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Systems of systems are at the root of this century's global economic, climate, and energy challenges. This volume provides an approach that integrates both energy and information processing requirements into system design.

In this context, Advanced Technologies for Future Transmission Grids provides an overview of the most promising technologies, likely to be of help to planners of transmission grids in responding to the challenges of the future: security of supply;

This book explores problems of internet discovery and compact routing as well as the concept of stretch and its relevance to service differentiation, and offers discovery scheme designs that provide different service levels to different sets of entities.

Quality Management in Reverse Logistics intends to develop, collect, examine and evaluate a number of quality management (QM) tools and techniques, which can be applied in practice in order to understand, review and improve any closed-loop supply chain process.

This book covers all aspects of control performance management, from controller assessment, to detection and diagnosis of control loop problems, to control performance improvement, with case studies drawn from across a broad spectrum of industries.

Highly developed and widely applicable, MSPC is popular in many industrial contexts. This book covers the most recent developments in the field, and includes a wealth of supplementary material and industrial insight, and anticipates likely future research.

As well as describing the extremely useful applications of the CVBEM, the authors explain its mathematical background -- vital to understanding the subject as a whole. This is the most comprehensive book on the subject, bringing together ten years of work and can boast the latest news in CVBEM technology.

This book shows readers new ways to compensate for disturbances in control systems prolonging the intervals between time-consuming and/or expensive fault diagnosis procedures, keeping them up to date in the increasingly important field of adaptive control.

This text facilitates and explains design in the frequency domain, which is not as established among control engineers as time-domain design. It includes worked examples that are easily reproduced by the reader, and the results are illustrated by simulations.

Composed of over 50 papers, "Enterprise Interoperability" ranges from academic research through case studies to industrial and administrative experience of interoperability. Many of the papers have examples and illustrations calculated to deepen understanding and generate new ideas.

This book meets head-on the difficulty of making practical use of new systems theory, presenting a selection of varied applications together with relevant theory. It shows how workable identification and control solutions can be derived by adapting and extrapolating from the theory.

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras provide a depth value at each pixel, from which the 3D structure of the scene can be estimated. It is already possible to use multiple TOF cameras, in order to increase the scene coverage, and to combine the depth data with images from several colour cameras.

This book examine current trends in developing models for solar radiation, including applications of fuzzy logic. It addresses major issues in accurately sizing photovoltaic systems due to variables in available solar radiation.

Illustrated with examples from industrial applications, this book diminishes the gap between developers of finite element computer programs and professional engineers with expertise in industrial joining technologies for metal forming and resistance welding.

Constitutes the proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM2012) held from November 11 to 14, 2012 at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan and supported by Sichuan University, Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad, Pakistan) and The National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Acting as a support resource for practitioners and professionals looking to advance their understanding of complex mechatronic systems, this book explains their design and advanced developments from first principles to practical applications.

This book illustrates the Monte Carlo simulation method and its application to reliability and system engineering. Conveys a sound understanding of of the fundamentals of Monte Carlo sampling and simulation and its application for realistic system modeling.

Presented here are 97 refereed papers given at the 37th MATADOR Conference held at The University of Manchester in July 2012. The MATADOR series of conferences covers the topics of Manufacturing Automation and Systems Technology, Applications, Design, Organisation and Management, and Research. The Proceedings of this Conference contain original papers contributed by researchers from many countries on different continents. The papers cover the principles, techniques and applications in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, energy, consumable goods and process industries.   The papers in this volume reflect:the importance of manufacturing to international wealth creation;the emerging fields of micro- and nano-manufacture;the increasing trend towards the fabrication of parts using lasers;the growing demand for precision engineering and part inspection techniques, andthe changing trends in manufacturing within a global environment.

This book offers clear, concise guidance, helping clinicians to spot, diagnose and treat valvular heart disease. The five main sections cover Aortic Valve Disease, Mitral Valve Disease, Tricuspid Valve Disease, Pulmonic Valve Disease and Multimodality Imaging.

This book aims to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in each of the major areas relating to the management of older colorectal cancers patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research.

"Machine Learning and Data Mining for Computer Security" provides an overview of the current state of research in machine learning and data mining as it applies to problems in computer security.

In human face-to-face communication, eye gaze plays an important role in floor management, grounding, and engagement in conversation.Eye Gaze in Intelligent User Interfaces draws on ideas from a number of contributors working on how attentional information can be applied to novel intelligent interfaces.

This book presents a systematic and comprehensive overview of financial transmission rights (FTRS) from the perspectives of various countries.

This book details the analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of adaptive systems to assist users with special needs to take decisions and fulfill daily activities. It highlights how these systems can support sustainable high-quality healthcare.

This is the first book to explore game analytics, the process of discovering and communicating patterns in data to evaluate and drive action, improve performance and solve problems. Applies analytics to processes and performance throughout the game lifecycle.

Our rising dependency on computers leaves us increasingly open to cyber-attacks by criminals and the state. This book addresses the many interdisciplinary issues affecting the uneasy relationship between information technology and the information society.

This book approaches the challenging topic of optimal control for nonlinear systems using the tools of adaptive dynamic programming (ADP). It shows readers how to derive necessary stability and convergence criteria for their own systems.

This book clarifies the definition of the intensification process by highlighting the potential role of multi-scale structures, the specific interfacial area, the distribution of driving force, the modes of energy supply and the temporal aspects of processes.

This book provides a study of environmental regulation when energy markets are imperfectly competitive. It enables readers to calibrate related interventions as well as to better design simulation models of performance and costs of environmental regulation.