Security and fire alarm systems

The importance of power system reliability is demonstrated when our electricity supply is disrupted, whether it decreases the comfort of our free time at home or causes the shutdown of our companies and results in huge economic deficits.

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 31 The continual effort to improve performance in business processes attracts 4 increasing attention in research and industry alike.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art implementations of quantum random number generators (QRNGs), and especially examines their relation to classical statistical randomness models and numerical techniques for computing random numbers.

This book presents a paradigm for designing new generation resilient and evolving computer systems, including their key concepts, elements of supportive theory, methods of analysis and synthesis of ICT with new properties of evolving functioning, as well as implementation schemes and their prototyping.

This edited book covers recent advances of techniques, methods and tools treating the problem of learning from data streams generated by evolving non-stationary processes.

This book examines the international forums in which states develop cyber norms-"e;rules of the road"e; for how governments use information and communication technologies.

This book is written by international experts who are brownfields practitioners from over 15 countries.

"e;Risks in Technological Systems"e; is an interdisciplinary university textbook and a book for the educated reader on the risks of today's society.

This book describes basic reliability concepts - parametric ALT plan, failure mechanism and design, and reliability testing with acceleration factor and sample size equation.

This book examines noise-monitoring technologies and tools for registering the threshold of development of the latent period of the transition of a facility or product into an emergency state and controlling the dynamics of this development.

For over 200 years, practitioners have been developing parametric families of probability distributions for data analysis.

This book introduces several simple analytical approaches to aid the seamless integration of renewable distributed generation.

This book focuses on the thermal management technology of lithium-ion batteries for vehicles.

This book presents state-of-the-art probabilistic methods for the reliability analysis and design of engineering products and processes.

This SpringerBrief offers careful assessments of the appropriateness and effectiveness of currently available methodologies for fire flow.

Over the years I have worked with or consulted for many managers throughout the world at all levels of industry and government.

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.

Quality is not a fixed or universal property of software; it depends on the context and goals of its stakeholders.

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.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plants, held in Harbin, China on 15th-17th August 2018.

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.

This work illustrates research conducted over a ten-year timespan and addresses a fundamental issue in reliability theory.

This monograph covers different aspects of sensor network security including new emerging technologies.

Exploring random maintenance models, this book provides an introduction to the implementation of random maintenance, and it is one of the first books to be written on this subject.

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 presents intuitive explanations of the principles of microgrids, including their structure and operation and their applications.

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

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

This book addresses various aspects of knowledge management and technological advances that are driving the ongoing industrial revolution.

The ELFNET Book on Failure Mechanisms, Testing Methods, and Quality Issues of Lead-Free Solder Interconnects is the work of the European network ELFNET which was founded by the European Commission in the 6th Framework Programme.

This book provides an overview of passive and interactive analytical techniques for nuclear materials.

"e;Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design"e; presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality, with emphasis on reliability and quality in design and modelling.

This volume describes the latest developments in protective clothing against nearly any kind of threat for both military and civilians.

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.

This book presents state-of-the-art probabilistic methods for the reliability analysis and design of engineering products and processes.

This book covers ideas, methods, algorithms, and tools for the in-depth study of the performance and reliability of dependable fault-tolerant systems.

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

This book introduces the fundamental concepts of homomorphic encryption.

Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations.

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.

Sensory analysis is not new to the food industry, but its application as a basic tool in food product development and quality control has not been given the recognition and acceptance it deserves.

Das Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen der Instandhaltung sowie Aspekte zur Schädigungstheorie.

This volume contains selected papers from the Second Quadrennial International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICONS-2018).

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

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

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

This book focuses on the analysis and design of advanced techniques for on-line automatic computational monitoring of pipelines and pipe networks.

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.

Modern product development means problem solving by teams in complex working environments.