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Satellite communication technology is indispensable for land and maritime communications as well as broadcasting. This textbook explains the basic technologies required in understanding satellite communications.

This work covers the challenges facing the widespread implementation of information technology, possible solutions to economic, structural, cultural, and institutional barriers in the use of these technologies.

The implementation of hub-and-spoke networks in intermodal transport is suggested as one of the potential solutions for helping to increase the intermodal market share. Traditionally, trains are shunted at hubs; this is a time-consuming process. Since the early 1990's a new type of intermodal terminal, specifically designed for fast transshipment at nodes in hub-and-spoke networks, has been introduced in Europe. These hub terminals could replace this time-consuming shunting. Studies on the new hub terminals suggest that they may perform more efficiently than shunting yards. However, a systematic comparison to reveal the operational and costs differences between shunting and these new hub-terminals for a broad range of situations still lacks.The main objective of the study was to develop a model to identify favourable operational conditions for new hub terminals to be implemented and to quantify their operational performances in relation to alternative hub exchange facilities. Simulation models were developed to study rail-rail exchange operations at new hub-terminals, hump and flat shuntings yard and road-rail terminals.

Talks about Logic Programming, Uncertainty Reasoning and Machine Learning. This book includes definitions that circumscribe the area formed by extending Inductive Logic Programming to cases annotated with probability values. It investigates the approach of Learning from proofs and the issue of upgrading Fisher Kernels to Relational Fisher Kernels.

Covers developments from philosophy, artificial intelligence and information systems to formulate a collection of functional requirements for ontology development. This book looks at several ontology representation languages to show how they support the functional requirements, what deficiencies there are, and how they relate to each other.

This publication is linked to the "Nightingale Project" which began in January 1996, and is central in planning and implementation of strategy in training in the nursing profession in using and applying healthcare information systems.

Bridging the Information Gap. Imagining the healthcare of the future is an interesting exercise, and although nobody can predict precisely what systems might operate in ten years time, the possibilities which already exist can give us a clue as to how healthcare may be managed by 2030.This book presents papers from the conference Healthcare of the Future, held in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, on 5 April 2019. The conference reflects some of the results of a two year multi-stakeholder Swiss research program in medical informatics. The research program, which began in 2016, saw 25 stakeholders cooperating for an integrated cross-sectoral

Proceedings of the EFMI 2019 Special Topic Conference. Information and Communications Technology ICT is used in healthcare and health science research in application domains such as clinical trials and the development of drug and medical devices, as well as in translational medicine, with the aim of improving prevention, diagnosis, and interventions in health and care.This book presents accepted papers from the 2019 European Federation of Medical Informatics conference EFMI STC 2019, held in Hanover, Germany, from 710 April 2019. More than 90 submissions were received, from which, after review, the Scientific

Essays in honor of Nicola Guarino. Nicola Guarino is widely recognized as one of the founders of applied ontology. His deep interest in the subtlest details of theoretical analysis and his vision of ontology as the Rosetta Stone for semantic interoperability guided the development and understanding of this domain. His motivations in research stem from the conviction that all science must be for the benefit of society at large, and his motto has always been that ontologies are not just for making information systems interoperable, but more importantly for ensuring that systems users understand each other. He was among the first

Proceedings of COMMA 2018.

Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop CNL 2018 Maynooth Co Kildare Ireland August 2728 20.

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the German Association of Medical Informatics Biometry an.

Cybertherapy, the integration of telehealth technologies with the Internet and shared virtual reality, is used for two reasons: either because there is no alternative, or because it is in some sense better than traditional medicine.

This monograph contains contributions from the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Disease Markers in Exhaled Breath: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Applications, held in 2001. This ASI was designed to summarise and disseminate knowledge regarding this rapidly evolving field of lung biology.

An in-depth analysis of scenarios for government intervention in the information age. It addresses the legal questions and challenges arising in a borderless virtual world, elaborating on regulatory solutions found in day-to-day practice, that is, relatively independently of state regulation.

This text examines the progress in building and sharing very large-scale knowledge bases in the field of expert systems. It discusses the state of the art in building and sharing very large knowledge bases, and is intended to act as a catalyst to future research, development and applications.

Information modeling and knowledge bases have become essential subjects in the last three decades, not only in academic communities related to information systems and computer science, but also in the areas of business where information technology is applied.This book presents the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases EJC2018, held in Riga, Latvia from 48 June 2018. The aim of the conference was to bring together experts with a common interest in the understanding and solving of problems on information modelling and knowledge bases, as well as those from different areas of

Proceedings of the 1st International APPIS Conference 2018. The deployment of intelligent systems to tackle complex processes is now commonplace in many fields from medicine and agriculture to industry and tourism.This book presents scientific contributions from the 1st International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems APPIS 2018 held at the Museo Elder in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from 10 to 12 January 2018. The aim of APPIS 2018 was to bring together scientists working on the development of intelligent computer systems and methods for machine learning, artificial intelligence, pattern

The book 'Data Intensive Computing Applications for Big Data' discusses the technical concepts of big data, data intensive computing through machine learning, soft computing and parallel computing paradigms. It brings together researchers to report their latest results or progress in the development of the above mentioned areas. Since there are few books on this specific subject, the editors aim to provide a common platform for researchers working in this area to exhibit their novel findings. The book is intended as a reference work for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research workers and scientists on the subjects of big data and cloud/parallel and distributed computing, and explains didactically many of the core concepts of these approaches for practical applications.It is organized into 24 chapters providing a comprehensive overview of big data analysis using parallel computing and addresses the complete data science workflow in the cloud, as well as dealing with privacy issues and the challenges faced in a data-intensive cloud computing environment.The book explores both fundamental and high-level concepts, and will serve as a manual for those in the industry, while also helping beginners to understand the basic and advanced aspects of big data and cloud computing.

The term 'foreign fighters' describes nationals of one state who - for whatever variety of reasons and motives - travel abroad to take part in a conflict in another state without the promise of financial reward. The majority of attention has so far been focused on the nationals of Western European states who have gone to fight for the so-called Islamic State in Syria. There exist, however, other examples of contemporary European foreign fighters whose travails, motivations and returns have been largely unnoticed and underappreciated. This book attempts to balance this state of affairs by bringing to the fore some lesser known cases of non-terrorist but foreign fighters related to the conflict in Ukraine, and situating them against the backdrop of the larger mobilization for the war in Syria. This book presents edited versions of the 12 papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) 'Not Only Syria? Foreign Fighters: A Threat to NATO Allies and Their Neighbours'. The workshop was held in Chisinau, Moldova, in May 2016, and brought together researchers and experts in the field to discuss the differences, similarities and parallels between different groups of foreign fighters engaged in the conflicts in Syria and the Ukraine. The papers include contributions from the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Poland among others, and examine cases of foreign fighters from these and other countries. The book will provide an interesting context to researchers who have, up to now, looked only at a single set of such fighters, and will lead to tangible recommendations on how to develop policies to address the threat posed by returnees from any conflict.

Osteoarthritis is a public health issue due to its impact in term of handicap. Regarded as a multi-factorial disease, mechanistic and inflammatory theories are no more opposed but, on the contrary, are framed within the same continuum: osteoarthritis, inflammation and degeneration. This book helps readers understand the secrets of this disease.

Presents a multimodal architecture for use in mobile scenarios such as shopping and navigation. This work also analyses a wide range of feasible modality input combinations for these contexts.