Download or read book Faithful Metrics written by Peggy Hahn and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past is a powerful influencer of the future. If we let them, the decisions we made yesterday will determine what is possible tomorrow. Our past processes, assumptions, relationships, and ways of thinking about church, faith, God, and our own life have worked for us in the past. Being locked in to these previous conditions for success and general theological groundings tends to reinforce a path that is inherently filled with assumptions - assumptions that Hahn, in Faithful Metrics believes can and should be questioned.Questioning these perspectives is not a critique of the past, yet people will often feel reactive, defensive, or sad people about potential change. Instead, it is an opportunity to disable constraints that may be limiting us from catching up to a creative and creating God. How we think about church - our preconceptions, the stories we tell ourselves, and the culture we have become locked into - is preventing us from moving from a victim mindset to a more productive learner mindset.Faithful Metrics is a field guide for us as leaders who want to do more than talk about a path forward. We can surface and name the tendencies and biases we have as a group while we reflect on our language and what we mean by it. We can ask new questions. We can set metrics that are both faithful and freeing as we consider ways to empower our community to be revitalized. As church leaders, we can be freed from our obsession to compare ourselves to other congregations. It is hard to find examples of really amazing things that happen solely due to competition. Rather than a focus on being better than XYZ congregation, leaders can ask better questions.What has God uniquely gifted and called us to do in this neighborhood?Where can we make an amazing contribution to the world as we live out of the compassionate grace of God in our own lives? The metrics we set can help us make incremental shifts that reveal more about our place in God's world. What we measure matters. We are not another non-profit organization. We are the church. We can set metrics that support our shared values and purpose for a different future.

Download or read book Brand Metrics written by Jacek Kall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers and explains the key brand analysis tools that measure brand effectiveness and awareness along the customer journey. Rather than considering how to build and manage a brand, Brand Metrics shows students the methods by which they can assess the current market position of the brand and design effective strategies for the future. Each chapter follows the same logical and accessible structure, defining each metric and its usage, presenting the calculations, showing how the data should be interpreted, offering case studies and examples, presenting recommendations and offering questions for further discussion. The metrics covered in the book correspond with the customer journey, moving through measuring brand awareness, consideration and purchase, to customer loyalty and brand advocacy, and finally an overall analysis of the brand’s strength. The book not only shows the formula for a metric and explains how it should be interpreted, but also considers what each metric really measures, how it impacts the brand’s equity and how it is related to other metrics. As such it should be perfect recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Strategic Brand Management, Marketing Planning and Strategy, Marketing and Branding Metrics.

Download or read book Graph Drawing and Network Visualization written by David Auber and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2020, which was held during September 16-18, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Vancouver, Canada, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 29 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: gradient descent and queue layouts; drawing tree-like graphs, visualization, and special drawings of elementary graphs; restricted drawings of special graph classes; orthogonality; topological constraints; crossings, k-planar graphs; planarity; graphs drawing contest.

Download or read book Graph Drawing and Network Visualization written by Patrizio Angelini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2022, held in Tokyo, Japan, during September 13-16, 2022. The 25 full papers, 7 short papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, one report on graph drawing contest, and one obituary in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The abstracts of 5 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: properties of drawings of complete graphs; stress-based visualizations of graphs; planar and orthogonal drawings; drawings and properties of directed graphs; beyond planarity; dynamic graph visualization; linear layouts; and contact and visibility graph representations.

