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This unique book is the only recent summary presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed treatment of relay feedback theory, the use of relay feedback for process identification and the use of identified models for general control design in a single volume.

The European Commission facilitates and supports applied research in knowledge management through its Information Society Technologies (1ST) programme, a major theme of research and technological development within the European Union's Research and Technology Development Framework Programme.

An exposition of the interplay between the modelling of dynamic systems and the design of feedback controllers based on these models. The authors of individual chapters are some of the most renowned and authoritative figures in the fields of system identification and control design.

It is also about the virtual spaces created by virtual reality hardware (CAVEs, panoramic screens, head mounted display systems etc.) and software. Virtual Space: Spatiality in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds is interdisciplinary.

Moving on from earlier stochastic and robust control paradigms, this book introduces the reader to the fundamentals of probabilistic methods in the analysis and design of uncertain systems. It significantly reduces the computational cost of high-quality control and the complexity of the algorithms involved.

This book deals with the application of modern control theory to some important underactuated mechanical systems, from the inverted pendulum to the helicopter model. It will help readers gain experience in the modelling of mechanical systems and familiarize with new control methods for non-linear systems.

Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions is a collection of papers resulting from an EPSRC managed research programme set up to investigate the relationships between Legacy IT Systems and Business Processes.

This essential companion to Chaitin's successful books The Unknowable and The Limits of Mathematics, presents the technical core of his theory of program-size complexity. The LISP code for this book is available at the author's Web site together with a Java applet LISP interpreter.

_----- 1 Introduction The USPresident's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)recently advised the US Senate of the strategic importance of investing in IT for the 21st century, particularlyin the areas of software,human-computer interaction, scalable information infrastructure, high-end computing and socioeconomic issues [1].

Control Theory for Linear Systems deals with the mathematical theory of feedback control of linear systems. Its subject matter ranges from controllability and observability, stabilization, disturbance decoupling, and tracking and regulation, to linear quadratic regulation, H2 and H-infinity control, and robust stabilization.

This book investigates sets of images consisting of many overlapping viewsofa scene, and how the information contained within them may be combined to produce single images of superior quality. An essential step required to enable frame fusion is image registration: computing the point-to-point mapping between images in their overlapping region.

The new idea of using WSNs for large-scale dimensional metrology has led to the design of distributed systems, subverting classic approaches and providing unique advantages such as portability and flexibility. This book explores the cutting edge in this field.

Complex Engineering Service Systems addresses both conceptual and practical aspects of contracting, managing, designing, leading, delivering and transforming complex engineering service systems. The ideas discussed in the text can be put into action by industrial practitioners.

The ultimate goal of machines is to help humans to solve problems. Such problems range between two extremes: structured problems for which the solution is totally defined (and thus are easily programmed by humans), and random problems for which the solution is completely undefined (and thus cannot be programmed).

Network Science is the emerging field concerned with the study of large, realistic networks.

In the late 1960s British mathematician John Conway invented a virtual mathematical machine that operates on a two-dimensional array of square cell. A dead cell comes to life if it has exactly three live neighbours. A live cell remains alive if two or three of its neighbours are alive, otherwise the cell dies.

E-maintenance is the synthesis of two major trends in today's society: the growing importance of maintenance as a key technology and the rapid development of information and communication technology.

Presents a broad overview of the important techniques used to model biological systems. This title provides an introduction into the use of a wide range of software tools and modeling environments, and describes the constraints and difficulties that each modeling technique presents in practice.

Designing Inclusive Interactions contains the proceedings of the fifth Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT), incorporating the 8th Cambridge Workshop on Rehabilitation Robotics, held in Cambridge, England, in March 2010. Inclusive interaction design and new technologies for inclusive design4.

Modelling for Business Improvement contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Process Modelling and Process Management (MMEP 2010) held in Cambridge, England, in March 2010.

The Chemical Batch Reactor is aimed at tackling the above problems from a blending of academic and industrial perspectives.

This practically oriented book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date description of multi-state system (MSS) reliability as a natural extension of classical binary-state reliability. It presents all essential theoretical achievements in the field.

Recent advances in biometrics include new developments in sensors, modalities and algorithms. Written for researchers, advanced students and practitioners to use as a handbook, this volume captures the very latest state-of-the-art research contributions from leading international researchers.

This guidebook on e-science presents real-world examples of practices and applications, demonstrating how a range of computational technologies and tools can be employed to build essential infrastructures supporting next-generation scientific research.

Passivity and associated stability conditions form one of the cornerstones in control theory and have begun to be applied in process control. In this book, passivity-based developments in all areas of control theory are addressed systematically for the first time.

This volume emphasizes the applications and implications of the Geospatial Web and the role of contextual knowledge in shaping the emerging network society. Containing chapters from renowned researchers and practitioners, this volume will be invaluable to all interested in this field.

This is the first book to focus on emerging technologies for distributed intelligent decision-making in process planning and dynamic scheduling. The book provides a better understanding of the present state and future trends of research in this area.

"The Maintenance Management Framework" describes and reviews the concept, process and framework of modern maintenance management of complex systems; It will be bought by engineers and professionals involved in maintenance management, maintenance engineering, operations management, quality, etc.

A step-by-step development of the theory of automata, languages and computation. design of programming languages, including the development of a new programming language;