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This book is a comprehensive guide to methodologies for analyzing reliability and optimizing maintenance in complex systems, spanning from initial design to operational stages.

This book presents a new theoretical framework for the study of hypnosis based on an innovative epistemological approach called De-sign.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 18th IFIP WG 9.

This book is an exploration of one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Kariba, created along the Zambezi River in central Africa.

Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts.

The five-volume set CCIS 1832-1836 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, which was held as a hybrid event in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2023.

'What our world needs most of all today is love.

This collection of essays covers a range of issues related to the intangible cultural heritage prevalent in South and Southeast Asia.

This book tells the story of the landmark event in modern logic whereby Alfred Tarski became "e;the man who defined truth"e;.

This book delves deep into the world of low-power Internet of  Things (IoT) node positioning, in an era where IoT is revolutionizing connectivity and communication.

This volume mainly focuses on the relevance and application of Heckscher-Ohlin Model and Specific Factors Model of trade, while also addressing other latest global issues which are connected with two most celebrated structures of trade models developed by the legendary trade theorist Prof.

This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the mechanical modelling and control of multicopters, more commonly referred to as drones.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the mechanical modelling and control of multicopters, more commonly referred to as drones.

This book delves into the profound challenges posed by the negative emotions-fear, pity, and disgust-that persons with atypical bodies often evoke in their non-disabled peers.

This book provides the dynamics of non-equilibrium dissipative systems with asymmetric interactions (Asymmetric Dissipative System; ADS).

This book offers a historical analysis as well as contextual management strategy on Nigeria's lingering ethno-religious conundrums.

In May 1917, William and Elizebeth Friedman were asked by the U.

This monograph presents a mathematically rigorous and accessible treatment of the interaction between information, decision, control, and probability in single-agent and multi-agent systems.

The Handbook of Insurance reviews the last fifty years of research developments in insurance economics and its related fields.

Ellison "e;Tarzan"e; Brown was one of America's premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s.

This book is dedicated to the analytical methods and approaches applied to ancient textiles and fibres.

This book presents a unique approach to the design and analysis of beneficial nonlinearity, which can take an important and critical role in engineering systems and thus cannot be simply ignored in structural design, dynamic response analysis, and parameter selection.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2024, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, during September 24-27.

How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest ';what ifs'.

This book introduces probabilistic modelling and explores its role in solving a broad spectrum of engineering problems that arise in Information Technology (IT).

This book is dedicated to Prof.

For nonlinear dynamical systems, which represent the majority of real devices, any study of stability requires the investigation of the domain of attraction of an equilibrium point, i.

This monograph details basic concepts and tools fundamental for the analysis and synthesis of linear systems subject to actuator saturation and developments in recent research.

After a brief introduction to the main law of physics and fundamental concepts inherent in electromechanical conversion, Vector Control of Induction Machines introduces the standard mathematical models for induction machines - whichever rotor technology is used - as well as several squirrel-cage induction machine vector-control strategies.

Human-in-the-Loop Simulations is a compilation of articles from experts in the design, development, and use of human-in-the-loop simulations.

This book presents an innovative control system design process motivated by renewable energy electric grid integration problems.

Networked and Distributed Predictive Control presents rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of networked and distributed predictive control systems - the first book to do so.

An extension of different lectures given by the authors, Local Bifurcations, Center Manifolds, and Normal Forms in Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of these topics.

Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks presents a systematic new approach to the investigation of Boolean control networks.

The safe management of the complex distributed systems and critical infrastructures which constitute the backbone of modern industry and society entails identifying and quantifying their vulnerabilities to design adequate protection, mitigation, and emergency action against failure.

Although the problem of nonlinear controller design is as old as that of linear controller design, the systematic design methods framed in response are more sparse.

Adaptive Control (second edition) shows how a desired level of system performance can be maintained automatically and in real time, even when process or disturbance parameters are unknown and variable.

This book details the analysis of continuous- and discrete-time dynamical systems described by differential and difference equations respectively.

Recently, the subject of nonlinear control systems analysis has grown rapidly and this book provides a simple and self-contained presentation of their stability and feedback stabilization which enables the reader to learn and understand major techniques used in mathematical control theory.

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control is a thorough and rigorous introduction to nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for discrete-time and sampled-data systems.

System Identification shows the student reader how to approach the system identification problem in a systematic fashion.

From power plants to sugar refining, model predictive control (MPC) schemes have established themselves as the preferred control strategies for a wide variety of processes.

Many organizations have an urgent need of mining their multiple databases inherently distributed in branches (distributed data).

The domain of non-extensive thermostatistics has been subject to intensive research over the past twenty years and has matured significantly.

There are plenty of challenging and interesting problems open for investigation in the field of switched systems.