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This is the first of a three-volume series of books describing the new opportunities and challenges of city logistics, based on papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on City Logistics, 14–16 June 2017, Phuket, Thailand. City logistics... (Read more)

This is the second of a three-volume series of books describing the new opportunities and challenges of city logistics, based on papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on City Logistics, 14–16 June 2017, Phuket, Thailand. City logistic... (Read more)

This is the third of a three-volume series of books describing the new opportunities and challenges of city logistics, based on papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on City Logistics, 14–16 June 2017, Phuket, Thailand. City logistics... (Read more)

Where does political ecology lie on the left–right spectrum? What does it mean? Andrew Dobson indicated that the analyses of ecologism assign to it four possible positions: a new global order (symbolized by the Brundtland Report), a centralized authorita... (Read more)

Big data analytics is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s business context. It concerns not only data that is continuously getting “bigger”, but also the ways in which that data is processed and analyzed and how it is turned into knowledge. ... (Read more)

The aim of this work is to introduce and study basic numerical methods and advanced methods in order to be able to perform scientific computing. The latter refers to the implementation of approaches adapted to the treatment of a scientific problem arising ... (Read more)

Unlike structural engineers, geotechnical engineers deal with a natural material. They have no choice over their medium and must instead accommodate themselves to the material. Moreover, while developments in numerical modeling require more and more specif... (Read more)

This book is a didactic guide which offers the reader an in-depth understanding of analog automation, as well as the opportunity to quickly learn about the computer-aided feedback control of dynamic processes. It allows readers to reinforce their skil... (Read more)

This book explores the major impact of mathematical ideas on philosophical thought. It shows that from Antiquity (Plato) to the end of the Middle Ages (Nicholas of Cusa), philosophy and mathematics have been linked. At the time, visions of the world direct... (Read more)

This book proposes a method which uses the analogy of the ecosystem in order to model and analyze information and communication. Although the concept of the ecosystem is increasingly used to describe situations in which multiple actors have dynamic rel... (Read more)

Maritime transportation is the backbone of world trade: responsible for carrying over 80% of world trade, it has been progressively growing over the past 50 years. Although it is the cheapest way of transporting large amounts of goods, it still involves h... (Read more)

The oil and gas industry developed and implemented the concept of system production availability. This book provides all the information needed to properly assess this parameter and develops an approach for fully integrating this assessment within the life... (Read more)

In recent years, interest for clathrate hydrates has increased, motivated both by their fascinating physiochemical and thermophysical properties and their industrial and practical promises in various areas of application. Following the 2017 publication ... (Read more)

What is color? What is the precise meaning of the statement “the stock market is down by 5% this evening”? How can images produce meaning? How are TV viewers defined? Informationally speaking, such well-known, common questions are examined in this b... (Read more)

This book, comprised of two volumes, is an extended and detailed analysis of both the flow phenomena in closed and open channels and the flows around solid bodies. Although emphasis is given to the real-life applications of flows, the theoretical backgroun... (Read more)

This book, comprised of two volumes, is an extended and detailed analysis of both the flow phenomena in closed and open channels and the flows around solid bodies. Although emphasis is given to the real-life applications of flows, the theoretical backgroun... (Read more)

Time, Emergences and Communications pursues scientific and philosophical research on the place and role of information in natural systems. The first part proposes an unprecedented interpretation of quantum physics by focusing on the idea of matter that com... (Read more)

This book shows how graph rewriting can be used as a computational model adapted to natural language processing. Focus is placed on annotated corpora that play an increasingly important role within natural language processing and it is therefore interestin... (Read more)

Over the last 60 years, electronics has undergone important and rapid developments. This has generated a large range of theoretical and practical notions. This book presents a comprehensive treatise on the evolution of electronics and allows the reader ... (Read more)

The phenomenon of the darknet has aroused fascination and concern and is still badly misunderstood. “Hidden Internet”, “deep web”, “darknets”… these terms actually indicate very different realities to those they are often confused with. Fr... (Read more)

Over 200 years, industry has mastered iron, fire, power and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects with the widespread integration of chips; from computers and telephones to keys, games and white goods. Data, software and computation structu... (Read more)

Agriculture in developing countries must be innovated in order to respond to the triple threat of food and nutritional security, environmental issues and employment needs in rural areas. Yet, existing diffusionist innovation models based on the technologic... (Read more)

Digital humanities has become an increasingly popular field of study, symbolizing the will of human and social sciences to change and modernize. However, its history has often been presented in a restrained and reduced manner. This book presents new ep... (Read more)

Inadequacies, approximations and ambiguities: this is the common batch of phenomena likely to hinder comprehension. Communication, and in particular oral communication, would in theory require many repetitions and preliminary tests in order to reach true a... (Read more)

Financial analyses are most often based on data from accounting documents published by businesses at the end of each year. Diagnostics, prognostics and recommendations are therefore usually made according to the information extracted from these documents, ... (Read more)

Evolution continually shapes the world around us. The living world is reproducing and transmitting traits from ancestors to descendants, yet at the same time it is always changing. This book examines this duality of biodiversity, its past and its future wi... (Read more)

This book traces the discovery of stem cells and examines how they represent hope in the field of health by leading scientific advances in regenerative medicine. Capable of infinitely multiplying and producing all the cells of the human body, stem cells... (Read more)

