Springer London: 1778 books
Modeling and Simulating Command and Control
For Organizations Under Extreme Situations
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Commanding and controlling organizations in extreme situations is a challenging task in military, intelligence, and disaster management. Such command and control must be quick, effective, and considerate when dealing with the changing, complex, and risky conditions of the situation. To enable optimal...
Essential Dreamweaver® 4.0 fast
Rapid Web Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 provides an exciting environment for creating and managing web pages and web sites. Fiaz Hussain gives a quick, but effective, introduction to the various key components and tools making up the development studio. Using a hands-on approach, with plenty of animated illustrations,...
by Michael Roe
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
A close analysis of the framework of existing governance and the existing jurisdictional arrangements for shipping and ports reveals that while policy-making is characterized by national considerations through flags, institutional representation at all jurisdictions and the inviolability of the state,...
BIS ’99
3rd International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poznan, Poland 14-16 April 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Welcome to BIS'99! Business Information Systems 99 is an international conference being held for the third time. BIS'99 aims to discuss the development, implementation, application and improvement of computer systems for business processes. It is addressed to the scientific community, people involved...
Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XVIII
Proceedings of ES2001, the Twenty-first SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artifical Intelligence, Cambridge, December 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
M.A. BRAMER University of Portsmouth, UK This volume comprises the refereed technical papers presented at ES200 l, the Twenty-fIrst SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied ArtifIcial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 200 l, together with an invited keynote paper...
by José A. Orosa, Armando C. Oliveira
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
There are many aspects to consider when evaluating or improving an indoor environment; thermal comfort, energy saving, preservation of materials, hygiene and health are all key aspects which can be improved by passive methods of environmental control. Passive Methods as a Solution for Improving Indoor...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Software and Systems Traceability provides a comprehensive description of the practices and theories of software traceability across all phases of the software development lifecycle. The term software traceability is derived from the concept of requirements traceability. Requirements traceability...
Re-engineering of Products and Processes
How to Achieve Global Success in the Changing Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Whilst previous methods for business process reengineering have focused on time and cost reduction policies to preserve competitive services and products, Re-engineering of Products and Processes: How to Achieve Global Success in the Changing Marketplace presents a new approach which aims to include...
Fractional Processes and Fractional-Order Signal Processing
Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Fractional processes are widely found in science, technology and engineering systems. In Fractional Processes and Fractional-order Signal Processing, some complex random signals, characterized by the presence of a heavy-tailed distribution or non-negligible dependence between distant observations...
Motor Neuron Disease
Biology and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Here is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the clinical, pathological, and research aspects of motor neuron disease (MND). The text contains all essential features of the anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and toxicology of the motor system, a full description of MND and its variants,...
Robust and Optimal Control
A Two-port Framework Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A Two-port Framework for Robust and Optimal Control introduces an alternative approach to robust and optimal controller synthesis procedures for linear, time-invariant systems, based on the two-port system widespread in electrical engineering. The novel use of the two-port system in this context allows...
by Viorel Barbu
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Stabilization of Navier–Stokes Flows presents recent notable progress in the mathematical theory of stabilization of Newtonian fluid flows. Finite-dimensional feedback controllers are used to stabilize exponentially the equilibrium solutions of Navier–Stokes equations, reducing or eliminating...
Omnidirectional Vision Systems
Calibration, Feature Extraction and 3D Information
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This work focuses on central catadioptric systems, from the early step of calibration to high-level tasks such as 3D information retrieval. The book opens with a thorough introduction to the sphere camera model, along with an analysis of the relation between this model and actual central catadioptric...
by Francis Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Functional analysis owes much of its early impetus to problems that arise in the calculus of variations. In turn, the methods developed there have been applied to optimal control, an area that also requires new tools, such as nonsmooth analysis. This self-contained textbook gives a complete course...