Security and fire alarm systems

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

Multiple Criteria Decision Support in Engineering Design examines some of the underlying issues and related modelling strategies, with a view to exploring the rich potential of a generalised multiple-criteria approach to design decision-making.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

Reliability and Six Sigma is a carefully developed integration of mathematical models that relate Six Sigma and reliability measures.

This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the area of ergonomic design.

This book provides readers with the necessary capabilities to meet the challenge of building and testing resilient IT services.

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance.

This book focuses on describing and applying risk analysis of vapour cloud explosions (VCEs) in various oil and gas facilities, such as petrol stations, processing plants, and offshore platforms.

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.

Food Security is a primary concern for all countries.

This book introduces novel research targeting technical aspects of protecting information security and establishing trust in the digital space.

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.

The main focus of this edited volume is on three major areas of statistical quality control: statistical process control (SPC), acceptance sampling and design of experiments.

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

This book critically discusses the role of technology for counter-terrorism in general, and for securing our vulnerable open societies in particular.

This book highlights a comprehensive overview of the recent advancements and challenges in the field of cybersecurity with a focus on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and blockchain technologies.

Even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Region faced numerous obstacles to building a stable and prosperous future.

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 book offers meaningful insights into an impending challenge for the energy industry, namely the increasing role of asset management amongst the utilities' core operations.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book presents Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks (ICISN 2021), held at Hanoi in Vietnam.

This book deals with quantifying and analyzing the risks associated with sustainable energy technology growth in electric power systems, and developing appropriate models and methodologies to mitigate the risks and improve the overall system performance.

This unique book explains how to fashion useful regression models from commonly available data to erect models essential for evidence-based road safety management and research.

This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform.

The revised edition of this book offers an expanded overview of the reliability design of mechanical systems and describes the reliability methodology, including a parametric accelerated life test (ALT) plan, a load analysis, a tailored series of parametric ALTs with action plans, and an evaluation of the final designs to ensure the design requirements are satisfied.

This SpringerBrief summarizes a full-scale, reduced commodity fire testing comparison of cartoned Lithium ion batteries and FM Global standard commodities in a rack storage configuration, as reported by FM Global.

The book focuses on system dependability modeling and calculation, considering the impact of s-dependency and uncertainty.

This book offers comprehensive coverage on the most important aspects of audio watermarking, from classic techniques to the latest advances, from commonly investigated topics to emerging research subdomains, and from the research and development achievements to date, to current limitations, challenges, and future directions.

This textbook introduces the basics principles of intersection signalization including need studies, signal phasing, sequencing, timing, as well as more advanced topics such as detectors, controllers, actuated control schemes, and signal coordination.

This book demonstrates the use of a wide range of strategic engineering concepts, theories and applied case studies to improve the safety, security and sustainability of complex and large-scale engineering and computer systems.

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

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE 2022).

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

The book provides theoretical methods of connecting discrete-variable quantum information processing to continuous-variable one.

A catastrophic phenomenon should not be considered a sudden and causeless event, but as a process whose characteristics are continuously changing throughout the entire previous period.

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

This book consists of two parts, the first of which focuses on combustible solids, and the second on the industrial position concerning these materials.

This book mainly introduces some basic phenomena and laws of highly ductile materials during elastoplastic deformation, and their engineering applications, such as the transfer and relief of stress concentration in the notch root, the mitigation of possible brittle fracture, the ductile deformation and damage, fatigue, energy absorption, plastic buckling, thermal stress problems, etc.

The legislative requirement for cannabis to undergo laboratory testing has followed legalization of medical and recreational use in every U.

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 book argues that security and defense have never been true priorities in the European Union, and have constantly been marginalized by the elites since the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated.

This book focuses on the tactical planning level for spare parts management.

This edited volume explores the fundamental aspects of the dark web, ranging from the technologies that power it, the cryptocurrencies that drive its markets, the criminalities it facilitates to the methods that investigators can employ to master it as a strand of open source intelligence.

This book provides a detailed insight into the complex dynamics of radicalization that are in play amongst contemporary society.

This book presents the latest research in the fields of reliability theory and its applications, providing a comprehensive overview of reliability engineering and discussing various tools, techniques, strategies and methods within these areas.

Electronic Access Control introduces the fundamentals of electronic access control through clear, well-illustrated explanations.

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work.

This book explores and analyzes emerging innovations within today's most cutting-edge science and technology (S&T) areas, which are cited as carrying the potential to revolutionize governmental structures, economies, and international security.

The 10th International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control took place in Seattle, USA, Aug 18-20, 2010.