Security and fire alarm systems

The book comprehensively covers the various aspects of risk modeling and analysis in technological contexts.

This volume presents selected contributions from the "e;Advanced Research Workshop on Explosives Detection"e; hosted by the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence, Italy in 2018.

Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation: Achieving Security with Technology and Policy, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference covering the cutting-edge technologies used to trace, track and safeguard nuclear material.

This edited volume provides insight into temperate fruits, with an emphasis on postharvest physiology, storage, packaging and technologies for maintaining fruit quality.

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

This hands-on textbook introduces physics and nuclear engineering students to the experimental and theoretical aspects of fission physics for research and applications through worked examples and problem sets.

This book explores a dynamic landscape where cutting-edge technologies are revolutionizing various domains.

Microprocessors increasingly control and monitor our most critical systems, including automobiles, airliners, medical systems, transportation grids, and defense systems.

 This book presents a bibliographical review of the use of Bayesian networks in reliability over the last decade.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety.

Machine vision technology has revolutionised the process of automated inspection in manufacturing.

Survival analysis is a highly active area of research with applications spanning the physical, engineering, biological, and social sciences.

This book offers a comprehensive approach to the assessment of fire hazards of electrical cables.

The present work will discuss relevant theoretical frameworks and applications pertaining to enabling resilience within the risk, crisis and disaster management domain.

This book presents a fresh and original contribution to the debate on the policies and technologies needed to achieve a Greener Defence.

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

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This two volume book covers the recent applications of computational intelli gence techniques in reliability engineering.

This edited book investigates the lack of interoperability in the IoT realm, including innovative research as well as technical solutions to interoperability, integration, and interconnection of heterogeneous IoT systems, at any level.

This book reviews problems associated with rare events arising in a wide range of circumstances, treating such topics as how to evaluate the probability an insurance company will be bankrupted, the lifetime of a redundant system, and the waiting time in a queue.

This book provides thoughtful and extensively researched perspectives, to improve understanding of risks and rewards, and to outline strategies for developing and implementing mature information management capabilities focused on core public safety and security outcomes.

This book presents original studies describing the latest research and developments in the area of reliability and systems engineering.

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

Accidents in technical installations are random events.

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

This volume examines the role of technology in gathering, assimilating and utilizing intelligence information through the ages.

This book covers a variety of topics in mechanics, with a special emphasis on material mechanics.

In many engineering design and optimization problems, the presence of uncertainty in the data is a critical issue.

This contributed book focuses on major aspects of statistical quality control, shares insights into important new developments in the field, and adapts established statistical quality control methods for use in e.

This book highlights recent research advances on biometrics using new methods such as deep learning, nonlinear graph embedding, fuzzy approaches, and ensemble learning.

This book is the first one addressing quantum information from the viewpoint of group symmetry.

This volume comprises select proceedings of the 7th International and 28th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research conference 2018 (AIMTDR 2018).

This book highlights the literature and the practical aspects to understand cybersecurity and privacy in various networks and communication devices.

Global security threats have created a complex risk landscape that is challenging and transforming society.

This volume collects the papers from the World Conference on Acoustic Emission 2015 (WCAE-2015) in Hawaii.

"e;An Industrial Product-Service System is characterized by the integrated and mutually determined planning, development, provision and use of product and service shares including its immanent software components in Business-to-Business applications and represents a knowledge-intensive socio-technical system.

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

This study presents exploratory work and seeks to identify and evaluate the success and failure factors that could form a guideline for further study and to some extent help professionals to understand some critical aspects that impact project performance concerning construction in India.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification (UQ) methodologies and applications, and covers a wide range of current research, future challenges and applications in various domains, such as aerospace and mechanical applications, structure health and seismic hazard, electromagnetic energy (its impact on systems and humans) and global environmental state change.

This book presents essential methods and tools for research into the reliability of energy systems.

Firefighters and other emergency first responders use a huge variety of highly specialized and critical technologies for personal protection.

The use of tritium as a basic fuel material in a thermonuclear fusion reactor raises particular safety issues due to the combined effects of its physico- chemical properties and radioactive nature.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant, held in October 2021 in Zhuji, Zhejiang, China.

Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems discusses the use of computer simulation-based techniques and algorithms to determine reliability and availability (R and A) levels in complex systems.

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