Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- About the Authors -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 1.1 Switching and Transmission -- 1.1.1 Roles of Switching and Transmission -- 1.1.2 Telephone Network Switching and Transmission Hierarchy -- 1.2 Multiplexing and Concentration -- 1.3 Timescales of Information Transfer -- 1.3.1 Sessions and Circuits -- 1.3.2 Messages -- 1.3.3 Packets and Cells -- 1.4 Broadband Integrated Services Network -- Problems -- 2 Circuit Switch Design Principles -- 2.1 Space-Domain Circuit Switching -- 2.1.1 Nonblocking Properties -- 2.1.2 Complexity of Nonblocking Switches -- 2.1.3 Clos Switching Network -- 2.1.4 Benes Switching Network -- 2.1.5 Baseline and Reverse Baseline Networks -- 2.1.6 Cantor Switching Network -- 2.2 Time-Domain and Time-Space-Time Circuit Switching -- 2.2.1 Time-Domain Switching -- 2.2.2 Time-Space-Time Switching -- Problems -- 3 Fundamental Principles of Packet Switch Design -- 3.1 Packet Contention in Switches -- 3.2 Fundamental Properties of Interconnection Networks -- 3.2.1 Definition of Banyan Networks -- 3.2.2 Simple Switches Based on Banyan Networks -- 3.2.3 Combinatoric Properties of Banyan Networks -- 3.2.4 Nonblocking Conditions for the Banyan Network -- 3.3 Sorting Networks -- 3.3.1 Basic Concepts of Comparison Networks -- 3.3.2 Sorting Networks Based on Bitonic Sort -- 3.3.3 The Odd-Even Sorting Network -- 3.3.4 Switching and Contention Resolution in Sort-Banyan Network -- 3.4 Nonblocking and Self-Routing Properties of Clos Networks -- 3.4.1 Nonblocking Route Assignment -- 3.4.2 Recursiveness Property -- 3.4.3 Basic Properties of Half-Clos Networks -- 3.4.4 Sort-Clos Principle -- Problems -- 4 Switch Performance Analysis and Design Improvements -- 4.1 Performance of Simple Switch Designs -- 4.1.1 Throughput of an Internally Nonblocking Loss System -- 4.1.2 Throughput of an Input-Buffered Switch -- 4.1.3 Delay of an Input-Buffered Switch -- 4.1.4 Delay of an Output-Buffered Switch -- 4.2 Design Improvements for Input Queueing Switches -- 4.2.1 Look-Ahead Contention Resolution…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Structure-, Conduct-, Performance-Paradigm, and the Competitive Process -- c. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Methods of communication -- Meetings -- Telephone -- Conference calls -- E-mail -- Social media -- Post -- Allocating the right people -- Who is capable of performing the task? -- Who is ideal for the task? -- Who is available? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 8: The Process Inventory Accountability Model -- Driving Employee Engagement at Spotify: Balancing Autonomy and Accountability -- Establishing a Culture of Accountability -- Process Inventory Framework Operating Model -- Process Center of Excellence (COE) -- Organizational Structure -- Process COE Process Inventory -- Lead Process Delivery -- Accountabilities -- Processes -- Required Competencies -- Manage Process Demand -- Accountabilities -- Processes -- Required Competencies -- Deliver Process Inventory and Deliver Process Models -- Accountabilities -- Processes -- Required Competencies -- Control Tower -- Accountabilities -- Processes -- Required Competencies -- Business/Functional Areas -- Process Owner -- Risk Owner -- Product Manager -- Subject Matter Experts -- Data Stewards -- Technology -- IT Asset Management -- Enterprise Architecture -- Customer Experience (CX) -- Risk -- Second Line of Defense -- Key Takeaways -- Chapter 9: Process Methods and Modeling Rules -- Unilever's Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Through Modeling Processes -- The Importance of Models -- Guiding Principles for Success -- Process Inventory -- Construct Process Inventory -- Engage Business Leaders to Plan Effort -- Best Practices -- Perform Prep Work -- Best Practices -- Standards -- Conduct Interview Sessions -- Best Practices -- Align Metadata and Perform Reviews -- Best Practices -- Conduct Readout with Leadership -- Best Practices -- Process Models -- Construct Process Models -- Identify Scope via Process Inventory -- Best Practices -- Conduct Process Modeling Workshops -- Best Practices -- Standards -- Validate and Publish -- Best Practice -- Key Takeaways -- Chapter 10: Modeling Platform and Data Infrastructure -- FedEx Dataworks: Leveraging Operational Data for Business Performance -- Business Process Analysis Platform Market…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…P-greater-than-N scenarios -- An example based on text documents -- Setting hyperparameters in a principled way -- Regression with TensorFlow -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Classification I - Detecting Poor Answers -- Sketching our roadmap -- Learning to classify classy answers -- Tuning the instance -- Tuning the classifier -- Fetching the data -- Slimming the data down to chewable chunks -- Preselecting and processing attributes -- Defining what a good answer is -- Creating our first classifier -- Engineering the features -- Training the classifier -- Measuring the classifier's performance -- Designing more features -- Deciding how to improve the performance -- Bias, variance and their trade-off -- Fixing high bias -- Fixing high variance -- High or low bias? