Henri Gouin, Aix-Marseille University, France
November 2020
Introduction to Mathematical Methods of Analytical Mechanics presents an overview of geometric methods of calculus and their applications to analytical mechanics. The properties of material systems are studied with a finite number of degrees of freedom, us... (Read more)
Edited by
Alessandro Stella, CNRS, France
Anne Coppel, Association Francaise de Reduction des Risques, France
November 2020
While the war on drugs is limited to a simplistic rallying cry of “no to drugs”, a diversity of approaches can open up new perspectives on the drug policies which have been tested since the beginning of the 20th Century. Living with Drugs presents the ... (Read more)
Jean Lerbet, University of Paris Saclay, France
Noël Challamel, University of South Brittany, France
François Nicot, INRAE, France
Félix Darve, University Grenoble Alpes, France
November 2020
This book exposes the general concepts and results concerning stability issues, especially for non-conservative systems. It then presents an approach of stability that is different from Lyapunov’s theory and leads to the second-order work criterion (whic... (Read more)
The Wiener-Hopf solution - Theory
Vito G. Daniele, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Guido Lombardi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
October 2020
This book, comprising two volumes, has a dual purpose. The first is to introduce a general methodology for solving diffraction problems in geometries constituted of angular regions – The Wiener-Hopf Solution – Theory (Volume 1). The second is to offer ... (Read more)
Design, Implementation, Safety and Supervision
Saida Helali, Institut Supérieur des Etudes Technologiques de Radès, Tunisia
October 2020
IT infrastructures are now essential in all areas and sectors of human activity; they are the cornerstone of any information system. Thus, it is clear that the greatest of care must be given to their design, implementation, security and supervision in orde... (Read more)
Jacques Simon, CNRS, France
October 2020
This book is the second of a set dedicated to the mathematical tools used in partial differential equations derived from physics. It presents the properties of continuous functions, which are useful for solving partial differential equations, and, more ... (Read more)
Sustainability, Managerial and Scientific Fundamentals
Edited by
Jean-Pierre Dal Pont, Société des Experts Chimistes de France (SECF), France
Marie Debacq, AgroParisTech, France
October 2020
Of crucial economic and societal importance, process industries transform matter by chemical, physical or biological means. They cover broad fields such as chemistry, oil, pharmacy, metallurgy and agri-food, to name a few. As a result of knowledge excha... (Read more)
Sandrine Zufferey, University of Bern, Switzerland
October 2020
Today, the use of corpora is common in all fields of linguistics. Thus, the ability to quantitatively analyze linguistic data from a corpus is becoming an essential part of the linguistic “toolbox”. This book sheds light on the theoretical and methodo... (Read more)
The P.S.I. Approach
Marianne Chouteau, University of Lyon, France
Joëlle Forest, University of Lyon, France
Céline Nguyen, University of Lyon, France
October 2020
In a context marked by unprecedented challenges (the struggle against inequalities, climate change, etc.), innovation appears to be the ready-made universal scapegoat. Innovation for Society, however, suggests that we look at innovation differently, by... (Read more)
Edited by
Chrysta Pélissier, University of Montpellier, France
October 2020
Helping, guiding, accompanying, assisting, and supporting are recurrent actions carried out by the teacher, trainer, or support worker in a professional environment. Support in Education seeks to define these complex actions that intend to improve colle... (Read more)
Major Challenge for the Digital Society
Jean-Louis Monino, University of Montpellier, France
October 2020
Businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of data and information. As such, they are eager to develop ways to “manage” them, to enrich them and take advantage of them. Indeed, the recent explosion of a phenomenal amount of data, and ... (Read more)
From Waste Reduction to Value Creation
Edited by
Karen Delchet-Cochet, ISC Paris Business School, France
October 2020
Due to the challenges of climate change, the collapse of biodiversity and an increase in inequality, it has become necessary for us to change our habits and to embrace what some might call a “Copernican revolution”. This book argues that the best facil... (Read more)
Edited by
Thomas Michaud, Consultant
October 2020
Science fiction is often presented as a source of utopia, or even of prophecies, used in capitalism to promote social, political and technoscientific innovations. Science Fiction and Innovation Design assesses the validity of this approach by exploring ... (Read more)
Discourse, Apparatus and Power
Eleni Mouratidou, Paris 13 University and the LabSIC, France
October 2020
The commoditization of goods, environmental pollution, relocation, the exploitation of cheap labor and encouragement to overconsume – these traits characterize the luxury fashion industry, whose economic growth continues to rise. This book examines th... (Read more)
Entrepreneurial Strategies and Market Dynamics
Edited by
Dimitri Uzunidis, Innovation Research Network, France
October 2020
Systemic innovation is based on business networks and new business models in a global economy integrated by flows of knowledge, capital, and goods. The authors of this book consider the theory that innovations act as systems based on multi-actor interactio... (Read more)
Research
