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Recent Trends in Communication and Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of ICRTCIS 2019 (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)

The book gathers the best research papers presented at the International Conference on Recent Trends in Communication and Intelligent Systems (ICRTCIS 2019), organized by Rajasthan Technical University Kota, and Arya College of Engineering and IT, Jaipur, on 8–9 June 2019. It discusses the latest technologies in communication and intelligent systems, covering various areas of communication engineering, such as signal processing, VLSI design, embedded systems, wireless communications, and electronics and communications in general. Featuring work by leading researchers and technocrats, the book serves as a valuable reference resource for young researchers and academics as well as practitioners in industry.

Recent Trends in Communication, Computing, and Electronics: Select Proceedings Of Ic3e 2018 (Lecture Notes In Electrical Engineering #524)

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Computing and Electronics (IC3E 2018). Covering the latest theories and methods in three related fields – electronics, communication and computing, it describes cutting-edge methods and applications in the areas of signal and image processing, cyber security, human-computer interaction, machine learning, electronic devices, nano-electronics, wireless sensor networks, antenna and wave propagation, and mobile communication. The contents of this book will be beneficial to students, researchers, and professionals working in the field of networks and communications.

Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence and Its Application: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology and its Application (ICRTITA, 22) (Conference Proceedings Series on Intelligent Systems, Data Engineering, and Optimization)

The increase in computing power and sensor data has driven Information Technology on end devices, such as smart phones or automobiles. The widespread application of IT across the globe includes manufacturing, engineering, retail, e-commerce, health care, education, financial services, banking, space exploration, politics (to help predict the sentiments of voter demographics), etc. The papers in this conference proceeding examine and discuss various interdisciplinary researches that could accelerate the advent of Information Technology.

Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence and Its Application: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology and its Application (ICRTITA, 22) (Conference Proceedings Series on Intelligent Systems, Data Engineering, and Optimization)

The increase in computing power and sensor data has driven Information Technology on end devices, such as smart phones or automobiles. The widespread application of IT across the globe includes manufacturing, engineering, retail, e-commerce, health care, education, financial services, banking, space exploration, politics (to help predict the sentiments of voter demographics), etc. The papers in this conference proceeding examine and discuss various interdisciplinary researches that could accelerate the advent of Information Technology.

Recent Trends in Electronics and Communication: Select Proceedings of VCAS 2020 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #777)

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI, Communication and Signal processing (VCAS 2020). The contents are broadly divided into three topics – VLSI, Communication, and Signal Processing. The book focuses on the latest innovations, trends, and challenges encountered in the different areas of electronics and communication, especially in the area of microelectronics and VLSI design, communication systems and networks, and image and signal processing. It also offers potential solutions and provides an insight into various emerging areas such as Internet of Things (IoT), System on a Chip (SoC), Sensor Networks, underwater and underground communication networks etc. This book will be useful for academicians and professionals alike.

Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology (IRICT 2017) (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #5)

This book presents 94 papers from the 2nd International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology 2017 (IRICT 2017), held in Johor, Malaysia, on April 23–24, 2017. Focusing on the latest ICT innovations for data engineering, the book presents several hot research topics, including advances in big data analysis techniques and applications; mobile networks; applications and usability; reliable communication systems; advances in computer vision, artificial intelligence and soft computing; reliable health informatics and cloud computing environments, e-learning acceptance models, recent trends in knowledge management and software engineering; security issues in the cyber world; as well as society and information technology.

Recent Trends in Intelligent and Emerging Systems (Signals and Communication Technology)

It is a compilation of research works related to intelligent and emerging system design using a range of tools including soft-computation. The book includes reviews, actual designs, research works, discussion and experimental results related to works in the areas of communication, computation, vision sciences, bio-inspired system design, social dynamic, related process design, etc. The audience of this book is expected to be researchers who deal with intelligent and emerging system design through mathematical and computational modeling and experimental designs. Specifically, audiences that are broadly involved in the domains of electronics and communication, electrical engineering, mathematics, computer science, other applied informatics domains and related areas will find the book interesting. The works included in the book broadly covers all areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Technology, Soft-computational Applications, Human Computer Interactive Designs and Social and Economic Dynamics. The works included in the volume have been grouped into Communication, Biomedical and Social Science, HCI and Bio-inspired System Design, Speech Processing and Review totaling sixteen contributions.

