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This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and –now– connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, but can we apply the same concepts to the evolution of aggregated matter –living matter included? The Amazing Journey analyzes the latest results in chemistry, biology, neuroscience, anthropology and sociology under the light of the evolution of intelligence, seen as the ability of processing information. The main strength of this book is using just two concepts used in physics –information and energy– to explain: The emergence and evolution of life: procaryotes, eukaryotes and complex organisms The emergence and evolution of the brain The emergence and evolution of societies (human and not) Possible evolution of our "internet society" and the role that Artificial Intelligence is playing

Computer science --- Computer science—Mathematics --- Input-output equipment (Computers) --- Computer communication systems --- Operating systems (Computers) --- Algorithms --- Mathematical logic

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This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material presented allows the reader to develop a holistic picture of where the manufacturing industry and the parts of the society that depend on it may be going in the future. Manufacturing 4.0 is not only a technical change, nor is it a purely technically driven change, but it is a societal change that has the potential to disrupt the way societies are constructed both in the positive and in the negative. This book will be of interest to scholars researching manufacturing, technological innovation, innovation management and industry 4.0.

Innovation/Technology Management --- Knowledge Management --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems --- Engineering, general --- Business and Management --- Management --- Software Engineering --- Technology and Engineering --- additive manufacturing --- materials research --- automation --- robotics --- analytics --- change management --- business models --- life-long learning --- societal adaption --- open access --- Research & development management --- Industrial applications of scientific research & technological innovation --- Knowledge management --- Operating systems --- Engineering: general

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This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and was held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The total of 60 regular papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 155 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Program verification; SAT and SMT; Timed and Dynamical Systems; Verifying Concurrent Systems; Probabilistic Systems; Model Checking and Reachability; and Timed and Probabilistic Systems. Part II: Bisimulation; Verification and Efficiency; Logic and Proof; Tools and Case Studies; Games and Automata; and SV-COMP 2020.

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems --- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems --- Computer System Implementation --- Control Structures and Microprogramming --- Mathematics of Computing --- open access --- specification and verification techniques --- software and hardware verification --- SAT and SMT solving --- theorem proving --- model checking --- static and dynamic program analysis --- testing --- system construction and transformation techniques --- tool environments and tool architectures --- abstraction techniques for modeling and verification --- compositional and refinement-based methodologies --- mathematics --- software engineering --- software design --- architecting --- software architecture --- embedded systems --- automata theory --- linguistics --- Software Engineering --- Operating systems --- Expert systems / knowledge-based systems --- Systems analysis & design --- Algorithms & data structures --- Mathematical theory of computation --- Maths for computer scientists

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This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single community. It provides readers with a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures and how a ‘reference model guided’ engineering approach can be used to achieve greater interoperability among such infrastructures in the environmental and earth sciences. The 20 contributions in this book are structured in 5 parts on the design, development, deployment, operation and use of research infrastructures. Part one provides an overview of the state of the art of research infrastructure and relevant e-Infrastructure technologies, part two discusses the reference model guided engineering approach, the third part presents the software and tools developed for common data management challenges, the fourth part demonstrates the software via several use cases, and the last part discusses the sustainability and future directions.

Computer Applications --- Environment, general --- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems --- Information Systems and Communication Service --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems --- Geography, general --- Computer and Information Systems Applications --- Environmental Sciences --- Database Management System --- Software Engineering --- Geography --- cloud computing --- cloud providers --- cloud services --- computer networks --- computing resource --- data communication systems --- databases --- distributed computer systems --- distributed systems --- engineering --- grid computing --- internet --- network protocols --- open access --- parallel processing systems --- signal processing --- telecommunication networks --- wireless telecommunication systems --- Information technology: general issues --- The environment --- Expert systems / knowledge-based systems --- Computer networking & communications --- Operating systems