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This book illustrates how mechatronics can make products and systems more flexible, more responsive and possessed of higher levels of functionality than would otherwise be possible. The book's case-study approach is an effective way of illustrating this.

Here is a guide to innovative architectural design for those working with biophilic and bioclimatic architectural concepts. It develops an architectural strategy, which integrates the concepts of passive and low-energy buildings, biophilia and human comfort.

This pioneering text/reference presents a detailed focus on the use of machine vision techniques in industrial inspection applications.

This comprehensive text/reference examines the various challenges to secure, efficient and cost-effective next-generation wireless networking. examines real-world applications of vehicular communications, broadband wireless technologies, RFID technology, and energy-efficient wireless communications;

As such Inflammatory Response in Cardiovascular Surgery is vital reading for all involved in the management of cardiovascular surgical patients, such as cardiovascular and transplant surgeons, anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians, cardiovascular and vascular fellows, and researchers.

This book presents both state-of-the-art research developments and practical guidance on approaches, technologies and frameworks for the emerging cloud paradigm. describes emerging new methodologies relevant to the cloud paradigm, and provides suggestions for future developments and research directions.

Design of Advanced Photocatalytic Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications provides a valuable road-map, outlining the common principles lying behind the diversity of materials, but also delimiting the imprecise border between the contrasted results and the most speculative studies.

This volume demonstrates the practical relevance and applicability of self-organization. It includes case studies that examine applications of self-organization, identify causes for their successes, and propose guiding principles for future developments.

This book presents a panorama of technologies and methods for multi-finger haptic interaction, together with an analysis of the benefits and implications of adding multiple-fingers to haptic applications.

This book on smart grid security is meant for a broad audience from managers to technical experts. It starts with a brief overview of the smart grid and then discusses some of the reported attacks on the grid. It covers network threats, cyber physical threats, smart metering threats, as well as privacy issues in the smart grid.

This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2011, the 12th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

This volume introduces recent developments of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in the field of Geometric Design. The text is written with a particular emphasis on computer based design and analysis involving the geometry of physical objects.

This book discusses the physical and chemical fundamentals of membrane reactor technology, as well as its technological and economic aspects when applied to the production of hydrogen by catalytic steam reforming.

Design creativity is instrumental in not only addressing social problems faced across the world, but also evoking an innate appreciation for beauty and a sense of personal contentment.Design Creativity 2010 comprises advanced research findings on design creativity and perspectives on future directions of design creativity research.

Advanced Mechanics in Robotic Systems illustrates ambitious, original mechanical designs and techniques for developing new robot prototypes. Case studies focus on projects in mechatronics that have high growth expectations: humanoid robots, robotics hands, mobile robots, etc.

This book shows how simulation can facilitate improvements on the job and in communities. The reader will learn to plan a project and communicate using a charter, how to establish simultaneous intervals on key responses and apply selection and ranking, and more.

This book presents theories, methodologies and practical tools for the realization of an intelligent maintenance management system for distant monitoring. It also covers the development and running of a remote control center.

Modern manufacturing requires information systems that integrate process design and costing data, allowing rapid assessment of 'what if' scenarios. This book details the development of such systems with a focus on the data schema and user interface design.

This volume presents research directions, including: stability analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems and converse Lyapunov theorems; stabilization and regulation of nonlinear dynamical control systems; and control of physical systems using physics-based Lyapunov functions and passivity.

This volume covers a wide variety of papers on learning, control and hybrid systems. Specific topics include: learning in dynamical systems, randomized algorithms in robust control design, identification of systems, digital signal processing, robust and H-infinity control, control of hybrid systems and supervisory control.

Analysis and Design of Networked Control Systems

This book addresses the problems of integrating waste-to-energy (WTE) in developing countries and countries in transition, where waste management infrastructure and awareness can be lacking, and where scepticism is among a unique and complex set of barriers.

This book informs readers of the needs and rationale for the integration of medical and dental care and information with an international perspective as to how and where medical and dental care separated into specific domains.

This exploration of the technical progress of wind energy conversion systems also examines potential future trends and includes recently developed systems such as those for multi-converter operation of variable-speed wind generators and lightning protection.

This book concentrates on two aspects of business intelligence, together with the associated IBM products: data warehousing with Visual Warehouse, and on-line analytical processing using the DB2 OLAP Server.

"Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World" gathers together papers from the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008), to stimulate the new thinking that is so crucial to our sustained productivity enhancement and quality of life.

This book addresses the problem of measurement error associated with determining the location of landmarks in images.

The book gives the reader a sufficient understanding of HTML and JavaScript to write their online applications. This book emphasises basic programming principles in a modern Web-oriented environment, making it suitable for an introductory programming course for non-computer science majors.

This book offers essays by friends, students and collaborators of Jacob T. Schwartz at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, on topics Schwartz explored: quantum theory, theory and practice of programming, robotics, motion planning and genomics.

Creativity and Rationale: Enhancing Human Experience by Design comprises 19 complementary chapters by leading experts in the areas of human-computer interaction design, sociotechnical systems design, requirements engineering, information systems, and artificial intelligence.