Springer London: 1778 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Environmental Silicate Nano-Biocomposites focuses on nano-biocomposites, which are obtained by the association of silicates such as bioclays with biopolymers. By highlighting recent developments and findings, green and biodegradable nano-composites from both renewable and biodegradable polymers are...
by Angelos P. Markopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Finite Element Method in Machining Processes provides a concise study on the way the Finite Element Method (FEM) is used in the case of manufacturing processes, primarily in machining. The basics of this kind of modeling are detailed to create a reference that will provide guidelines for those who...
Management of Innovation and Product Development
Integrating Business and Technological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Presenting an integrated and holistic perspective on innovation management and product design and development, this monograph offers a unique and original understanding of how these two perspectives are interconnected. This book explores these themes in a scientifically rigorous manner, associating...
Smart Design
First International Conference Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Good product designs merge materials, technology and hardware into a unified user experience; one where the technology recedes into the background and people benefit from the capabilities and experiences available. By focusing on functional gain, critical awareness and emotive connection, even the...
by Nickolas Falkner, Raja Sooriamurthi, Zbigniew Michalewicz
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
This book provides insights drawn from the authors’ extensive experience in teaching Puzzle-based Learning. Practical advice is provided for teachers and lecturers evaluating a range of different formats for varying class sizes. Features: suggests numerous entertaining puzzles designed to motivate...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which engineers meet this challenge, working from the assumption that for a project to be truly ethical both the undertaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
This comprehensive text/reference examines in depth the synergy between multimedia content analysis, personalization, and next-generation networking. The book demonstrates how this integration can result in robust, personalized services that provide users with an improved multimedia-centric quality...
Investment in Energy Assets Under Uncertainty
Numerical methods in theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book aims to provide a rigorous yet pragmatic approach to the valuation and management of investments in the energy sector.
Time and uncertainty pervade most if not all issues relevant to energy assets. They run from the early stage of prototype and demonstration to the ultimate abandonment...
by Dimitris N. Chorafas
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Quality control is a constant priority in electrical, mechanical, aeronautical, and nuclear engineering – as well as in the vast domain of electronics, from home appliances to computers and telecommunications. Quality Control Applications provides guidance and valuable insight into quality control...
Offshore Risk Assessment vol 1.
Principles, Modelling and Applications of QRA Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly...
Guide to Computational Geometry Processing
Foundations, Algorithms, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This book reviews the algorithms for processing geometric data, with a practical focus on important techniques not covered by traditional courses on computer vision and computer graphics. Features: presents an overview of the underlying mathematical theory, covering vector spaces, metric space, affine...
Eye Gaze in Intelligent User Interfaces
Gaze-based Analyses, Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Remarkable progress in eye-tracking technologies opened the way to design novel attention-based intelligent user interfaces, and highlighted the importance of better understanding of eye-gaze in human-computer interaction and human-human communication. For instance, a user’s focus of attention is...
Lattice Boltzmann Method
Fundamentals and Engineering Applications with Computer Codes
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Lattice Boltzmann Method introduces the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for solving transport phenomena – flow, heat and mass transfer – in a systematic way. Providing explanatory computer codes throughout the book, the author guides readers through many practical examples, such as:
flow in...
Decision-Based Design
Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Building upon the fundamental principles of decision theory, Decision-Based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design presents an analytical approach to enterprise-driven Decision-Based Design (DBD) as a rigorous framework for decision making in engineering design. Once the...