The City in Search of Sustainable Development
Jean Laterrasse, Efficacity - Paris Est University, France
January 2019
In a context where climate change urgently requires us to alter our paradigms, this book explores the possibilities of cities that are both more energy efficient and more respectful of the environment. Based on the observation that urban planning has be... (Read more)
A Concept for Information and Communication Sciences
Jacqueline Deschamps, Consultant
January 2019
Mediation is a very old practice that has been reborn to meet the needs of the contemporary world. It is thus increasingly present in today's societies. This book presents the theoretical foundations of mediation, as well as the way in which teachers and ... (Read more)
From Development Theories to Cooperation Policies
Tourya Guaaybess, University of Lorraine, France
January 2019
In early research work on international communication, the countries of North Africa and the Middle East were seen as part of the “Third World”, and the media had to be at the service of development. However, this situation is changing due to the trans... (Read more)
Dominique Paret, Consultant
Pierre Crégo, Mercury Technologies
December 2018
The industrial interest in Wearables, smart textiles and smart apparel is growing. This book focuses on concrete aspects of this domain and is intended for readers wishing to familiarize themselves with the complex issues surrounding smart textiles and sma... (Read more)
Is a Scientific Assemblage Workable?
Georges Guille-Escuret, CNRS, France
November 2018
Trapped between the caricatured causalities of biological determinism and the sinister abdications of sociological relativism, socio-ecological interdisciplinarity stagnates. It has lost sight of the ambition of a long-term program and no longer works to c... (Read more)
Complex Systems Theory
Marc Trestini, University of Strasbourg, France
October 2018
The emergence of social networks, OpenCourseWare, Massive Open Online Courses, informal remote learning and connectivist approaches to learning has made the analysis and evaluation of Digital Learning Environments more complex. Modeling these complex sy... (Read more)
From Data Collection to Data Processing
Michel Larini and Angela Barthes, Aix-Marseille University, France
October 2018
This book presents different data collection and representation techniques: elementary descriptive statistics, confirmatory statistics, multivariate approaches and statistical modeling. It exposes the possibility of giving more robustness to the classical ... (Read more)
Ethics at the Bedside of the Digital Revolution
Jérôme Béranger, INSERM University of Toulouse, France
September 2018
Technical progress reveals the possibility of a new world and a fourth industrial revolution centered on digital data and artificial intelligence. The advent of the digital realm and its ubiquity in our society create a growing need for ethical benchmarks ... (Read more)
Industry of the Future, Technologies, Methods and Tools
Bruno Salgues, Institut Mines-Télécom, France
August 2018
Following the rapid development of connected technologies, which are now highly sophisticated and spread across the globe, Society 5.0 has emerged and brought with it a dramatic societal shift. In 1998, Kodak, the world leader in photographic film, had... (Read more)
Sylvie Leleu-Merviel, University of Valenciennes, France
April 2018
What is color? What is the precise meaning of the statement “the stock market is down by 5% this evening”? How can images produce meaning? How are TV viewers defined? Informationally speaking, such well-known, common questions are examined in this b... (Read more)
Christina G. Georgantopoulou, Bahrain Polytechnic, Kingdom of Bahrain
George A. Georgantopoulos, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece
April 2018
This book, comprised of two volumes, is an extended and detailed analysis of both the flow phenomena in closed and open channels and the flows around solid bodies. Although emphasis is given to the real-life applications of flows, the theoretical backgroun... (Read more)
Christina G. Georgantopoulou, Bahrain Polytechnic, Kingdom of Bahrain
George A. Georgantopoulos, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece
April 2018
This book, comprised of two volumes, is an extended and detailed analysis of both the flow phenomena in closed and open channels and the flows around solid bodies. Although emphasis is given to the real-life applications of flows, the theoretical backgroun... (Read more)
Bernard Dugué, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
April 2018
Time, Emergences and Communications pursues scientific and philosophical research on the place and role of information in natural systems. The first part proposes an unprecedented interpretation of quantum physics by focusing on the idea of matter that com... (Read more)
Edited by
Angela Barthes, Aix-Marseille University, France
Pierre Champollion, Lyon University, France
Yves Alpe, Aix-Marseille University, France
March 2018
This book represents an up-to-date summary on the issue of education and territory. By questioning the relationship between education and territory according to three main axes – historical evolutions, contemporary interactions and original theorizations... (Read more)
Sophie Pellé, Panthéon Sorbonne University, France
September 2017
Responsible Innovation. For some, this expression is only an oxymoron or, worse, a means of masking with a sheet of virtue economic practices that would otherwise appear selfish and self-interested. For others, theorists and actors of innovation, this expr... (Read more)
User and Culture Centered Experience
Edited by
Philippe Geslin, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland
August 2017
For the last 40 years, anthropotechnology has concentrated its efforts on the study and improvement of the working and living conditions of populations throughout the world. It guides the actors of the design processes by paying attention to the “human f... (Read more)
From Philosophy to Science, the World of Forms and Communications
Bernard Dugué, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
August 2017
Modern science is at a tipping point. A new page in the history of knowledge opens with the “information paradigm”, a notion which is gradually supplanting the old mechanistic vision inherited from Galileo and Newton. The author presents an overview... (Read more)
Digital Humanities and Knowledge Construction
Edited by
Gérald Kembellec, CNAM, France
Evelyne Broudoux, CNAM, France
July 2017
Practices associated with the culture of “scholarly” reading have been developed over many centuries and annotations themselves have become the subject of study, either as additional elements in connection with the original texts or as documents in the... (Read more)
Complementarities and Rivalries
Giulia Anichini, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), Canada
Flavia Carraro, Research Institute for the History of Technology and Science, Germany
