Böcker utgivna av ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc

This remarkable work identifies and summarizes the main problems posed by the design of a man-machine dialogue system, then goes on to suggest a number of intriguing ideas that can be used to continue on the path to an efficient, realistic, and fluid communication between human beings and machines.

The focus of this book is risk assessment methodologies for network architecture design. The main goal is to present and illustrate an innovative risk propagation-based quantitative assessment tool.

This book explores the implementation of a method of mutually integrating the agile scrum method used by the developers with the user-centered design used by ergonomists. With this method, users are constantly intervening and thereby participating in the design process of a product, from looking for an idea through finalizing the developed product.

A review of the principles of the safety of software-based equipment, this book begins by presenting the definition principles of safety objectives.

Three-dimensional Separated Flows Topology develops concepts and a methodology for a rational description of the organization of three-dimensional flows, particularly in cases where the flow is the detachment place.

Since its inception, the Internet has evolved from a textual information system towards a multimedia information system, in which data, services and applications are consumed as content. Today, however, the main problem faced is that applications are now content-oriented but the protocol stack remains the same, based on the content location.

This book provides a description of the modeling, design, and calculation of the aeronautical qualities of airplanes and drones. Divided into several parts, this book first summarizes all the necessary theoretical developments about the equations of motions and trajectory calculations of the machine.

This practical guide arms scientists, researchers, and industrial engineers with state-of-the-art verification techniques for real time embedded systems based on the inverse method for parametric timed automata. The authors begin with an introduction to the inverse method, demonstrating how to use it to guarantee robustness in real-time systems.

We are currently witnessing an increase in telecommunications norms and standards given the recent advances in this field. The increasing number of normalized standards paves the way for an increase in the range of services available for each consumer. Moreover, the majority of available radio frequencies have already been allocated.

The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented development and growth in global wireless communications systems, technologies and network traffic generated over network infrastructures.

This book addresses the multiple technical aspects of the distribution of synchronization in new generation telecommunication networks, focusing in particular on synchronous Ethernet and IEEE1588 technologies.

This third book of a 3-volume set on Fracture Mechanics adds a pragmatic and supportive character to the previous volumes by focusing on case studies using corrected exercises that teachers, students or engineers will find extremely useful.

Focusing on reliability issues, this second volume in the comprehensive series on fracture mechanics rounds off the first volume through the analysis of adjustment tests used to validate the use of the laws conforming to the behavior of the materials and structures under study.

This first book of a 3-volume set on Fracture Mechanics is mainly centered on the vast range of the laws of statistical distributions encountered in various scientific and technical fields.

Nanotechnologies: Concepts, Processing and Applications describes and explains how nanotechnologies have entered our everyday lives through scientific and industrial applications with the emphasis placed on the new perspectives in various fields related to societal problems.

This book focuses on ambient intelligence and addresses various issues related to data management, networking and HCI in this context. Taking a holistic view, it covers various levels of abstraction, ranging from fundamental to advanced concepts and brings together the contributions of various specialists in the field.

Microelectronics is a complex world where many sciences need to collaborate to create nano-objects: we need expertise in electronics, microelectronics, physics, optics and mechanics also crossing into chemistry, electrochemistry, as well as biology, biochemistry and medicine.

Over recent years, the amount of mobile equipment that needs to be connected to corporate networks remotely (smartphones, laptops, etc. ) has increased rapidly. Innovative development perspectives and new tendencies such as BYOD (bring your own device) are exposing business information systems more than ever to various compromising threats.

The aim of this book is to understand and describe the martensitic phase transformation and the process of martensite platelet reorientation. These two key elements enable the author to introduce the main features associated with the behavior of shape-memory alloys (SMAs), i.e.

Belonging to the wider academic field of computer vision, video analytics has aroused a phenomenal surge of interest since the current millennium. Video analytics is intended to solve the problem of the incapability of exploiting video streams in real time for the purpose of detection or anticipation.

The purpose of this book is to present the main methods of static and dynamic optimization.

Carbon solids serve as key markers for different civilizations, from their use as a heating source in prehistoric times through the coal mines of the industrial revolution and the development of carbochemistry.

The community responsible for developing lexicons for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Readable Dictionaries (MRDs) started their ISO standardization activities in 2003. These activities resulted in the ISO standard Lexical Markup Framework (LMF).

This book lays out the concepts necessary to understand how a computer works. For reasons of clarity, the authors have deliberately chosen examples that apply to machines from all eras, showing how techniques, concepts, and performances have evolved since the first computers.

Embedded systems are everywhere in contemporary life and are supposed to make our lives more comfortable. In industry, embedded systems are used to manage and control complex systems (e.g. nuclear power plants, telecommunications and flight control) and they are also taking an important place in our daily activities (e.g.

Many approaches to creating Software Product Lines have emerged that are based on Model-Driven Engineering. This book introduces both Software Product Lines and Model-Driven Engineering, which have separate success stories in industry, and focuses on the practical combination of them.

In a fast changing world governed by innovative Enterprise Services and the Future Internet, the issue of Enterprise Interoperability is no longer limited to the interoperation of systems within a single company, but has become a much greater multi-view issue of interoperability throughout a Network of Enterprises.

The aim of this book is to relate fluid flows to chemical reactions. It focuses on the establishment of consistent systems of equations with their boundary conditions and interfaces, which allow us to model and deal with complex situations. Chapter 1 is devoted to simple fluids, i.e. to a single chemical constituent.

This book aims to help engineers, Masters students and young researchers to understand and gain a general knowledge of logistic systems optimization problems and techniques, such as system design, layout, stock management, quality management, lot-sizing or scheduling.

This book examines modeling in the life sciences, presenting and discussing essential concepts and the current state of the art. The authors draw on many practical examples from their own work to explain the mathematics and formal tools and how they are used to solve biological problems at all levels of the organization of life.