The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series

This is the first book-length study of the music of Nobuo Uematsu, and focuses on his Final Fantasy soundtracks, exploring the dynamic relationship between the music and the stories behind the beloved video game series. Contributors are music and game scholars, based in the USA and UK. Foreword b...

Social Media in Healthcare Information

Social Media in Healthcare Information provides an overview of current and recent developments in social media, concentrating on the most influential and well-established platforms. In addition to drawing together some of the most recently published scholarship in this area, this title also inclu...

Data Management for Researchers

Learning how to manage, share and preserve data is essential for active researchers. A comprehensive guide for scientific researchers providing everything they need to know about data management and how to organize, document, use and reuse their data. 

Managing Data Using Excel

A comprehensive and user-friendly study of how to manage, explore and share data, giving scientists at all levels the skills they need to maximize the usefulness of their data. An essential book for all scientists and students who use data and are seeking to manage data more effectively.

An Introduction to R

The modern world is awash with data. The R Project is a statistical environment and programming language that can help to make sense of it all. This clear and methodical book will help you learn how to use R from the ground up, giving you a start in the world of data science.

Words on the Web

Recent developments in technology have made this a crucial moment for those people studying language behaviour. This book places the reader at the heart of the investigations into what happens when people use language to communicate via computers.

Iconic Communication

Our society is becoming a more visual culture day-by-day. This book offers detailed analyses of how to combine words with pictures to communicate clearly across cultural barriers. While some information is better communicated by one kind of media than another, some information is communicated mos...

World War Two Simulated

This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games. It argues that a particular dynamic emerges in such ‘simgames’, especially when curious players begin to look beyond gameplay for how to understand the past.

Automated Islamophobia

Automating Islamophobia exposes how AI perpetuates global Islamophobia. It challenges the myth of AI’s objectivity, questioning if change is possible in a system rooted in historical biases. As nations vie for AI dominance, the book calls for critical engagement to resist its role in amplifying i...

Dissent and Social Media

This book explores the relationship between dissent and social media to understand the role both play in enacting cultural change. 

The Net Effect

Digital Magazine Design

Nostalgia and Videogame Music

This collection of essays addresses the fascinating intersection between nostalgia and videogame music. From Nintendo to PlayStation, Zelda to Bioshock, and cult to classic games – this anthology takes readers on a musical journey into personal, historical and virtual pasts. 15 b/w illus.

Development Through Technology Transfer

Technology transfer is shown to be more complicated than a handover of new hardware to developing countries. This book covers the practical issues of the transfer, including product, process, cost reduction and more, and also integrates an analysis of theories of innovation to identify key stages...

Futures Past

Eleven contributors to this volume reflect upon the unprecedented ways in which digital media have been transforming art practice, study and education. The authors – researchers, teachers, custodians of art collections and picture libraries, and an artist – cover a wide range of issues, arguing f...

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 6

Text and Data Mining

This book offers a broad and accessible introduction to research based on text and data mining (TDM), focusing specifically on the ways in which TDM has been applied within the humanities.

Digital Design using QuarkXPress 4

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation

President Putin’s explicit declaration that the country that makes progress in artificial intelligence will rule the world has launched a new race for dominance. In this era of cognitive competition and total automation, every country understands that it must rapidly adopt AI or go bust. To stay ...

The myth of good AI

This book offers a new approach to artificial intelligence and its implications for human security.

Digital Experience Design

Digital Experience Design chronicles the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot-com world alongside an account of the current issues facing the industry. From the perspective of older disciplines such as education, fine art and cinema, this volume investigates how dot-com...

Image Understanding

Empirical Studies of Programmers

Progress in Neural Networks, Volume Two

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 6

This book presents latest research developments in the area of functional programming. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of topics from theory, formal aspects of functional programming, transformational and generic programming to type checking and designing new classes of data t...

Advances in Control Networks and Large Scale Parallel Distributed Processing Models

Human Factors in Information Systems

Reliability in Computer System Design

Image Understanding

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Volume 3

When we started working in the field of human-computer interaction over ten years ago, there wasn't a field. We got strange looks from people who said "HCI isn't research; it's just common sense!" Now it is a fast-growing area of research and development. However, when we look around at advances ...

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 5

A New Guide to Artificial Intelligence

The Logic Programming Tutor

New Directions for Database Systems

Routing, Placement, and Partitioning

Progress in Computer Graphics

Law, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence

The interaction between the disciplines of law, computer science and artificial intelligence are attracting increasing attention within the academic and commercial communities, especially in the areas of "intelligent" computer fraud, copyright of software, data protection, representing law on the...

Machinations

Learning with Computers

Information Systems Implementation

Online Help

Blackboard Systems

Progress in Computer-Aided VLSI Design, Volume Two

Progress in Neural Networks: Volume One

Empirical Studies of Programmers

Creative Intelligences

Machine-Tractable Dictionaries

Advances in Connectionist and Neural Computation Theory Vol. 2

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 7

Engineering Artificial Intelligence Software

This book is aimed at the computer-literate person interested in the reality of exploiting the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in practical, maintainable software systems. It cuts through the hype, so commonly associated with discussions of AI, and presents the realities, both the promise...

Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing

Connectionist Natural Language Processing

Connectionism is a new information-processing paradigm which attempts to imitate the architecture and process of the brain and brings together researchers from disciplines as diverse as Computer Science, Physics, Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, Engineering, Neuroscience and AI. Work in Connecti...

Artificial Intelligence and Education, Volume One

The second international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education was held in September, 19851 at Exeter University, United Kingdom.The two years marking the period to the third conference at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh, USA, have witnessed significant growth in the research communi...

A Compendium of Machine Learning I

Building a Deductive Database

Progress in Neural Networks, Volume Five

Multisensor Integration and Fusion for Intelligent Machines and Systems

Connectionist Language Generator

Digital Design using QuarkXPress 4

Digital Design using QuarkXPress 4 gives you the ability to fully understand QuarkXPress, while developing a knowledge of the rules of design and how computers can exploit them. Students with non-visual backgrounds can rapidly improve, producing worthy examples of pages that integrate text and im...

Artificial Intelligence and Business Management

Progress in Computer-Aided VLSI Design, Volume Three

Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Volume 2

IT for Learning Enhancement

Forms of Representation

Connectionism and Meaning

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 9

The Psychology of Menu Selection

MARCEL

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Volume 1

The pervasiveness of computers in our society has become a cliche. It has, however, done much to highlight the need to make computers easier to use, particularly for the increasing number of users who are not computer specialists. But ease of use is also an issue for computer professionals. Even ...

Empirical Studies of Programmers

Inheritance Theory

Minds, Brains and Computers

Progress in Neural Networks, Volume Three

Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring

Chess and Machine Intuition

With the ability to conceive of and construct ever more complicated machinery, expectations have increased that we may yet comprehend, and perhaps even duplicate, some of our own mental abilities. In examining how we think, act, and enjoy the complexities of problem solving in such activities as ...

Requirements for a Software Engineering Environment

Cognition, Computing, and Cooperation

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 1

This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners in the field of functional programming. The articles cover many aspects of the field, including: language design  proof and transformation semantics and models implementation applications type systems parallelism and distribution p...

Progress in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Volume One