Éric Schaer, University of Lorraine, France
Jean-Claude André, University of Lorraine, France
September 2020
Process engineering emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century and has become an essential scientific discipline for the matter and energy processing industries. Its success is incontrovertible, with the exponential increase in techniques and innovations... (Read more)
Prospects
Éric Schaer, University of Lorraine, France
Jean-Claude André, University of Lorraine, France
September 2020
Process engineering emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century and has become an essential scientific discipline for the matter and energy processing industries. Its success is incontrovertible, with the exponential increase in techniques and innovations... (Read more)
A SysML Supported Requirements Engineering Method
Jean-Yves Bron, University of Lorraine, France
September 2020
System requirements engineering is a key feature of complex systems engineering. This book proposes a method inspired by the best practices of system engineering standards: it favors a model-based systems engineering approach using the system modeling lang... (Read more)
Ali Mahdoum, Université Saad Dahlab de Blida, Algeria
September 2020
This book addresses the difficulty of obtaining a quality solution, that is, pre optimal or even optimal, in a reasonable time from a central processing unit (CPU). As polynomial problems can be treated by exact methods, the problem posed concerns non-poly... (Read more)
Jean Salençon, French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technologies, France
September 2020
Elastoplastic behavior has long been part of the constitutive models incorporated in most computer codes, used in the design of civil and mechanical engineering structures. Elastoplastic Modeling offers a compact presentation of the fundamentals of clas... (Read more)
Anh Nguyen-Xuan, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
September 2020
Cognitive Mechanisms of Learning presents experimental research works on the issue of knowledge acquisition in Cognitive Psychology. These research works – initiated by groups of researchers with academic backgrounds in Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistic... (Read more)
From the Emergence of Human Cultures to Contemporary Management in Organizations
Jamila Alaktif, Stanford University, USA
Stéphane Callens, Artois University, France
September 2020
This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analysis of the past and present, ranging from the first human migration to contemporary organizational managem... (Read more)
Petros Katsafados, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Elias Mavromatidis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Christos Spyrou, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
September 2020
This book establishes a fundamental working knowledge of the theories and applications behind data assimilation and numerical weather prediction. It has been written to support under- and postgraduates in atmospheric or Earth sciences and introduces studen... (Read more)
Contribution of Systems of Systems to Systems Thinking
Jacques Printz, Université Catholique de Lille, France
Foreword written by Daniel Krob
September 2020
The 1990s, from an IT perspective, brought major changes with regards to independent operating systems. Small, powerful machines that consumed little energy replaced the mainframes, the symbols of centralized systems of the 1970–80s. Historically, the or... (Read more)
Edited by
Nur Çaglar, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Irene G. Curulli, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Isil Ruhi Sipahioglu, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Lazaros E. Mavromatidis, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Strasbourg, France
September 2020
Thresholds in Architectural Education provides a comprehensive presentation of the various forms of interaction that exist within the non-formal, informal and formal learning experiences of architectural students, studying the discipline at higher educatio... (Read more)
Xavier Pavie, Paris Nanterre University, France
September 2020
Are innovators conscious of their role, or do they only consider innovation in a way that is over-capitalist and ultra-liberal? Starting with philosophy, it is possible to examine innovation from a different perspective, outside of the usual categories ... (Read more)
HRM in the Worlds of Hotels and Air Transport
Edited by
Gwenaëlle Grefe, University of Angers, France
Dominique Peyrat-Guillard, University of Angers, France
September 2020
Shapes of Tourism Employment presents the circumstances of being an employee in large-scale tourist organizations within two key sectors – hotels and passenger air transport – according to their evolution in response to the advent of the leisure societ... (Read more)
New Developments and Financial Applications
Edited by
Emmanuel Jurczenko, Glion Institute of Higher Education, Switzerland
September 2020
This new edited volume consists of a collection of original articles written by leading financial economists and industry experts in the area of machine learning for asset management. The chapters introduce the reader to some of the latest research deve... (Read more)
Trend or Necessity
Edited by
Pierre Champollion, ECP-Lyon and ESO-Caen, France
September 2020
Territorialization of Education revisits, in a new and innovative way, the many interactions that have gradually developed between both territories-territorialities and schools-education. Predominantly based on original empirical research, this book, by... (Read more)
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