Books: Recent submissions

  • Improving Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops 
    Murrell, T. Scott; Mikkelsen, Robert L.; Sulewski, Gavin ...et.al. (Eds.) (Springer Nature, 2021)
    As one of the three primary plant nutrients, K remains critically important in crop production. As an essential element for human nutrition, K intake today is inadequate in the diets of most of the world’s population. ...
  • Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 
    Cochez, Michael; Croitoru, Madalina; Marquis, Pierre (Springer Nature, 2021)
    The development of effective techniques for knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) is a crucial aspect of successful intelligent systems. Different representation paradigms, as well as their use in dedicated reasoning ...
  • Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering 
    Guerra, Esther; Stoelinga, Mariëlle (Eds.) (Springer Nature, 2021)
    FASE 2021 hosted the 3rd International Competition on Software Testing (Test-Comp 2021). Test-Comp is an annual comparative evaluation of testing tools. This edition contained 11 participating tools, from academia and ...
  • Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing III 
    Roucoules, Lionel; Paredes, Manuel; Eynard, Benoit ...et.al. (Eds.) (Springer Nature, 2021)
    The precision of parts produced by Powder Metallurgy (PM) strongly depends on the careful design of PM process parameters. Among them, high sintering temperature is generally considered as detrimental for dimensional and ...
  • Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming 
    Stray, Viktoria; Hoda, Rashina; Paasivaara, Maria ...et.al. (Springer Nature, 2020)
    This volume contains the research papers of the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2020), planned to be held June 8–12 at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. However, due to the COVID-19 ...
  • VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage 
    Duguleană, Mihai; Carrozzino, Marcello; Gams, Matjaž (Springer Nature, 2019)
    This volume contains the papers from the First International Conference on VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage (VRTCH 2018). The event was organized under the project eHERITAGE (Expanding the Research and Innovation ...
  • Supercomputing Frontiers 
    Abramson, David Bronis R. de Supinski (Eds) (Springer Nature, 2019)
    As the share of supercomputers in Asia continues to increase, the relevance of supercomputing merits a supercomputing conference for Asia. Supercomputing Asia (SCA) 2019 was an umbrella of notable supercomputing events ...
  • Internet of Things: Information Processing in an Increasingly Connected World 
    Strous, Leon; Cerf, Vinton G. (Springer Nature, 2019)
    IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the first World Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. A federation for societies working in information processing, IFIP’s aim is two-fold: ...
  • Intelligent Human Computer Interaction 
    Horain, Patrick; Achard, Catherine; Mallem, Malik ...(Eds.) (Springer Nature, 2017)
    The international conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) is a forum for the presentation of research results and technological advances at the crossroads of human-computer interaction, artificial ...
  • Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers 
    Lövei, Gábor L. (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    Publications take many different forms, but types of scientific publication fall into fewer categories. I do not attempt an overall, definitive taxonomy of scientific communication types, and only restrict this to a few ...
  • Shaping the Digital Dissertation 
    Unknown author (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    While digital dissertations have been around for many years, the processes by which they are defined, created and defended remain something of a mystery. Is an interactive PDF significantly different from its paper-based ...
  • Right Research 
    Miya, Chelsea; Rossier, Oliver; Rockwell, Geoffrey (eds) (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    Why should we try to reduce our destructive impacts on the environment, when it can seem that the effects of our individual acts are too small to make an ethically important difference? As Walter Sinnott-Armstrong puts the ...
  • Open Education 
    Blessinger, Patrick; Bliss, T.J. (Open Book Publishers, 2016)
    The phrase “open education” implies that there must also be closed education or education where there are restrictions or a lack of freedoms to exercise this fundamental human right. Legal restrictions are intentional ...
  • NEGOTIATING CLIMATE CHANGE IN CRISIS 
    STEFFEN BÖHMBÖHM, STEFFEN BÖHM; SULLIVAN, SIAN (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    For three decades now, there has been talk and action on climate change at the highest possible levels—in politics, business, finance and civil society. For three decades, climate change has shaped the consciousness of ...
  • LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS 
    Comrie, Andrew C. (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    Universities are fascinating institutions. For almost 1,000 years, these corporations of teachers and scholars have been searching for knowledge and transmitting it. In carrying out this mission, universities are “things ...
  • Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World 
    Azam, Monirul (Open Book Publishers, 2016)
    This book contains some repetitions across different chapters. I intentionally maintained these repetitions so that chapters could be read both as part of a book and alone, online or as study material. As a guest speaker ...
  • Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan. 
    Tajan, Nicolas. (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021)
    This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school nonattendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori. Based on extensive original research, including ...
  • Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia. 
    Molland, Sverre. (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2022)
    The book investigates how the United Nations, governments, and aid agencies mobilise and instrumentalise migration policies and programmes through a discourse of safe migration. Since the early 2000s, numerous ...
  • Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
    Riisgaard, Lone; Mitullah, Winnie; Torm, Nina. eds. (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2022)
    The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official ...
  • Exporting Urban Korea? 
    Park, Se Hoon; Bang Shin, Hyun; Soo Kang, Hyun. eds. (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021)
    A detailed examination of the “Korean development model” from its urban dimension, evaluating its sociopolitical contexts and implications for international development cooperation. There is an increasing tendency to ...

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