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Better alternatives for a projection stage -- When to use set and unset -- When to use project -- The hidden danger of project -- Key projection takeaways -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Optimizing Pipelines for Performance -- Using explain plans to identify performance bottlenecks -- Viewing an explain plan -- Understanding the explain plan -- Guidance for optimizing pipeline performance -- Be cognizant of streaming vs blocking stages ordering -- Avoid unwinding and regrouping documents just to process each array's elements -- Encourage match filters to appear early in the pipeline -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Harnessing the Power of Expressions -- Aggregation expressions explained -- What do expressions produce? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Assessing your team -- Introducing team emergent states -- Prioritizing desired team emergent states -- Fostering team emergent states -- Improving team performance -- Motivating your team -- Mentoring and coaching individuals on your team -- Improving remote teams -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Fostering Accountability -- Accountability and performance -- Building an accountable team culture -- Providing guidance -- Promoting ideal behaviors -- Accountability in practice -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Managing Risk -- Why should you manage risks? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…10.3.2: Measuring the Ease of Deployment -- 10.4: Results -- 10.4.1: Inference Results -- 10.4.2: Perceived Effort -- 10.5: Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Efficient Edge Deployment Demonstrated on YOLOv5 and Coral Edge TPU -- 11.1: Introduction -- 11.2: Related Work -- 11.3: Experimental Setup -- 11.3.1: Google Coral Edge TPU -- 11.3.2: YOLOv5 -- 11.4: Performance Considerations -- 11.4.1: Graph Optimization -- 11.4.1.1: Incompatible Operations -- 11.4.1.2: Tensor Transformations -- 11.4.2: Performance Evaluation -- 11.4.2.1: Speed-Accuracy Comparison -- 11.4.2.2: USB Speed Comparison -- 11.4.3: Deployment Pipeline -- 11.5: Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Chapter 12: Embedded Edge Intelligent Processing for End-To-End Predictive Maintenance in Industrial Applications -- 12.1: Introduction and Background -- 12.2: Machine and Deep Learning for Embedded Edge Predictive Maintenance -- 12.3: Approaches for Predictive Maintenance -- 12.3.1: Hardware and Software Platforms -- 12.3.2: Motor Classification Use Case -- 12.4: Experimental Setup -- 12.4.1: Signal Data Acquisition and Pre-processing -- 12.4.2: Feature Extraction, ML/DL Model Selection and Training -- 12.4.3: Optimisation and Tuning Performance -- 12.4.4: Testing -- 12.4.5: Deployment -- 12.4.6: Inference -- 12.5: Discussion and Future Work -- References -- Chapter 13: AI-Driven Strategies to Implement a Grapevine Downy Mildew Warning System -- 13.1: Introduction -- 13.2: Research Material and Methodology -- 13.2.1: Datasets -- 13.2.2: Labelling Methodology -- 13.3: Machine Learning Models -- 13.4: Results -- 13.4.1: Primary Mildew Infection Alerts -- 13.4.2: Secondary Mildew Infection Alerts -- 13.5: Discussion -- 13.6: Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: On the Verification of Diagnosis Models -- 14.1: Introduction -- 14.2: The Model Testing Challenge -- 14.3: Use Case…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding coordinate conversion -- Understanding reprojection -- Understanding coordinate format conversion -- Calculating the area of a polygon -- Using ChatGPT to measure a polygon perimeter -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Creating and Editing GIS Data -- Technical requirements -- Editing shapefiles -- Accessing the shapefile -- Changing a shapefile -- Adding fields -- Merging shapefiles -- Splitting shapefiles -- Performing selections -- Aggregating geometry -- Extracting geometry -- Connecting polygon faces to the nearest line point -- Creating images for visualization -- Dot density calculations -- Choropleth maps -- Using spreadsheets -- Creating heat maps -- Using GPS data -- Turning addresses into points with geocoding -- Performing GIS analysis faster with multiprocessing -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Python and Remote Sensing -- Technical requirements -- Examining raster data properties -- Swapping image bands -- Creating image histograms -- Performing a histogram stretch -- Clipping images -- Classifying images -- Extracting features from images -- Understanding change detection -- Extracting image footprints using ChatGPT -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 8: Python and Elevation Data -- Technical requirements -- Accessing ASCII Grid files -- Reading grids -- Writing grids -- Creating a shaded relief -- Creating elevation contours -- Working with LiDAR data -- Creating a grid from the LiDAR data -- Using PIL to visualize LiDAR data -- Creating a triangulated irregular network -- Colorizing LiDAR with aerial images -- Classifying LiDAR -- Working with bathymetry -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Part 3: Practical Geospatial Processing Techniques -- Chapter 9: Advanced Geospatial Modeling -- Technical requirements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indicateurs de compétitivité et performance à l'exportation -- Le marché du travail s'est détérioré -- Tableau 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Production potentielle et écart de production -- Graphique 2. Performances macroéconomiques -- Graphique 3. Contributions à la croissance du PIB réel -- Graphique 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Les réformes structurelles pourraient améliorer encore les performances -- Graphique 14. Structure de la population d'âge actif -- Tableau 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indicateurs de compétitivité et performance à l'exportation -- Graphique 6. Contributions à la croissance du PIB -- Les créations d'emploi ralentissent -- Graphique 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table des matières -- Évaluation et recommandations -- I. Performances macroéconomiques -- Évolution macroéconomique : l'économie ralentit -- Les dépenses des ménages ont ralenti -- Graphique 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 Introduction 1 -- 1.1 The Telecommunications/ICT Sector in the Twenty-First Century 2 -- 1.2 Convergence of the Telecom and Internet Worlds and QoS 4 -- 1.3 Introduction to QoS, QoE, and Network Performance 9 -- 1.3.1 Quality of Service (QoS) Definition 10 -- 1.3.2 Quality of Experience (QoE) 11 -- 1.3.3 Network Performance (NP) 12 -- 1.3.4 QoS, QoE, and NP Relations 13 -- 1.4 ITU’s QoS Framework 14 -- 1.4.1 Universal Model 14 -- 1.4.2 Performance Model 15 -- 1.4.3 Four-Market Model 17 -- 1.5 QoE Concepts and Standards 18 -- 1.5.1 QoE and QoS Comparison 18 -- 1.5.2 QoS and QoE Standards 19 -- 1.6 General QoS Terminology 20 -- 1.7 Discussion 21 -- References 23 -- 2 Internet QoS 25 -- 2.1 Overview of Internet Technology Protocols 25 -- 2.1.1 Internet Network Layer Protocols: IPv4 and IPv6 26 -- 2.1.2 Main Internet Transport Layer Protocols: TCP and UDP 28 -- 2.1.3 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - DHCP 32 -- 2.1.4 Domain Name System - DNS 32 -- 2.1.5 Internet Fundamental Applications 34 -- 2.1.5.1 Web Technology 34 -- 2.1.5.2 File Transfer Protocol (FTP) 34 -- 2.1.5.3 Email Protocols 35 -- 2.2 Fundamental Internet Network Architectures 35 -- 2.2.1 Client-Server Internet Networking 35 -- 2.2.2 Peer-to-Peer Internet Networking 36 -- 2.2.3 Basic Internet Network Architectures 36 -- 2.2.4 Autonomous Systems on the Internet 38 -- 2.3 Internet Traffic Characterization 39 -- 2.3.1 Audio Traffic Characterization 40 -- 2.3.2 Video Traffic Characterization 40 -- 2.3.3 Non-Real-Time Traffic Characterization 42 -- 2.4 QoS on Different Protocols Layers 44 -- 2.5 Traffic Management Techniques 45 -- 2.5.1 Classification of IP Packets 46 -- 2.5.2 Packet Classification From the Technical Side 46 -- 2.5.3 Packet Scheduling 47 -- 2.5.4 Admission Control 47 -- 2.5.5 Traffic Management Versus Network Capacity 49 -- 2.6 Internet QoS Frameworks: the IETF and the ITU 50 -- 2.7 Integrated Services (IntServ) and Differentiated Services (DiffServ) 51 -- 2.8 QoS with Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) 54.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…241 -- 8.2 Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Framework 242 -- 8.3 Application Layer 244 -- 8.4 Rate Control at the Transport Layer 244 -- 8.4.1 Background 244 -- 8.4.2 System Model 246 -- 8.4.3 Network Setting 246 -- 8.4.4 Problem Formulation 248 -- 8.4.5 Problem Solution 248 -- 8.4.6 Performance Evaluation 249 -- 8.5 Routing at the Network Layer 252 -- 8.5.1 Background 252 -- 8.5.2 System Model 254 -- 8.5.3 Routing Metric 255 -- 8.5.4 Problem Formulation 257 -- 8.5.5 Problem Solution 258 -- 8.5.6 Implementation Considerations 262 -- 8.5.7 Performance Evaluation 263 -- 8.6 Content-Aware Real-Time Video Streaming 265 -- 8.6.1 Background 265.