This book offers meaningful insights into an impending challenge for the energy industry, namely the increasing role of asset management amongst the utilities' core operations.
This book is the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of assistive, rehabilitative, and health-related applications for haptic (touch-based) technologies.
This volume presents both methodologies and numerical applications for the design of non-conventional unit operations in chemical processes and plants, which are rarely studied in depth at an academic level but have wide applications in the industrial sector.
This book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2019, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in November 2019.
This book contains high-quality research articles and reviews that promote research and reflect the most recent advances in intelligent wavelet based techniques for advanced multimedia applications as well as other emerging areas.
Tools and technologies have long complemented and extended our physical abilities: from pre-historic spearheads to steam-propelled ploughs and high-tech prosthetics.
This book reports on cutting-edge design methods and tools in industrial engineering, advanced findings in mechanics and material science, and relevant technological applications.
The volume reports on interdisciplinary discussions and interactions between theoretical research and practical studies on geometric structures and their applications in architecture, the arts, design, education, engineering, and mathematics.
This book reports on the theoretical foundations, fundamental applications and latest advances in various aspects of connected services for health information systems.
This book presents the latest technological advances and practical tools for discovering, verifying and visualizing social media video content, and managing related rights.
This book gives Abaqus users who make use of finite-element models in academic or practitioner-based research the in-depth program knowledge that allows them to debug a structural analysis model.
The book connects the ICT and the architectural worlds, analyzing modeling, materialization and data-driven visions for design issues at different scales.
This monograph, which is the first book focusing on "e;Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline"e;, introduces the author's long-term research and practice on this topic.
Videogames were once made with a vast range of tools and technologies, but in recent years a small number of commercially available 'game engines' have reached an unprecedented level of dominance in the global videogame industry.
This book has a focus on the development and deployment of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm, discussing frameworks, methodologies, benefits and limitations, as well as providing case studies of employing the IoT vision in the industrial domain.
The fundamental motivation of this book is to contribute to the future advancement of Asset Management in the context of industrial plants and infrastructures.
This book discusses the latest advances in manufacturing and process control, with a special emphasis on digital manufacturing and intelligent technologies for manufacturing and industrial processes control.
This book provides readers with a snapshot of cutting-edge methods and procedures in industrial design, with a particular focus on human-centered and user-experience design, service design, sustainable design and applications of virtual & augmented reality.
This book reviews the HL-LHC experiments and the fourth-generation photon science experiments, discussing the latest radiation hardening techniques, optimization of device & process parameters using TCAD simulation tools, and the experimental characterization required to develop rad-hard Si detectors for x-ray induced surface damage and bulk damage by hadronic irradiation.
This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of ergonomics research and methods applied to the design, development and prototyping - as well as the evaluation, training and manufacturing - of products, systems and services.
This book addresses Integrated Design Engineering (IDE), which represents a further development of Integrated Product Development (IPD) into an interdisciplinary model for both a human-centred and holistic product development.
This book covers a variety of topics in manufacturing, with a special emphasis on product design, production planning, and implementation of both resources and production processes.
This book reviews the HL-LHC experiments and the fourth-generation photon science experiments, discussing the latest radiation hardening techniques, optimization of device & process parameters using TCAD simulation tools, and the experimental characterization required to develop rad-hard Si detectors for x-ray induced surface damage and bulk damage by hadronic irradiation.
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview for anyone wanting to understand the benefits and opportunities of ray tracing, as well as some of the challenges, without having to learn how to program or be an optics scientist.
This book is based on the "e;Summer Simulation Multi-Conference"e; (SCSC), which has been a prominent platform for the dissemination of scholarly research in the M&S community for the last 50 years.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2018, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in November 2018.
This book provides an overview of various application spheres and supports further innovations needed in information management and in the processes of knowledge generation.
The International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) brings together researchers, developers, and application experts in a variety of disciplines, from all over the world, to present and discuss ideas on mesh generation and related topics.
This two-volume set CCIS 961 and 962 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modeling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, TMM_CH 2018, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2018.
This two-volume set CCIS 961 and 962 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modeling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, TMM_CH 2018, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2018.
This book examines the emerging problems and opportunities that are posed by media innovations, spatial typologies, and cultural trends in (re)shaping identities within the fast-changing milieus of the early 21st Century.
The two-volume set LNCS 11295 and 11296 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in January 2019.
The two-volume set LNCS 11295 and 11296 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in January 2019.
This book presents the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Engineering, collecting the best papers from the event, which was held in Wroclaw, Poland in June 2018.
