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by Magnus Ramage, Karen Shipp
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
This book presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker’s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion...
Recent Trends in the Condition Monitoring of Transformers
Theory, Implementation and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Recent Trends in the Condition Monitoring of Transformers reflects the current interest in replacing traditional techniques used in power transformer condition monitoring with non-invasive measures such as polarization/depolarization current measurement, recovery voltage measurement, frequency domain...
by Boris Mirkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Core Concepts in Data Analysis: Summarization, Correlation and Visualizationprovides in-depth descriptions of those data analysis approaches that either summarize data (principal component analysis and clustering, including hierarchical and network clustering) or correlate different aspects of data...
Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision
Research Topics and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
The potential of consumer depth cameras extends well beyond entertainment and gaming, to real-world commercial applications. This authoritative text reviews the scope and impact of this rapidly growing field, describing the most promising Kinect-based research activities, discussing significant current...
by Peter Gloor
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Read this book and you'll not only understand WHY e-Business is vital to the continuing success of your organization but also HOW you can incorporate it into your business.
Four key questions are asked within Making the e-Business Transformation:
- How do you transform your existing business into...
A Journey Through Cultures
Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users. For a number of years the HCI community has been investigating alternatives to enhance the design of cross-cultural systems. Most contributions to date have followed either a ‘design...
Configuring User-Designer Relations
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
‘User-designer relations’ concerns the sorts of working relationships that arise between developers and end users of IT products - the different ways designers of IT products seek to engage with users, and the ways users seek to influence product design. It is through the shifting patterns of...
by Ajit Kumar Verma, Srividya Ajit, Durga Rao Karanki
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Reliability and safety are core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineering systems. Reliability and Safety Engineering presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations.
The authors present reliability terminology in various...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
This book analyzes the latest advances in privacy, security and risk technologies within cloud environments. With contributions from leading experts, the text presents both a solid overview of the field and novel, cutting-edge research. A Glossary is also included at the end of the book. Topics and...
Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices
Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in...
Fuel Cells in the Waste-to-Energy Chain
Distributed Generation Through Non-Conventional Fuels and Fuel Cells
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
As the availability of fossils fuels becomes more limited, the negative impact of their consumption becomes an increasingly relevant factor in our choices with regards to primary energy sources. The exponentially increasing demand for energy is reflected in the mass generation of by-products and waste...
Green Energy Audit of Buildings
A guide for a sustainable energy audit of buildings
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Energy audits have multiple goals including reducing energy consumption, managing costs and environmental impact. Improving the energy performance of existing buildings through energy retrofit measures is a great opportunity for developing sustainability in our structures and developing a green building...
Advanced Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing Processes
International Research and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Advanced Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing Processes presents a comprehensive review of the latest international research and development trends in the modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes, with a focus on machining. It uses examples of various manufacturing processes to demonstrate...
Success in Academic Surgery
Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
How does one become a successful academic surgeon? The Association for Academic Surgery
has been teaching this to medical students, residents, and young faculty for the over 20 years and this is the first time the experience and lessons learned have been summarized in a book format.
Success...