Download or read book Database Systems for Advanced Applications written by Arnab Bhattacharya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. Additionally, 13 industrial papers, 9 demo papers and 2 PhD consortium papers are included. The conference was planned to take place in Hyderabad, India, but it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Download or read book ECAI 2023 written by K. Gal and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 3328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence, or AI, now affects the day-to-day life of almost everyone on the planet, and continues to be a perennial hot topic in the news. This book presents the proceedings of ECAI 2023, the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and of PAIS 2023, the 12th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, held from 30 September to 4 October 2023 and on 3 October 2023 respectively in Kraków, Poland. Since 1974, ECAI has been the premier venue for presenting AI research in Europe, and this annual conference has become the place for researchers and practitioners of AI to discuss the latest trends and challenges in all subfields of AI, and to demonstrate innovative applications and uses of advanced AI technology. ECAI 2023 received 1896 submissions – a record number – of which 1691 were retained for review, ultimately resulting in an acceptance rate of 23%. The 390 papers included here, cover topics including machine learning, natural language processing, multi agent systems, and vision and knowledge representation and reasoning. PAIS 2023 received 17 submissions, of which 10 were accepted after a rigorous review process. Those 10 papers cover topics ranging from fostering better working environments, behavior modeling and citizen science to large language models and neuro-symbolic applications, and are also included here. Presenting a comprehensive overview of current research and developments in AI, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Download or read book Embedded Systems Handbook written by Richard Zurawski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered a standard industry resource, the Embedded Systems Handbook provided researchers and technicians with the authoritative information needed to launch a wealth of diverse applications, including those in automotive electronics, industrial automated systems, and building automation and control. Now a new resource is required to report on current developments and provide a technical reference for those looking to move the field forward yet again. Divided into two volumes to accommodate this growth, the Embedded Systems Handbook, Second Edition presents a comprehensive view on this area of computer engineering with a currently appropriate emphasis on developments in networking and applications. Those experts directly involved in the creation and evolution of the ideas and technologies presented offer tutorials, research surveys, and technology overviews that explore cutting-edge developments and deployments and identify potential trends. This second self-contained volume of the handbook, Network Embedded Systems, focuses on select application areas. It covers automotive field, industrial automation, building automation, and wireless sensor networks. This volume highlights implementations in fast-evolving areas which have not received proper coverage in other publications. Reflecting the unique functional requirements of different application areas, the contributors discuss inter-node communication aspects in the context of specific applications of networked embedded systems. Those looking for guidance on preliminary design of embedded systems should consult the first volume: Embedded Systems Design and Verification.

Download or read book Business Process Management Workshops written by Chiara Di Francescomarino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised papers from the twelve International Workshops held at the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019: The third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management (AI4BPM) The third International Workshop on Business Processes Meet Internet-of-Things (BP-Meet-IoT) The 15th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI) The first International Workshop on Business Process Management in the era of Digital Innovation and Transformation (BPMinDIT) The 12th International Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2) The 7th International Workshop on Declarative, Decision and Hybrid approaches to processes (DEC2H) The second International Workshop on Methods for Interpretation of Industrial Event Logs (MIEL) The first International Workshop on Process Management in Digital Production (PM-DiPro) The second International Workshop on Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare (PODS4H) The fourth International Workshop on Process Querying (PQ) The second International Workshop on Security and Privacy-enhanced Business Process Management (SPBP) The first International Workshop on the Value and Quality of Enterprise Modelling (VEnMo) Each of the workshops discussed research still in progress and focused on aspects of business process management, either a particular technical aspect or a particular application domain. These proceedings present the work that was discussed during the workshops.

Download or read book Pattern Recognition Computer Vision and Image Processing ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 4-volumes set constitutes the proceedings of the ICPR 2022 Workshops of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2022, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 2023. The 167 full papers presented in these 4 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. ICPR workshops covered domains related to pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, computer vision, image and sound analysis. Workshops’ contributions reflected the most recent applications related to healthcare, biometrics, ethics, multimodality, cultural heritage, imagery, affective computing, etc.

Download or read book Predicting Market Success written by Robert Passikoff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Predicting Market Success "Predicting Market Success has come at the right time for major companies. The value of understanding the dimensions of your brand's unique appeal and strength of preference is indispensable for brand strategy today. This book is well worth your time." —Joseph T. Plummer, Chief Research OfficerThe Advertising Research Foundation "In the competitive world of branding, understanding what drives consumer loyalty is the cornerstone of a brand's continued success. Passikoff's market-driven insights on how to obtain, analyze, and utilize loyalty metrics will help you make strategic, brand-enhancing decisions." —Seth M. Siegel, Cochairman, The Beanstalk Group "Passikoff is the guy who can explain to me why people buy certain things from certain companies, even though other things by other companies seem just as good. With his great feel for pop culture and almost philosophical outlook, he understands what makes consumers tick-and stick." —Lenore Skenazy, syndicated columnist "Loyalty is a key component of the strength of a brand and brand equity, and Passikoff understands loyalty like few others. In this book, he captures the essence of loyalty and branding in a practical way-showing how loyalty drives profitability." —Erich Joachimsthaler, Chairman, Vivaldi Partners "If you want a business book that will make you feel justified, complimented, and comfortable, don't read this. If you want a book to challenge your beliefs about brand marketing right down to the core, you can't afford not to." —John Gaffney, Executive Editor, Peppers & Rogers Group

