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This book shows how to use the CGAL two-dimensional arrangement package, first using small example programs, then describing programs for solving real-world problems. Later chapters are dedicated to large-scale applications written on top of CGAL arrangements.

This book provides an overview of concepts, methods and techniques for managing engineering and construction projects for young professionals and graduate students. It is aimed at helping newcomers to the construction industry approach project management.

The mathematical and algorithmic methods used by viability theory are relevant to an array of complex systems. This updated edition explains the applications of viability theory, explaining the central concepts and illustrating them with numerous examples.

This book presents a concise but rigorous treatment of the theory and practice of analog (linear) fiber-optics links and systems that constitute the foundation of Hybrid Fiber Coax infrastructure in current CATV distribution and cable modem Internet access.

This book reviews current research on detecting (long-range) correlations in complex time series. Covers modern techniques including Hurst analysis, the detrended fluctuation analysis and the wavelet transform, in light of the natural time domain.

This self-contained yet comprehensive book covers the theory of Quantum Gravitation from the point of view of Feynman path integrals. The book stresses the basic physical ideas, developing simple examples and exploiting analogies where suitable.

Geothermal energy is a form of renewable energy and its use is associated with very little or no CO2-emissions and its importance as an energy source has greatly increased as the effects of climate change become more prominent.

The scope of this second edition of the introduction to fundamental distributed programming abstractions has been extended to cover 'Byzantine fault tolerance'. It includes algorithms to implement these abstractions in vulnerable distributed systems.

This book examines key processes and fundamental mechanisms for various combustion and combustion-related phenomena in gaseous combustible mixture. It provides basic knowledge of burning processes and mechanisms of reaction wave propagation.

Supervision, condition-monitoring, fault detection, fault diagnosis and fault management play an increasing role for technical processes and vehicles in order to improve reliability, availability, maintenance and lifetime. This book is a sequel to "Fault-Diagnosis Systems" published in 2006, where the basic methods were described.

Magnetotellurics is finding increasing applications for imaging electrically conductive structures below the Earth`s surface - in both industrial and academic research projects.

This book systematically presents recent progress made in the research of aeolian processes, especially in the research on mechanism, theoretical modelling and computational simulation of aeolian processes from the viewpoint of mechanics.

This book covers the design, application and evaluation of computational models of motivation in reinforcement learning. The performance of these models is demonstrated by applications in simulated game scenarios and a live, open-ended, virtual world.

The book assesses current ideas for long-term disposal of highly radioactive waste. Different types of rock are discussed and assessed with respect to practical difficulties in constructing a repository, and the efficiency of isolating radioactive waste.

In this, its second corrected printing, Zohdi and Wriggers' illuminating text presents a comprehensive introduction to the subject. This volume is ideal for researchers and engineers, and can be used in a first-year course for graduate students with an interest in the computational micromechanical analysis of new materials.

This book examines the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe. There is emphasis on the geological conditions and consequences of life's conquest of land as the pre-condition for the emergence of life with our type of technical intelligence.

In biology, few organs have been as elusive as the lung-air sac system of birds. While summarizing and building on earlier observations and ideas, this book provides cutting-edge details on the development, structure, function, and the evolutionary design of the avian respiratory system.

The 34th Saas-Fee advanced course of the Swiss Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SSAA) took place from March 15 to 20, 2004, in Davos, on the subject of The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate.

In particular, the author carefully scrutinizes Einstein's FBI file from 1950-55 against mostly unpublished material from European including Soviet sources and presents hitherto unknown documentation on Einstein's alleged contacts with the German Communist Party and the Comintern.

While the stability theory for systems with bilateral constraints is a well-established field, this monograph represents a systematic study of mechanical systems with unilateral constraints, such as unilateral contact, impact and friction.

This book offers a concise presentation of theoretical concepts characterizing and quantifying the slowing down of swift heavy ions in matter.

This book serves as an excellent introduction to the emerging discipline of Medical Geology, which examines diseases of geologic in origin, such as dental and skeletal fluorosis, iodine deficiency disorders, trace element imbalances.

This text offers an overview of the state-of-the-art of noise reduction algorithms, focusing on the most useful techniques. In addition, it rigorously derives these techniques and proves many fundamental and intuitive results often taken for granted.

Cities are considered to be among the largest and most complex artificial networks created by human beings. This monograph uses methods from spectral graph theory and statistical physics to lay the theoretical foundations for studying compact urban topology.

In this book, Yoshimura provides a review of the UHV related development during the last decades. After a general description how to design UHV systems, he covers all important issue in detail, like pumps, outgasing, Gauges, and Electrodes for high voltages.

A text on electromagnetic fields and waves. It is useful reference for researchers and engineers in the areas of microwaves and optoelectronics. It discusses the field analysis of electromagnetic waves confined in material boundaries, or so-called guided waves, and electromagnetic waves in the dispersive media and anisotropic media.

Many phenomena in social, natural and engineering fields are governed by wave, potential, parabolic heat-conduction, hyperbolic heat-conduction and dual-phase-lagging heat-conduction equations.

This self contained book presents a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future of the galactose regulon of yeast, the classical model system of molecular biologists. This is followed by molecular genetics of the galactose regulon, isolation of genes and testing of the hypotheses.

This monograph examines the theoretical foundations of the spectral method for fatigue life determination. The formula proposed in this book enables readers to determine power spectral density of the equivalent history directly from the components of the power spectral density matrix of the multidimensional stochastic process.