Recent Trends in Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices: Proceedings of ICCD 2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1006)

This book gathers a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices (ICCD 2018), which address three core dimensions of the intelligent sciences—intelligent computing, intelligent communication, and intelligent devices. Intelligent computing includes areas such as intelligent and distributed computing, intelligent grid and cloud computing, Internet of Things, soft computing and engineering applications, data mining and knowledge discovery, semantic and web technology, hybrid systems, agent computing, bioinformatics, and recommendation systems. In turn, intelligent communication is concerned with communication and network technologies, such as mobile broadband and all-optical networks, which are the key to groundbreaking advances in intelligent communication technologies. It includes communication hardware, software and networked intelligence, mobile technologies, machine-to-machine communication networks, speech and natural language processing, routing techniques and network analytics, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, communications and information security, signal, image and video processing, network management, and traffic engineering. Lastly, intelligent devices refer to any equipment, instruments, or machines that have their own computing capability, and covers areas such as embedded systems, radiofrequency identification (RFID), radiofrequency microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS), very large-scale integration (VLSI) design and electronic devices, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) design and testing, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microsystems, solar cells and photonics, nanodevices, single electron and spintronic devices, space electronics, and intelligent robotics.

Recent Trends In Peripheral Security Systems (Services and Business Process Reengineering)

This book covers selected topics and methods for peripheral security, which are gaining attention nowadays. The book discusses the security arrangement and methods for monitoring the inside/outside entry of peripheral areas that need to be secured. It relates to a periphery, often portable device (as well as the methods employed, and systems including such a peripheral device and a host central command device with which the local geographical command device communicates), enabling one or more security operations performed by the peripheral device. It also covers the security scenario of snow-prone areas in a remote location. It also elaborates how we can secure the person and devices in extremely cold conditions and rescue them. This book helps the researchers, academicians, and industry persons working in security areas to protect unauthentic entry in large scale areas that may be defense camps or civilian applications like large-sized bungalows, institutes, and organizations of national importance. The experimental results are in close conformance to the proposed methodologies.

Recent Trends in Signal and Image Processing: ISSIP 2017 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #727)

This book contains interesting findings of some state-of-the-art research in the field of signal and image processing. It contains twenty one chapters covering a wide range of signal processing applications involving filtering, encoding, classification, segmentation, clustering, feature extraction, denoising, watermarking, object recognition, reconstruction and fractal analysis. Various types of signals including image, video, speech, non-speech audio, handwritten text, geometric diagram, ECG and EMG signals, MRI, PET and CT scan images, THz signals, solar wind speed signals (SWS) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals have been dealt with. It demonstrates how new paradigms of intelligent computing like quantum computing can be applied to process and analyze signals in a most precise and effective manner. Processing of high precision signals for real time target recognition by radar and processing of brain images, ECG and EMG signals that feature in this book have significant implications in defense mechanism and medical diagnosis. There are also applications of hybrid methods, algorithms and image filters which are proving to be better than the individual techniques or algorithms. Thus the present volume, enriched in depth and variety of techniques and algorithms concerning processing of various types of signals, is likely to be used as a compact yet handy reference for the young researchers, academicians and scientists working in the domain of signal and image processing and also to the post graduate students of computer science and information technology.

Recent Trends in Signal and Image Processing: Proceedings of ISSIP 2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #922)

This book presents fascinating, state-of-the-art research findings in the field of signal and image processing. It includes conference papers covering a wide range of signal processing applications involving filtering, encoding, classification, segmentation, clustering, feature extraction, denoising, watermarking, object recognition, reconstruction and fractal analysis. It addresses various types of signals, such as image, video, speech, non-speech audio, handwritten text, geometric diagram, ECG and EMG signals; MRI, PET and CT scan images; THz signals; solar wind speed signals (SWS); and photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals, and demonstrates how new paradigms of intelligent computing, like quantum computing, can be applied to process and analyze signals precisely and effectively. The book also discusses applications of hybrid methods, algorithms and image filters, which are proving to be better than the individual techniques or algorithms.

Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Third International Conferences, WiMo 2011 and CoNeCo 2011, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2011. Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #162)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wireless, Mobile Networks, WiMo 2011, and of The Third International Conference on Computer Networks and Communications, CoNeCo 2011, held in Ankara, Turkey, in June 2011. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions.

Recent Trends of Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality Systems

The use of mobile collaborative AR has expended rapidly in recent years, due to the major advances in hardware and networking. The application areas are diverse and multidisciplinary. Recent Trends of Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality Systems provides a historical overview of previous mobile collaborative AR systems, presents case studies of latest developments in current mobile collaborative AR systems, and latest technologies and system architectures used in this field. Recent Trends of Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality Systems is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers working in the field of augmented reality and human-computer interaction. Advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering focused on this topic will also find this book useful as a secondary text or reference.

Recherche 2.0: Finden und Weiterverarbeiten in Studium und Beruf

Diese Einführung unterscheidet sich von anderen, indem sie breit in die wissenschaftliche Internetrecherche einführt, das methodische Vorgehen und die Analyse der Ergebnisse eingehend behandelt und vor allem die Recherche in und mit Hilfe von Web 2.0-Diensten systematisch berücksichtigt. Dabei wird die Recherche als Teil des umfassenderen Ablaufs „Finden – Bewerten – Festhalten – Auf dem Laufenden bleiben” begriffen. Es werden also über die Recherche hinaus Werkzeuge vorgestellt, mit denen man die Ergebnisse festhalten kann (Notizbücher, soziale Bookmarkdienste und Literaturverwaltung) und es wird behandelt, wie man bezogen auf seine Themen und auf das Recherchieren selbst up to date bleibt. Ein Buch aus der Praxis für die Praxis: für Wissenschaftler, für Studierende und für jene, die bereits im Beruf sind und methodisch umfassend und effektiv das wissenschaftliche Recherchieren lernen wollen.

Recherchieren: klassisch – online – crossmedial (Journalistische Praxis)

Dieses Buch verbindet auf bislang einmalige Weise die klassische Recherche mit Online-Recherche. Es bietet eine Einführung und einen Überblick über verschiedene Recherchemethoden. Praxisorientierte Ratschläge können sofort in der Praxis eingesetzt werden. Der Band zeigt Recherchemöglichkeiten (Pressekonferenz, Telefonat, Hintergrundgespräche, Social Media, Big Data, Suchmaschinen etc.) auf und steckt den rechtlichen Rahmen für Recherche ab.​

Rechnernetze und Datenkommunikation (Springer Compass)

Recht richtig formulieren: Ein Handbuch mit Beispielen aus der journalistischen Praxis (Journalistische Praxis)

Jede Journalistin, jeder Journalist berichtet früher oder später über rechtliche Themen. Zum Beispiel über den Mordprozess am Landgericht vor Ort, das neuste Ermittlungsverfahren gegen einen Lokalpolitiker oder das umstrittene Verbot einer Demonstration. Dieses Buch beschreibt typische Situationen aus dem journalistischen Alltag. Es hilft dabei, Fehler und Ungenauigkeiten zu vermeiden. Geht der Angeklagte jetzt in "Berufung" oder "Revision"? Wurde der Verdächtige "festgenommen" oder "verhaftet"? Es benennt die typischen Fallstricke beim Thema "Recht", erklärt kurz die relevanten Begriffe und macht konkrete Vorschläge, wie man Recht richtig formuliert. Auch Autorinnen und Autoren von Krimi-Drehbüchern bekommen zahlreiche Hinweise, mit denen sie typische Fehler vermeiden können.