This book describes the use of a model-driven development approach in the aeronautical field and, more specifically, for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) software design. It concerns the design of embedded software for UAVs that allows for wireless ad hoc com... (Read more)

Microelectronics extends from materials to systems architecture, encompassing the “process”, the “device” and the circuit. For years, nano-electronics have been the subject of discussion in industries as well as concerned public entities. In microe... (Read more)

Developed from presentations given at the Cerisy SVSI (Sciences de la vie, sciences de l’information) conference held in 2016, this book presents a broad overview of thought and research at the intersection of life sciences and information sciences. ... (Read more)

Since the 1990s, Li-ion batteries have been the most commonly-used energy storage systems. As the demand for performance and safety continues to grow, commercial batteries with liquid electrolytes or gels may not be able to meet the needs of emerging appli... (Read more)

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are two expressions that have recently appeared in the media but which remain largely unknown to the general public and professional world. This book aims to improve our understanding of these technologies by... (Read more)

The proliferation of mobile applications has increased the amount of data in the 4G mobile network. With the adoption of smartphones and broadband services such as video streaming, cellular network resources are becoming increasingly constrained. Wi-Fi ... (Read more)

Most physical problems can be written and approximated in the form of mathematical equations (differential, integral, etc.). Mathematicians have always sought to find analytical solutions to the equations encountered in the different engineering sciences (... (Read more)

This book is a didactic guide which offers the reader an in-depth understanding of analog automation, as well as the opportunity to quickly learn about the computer-aided feedback control of dynamic processes. It allows readers to reinforce their skill... (Read more)

Knowledge Management is a strategic issue for both public and private companies and for standard-setting bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who have recently incorporat... (Read more)

Ever since people first began to communicate, they have implemented technologies to support the exchange of information. From the torch network of the Roman army, to the Internet, printing and telegraphy, these technologies led to threats that had to be ap... (Read more)

A vector of opportunities and threats, the international market is a real challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Gateway strategies – the process of setting up in one country in order to re-export to neighboring third-party markets ... (Read more)

The tidal wave of new and digital technologies has not spared the field of scientific research. As a result of the economy’s shift towards the development of services and the spread of the production of data, two simultaneously opposing and complementary... (Read more)

This book represents an up-to-date summary on the issue of education and territory. By questioning the relationship between education and territory according to three main axes – historical evolutions, contemporary interactions and original theorizations... (Read more)

Experimental studies on the photoionization of atomic systems have been further developed by the launch of satellites observing astrophysical plasmas (Chandra and XMM Newton, for example). However, one of the challenges inherent to these studies is the ver... (Read more)

This book centers on the principle of virtual work and its related method for mechanical modeling. It demonstrates and enhances the polyvalence and versatility of the virtual work approach to the mechanical modeling process. Virtual work is set as the p... (Read more)

The QGIS in Remote Sensing Set aims to facilitate the appropriation and operational use of the Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) software in the field of remote sensing. Over the past 15 years, Geographic Information Systems have become centr... (Read more)

The QGIS in Remote Sensing Set aims to facilitate the appropriation and operational use of the Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) software in the field of remote sensing. This fourth volume of the set is dedicated to the presentation and the p... (Read more)

The set of books on Non-deformable Solid Mechanics, of which this book is the fourth volume, is an essential tool for those looking to develop a rigorous knowledge of the discipline, whether students, professionals (in search of an approach to a problem th... (Read more)

This book is a continuation of the author’s previous work, From Big Data to Smart Data (2015), which explored Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of data exploitation, self-learning and autonomous processing. With the idea of “deep learning�... (Read more)

There are desires that we feel, inadequacies that we notice, improvements that we consider… As for each of these situations, it is from the declaration of an expected value that we recognize the objective notion. This book explores this process withi... (Read more)

Written using both imperial and metric systems, this book presents numerous case studies relevant to both industrial and academic domains. These studies, detailed according to class and industry, focus on real projects and are provided along with succinct ... (Read more)

The Proton launcher, which has completed over 410 launches since 1965, was the European launch system Ariane’s biggest competitor on the commercial market. It was developed by Vladimir Tchelomei, who inherited the German missile V-1 in 1944, carried out ... (Read more)

Urban logistics has been a topic of interest for researchers and practitioners for more than 40 years, but it remains difficult to address due to a lack of unification in the proposed definitions and methods. This book provides a logical, practical and... (Read more)

One of the issues in structural health control is the early detection of damage before it leads to ruin. In this context, acoustic emission is a technique well adapted to monitoring, in real time, the health of a structure or the materials that constitute ... (Read more)

Innovation, venerated over the past two centuries in Western society, has not always been considered so positively. This book takes stock of the meanings generated by innovation, in particular by social innovation, clearly distinct from technological in... (Read more)

This book provides insight into a new methodology in human-centered computing research. THEDRE (Traceable Human Experiment Design Research) is a methodology which values the integration of the individual into the construction and evaluation process of ... (Read more)

In this changing environment, new technologies and manipulation techniques are rendering our defense schemes obsolete. No brand is immune from opposition. Through means of reflections, case studies and theoretical panoramas, this book is a valuable guide f... (Read more)