Security and fire alarm systems

The reader will find here a timely update on new THz sources and detection schemes as well as concrete applications to the detection of Explosives and CBRN.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Advancement in Energy, Drives, and Control.

This book provides a brief and general introduction to cybersecurity and cyber-risk assessment.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of radiation present in the environment, its sources, dose measurement techniques, exposures in natural and man-made radiation environments, policies governing radiation safety, societal applications of radiation technology, radiological and nuclear events, preparedness, response, and mitigation of radiation emergencies.

Cybercrime remains a growing challenge in terms of security and privacy practices.

This book introduces fundamental concepts of cyber resilience, drawing expertise from academia, industry, and government.

Lessons Learned from Afghanistan: America's Longest War examines the lessons of how America's "e;longest war"e; came to an ignominious end with staggering consequences for the United States and the Afghan nation.

This book aims to highlight the gaps and the transparency issues in the clinical research and trials processes and how there is a lack of information flowing back to researchers and patients involved in those trials.

This volume examines core areas of development in security, emphasizing the pivotal contributions of women to the field's evolution.

This book is focused on the development of rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced process control systems to improve process operational safety and cybersecurity for a wide range of nonlinear process systems.

This book reviews the most powerful attack strategies and potential defense mechanisms, always approaching the interplay between the Fusion Center and the Byzantines from a game-theoretic perspective.

This edited book captures salient global security challenges and presents 'design' solutions in dealing with wicked problems.

Parts are commonly used in making, repairing or maintaining consumer or industry products.

This book introduces several simple analytical approaches to aid the seamless integration of renewable distributed generation.

This book, written by leaders in the protection field of critical infrastructures, provides an extended overview of the technological and operative advantages together with the security problems and challenges of the new paradigm of the Internet of Things in today's industry, also known as the Industry Internet of Things (IIoT).

This book presents the Proceedings of The International Science and Technology Conference "e;FarEastCon-2018,"e; which took place on October 2-4, 2018 in Vladivostok, Russian Federation.

This book describes the latest molecular insights needed to understand the chemical and biological (CB) agents and their associated biotechnologies.

This updated edition retains its introduction to applied fundamental statistics, probability, reliability, and decision theory as these pertain to problems in Civil Engineering.

Designed as an introduction for both advanced students in aerospace engineering and existing aerospace engineers, this book covers both engineering theory and professional practice in establishing the airworthiness of new and modified aircraft.

This handbook offers insights into how science (physical, natural and social) and technology can support new developments to manage the complexity resident within the threat and risk landscape.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of the potential offered by and challenges posed by signal processing methods in the field of machine diagnostics and condition monitoring.

This updated, second edition unveils the mystery of the tunnel fires, covering most of the issues in fire safety engineering in tunnels, clearly describes the phenomena related to tunnel fire safety, presents state-of-the-art research, and gives detailed solutions to these major issues.

This book tackles the problem of complexity within IT environments, i.

This book addresses the question of how system software should be designed to account for faults, and which fault tolerance features it should provide for highest reliability.

This book comprises select proceedings of the international conference ETAEERE 2020, and focuses on contemporary issues in energy management and energy efficiency in the context of power systems.

In today's global economy, supply chains are an essential ingredient to corporate survival and growth.

This book discusses various challenges and solutions in the fields of operation, control, design, monitoring and protection of microgrids, and facilitates the integration of renewable energy and distribution systems through localization of generation, storage and consumption.

The emergence of intelligent technologies, sophisticated natural language processing methodologies and huge textual repositories, invites a new approach for the challenge of automatically identifying personality dimensions through the analysis of textual data.

Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses.

Includes the proceedings from the 7th IAASS Conference, "e;Space Safety is No Accident,"e; held in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in October 2014.

Conceiving reliablesystems is a strategic issue for any industrial society.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book describes the discusses advanced fuels and combustion, emission control techniques, after-treatment systems, simulations and fault diagnostics, including discussions on different  engine diagnostic techniques such as particle image velocimetry (PIV), phase Doppler interferometry (PDI), laser ignition.

This volume collects the papers from the World Conference on Acoustic Emission 2017 (WCAE-2017) in Xi'an, China.

This book presents (1) an exhaustive and empirically validated taxonomy of quality aspects of multimodal interaction as well as respective measurement methods, (2) a validated questionnaire specifically tailored to the evaluation of multimodal systems and covering most of the taxonomy's quality aspects, (3) insights on how the quality perceptions of multimodal systems relate to the quality perceptions of its individual components, (4) a set of empirically tested factors which influence modality choice, and (5) models regarding the relationship of the perceived quality of a modality and the actual usage of a modality.

Integrating development processes, policies, and reliability predictions from the beginning of the product development lifecycle to ensure high levels of product performance and safety, this book helps companies overcome the challenges posed by increasingly complex systems in today's competitive marketplace.

The Water Reactor Fuel Performance Meeting (WRFPM) held in Asia has merged with TopFuel in Europe and LWR Fuel Performance in the United States to form the globally most influential conference in the field of nuclear fuel research.

This collection of papers is a state of the art presentation of theories and methods related to the problem of the behaviour of mechanical structures under variable loads beyond their elastic limit In particular, the problems of shakedown, ratchetting, transient and asymptotic cyclic states are addressed.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Security and Privacy, AIS&P 2024, held in Guangzhou, China, during December 6-7, 2024.

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Implications for the Central Region addresses national security threats and strategic opportunities for the United States and its allies in the Middle East and Central Asia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

This book examines pedestrian shoe-floor slip resistance from an engineering standpoint in order to better understand friction and wear behavior.

This book aims to define the concept of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) by using case studies from members of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Water Action Group - NatureWat.

This book features selected papers presented at The International Science and Technology Conference "e;FarEastCon"e;, which took place on October 2-4, 2018 in Vladivostok, Russian Federation.

This thesis describes novel devices for the secure identification of objects or electronic systems.

This book uses motivating examples and real-life attack scenarios to introduce readers to the general concept of fault attacks in cryptography.

This book addresses the reader interested in vehicular traffic phenomena, who have not learned about them before.

This book focuses on the design, management, and cybersecurity of connected and autonomous vehicles under the umbrella of the Internet of Vehicles.

This book comprises 25 contributions focussed on nanotechnology for sensor applications.