Springer London: 1778 books
by Antonio Visioli, Qingchang Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time provides a unified and coherent review of the various approaches devised for the control of integral processes, addressing the problem from different standpoints. In particular, the book treats the following topics: How to tune a PID controller and assess...
Feedback Control
Linear, Nonlinear and Robust Techniques and Design with Industrial Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
This book develops the understanding and skills needed to be able to tackle original control problems. The general approach to a given control problem is to try the simplest tentative solution first and, when this is insufficient, to explain why and use a more sophisticated alternative to remedy the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
This book looks at the future of advertising from the perspective of pervasive computing. Pervasive computing encompasses the integration of computers into everyday devices, like the covering of surfaces with interactive displays and networked mobile phones. Advertising is the communication of sponsored...
Creativity and Rationale
Enhancing Human Experience by Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Creativity and rationale comprise an essential tension in design. They are two sides of the coin; contrary, complementary, but perhaps also interdependent. Designs always serve purposes. They always have an internal logic. They can be queried, explained, and evaluated. These characteristics are what...
Negotiation in Decentralization
Case Study of China's Carbon Trading in the Power Sector
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Chinese government set a target to reduce China’s carbon intensity by 40%-45% in 2020 at its 2005 level. To achieve this target, the government has allocated targets to provinces, cities, and large enterprises, and selected five pilot provinces and eight cities for CO2 emission trading. Such...
Concept Generation for Design Creativity
A Systematized Theory and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The concept generation process seems like an intuitional thought: difficult to capture and perform, although everyone is capable of it. It is not an analytical process but a synthetic process which has yet to be clarified. Furthermore, new research methods for investigating the concept generation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
The packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improve packaging’s sustainability by reducing its environmental and societal impacts. This is a considerable challenge because of the complex interactions between products and their packaging, and the...
New World Situation: New Directions in Concurrent Engineering
Proceedings of the 17th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The proceedings contain papers accepted for the 17th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, which was held in Cracow, Poland, September 6-10, 2010. Concurrent Engineering (CE) has a history of over twenty years. At first, primary focus was on bringing downstream information as much...
by Reza Katebi, Michael A Johnson, Jacqueline Wilkie
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new...
Customer-Driven Supply Chains
From Glass Pipelines to Open Innovation Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In recent years, the supply chain has become a key element to the survival and prosperity of organisations in different industry sectors. Organisations dealing in dynamic business environments demand supply chains that support the satisfaction of customer needs. The principles of lean thinking that...
Guide to Cloud Computing
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book describes the landscape of cloud computing from first principles, leading the reader step-by-step through the process of building and configuring a cloud environment. The book not only considers the technologies for designing and creating cloud computing platforms, but also the business...
Risk and Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures
A Guideline for Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Today’s society is completely dependent on critical networks such as water supply, sewage, electricity, ICT and transportation. Risk and vulnerability analyses are needed to grasp the impact of threats and hazards. However, these become quite complex as there are strong interdependencies both...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Definitions, Concepts and Scope of Engineering Asset Management, the first volume in this new review series, seeks to minimise ambiguities in the subject matter. The ongoing effort to develop guidelines is shaping the future towards the creation of a body of knowledge for the management of engineered...
Greening Airports
Advanced Technology and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Greening Airports considers the “greening”, i.e., more sustainable development, of the entire air transport system – airports, air traffic control, and airlines – that could be achieved by the development and implementation of advanced operations and technologies.
A broad overview...