Computer modelling and simulation

With the diversification of Internet services and the increase in mobile users, efficient management of network resources has become an extremely important issue in the field of wireless communication networks (WCNs).

This book presents selected papers from The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019).

This book describes the development of a constitutive modeling platform for soil testing, which is one of the key components in geomechanics and geotechnics.

This book focuses on mathematical theory and numerical simulation related to various areas of continuum mechanics, such as fracture mechanics, (visco)elasticity, optimal shape design, modelling of earthquakes and Tsunami waves, material structure, interface dynamics and complex systems.

This book discusses systems of damage detection and structural health monitoring in mechanical, civil, and aerospace structures.

This book reviews the literature on hand posture estimation using generative methods, identifying the current gaps, such as sensitivity to hand shapes, sensitivity to a good initial posture, difficult hand posture recovery in cases of loss in tracking, and lack of addressing multiple objectives to maximize accuracy and minimize computational cost.

This book systematically introduces readers to the finite element analysis software DIANA (DIsplacement ANAlyzer) and its applications in civil engineering.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basic and advanced metabolic engineering technologies used to generate natural metabolites and industrially important biomolecules.

This volume covers the recent advances and research on the modeling and simulation of materials.

This book provides a contemporary treatment of quantitative economics, with a focus on data science.

This book presents the basic concepts of survival analysis and frailty models, covering both fundamental and advanced topics.

This book discusses all the major nature-inspired algorithms with a focus on their application in the context of solving navigation and routing problems.

This book introduces systematically the application of Bayesian probabilistic approach in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering.

This book presents advanced and practical techniques for performance optimization for highly parallel processing.

This book reviews the literature on hand posture estimation using generative methods, identifying the current gaps, such as sensitivity to hand shapes, sensitivity to a good initial posture, difficult hand posture recovery in cases of loss in tracking, and lack of addressing multiple objectives to maximize accuracy and minimize computational cost.

This book presents a cutting-edge research procedure in the Nature-Inspired Computing (NIC) domain and its connections with computational intelligence areas in real-world engineering applications.

Co-authored by an international research group with a long-standing cooperation, this book focuses on engineering-oriented electromagnetic and thermal field modeling and application.

The book covers intimately all the topics necessary for the development of a robust magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code within the framework of the cell-centered finite volume method (FVM) and its applications in space weather study.

The "e;2019 DigitalFUTURES - The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019)"e; provides an international platform for advanced scientific research papers on the digital technology of architectural design and construction.

 This book presents a bibliographical review of the use of Bayesian networks in reliability over the last decade.

This book provides basic and practical techniques of parallel computing and related methods of numerical analysis for researchers who conduct numerical calculation and simulation.

This book presents the latest research on computational approaches to learning.

This book systematically discusses the modeling and application of transfer manipulation for flexible electronics packaging, presenting multiple processes according to the geometric sizes of the chips and devices as well as the detailed modeling and computation steps for each process.

This book offers an accessible guide to ubiquitous computing, with an emphasis on pervasive networking.

This book presents the development of an optimization platform for geotechnical engineering, which is one of the key components in smart geotechnics.

This book presents comprehensive experimental, numerical, and theoretical research on projectile impact analysis, such as the rigid projectile penetration/perforation of concrete and metallic targets, and shaped-charge-formed projectile and jet penetrations.

This book presents both qualitative and quantitative approaches to cloud reliability measurements, together with specific case studies to reflect the real-time reliability applications.

This book presents cutting-edge developments in the advanced mathematical theories utilized in computer graphics research - fluid simulation, realistic image synthesis, and texture, visualization and digital fabrication.

This book introduces state-of-the-art research on simulation and serious games for education.

This book provides a unique blend of integrated disaster risk communication research conducted by authors with diverse backgrounds, including social psychology, sociology, civil engineering, informatics, and meteorology.

This book chiefly presents a novel approach referred to as backward fuzzy rule interpolation and extrapolation (BFRI).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and approaches used for sequence, structure, and phylogenetic analysis.

This book is written to introduce computer simulations to undergraduate college students, freshmen to seniors, in STEM fields.

This book focuses on numerical simulations of manufacturing processes, discussing the use of numerical simulation techniques for design and analysis of the components and the manufacturing systems.

This book presents technologies and solutions related to the test and launch control of rockets and other vehicles, and offers the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the contributions of the Chinese Long March (Chang Zheng in Chinese, or abbreviated as CZ) rockets in this field.

This book presents the latest research on honeypots and their applications.

This book captures the current challenges in automatic recognition of emotion in spontaneous speech and makes an effort to explain, elaborate, and propose possible solutions.

This book proposes complex hierarchical deep architectures (HDA) for predicting bankruptcy, a topical issue for business and corporate institutions that in the past has been tackled using statistical, market-based and machine-intelligence prediction models.

This book includes high-quality research papers presenting the latest advances in aerospace and related engineering fields.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to intelligent control system design, using MATLAB simulation to verify typical intelligent controller designs.

This book proposes the concept of a multi-layer pavement system to fulfill the blast resistance requirement for pavement design.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Subdivision Surface Modeling Technology focusing not only on fundamental theories but also on practical applications.

Based on more than 12 years of systematic investigation on earthquake disaster simulation of civil infrastructures, this book covers the major research outcomes including a number of novel computational models, high performance computing methods and realistic visualization techniques for tall buildings and urban areas, with particular emphasize on collapse prevention and mitigation in extreme earthquakes, earthquake loss evaluation and seismic resilience.

This book presents tutorial overviews for many applications of variational methods to molecular modeling.

This book extends the conventional two-dimensional (2D) magnet arrangement into 3D pattern for permanent magnet linear machines for the first time, and proposes a novel dual Halbach array.

The expected time of impact, also known as the mean first passage time (MFPT) to reach failure, is a critical metric in the management of natural disasters.

This book presents the new development of computation intelligence for traffic, transportation and mobility, the main contents include traffic safety, mobility analysis, intelligent transportation system, smart vehicle, transportation behavior, driver modeling and assistance, transportation risk analysis and reliability system analysis, vehicle operation and active safety, urban traffic management and planning.

Disaster management is a process or strategy that is implemented when any type of catastrophic event takes place.

This book is a collection of writings by active researchers in the field of Artificial General Intelligence, on topics of central importance in the field.

Answer set programming (ASP) is a declarative language tailored towards solving combinatorial optimization problems.