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nicholas Laneman, Alexander Golitschek, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Osvaldo Gonsa -- 30.1 Introduction 673 -- 30.2 Theoretical Analysis of Relaying 679 -- 30.3 Relay Nodes in LTE-Advanced 684 -- 30.4 Summary 699 -- References 699 -- 31 Additional Features of LTE Release 10 701 / Teck Hu, Philippe Godin and Sudeep Palat -- 31.1 Introduction 701 -- 31.2 Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination 701 -- 31.3 Minimization of Drive Tests 710 -- 31.4 Machine-Type Communications 712 -- References 714 -- 32 LTE-Advanced Performance and Future Developments 715 / Takehiro Nakamura and Tetsushi Abe -- 32.1 LTE-Advanced System Performance 715 -- 32.2 Future Developments 718 -- References 720 -- Index 721.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reinforcing the governance of innovation policy in Piedmont -- Working within the established framework conditions -- Working within multi-level strategic frameworks -- Working within EU and national regulations -- Working within Cohesion Policy and other investment funding parameters -- Reinforcing the institutional context and institutions to deliver innovation policy -- Administrative capacity among small municipalities and small enterprises -- Boosting multi-stakeholder participation in the innovation and innovation policy process -- Enhancing evidence bases and performance measurement practices for more successful innovation policy -- Building evidence bases for innovation policy -- Reinforcing outcomes-based performance measurement at the regional level -- Conclusion and recommendations -- References -- Notes -- 4 Towards a revised cluster policy for Piedmont, Italy -- Introduction -- Piedmont's cluster policy and cluster model: 2009-2020 -- Objectives of Piedmont's cluster policy -- The organisation of Piedmont's regional clusters -- Why cluster policy in Piedmont needs a rethink -- Towards an upgraded cluster policy for Piedmont -- Focus area 1: Innovation clusters as drivers of the regional innovation ecosystem -- Improving cluster collaboration within the regional innovation ecosystem -- A cluster management platform could promote synergies and foster cross-sector diversification -- Using clusters to support university-industry collaboration -- Strategic collaboration between clusters and universities on regional knowledge transfer -- Strengthened interaction on education programmes that match the needs of companies -- Supporting skills for industry through clusters -- Better linking clusters with the Istituti Tecnici Superiori -- Supporting SMEs and entrepreneurship through clusters…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Structure de la production et indicateurs de performance -- Tableau J. Indicateurs du marché du travail -- Tableau K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Leadership -- Involvement of People -- Process Approach -- System Approach to Management -- Continual Improvement -- Factual Approach to Decision Making -- Mutually Beneficial Supplier Relationship -- Note -- CHAPTER 7 Principles for Environmental Management Systems -- Industry Leaders Improving Our World -- BASF -- Shell International Limited -- Environmental Management -- Leadership -- Sustainability Leaders -- GlobeScan/Sustainability Survey -- Unilever -- Dow Jones Sustainability Index -- Coca‐Cola -- Patagonia -- Interface -- Continual Improvement-Prevention of Pollution -- System Approach to Management -- Compliance with Legal and Other Requirements -- Performance Evaluation -- Management of Resources -- Operational Control -- Emergency Preparedness -- Notes -- CHAPTER 8 Principles for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems -- Leadership -- GKN -- Continual Improvement -- Rana Plaza-Bangladesh -- Wal‐Mart -- A Journey -- System Approach to Management -- Compliance with Legal and Other Requirements -- Performance Evaluation -- Management of Resources -- Operational Control -- Emergency Preparedness and Response -- British Petroleum -- Notes -- CHAPTER 9 Integrated Principles for a Sustainable Business Management System -- PART III Integrated Management System Implementation: Three Steps -- Plan, Do, Check, Act-Deming -- Three‐Step Process: Identify, Insure, Improve - Pilot -- Management System Implementation -- CHAPTER 10 International Management Systems -- North America Lags Behind -- Business Benefits: Business Structure for Success -- Access to World Trade-Global Marketplace -- Reduced Risks -- Social Responsibility, Credibility, Competitive Advantage -- Improved Operational Controls -- Assess, Reflect, Act: Driving Sustainability to Business Success -- Notes -- CHAPTER 11 Management Systems…”