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Building Analytics Teams

Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement

by John K. Thompson ...

Master the skills necessary to hire and manage a team of highly skilled individuals to design, build, and implement applications and systems based on advanced analytics and AIKey FeaturesLearn to create an operationally effective advanced analytics team in a corporate environmentSelect and undertake projects that have a high probability of success and deliver the improved top and bottom-line ... Read more

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Master the skills necessary to hire and manage a team of highly skilled individuals to design, build, and implement applications and systems based on advanced analytics and AIKey FeaturesLearn to create an operationally effective advanced analytics team in a corporate environmentSelect and undertake projects that have a high probability of success and deliver the improved top and bottom-line
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Tools for High Performance Computing 2011

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, September 2011, ZIH, Dresden

Edited by Michael M. Resch, Holger Brunst, Matthias S. Müller, Wolfgang E. Nagel ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing provide an overview on supportive software tools and environments in the fields of System Management, Parallel Debugging and Performance Analysis. In the pursuit to maintain exponential growth for the performance of high performance computers the HPC community is currently targeting Exascale Systems. ... Read more

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The proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing provide an overview on supportive software tools and environments in the fields of System Management, Parallel Debugging and Performance Analysis. In the pursuit to maintain exponential growth for the performance of high performance computers the HPC community is currently targeting Exascale Systems.
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Advances in Information Systems Development

Methods, Tools and Management

Edited by Nearchos Paspallis, Marios Raspopoulos, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Henry Linger, Christoph Schneider ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This volume features a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, novel approaches and ideas in information systems development. It examines advances in information systems development in general, and their impact on the development of new methods, tools and management.The book draws on selected invited papers from the 26th International Conference on Information Systems ... Read more

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This volume features a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, novel approaches and ideas in information systems development. It examines advances in information systems development in general, and their impact on the development of new methods, tools and management.The book draws on selected invited papers from the 26th International Conference on Information Systems
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Knowledge Representation for Health Care

6th International Workshop, KR4HC 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 21, 2014. Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Silvia Miksch, David Riaño, Annette ten Teije ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, KR4HC 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2014. The workshop aimed at attracting the interest of novel research and advances contributing in the definition, representation and exploitation of health care knowledge in ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, KR4HC 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2014. The workshop aimed at attracting the interest of novel research and advances contributing in the definition, representation and exploitation of health care knowledge in
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Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition

5th International Workshop, CBDAR 2013, Washington, DC, USA, August 23, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Masakazu Iwamura, Faisal Shafait ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, CBDAR 2013, held in Washington, DC, USA, in August 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from numerous original submissions. Intended to give a snapshot of the state ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, CBDAR 2013, held in Washington, DC, USA, in August 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from numerous original submissions. Intended to give a snapshot of the state
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Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: Semantics, Context, and Adaptation

10th International Workshop, AMR 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 24-25, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Andreas Nürnberger, Sebastian Stober, Birger Larsen, Marcin Detyniecki ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2012, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2012.The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover topics of state of the art contributions, features and classification, location ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2012, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2012.The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover topics of state of the art contributions, features and classification, location
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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering

13th International Conference, CDVE 2016, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 24–27, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Yuhua Luo ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th InternationalConference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE2016, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in October 2016.The 42 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in the field of cooperative visualization, visual ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th InternationalConference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE2016, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in October 2016.The 42 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in the field of cooperative visualization, visual
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Tests and Proofs

10th International Conference, TAP 2016, Held as Part of STAF 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 5-7, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Bernhard K. Aichernig, Carlo A. Furia ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Tests and Proofs, TAP 2016, held as part of STAF 2016, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016.The 8 full papers, 2 short papers, and 1 tool demonstration paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk in full-paper length. The TAP ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Tests and Proofs, TAP 2016, held as part of STAF 2016, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016.The 8 full papers, 2 short papers, and 1 tool demonstration paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk in full-paper length. The TAP
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Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2017

26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Alghero, Italy, September 11-14, 2017, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Stefano Rovetta, Alessandro E.P. Villa, Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Alessandra Lintas ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two volume set, LNCS 10613 and 10614, constitutes the proceedings of then 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2017, held in Alghero, Italy, in September 2017.The 128 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 270 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: From Perception to Action; From Neurons to Networks; ... Read more

$89.09 USD

The two volume set, LNCS 10613 and 10614, constitutes the proceedings of then 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2017, held in Alghero, Italy, in September 2017.The 128 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 270 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: From Perception to Action; From Neurons to Networks;
... Read more
User Modeling and Adaptation for Daily Routines

Providing Assistance to People with Special Needs

Edited by Estefanía Martín, Pablo A. Haya, Rosa M. Carro ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
User Modeling and Adaptation for Daily Routines is motivated by the need to bring attention to how people with special needs can benefit from adaptive methods and techniques in their everyday lives. Assistive technologies, adaptive systems and context-aware applications are three well-established research fields. There is, in fact, a vast amount of literature that covers HCI-related issues in each ... Read more

