Springer London: 1778 books
Energy Policy Making in the EU
Building the Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The book adopts an innovative analytical approach to agenda setting by not only presenting successful cases in which energy issues were addressed by means of public policy, but by also analyzing failed attempts to make issues part of the European policy agenda. Another outstanding feature of the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Enriching understanding of the current theoretical debate on project-based learning and R&D sourcing, ‘Project-based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation’ draws on innovation literature and knowledge-based perspectives to solve open problems in the relationship between knowledge development...
Simulator-based Human Factors Studies Across 25 Years
The History of the Halden Man-Machine Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The Halden Man-Machine Laboratory (HAMMLAB) has been at the heart of human factors research at the OECD Halden Reactor Project (HRP). The HRP is sponsored by a group of national organizations, representing nuclear power plant regulators, utilities, and research institutions. The HRP is hosted by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Asset Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models, is the second volume of the Engineering Asset Management Review Series. The manuscripts provide examples of implementations of asset information systems as well as some practical applications of condition data for diagnostics and prognostics....
Human-in-the-Loop Simulations
Methods and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Human-in-the-Loop Simulations is a compilation of articles from experts in the design, development, and use of human-in-the-loop simulations.
The first section of the handbook consists of papers on fundamental concepts in human-in-the-loop simulations, such as object-oriented simulation development,...
by Wolfgang Kröger, Enrico Zio
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The safe management of the complex distributed systems and critical infrastructures which constitute the backbone of modern industry and society entails identifying and quantifying their vulnerabilities to design adequate protection, mitigation, and emergency action against failure. In practice, there...
Engineering Asset Management 2011
Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This text represents state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Sixth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) held in Cincinnati, OH, USA from October 3-5, 2011
The Proceedings of the WCEAM 2011 is an excellent...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Integrating development processes, policies, and reliability predictions from the beginning of the product development lifecycle to ensure high levels of product performance and safety, this book helps companies overcome the challenges posed by increasingly complex systems in today’s competitive...
Maintenance Management in Network Utilities
Framework and Practical Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In order to satisfy the needs of their customers, network utilities require specially developed maintenance management capabilities. Maintenance Management information systems are essential to ensure control, gain knowledge and improve-decision making in companies dealing with network infrastructure,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The field of computer graphics combines display hardware, software, and interactive techniques in order to display and interact with data generated by applications. Visualization is concerned with exploring data and information graphically in such a way as to gain information from the data and determine...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
This book aims at capitalizing and transmitting know-how about the design of Augmented Environments (AE) from some of the most prominent laboratories in the field worldwide. The authors belong to the RUFAE network (Research on User- Friendly Augmented Environments, founded in 2002) who meet in research...
Digital Factory for Human-oriented Production Systems
The Integration of International Research Projects
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Digital factory is a comprehensive approach providing methodologies, models and tools that support manufacturing enterprises in the rearrangement of their organizational structures to deal with expected changes in manufacturing processes and markets.
Digital Factory for Human-oriented Production...
Enterprise Interoperability V
Shaping Enterprise Interoperability in the Future Internet
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Within a scenario of globalised markets, where the capacity to efficiently cooperate with other firms starts to become essential in order to remain in the market in an economically, socially and environmentally cost-effective manner, it can be seen how the most innovative enterprises are beginning...
Innovation in Product Design
From CAD to Virtual Prototyping
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Innovation in Product Design gives an overview of the research fields and achievements in the development of methods and tools for product design and innovation. It presents contributions from experts in many different fields covering a variety of research topics related to product development and...