Bits of Power
Bits of Power

Author: Committee on Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1997-08-21

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0309523567

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Since Galileo corresponded with Kepler, the community of scientists has become increasingly international. A DNA sequence is as significant to a researcher in Novosibirsk as it is to one in Pasadena. And with the advent of electronic communications technology, these experts can share information within minutes. What are the consequences when more bits of scientific data cross more national borders and do it more swiftly than ever before? Bits of Power assesses the state of international exchange of data in the natural sciences, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and challenges. The committee makes recommendations about access to scientific data derived from public funding. The volume examines: Trends in the electronic transfer and management of scientific data. Pressure toward commercialization of scientific data, including the economic aspects of government dissemination of the data. The implications of proposed changes to intellectual property laws and the role of scientists in shaping legislative and legal solutions. Improving access to scientific data by and from the developing world. Bits of Power explores how these issues have been addressed in the European Community and includes examples of successful data transfer activities in the natural sciences. The book will be of interest to scientists and scientific data managers, as well as intellectual property rights attorneys, legislators, government agencies, and international organizations concerned about the electronic flow of scientific data.

Evolving Global Information Infrastructure and Information Transfer
Evolving Global Information Infrastructure and Information Transfer

Author: Robert J. Grover Professor Emeritus

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-03-19

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1610699580

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This book explains the rapidly changing, complex flow of information in the context of 21st-century culture, policy, technology, and economics—an essential resource for librarians and information specialists in all types of settings. The role of information professionals today is to interact creatively with clientele: to help them navigate the information infrastructure. Shattering the concept of the library as a place, Evolving Global Information Infrastructure and Information Transfer describes "the library" as transformed to a dynamic virtual presence in the information infrastructure, where people are the most important resources in a digital library or information center—not the collections. Instead of focusing on specific technologies, which are always changing, this book examines the "big picture" of how information is created, recorded, mass produced, distributed, and utilized in society. This unique approach enables readers to better understand how they fit into this changing world, to envision their place in the digital age, and to assume a leadership role that ensures the success of their clients as well as themselves. This standout work is ideally suited for all types of librarians, educators, information workers, members of the research community, and policymakers in public and private sector organizations.

Current Issues and Trends in Knowledge Management, Discovery, and Transfer
Current Issues and Trends in Knowledge Management, Discovery, and Transfer

Author: Jennex, Murray Eugene

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-12-27

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1799821919

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No matter the industry, the development of information technologies has transformed how information is distributed and used to predict trends. Collecting and identifying the most vital information, however, requires constant management and manipulation. Current Issues and Trends in Knowledge Management, Discovery, and Transfer is an essential reference source that discusses crucial practices for collaborating and distributing work as well as validating accrued knowledge from real-time data. Featuring research on topics such as dynamic knowledge, management systems, and sharing behavior, this book is ideally designed for academics, researchers, librarians, managing professionals, and students seeking coverage on knowledge acquisition and implementation across systems.

Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 2003
Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 2003

Author: E. De Schutter

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2003-06-20

Total Pages: 1034

ISBN-13: 9780444513830

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This volume includes papers originally presented at the 11th annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS 02) held in July 2002 at the Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The CNS meetings bring together computational neuroscientists representing many different fields and backgrounds as well as many different experimental preparations and theoretical approaches. The papers published here range from pure experimental neurobiology, to neuro-ethology, mathematics, physics, and engineering. In all cases the research described is focused on understanding how nervous systems compute. The actual subjects of the research include a highly diverse number of preparations, modeling approaches and analysis techniques. Accordingly, this volume reflects the breadth and depth of current research in computational neuroscience taking place throughout the world.

Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence Enabled Research
Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence Enabled Research

Author: Siddhartha Bhattacharyya

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2021-07-31

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0323851797

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The field of computational intelligence has grown tremendously over that past five years, thanks to evolving soft computing and artificial intelligent methodologies, tools and techniques for envisaging the essence of intelligence embedded in real life observations. Consequently, scientists have been able to explain and understand real life processes and practices which previously often remain unexplored by virtue of their underlying imprecision, uncertainties and redundancies, and the unavailability of appropriate methods for describing the incompleteness and vagueness of information represented. With the advent of the field of computational intelligence, researchers are now able to explore and unearth the intelligence, otherwise insurmountable, embedded in the systems under consideration. Computational Intelligence is now not limited to only specific computational fields, it has made inroads in signal processing, smart manufacturing, predictive control, robot navigation, smart cities, and sensor design to name a few. Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence Enabled Research: Theoretical Foundations and Applications explores the use of this computational paradigm across a wide range of applied domains which handle meaningful information. Chapters investigate a broad spectrum of the applications of computational intelligence across different platforms and disciplines, expanding our knowledge base of various research initiatives in this direction. This volume aims to bring together researchers, engineers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry working in all major areas and interdisciplinary areas of computational intelligence, communication systems, computer networks, and soft computing. - Provides insights into the theory, algorithms, implementation, and application of computational intelligence techniques - Covers a wide range of applications of deep learning across various domains which are researching the applications of computational intelligence - Investigates novel techniques and reviews the state-of-the-art in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, soft computing techniques

Engineering Asset Management
Engineering Asset Management

Author: Dimitris Kiritsis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-02-03

Total Pages: 997

ISBN-13: 0857293206

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Engineering Asset Management discusses state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fourth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM). It is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering such topics as asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance; asset data warehousing, data mining and fusion; asset performance and level-of-service models; design and life-cycle integrity of physical assets; deterioration and preservation models for assets; education and training in asset management; engineering standards in asset management; fault diagnosis and prognostics; financial analysis methods for physical assets; human dimensions in integrated asset management; information quality management; information systems and knowledge management; intelligent sensors and devices; maintenance strategies in asset management; optimisation decisions in asset management; risk management in asset management; strategic asset management; and sustainability in asset management.

Advances in Information and Communication Technology and Systems
Advances in Information and Communication Technology and Systems

Author: Mykhailo Ilchenko

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-05

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 3030583597

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This book highlights the most important research areas in Information and Communication Technologies as well as Radio Electronics, in particular contains publications on theory, applications, and design methods of Processing and Control in Information and Communication Systems. The respective chapters share in-depth and extended results in these areas with a view to resolving practically relevant and challenging issues including: 1. Infocommunications: IT, Cloud and Big Data technologies, E-society, Internet of Things and its implementation, Information and communication systems, security, etc.; 2. Telecommunications: Communication systems and networks, theoretical foundations of information processing and transmission in communication systems, SDN and SDR, etc..; 3. Radio Engineering: Theory of circuits, signals and processes in radio engineering and electronics, Circuit engineering, antennas, Microwave technology, Microwave and THz electronics, etc.; 4. Electronics: Electronic materials, Electronic devices, Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology, etc. These results can be used in the implementation of novel systems and to promote the exchange of information in e-societies. Given its scope the book offers a valuable resource for scientists, lecturers, specialists working at enterprises, graduate and undergraduate students who engage with problems in Information and Communication Technologies as well as Radio Electronics

Trends in Bioelectroanalysis
Trends in Bioelectroanalysis

Author: Frank-Michael Matysik

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 3319484850

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This volume offers a careful selection of trend-setting topics in the field. In-depth review articles illustrate current trends in the field. Experienced experts present a comprehensive overview concerning the electrochemical biosensing of glucose for diabetes care from an industrial research and development perspective a survey of bioassay applications for individually addressable electrochemical arrays, focusing on liquid-phase bioanalytical assays a review of recent advances in the development of electronic tongues based on the use of biosensor arrays coupled with advanced chemometric data analysis novel strategies of DNA biosensor development and corresponding applications for studies of DNA damage a survey of recent trends in the electrochemistry of redox proteins, including the increasing diversity of redox proteins used in electrochemical studies, novel immobilization strategies, and biosensor / biofuel cell applications an overview of electrochemical sensing of blood gases with advanced sensor concepts a survey of recent bioelectroanalytical studies with high spatial resolution using scanning electrochemical microscopy with a wide range of applications covering imaging of living cells, studies of metabolic activity, imaging of local enzyme activity, and studies of transport through biolayers This timely collection will be of interest not only for experts in the field, but also to students and their teachers in disciplines that include analytical chemistry, biology, electrochemistry, and various interdisciplinary research areas.