Security and fire alarm systems

The purpose of this book is to provide graduate students, professional engineers, military officers, and weapons-systems planners with a comprehensive grounding in the technology, evolution, functions, costs, impacts on society, utility, and limi- tations of modern strategic weapons systems.

We think we have scientific knowledge when we know the cause.

This book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop titled "e;Technological Innovations in CBRNE Sensing and Detection for Safety, Security, and Sustainability"e; held in Yerevan, Armenia in 2012.

The book introduces basic risk concepts and then goes on to discuss risk management and analysis processes and steps.

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The Cold War Era left the major participants, the United States and the former Soviet Union (FSU), with large legacies in terms of both contamination and potential accidents.

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 book is about the strategic relevance of quantum technologies.

This textbook presents a practical introduction to information security using the Competency Based Education (CBE) method of teaching.

The ever increasing public demand and the setting-up of national and international legislation on safety assessment of potentially dangerous plants require that a correspondingly increased effort be devoted by regulatory bodies and industrial organisations to collect reliability data in order to produce safety analyses.

This proceedings book presents research papers discussing the latest developments and findings in the fields of mining, machinery, automation and environmental protection.

Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) is becoming increasing popular; practitioners use it in the railway, air traffic management and nuclear industries, amongst others.

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy.

This book digs into the important confluence of cybersecurity and big data, providing insights into the ever-changing environment of cyber threats and solutions to protect these enormous databases.

This book focuses on the importance of human factors in the development of safe and reliable robotic and unmanned systems.

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 textbook provides an introduction to probabilistic reliability analysis of power systems.

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The volume contains 75 papers presented at International Conference on Communication and Networks (COMNET 2015) held during February 19-20, 2016 at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA), Ahmedabad, India and organized by Computer Society of India (CSI), Ahmedabad Chapter, Division IV and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Ahmedabad Chapter.

 This book provides an opportunity for investigators, government officials, systems scientists, strategists, assurance researchers, owners, operators and maintainers of large, complex and advanced systems and infrastructures to update their knowledge with the state of best practice in the challenging domains whilst networking with the leading representatives, researchers and solution providers.

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.

Adaptive Supply Chain Management develops new viewpoints on the SCM goal paradigm, problem semantics, and decision-making support.

Industrial development is essential to improvement of the standard of living in all coun- tries.

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

This book presents Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks (ICISN 2022), held at Hanoi in Vietnam.

This volume examines problem solving and applied systems aimed at improving performance and management of organizations.

This book presents sensemaking strategies to support security planning and design.

This book discusses the main quality management (QM) programs and their possible integration into systematic industrial maintenance (SIM).

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On behalf of the program committee, it is our pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID).

This contributed volume presents the research results of the program "e;Small machine tools for small work pieces"e; (SPP 1476), funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

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

This volume is intended to stimulate a change in the practice of decision support, advocating an interdisciplinary approach centred on both social and natural sciences, both theory and practice.

This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source.

In this well documented global wake-up call, nuclear physicist Jeff Eerkens explores remedies for the impending energy crisis, when oil and natural gas are depleted.

Pipes are of major importance for transport of liquids and gas mainly for water, natural gas and oil.

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

This edited book contains several state-of-the-art papers devoted to econometrics of risk.

Safety and Risk Modeling presents the latest theories and methods of safety and risk with an emphasis on safety and risk in modeling.

This book provides the reader with essential tools needed to analyze complex societal issues and demonstrates the transition from physics to modern-day laws and treaties.

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

This book offers a high-level treatise of evidence-based decisions in drug development.

This book presents the state-of-the-art techniques and recent research progress on Ear Biometrics.

The rapid development of China's transportation system brings huge challenges to fire safety issues.

This book describes cyber-security issues underpinning several cyber-physical systems and several application domains, proposing a common perspective able to collect similarities as well as depict divergences and specific solution methods.

Efficient and equitable policies for managing disaster risks and adapting to global environmental change are critically dependent on development of robust options supported by integrated modeling.