Smart Tools for Smart Applications


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In recent years, micro- and nanosystems with magnetic properties have been extensively investigated in many fields, ranging from physics to medicine. The research in these areas has lately shown that if the magnetic compounds are opportunely functionalized and modified with moieties and specific functional groups, a plethora of challenging multidisciplinary applications is available, including the development of magnetically controlled particles, stimuli-responsive materials, magnetically guided chemical/drug-delivery systems, sensors, spintronics, separation and purification of contaminated groundwater and soils, ferrofluids and magnetorheological fluids, contrast agents for MRI, and internal sources of heat for the thermoablation of cancer. Magnetic compounds have been found to be highly selective and effective in all these application fields, from the molecular level to the microscale. This book aims at underlining the latest advances in the field of magnetic compounds, nanosystems, and materials, covering a large variety of topics related to novel synthesis and functionalization methods and the properties, applications, and use of magnetic systems in chemistry, materials science, diagnostics, and medical therapy.




Smart Technology Applications in Business Environments


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Technology continues to make great strides in society by providing opportunities for advancement, inclusion, and global competency. As new systems and tools arise, novel applications are created as well. Smart Technology Applications in Business Environments is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on the risks and opportunities of utilizing the latest technologies in different aspects of society such as education, healthcare systems, and corporations. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics and perspectives including virtual reality, robotics, and social media, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, students, and practitioners seeking current research on the improvement and increased productivity from the implementation of smart technologies.




Fundamental Research in Electrical Engineering


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This volume presents the selected papers of the First International Conference on Fundamental Research in Electrical Engineering, held at Khwarazmi University, Tehran, Iran in July, 2017. The selected papers cover the whole spectrum of the main four fields of Electrical Engineering (Electronic, Telecommunications, Control, and Power Engineering).




Smart Systems Design, Applications, and Challenges


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Smart systems when connected to artificial intelligence (AI) are still closely associated with some popular misconceptions that cause the general public to either have unrealistic fears about AI or to expect too much about how it will change our workplace and life in general. It is important to show that such fears are unfounded, and that new trends, technologies, and smart systems will be able to improve the way we live, benefiting society without replacing humans in their core activities. Smart Systems Design, Applications, and Challenges provides emerging research that presents state-of-the-art technologies and available systems in the domains of smart systems and AI and explains solutions from an augmented intelligence perspective, showing that these technologies can be used to benefit, instead of replace, humans by augmenting the information and actions of their daily lives. The book addresses all smart systems that incorporate functions of sensing, actuation, and control in order to describe and analyze a situation and make decisions based on the available data in a predictive or adaptive manner. Highlighting a broad range of topics such as business intelligence, cloud computing, and autonomous vehicles, this book is ideally designed for engineers, investigators, IT professionals, researchers, developers, data analysts, professors, and students.




Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Smart Technology


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As global communities are attempting to transform into more efficient and technologically-advanced metropolises, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken a firm grasp on various professional fields. Technology used in these industries is transforming by introducing intelligent techniques including machine learning, cognitive computing, and computer vision. This has raised significant attention among researchers and practitioners on the specific impact that these smart technologies have and what challenges remain. Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Smart Technology is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the implementation of advanced technological techniques in professional industries through the use of AI. While highlighting topics such as pattern recognition, computational imaging, and machine learning, this publication explores challenges that various fields currently face when applying these technologies and examines the future uses of AI. This book is ideally designed for researchers, developers, managers, academicians, analysts, students, and practitioners seeking current research on the involvement of AI in professional practices.




AI-Aided IoT Technologies and Applications for Smart Business and Production


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This book covers the need for Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)–aided IoT solutions for business and production. It shows how IoT-based technology uses algorithms and AI models to bring out the desired results. AI-Aided IoT Technologies and Applications for Smart Business and Production shows how a variety of IoT technologies can be used toward integrating data fabric solutions and how intelligent applications can be used to greater effect in business and production operations. The book also covers the integration of IoT data-driven financial technology (fintech) applications to fulfill the goals of trusted AI-aided IoT solutions. Next, the authors show how IoT-based technology uses algorithms and AI models to bring out the desired results across various industries including smart cities, buildings, hospitals, hotels, homes, factories, agriculture, transportation, and more. The last part focuses on AI-aided IoT techniques, data analytics, and visualization tools. This book targets a mixed audience of specialists, analysts, engineers, scholars, researchers, academics, and professionals. It will be useful to engineering officers, IoT and AI engineers, engineering and industrial management students, and research scholars looking for new ideas, methodologies, technologies, models, frameworks, theories, and practices to resolve the challenging issues associated with leveraging IoT technologies, data-driven analytics, AI-aided models, IoT cybersecurity, 5G, sensors, and augmented and virtual reality techniques for developing smart systems in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0.




