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Here is a book that aggregates five years of experience of three successive R and D projects (ELCH, GetTogether, GROPIS) covering technical and organizational issues of eProcurement.

This book examines the theoretical and methodological research issues that underlie the design and use of interactive technology. The examination of these capacities is embedded in understanding concepts of communication and interaction and their application;

Psychoprosthetics is defined as the study of psychological aspects of prosthetic use and of rehabilitative processes in those conditions that require the use of prosthetic devices.

Noisy data appear very naturally in applications where the authentication is based on physical identifiers. It provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of extracting cryptographic keys from noisy data, and describes applications in the field of biometrics, secure key storage, and anti-counterfeiting.

Agent systems are being used to model complex systems like societies, markets and biological systems. This book sheds light upon the complex interrelation between interactivity/exchange and convergence in multi-agent systems, for the first time.

This book presents results from cross-disciplinary research on implementation of the alternative fuels hydrogen, electricity and biodiesel in the transport sector, as well as the assessment of environmental impacts from the production of solar cells.

The Robotics Divide explores future developments in robotics technology and discusses the model of technological development and the implementation of robotics in this competitive market economy.

This book covers methodology, calculation procedures and tools to support enterprise planning for adapting power stations to cogeneration and combined-cycle forms. It examines the optimum selection of the structure of heat exchangers in a 370 MW power block.

This book offers a classification of the Normalized Integral Table Algebras (Fusion Rings) generated by a faithful non-real element of degree 3. It links a number of the algebras to the polynomial irreducible representations of the group SL3(C).

This book surveys 20th century progress in classical number theory, from the proof of the Prime Number Theorem in 1896 through the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, focusing on the part of number theory that addresses properties of integers and rational numbers.

Over the past 100 years the European Automotive Industry has been repeatedly challenged by best practice. However, the European - dustry is now faced with growing competition and growth from new emerging low-cost countries and needs to re-define its competitive advantage to remain at the forefront of the sector.

Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems, ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed look at a number of well-established methods and tools for developing spoken dialogue systems.

Chapter 2 summarizes the results of repair maintenance, which is the most basic maintenance in reliability. The repair maintenance of systems such as the one-unit system and multiple-unit redundant systems is treated.

Unique study of the human footSole perspective on the human foot in the market

This book will enable researchers, control engineers and automotive engineers to understand the engine and whole-vehicle models necessary for control. A range of contributors from academic and industrial backgrounds cover subjects from suspension control to Hamiltonian formulation of bond graphs.

Using clear and accessible language this book examines the growing field of 'smart technology' for the home. The last section examines what it is like to live in a smart home and why they have so far failed to reach the levels of success originally predicted. Invaluable reading for anybody interested in designing smart technologies for the home.

Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are adaptive systems inspired by the biological immune system and applied to problem solving.

Looks at how research into predicting the financial markets has progressed. This book describes the financial markets and asks whether they are indeed predictable, given the number of possible economic and financial variables. It surveys prediction models and looks at how these can be refined so as to provide the best prediction.

This book is essential reading for researchers in VIR, and final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses such as Multimedia Information Retrieval, Multimedia Databases, and others.

Many of the non-smooth, non-linear phenomena covered in this well-balanced book are of vital importance in almost any field of engineering. Contributors from all over the world ensure that no one area's slant on the subjects predominates.

Mass customization (MC) has been hailed as a successful operations strategy across manufacturing and service industries for the past three decades. Mass Customization: Engineering and Managing Global Operations presents emerging research on the role of MC and personalization in today's international operations context.

The extraordinary development of digital computers (microprocessors, microcontrollers) and their extensive use in control systems in all fields of applications has brought about important changes in the design of control systems.

This book provides an overview of reliability performance and specification in new product development. The methodology it presents will be of use to engineers involved in product design and development.

"Hydrogen-based Autonomous Power Systems" analyses the introduction of hydrogen energy technologies in autonomous power systems based on renewable energy sources (RES).

Semi-active Suspension Control provides an overview of vehicle ride control employing smart semi-active damping systems. These systems are able to tune the amount of damping in response to measured vehicle-ride and handling indicators.

The first book to provide a systematic review of the forces driving technologies towards sustainable development, this work discusses the possibilities for fostering renewable energy and innovations from the perspective of policy and business decision makers.

This book provides control engineers and workers in industrial and academic research establishments interested in process engineering with a means to build up a practical and functional supervisory control environment and to use sophisticated models to get the best use out of their process data.

This book focuses on those functionalities that can provide significant improvements in Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) performance in combination with parameter tuning. The book gives the reader new methods for improving the performance of the most widely applied form of control in industry.

This book presents, in a self-contained manner, the essential aspects of model theory needed to understand model theoretic algebra. Includes a complete proof of Ax and Kochen's work on Artin's conjecture about Diophantine properties of p-adic number fields.