Iste Press Elsevier imprint: 176 books
by Fabrice Papy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The technological interoperability of digital libraries must be rethought in order to adapt to new uses and networks. Informative digital environments aimed at responding to heritage, cultural, scientific or commercial demands have taken over the global cyberspace and have redesigned the techno-informative...
by Arnaud Banos, Christophe Lang, Nicolas Marilleau
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Agent-based modeling is a flexible and intuitive approach that is close to both data and theories, which gives it a special position in the majority of scientific communities. Agent models are as much tools of understanding, exploration and adaptation as they are media for interdisciplinary exchange....
Computational Frameworks
Systems, Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Computational Frameworks: Systems, Models and Applications provides an overview of advanced perspectives that bridges the gap between frontline research and practical efforts. It is unique in showing the interdisciplinary nature of this area and the way in which it interacts with emerging technologies...
New Health Systems
Integrated Care and Health Inequalities Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
New health systems exist today thanks to the changing nature of diseases as a result of the integration of new technologies and new approaches in care giving and the management of healthcare systems. This book studies the health inequalities in these new health systems, structured according to the...
by Jean-Paul Duroudier
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Heat Transfer in the Chemical, Food and Pharmaceutical Industries, a new volume in the Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering set, includes thirteen independent volumes on how to perform the selection and calculation of equipment involved in the thirteen basic operations of process engineering,...
Resilience Imperative
Uncertainty, Risks and Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
"We have to adapt to the impacts that, unfortunately, we can no longer avoid", said President Obama at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014. Adaptation and resilience are now a must in both academic research and international bodies. A fashionable concept, resilience's polysemy sparks many debates...
by Andre Dauphine
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Geographical Models with Mathematica provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the types of models necessary for the development of new geographical knowledge, including stochastic models, models for data analysis, for geostatistics, for networks, for dynamic systems, for cellular automata and for...
by Jean-Michel Réveillac
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Optimization Tools for Logistics covers the theory and practice of the main principles of operational research and the ways it can be applied to logistics and decision support with regards to common software.
The book is supported by worked problems and examples from industrial case studies,...
Quality of Experience Paradigm in Multimedia Services
Application to OTT Video Streaming and VoIP Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The analysis of QoE is not an easy task, especially for multimedia services, because all the factors (technical and non-technical) that directly or indirectly influence the user-perceived quality have to be considered.
This book describes different methods to investigate users’ QoE from the...
Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice for Deployment addresses WSNs deployment, a mandatory and critical step in the process of developing WSNs solutions for real-life applications. The authors address simple approaches to deploy static WSNs, then exploring more sophisticated approaches to...
Reliability of High-Power Mechatronic Systems 1
Aerospace and Automotive Applications: Simulation, Modeling and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This first volume of a set dedicated to the reliability of high-power mechatronic systems focuses specifically on simulation, modeling and optimization in automotive and aerospace applications. In the search to improve industrial competitiveness, the development of methods and tools for the design...
Embedded Mechatronic Systems, Volume 2
Analysis of Failures, Modeling, Simulation and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
In operation, mechatronics embedded systems are stressed by loads of different causes: climate (temperature, humidity), vibration, electrical and electromagnetic. These stresses in components induce failure mechanisms should be identified and modeled for better control. AUDACE is a collaborative project...
Model Driven Development for Embedded Software
Application to Communications for Drone Swarm
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Model-driven Development for Embedded Software: Application to Communications for Drone Swarm describes the principles of model-oriented design used in the aeronautical field, specifically for the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The book focuses on designing an embedded system for drones to carry out...
Big Data and Ethics
The Medical Datasphere
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Faced with the exponential development of Big Data and both its legal and economic repercussions, we are still slightly in the dark concerning the use of digital information. In the perpetual balance between confidentiality and transparency, this data will lead us to call into question how we understand...