Principles of Organic Farming is a practical oriented text about organic crop management that provides background information as well as details of ecology-improving practices. This book is meant to give the reader a holistic appreciation of the principles and importance of organic farming and to suggest ecologically sound practices that help to develop and maintain sustainable agriculture. Thi…
This study aims to see the effect of a card box game on the cooperative abilities of group B children at RA Perwanida 2 Palembang. This type of research uses a quasi experiment (Pre-Experimental Design) with a research design using a One-Shot Case Study. The sampling technique used purposive sampling with the consideration that in group B the ability to cooperate in group B1 children had not ye…
This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of boring work. But undesirable and ethically problematic consequences are possible too: biases and discrimination, breaches of privacy and security, and societal distortions such as…
We are facing a new technological challenge on how to store and retrieve knowledge and manipulate intelligence for autonomous services by intelligent systems which should be capable of carrying out real world tasks autonomously. To address this issue, robot researchers have been developing intelligence technology (InT) for “robots that think” which is in the focus of this book. The book cov…
This book includes the original, peer reviewed research papers from the conference, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2013), which took place on December 12-14, 2013 at Cheng Shiu University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Topics covered include: laser technology, wireless and mobile networking, lean and agile manufacturing, speech …
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics (ISI 2013) held in Mysore, India during August 23-24, 2013. The 47 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition, signal and image processing; d…
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of D2D communication over LTE-A band. The book uses 3GPP LTE-A as a baseline and explains all fundamental requirements for deploying D2D network under cellular systems from an architectural, technical and business point of view. The contributors explain the standardization activities of Release 12 of LTE-A, which has been recently acknowledged as supp…
This book includes contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplines, the dialogue and discourse on how AI (artificial intelligence) development includes and/or excludes pedagogical educational learning theories focused on the learner. A call from Educational Leaders Without Borders (ELWB) was issued to scholars from across the globe who were asked to write a vignette described as an evoc…
This research volume is a continuation of our previous volumes on intelligent machine. It is divided into three parts. Part I deals with big data and ontologies. It includes examples related to the text mining, rule mining and ontology. Part II is on knowledge-based systems. It includes context-centered systems, knowledge discovery, interoperability, consistency and systems of systems. The fina…
This book explores the pedagogical applications of critical thinking in art education and scholarship. In the first part of the book, the author delves into the ways that arts-based educational research has incorporated critical thinking in order to illuminate the context for the subsequent study. The second half of the book focuses on the essay as a genre used in creative nonfiction and film i…
This volume provides the audience with an updated, in-depth and highly coherent material on the conceptually appealing and practically sound information technology of Computational Intelligence applied to the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of social networks. The volume involves studies devoted to key issues of social networks including community structure detection in networks, online soci…
This book systematically reviews a broad range of cases in education that utilize cutting-edge AI technologies. Furthermore, it introduces readers to the latest findings on the scope of AI in education, so as to inspire researchers from non-technological fields (e.g. education, psychology and neuroscience) to solve education problems using the latest AI techniques. It also showcases a number of…
This book focuses on critical walking and mapping practices through the research methodology of a/r/tography. Initially establishing seven global sites for employing movement-based research practices within culturally conceived a/r/tographic perspectives, the book builds upon and extends an international community of practice. The editors and contributors apply public pedagogy through a/r/togra…
This book presents a selection of case studies of pioneers in arts education who were working in the United Kingdom in the period 1890 to 1950. Focusing on music, drama, and visual arts and crafts, the editors and contributors examine the impact these individuals had on developing innovative approaches to these subject areas and how they drew on perspectives that emphasised the need for childre…
This book investigates how excellence and reputability are formed, performed, and perceived at well renowned international higher education institutions. Along six detailed ethnographic case descriptions – including University of Warwick, Goldsmiths, New York University, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Ohio State University, and HEC Montréal – it asks how master’s programs in arts m…
