Security and fire alarm systems

This book contains research contributions from leading cyber security scholars from around the world.

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

This book describes the key cybercrime threats facing individuals, businesses, and organizations in our online world.

This book helps professionals to turn their own Six Sigma projects into reality.

This book presents a step by step Asset Health Management Optimization Approach Using Internet of Things (IoT).

This monograph is devoted to full-scale geoecological risk assessment in gas industry impacted polar areas and the relevant risk management options using innovative nature-like biogeochemical technologies.

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

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

This book presents a diversity of innovative and impactful research in the field of industrial and systems engineering (ISE) led by women investigators.

The book presents novel research in the areas of social identity and security when using mobile platforms.

This book illustrates a new quantitative risk analysis model for road tunnels that is capable of evaluating the role of infrastructure measures, equipment and management procedures as prescribed by EU Directive 2004/54/EC.

This PhD sought to determine the mechanisms for the reactor explosions by mapping, collecting and analysing samples from across the area of Japan that received radioactive fallout from the explosions.

This book surveys reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) analyses of various engineering systems.

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.

The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe.

This book explicitly addresses policy options in a democratic society regarding cognitive enhancement drugs and devices.

This book covers a wide range of management issues, concerning planning, control and continuous improvement.

This book deals with the design and optimization of the bucket elevator using the discrete element method (DEM).

This textbook covers security controls and management.

This book strives to take stock of current achievements and existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new approaches to verification strategies and technologies.

This textbook introduces the basics principles of intersection signalization including need studies, signal phasing, sequencing, timing, as well as more advanced topics such as detectors, controllers, actuated control schemes, and signal coordination.

This book explains the role of food-oriented (or 'food-centric') quality system standards in the modern food and beverage industry.

This book gathers the proceedings of the I-ESA'18 Conference, which was organised by the Fraunhofer IPK, on behalf of the European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab) and the DFI, and was held in Berlin, Germany in March 2018.

This book examines the application of nanoscience and nanotechnology in military defence strategies.

Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) is a structured, comprehensive, and logical analysis method aimed at identifying and assessing risks in complex technological systems, such as the nuclear power plants.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety.

This book offers a practice-oriented guide to developing an effective cybersecurity culture in organizations.

This book emphasizes recent advances in the creation of biometric identification systems for various applications in the field of human activity.

This book covers reliability assessment and prediction of new technologies such as next generation networks that use cloud computing, Network Function Virtualization (NVF), Software Defined Network (SDN), Next Generation Transport, Evolving Wireless Systems, Digital VoIP Telephony, and Reliability Testing techniques specific to Next Generation Networks (NGN).

This book presents central problems in the design, research and maintenance of large-size mining machines for open pits, mobile earth-moving machinery, hydraulic hammers for mining and civil engineering, and screening processes for bulk materials.

In this book the author draws inspiration from Sun Tzu's Art of War, a work that explains conflict between nations, and he applies this to the computer security setting, examining how we should consider protecting information systems from accidents or malicious attacks.

This book presents the latest research in the fields of reliability theory and its applications, providing a comprehensive overview of reliability engineering and discussing various tools, techniques, strategies and methods within these areas.

This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform.

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and industrial trends in field of industrial acoustics and vibration.

This book is about the strategic relevance of quantum technologies.

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.

This book collects a high-quality selection of contemporary research and case studies on the complexity resulting from human/reliability management in industrial plants and critical infrastructures.

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

This book provides insights into important new developments in the area of statistical quality control and critically discusses methods used in on-line and off-line statistical quality control.

This book addresses the shelf life of foods, a key factor in determining how food is distributed and consequently where and when different food products are available for consumption.

This book is concerned with the complexities of achieving quality in care transitions.

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

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

This monograph provides a comparative study between failure probabilities and collapse frequencies in structural bridge engineering.

The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen.

This book provides information on the advances in blanching and its effect on food.

This book proposes the formulation of an efficient methodology that estimates energy system uncertainty and predicts Remaining Useful Life (RUL) accurately with significantly reduced RUL prediction uncertainty.

This book proposes new control and protection schemes to improve the overall stability and security of future wide-area power systems.

This book presents a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the theory of measurement accuracy and provides solutions that fill significant and long-standing gaps in the classical theory.

The Second Edition of this introduction to fire protection systems is completely revised and updated to offer the student, architect or engineer the basics of fire protection devices and equipment, and how they may be applied to any given project.