Security and fire alarm systems

This book is based on the research papers presented during The Institute of Industrial Engineers Asian Conference 2013 held at Taipei in July 2013.

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 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 mainly concentrates on protecting data security and privacy when participants communicate with each other in the Internet of Things (IoT).

This book introduces human factors engineering (HFE) principles, guidelines, and design methods for medical device design.

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.

Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis).

This book features selected papers presented at The International Science and Technology Conference "e;FarEastCon"e;, which took place on October 2-4, 2018 in Vladivostok, Russian Federation.

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

This book presents the state-of-the-art techniques and recent research progress on Ear Biometrics.

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

This book addresses an important, but so far neglected, topic: the application of sensory evaluation to quality control.

This book gives a detailed discussion of the initial enthusiasm triggered by the discovery of x-rays and radioactive radiation which later turned into fear and repulsion in a significant part of the global population up to the 21st century.

This book synthesizes the current state of knowledge on logistics infrastructures and process modeling, especially for processes that are exposed to changing and uncertain environments.

This book gathers papers presented at the International Conference "e;Vision Zero for Sustainable Road Safety in Baltic Sea Region"e;, held on December 2018 at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Game Theoretic Risk Analysis of Security Threats introduces reliability and risk analysis in the face of threats by intelligent agents.

PROCESS OPTIMIZATION: A Statistical Approach is a textbook for a course in experimental optimization techniques for industrial production processes and other "e;noisy"e; systems where the main emphasis is process optimization.

With our highly connected and interdependent world, the growing threat of infectious diseases and public health crisis has shed light on the requirement for global efforts to manage and combat highly pathogenic infectious diseases and other public health crisis on an unprecedented level.

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.

Introduction to Security, Tenth Edition, provides an overview of the security industry with an emphasis on the theories of security and loss prevention that have shaped the profession.

This is the first textbook to address quantified risk assessment (QRA) as specifically applied to offshore installations and operations.

The work contains the results of the Sixth International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology - AMST'02, which was held in Udine in June 2002.

The conflict in Ukraine has thrust the Black Sea into the center of the largest European dispute since 1945, leading to significant consequences for both the Alliance and the countries neighboring the Black Sea.

Synthetic Biology is already an object of intensive debate.

This book comprises peer-reviewed contributions from the International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE) 2019.

This book focuses on combustion simulations and optical diagnostics techniques, which are currently used in internal combustion engines.

This book comprehensively covers corrosion and corrosion protection in China in the areas including infrastructure, transportation, energy, water environment, as well as manufacturing and public utilities.

Engineering litigation is rarely about who is right or who has been wronged.

This book delves into the complexities of space governance, offering innovative solutions for a sustainable future.

The proceedings contain lectures and short papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Reliability Theory and Its Application in Structural and Soil Me- chanics , Bornholm, Denmark, August 31 -September 9,1982.

The UN designated the decade 2005-2015 as the International Decade for Action - Water for Life.

This book presents the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Reliability Safety & Hazard-2024, held in Mumbai during February 21-24, 2024.

1 AUK ISMAIL-ZADEH ,2, TOM BEER3 1 International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Warshavskoye shosse 79-2, Moscow 113556, Russia; e-mail: aismail@mitp.

This volume will define the direction of eddy-current technology in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) in the twenty-first century.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are characterized as a combination of physical (physical plant, process, network) and cyber (software, algorithm, computation) components whose operations are monitored, controlled, coordinated, and integrated by a computing and communicating core.

Lognormal distributions are one of the most commonly studied models in the sta- tistical literature while being most frequently used in the applied literature.

Power quality describes a set of parameters of electric power and the load's ability to function properly under specific conditions.

This multi-contributed volume provides a practical, applications-focused introduction to nonlinear acoustical techniques for nondestructive evaluation.

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

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 aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of industrial economics and engineering.

The threat of biological and chemical terrorism has driven the demand for timely techniques that can quickly detect the agent or agents used in an attack.

As the main theme of Improving Complex Systems Today implies, this book is intended to provide readers with a new perspective on concurrent engineering from the standpoint of systems engineering.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference, EICC 2025, which took place in Rennes, France, during June 18–19, 2025.

This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

This book comprises select proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE 2018) with technical papers on the themes of traffic operation control and management, traffic safety and vulnerable road users, and sustainable transportation.

This book brings together studies broadly dealing with human error from different disciplines and perspectives.