This volume presents the proceedings of the First Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications (ECC 2014), which was hosted by Shenzhen Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology and was held in Shenzhen City on June 13-15, 2014. ECC 2014 was technically co-sponsored by Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Machine Intelligence R…
Taking into consideration that the agricultural industry is greatly dependent on pesticide chemicals to deal with the damage caused due to pests, this new volume details the challenges along with the bioremediation and remediation measures, such as the use of beneficial microorganisms, polymeric nanocomposites for nanoremediation, phytoremediation, and more. It looks at pesticide contaminat…
This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants, focusing on “problems and their management” by selecting some of the widely investigated themes. Such as: major insect-pest of cereal crops in India and their management, biotic stresses of major pulse crops and their management strategies, insect pests of oilseed crops and their management, biot…
This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of abiotic stress responses in plants focusing “problems and their management” by selecting some of the widely investigated themes. Such as, Cell signalling in Plants during abiotic and biotic stress, Salinity stress induced metabolic changes and its management, High temperature stress: responses, mechanism and management, Low temper…
The chapters in this book cover crop -weather interaction and agro-met observatory, agro-climatic analysis, crop micro-meteorology, remote sensing, crop simulation models, weather codes and their management, integrated weather forecast and agro advisories, climate change, livestock climatology/meteorology and astrometeorology. To understand the text of the book, under terminology, simple detail…
This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains accepted papers presented at ICGEC 2013, the 7th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing. The conference this year was technically co-sponsored by The Waseda University in Japan, Kaohsiung University of Applied Science in Taiwan, and VSB-Technical University of Ostrava. ICGEC 2013 was held in Prague, Cz…
Population growth in the city of Jakarta is increasing significantly. This is because the city of Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia which is the center of economic and government activity throughout Indonesia, so that many outsiders are urbanizing to the city of Jakarta. In addition, the city of Jakarta is a city with very limited land, disproportionate green areas, and a city with high …
This research discusses the supporting factors of community participation in the implementation of the Village Development Plan Deliberation (Musrenbangdes) of Sungai Rambutan Independent Integrated City, Ogan Ilir Regency. This research was motivated by the phenomenon of weak participation and the lack of community proposals in Musrenbangdes. This research was studied based on the supporting f…
Innovation in Using the SICANTIK Application at the Investment Service and One-Stop Integrated Services in Ogan Ilir Regency. Under the guidance of Dr. Sena Putra Prabujaya, S.AP.,MAP SiCantik is an Integrated Licensing Service Smart Application for the public that can be used by agencies, both central and regional to make it casier for the government to carry out licensing. This study aims to …
This research is entitled “ Analysis Of The Implementation Of The Application For Promotion Of Junior High School Teachers At The Education And Culture Office Of Ogan Ilir Regency”. This study aims to determine the implementation of the promotion of junior high school teachers in the Department of Education and Culture of Ogan Ilir regency by using the theory of George R. Terry based on the…
The large number of activities at the Palembang Taqwa Grand Mosque, especially for carrying out worship activities, requires sufficient water for purification needs. The water available in the water tank at the Great Mosque of Taqwa Palembang must always be monitored for the volume of water in the water tank. This research discusses how to measure water temperature using an IoT-based smartphone…
Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui, menganalisis dan mendeskripsikan strategi penerapan E-goverment dalam meningkatkan pelayanan publik melalui aplikasi Sidemang oleh kominfo dan juga mengetahui faktor pendukung penghambat dalam penerapat tersebut. Latar belakang dari penelitian ini adalah sidemang dibentuk sebagai program yang dilakukan untuk peningkatan kualitas layanan agar masyar…
Indonesia is one of the countries that are active in export-import activities. Through these activities, some illegally imported goods enter Indonesia, posing a threat to the country's economy and politics. Illegal goods are indeed forbidden, and some are allowed to enter with conditions. Medical devices are one example of illegal goods that can become so if they do not have a distribution perm…
Indonesia is one of the countries that face many securities problems. One of them is regarding the smuggling of baby lobster exports, which is quite high in Indonesia. In dealing with this smuggling, of course, involves many parties including from state actors such as the Directorate General of Customs and Excise of Sumbagtim (Directorate General of Customs and Excise of Sumbagtim). This study …