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Computational Social Science: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Computational Social Science (ICNCSS 2021), October 15-17, 2021, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
by Dan Dobrota Roshan Chitrakar Ciurea Maria Liliana Mâţâ Wei LuoThe proceedings publish selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on New Computational Social Science, focusing on the following five aspects: Big data acquisition and analysis, Integration of qualitative research and quantitative research, Sociological Internet experiment research, Application of ABM simulation method in Sociology Research, Research and development of new social computing tools. With the rapid development of information technology, especially sweeping progress in the Internet of things, cloud computing, social networks, social media and big data, social computing, as a data-intensive science, is an emerging field that leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data with an unprecedented breadth, depth and scale. It represents a new computing paradigm and an interdisciplinary field of research and application. A broad comprehension of major topics involved in social computing is important for both scholars and practitioners. This proceedings presents and discusses key concepts and analyzes the state-of-the-art of the field. The conference not only gave insights on social computing, but also affords conduit for future research in the field. Social computing has two distinct trends: One is on the social science issues, such as computational social science, computational sociology, social network analysis, etc; the other is on the use of computational techniques. Finally, some new challenges ahead are summarized, including interdisciplinary cooperation and training, big data sharing for scientific data mashups, and privacy protect.
Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)
by Stan Geertman Andrew Allan Qingming Zhan Christopher PettitThis book contains a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2019 at the University of Wuhan, China. The chapters included were selected based on a double-blind review process involving external reviewers.
Computer Aided Policy Making
by Ray WyattThis book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner, business strategist, or manager in the field of education, health or welfare,Ingeniously Wyatt has created two books in one: the main text covers the types of software package available: mainstream software, peripheral software, innovative software, frontier software; the lessons generated from the software are outlined in lesson boxes. Readers can use the text alone to familiarize themselves with the computer packages or read the boxes only, or they can do both.
Computer Aided Policy Making
by Ray WyattThis book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner, business strategist, or manager in the field of education, health or welfare,Ingeniously Wyatt has created two books in one: the main text covers the types of software package available: mainstream software, peripheral software, innovative software, frontier software; the lessons generated from the software are outlined in lesson boxes. Readers can use the text alone to familiarize themselves with the computer packages or read the boxes only, or they can do both.
Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems #600)
by Mark Hickman Pitu Mirchandani Stefan VoßThis volume consists of selected papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport. Coverage includes the use of computer-aided methods and operations research techniques to improve: information management; network and route planning; vehicle and crew scheduling and rostering; vehicle monitoring and management; and practical experience with scheduling and public transport planning methods.
Computer-Animation in der Kartographie: Theorie und Praxis
by Doris DranschDie Entwicklungen der Computer-Kartographie zielten bisher vor allem darauf ab, die Computertechnik so zu verbessern, daß die Computer-Karte immer mehr der Qualität der Papier-Karte angepasst werden konnte. Computer bieten jedoch weitaus größere Möglichkeiten für die kartographische Informationsdarstellung. Sie bieten ein neues Medium, das Information dynamisch und interaktiv wiedergeben kann, und sie bieten eine neue Technik, welche die schnelle und damit variable Darstellung räumlicher Information ermöglicht. Dieses Potential wird hier aufgezeigt und für die Kartographie nutzbar gemacht. Dazu wird ein Teilbereich der computergestützten Visualisierung, die Computer-Animation, daraufhin untersucht, wie sie für eine verbesserte kartographische Informationsdarstellung genutzt werden kann.
The Computer in the United States: From Laboratory to Market, 1930-60
by James W. CortadaThis book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product.
The Computer in the United States: From Laboratory to Market, 1930-60
by James W. CortadaThis book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product.
Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design: Physical Principles, Methods and Applications
by Darren RobinsonThis is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort. Comprehensive techniques for the modelling and optimisation of urban metabolism are then described, together with means for defining sustainability as the fitness function to be optimised. It ends with an eye to the future of sustainable urban design and the means available to urban designers and governors to help them to secure a more sustainable urban future. This book will be invaluable both in informing the next generation of urban planners, architects and engineers, and as a tool to current professionals that will directly contribute to the effectiveness of their work by allowing them to more successfully measure and model urban sustainability.
Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design: Physical Principles, Methods and Applications
by Darren RobinsonThis is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort. Comprehensive techniques for the modelling and optimisation of urban metabolism are then described, together with means for defining sustainability as the fitness function to be optimised. It ends with an eye to the future of sustainable urban design and the means available to urban designers and governors to help them to secure a more sustainable urban future. This book will be invaluable both in informing the next generation of urban planners, architects and engineers, and as a tool to current professionals that will directly contribute to the effectiveness of their work by allowing them to more successfully measure and model urban sustainability.
Computer Vision and Audition in Urban Analysis Using the Remorph Framework (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #192)
by Mohammad Ali Nematollahi Samaneh Shahbazi Nashid NabianArtificial Intelligence (AI) is penetrating in all sciences as a multidisciplinary approach. However, adopting the theory of AI including computer vision and computer audition to urban intellectual space, is always difficult for architecture and urban planners. This book overcomes this challenge through a conceptual framework by merging computer vision and audition to urban studies based on a series of workshops called Remorph, conducted by Tehran Urban Innovation Center (TUIC).
Computerkartographie: Eine Einführung in das Desktop Mapping am PC
by Gerold Olbrich Michael Quick Jürgen SchweikartEndlich gibt es ein deutschsprachiges Buch, das umfassend die Theorie und Praxis der Computerkartographie darstellt. Es ist verständlich geschrieben, enthält zahlreiche Abbildungen und Beispiele und führt die Leistungsmerkmale gängiger PC-Programme sowie die Bezugsadressen für Koordinatendaten und Software auf.
Computers, Jobs, and Skills: The Industrial Relations of Technological Change (Approaches to Information Technology)
by Christopher Baldry"Faith. Hope. and Charity and the greatest of these is Charity. " "Hardware. Software. and Lil'ell'are and the greatest of these is . . . " As information technology ceased to be the prerogative of computer scientists and electronics engineers, those of us from other disciplines had to contend with the jargon which was already in vogue. We learned to live with "hardware" and "software. " We were less enthusiastic about "Iiveware. " Polite and some impolite questioning revealed that "Iiveware" was a euphemism for "people. " We were not amused. As one spirited participant observed, "I refused to go home and tell my children that Almighty God had made liveware in His own image and likeness. " People are too important to be known as anything but people. Moreover, it is the importance of people that is the dominating and recurring theme of this book by Christopher Baldry. He deals with virtually every aspect of the problems concerning men and women and their recourse to the equipment. This could well become the definitive work in the field. In addition to the details of health hazards, industrial relations, new technology agreements and the like, Dr. Baldry grapples with two great underpinning issues.
Computersimulationen in politischen Entscheidungsprozessen: Zur Politikrelevanz von Simulationswissen am Beispiel der CO2-Speicherung
by Dirk ScheerComputersimulationen haben sich als wichtiges Erkenntnisinstrument neben Theorie und Experiment in der Wissenschaft etabliert. Das über Simulationen gewonnene Wissen hat damit auch Einfluss auf andere Gesellschaftsbereiche wie Politik, Wirtschaft und Öffentlichkeit. Dirk Scheer untersucht am Beispiel der geologischen CO2-Abscheidung und Speicherung (engl. Carbon Capture and Storage), wie politikrelevante, wissenschaftliche Simulationen in politischen Entscheidungsprozessen verarbeitet werden. Über eine theoretisch-konzeptionelle Analyse soll zum einen ein besseres und differenzierteres Verständnis von simulationsbasierten Kommunikationsprozessen und deren Wirkung in der Politik erfolgen. Zum anderen sollen empirisch rezeptionsseitige Muster der Informationsaufnahme und -verarbeitung bei politisch-gesellschaftlichen Entscheidungsträgern ermittelt werden.
Comrade Corbyn - Updated Edition: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn Stormed To The Labour Leadership
by Rosa PrinceFully updated new edition of the best-selling political biography.He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party leadership by a landslide, with a greater mandate than any British political leader before him.This new edition of the critically acclaimed biography brings the Jeremy Corbyn story fully up to date, setting out how this very British iconoclast managed to snatch the leadership of a party he spent forty years rebelling against and, despite rebellion from within his own ranks, managed to galvanise millions to vote for him in the 2017 general election.Engaging, clear-sighted and above all revealing, Comrade Corbyn explores the extraordinary story of the most unexpected leader in modern British politics.
Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played For Spartak
by Jim RiordanThe true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow.
Comrade or Brother?: A History of the British Labour Movement
by Mary DavisCritical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialisation through its development within a capitalist society, up to the end of the twentieth-century. *BR**BR*Written by a leading activist in the labour movement, the book redresses the balance in much labour history writing. It examines the place of women and the influence of racism and sexism as well as providing a critical analysis of the rival ideologies which played a role in the uneven development of the labour movement.
Comrade or Brother?: A History of the British Labour Movement
by Mary DavisCritical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialisation through its development within a capitalist society, up to the end of the twentieth-century. *BR**BR*Written by a leading activist in the labour movement, the book redresses the balance in much labour history writing. It examines the place of women and the influence of racism and sexism as well as providing a critical analysis of the rival ideologies which played a role in the uneven development of the labour movement.
Comrade Papa
by GauZBY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d'Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes into a coast as yet untouched by colonisation. A century later, a Black boy born to communist parents in Amsterdam begins to research his family history. When he is sent to Cote d'Ivoire to visit his grandmother, he will discover traces of an ancestor he never knew existed.GauZ' looks across continents and centuries to create a portrait of two very different men, tracing the paths and histories that connect them and plunging us deep into the history of colonisation in the Cote d'Ivoire.Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
Comrades!: A History Of World Communism (PDF)
by Robert ServiceTraces the history of communism from its earliest origins to the present day, profiling the key individuals and events that shaped communism, describing the contributions of Marx and Engels, the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, the rise of the Soviet bloc, the spread of communism, its ideology and organization, and its collapse in Eastern Europe an
Comrades: Communism: A World History
by Robert ServiceAlmost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion - and an important message for the twenty-first century – is that although communism in its original form is now dead or dying, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling, compellingly written and brilliantly argued, this is a superb work of history and one that demands to be read. ‘Bears all the hallmarks of a classic work of historical literature … the true international legacy of communism [is] analysed to magisterial effect in this exhilarating work’ Hwyel Williams New Statesman ‘One of the best-ever studies of the subject … a remarkable accomplishment’ Economist ‘An outstanding book, written with grace and style’ Daily Telegraph ‘[A] brilliantly distilled world history of communism … Confronted by Service's amazing array of evidence to show that communism could only ever have flourished under conditions of extreme and all-pervasive oppression, only the determinedly softheaded would try to argue with him’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
Comrades and Brothers: Communism and Trade Unions in Europe (Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions #22)
by Waller Micheal Courtois Stéphane Lazar MarcOriginally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries. The first part of the book deals with cases of communist strength, where the communist part had close links with a particular trade union (France, Italy, Spain). The second part looks at cases where social democracy dominated the Left (Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK). Two further essays examine developments in the 1980s in Hungary and Poland.
Comrades and Brothers: Communism and Trade Unions in Europe (Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions #22)
by Michael Waller Stéphane Courtois Marc LazarOriginally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries. The first part of the book deals with cases of communist strength, where the communist part had close links with a particular trade union (France, Italy, Spain). The second part looks at cases where social democracy dominated the Left (Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK). Two further essays examine developments in the 1980s in Hungary and Poland.
Comrades in conflict: Labour, the trade unions and 1969's In Place of Strife
by Peter DoreyOn the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other primary sources to explain why Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle embarked on legislation to regulate the trade unions and curb strikes, and why this aroused such strong opposition, not just from the unions, but within the Cabinet and among backbench Labour MPs. This opposition transcended the orthodox ideological divisions, making temporary allies of traditional adversaries in the Party. Even Wilson’s threats either to resign, or call a general election, if his MPs and Ministers failed to support him and Castle, were treated with derision. His colleagues called Wilson’s bluff, and forced him to abandon the legislation, in return for a ‘solemn and binding’ pledge by the trade unions to ‘put their own house in order’ in tackling strikes.