Electronics and communications engineering

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are revolutionizing digital signal processing.

This book provides an overview of the physical phenomena discovered in magnetic molecular materials over the last 20 years.

Since the 1997 Kyoto protocol of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the development of novel refrigerators has been a priority within the scientific community.

Sensor Data Fusion is the process of combining incomplete and imperfect pieces of mutually complementary sensor information in such a way that a better understanding of an underlying real-world phenomenon is achieved.

This book presents an investigation of gigaseal formation using micro/nanotechnology.

The goal of this volume is to summarize the state-of-the-art in the utilization of computer vision techniques in the diagnosis of skin cancer.

The field of Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMP) has reached significant advances in high-precision experimental measurement techniques.

Sensors are being utilized to increasing degrees in all forms of industry.

This book is a monograph devoted to logic synthesis and optimization for CPLDs.

Despite the fact that in the digital domain, designers can take full benefits of IPs and design automation tools to synthesize and design very complex systems, the analog designers' task is still considered as a 'handcraft', cumbersome and very time consuming process.

Image processing algorithms based on the mammalian visual cortex are powerful tools for extraction information and manipulating images.

This book provides an up-to-date review of nanometer-scale magnetism and focuses on the investigation of the basic properties of magnetic nanostructures.

In this book, hierarchical structures based on neural networks are investigated for automatic speech recognition.

The fundamental principle of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics were introduced by Wang in 2007 and 2010, respectively.

Semiconductor heterostructures represent the backbone for an increasing variety of electronic and photonic devices, for applications including information storage, communication and material treatment, to name but a few.

This book deals with basic aspects of polymer electronics and optoelectronics.

In the last decade, optically functionalized materials have developed rapidly, from bulk matters to structured forms.

This book is a short introduction to power system planning and operation using advanced geometrical methods.

This book provides recent information on nanocomposites tribology.

Due to the increasing security and reliability demand of actual industrial process control systems, the study on fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of dynamic systems has received considerable attention.

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the eighth "e;International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics"e;(ICINCO 2011), held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, from 28 to 31 July 2011.

Micro Metal Forming, i.

Der Autor erläutert die Techniken der Autostereoskopie, also die Darstellung von 3D-Bildern bzw.

Computational intelligence based techniques have firmly established themselves as viable, alternate, mathematical tools for more than a decade.

Low voltage unearthed (IT) AC and DC systems are commonly applied for supply of power and control circuits in industry, transportation, medical objects etc.

This updated and enlarged new edition of Semiconductor Optics provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV, including linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto and electrooptics, high-excitation effects and laser processes, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory.

The thesis deals with averaging dynamics in a multiagent networked system, which is a main mechanism for diffusing the information over such networks.

Dynamics of astrophysical systems is often described by plasma physics, yet understanding the nature of plasma turbulence remains as a challenge in physics in both theories and experiments.

Low Power Consumption is one of the critical issues in the performance of small battery-powered handheld devices.

This book is dedicated to new mathematical instruments assigned for logical modeling of the memory of digital devices.

This monograph covers some selected problems of positive fractional 1D and 2D linear systems.

Logic design of digital devices is a very important part of the Computer Science.

(Preliminary): The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital transmission technique has several advantages in broadcast and mobile communications applications.

This book addresses three important issues in VoIP networks: Quality of Service, pricing and security.

Variable speed is one of the important requirements in most of the electric drives.

In recent times wireless sensors and sensor networks have become a great interest to research, scientific and technological community.

"e;Digital Communications"e; presents the theory and application of the philosophy of Digital Communication systems in a unique but lucid form.

"e;Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology - A Practical Engineering Guide"e; deals with all the most important digital television, sound radio and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T.

Subwavelength and Nanometer Diameter Optical Fibers provides a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of research on nanoscale optical fibers including the basic physics and engineering aspects of the fabrication, properties and applications.

This monograph deals with approximation and noise cancellation of dyn- ical systems which include linear and nonlinear input/output relationships.

The paradigm of complexity is pervading both science and engineering, le- ing to the emergence of novel approaches oriented at the development of a systemic view of the phenomena under study; the de?

This Special Issue titled "e;Recent Advances in Sensing Technology"e; in the book series of "e;Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering"e; contains the extended version of the papers selected from those that were presented at the 3rd International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST 2008) which was held in November 30 to December 3, 2008 at National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the Fifth International Conf- ence on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2008), held in Funchal, Madeira - Portugal, from 11 to 15 May 2008.

With the increasing applications of intelligent robotic systems in various ?

Focuses on acquiring spatial models of physical environments through mobile robotsThe robotic mapping problem is commonly referred to as SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping).

The purpose of this book is to provide tools for a better understanding of the fundamental tradeo?