Search

This book is a compilation of research papers and presentations from the Fourth Annual International Conference on Data Science, Machine Learning and Blockchain Technology (AICDMB 2023, Mysuru, India, 16-17 March 2023). The book covers a wide range of topics, including data mining, natural language processing, deep learning, computer vision, big data analytics, cryptography, smart contracts, decentralized applications, and blockchain-based solutions for various industries such as healthcare, finance, and supply chain management.The research papers presented in this book highlight the latest advancements and practical applications in data science, machine learning, and blockchain technology, and provide insights into the future direction of these fields. The book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, students, and professionals in the areas of data science, machine learning, and blockchain technology.

Data science ethics is all about what is right and wrong when conducting data science. Data science has so far been primarily used for positive outcomes for businesses and society. However, just as with any technology, data science has also come with some negative consequences: an increase of privacy invasion, data-driven discrimination against sensitive groups, and decision making by complex models without explanations. While data scientists and business managers are not inherently unethical, they are not trained to weigh the ethical considerations that come from their work - Data Science Ethics addresses this increasingly significant gap and highlights different concepts and techniques that aid understanding, ranging from k-anonymity and differential privacy to homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs to address privacy concerns, techniques to remove discrimination against sensitive groups, and various explainable AI techniques. Real-life cautionary tales further illustrate the importance and potential impact of data science ethics, including tales of racist bots, search censoring, government backdoors, and face recognition. The book is punctuated with structured exercises that provide hypothetical scenarios and ethical dilemmas for reflection that teach readers how to balance the ethical concerns and the utility of data.

If you want to'change lives, change organizations, change the world,'the Stanford business school's motto, you need power.Is power the last dirty secret or the secret to success? Both. While power carries some negative connotations, power is a tool that can be used for good or evil. Don't blame the tool for how some people used it. If fully understood and harnessed effectively, power skills and understanding become the keys to increasing salaries, job satisfaction, career advancement, organizational change, and, happiness. In 7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, provides the insights that have made both his online and on-campus classes incredibly popular—with life-changing results often achieved in 8 or 10 weeks. Rooted firmly in social science research, Pfeffer's 7 rules provide a manual for increasing your ability to get things done, including increasing the positive effects of your job performance. The 7 rules are: 1) Get out of your own way.2) Break the rules.3) Show up in powerful fashion.4) Create a powerful brand.5) Network relentlessly.6) Use your power.7) Understand that once you have acquired power, what you did to get it will be forgiven, forgotten, or both. With 7 Rules of Power, you'll learn, through both numerous examples as well as research evidence, how to accomplish change in your organization, your life, the lives of others, and the world.

Sprachassistenten und Künstliche Intelligenz sind aus dem modernen Leben und dem Marketing vieler Unternehmen nicht mehr wegzudenken. Ein wichtiges Kriterium einer vernetzen Welt ist, dass nicht nur der Anwender, sondern zusehends auch die Produkte intelligent sind. Im Zentrum dieses »Smart Living« stehen Sprachassistenten. Aus rechtlicher Perspektive wirft das Dazwischentreten eines zunehmend autonom handelnden maschinellen Assistenten zahlreiche Fragen auf. So gilt es unter anderem zu klären, wem die Handlungen des Sprachassistenten zugerechnet werden müssen bzw. wer haftet, falls durch bewusste oder unbewusste Handlungen des Sprachassistenten einem Dritten Schäden zugefügt werden. Ferner ist zu beleuchten, wem die Inhalte, die der Sprachassistent möglicherweise schafft, zuzuordnen sind. Auch das Datenschutzrecht, seit Einführung der DSGVO von gesteigerter Relevanz und viel diskutiert, darf in einer datenzentrierten Umgebung, wie es der Einsatz von Sprachassistenten im Speziellen und das Konzept Smart Living im Allgemeinen mit sich bringt, nicht vernachlässigt werden.

Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked: 1. Power: the ceaseless craving to control. 2. Money: the limitless desire to accrue great wealth. 3. Sex: the constant hunt for sexual gratification. 4. Success: the unstoppable need to achieve. 5. Legitimacy: the tireless claim to identity and equity. 6. Legacy: the endless quest to leave a permanent imprint. Each of the core chapters focuses on different lusts and features a cast of characters who bring lust to life. In the real world leaders who lust can and often do have an enduring impact. This book therefore is counterintuitive - it focuses not on moderation, but on immoderation.

Verbrechen verhindern bevor sie geschehen? Dieses verlockende Narrativ ist nicht länger nur Science-Fiction. Computergestützte Systeme mit dem Ziel kriminelles Verhalten vorauszusagen werden weltweit eingesetzt. Die Autorin beleuchtet diesen Einsatz kritisch mit rechtswissenschaftlich-interdisziplinärem Zugang. Sie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Technologie eine Aushöhlung verfassungsrechtlicher Garantien mit sich bringt und beachtliche Risiken für Rechtsstaat und Gesellschaft birgt. Insbesondere droht sich die Kriminalitätskontrolle in eine – in Anlehnung an Arendt – selbstauferlegte Gedankenlosigkeit zu begeben. Die Arbeit schließt mit einem Vorschlag für Mindestanforderungen, an denen sich die Technologie in Zukunft orientieren sollte.