Download or read book Translational Neuroscience written by Karoly Nikolich and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts from academia and industry discuss how to create a new, more effective translational neuroscience drawing on novel technology and recent discoveries. Today, translational neuroscience faces significant challenges. Available therapies to treat brain and nervous system disorders are extremely limited and dated, and further development has effectively ceased. Disinvestment by the private sector occurred just as promising new technologies in genomics, stem cell biology, and neuroscience emerged to offer new possibilities. In this volume, experts from both academia and industry discuss how novel technologies and reworked translation concepts can create a more effective translational neuroscience. The contributors consider such topics as using genomics and neuroscience for better diagnostics and biomarker identification; new approaches to disease based on stem cell technology and more careful use of animal models; and greater attention to human biology and what it will take to make new therapies available for clinical use. They conclude with a conceptual roadmap for an effective and credible translational neuroscience—one informed by a disease-focused knowledge base and clinical experience. Contributors Tobias M. Böckers, Thomas Bourgeron, Karl Broich, Nils Brose, Bruce N. Cuthbert, Ilka Diester, Gül Dölen, Guoping Feng, Richard Frackowiak, Raquel E. Gur, Stephan Heckers, Franz Hefti, David M. Holtzman, Steven E. Hyman, Nancy Ip, Cynthia Joyce, Tobias Kaiser, Edward H. Koo, Walter J. Koroshetz, Katja S. Kroker, Robert C. Malenka, Isabelle Mansuy, Eliezer, Masliah, Yuan Mei, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Lennart Mucke, Pierluigi Nicotera, Karoly Nikolich, Michael J. Owen, Menelas N. Pangalos, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Joel S. Perlmutter, Trevor W. Robbins, Lee L. Rubin, Akira Sawa, Mareike Schnaars, Bernd Sommer, Maria Grazia Spillantini, Laura Spinney, Matthew W. State, Marius Wernig

Download or read book Explainable Artificial Intelligence written by Luca Longo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Embedded Systems Handbook 2 Volume Set written by Richard Zurawski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 1503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past few years there has been an dramatic upsurge in research and development, implementations of new technologies, and deployments of actual solutions and technologies in the diverse application areas of embedded systems. These areas include automotive electronics, industrial automated systems, and building automation and control. Comprising 48 chapters and the contributions of 74 leading experts from industry and academia, the Embedded Systems Handbook, Second Edition presents a comprehensive view of embedded systems: their design, verification, networking, and applications. The contributors, directly involved in the creation and evolution of the ideas and technologies presented, offer tutorials, research surveys, and technology overviews, exploring new developments, deployments, and trends. To accommodate the tremendous growth in the field, the handbook is now divided into two volumes. New in This Edition: Processors for embedded systems Processor-centric architecture description languages Networked embedded systems in the automotive and industrial automation fields Wireless embedded systems Embedded Systems Design and Verification Volume I of the handbook is divided into three sections. It begins with a brief introduction to embedded systems design and verification. The book then provides a comprehensive overview of embedded processors and various aspects of system-on-chip and FPGA, as well as solutions to design challenges. The final section explores power-aware embedded computing, design issues specific to secure embedded systems, and web services for embedded devices. Networked Embedded Systems Volume II focuses on selected application areas of networked embedded systems. It covers automotive field, industrial automation, building automation, and wireless sensor networks. This volume highlights implementations in fast-evolving areas which have not received proper coverage in other publications. Reflecting the unique functional requirements of different application areas, the contributors discuss inter-node communication aspects in the context of specific applications of networked embedded systems.