Philippe Geslin, Neuchâtel University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Georges Guille-Escuret, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
June 2017
The relationship between technicity and scientificity is often overlooked or avoided despite being a determining factor for establishing interdisciplinarity. By focusing on this relationship and highlighting a number of its ramifications, this book sheds l... (Read more)
Stéphane Goria, University of Lorraine, France
May 2017
"Creative competitive intelligence" is an information-seeking and monitoring activity of an information environment for the purpose of creativity and innovation. It involves the process leading up to the development of an informational supply adapted to th... (Read more)
Consequences of an Unraveling Debate
Sejin Park, Seoul National University, South Korea
Georges Guille-Escuret, CNRS, France
May 2017
As a theory, sociobiology is opposed to socio-ecology, a discipline hampered since its birth. The indictment of the ideological intentions of the first has obscured the notion that the growing domination of the image of the “selfish gene” has obstructe... (Read more)
Marc Maesschalck, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
February 2017
Too often, governance falls short of the ideals established through reflections on RRI. Yet, a reflexive governance model has emerged in recent years in scientific debates. This model tries to focus on the effects of actors’ commitment in shared cooperat... (Read more)
Armin Grunwald, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
December 2016
Responsible research and innovation (RRI) has become an intensely debated concept for shaping future science, technology and innovation. This book is dedicated to the first steps of emerging RRI debates. Its main message is that the object of responsibilit... (Read more)
Science and Ethics
Bernard Reber, Sciences Po Paris (Political Research Center), France
December 2016
This volume tackles the burden of judgment and the challenges of ethical disagreements, organizes the cohabitation of scientific and ethical argumentations in such a way they find their appropriate place in the political decision. It imagines several forms... (Read more)
Edited by
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
Laurent Hérault, CEA-LETI
Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan
July 2016
Smart cities are a new vision for urban development. They integrate information and communication technology infrastructures – in the domains of artificial intelligence, distributed and cloud computing, and sensor networks – into a city, to facilitate... (Read more)
Sophie Pellé, Consultant
Bernard Reber, CNRS, Paris, France
June 2016
The scientific and technological upheavals of the 20th Century and the questions and difficulties that went along with them (climate change, nuclear energy, GMO, etc.) have increased the necessity of thinking about and formalizing technoscientific progress... (Read more)
Research for Innovative Transports Set - Volume 5A
Edited by
Jean-Michel Torrenti, IFSTTAR, France
Francesca La Torre, University of Florence, Italy
June 2016
This volume presents the first half of a diverse collection of chapters in the field of materials and infrastructures in transport systems, which illustrate the technological and methodological innovations required to rise to the challenge of building more... (Read more)
Research for Innovative Transports Set - Volume 5B
Edited by
Jean-Michel Torrenti, IFSTTAR, France
Francesca La Torre, University of Florence, Italy
June 2016
This volume presents the second half of a diverse collection of chapters in the field of materials and infrastructures in transport systems, which illustrate the technological and methodological innovations required to rise to the challenge of building mor... (Read more)
Research for Innovative Transports Set - Volume 1
Edited by
Michel André, IFSTTAR, France
Zissis Samaras, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
May 2016
Transport systems are facing an impossible dilemma: satisfy an increasing demand for mobility of people and goods, while decreasing their fossil-energy requirements and preserving the environment. Additionally, transport has an opportunity to evolve in a c... (Read more)
Research for Innovative Transports Set - Volume 2
Edited by
Corinne Blanquart, IFSTTAR, France
Uwe Clausen, Dortmund University, Germany
Bernard Jacob, Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat, France
May 2016
Freight transport faces a dual challenge: it must satisfy the demands of globalized trade and meet environmental requirements. In this context, innovation is a crucial topic to enable the transition from the current transportation and logistics system to a... (Read more)
Research for Innovative Transports Set - Volume 3
Edited by
Simon Cohen, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France
George Yannis, University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
May 2016
Transport systems are facing an impossible dilemma: satisfy an increasing demand for mobility of people and goods, while decreasing their fossil-energy requirements and preserving the environment. Additionally, transport has an opportunity to evolve in a c... (Read more)
Research for Innovative Transports Set - Volume 4
Edited by
George Yannis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Simon Cohen, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France
May 2016
Transport systems are facing an impossible dilemma: satisfy an increasing demand for mobility of people and goods, while decreasing their fossil-energy requirements and preserving the environment. Additionally, transport has an opportunity to evolve in a c... (Read more)
The Ethical Realm of RRI
Robert Gianni, University of Namur, Belgium
February 2016
Responsible Research and Innovation appears as a paradoxical frame, hard to conceptualize and difficult to apply. If, on the one hand, research and innovation appear to follow logics blind to societal issues, on the other hand responsibility is still a b... (Read more)
Responsibility and Contingency
Virgil Cristian Lenoir, Consultant
January 2016
Practical and conceptual, the Responsible Research and Innovation set of books contributes to the clarification of this new requirement for all sciences and technological innovation. It covers the multiple and international responsibilities, by using vario... (Read more)
Gérald Bronner, Paris-Diderot University, France
December 2015
This book discusses the media, beliefs, the news, the Internet, etc. but it should not be seen as yet another critique of the media system, exploring with indignant fascination the idea of a machination against truth set up to serve a society of domination... (Read more)
Daniel Ventre, CNRS – French National Center of Scientific Research, France.
September 2009
New information technologies have contributed to the emergence of new lifestyles and modern strategic developments, but they have also provided new forms of weapons for all kinds of belligerents. This book introduces the concept of “information warfa... (Read more)
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