Ingenieurswissenschaften

Managing Risk

Romney Beecher Duffey / John Walton Saull

The human element is the principle cause of incidents and accidents in all technology industries; hence it is evident that an understanding of the interaction between humans and technology is cruc...

Engineering Design via Surrogate Modelling

Andy Keane / Alexander Forrester / András Sobester

Surrogate models expedite the search for promising designs by standing in for expensive design evaluations or simulations. They provide a global model of some metric of a design (such as weight, a...

Into The Nano Era

<P>Even as we tentatively enter the nanotechnology era, we are now encountering the 50th anniversary of the invention of the IC. Will silicon continue to be the pre-eminent material and will...

Information Technologies in Biomedicine

<P>As the medical information systems have been integrated in order to address the core of medicine, including patient care in ambulatory and in-patient setting, computer assisted diagnosis ...

Discrete Element Analysis Methods of Generic Differential Quadratures

Chang-New Chen

Following the advance in computer technology, the numerical technique has made signi?cant progress in the past decades. Among the major techniques available for numerically analyzing continuum mec...

Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications

The book discusses the underlying physical principles of piezoelectric materials, important properties of ferroelectric/piezoelectric materials used in today’s transducer technology, and the pri...

Computational Surface and Roundness Metrology

Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan / Jayaraman Raja

<P>“Computational Surface and Roundness Metrology” provides an extraordinarily practical and hands-on approach towards understanding the diverse array of mathematical methods used in sur...

Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer Graphics

The purpose of this volume is to present current work of the Intelligent Computer Graphics community, a community growing up year after year. Indeed, if at the beginning of Computer Graphics the u...

Proceedings of Light-Activated Tissue Regeneration and Therapy Conference

<P>This book is the first to present the mechanism which explains why light is an effective treatment for so many illnesses and diseases. The book not only explains this mechanism, but descr...

From Headwaters to the Ocean

Innovation Management for Technical Products

<P>New ideas for new products are not enough for creating successful markets: Product Innovation means to manage the whole chain from invention to new and best selling products in market. Th...

Holistische Innovation

Eckehard Moritz

<P>Mit Innovationen können wir unsere Zukunft gestalten. Doch wie lassen sich Risiken und Wertschöpfung vereinbaren? Und wie kann man Innovationsprozesse so organisieren, dass systematisch...

Schlanker Materialfluss

<P>Das Buch beschreibt die Organisation des Materialflusses in einer schlanken Produktionsstruktur. Der Autor erläutert, wie die Hürden bei der Realisierung von KANBAN und Lean Production ...

Style and Ethics of Communication in Science and Engineering

Jay D. Humphrey / Jeffrey W. Holmes

Scientists and engineers seek to discover and disseminate knowledge so that it can be used to improve the human condition. Style and Ethics of Communication in Science and Engineering serves as a ...

RFID Security

<P>This is an edited book covering fundamentals, security theories and protocols, and hardware implementations for cryptography algorithms and security techniques in RFID. It is the first bo...

Pipeline Engineering ebook Collection

Pipeline Engineering ebook Collection contains 6 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every pipeline professional's library. Get access to over 3000 pages of refere...

Vision of Transdisciplinarity

Water and Urban Development Paradigms

The International Space Station

John E. Catchpole

A comprehensive, highly readable account of complex, technical, political and human endeavor and a worthy successor to Creating the International Space Station (Springer Praxis, January 2002) by D...

Principles of Bacterial Detection: Biosensors, Recognition Receptors and Microsystems

<P><STRONG>Principles of Bacterial Detection: Biosensors, Recognition Receptors and Microsystems</STRONG> will cover the up-to-date biosensor technologies used for the detection ...