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The primary aim of this book is to provide a timely and coherent account of the recent advances in many-core computing research. Starting with programming models, operating systems and their applications; it presents runtime management techniques, followed by system modelling, verification and testing methods, and architectures and systems.

This book covers the current state of research in navigation, modelling and control of marine autonomous vehicles, and deals with various related topics, including collision avoidance, communication, and a range of applications.

Developed by an international team of experts, this book covers free space optical (FSO) communication technologies for realising high speed large-capacity terrestrial and aerospace communications.

Designed for ICT professionals involved in the planning, design, development, testing and operation of network services, this book is ideal for self-teaching. It will help readers evaluate a network situation and identify the most important aspects to be monitored and analysed.

The transfer of responsibility for decisions and actions from humans to machines presents difficult problems for all those concerned with new concepts, their development and use. This book gives practical help by discussing the issues in the context of product design, and gives a methodology to solve them.

This is a timely review of the fundamentals, the latest developments and the diverse applications of nature-inspired algorithms in cyber security and resiliency. Based on concepts from natural processes, phenomena and organisms, it presents novel methodologies to cope with cyber security challenges.

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the principals involved in the use of narrowband and broadband PLC technologies in the SG, and to using these technologies particularly when intermittent renewable energies sources are employed.

Industrial machines, automobiles, airplanes, robots, and machines are among the myriad possible hosts of embedded systems. This book has been prepared for those who seek to easily develop and design embedded systems for control purposes in robotic vehicles.

This book presents an innovative, unique and holistic approach to modeling and simulation approaches in healthcare management. From system architecture to modeling methodology, this book shows how to improve patient health and costs of care via the design and implementation of an efficient infrastructure.

This book explores electromagnetic compatibility in the context of automotive electronics, with a close relation to functional safety as required by ISO 26262.

This book focuses on the feature extraction methods used in Electroencephalographic (EEG) signal processing. It presents state-of-the-art aspects of EEG interpretation and the value of EEG; gives practical tips on interpretation and covers specific areas where EEG is most useful.

This book covers the development, modelling and simulation for high-voltage DC (HVDC) transmission systems. The title also covers the electromagnetic transient model, electromechanical transient model and the dynamic average model, with the electromagnetic transient model being emphasised.

This book covers recent achievements in the area of advanced analytical and associated numerical methods as applied to various problems arising in all branches of electromagnetics.

In an era of increasing contributions from intermittent renewable resources, energy storage is becoming more important to ensure a resilient/reliable electricity supply. This book presents the technology, integration and market aspects of energy storage in the various generation, transmission, distribution, and customer levels of the grid.

This book addresses the design challenges of developing and implementing novel integrated fault diagnosis and control technologies for complex linear systems.

This book introduces signal processing and machine learning techniques for BMI/BCI and outline their practical and future applications in neuroscience, medicine, and rehabilitation, with a focus on EEG-based BMI/BCI methods and technologies.

This book focuses on electromagnetic NDT methods and more specifically on the motion induced eddy current testing and evaluation (MIECTE) techniques used for conductive materials via electromagnetic methods, focusing on the Lorentz force eddy current testing (LET) method which was introduced recently.

This book addresses the growing conflict over use of the radio-frequency spectrum by different systems, such as civil and security applications of radar and consumer use for wireless communications. The increasing demand for this finite resource is driving innovation into new ways in which these diverse systems can cohabit the spectrum.

This book describes the systems and equipment used for measuring and controlling boilers and heat-recovery steam-generators used in land and marine power plant and in process industries. It provides a practical guide to the design, installation, operation and maintenance of these systems.

Power Market Transformation is based on the most recent developments in the energy sector and brings together all the initiatives that interact physically through the common network and financially through the energy market.

This book describes the principles of solving various problems in power engineering via the application of selected metaheuristic optimization methods including genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, and the gravitational search algorithm.

Big Data Analytics and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are helping to drive the management of data usage of the extraordinary increase of computer processing power provided by Cloud Data Centres (CDCs). This new book investigates areas where Big-Data and SDN can help each other in delivering more efficient services.

This book covers the very latest in theory and technology for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT), for both coupling as well as radiative WPT. It describes the theory as well as the technology and applications.

With the rapid growth of wind energy worldwide, challenges in the operation and control of wind turbine systems are becoming increasingly important. This book conveys up to date theoretical and practical techniques applicable to the control of wind turbine systems.

Hand-based biometrics identifies users by unique features in their hands, such as fingerprints, palmprints, hand geometry, and finger and palm vein patterns. This book explores the range of technologies and methods under development and in use for hand-based biometrics, with evaluations of the advantages and performance of each.

This book starts with tutorials about the science of filamentation before presenting chapters on the latest research, technologies and applications. It cover wide aspects of light filaments considering various mediums of propagation, with structured or single filaments, and filaments of different colours, as well as combined filaments.