Springer London: 1778 books
Modern Energy Markets
Real-Time Pricing, Renewable Resources and Efficient Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Energy has moved to the forefront in terms of societal and economic development. Modern Energy Markets is a comprehensive, economically oriented, exploration of modern electricity networks from production and distribution to deregulation and liberalization processes. Updating previous work by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation. This book presents service innovation holistically and systemically across various service...
Quality Management in Reverse Logistics
A Broad Look on Quality Issues and Their Interaction with Closed-Loop Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Quality Management in Reverse Logistics intends to develop, collect, examine and evaluate a number of quality management (QM) tools and techniques, which can be applied in practice in order to understand, review and improve any closed-loop supply chain process. In other words, the book aims to examine...
Mass Customization and Sustainability
An assessment framework and industrial implementation
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
To adapt to global competitive pressures, manufacturers must develop methods and enabling technologies towards a personalized, customer oriented and sustainable manufacturing. Mass Customization and Sustainability defines the two concepts of mass customization and sustainability and introduces a...
Guide to Java
A Concise Introduction to Programming
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book presents a focused and accessible primer on the fundamentals of Java programming, with extensive use of examples and hands-on exercises. Topics and features: provides an introduction to variables, input/output and arithmetic operations; describes objects and contour diagrams, explains selection...
by Rebecca Wong
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Data Security Breaches and Privacy in Europe aims to consider data protection and cybersecurity issues; more specifically, it aims to provide a fruitful discussion on data security breaches. A detailed analysis of the European Data Protection framework will be examined. In particular, the Data Protection...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The International Conference on Informatics and Management Science (IMS) 2012 will be held on November 16-19, 2012, in Chongqing, China, which is organized by Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanyang Technological University, University of Michigan,...
by M. Luz Gámiz, K. B. Kulasekera, Nikolaos Limnios
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Nonparametric statistics has probably become the leading methodology for researchers performing data analysis. It is nevertheless true that, whereas these methods have already proved highly effective in other applied areas of knowledge such as biostatistics or social sciences, nonparametric analyses...
Transparent User Authentication
Biometrics, RFID and Behavioural Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
This groundbreaking text examines the problem of user authentication from a completely new viewpoint. Rather than describing the requirements, technologies and implementation issues of designing point-of-entry authentication, the book introduces and investigates the technological requirements of implementing...
Atomic Information Technology
Safety and Economy of Nuclear Power Plants
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Atomic Information Technology revaluates current conceptions of the information technology aspects of the nuclear industry. Economic and safety research in the nuclear energy sector are explored, considering statistical methods which incorporate Monte-Carlo simulations for practical applications....
Technology Integration to Business
Focusing on RFID, Interoperability, and Sustainability for Manufacturing, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Today’s global business environments drive companies to be more technology dependent, and to remain competitive, firms need to introduce or adopt a new technology to business. In order to achieve a successful integration with maximum return on investment, companies need a systematic approach that...
Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation and Agent-based Modeling
Voting Systems, Health Care, Military, and Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Discrete event simulation and agent-based modeling are increasingly recognized as critical for diagnosing and solving process issues in complex systems. Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation and Agent-based Modeling covers the techniques needed for success in all phases of simulation projects....
Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: LEADS in a Caring Environment
A New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Globally, the health sector faces significant demands for reform and improvement to meet the needs of the 21st Century. To achieve that goal, highly sophisticated and capable leaders are required across all dimensions of the health system. This book describes the key challenges that demand reform,...
by Katherine Begg, Wytze van der Gaast
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The latest scientific knowledge on climate change indicates that higher greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere through unchecked emissions will provoke severe climate change and ocean acidification. Both impacts can fundamentally alter environmental structures on which humanity relies and...