The six volume set LNCS 11361-11366 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2018, held in Perth, Australia, in December 2018. The total of 274 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 979 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers focus on motion and tracking, segmentation and grouping, image-based modeling, dep learning, object recognition object recognition, object detection and categorization, vision and language, video analysis and event recognition, face and gesture analysis, statistical methods and learning, performance evaluation, medical image analysis, document analysis, optimization methods, RGBD and depth camera processing, robotic vision, applications of computer vision.

Ein inspirierender Ratgeber für alle die wissen möchten, wie wir unsere Welt gemeinsam besser machen können. Der bekannte Buddhist Matthieu Ricard und die Empathie-Forscherin Tania Singer sind Herausgeber dieses wissenschaftlichen Ratgebers. Dieser fasst die Mind & Life Conference 2016 in Brüssel zusammen, die unter der Schirmherrschaft des Dalai Lama zum Thema'Fürsorge und Macht'stattfand. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Fragestellung, welche Forschungsergebnisse heute dazu beitragen können, eine bessere gemeinsame Zukunft zu gestalten und das Überleben der Menschheit zu sichern. 19 weltweit bekannte Wissenschaftler und Buddhisten berichten über ihre jeweiligen Forschungsbereiche und machen Vorschläge für konkretes Handeln. Dabei wird auf faszinierende Weise deutlich, welche Rolle Fürsorge in der Entwicklungsgeschichte der Menschheit gespielt hat, wie sie das Überleben im Tierreich sichert, welchen Einfluss sie auf die neuronalen Verknüpfungen in unserem Gehirn hat und auch aus Ökonomie, nachhaltigem Handeln und globaler Verantwortung nicht mehr wegzudenken ist. Jeder Artikel wird vom Dalai Lama kommentiert, der die Relevanz verdeutlicht: ein inspirierender Brückenschlag von Buddhismus und Wissenschaft, der konkrete Maßnahmen aufzeigt, was jeder Einzelne tun kann, um einen sinnvollen Beitrag in dieser Welt zu leisten.Matthieu Ricard arbeitete als Forscher auf dem Gebiet der Molekularbiologie, ehe er seine Berufung zum Buddhismus erkannte. Seit 25 Jahren lebt er als buddhistischer Mönch in den tibetischen Klöstern des Himalaya. Er übersetzt Werke aus dem Tibetischen und ist der offizielle Französischübersetzer des Dalai Lama.

This handbook provides an overarching view of cyber security and digital forensic challenges related to big data and IoT environment, prior to reviewing existing data mining solutions and their potential application in big data context, and existing authentication and access control for IoT devices. An IoT access control scheme and an IoT forensic framework is also presented in this book, and it explains how the IoT forensic framework can be used to guide investigation of a popular cloud storage service. A distributed file system forensic approach is also presented, which is used to guide the investigation of Ceph. Minecraft, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, and the Hadoop distributed file system environment are also forensically studied and their findings reported in this book. A forensic IoT source camera identification algorithm is introduced, which uses the camera's sensor pattern noise from the captured image. In addition to the IoT access control and forensic frameworks, this handbook covers a cyber defense triage process for nine advanced persistent threat (APT) groups targeting IoT infrastructure, namely: APT1, Molerats, Silent Chollima, Shell Crew, NetTraveler, ProjectSauron, CopyKittens, Volatile Cedar and Transparent Tribe. The characteristics of remote-controlled real-world Trojans using the Cyber Kill Chain are also examined. It introduces a method to leverage different crashes discovered from two fuzzing approaches, which can be used to enhance the effectiveness of fuzzers. Cloud computing is also often associated with IoT and big data (e.g., cloud-enabled IoT systems), and hence a survey of the cloud security literature and a survey of botnet detection approaches are presented in the book. Finally, game security solutions are studied and explained how one may circumvent such solutions. This handbook targets the security, privacy and forensics research community, and big data research community, including policy makers and government agencies, public and private organizations policy makers. Undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in cyber security and forensic programs will also find this handbook useful as a reference.

Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human wellbeing and compassion. These conversations, which began as private meetings, are now part of the Mind & Life Institute and Mind & Life Europe. This book documents a recent Mind & Life Institute dialogue with the Dalai Lama and others on two fundamental forces: power and care—power over and care for others in human societies.The notion of power is essentially neutral; power can be used to benefit others or to harm them, to build or to destroy. Care, on the other hand, is not a neutral force; it aims at increasing the wellbeing of others. Power and care are not incompatible: power, imbued with care, can achieve more than a powerless motivation to care; power, without the intention to benefit others, can be ruthless. The contributors—who include such celebrated figures as Frans B. M. de Waal, Olafur Eliasson, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, and Jody Williams—discuss topics including the interaction of power and care among our closest relatives, the chimpanzees; the effect of meditation and mental training practices on the brain; the role of religion in promoting peace and compassion; and the new field of Caring Economics.ContributorsPaul Collier, Brother Thierry-Marie Courau, Frans B. M. de Waal, Olafur Eliasson, Scilla Elworthy, Alexandra M. Freund, Tenzin Gyatso (His Holiness the Dalai Lama), Markus Heinrichs, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Frédéric Laloux, Alaa Murabit, Matthieu Ricard, Johan Rockström, Richard Schwartz, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, Theo Sowa, Pauline Tangiora, Jody Williams