Recht verständlich formuliert: Klartext statt Amtsdeutsch - Rechtstexte zielgruppengerecht schreiben für Mitarbeiter, Kunden, Bürger

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie komplexe juristische Inhalte in der internen und externen Kommunikation einfach und klar vermittelt werden können. Unternehmen, Behörden und Organisationen stehen häufig vor der Herausforderung, als Nicht-Juristen rechtlich bindende Texte zielgruppengerecht formulieren zu müssen. Hierfür liefert der Autor hilfreiche Werkzeuge und Anregungen. Sie erfahren, wie es gelingt, Bescheide, Anträge, Urteile, Auskünfte etc. für Laien verständlich aufzubereiten und welche psycholinguistischen Werkzeuge genutzt werden können, um Rechtsinhalte erfolgreich zu vermitteln. Mit einfachen Regeln, Mustertexten und praktischen Übungen lernen Sie, komplexe Inhalte in Klartext statt Amtsdeutsch zu verfassen.Ein Buch für Mitarbeitende in Unternehmen, Organisationen, Rechtsabteilungen und Behörden sowie für Studierende, die mit klarer Sprache verständlich und professionell kommunizieren möchten.

Rechtshandbuch Social Media

Mit der Entwicklung des Internets zum Web 2.0 sind Social Media aus unserem privaten wie beruflichen Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Dienste wie Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Twitter, WhatsApp oder Plattformen für Bewertungen und Blogs haben erhebliche praktische Bedeutung erlangt und werfen zahlreiche, oft ungeklärte oder im Fluss befindliche Rechtsfragen auf. Das vorliegende Werk schließt insoweit eine Lücke: In zehn Einzelbeiträgen geht es mit wissenschaftlichem Anspruch bei gleichzeitiger Praxisorientierung systematisch auf solche Rechtsfragen ein, die mit der Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke zusammenhängen. In Bezug auf klassische Rechtsgebiete (Schuldrecht, Strafrecht, Arbeitsrecht, Persönlichkeitsschutz) über neuere Rechtsbereiche (Datenschutz, EGovernment) bis hin zum spezifischen Medien- und Internetrecht sowie zur Kommunikationswissenschaft wird das Phänomen Social Media ganzheitlich erfasst.

Rechtshandbuch Social Media

Seit der Entwicklung des Internets zum Web 2.0 sind Social Media aus unserem privaten und beruflichen Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Dienste wie Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, WhatsApp, berufliche Netzwerke oder Plattformen für Bewertungen und Blogs haben erhebliche praktische Bedeutung erlangt und werfen zahlreiche, oft ungeklärte oder im Fluss befindliche Rechtsfragen auf. Seit dem Erscheinen der 1. Auflage dieses Handbuchs im Jahre 2015 hat sich zudem der Gesetzgeber dem Phänomen Social Media verstärkt angenommen. Die nunmehr aktualisierte und erweiterte 2. Auflage geht mit wissenschaftlichem Anspruch bei gleichzeitiger Praxisorientierung systematisch auf Rechtsfragen ein, die mit der Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke zusammenhängen. In Gestalt der klassischen Rechtsgebiete des Schuldrechts, Strafrechts, Arbeitsrechts und des Persönlichkeitsschutzes, der neueren Rechtsbereiche des Datenschutzes und E-Governments bis hin zum spezifischen Medien- und Internetrecht sowie unter Einschluss der Kommunikationswissenschaften wird das Phänomen Social Media ganzheitlich erfasst. Abgerundet werden diese Betrachtungen nunmehr durch Beiträge zu den ökonomischen Grundlagen sowie zum wettbewerbsrechtlichen Rahmen der sozialen Medien.

Rechtspopulismus als "Bürgerbewegung": Kampagnen gegen Islam und Moscheebau und kommunale Gegenstrategien

Kampagnen gegen Islam und Moscheebau gelten in der extremen Rechten europaweit als wahlkampfträchtige „Erfolgsthemen“. Unter dem Label „Bürgerbewegung pro NRW/Deutschland“ versucht hierzulande eine neue Gruppierung von Rechtsaußen, mit rechtspopulistischer Agitation gegen Moscheen und Muslime an Einfluss zu gewinnen. In diesem Buch wird diese Agitationsform von antiislamisch ausgerichtetem Rechtspopulismus erstmals umfassend analysiert und in den Kontext gesellschaftlicher und kommunalpolitischer Auseinandersetzungen um die Themenfelder Islam und Integration gestellt.

Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities (Journalism and Political Comm Unbound)

How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and when it's done right? What sort of expertise do journalists have, and what role should and do they play in society? Until a couple of decades ago, journalists rarely asked these questions, largely because the answers were generally undisputed. Now, the stakes are rising for journalists as they face real-time critique and audience pushback for their ethics, news reporting, and relevance. Yet the crises facing journalism have been narrowly defined as the result of disruption by new technologies and economic decline. This book argues that the concerns are in fact much more profound. Drawing on their five years of research with journalists in the U.S. and Canada, in a variety of news organizations from startups and freelancers to mainstream media, the authors find a digital reckoning taking place regarding journalism's founding ideals and methods. The book explores journalism's long-standing representational harms, arguing that despite thoughtful explorations of the role of publics in journalism, the profession hasn't adequately addressed matters of gender, race, intersectionality, and settler colonialism. In doing so, the authors rethink the basis for what journalism says it could and should do, suggesting that a turn to strong objectivity and systems journalism provides a path forward. They offer insights from journalists' own experiences and efforts at repair, reform, and transformation to consider how journalism can address its limits and possibilities along with widening media publics.

RECKONING JOURNAL LIMITS & POSSIB COMM C: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities (Journalism and Political Comm Unbound)

How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and when it's done right? What sort of expertise do journalists have, and what role should and do they play in society? Until a couple of decades ago, journalists rarely asked these questions, largely because the answers were generally undisputed. Now, the stakes are rising for journalists as they face real-time critique and audience pushback for their ethics, news reporting, and relevance. Yet the crises facing journalism have been narrowly defined as the result of disruption by new technologies and economic decline. This book argues that the concerns are in fact much more profound. Drawing on their five years of research with journalists in the U.S. and Canada, in a variety of news organizations from startups and freelancers to mainstream media, the authors find a digital reckoning taking place regarding journalism's founding ideals and methods. The book explores journalism's long-standing representational harms, arguing that despite thoughtful explorations of the role of publics in journalism, the profession hasn't adequately addressed matters of gender, race, intersectionality, and settler colonialism. In doing so, the authors rethink the basis for what journalism says it could and should do, suggesting that a turn to strong objectivity and systems journalism provides a path forward. They offer insights from journalists' own experiences and efforts at repair, reform, and transformation to consider how journalism can address its limits and possibilities along with widening media publics.

Reclaiming Critical Remix Video: The Role of Sampling in Transformative Works (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Remix is now considered by many to be a form of derivative work, but such generalizations have resulted in numerous non-commercial remixes being wrongfully accused of copyright infringement. Gallagher argues, however, that remix is a fundamentally transformative practice. The assumption that cultural works should be considered a form of private property is called into question in the digital age; thus, he proposes an alternative system to balance the economic interests of cultural producers with the ability of the public to engage with a growing intellectual commons of cultural works. Multimodal analyses of both remixed and non-remixed intertextual work, with a particular focus on examples of critical remix video, fuel the discussion, synthesizing a number of investigative methods including semiotic, rhetorical and ideological analysis.

Reclaiming Critical Remix Video: The Role of Sampling in Transformative Works (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Remix is now considered by many to be a form of derivative work, but such generalizations have resulted in numerous non-commercial remixes being wrongfully accused of copyright infringement. Gallagher argues, however, that remix is a fundamentally transformative practice. The assumption that cultural works should be considered a form of private property is called into question in the digital age; thus, he proposes an alternative system to balance the economic interests of cultural producers with the ability of the public to engage with a growing intellectual commons of cultural works. Multimodal analyses of both remixed and non-remixed intertextual work, with a particular focus on examples of critical remix video, fuel the discussion, synthesizing a number of investigative methods including semiotic, rhetorical and ideological analysis.