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User Modeling and Adaptation for Daily Routines is motivated by the need to bring attention to how people with special needs can benefit from adaptive methods and techniques in their everyday lives. Assistive technologies, adaptive systems and context-aware applications are three well-established research fields. There is, in fact, a vast amount of literature that covers HCI-related issues in each
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Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences III

Towards Making an Impact

Edited by Lars Linsen, Bernd Hamann, Hans-Christian Hege ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
The book discusses novel visualization techniques driven by the needs in medicine and life sciences as well as new application areas and challenges for visualization within these fields. It presents ideas and concepts for visual analysis of data from scientific studies of living organs or to the delivery of healthcare. Target scientific domains include the entire field of biology at all scales - ... Read more

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The book discusses novel visualization techniques driven by the needs in medicine and life sciences as well as new application areas and challenges for visualization within these fields. It presents ideas and concepts for visual analysis of data from scientific studies of living organs or to the delivery of healthcare. Target scientific domains include the entire field of biology at all scales -
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Graph Transformation

10th International Conference, ICGT 2017, Held as Part of STAF 2017, Marburg, Germany, July 18-19, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Juan de Lara, Detlef Plump ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2017, held as part of STAF 2017, in Marburg, Germany, in July 2017.The 14 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including theoretical approaches to graph transformation and their verification, model-driven ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2017, held as part of STAF 2017, in Marburg, Germany, in July 2017.The 14 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including theoretical approaches to graph transformation and their verification, model-driven
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Semantic Keyword-based Search on Structured Data Sources

First COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference, IKC 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Jorge Cardoso, Francesco Guerra, Geert-Jan Houben, Alexandre Miguel Pinto, Yannis Velegrakis ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference on semantic Keyword-based Search on Structured Data Sources, IKC 2015, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in September 2015.The 13 revised full papers, 3 revised short papers, and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 initial submissions. The ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference on semantic Keyword-based Search on Structured Data Sources, IKC 2015, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in September 2015.The 13 revised full papers, 3 revised short papers, and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 initial submissions. The
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Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2016 Workshops

ASOCA, ISyCC, BSCI, and Satellite Events, Banff, AB, Canada, October 10–13, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Yuhong Yan, Sami Bhiri, François Charoy, Jan Mendling, Qi Yu, Khalil Drira, Zhongjie Wang, Yan Wang, Mohamed Mohamed, Hongbing Wang ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2016, held in Banff, AB, Canada, in October 2016.The ICSOC 2016 workshop track consisted of three workshops on a wide range of topics that fall into the general area of service computing:ASOCA 2016: The rst ... Read more

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This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2016, held in Banff, AB, Canada, in October 2016.The ICSOC 2016 workshop track consisted of three workshops on a wide range of topics that fall into the general area of service computing:ASOCA 2016: The rst
... Read more
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2017

26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Alghero, Italy, September 11-14, 2017, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Stefano Rovetta, Alessandro E.P. Villa, Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Alessandra Lintas ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two volume set, LNCS 10613 and 10614, constitutes the proceedings of then 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2017, held in Alghero, Italy, in September 2017.The 128 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 270 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: From Perception to Action; From Neurons to Networks; ... Read more

$49.49 USD

The two volume set, LNCS 10613 and 10614, constitutes the proceedings of then 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2017, held in Alghero, Italy, in September 2017.The 128 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 270 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: From Perception to Action; From Neurons to Networks;
... Read more
Neural Information Processing

25th International Conference, ICONIP 2018, Siem Reap, Cambodia, December 13–16, 2018, Proceedings, Part VI

Edited by Long Cheng, Andrew Chi Sing Leung, Seiichi Ozawa ...

Series Book 6 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The seven-volume set of LNCS 11301-11307 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in December 2018.The 401 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 575 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural ... Read more

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The seven-volume set of LNCS 11301-11307 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in December 2018.The 401 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 575 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural
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Productive Multivocality in the Analysis of Group Interactions

Edited by Daniel D. Suthers, Kristine Lund, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Chris Teplovs, Nancy Law ...

Series series Education (R0)
The key idea of the book is that scientific and practical advances can be obtained if researchers working in traditions that have been assumed to be mutually incompatible make a real effort to engage in dialogue with each other, comparing and contrasting their understandings of a given phenomenon and how these different understandings can either complement or mutually elaborate on each other. This ... Read more

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The key idea of the book is that scientific and practical advances can be obtained if researchers working in traditions that have been assumed to be mutually incompatible make a real effort to engage in dialogue with each other, comparing and contrasting their understandings of a given phenomenon and how these different understandings can either complement or mutually elaborate on each other. This
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Neural Information Processing

25th International Conference, ICONIP 2018, Siem Reap, Cambodia, December 13–16, 2018, Proceedings, Part III

Edited by Long Cheng, Andrew Chi Sing Leung, Seiichi Ozawa ...