Smart Cities and Smart Spaces: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications


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As populations have continued to grow and expand, many people have made their homes in cities around the globe. With this increase in city living, it is becoming vital to create intelligent urban environments that efficiently support this growth and simultaneously provide friendly and progressive environments to both businesses and citizens alike. Smart Cities and Smart Spaces: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is an innovative reference source that discusses social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding the evolution of smart cities. Highlighting a range of topics such as smart destinations, urban planning, and intelligent communities, this multi-volume book is designed for engineers, architects, facility managers, policymakers, academicians, and researchers interested in expanding their knowledge on the emerging trends and topics involving smart cities.




SMART Methodology


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The New Discipline in IT: Applications Support and Maintenance (ASM) Today's CIOs are charged with an ever-broadening range of responsibilities, chief among them aligning IT with business objectives, and using IT to move the business forward. New technologies and applications that provide businesses with efficiency improvements or competitive advantages are where CIOs' careers are made...or broken. Now consider the fact that up to 90% of enterprise IT spending, and the bulk of CIO attention, is paid not to strategic priorities or future developments, but to the support of existing systems. Only recently have IT leaders begun to appreciate this fact, and that Applications Support and Maintenance (ASM) requires its own skill sets, culture and best practices. Formerly the silent majority of IT spending, ASM today is the newest IT discipline. SMART Methodology: Best Practices in ASM SMART Methodology: The Only Authoritative Guide to Creating a Successful Applications Support and Maintenance Environment, details what amounts to the industry's first established best practices in supporting, maintaining and enhancing existing applications. Based on more than 25 years of research, development and implementation, SMART Methodology details practices including: The Continuous Lifecycle Methodology Application Taxonomy Benchmarks and Service Levels Support and Maintenance Tools Support and Maintenance Maturity Levels Governance and Change Control Reporting and Documentation Corporate Culture For more information about RIS, please go to www.risglobal.com Rave Reviews for SMART Methodology "The industry has been in need of a book like SMART Methodology for years" "Finally a detailed, thorough and established set of best practices for ASM" "Clearly based on seasoned, focused experience in supporting mission-critical IT applications" "Thorough, well thought out, and the first book of its kind" "SMART is a leading edge practice and should soon be the industry standard."




Understanding Smart Cities: A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick?


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This book investigates the role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and e-government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights their importance to the welfare of society. The book offers specific, measurable, and action-oriented public sector planning and management principles and ideas for smart governance in the era of global urbanization and innovation to help with the challenges in maintaining the democratic system of checks and balances as well as the division of powers in a highly interconnected world. The book will be of interest researchers, practitioners, students, and public sector IT professionals that work within innovation management, public administration, urban technologies and urban innovation, and public local administration studies.




Handbook of Research on Smart Technology Applications in the Tourism Industry


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In today’s modernized society, certain technologies have become more applicable within many professional fields and are much easier to implement. This includes the tourism industry, where smart technology has provided a range of new marketing possibilities including more effective sales tactics and delivering a more personalized customer experience. As the scope of business analytics continues to expand, professionals need research on the various applications of smart technology within the field of tourism. The Handbook of Research on Smart Technology Applications in the Tourism Industry is an essential reference source that discusses the use of intelligent systems in tourism as well as their influence on consumer relationships. Featuring research on topics such as digital advertising, wearable technology, and consumer behavior, this book is ideally designed for travel agents, tour developers, restaurateurs, hotel managers, tour directors, airlines, marketers, researchers, managers, hospitality professionals, policymakers, business strategists, researchers, academicians, and students seeking coverage on the use of smart technologies in tourism.