Springer London: 1778 books
by Lorenzo Fedele
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
The management of technical plants for productivity and safety is generally a complex activity, particularly when many plants in one territory are affected, quality guarantees and cost results are required, and the technology involved is heterogeneous and innovative. To enable readers to manage technical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
As the annual production of carbon Dioxide (CO2) reaches 30 billion tones, the growing issue of the greenhouse effect has triggered the development of technologies for CO2 sequestration, storage and use as a reactant. Collecting together the reports of the Congress at University of Rome (Campus Bio-medico)...
Innovation Design
Creating Value for People, Organizations and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Innovation Design presents an approach to designing shared value for businesses, non-profit organizations, end-users and society. The societal and economic challenges we are currently facing – such as the aging population, energy scarcity and environmental issues – are not just threats but are...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The language of business and management, and of infor mation technology, is being employed across all sectors of economic and social activity. In recent years computers and information technology (IT) in general have moved from being a scarce resource to being a more generally available commodity,...
The Power Makers' Challenge
And the Need for Fission Energy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The Power Makers - the producers of our electricity - must meet the demands of their customers while also addressing the threat of climate change. There are widely differing views about solutions to electricity generation in an emission constrained world. Some see the problem as relatively straight...
Common Rail System for GDI Engines
Modelling, Identification, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Progressive reductions in vehicle emission requirements have forced the automotive industry to invest in research and development of alternative control strategies. Continual control action exerted by a dedicated electronic control unit ensures that best performance in terms of pollutant emissions...
Process Control for Sheet-Metal Stamping
Process Modeling, Controller Design and Shop-Floor Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Process Control for Sheet-Metal Stamping presents a comprehensive and structured approach to the design and implementation of controllers for the sheet metal stamping process. The use of process control for sheet-metal stamping greatly reduces defects in deep-drawn parts and can also yield large material...
Dynamic Surface Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
An LMI Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Although the problem of nonlinear controller design is as old as that of linear controller design, the systematic design methods framed in response are more sparse. Given the range and complexity of nonlinear systems, effective new methods of control design are therefore of significant importance....
by Adnan Tahirovic, Gianantonio Magnani
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Passivity-based Model Predictive Control for Mobile Vehicle Navigation represents a complete theoretical approach to the adoption of passivity-based model predictive control (MPC) for autonomous vehicle navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments. The brief also introduces analysis of the worst-case...
User-Developer Cooperation in Software Development
Building Common Ground and Usable Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The topic of the research reported here is direct user participation in the task-based development of interactive software systems. Building usable software demands understanding and supporting users and their tasks. Users are a primary source of usability requirements and knowledge, since users can...
Smart Grids
Opportunities, Developments, and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A Smart Grid delivers renewable energy as a main source of electricity from producers to consumers using two-way monitoring through Smart Meter technology that can remotely control consumer electricity use. This can help to storage excess energy; reduce costs, increase reliability and transparency,...
Syngas from Waste
Emerging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Syngas from Waste presents the most recent concepts, methods and techniques for the preliminary design of a promising emerging technology: production of clean syngas from waste materials. An in-depth account is given of the steps necessary to achieve the optimum design and up-to-date tools are presented...
by Michalis Vazirgiannis, Maria Halkidi, Dimitrious Gunopulos
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The recent explosive growth of our ability to generate and store data has created a need for new, scalable and efficient, tools for data analysis. The main focus of the discipline of knowledge discovery in databases is to address this need. Knowledge discovery in databases is the fusion of many areas...
Game Analytics
Maximizing the Value of Player Data
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Developing a successful game in today’s market is a challenging endeavor. Thousands of titles are published yearly, all competing for players’ time and attention. Game analytics has emerged in the past few years as one of the main resources for ensuring game quality, maximizing success, understanding...