Series Book 3 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The seven-volume set of LNCS 11301-11307, constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in December 2018.The 401 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 575 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural ... Read more

$80.09 USD

The seven-volume set of LNCS 11301-11307, constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in December 2018.The 401 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 575 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural
... Read more
Agentic AI For Dummies

by Pam Baker ...

An easy-to-follow guide to demystifying Agentic AI, the next step in the evolution of artificial intelligenceAgentic AI is the next big leap in artificial intelligence. Agentic systems don't just respond to commands. They set goals, make decisions, and take initiative without direct human interaction. Sound like a lot to wrap your head around? Fortunately Agentic AI For Dummies is here to help you ... Read more

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An easy-to-follow guide to demystifying Agentic AI, the next step in the evolution of artificial intelligenceAgentic AI is the next big leap in artificial intelligence. Agentic systems don't just respond to commands. They set goals, make decisions, and take initiative without direct human interaction. Sound like a lot to wrap your head around? Fortunately Agentic AI For Dummies is here to help you
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Virtual Reality Experience Design Handbook

Heuristics, Patterns, and Practices for Immersive Applications

by Rocío Cifuentes-Albeza, Iñigo Cuiñas, Itziar Goicoechea, Dorota Kamińska, Francisco-Julián Martínez-Cano, Rui Raposo, Mário Vairinhos, Grzegorz Zwoliński ...

Designing for virtual reality (VR) goes far beyond adapting flat‑screen content for a headset. It requires a deep understanding of how the human body and mind engage with immersive environments – so that experiences feel intuitive, natural, and comfortable.This book is an essential guide for anyone creating VR content that is not only engaging but also inclusive. It offers clear, hands‑on support ... Read more

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Designing for virtual reality (VR) goes far beyond adapting flat‑screen content for a headset. It requires a deep understanding of how the human body and mind engage with immersive environments – so that experiences feel intuitive, natural, and comfortable.This book is an essential guide for anyone creating VR content that is not only engaging but also inclusive. It offers clear, hands‑on support
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Data Engineering with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Lakehouse

Create scalable pipelines that ingest, curate, and aggregate complex data in a timely and secure way

by Manoj Kukreja ...

Understand the complexities of modern-day data engineering platforms and explore strategies to deal with them with the help of use case scenarios led by an industry expert in big dataKey FeaturesBecome well-versed with the core concepts of Apache Spark and Delta Lake for building data platformsLearn how to ingest, process, and analyze data that can be later used for training machine learning ... Read more

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Understand the complexities of modern-day data engineering platforms and explore strategies to deal with them with the help of use case scenarios led by an industry expert in big dataKey FeaturesBecome well-versed with the core concepts of Apache Spark and Delta Lake for building data platformsLearn how to ingest, process, and analyze data that can be later used for training machine learning
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30 Days to Improving Your Business with Claude AI

by Peter Finnigan, PhD ...

Wondering how to use Claude AI to help your business? You have come to the right place. In this easy 30 Day and 30 step process you will go through one month of learning how to integrate and use Claude AI to save time, improve effeciency and help with research for decision making processes. Whether you manage a one person company or have 1000 employees this starter book is perfect for anyone in ... Read more

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Wondering how to use Claude AI to help your business? You have come to the right place. In this easy 30 Day and 30 step process you will go through one month of learning how to integrate and use Claude AI to save time, improve effeciency and help with research for decision making processes. Whether you manage a one person company or have 1000 employees this starter book is perfect for anyone in
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Swift 5 for Absolute Beginners

Learn to Develop Apps for iOS

by Stefan Kaczmarek, Brad Lees, Gary Bennett ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Stay motivated and overcome obstacles while learning to use Swift Playgrounds and Xcode 10.2 to become a great iOS developer. This book, fully updated for Swift 5, is perfect for those with no programming background, those with some programming experience but no object-oriented experience, or those that have a great idea for an app but haven’t programmed since school.Many people have a difficult ... Read more

$40.49 USD

Stay motivated and overcome obstacles while learning to use Swift Playgrounds and Xcode 10.2 to become a great iOS developer. This book, fully updated for Swift 5, is perfect for those with no programming background, those with some programming experience but no object-oriented experience, or those that have a great idea for an app but haven’t programmed since school.Many people have a difficult
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Understanding Search Engines

by Dirk Lewandowski ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book provides a broad introduction to search engines by integrating five different perspectives on Web search and search engines that are usually dealt with separately: the technical perspective, the user perspective, the internet-based research perspective, the economic perspective, and the societal perspective.After a general introduction to the topic, two foundational chapters present how ... Read more

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This book provides a broad introduction to search engines by integrating five different perspectives on Web search and search engines that are usually dealt with separately: the technical perspective, the user perspective, the internet-based research perspective, the economic perspective, and the societal perspective.After a general introduction to the topic, two foundational chapters present how
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