Download or read book Confident DevOps written by Mark Peters and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global DevOps market is valued at over $8 billion. But this vital sector remains complex and intimidating for many. Unlock your full potential and uncover the key insights with Confident DevOps. DevOps is defined by the practices, methodologies and tools which are necessary for any software development endeavour to succeed. It is a unique and fascinating discipline, which requires technical expertise, managerial skills and strong communication skills. Confident DevOps guides you through the entire software development lifecycle. offering insights on key topics including system architecture and cyber security. With fascinating insights on the various career paths and opportunities, this book offers the practical skills, knowledge and confidence you need to develop your DevOps expertise and pursue a successful career. About the Confident series... From coding and data science to cloud and cyber security, the Confident books are perfect for building your technical knowledge and enhancing your professional career.

Download or read book Graph Data Management written by George Fletcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive overview of fundamental issues and recent advances in graph data management. Its aim is to provide beginning researchers in the area of graph data management, or in fields that require graph data management, an overview of the latest developments in this area, both in applied and in fundamental subdomains. The topics covered range from a general introduction to graph data management, to more specialized topics like graph visualization, flexible queries of graph data, parallel processing, and benchmarking. The book will help researchers put their work in perspective and show them which types of tools, techniques and technologies are available, which ones could best suit their needs, and where there are still open issues and future research directions. The chapters are contributed by leading experts in the relevant areas, presenting a coherent overview of the state of the art in the field. Readers should have a basic knowledge of data management techniques as they are taught in computer science MSc programs.

Download or read book Ultrafilters Throughout Mathematics written by Isaac Goldbring and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultrafilters and ultraproducts provide a useful generalization of the ordinary limit processes which have applications to many areas of mathematics. Typically, this topic is presented to students in specialized courses such as logic, functional analysis, or geometric group theory. In this book, the basic facts about ultrafilters and ultraproducts are presented to readers with no prior knowledge of the subject and then these techniques are applied to a wide variety of topics. The first part of the book deals solely with ultrafilters and presents applications to voting theory, combinatorics, and topology, while also dealing also with foundational issues. The second part presents the classical ultraproduct construction and provides applications to algebra, number theory, and nonstandard analysis. The third part discusses a metric generalization of the ultraproduct construction and gives example applications to geometric group theory and functional analysis. The final section returns to more advanced topics of a more foundational nature. The book should be of interest to undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers from all areas of mathematics interested in learning how ultrafilters and ultraproducts can be applied to their specialty.

Download or read book Deep Learning and XAI Techniques for Anomaly Detection written by Cher Simon and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create interpretable AI models for transparent and explainable anomaly detection with this hands-on guide Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key FeaturesBuild auditable XAI models for replicability and regulatory complianceDerive critical insights from transparent anomaly detection modelsStrike the right balance between model accuracy and interpretabilityBook Description Despite promising advances, the opaque nature of deep learning models makes it difficult to interpret them, which is a drawback in terms of their practical deployment and regulatory compliance. Deep Learning and XAI Techniques for Anomaly Detection shows you state-of-the-art methods that'll help you to understand and address these challenges. By leveraging the Explainable AI (XAI) and deep learning techniques described in this book, you'll discover how to successfully extract business-critical insights while ensuring fair and ethical analysis. This practical guide will provide you with tools and best practices to achieve transparency and interpretability with deep learning models, ultimately establishing trust in your anomaly detection applications. Throughout the chapters, you'll get equipped with XAI and anomaly detection knowledge that'll enable you to embark on a series of real-world projects. Whether you are building computer vision, natural language processing, or time series models, you'll learn how to quantify and assess their explainability. By the end of this deep learning book, you'll be able to build a variety of deep learning XAI models and perform validation to assess their explainability. What you will learnExplore deep learning frameworks for anomaly detectionMitigate bias to ensure unbiased and ethical analysisIncrease your privacy and regulatory compliance awarenessBuild deep learning anomaly detectors in several domainsCompare intrinsic and post hoc explainability methodsExamine backpropagation and perturbation methodsConduct model-agnostic and model-specific explainability techniquesEvaluate the explainability of your deep learning modelsWho this book is for This book is for anyone who aspires to explore explainable deep learning anomaly detection, tenured data scientists or ML practitioners looking for Explainable AI (XAI) best practices, or business leaders looking to make decisions on trade-off between performance and interpretability of anomaly detection applications. A basic understanding of deep learning and anomaly detection–related topics using Python is recommended to get the most out of this book.