Security and fire alarm systems

The ground segment is the fundamental backbone of every satellite project, yet it is usually not visible to the public or the end user of a satellite service.

This book provides an accessible one-volume introduction to Lean Six Sigma and statistics in engineering for students and industry practitioners.

This textbook is for readers new or returning to the practice of optimization whose interest in the subject may relate to a wide range of products and processes.

This book covers the basic scientific theory and related application technologies of the pantograph-catenary system, including research findings on pantograph/catenary contact resistance, pantograph interface thermal effect, laws and characteristics of current-carrying friction and wear, the main research methods for pantograph arcs, the effects of arcs on pantograph systems and onboard equipment, and the materials used for pantographs and contact wires.

This book discusses the application of quality and reliability engineering in Asian industries, and offers information for multinational companies (MNC) looking to transfer some of their operation and manufacturing capabilities to Asia and at the same time maintain high levels of reliability and quality.

This book highlights some of the most pressing safety, ethical, legal and societal issues related to the diverse contexts in which robotic technologies apply.

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.

This book introduces the concept of holistic design and development of cyber physical systems to achieve their safe and secure operation.

This book describes how to design circuits in power electronics systems using a reliability approach in three-level topologies, which have many advantages in terms of the current total harmonic distortion and efficiency.

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

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Design (ICMechD) 2019.

Resilience Engineering (RE) studies have successfully identified and described many instances of resilient performance in high hazard sectors as well as in the far more frequent cases where people and organisations cope with the uncertainties of daily operations.

The concept of Hybrid Warfare has gained prominence in recent decades.

This book analyzes the risk management process in relation to building design and operation and on this basis proposes a method and a set of tools that will improve the planning and evaluation of design solutions in order to control risks in the operation and management phase.

This book discusses the principles, approaches, concepts and development programs for integrated aircraft avionics.

This proceedings volume presents new scientific works of the research workers and experts in the field of Wood Science & Fire.

Even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Region faced numerous obstacles to building a stable and prosperous future.

This book presents a summary of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in its first two chapters.

This book introduces design techniques developed to increase the safety of aircraft engines, and demonstrates how the application of stochastic methods can overcome problems in the accurate prediction of engine lift caused by manufacturing error.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of health and safety in the workplace, focusing on critical safety design, functional safety, and applying risk analysis.

Einbrüche nehmen zu – so schützen Sie Ihr EigentumDer Sicherheitsmarkt bietet eine Vielzahl von Einzelprodukten und Systemen zum Einbruchschutz an.

Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management presents some of the most important methods and tools available for modeling and solving problems arising in the context of supply chain management.

This book offers all countries a guide to implementing verification systems for medical devices to ensure they satisfy their regulations.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the Seventh Symposium on Digital Instrumentation and Control Technology for Nuclear Power Plant, held online on January 11, 2023.

This book features selected papers from the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2018), held in Taipei, Taiwan.

The "e;Handbook of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety in Engineering Design"e; studies the combination of various methods of designing for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety, as well as the latest techniques in probability and possibility modeling, mathematical algorithmic modeling, evolutionary algorithmic modeling, symbolic logic modeling, artificial intelligence modeling, and object-oriented computer modeling.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book reports on the state of the art in physical ergonomics and is concerned with the design of products, process, services, and work systems to assure their productive, safe, and satisfying use by people.

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of industrial economics and engineering.

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

This book comprises the proceedings of the Conference and Exhibition on Non Destructive Evaluation, (NDE 2019).

This book is a practical guide to the uncertainty analysis of computer model applications.

This book attempts to look into the genesis of security culture as a concept which emerged with the recognition of the role of the human factor in the context of security.

This book introduces an approach to active system control design and development to improve the properties of our technological systems.

This book provides the conceptual foundation of security risk assessment and thereby enables reasoning about risk from first principles.

This book examines construction safety from the perspective of informatics and econometrics.

This book provides information on data-driven infrastructure design, analytical approaches, and technological solutions with case studies for smart cities.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the inaugural World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) being held at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast from July 11 to 14, 2006.

This two-volume set LNCS 14509-14510, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Security and Privacy, AIS&P 2023, held in Guangzhou, China, during December 3-5, 2023.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

A survey of recent developments in the field of plutonium disposal by the application of advanced nuclear systems, both critical and subcritical.

This edited book covers recent advances of techniques, methods and tools treating the problem of learning from data streams generated by evolving non-stationary processes.

This book highlights the maritime applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) with emphasis on BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS).

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.

Mobile Phone Security and Forensics provides both theoretical and practical background of security and forensics for mobile phones.

This book reviews existing operational software failure analysis techniques and proposes near-miss analysis as a novel, and new technique for investigating and preventing software failures.

Despite the growing interest in security amongst governments, organizations and the general public, the provision of much security is substandard.

Foresight in an engineering enterprise can make the difference between success and failure, and can be vital to the effective control of industrial systems.