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This book shows how graph theory and matrix approach, and fuzzy multiple attribute decision making methods can be used in manufacturing.

This book presents a solid theoretical foundation of the modern mitigation technologies employed in the power quality arena, and provides an overview of the most recent challenges in this field. The book introduces the advanced concepts associated with power quality to engineers and students.

A common sense of time among the elements of a distributed measurement and control system allows the use of new techniques in solving problems with complex synchronization requirements or arising from the interaction of many sensors and actuators.

Block-oriented Nonlinear System Identification deals with an area of research that has been very active since the turn of the millennium. Block-oriented Nonlinear System Identification serves as a reference for active researchers, new comers, industrial and education practitioners and graduate students alike.

General Principles of Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict these surgical principles.

Discusses the developments such as: design of trajectory planning schemes for holonomic and nonholonomic systems with optimization of energy, torque limitations and other factors; control algorithms for industrial robots, nonholonomic systems and legged robots; and, different applications of robotic systems in industry and everyday life.

H, are some of the geometric properties that char- terize inner product spaces and also make certain problems posed in Hilbert spaces more manageable than those in general Banach spaces.

Since then, we have seen industrial robot manipu- tors working in car factories, automatic guided vehicles moving heavy loads along pre-de?ned routes, human-remotely-operated robots neutralising bombs, and even semi-autonomous robots, like Sojourner, going to Mars and moving from one position to another commanded from Earth.

The book uniquely combines both operative day case urology and diagnostic urology into a practical and comprehensive summary of the most common 'day case' urological procedures, in a form that is concise and relevant to urological residents, consultants or nurses.

This practical and easy-to-follow text explores the theoretical underpinnings of decision forests, organizing the vast existing literature on the field within a new, general-purpose forest model.

Treating dialogue as a problem of inferring a speaker's intentions based on what is said, this book describes the architecture, the algorithms needed for fast real-time inference over very large networks, model parameter estimation and policy optimisation.

Nonlinear Stochastic Processes shows the reader how to deal with the issue of network-induced incomplete information. It presents a unified framework for filtering and control problems in complex communication networks with limited bandwidth.

Also, it is increasingly complex transactions, requiring a higher degree of qualification, which are becoming subject to offshoring as well.The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow's Organization features selected chapters by an international research community on the topic of offshoring.

This book covers advances in speech and video compression, assessment and monitoring of VoIP quality and next-generation network architecture for multimedia services. Offers case studies with step-by-step instructions, worked examples and chapter-end problems.

This book surveys the state of the art in multidimensional, physically-correct visual texture modeling. The authors review the entire process of texture synthesis, visualization, measurement and analysis, as well as applications in medicine and industry.

This book combines steels research and model development, including the application of modeling techniques in steels. Coverages structural engineering modeling and novel, prototype alloy steels such as heat-resistant steel and low nickel maraging steel.

Information engineering and applications is the field of study concerned with constructing information computing, intelligent systems, mathematical models, numerical solution techniques, and using computers and other electronic devices to analyze and solve natural scientific, social scientific and engineering problems.

This book gives readers a framework of model-based FDI techniques, helping them to become familiar with the basic ideas and schemes in a systematic way. Examples and benchmarks provide a means of practising the ideas and judging the methods described.

Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments will be of interest to urban and building designers, environmental engineers, and building performance assessors.

During its life cycle, a product produces waste that is over 20 times its weight. As such it is critical to develop products that are sustainable. Currently product development processes lack high quality methods and tools that are empirically validated to support development of sustainable products. This book is a compilation of over forty cutting edge international research papers from the 22nd CIRP International Design Conference, written by eminent researchers from 15 countries, on engineering design process, methods and tools, broadly for supporting sustainable product development. A variety of new insights into the product development process, as well as a host of methods and tools that are at the cutting edge of design research are discussed and explained covering a range of diverse topics. The areas covered include:Sustainable design and manufacturing,Design synthesis and creativity,Global product development and product life cycle management,Design for X (safety, reliability, manufacturability, etc.), andDesign taxonomy, ontology and standards. CIRP Design 2012: Sustainable Product Development provides researchers in design, engineering and sustainability access to some of the latest, quality research in this area. Practitioners and educators of engineering design and sustainability will find an empirically validated suite of methods and tools that can be applied and taught to develop their practices.

Cleaner Combustion

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on issues about global energy policy and security. It integrates philosophical chapters with technical/modeling chapters and covers issues related to finance, economics, and environmental science.

This practical book offers an introduction to optimization methods used in computer vision. The presentation of the methods is supplemented by simple flow charts, followed by pseudocode implementations that reveal deeper insights into their mode of operation.

This book presents a set of innovative solutions to dynamic thermal analysis of machines when they are put under actual working conditions, leading to better understanding of a machine in real situation.

This book presents an innovative development approach for critical systems and prototype implementation. It provides a novel approach for medical protocol verification, which can help to verify the diagnosis process.

Biologically Inspired Design

This important text/reference presents the latest secure and privacy-compliant techniques in automatic human recognition. Featuring viewpoints from an international selection of experts in the field, the comprehensive coverage spans both theory and practical implementations, taking into consideration all ethical and legal issues.

Daylight is a dynamic source of illumination in architectural space, creating diverse and ephemeral configurations of light and shadow within the built environment.