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This book provides a thorough introduction to optimal control, offering many substantial examples, and more than 300 exercises covering viscosity solutions, nonsmooth Lagrangians, the logarithmic Sobolev inequality, periodic trajectories, and systems theory.

Probabilistic Group Theory, Combinatorics and Computing is based on lecture courses held at the Fifth de Brun Workshop in Galway, Ireland in April 2011.

This book provides a mathematical introduction into algorithmic geometry with applications to robotics and computer graphics, from classical problems to Grobner bases. Illustrated by applications in computer graphics, curve reconstruction and robotics.

This book offers a rich collection of state-of-the art, practical methods, new research topics, and references to significant work on the design of integrated fault detection and isolation and fault-tolerant control systems for chemical processes.

Supported by illustrations, tables and diagrams, this book explains, step-by-step, a novel re-engineering method aimed to impact the customer perceived value which is then applied to several case studies across different industrial sectors.

Global networks, which are the primary pillars of the modern manufacturing industry and supply chains, can only cope with the new challenges, requirements and demands when supported by new computing and Internet-based technologies.

Applications in Maintenance, Reliability and Design provides a complete overview of all relevant failure mechanisms, ranging from mechanical failures like fatigue and creep to corrosion and electric failures.

New technology is changing the face of the photograph. This volume on 'snapshot' photography-pictures taken by non-professionals-examines key future trends, from multimedia and social practices to the notion of embedding physicality into digital snapshots.

This book investigates the problem of prediction and non-monotonicity of the effective electromechanical properties in two- and three-component composites based on ferroelectric ceramics and relaxor-ferroelectric single crystals.

Dave Oliver, Celia Romm and Fay Sudweeks This book follows previous texts: Celia Romm and Fay Sudweeks (eds) (1998), Doing Business Electronically: A Global Perspective of Electronic Commerce, and Fay Sudweeks and Celia Romm (eds) (1999) Doing Business on the Internet: Opportunities and Pitfalls.

This book addresses the application of simulation modelling techniques in order to enable better informed decisions in business and industrial organisations.

The biological interactions of living organisms, and protein-protein interactions in particular, are astonishingly diverse.

This book provides deep insight into basic micromechanisms of fracture behavior of materials as well as a number of engineering applications. It is the result of 20 years research in fatigue and fracture and discusses the state of the art for each.

This holistic system-oriented view of clutch performance includes a comprehensive description of driveline elements and their operation, a blend of theoretical and experimental approaches, and practical implementation strategies based on Renault prototypes.

Comprised of the main results from the IST CrossWork project, this book presents key innovations in the use of advanced information technology to support dynamic organizations in modern day industrial supply chains and business service networks.

It was a pleasure to provide an introduction to a new volume on user experience evaluation in games. The broader eld of HCI can begin to look toward game evaluation for fresh, critical, and sophisticated thi- ing about design evaluation and product development.

This book combines information on safety in mining with methods that can be used to preserve human life. It covers a range of topics, including: human factors and error, equipment safety, offshore industry and programmable electronic mining system safety.

This text discusses the use of computer simulation-based techniques and algorithms to determine reliability and/or availability levels in complex systems and to help improve these levels both at the design stage and during the system operating stage.

An oft-repeated adage among telecommunication providers goes, "There are ve things that matter: reliability, reliability, reliability, time to market, and cost. Building truly reliable components is unacceptably expensive, forcing us to c- struct reliable systems out of unreliable components.

Chemical Vapour Deposition explores the design capabilities and applications of advanced materials. From physical fundamentals to the optimization of processing parameters, this volume presents the development and manufacture of high performance materials.

This volume reviews cutting-edge technologies and insights related to XML-based and multimedia information access and data retrieval. And by applying new techniques to real-world scenarios, it details how organizations can gain competitive advantages.

This book provides up-to-date information on different processes for methane production. It discusses the safety and environmental concerns associated with the presence of natural gas hydrates.

This timely book covers topics at the intersection of algorithms and networking. It builds a complete picture of the current state of research on Next Generation Networks and the challenges ahead. Particular focus is given to evolving research initiatives.

This unique text describes the state-of-the-art in computational gene finding, with a particular focus on comparative approaches. It summarizes advances in the field and includes detailed descriptions of the models and algorithms and how to implement them.

This book is an attempt to bring together some of the most infiuential pie ces of research that collectively underpin today's understanding of what constitutes and contributes to design synthesis, and the approaches and tools for supporting this important activity. The book has three parts. Part 1 - Understanding - is intended to provide an overview of some of the major findings as to what constitutes design synthesis, and some of its major infiuencing factors. Part 2 - Approaches - provides descriptions of some of the major prescriptive approaches to design synthesis that together infiu­ enced many of the computational tools described in the final part. Part 3 - Tool- is a selection of the diverse range of computational approaches being developed to support synthesis in the major strands of synthesis research - composition, retrieval, adaptation and change. In addition, the book contains an editorial introduction to the chapters and the broader context of research it represents, and a supplementary bibliography to help locate this broader expanse of work. With the wide variety of methods and tools covered, this book is intended primarily for graduate students and researchers in product design and development; but it will also be beneficial for educators and prac­ titioners of engineering design, for whom it should act as a valuable sourcebook of ideas for teaching or enhancing design creativity.

This state-of-the art book presents recent results in stability and robustness analysis and new developments related to networked fuzzy and optimal control. Many chapters contain case-studies showing how the theories put forward can be implemented.

No other book has been published giving a single-volume introduction and survey to production planning in distributed manufacturing networks. The published literature so far includes conference proceedings only.

The present volume is one of a series concerned with topics considered to be of growing interest to those whose ultimate aim is the understanding of the nutrition of man.

Workshop "Respiratory Muscles in COPD", held in Montescano (Pavia) on September 8-9, 1986

Since 1986, many of the problems associated with nutrition and ventilatory function have been elucidated, and we hope that the contents of this book may contribute towards spreading interest and knowledge in this sector, particularly among those working in the field of respiratory rehabilitation.