Security and fire alarm systems

This thesis introduces a new integrated algorithm for the detection of lane-level irregular driving.

This book presents recent applications and approaches as well as challenges in digital forensic science.

This volume explores the interpersonal, organizational, and technological enablers and barriers to information and intelligence sharing in multinational and multiagency military, humanitarian, and counterterrorism operations.

In this book the author presents ten key laws governing information security.

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 discusses the latest findings towards ensuring people's safety, health, and welfare at work.

This book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and case studies conducted post-disaster.

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

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

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 presents a comprehensive topical overview on soil dynamics and foundation modeling in offshore and earthquake engineering.

This book is on urban resilience - how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from them.

This book comprises an authoritative and accessible edited collection of chapters of substantial practical and operational value.

This book advances a three-step program for mitigation of natural and anthropogenic hazards, addressing mitigation economics and funding possibilities to meet the needs of at risk countries that lack the financial resources to invest in disaster reduction programs.

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

This book investigates the susceptibility of intrinsic physically unclonable function (PUF) implementations on reconfigurable hardware to optical semi-invasive attacks from the chip backside.

This book begins with an account of the evolution of improvised explosive devices using a number of micro case studies to explore how and why actors have initiated IED campaigns; how new and old technologies and expertise have been exploited and how ethical barriers to IED development and deployment have been dealt with.

This book highlights the current challenges for engineers involved in product development and the associated changes in procedure they make necessary.

This outstanding thesis characterises the aerodynamic flow around a container freight train; investigating how changing container loading configurations affect the magnitude of aerodynamic forces measured on a container.

This book aims to address how nanotechnology risks are being addressed  by scientists, particularly in the areas of human health and the environment and how these risks can be measured in financial terms for insurers and regulators.

This book analyses quantitative open source software (OSS)reliability assessment and its applications, focusing on three major topicareas: the Fundamentals of OSS Quality/Reliability Measurement and Assessment;the Practical Applications of OSS Reliability Modelling; and RecentDevelopments in OSS Reliability Modelling.

This book details how safety (i.

This book describes the prerequisites for the placing on themarket and the safe use of machinery in compliance with the relevant EUDirectives, especially the Machinery Directive 2006/42.

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This book addresses a key issue in today's society: the safer transport of dangerous goods, taking into account people, the environment and economics.

This book introduces the concepts of Resilience-Based Design (RBD) as an extension of Performance-Based Design.

This book presents the latest key research into the performanceand reliability aspects of dependable fault-tolerant systems and featurescommentary on the fields studied by Prof.

This book presents methods to improve information security for protected communication.

Structural Health Monitoring, Damage Detection & Mechatronics, Volume 7.

This new edition provides both theoretical and practical background of security and forensics for mobile phones.

This book is intended to be used as a textbook and research reference for the field of nuclear nonproliferation.

This book begins with an introduction to PBXs (Private Branch Exchanges) and the scene, statistics and involved actors.

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 presents topics on monitoring and evaluation of production processes in the automotive industry.

This book examines technical aspects of industrial espionage and its impact in modern companies, organizations, and individuals while emphasizing the importance of intellectual property in the information era.

This book focuses on how machine learning techniques can be used to analyze and make use of one particular category of behavioral biometrics known as the gait biometric.

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

This book offers comprehensive coverage of biomarker/biosensor interactions for the rapid detection of weapons of bioterrorism, as well as current research trends and future developments and applications.

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

This book is the first to develop a systematized approach for the comparison and evaluation of secure deletion solutions.

This book provides international perspective for those studying or working in the security domain, from enforcement to policy.

This bookis devoted to the analysis of causal inference which  is one of the most difficult tasks in dataanalysis: when two phenomena are observed to be related, it is often difficultto decide whether one of them causally influences the other one, or whetherthese two phenomena have a common cause.

This volume is an initiative undertaken by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Task Force on Security, Surveillance and Defense to consolidate and disseminate the role of CI techniques in the design, development and deployment of security and defense solutions.

This is the first book that uses cyber-vulnerability data to explore the vulnerability of over four million machines per year, covering a two-year period as reported by Symantec.

This is a practical book for health and IT professionals who need to ensure that patient safety is prioritized in the design and implementation of clinical information technology.

This book fills a clear gap in the literature for a technically-focused book covering nuclear proliferation and related issues post-9/11.

This book, comprising contributions presented at the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, examines important aspects of international cooperation aimed at enhancing nuclear safety, security, safeguards (the "e;3S"e;), and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in the development and maintenance of the verification regime and progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world.

This book discusses the risks of information concealment in the context of major natural or industrial disasters - offering detailed descriptions and analyses of some 25 historical cases (Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Bhopal disaster, Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster, Enron's bankruptcy, Subprime mortgage crisis, Worldwide Spanish flu and SARS outbreaks, etc.

Containing selected papers from the ICRESH-ARMS 2015 conference in Lulea, Sweden, collected by editors with years of experiences in Reliability and maintenance modeling, risk assessment, and asset management, this work maximizes reader insights into the current trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) and Risk Management.

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