Security and fire alarm systems

Demonstrating the latest research and analysis in the area of through-life engineering services (TES), this book utilizes case studies and expert analysis from an international array of practitioners and researchers - who together represent multiple manufacturing sectors: aerospace, railway and automotive - to maximize reader insights into the field of through-life engineering services.

This volume presents measurement uncertainty and uncertainty budgets in a form accessible to practicing engineers and engineering students from across a wide range of disciplines.

Maximizing reader insights into the interactions between game theory, excessive crowding and safety and security elements, this book establishes a new research angle by illustrating linkages between different research approaches and through laying the foundations for subsequent analysis.

Model checking is a computer-assisted method for the analysis of dynamical systems that can be modeled by state-transition systems.

This book deals with a number of fundamental issues related to the practical implementation of ultrasonic NDT techniques in an industrial environment.

This book broadens readers' understanding of proactive condition monitoring of low- speed machines in heavy industries.

How can a scalable and efficient quality management mechanism for cloud labor services be designed in a way that it delivers results with a well-defined level of quality to the requester?

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

In this book the authors first describe the background of trusted platforms and trusted computing and speculate about the future.

The aim of this book is to summarize probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants with WWER440 reactors and demonstrate that the plants are safe enough for producing energy even in light of the Fukushima accident.

This book introduces into the practical application of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) beyond the famous House of Quality Matrix by presenting a fully developed example of a clear and comprehensive QFD framework.

This book explains reliability techniques with examples from electronics design for the benefit of engineers.

Whether you're an academic or a practitioner, a sociologist, a manager, or an engineer, one can benefit from learning to think systemically.

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 offers unique insight on structural safety and reliability by combining computational methods that address multiphysics problems, involving multiple equations describing different physical phenomena and multiscale problems, involving discrete sub-problems that together describe important aspects of a system at multiple scales.

This book describes how manufacturing enterprises, by reinforcing their existing monitoring and control of manufacturing processes, can successfully face the ever-increasing pressure from internal and external environments to maintain their competitive advantage.

This book provides the new results in wavelet filter banks based feature extraction, and the classifier in the field of iris image recognition.

Ternary means "e;based on three"e;.

This book introduces the concept of integrated planning for maintenance and production taken into account quality and safety for high global socio-economic impact.

This work is the definitive guide for IT managers and agile practitioners.

This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world's leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society.

Most of the world's redundant ships are scrapped on the beaches of the Indian sub-continent, largely by hand.

This book documents the outcomes of a study designed to explore ways of increasing resilience in a complex city system against disasters by focusing on the transportation system in London.

This comprehensive monograph addresses crucial issues in the protection of railway systems, with the objective of enhancing the understanding of railway infrastructure security.

Covers the entire process of risk management by providing methodologies for determining the sources of engineering project risk, and once threats have been identified, managing them through: identification and assessment (probability, relative importance, variables, risk breakdown structure, etc.

This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production.

Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security discusses relevant theoretical frameworks and applications of network analysis in support of the defence and security domains.

This is a unique book addressing the integration of risk methodology from various fields.

Human reliability, error, and human factors in the area of power generation have been receiving increasing attention in recent years.

This book presents (1) an exhaustive and empirically validated taxonomy of quality aspects of multimodal interaction as well as respective measurement methods, (2) a validated questionnaire specifically tailored to the evaluation of multimodal systems and covering most of the taxonomy's quality aspects, (3) insights on how the quality perceptions of multimodal systems relate to the quality perceptions of its individual components, (4) a set of empirically tested factors which influence modality choice, and (5) models regarding the relationship of the perceived quality of a modality and the actual usage of a modality.

This book explores the practical implementation of an advanced after-sales management framework devoted to warranty management.

Synthetic Biology is already an object of intensive debate.

The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt Safety Management Systems poses a major problem especially for small and medium sized aviation companies.

The changing manufacturing environment requires more responsive and adaptable manufacturing systems.

This critical volume provides practical insights on sulfuric acid and related plant design and on techniques to improve and enhance substantially the efficiency of an existing plant by means of small modifications.

Particulate products make up around 80% of chemical products, from all industry sectors.

This work presents the evolution of the traditional concept of "e;national security"e; as military security to additionally embrace "e;environmental security"e; and then necessarily also "e;social (societal) security"e;, thence to be termed "e;comprehensive human security"e;.

Equipment to be installed in electric power-transmission and distribution systems must pass acceptance tests with standardized high-voltage or high-current test impulses which simulate the stress on the insulation caused by external lightning discharges and switching operations in the grid.

"e;Reliability Physics and Engineering"e; provides critically important information for designing and building reliable cost-effective products.

This book presents a systematic approach in performing reliability assessment of solder joints using Finite Element (FE) simulation.

Non destructive testing aimed at monitoring, structural identification and di- nostics is of strategic importance in many branches of civil and mechanical - gineering.

Manufacturing a product is not difficult, the difficulty consists in manufacturing a product of high quality, at a low cost and rapidly.

This book is focused on the development of rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced process control systems to improve process operational safety and cybersecurity for a wide range of nonlinear process systems.

This book reports the most recent, advanced, successful, and real applications of ergonomics in order to improve the human well-being and performance in a short term, as well as the organizational performance in a long term.

In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: "e;We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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

This book expands on the subject matter of 'Computational Electromagnetics and Model-Based Inversion: A Modern Paradigm for Eddy-Current Nondestructive Evaluation.

This book focuses on the introduction of new and modern maintenance management frameworks of assets in the electricity & gas network sector and more specifically, on electricity networks for distribution.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the dependability challenges in today's advanced computing systems.

This book presents recent results on fault diagnosis and condition monitoring of airborne electromechanical actuators, illustrating both algorithmic and hardware design solutions to enhance the reliability of onboard more electric aircraft.