campos de la ciencia y la tecnología; el autor le dio vida a Rustic Metaverse. Una inolvidable novela de ciencia ficción y aventuras, que se anticipa a las posibles consecuencias que podrían tener las nuevas tecnologías. El autor presenta un escenario apocalíptico en donde los computadores cuánticos, la inteligencia artificial, la realidad virtual y el metaverso, podrían convertirse en la salvación de la humanidad... o en su perdición.
Data is the base for information, information is needed to have knowledge, and knowledge is used to make decisions and manage 21st century businesses and organizations. Thus, it is imperative to remain up to date on the major breakthroughs within the technological arena in order to continually expand and enhance knowledge for the benefit of all institutions. Information Technology Trends for a Global and Interdisciplinary Research Community is a crucial reference source that covers novel and emerging research in the field of information science and technology, specifically focusing on underrepresented technologies and trends that influence and engage the knowledge society. While highlighting topics that include computational thinking, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and visualization, this book is essential for academicians, researchers, and students with an interest in information management.
This book is a groundbreaking exploration of the historical and contemporary challenges in systems collaboration and integration. This exceptional book delves into engineering design, planning, control, and management, offering invaluable insights into the evolving nature of systems and networks. In an era defined by the ongoing cyber and digital transformation, coupled with artificial intelligence and machine learning, this book offers insights into the future of systems collaboration and integration. Over the past three decades, the PRISM Center and its affiliated PRISM Global Research Network (PGRN) have spearheaded pioneering theories, technologies, and applications in the realm of systems collaboration and integration. Their research, driven by the motto “Knowledge through information; Wisdom through collaboration,” has yielded remarkable advancements. Those achievements and papers presented and updated by the PGRN scholars in the 26th ICPR are included in this book.
The design of various virtual environments should be based on the needs of a diverse population of users around the globe. Interface design should be user centric and should strive for making the user's interaction as simple, meaningful, and efficient as possible. User Interface Design for Virtual Environments: Challenges and Advances focuses on challenges that designers face in creating interfaces for users of various virtual environments. Chapters included in this book address various critical issues that have implications for user interface design from a number of different viewpoints. This book is written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of challenges associated with user interface design issues for globally-dispersed users in various virtual environments.
This book covers selected high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning, and Applications (BigDML 2019). It focuses on both theory and applications in the broad areas of big data and machine learning. It brings together the academia, researchers, developers and practitioners from scientific organizations and industry to share and disseminate recent research findings.
Public law, which examines relations between governments and institutions and individuals, has, in recent years, become deeply disturbed by an erosion of the rule of law, notably in some of the world’s most professedly democratic nations. In this book of edited essays, many of the world’s leading public lawyers draw on examples from the United Kingdom, European States, and the European Union (EU) to explore the alarming tensions unleashed as Europe is rocked by Brexit, the war between nations on the EU border, and the worldwide phenomenon of populist resistance to globalised forces and liberal democratic aspirations. The book is dedicated to Professor Patrick Birkinshaw, who until his retirement was Director of the Institute of European Public Law and Professor of Public Law at the University of Hull and widely respected as a leading authority on public law. With a focus on public law and European public law jurisprudence with hugely important global ramifications, the contributions continue his work and crucially deal with the new and troubling shape of the law–politics relationship. The essays examine these developments under four headings: Law in a World Turned Upside/Down, with essays on (e.g.) Brexit, the denial of human rights and the rule of law in Hungary, climate change governance; Law and Politics: A Shifting Boundary?, showing how advances in the courts have prompted reaction to curtail judicial review and human rights protection, especially evident in the fading mirage of fair trial rights and administration on the EU periphery; Law’s Promise, specifying real achievements in the way of reform and higher levels of security for individuals; and New Bearings, exploring initiatives and emerging problems, including reform of judicial review, the European Banking Law, digitalization of public administration, and institutional interactions with the Chinese 1982 Constitution. The book brings together leading university professors, public officials and judges, all experts in their respective fields. All are concerned with a central role for law in the process of governance. This unrivalled volume penetrates the contradictions, uncertainties, and insecurities that plague this topic of worldwide interest and debate, and will prove invaluable to practitioners, public administrators, jurists, judges and legal academics everywhere. It will also be of interest to political scientists and politicians. In its completely original and innovative discussions of the changes taking place at the interface of law and politics, and of how law can enhance certainty and reliability in governance, this book provides a most detailed and insightful analysis of the new bearings in public law in Europe and worldwide.
