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The Social Sciences collection forms a definitive resource for those entering, researching, or teaching in any of the many disciplines making up this interdisciplinary area of study. Written by experts and researchers from both Academic and Commercial domains, titles offer global scope and perspectives.

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TTL of a Penetration

  • 1st Edition
  • April 29, 2030
  • Henry Dalziel + 1 more
  • English
In this book we are going discuss the TTL of a Penetration, and in that we are going to talk a little bit about the differences between us and them. We are going to look at a penetration from three different views. We are going to look at it from the hacker’s point of view, the hackee’s point of view, and lastly an operational point of view.

The Complete Business Process Handbook

  • 1st Edition
  • December 31, 2029
  • Mark Von Rosing + 2 more
  • English
The Complete Business Process Handbook: Extended Business Process Management is ideal for visionaries, subject matter experts, researchers, and academics who focus on the analysis, design, and modelling of tomorrow´s enterprise. This book offers the insight around extended business process design and management, covering ground-breaking new research on BPM best practices, LEADing practices, and outperformers vs. underperformers. The book aims to increase understanding of and help avoid common pitfalls that lead to failed BPM projects, and ultimately, poor BPM adoption by including the latest research in business modelling related to BPM aspects. Authors and editors Mark von Rosing and Henrik von Scheel, along with several noted and influential contributors, provide a link between the business model and process model by helping the reader to discover how to link the strategy, critical success factors, and performance drivers to ones processes. With an in-depth look at extended BPM ontology, the audience will encounter enhanced process modelling capabilities to enable an entirely new way of working with processes, along with how to combine Enterprise Architecture & BPM.

Human Factors in Autonomous Vehicles

  • 1st Edition
  • August 1, 2029
  • Bryan E. Porter
  • English
Autonomous vehicles are a new technology rising in public interest and media intensity. Researchers are only just beginning to explore its behavioral, social, technological, economic, and environmental issues. Human Factors in Autonomous Vehicles highlights the key issues the behavioral sciences plays in this largely technology-driven area, adding an important perspective often overlooked during the product development phase. Through existing psychological and other behavioral science research, Human Factors in Autonomous Vehicles examines what we know--and do not know--about the expected impact of autonomous vehicles to our society. The book looks at both the potential positive, and negative, consequences of autonomous vehicles. Human Factors in Autonomous Vehicles helps technically-focused researchers become more aware of the human factors issues involved in both current and future generations of autonomous (and high autonomy) vehicles.

User-Centered Interface Improvement in Libraries

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2029
  • Ray Laura Henry
  • English
Libraries are optimally positioned to lead user-centered interface improvements, especially in the now-ubiquitous areas of search, discovery, and retrieval of information resources. This book delves more deeply into why that might be the case, as well as how to create those transformative changes. Modern libraries are concerned with improving the experiences our users have with the resources we provide. We operate in a technologically complex environment, however, where we are integrating many diverse resource providers that we have much less control of into our portfolio of services. How do libraries' competing interests, for example, those of standardization and interoperability versus those of personalization and context-awareness act to "intertwingle" across our user interfaces? Literacies Identity and Library Technologies examines historical and contemporary library technology practices through several overlapping lenses. Why library technologies, in particular? Precisely because they are located in a complex, interconnected ecosystem of services whose loci of control are elsewhere, and so where there is a continued struggle to make good on promises like seamless resource access. The initial adoptions, integrations, and ongoing refinements of these technologies exist in what can be described as an information society whose undergirding values are essentially opaque. Despite immersion in this vast sea of knowledge/information/data, many of us who swim in it have no clear sense of its origins or mechanisms. In particular, the core of information navigation for most has become web-scale search, and though it is treated as a utility in nearly the same way heat and light are, even those of us who may teach its use to others often aren't sure exactly how it works. Similarly, users of these systems are impacted by the values underlying their construction in ways that are hidden or invisible to them, so they may not even be able to shift their strategies to more effectively work in these systems.

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

  • 4th Edition
  • June 1, 2029
  • Lawrence J. Fennelly + 2 more
  • English
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Fourth Edition is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, urban planning, and security. Fully updated, this work explains the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental factors to minimize loss and crime and to maximize productivity. This practical guide addresses several environmental settings, including major event facilities, small retail establishments, downtown streets, residential areas, and playgrounds. A one-stop resource with explanations of criminal behavior and the historical aspects of design, it teaches both the novice and the expert in crime prevention how to use the environment to affect human behavior in a positive manner.

Smart Cities at Play

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2029
  • Michael Saker + 2 more
  • English
Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness explores how experiencing the smart city creates explicit and implicit playful possibilities, revealing the socio-cultural problems of participation that transcend the technological. It shows that the lived experience of these spaces are currently overlooked and of the utmost importance to smart city researchers, practitioners, and policy makers as they engage with digital media, communication, human-computer interaction, and digital geography.Smart Cities at Play shows that play is within the context of smart cities and the embeddedness of technology. It engages with “playful mobilities” such as Uber, “playful inhabitants” such as Airbnb, and “playful identities” such as wearable technologies. At the same time it deals with emerging methodological possibilities and ethical issues that are symptomatic of the digital technologies now endemic of the urban environment.Smart Cities at Play provides a historical account of changing perceptions of cities in the context of human experience. It explores the impact emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, wearable technologies and locative media have on perceptions and approaches to the urban environment, investigating what these technologies reveal about the socio-cultural problems of smart city participation.Smart Cities at Play provide readers with a critical overview of this field, serving as a primer for future studies examining emerging notions of play within the context of smart cities.