The five-volume set LNCS 10111-10115 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2016.The total of 143 contributions presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 479 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Segmentation and Classification; Segmentation and Semantic Segmentation; Dictionary Learning, Retrieval, and Clustering; Deep Learning; People Tracking and Action Recognition; People and Actions; Faces; Computational Photography; Face and Gestures; Image Alignment; Computational Photography and Image Processing; Language and Video; 3D Computer Vision; Image Attributes, Language, and Recognition; Video Understanding; and 3D Vision.

For more than 45 years, Research Centers Directory has reported on the programs, facilities, publications, educational efforts and services of North America's leading university and nonprofit research institutes. The current edition of this indispensable reference describes centers and includes URLs and e-mail addresses for the majority of entries. This title is organized into 17 subject sections with the sections grouped into 5 broad categories. Includes thousands of websites and emails and has multiple access points through four indexes: subject, geographic, personal name and master.

The five-volume set LNCS 10111-10115 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2016.The total of 143 contributions presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 479 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Segmentation and Classification; Segmentation and Semantic Segmentation; Dictionary Learning, Retrieval, and Clustering; Deep Learning; People Tracking and Action Recognition; People and Actions; Faces; Computational Photography; Face and Gestures; Image Alignment; Computational Photography and Image Processing; Language and Video; 3D Computer Vision; Image Attributes, Language, and Recognition; Video Understanding; and 3D Vision.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2013, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, in Rome, Italy, in March 2013. The 14 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. They deal with the theoretical and foundational aspects of security and trust such as new theoretical results, practical applications of existing foundational ideas, and innovative theoretical approaches stimulated by pressing practical problems.

Das Internet ist eine der bedeutendsten technologischen Errungenschaften der Geschichte. Es erlaubt Menschen in aller Welt Zugang zu umfassenden Informationen, unterstützt die weltweite Kommunikation und Vernetzung und fungiert als globaler Marktplatz. Dabei bieten die vielfältigen Angebote im Internet jedoch nicht nur Chancen; sie werfen auch Fragen des Datenschutzes, der Persönlichkeitsentfaltung und der Privatsphäre auf. Dieses Phänomen wird gemeinhin als das Privatheitsparadoxon bezeichnet.Aufgrund der großen Bedeutung von Privatheit im Internet hat acatech 2011 ein Projekt initiiert, das sich mit dem Privatheitsparadoxon wissenschaftlich auseinandersetzt. Dieser Band ist der erste Teil einer acatech STUDIE zum Projekt „Internet Privacy – Eine Kultur der Privatsphäre und des Vertrauens im Internet“. Die Autoren leisten eine Bestandsaufnahme der existierenden individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen von Privatsphäre im Internet sowie der entsprechenden rechtlichen, technischen, ökonomischen und ethischen Rahmenbedingungen.

One of the most challenging issues facing our current information society is the accelerating accumulation of data trails in transactional and communication systems, which may be used not only to profile the behaviour of individuals for commercial, marketing and law enforcement purposes, but also to locate and follow things and actions. Data mining, convergence, interoperability, ever- increasing computer capacities and the extreme miniaturisation of the hardware are all elements which contribute to a major contemporary challenge: the profiled world. This interdisciplinary volume offers twenty contributions that delve deeper into some of the complex but urgent questions that this profiled world addresses to data protection and privacy. The chapters of this volume were all presented at the second Conference on Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP2009) held in Brussels in January 2009 (www.cpdpconferences.org). The yearly CPDP conferences aim to become Europe's most important meeting where academics, practitioners, policy-makers and activists come together to exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues in information technology, privacy and data protection and law. This volume reflects the richness of the conference, containing chapters by leading lawyers, policymakers, computer, technology assessment and social scientists. The chapters cover generic themes such as the evolution of a new generation of data protection laws and the constitutionalisation of data protection and more specific issues like security breaches, unsolicited adjustments, social networks, surveillance and electronic voting. This book not only offers a very close and timely look on the state of data protection and privacy in our profiled world, but it also explores and invents ways to make sure this world remains a world we want to live in.

The interconnected ideas of inductive databases and constraint-based mining are appealing and have the potential to radically change the theory and practice of data mining and knowledge discovery. This book reports on the results of the European IST project'cInQ'(consortium on knowledge discovery by Inductive Queries) and its final workshop entitled Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases organized in Hinterzarten, Germany in March 2004.

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Very Large Data Bases held in Toronto, Canada on August 31 - September 3 2004. Organized by the VLDB Endowment, VLDB is the premier international conference on database technology.