Naturwissenschaften & Technik

Mathematical Progress in Expressive Image Synthesis II

The material included in this book provides selected presentations given at the international symposium MEIS2014. The book aims to provide a unique venue where various issues in computer graphics ...

Colliding Bodies Optimization

A. Kaveh / V.R. Mahdavi

<p>This book presents and applies a novel efficient meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO) for various optimization problems. The first part of the ...

Tecnomatix Plant Simulation

Steffen Bangsow

<p>This book systematically introduces the development of simulation models as well as the implementation and evaluation of simulation experiments with Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. It deals ...

Smart Education and Smart e-Learning

<p>This book contains the contributions presented at the 2^nd international KES conference on Smart Education and Smart e-Learning, which took place in Sorrento, Italy,...

Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services

<p>Intelligent interactive multimedia systems and services will be ever more important in computer systems. Nowadays, computers are widespread and computer users range from highly qualified ...

Die ersten ihrer Art

Frank Patalong

Hawkins MonsterAm 10. Juni 1854 eröffnete Queen Victoria vor 40.000 Gästen den spektakulärsten Freizeitpark des 19. Jahrhunderts: 1700 Musiker spielten auf, als der Crystal Palace Park seine Pf...

Werkstoffprüfung

Burkhard Heine

Der strukturelle Aufbau von Werkstoffen sowie deren daraus prinzipiell resultierende Eigenschaften werden in zahlreichen Werken dargestellt. Doch wird oft der Weg vernachlässigt, wie der Anwender...

Smart Milan

Mattia Granata

<p>This book celebrates Milan’s hosting of the World Exposition (Expo) in 2015 by providing fascinating insights into the city and its history that will appeal to all those visitors to Exp...

Advances in Neural Networks: Computational and Theoretical Issues

<p>This book collects research works that exploit neural networks and machine learning techniques from a multidisciplinary perspective. Subjects covered include theoretical, methodological a...

Long Term Warranty and After Sales Service

Anisur Rahman / Gopinath Chattopadhyay

<p>This volume presents concepts, policies and cost models for various long-term warranty and maintenance contracts. It offers several numerical examples for estimating costs to both the man...

Modeling and Stochastic Learning for Forecasting in High Dimensions

The chapters in this volume stress the need for advances in theoretical understanding to go hand-in-hand with the widespread practical application of forecasting in industry. Forecasting and time ...

PAL Driven Organizational Learning: Theory and Practices

Presenting an innovative concept and approach for organization management, this book serves to document an organization’s journey towards the ultimate goal of learning organization. This book al...

WW2 Wehrmacht custom building instructions

Frank Müller / Martin Ludwig

Shows how to build Wehrmacht vehicles out of LEGO® bricks in step to step instructions.

Bau und Betrieb der Dampfkessel

Friedrich Barth

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einleitung -- I. Abschnitt -- II. Abschnitt. Die Feuerungsanlage -- III. Abschnitt. Der Dampfkessel nebst Zubehör -- IV. Abschnitt. Betrieb der Kesselanlage -...

Sawing of my article about the Big Bang

Jan Slowak

Big Bang theory is the prevailing theory of the origin of the universe and its development. Its main argument is so-called "galaxies escape".The analysis of the light from galaxies shows t...

Trajectory Anomalies in Interplanetary Spacecraft

Frederico Francisco

This thesis presents fundamental work that explains two mysteries concerning the trajectory of interplanetary spacecraft. For the first problem, the so-called Pioneer anomaly, a wholly new and i...

Vulkane, Schluchten, Höhlen

Christine Kumerics / Manuel Lauterbach

Tiefeingeschnittene Canyons, wilde Küsten, zerklüftete Hochgebirgslandschaften, einsame Moore, aktive Geysire oder bizarre Felsformationen - man muss nicht immer ins Ausland reisen, um solche Wu...

The Electric Theories of J. Clerk Maxwell

Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem

<p>In this volume Pierre Duhem first gives an overview of 19^th century electricity and magnetism. Next, he applies his keen historical, philosophical, and physical int...

The Steam Rail Motors of the Great Western Railway

Ken Gibbs

Self-propelled carriages were a major innovation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the GWR was quick to develop a large number of steam motor cars to link farms and scattered villages...

Planetary Vistas

Paul Murdin

<p>The word “landscape” can mean picture as well as natural scenery. Recent advances in space exploration imaging have allowed us to now have landscapes never before possible, and this b...