Springer London: 1778 books
Energy Economics
Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Since its modest beginning in the 1970s, the academic and research focus on energy has grown substantially and energy has established itself as an independent, interdisciplinary subject area. It attracts attention from people in a range of different fields including engineers, scientists, geologists,...
Technopolis
Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Six years of UNESCO-World Technopolis Association workshops, held at various world cities and attended by government officials and scholars from nearly all the world’s countries, have resulted in a uniquely complete collection of reports on science park and science city projects in most of those...
Knowledge Management in the SocioTechnical World
The Graffiti Continues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Manufacturing Process Design and Costing
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The only book to provide detailed analytical tools for manufacturing process design.
No other book takes a data perspective to design, although this becoming a hot topic in research and industry.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg 2008), a massively multiplayer...
From CSCW to Web 2.0: European Developments in Collaborative Design
Selected Papers from COOP08
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Many challenges were identified in CSCW some thirty years ago, and some of these remain problematic today. However they are being progressively transformed and this edited volume contains contributions that demonstrate how these new challenges are being dealt with in a variety of ways, reflecting...
Offshore Wind Energy Cost Modeling
Installation and Decommissioning
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Offshore wind energy is one of the most promising and fastest growing alternative energy sources in the world. Offshore Wind Energy Cost Modeling provides a methodological framework to assess installation and decommissioning costs, and using examples from the European experience, provides a broad...
Financial Markets Theory
Equilibrium, Efficiency and Information
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This work, now in a thoroughly revised second edition, presents the economic foundations of financial markets theory from a mathematically rigorous standpoint and offers a self-contained critical discussion based on empirical results. It is the only textbook on the subject to include more than two...
by Justin Zobel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
All researchers need to write or speak about their work, and to have research that is worth presenting. Based on the author's decades of experience as a researcher and advisor, this third edition provides detailed guidance on writing and presentations and a comprehensive introduction to research...
by Griselda Deelstra, Guillaume Plantin
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Reinsurance is an important production factor of non-life insurance. The efficiency and the capacity of the reinsurance market directly regulate those of insurance markets. The purpose of this book is to provide a concise introduction to risk theory, as well as to its main application procedures to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
The analysis of the reliability and availability of power plants is frequently based on simple indexes that do not take into account the criticality of some failures used for availability analysis. This criticality should be evaluated based on concepts of reliability which consider the effect of a...
Distributed User Interfaces
Designing Interfaces for the Distributed Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The recent advances in display technologies and mobile devices is having an important effect on the way users interact with all kinds of devices (computers, mobile devices, laptops, tablets, and so on). These are opening up new possibilities for interaction, including the distribution of the UI (User...
Guide to e-Science
Next Generation Scientific Research and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
This guidebook on e-science presents real-world examples of practices and applications, demonstrating how a range of computational technologies and tools can be employed to build essential infrastructures supporting next-generation scientific research. Each chapter provides introductory material on...
Exergy
Theory and Applications in the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Many people, professionals and non-professionals alike, recognize that it is of critical importance to solve global energy and environmental issues. For this purpose, it is essential to have a scientific understanding of what is meant by the “energy” issue is and the “environmental” issue....